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

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and is controlled by the Nigeria Football Federation. The team is by far Africa'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 South Africa 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

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and Football at the Summer Olympics. They are also one of the few teams in the world to have qualified for every edition of the

, with their best performance at the

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where they reached the quarterfinals.

History

They won the first seven

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and through their first twenty years lost only five games to African competition.12 December 2002 to Ghana in Warri, 3 June 2007 at Algeria, 12 August 2007 to Ghana in an Olympic qualifier, 25 November 2008 at

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in the semis of the 2008 Women's African Football Championship 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

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 group of death in both 2003 and 2007, grouped both times with rising Asian power North Korea, traditional

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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 Gabon, 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

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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 Russia when they beat Finland 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

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held in Canada 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 Falcons''".

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

(????–)

Records

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

Most capped players

Top goalscorers

Honours

Intercontinental

**Quarterfinals:

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**Round of 16:

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**Best Jersey:

* Olympic Games **Quarterfinals:

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Continental

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: ''Champions:''

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

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* Third-place:

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* African Games ** Gold Medal:

**Fourth-place:

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Regional

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** Winners:

** Bronze:

Other tournaments

* 2019 Four Nations Tournament (women's football) ** 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

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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