Kenyan women's national soccer team
Nickname (s) | Harambee starlets | ||
Association | Football Kenya Federation | ||
confederacy | CAF | ||
Head coach | David Ouma | ||
Record scorer | Florence Adhiambo (3) | ||
Home stadium | Changing stages | ||
FIFA code | KEN | ||
FIFA rank | 137th (986 points) (as of August 14, 2020) |
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Balance sheet | |||
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26 games 9 wins 3 draws 14 losses |
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statistics | |||
First international Kenya 7-0 Djibouti ( Nairobi , Kenya ; March 22, 2006 )
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Biggest win Kenya 11-0 Zanzibar ( Njeru , Uganda ; September 15, 2016 )
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Biggest defeats Kenya 5-0 Cameroon ( Yaoundé , Cameroon ; August 5, 2006 ) Ethiopia 5-0 Kenya ( Addis Ababa , Ethiopia ; September 29, 2012 )
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Successes in tournaments | |||
African Championship | |||
Participation in the finals | 1 ( first : 2016 ) | ||
Best results | Preliminary round 2016 | ||
(As of November 26, 2016) |
The Kenyan women 's national soccer team is the national women's soccer team of Kenya and is controlled by the local soccer association, the Football Kenya Federation .
The nickname of the team Harambee Starlets is derived from the Swahili word " Harambee ", which roughly means: "Let's all pull together".
Games
The national team has not yet participated in any world championships .
African Cup of Nations
Kenya played three qualifying matches for the 2006 African Cup of Nations . In the years that followed, Kenya entered the African Championships, but withdrew before the first games. Therefore, Kenya only took part in the qualifiers again in 2014.
1991 - 1995 | not participated |
1998 - 2000 | withdrawn |
2002 - 2004 | not participated |
2006 | not qualified |
2010 - 2012 | withdrawn |
2014 | not qualified |
2016 | Preliminary round |
2018 | qualified . |
Players and coaches
There have been four official goalscorers so far, all of whom scored in Kenya's first game against Djibouti. Florence Adhiambo with three goals, Doreen Wanjala with two and Lucy Mureu and Caroline Wanjala with one goal each.
Trainer
- Joseph Oyoo (around 2012)
- Justine Okiring Omojong (around 2014)
- David Ouma (since 2015)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Women's world rankings. In: fifa.com. FIFA , August 14, 2020, accessed on August 14, 2020 (teams without a place and points are provisional because no more than five games have been played or the teams have been inactive for more than 18 months).
- ↑ cafonline.com: Kenya through, Equatorial Guinea disqualified
- ↑ footballkenya.org: Harambee Starlets appeal against Equatorial Guinea upheld, Kenya set to grace AWCON