Nigeria women's national football team

Nigeria women's national football team
Nigeria
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s) Super Falcons
Association Nigeria Football Federation
Head coach Uche Eucharia
Most caps Maureen Mmadu (101)[1]
Top scorer Mercy Akide
FIFA ranking 27[2]
Highest FIFA ranking 23 (July 2003)
Lowest FIFA ranking 29 (December 2008)
Home colours
Away colours
First international
 Nigeria 5 – 1 Ghana 
( Nigeria; February 16, 1991)
Biggest win
 Nigeria 9 – 0 Sierra Leone 
(Nigeria; November 6, 1994)
Biggest defeat
 Norway 8 – 0 Nigeria 
(Tingvalla IP, Sweden; June 6, 1995)
 Germany 8 – 0 Nigeria 
(Leverkusen, Germany; November 25, 2010)
World Cup
Appearances 6 (First in 1991)
Best result Quarterfinals, 1999
Africa Women's Championship
Appearances 9 (First in 1991)
Best result Won Eight times, Last in 2010

The Nigeria national women's football team, nicknamed the Super Falcons, is the national team of Nigeria and is controlled by the Nigeria Football Federation. They won the first seven African championships and have lost only five games in their history to African competition: December 12, 2002 to Ghana in Warri, June 3, 2007 at Algeria , August 12, 2007 to Ghana in an Olympic qualifier, November 25, 2008 at Equatorial Guinea in the semis of the 2008 Women's African Football Championship and May 2011 at Ghana in an All Africa Games qualification match.

But the Super Falcons have been unable to dominate beyond Africa in such arenas as the FIFA Women's World Cup or the Olympic Games. The team has been to every World Cup since 1991, but managed just once to finish in the top eight. In 2003, 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 2007, drawing only one of their Group B matches. However, it must also be noted in their defense that they faced the group of death in both 2003 and 2007, grouped both times with rising Asian power North Korea, traditional European power Sweden, and a historic women's superpower in the USA.

Nigeria hosted the African women’s championship finals for the third time in 2006, 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 2007 FIFA Women’s World Cup.

The "Falconets" are the country’s junior team, which performed creditably in Russia 2006 when they beat Finland 8–0 before they were sent packing by Brazil. They were runner-up to Germany at the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

The "Flamingoes" are the country’s cadet team (U-17), which qualified for the inaugural women's U-17 World Cup New Zealand 2008.

Contents

World Cup record

World Cup Finals
Year Result Matches Wins Draws Losses GF GA GD
China 1991 Group Stage 3 0 0 3 0 7 -7
Sweden 1995 Group Stage 3 0 1 2 5 14 -9
United States 1999 Quarter-Finals 4 2 0 2 8 12 -4
United States 2003 Group Stage 3 0 0 3 0 11 -11
China 2007 Group Stage 3 0 1 2 1 4 -3
Germany 2011 Group Stage 3 1 0 2 1 2 -1
Canada 2015 To Be Determined - - - - - - -
Total 6/6 18 3 2 14 15 50 -35

Olympics record

Year Result Matches Wins Draws Losses GF GA
United States 1996 Did Not Qualify
Australia 2000 Group Stage 3 0 0 3 3 9
Greece 2004 Quarter-Finals 3 1 0 2 3 4
China 2008 Group Stage 3 0 0 3 1 5
England 2012 Did Not Qualify
Total 3/4 9 1 0 8 7 18

Performance in Africa Women's Championship

CAF Women's Championship
Year Round GP W D L GS GA
1991 Champions 6 6 0 0 20 2
1995 Champions 6 6 0 0 27 2
Nigeria 1998 Champions 5 5 0 0 28 0
South Africa 2000 Champions 5 4 1 0 19 2
Nigeria 2002 Champions 5 4 0 1 15 2
South Africa 2004 Champions 5 4 1 0 18 2
Nigeria 2006 Champions 5 5 0 0 18 2
Equatorial Guinea 2008 Third Place 5 1 3 1 3 3
South Africa 2010 Champions 5 5 0 0 19 4
Total 8 Titles 47 40 5 2 167 19

Current roster

Squad named for 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup

0#0 Pos. Player Date of Birth (Age) Caps Goals Club
1 GK Precious Dede 18 January 1980 (aged 31) 70 0 Nigeria Rivers Angels
2 MF Rebecca Kalu 12 June 1990 (aged 21) 1 0 Nigeria Rivers Angels
3 DF Osinachi Ohale 21 December 1991 (aged 19) 9 0 Nigeria Delta Queens
4 MF Perpetua Nkwocha 3 January 1976 (aged 35) 80 40 Sweden Sunnanå SK
5 DF Onome Ebi 5 August 1983 (aged 27) 45 0 Turkey Düvenciler Lisesispor
6 DF Helen Ukaonu 17 May 1991 (aged 20) 11 1 Sweden Sunnanå SK
7 FW Stella Mbachu 16 April 1978 (aged 33) 85 20 Nigeria Rivers Angels
8 MF Ebere Orji 23 December 1992 (aged 18) 13 2 Nigeria Rivers Angels
9 FW Desire Oparanozie 17 December 1993 (aged 17) 12 6 Nigeria Delta Queens
10 MF Rita Chikwelu 6 March 1988 (aged 23) 37 16 Sweden Umeå IK
11 MF Glory Iroka 3 January 1990 (aged 21) 8 0 Nigeria Rivers Angels
12 FW Sarah Michael 22 July 1990 (aged 20) 6 0 Sweden KIF Örebro DFF
13 MF Ogonna Chukwudi 4 September 1988 (aged 22) 12 0 Sweden Umeå IK
14 DF Faith Ikidi 28 February 1987 (aged 24) 47 0 Sweden Piteå IF
15 DF Josephine Chukwunonye 19 March 1992 (aged 19) 10 0 Nigeria Rivers Angels
16 GK Tochukwu Oluehi 3 June 1988 (aged 23) 40 0 Nigeria Sunshine Queens
17 FW Francisca Ordega 19 October 1993 (aged 17) 9 1 Nigeria Bayelsa Queens
18 DF Ulunma Jerome 11 April 1988 (aged 23) 37 0 Sweden Piteå IF
19 FW Uchechi Sunday 9 September 1994 (aged 16) 0 0 Switzerland FC Neunkirch
20 FW Amenze Aighewi 21 November 1991 (aged 19) 3 0 Nigeria Rivers Angels
21 GK Alaba Jonathan 1 June 1992 (aged 19) 0 0 Nigeria Pelican Stars

References

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Sporting positions
Preceded by
Inaugural Champions
African Women's Champions
1991 (First title)
1995 (Second title)
1998 (Third title)
1998 (Fourth title)
2000 (Fifth title)
2002 (Sixth title)
2004 (Seventh title)
2006 (Eighth title)
Succeeded by
2008 Equatorial Guinea 
Preceded by
2008 Equatorial Guinea 
African Women's Champions
2010 (Ninth title)
Succeeded by
Incumbent

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