Nigerian women's national soccer team
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| Nickname (s) | Super Falcons Super Falcons |
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| Association | Nigeria Football Federation | ||||||||||||
| confederacy | CAF | ||||||||||||
| Technical sponsor | Nike | ||||||||||||
| Head coach |
 Thomas Dennerby
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| captain | Desire Oparanoia | ||||||||||||
| Record scorer | Mercy Akide | ||||||||||||
| Record player | Maureen Mmadu (101) | ||||||||||||
| Home stadium | Changing stages | ||||||||||||
| FIFA code | NGA | ||||||||||||
| FIFA rank | 38th (1614 points) (as of August 14, 2020) |
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| 165 games 93 wins 25 (including 2 won on penalties) Draws 47 defeats |
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First international match Nigeria 5-1 Ghana ( Nigeria ; January 16, 1991 )
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Biggest wins Nigeria 9-0 Sierra Leone ( Nigeria ; November 6, 1994 ) Nigeria 10-1 Namibia ( Abuja , Nigeria ; March 8, 2008 )
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Biggest defeats Norway 8-0 Nigeria ( Karlstad , Sweden ; June 6, 1995 ) Germany 8-0 Nigeria ( Leverkusen , Germany ; November 25, 2010 ) France 8-0 Nigeria ( Le Mans , France ; April 6, 2018 )
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| Successes in tournaments | |||||||||||||
| World Championship | |||||||||||||
| Participation in the finals | 8 ( first : 1991 ) | ||||||||||||
| Best results | Quarter-finals 1999 | ||||||||||||
| African Championship | |||||||||||||
| Participation in the finals | 11 ( first : 1998 ) | ||||||||||||
| Best results | First place 1991 , 1995 , 1998 , 2000 , 2002 , 2004 , 2006 , 2010 , 2014 , 2016 , 2018 |
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The Nigerian national soccer team for women (nickname "Super Falcons") represents Nigeria in international women's soccer . The team is subordinate to the Nigerian Football Association . The Nigerian selection has been the dominant national team on the African continent for years, but has not always shown its previous dominance in recent years. So far, the Nigerian team has won eleven of thirteen African championships and has always made it to the semi-finals. In 2012, fourth place was the worst result so far. At the World Championships and the Olympic Games, you could only reach the quarter-finals once. Record international Maureen Mmadu was the first African player to play at least 100 internationals. The nicknames of the junior teams are “Olympic Falcons” (U-23), “Falconets” (U-20) and “Flamingoes” (U-17).
Tournament balance sheet
World Championship
Nigeria was the only African team to take part in all World Cup finals, but was only able to survive the preliminary round in 1999 and 2019 and move into the quarter-finals and the last sixteen respectively as second and third in the group. In 1999 they only lost to Brazil 3: 4 in extra time . Nigeria is the only country that has failed to score twice in four consecutive games. Only in the last group game of the 2011 World Cup was Nigeria able to win another game and also end the second series of zero goals. Nigeria is the only country that competed with a different coach in all eight competitions. The biggest defeat in a competitive match came with Nigeria at the 1995 World Cup against eventual world champions Norway .
| year | Result | Trainer | Most games | Most goals |
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| 1991 | Preliminary round | Jo Bonfrere ( NED ) | 9 players with 3 games | no |
| 1995 | Preliminary round | Paul Hamilton ( ENG ) | 9 players with 3 games | Rita Nwadike and Adaku Okoroafor (2 each) |
| 1999 | Quarter finals | Mabo Ismaila | 11 players with 4 games | Nkiri Okosieme (3) |
| 2003 | Preliminary round | Samuel Okpodu | 9 players with 3 games | no |
| 2007 | Preliminary round | Ntiero Effiom | 11 players with 3 games | Cynthia Uwak (1) |
| 2011 | Preliminary round | Ngozi Uche | 11 players with 3 games | Perpetua Nkwocha (1) |
| 2015 | Preliminary round | Edwin Okon | 10 players with 3 games | 3 players with 1 goal |
| 2019 | Round of 16 | Thomas Dennerby ( SWE ) | 8 players with 4 games | Asisat Oshoala (1) |
| All | Onome Ebi (14) | Rita Nwadike and Nkiri Okosieme (3 each) |
African Championship
Olympic games
Nigeria has taken part in the women's soccer tournament at the Olympic Games three times. Only in 1996 could you not qualify because the seven best teams from the 1995 World Cup and Brazil were automatically invited for England. In the qualifying for 2012, Nigeria faced Cameroon in the final qualifying round , which started after Equatorial Guinea had been disqualified . After a 2-1 win in the first leg, the second leg was lost 2-1 and Cameroon prevailed in the subsequent penalty shoot-out. Coach Ngozi Uche was subsequently sacked.
Africa Games
- 2003: did not take part, the U-23 team won the tournament
- 2007: winner
- 2011: not qualified
- 2015: fourth
Squad for the World Cup
See: World Cup squad
Games against national teams from German-speaking countries
All results from a Nigerian point of view.
Germany
| date | place | Result | occasion | particularities |
| November 17, 1991 |
 Jiangmen
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0: 4 | World Cup group stage | First game in a neutral place. For both of them it was their first game on another continent. |
| August 6, 2003 |
trier
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0: 3 | ||
| July 24, 2004 |
Offenbach
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1: 3 | ||
| August 20, 2004 |
Patras
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1: 2 | Olympic quarter-finals | |
| August 9, 2008 |
Shenyang
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0: 1 | Olympic preliminary round | |
| November 25, 2010 |
Leverkusen
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0: 8 | One of the two biggest defeats in a friendly game | |
| June 30, 2011 |
Frankfurt
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0: 1 | World Cup group stage | |
| June 22, 2019 |
Grenoble
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0: 3 | World Cup round of 16 |
Switzerland
So far there have been no games against the Swiss selection .
Austria
| date | place | Result | occasion |
| June 8, 2011 |
 Leogang
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1: 1 | Test game to prepare for the World Cup |
| February 27, 2019 |
 Larnaka
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1: 4 | Cyprus Cup 2019 |
See also
Web links
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).
- ↑ Equatorial Guinea was subsequently disqualified because they had used the player Jade Boho , who had previously played for Spain, in the qualifying games. focus.de
- ↑ FIFA.com : Nigeria fires national coach Uche
- ↑ cafonline.com: "Super Falcons crash out yet again, Banyana through"
- ↑ cafonline.com: Les Elephantes scupper Super Falcons' Olympic dream
- ^ African Games (Women) 2003