The Nigeria national women's football team, nicknamed the Super Falcons, represents

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in international women's football and is controlled by the Nigeria Football Federation. The team is by far

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's most successful international women's football team winning a record eleven Women's Africa Cup of Nations titles, with their most recent title in

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, after defeating

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in the final. The team is also the only women's national team from the

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to have reached the quarterfinals in both the FIFA Women's World Cup and

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. They are also one of the few teams in the world to have qualified for every edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, with their best performance at the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup where they reached the quarterfinals.

History

They won the first seven African championships and through their first twenty years lost only five games to African competition.12 December 2002 to Ghana in

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, 3 June 2007 at

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, 12 August 2007 to

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in an Olympic qualifier, 25 November 2008 at

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in the semis of the

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and May 2011 at Ghana in an All Africa Games qualification match. The Super Falcons have been unable to dominate beyond Africa in such arenas as the FIFA Women's World Cup or the Olympic Games however. The team has been to every World Cup since 1991, but managed just once to finish in the top eight. In

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, the Super Falcons turned out to be the biggest disappointment of the first round, failing to score a single goal and losing all three Group A matches. They did little better in

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, drawing only one of their Group B matches. However, they faced the

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in both 2003 and 2007, grouped both times with rising Asian power

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, traditional European power

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, and a historic women's superpower in the USA. Nigeria hosted the African women's championship finals for the third time in 2006 which were then canceled due to a severe outbreak of gang induced violence within the Nigerian area, replacing

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, which was initially granted the right to host but later pulled out citing financial difficulties, and won it for the seventh time in a row. Nigeria's Super Falcons and Ghana's Black Queens represented Africa in China for the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup. After training with my team mates in the National Camp Super Falcon in Abuja Nigeria

After training with my team mates in the National Camp Super Falcon in Abuja Nigeria

The "Falconets" are the country's junior team (U-20), which performed creditably in the

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held in

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when they beat

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8–0 before they were sent packing by Brazil in the Quarter-finals. They were the runner-up to Germany at the

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. Nigeria also played in the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup held in

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and lost to Germany in the finals 0–1,

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got both the golden ball and golden boot. The "Flamingoes" are the country's cadet team (U-17), which qualified for the inaugural women's U-17 World Cup New Zealand 2008. Nigeria qualified for the

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where they were placed in Group A with South Korea, Norway and hosts France.

Team image

Nicknames

The Nigeria women's national football team has been known or nicknamed as the "''Super

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s''".

FIFA world rankings

Worst Ranking Best Ranking Worst Mover Best Mover

Results and fixtures

The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled. ;Legend

2022

2023

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Coaching staff

Current coaching staff

Manager history

Players

Current squad

The Final Squad named in August 2022 For the Two-Leg Friendly against the United States on September 3rd and 6th 2022. ''Information correct as of 2 September 2022.''

Recent call-ups

Following players have been called up to a squad in the past 12 months. ''This list may be incomplete.''

Previous squads

Captains

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Records

''*Active players in bold, statistics as of November 2020.''

Most capped players

Top goalscorers

Honours

Intercontinental

* FIFA Women's World Cup **Quarterfinals:

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**Round of 16: 2019 **Best Jersey: 2019 *

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**Quarterfinals:

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Continental

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: ''Champions:'' 1991, 1995, 1998, 2000,

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, 2016,

* Third-place:

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* African Games ** Gold Medal:

**Fourth-place:

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Regional

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** Winners: 2019 ** Bronze:

Other tournaments

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** Third-place

Awards

* African Women's National Team of the Year **Winners: (2010, 2014, 2016, 2018)

Competitive record

FIFA Women's World Cup

Olympic Games

Africa Women Cup of Nations

African Games

* 2019 edition of the football tournament was played by the U-20 team.

Turkish Women's Cup

WAFU Women's Cup record

All−time record against FIFA recognized nations

The list shown below shows the Djibouti national football team all−time international record against opposing nations.
''*As of xxxxxx after match against xxxx.'' ;Key

Record per opponent

''*As ofxxxxx after match against xxxxx.'' ;Key The following table shows Djibouti's all-time official international record per opponent:

References

External links

Official website

FIFA profile
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