With the imminent inauguration of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in 2008, CAF began organizing a qualification competition that year with 12 teams entering its debut edition, but 5 withdrew before playing.

[2] Ten teams entered that edition, but only five played matches; Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa qualified for that year's FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

[3] On 7 June 2023, CAF revealed the formats for the qualification procedures for the next editions of the FIFA U-17 and U-20 Women's World Cups,[4] the former whose draw was conducted the following day.

[5] Since its inception in 2008, all editions have qualified three teams to the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Tanzania has reached the quarter-final also the same year, with all other qualified CAF nations getting eliminated in the group stages.