Edo Queens face Ampem Darkoa in Cairo ET with Flamingos duo cleared as replacements
CAF approved Oluwakemi Adegbuyi and Oluebube Umejiaku — both with Nigeria's Flamingos in Morocco — as Edo Queens replacements for Thursday's WAFU-B extra-time replay against Ampem Darkoa in Cairo, the same day the Flamingos meet Mexico.
By Emily · 29 Oct 2026, 12:50 WAT
Nigeria's women's club and youth pipelines collide on the same Thursday. CAF has approved Edo Queens' player replacements for the continuation of their WAFU-B qualifying final against Ghana's Ampem Darkoa Ladies in Cairo, ACLSports reported on 29 October, naming Oluwakemi Adegbuyi and Oluebube Umejiaku — both currently with the Flamingos at the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Morocco.
The Flamingos face Mexico in the Round of 16 later the same day, kick-off 16:00 WAT at the Mohammed VI Football Complex. Edo Queens resume against Ampem Darkoa at the Canal Old Stadium in Cairo, with ACLSports listing a noon kick-off for the Egyptian venue. TuSport is not inventing a full-time score: this piece frames the dual front and the CAF ruling before a verified result board is published.
CAF ordered the match to restart from the beginning of extra time with the score at 2-2 after annulling Edo Queens' 4-1 penalty shoot-out win from the 5 September final in Ouagadougou. The Ghana Football Association's earlier note said two periods of 15 minutes would be played, with penalties if still level, and that different match officials would be appointed from the original game.
Premium Times outlines what is at stake beyond the thirty minutes. The winner takes the remaining WAFU-B ticket to the 2026 CAF Women's Champions League in Egypt (1–15 November) and would sit in Group B with Morocco's AS FAR, Uganda's Kawempe Muslim Ladies and Mali's US FAS Bamako. The tournament winner also earns a path toward the FIFA Women's Champions Cup qualifying round in the United States in 2027.
Edo Queens head coach Moses Aduku told Premium Times the players were "in the right frame of mind" ahead of the decisive encounter. Ampem Darkoa, having successfully petitioned CAF over the Burkina Faso officiating dispute, get another chance to overturn the original shoot-out exit. For Nigerian readers the story is not only the replay — it is that two Flamingos World Cup squad members are formally cleared into the Cairo party while their U-17 teammates chase a quarter-final place a few hours later in Morocco.
That Flamingos link is the TuSport exclusive angle. Adegbuyi and Umejiaku cannot be in both places at once; CAF's replacement approval keeps Edo Queens legal for the Cairo board without pulling them out of Morocco paperwork, while the national youth side still has Mexico to beat at 16:00 WAT. West African audiences tracking both Nigeria and Ghana therefore have one afternoon with a club continental ticket and a U-17 World Cup knockout on the same calendar.
Until a trusted full-time report lands, the desk facts stand: Cairo Canal Old Stadium, ET restart at 2-2, CAF-approved Flamingos replacements named, Group B berth waiting for the winner, and Nigeria's Flamingos still scheduled for Mexico the same Thursday. TuSport will update the Cairo result when it is confirmed — without recycling a bare wire scoreline as the whole story.
Sources: www.aclsports.com · www.premiumtimesng.com · www.ghanafa.org · sportsbeat.ng
