Soccer World Cup 2019 / Cameroon

Football Women's World Cup 2019 : Cameroon
Trainer	Alain Djeumfa
captain	Christine Manie / Gabrielle Onguéné
Qualified as	Third of the 2018 Africa Cup of Women
Tournament result	Round of 16
Games won	1
Games tie	0
Games lost	3
Gates	3: 8

This article is about the Cameroon national women's soccer team at the 2019 women's soccer world cup in France . Cameroon took part in the finals for the second time. Cameroon qualified third in the 2018 Africa Cup of Nations for the tournament in France . As in 2015, Cameroon was eliminated in the round of 16.

qualification

For the African Nations Cup, which served as in previous years as a qualification for the World Cup finals, to Cameroon had in two games in June 2018 the second qualifying round against the Republic of Congo qualify both with 5: were 0.

National coach Joseph Brian Ndoko nominated 21 players for the tournament in Ghana , including 17 players who were already in the squad for the 2015 World Cup .

Cameroon met Mali in their first game and won 2-1 after trailing 1-0. The second game against Algeria was won 3-0. With a 1-1 draw against tournament hosts Ghana , which Christine Manie secured with a converted penalty, Cameroon became group winners. In the semi-finals, the team met Nigeria , against which Cameroon had lost in the final two of the last two events. Since both teams failed to score in 120 minutes this time, the penalty shootout had to decide, in which Nigeria prevailed 4-2 and qualified for the World Cup finals. In the game for third place, Cameroon met their group opponents Mali again and secured the last African World Cup ticket with a 4: 2.

At least 21 players were used during the tournament and the two qualifying games. Six players (goalkeeper Annette Ngo Ndom , Raissa Feudjio , Christine Manie , Ajara Nchout , Gabrielle Onguéné and Claudine Meffometou Tcheno ) were used in all seven games.

The Cameroonians scored a total of 20 goals in seven games. The most goals were scored by Gabrielle Onguéné (5, including 3 in qualifying) as well as Ninon Abena and Ajara Nchout (4 each, including 2 each in qualifying). A total of nine Cameroonian players met in the seven games.

Despite the successful qualification, national coach Joseph Ndoko was replaced by Alain Djeumfa on January 27, 2019 .

qualification

June 6, 2018	Brazzaville	Republic of the Congo	-	Cameroon	0: 5 (0: 3)	Abena , M. Mani , Nchout , Onguéné , Yango (ELfm.)
June 9, 2018	Yaoundé	Cameroon	-	Republic of the Congo	5: 0 (2: 0)	Onguéné (2), Abena, Akaba , Nchout

Group games

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Cameroon	3	2	1	0	006: 200	+4	07th
2.	Mali	3	2	0	1	006: 500	+1	06th
3.	Ghana	3	1	1	1	003: 300	± 0	04th
4th	Algeria	3	0	0	3	002: 700	−5	00

17th November 2018	Accra	Mali	-	Cameroon	1: 2 (0: 0)	Nchout, Tcheno ; Traore
20th November 2018	Accra	Cameroon	-	Algeria	3: 0 (1: 0)	Enganamouit , Nchout, Onguéné
23rd November 2018	Accra	Cameroon	-	Ghana	1: 1 (1: 1)	C. mania; Boakye

Semifinals

11/27/2018

Accra

Nigeria

-

Cameroon

0: 0 n.v. , 4: 2 i. E.

3rd place match

December 01, 2018

Cape Coast

Cameroon

-

Mali

4: 2 (2: 1)

Abena (2), C. Manie, Onguéné; Diarra , Awona (own goal)

preparation

On April 4, the Cameroonians won a four-nation tournament in Wuhan, China, 2-1 in the semi-finals against Croatia and lost the final 0-1 to hosts China on April 7th . On May 17th, the Cameroonians lost 4-0 to Spain in Guadalajara and won with the same result on May 23rd against UD Levante , third in the 2018/19 Spanish championship.

Squad

No.	Player	birth date	debut	society	Country games	Country goals	Last use	World Cup games (World Cup goals)	World Cup 2019
									Sp.
goal
1	Annette Ngo Ndom	06/02/1985	2012	Amazon Fap	51+	00	05/17/2019	4th	4th
16	Isabelle Mambingo	04/10/1985		AS Green City Filles	0?	00
23	Marthe Ongmahan	06/12/1992		AWA Yaoundé	0?	00
Defense
2	Christine mania	05/04/1984	2012	AS Nancy	70+	12+	05/17/2019	4 (1)	2		1
4th	Yvonne Leuko	11/20/1991	2012	Vauban Strasbourg	30+	00	05/17/2019	3	4th		1
5	Augustine Ejangue	01/19/1989	2012	Arna-Bjørnar	62+	00	11/30/2018	2	2
6th	Estelle Johnson	07/21/1988		Sky Blue FC	01+	0?	05/17/2019		4th
11	Aurelle Awona	02/02/1993	2015	FCO Dijon	10+	00	05/17/2019	2	3
12	Claudine Meffometou Tcheno	07/01/1990	2012	EA Guingamp	32+	02+	05/17/2019	4th	2
15th	Ysis Sonkeng	09/20/1989	2012	Amazon Fap	43+	00	05/17/2019	0	1
midfield
8th	Raissa Feudjio	October 29, 1995	2012	CD Tenerife	51+	01+	05/17/2019	4th	4th		1
13	Charlene Meyong	11/19/1998	2018	Louves Minproff de Yaoundé	06+	0?	05/17/2019	0	2
14th	Ninon Abena	09/05/1994	2015	Louves Miniproff de Yaoundé	09+	02+	05/17/2019	0	2
19th	Marlyse Ngo Ndoumbouk	03/01/1985	208	AS Nancy	07+	0?	05/17/2019		1		1
20th	Genevieve Ngo Mbeleck	03/10/1993	2015	Amazon Fap	14+	00	11/30/2018	2	1		1
attack
3	Ajara Nchout	01/12/1993	2012	Vålerenga Oslo	49+	05+	11/30/2018	4 (1)	4th	2
7th	Gabrielle Onguéné	02/25/1989	2012	CSKA Moscow	58+	17+	11/30/2018	4 (2)	4th	1
9	Michèle Ngono Mani	10/16/1983	2005	CS Ambilly	78+	40+	November 20, 2018	4 (2)
10	Jeanette Yango	06/12/1993	2012	US Saint Malo	39+	01+	05/17/2019	4th	4th
17th	Gaëlle Enganamouit	06/09/1992	2012	without a club	48+	06+	11/27/2018	4 (3)	4th		1
18th	Henriette Akaba	06/07/1992	2012	Beşiktaş Istanbul	39+	00	05/17/2019	3	2
21st	Alexandra Takounda	07/07/2000		Eclair FC	03+	01+	05/17/2019		2		2
22nd	Michaela Abam	06/12/1997		Paris FC	0?	0?			3
Coaching staff
Trainer	Alain Djeumfa	07/30/1972	2019	FCF					4th
Remarks: ↑ According to FIFA squad list ↑ As of May 2019 ↑ a b Status: May 17, 2019 ↑ At the 2015 World Cup ^ At the games against New Zealand and England

draw

Montpellier (VR) Valenciennes (VR + AF)

Venues for the Cameroonians

For the World Cup group draw that took place on December 8, 2018, Cameroon, like the other two African teams, was allocated to Pot 4 based on its placement in the FIFA world rankings of December 7, 2018. The team could thus be drawn as world champions USA, Germany or host France. But it was drawn by Canada, the host of the last World Cup, Oceania champions New Zealand and European champions Netherlands, the only group with two current continental champions. There was a previous game against New Zealand, in the group stage of the 2012 Olympics, which was lost 3-1 and was New Zealand's first win at the Olympics. The Cameroonians had not played against Canada and the Netherlands before. At the U-17 World Cup in 2016 , however, there was a group game between Canada and Cameroon, which the young Canadians won 3-2. But both were eliminated after the preliminary round.

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Netherlands	3	3	0	0	006: 200	+4	09
2.	Canada	3	2	0	1	004: 200	+2	06th
3.	Cameroon	3	1	0	2	003: 500	−2	03
4th	New Zealand	3	0	0	3	001: 500	−4	00

Group games

Mon 10 June 2019 in Montpellier
Canada	-	Cameroon	1: 0 (1: 0)
Saturday, June 15, 2019 in Valenciennes
Netherlands	-	Cameroon	3: 1 (1: 1)
Thursday, June 20, 2019 in Montpellier
Cameroon	-	New Zealand	2: 1 (0: 0)

Knockout round

Cameroon qualified with a goal in the 5th minute of stoppage time against New Zealand as the third-best group third for the round of 16 and met England for the first time, the group winners of Group D.

Sun 23 June 2019 in Valenciennes
England	-	Cameroon	3: 0 (2: 0)

Awards

• Ajara Nchout : Player of the game against New Zealand

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In the match reports of the CAF for the qualifying games there are sometimes no substitutions. So other players may have been used.
2. ↑ fifa.com: Djeumfa replaces Ndoko as Cameroon coach
3. ↑ fifa.com: Pot allocation for World Cup draw according to the latest world rankings