Niger women's national football team

Niger

Association	Nigerien Football Federation
Confederation	CAF (Africa)
Sub-confederation	WAFU (West Africa)
Head coach	Ali Mamadou
FIFA code	NIG
First colours Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	167 1 (13 December 2024)[1]
Highest	161 (December 2021 – June 2022)
Lowest	167 (December 2024)
First international
Niger 0–10 Burkina Faso  (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; 2 September 2007)
Biggest defeat
Nigeria 15–0 Niger  (Côte d'Ivoire; 11 April 2019)

The Niger women's national football team represents Niger in international women's football. It is governed by the Nigerien Football Federation. It has played in four FIFA-recognised matches, two of which were losses to Burkina Faso women's national football team in 2007. There is an under-20 women's national team who were supposed to participate in the 2002 African Women U-19 Championship but withdrew before playing a game. Some problems impact the development of the women's game in Africa that effect Niger.

Early development of the women's game at the time colonial powers brought football to the continent was limited as colonial powers in the region tended to take male concepts of patriarchy and women's participation in sport with them to local cultures that had similar concepts already embedded in them.^[2] The lack of later development of the national team on a wider international level symptomatic of all African teams is a result of several factors, including limited access to education, poverty amongst women in the wider society, and fundamental inequality present in the society that occasionally allows for female-specific human rights abuses.^[3] When quality female football players are developed, they tend to leave for greater opportunities abroad.^[4] Continent-wide, funding is also an issue, with most development money coming from FIFA, not the National Football Association.^[4] Future, success for women's football in Africa is dependent on improved facilities and access by women to these facilities. Attempting to commercialize the game and make it commercially viable is not the solution, as demonstrated by the current existence of many youth and women's football camps held throughout the continent.^[2]

The Nigerien Football Federation was founded in 1967 and became a FIFA affiliate that same year.^[5][6] The FIFA trigramme is NIG.^[7] The national association does not have a full-time staffer dedicated to women, and there are no organizational or constitutional provisions specifically about the women's game.^[5]

No organized women's football program existed in the country despite football being one of the most popular sports in the country by 2009.^[8] For women though, basketball is the most popular participation sport.^[5] In 2006, there were zero registered female players and zero registered football clubs for women only.^[5] Rights to broadcast the 2011 Women's World Cup in the country were bought by the African Union of Broadcasting and Supersport International.^[9]

In 1985, almost no country in the world had a women's national football team^[10] including Niger who officially had no women's national senior A team before 2006^[5] and only had their first FIFA-recognised international in 2007 when they competed at the Tournoi de Cinq Nations held in Ouagadougou. On 2 September, they lost to Burkina Faso 0–10. On 6 September, they lost to Burkina Faso 0–5.^[11][12] The country did not have a team competing in the 2010 African Women's Championships during the preliminary rounds^[13] or the 2011 All Africa Games.^[14] In June 2012, the team was not ranked in the world by FIFA.^[15] The country has never been ranked by FIFA.^[16]

The country has had a Niger women's national under-19 football team who have competed in the 2002 African Women U-19 Championship, the first edition of the competition to be held. They had a bye in the first round. In the quarterfinals, they were supposed to play Morocco but Niger withdrew from the competition.^[17]

The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

Legend

  Win   Draw   Lose   Fixture

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Role	Name	Ref.
Head coach	Ali Badje Mamadou	[18]

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Ali Badje Mamadou(20??–present)

• The following players were named in September 2023 for the 2024 Women's Africa Cup of Nations qualification tournament.^[19]
• Caps and goals accurate up to and including 30 October 2021.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Kadidja Garba			0
	1GK	Oumeyra Seidou			0
	1GK	Aicha Sami			0
	2DF	Zoubeina Chaibou			0
	2DF	Nana Souley			0
	2DF	Faouziya Altine			0
	2DF	Ramatou Gamatie			0
	2DF	Aichatou Alassane			0
	2DF	Pascaline Henry			0
	3MF	Roukaya Saidou			0
	3MF	Falmata Aissami			0	AS Police
	3MF	Kadi Hama			0	AS Police
	3MF	Farida Yahya			0
	3MF	Faouzya Ajavon			0
	3MF	Souraya Kader			0
	4FW	Sadia Kache			0	AS Police
	4FW	Aichatou Abdourahamane			1	AS Police
	4FW	Samira Adamou			0
	4FW	Rahina Moussa			0
	4FW	Dicko Traore			0

The following players have been called up to a Niger squad in the past 12 months.

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club	Latest call-up

*Active players in bold, statistics correct as of 26 October 2021.

FIFA Women's World Cup record
Year	Round	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA	GD
1991 to 2015	Did not exist
2019	Did not enter
2023	Did not qualify
2027	To be determined
Total	0/2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Summer Olympics
Year	Result	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	GF	GA
1996	Did Not Enter
2000
2004
2008	Withdrew
2012	Did Not Enter
2016
2021
2024
Total	0/8	0	0	0	0	0	0

Africa Women Cup of Nations
Year	Round	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA	GD
1991 to 2014	Did not exist
2016 to 2018	Did not enter
2020	Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
2022	Did not qualify
2024	Did not qualify
Total	0/3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

African Games
Year	Result	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	GF	GA
2003	Did Not Enter
2007
2011
2015
2019
2023
Total	0/6	0	0	0	0	0	0

WAFU Zone B Women's Cup
Year	Result	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
2018	Group Stage	7th	3	0	0	3	1	20
2019	Group Stage	7th	3	0	0	3	0	32
Total	Group Stage	1/1	3	0	0	3	1	17

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