Benin women's national football team

The Benin women's national football team represents Benin in international women's football and it is controlled by the Benin Football Federation. They never reached the African Championship or the World Cup finals.

This article is about the women's team. For the men's team, see Benin national football team.
Benin
AssociationBenin Football Federation
ConfederationCAF (Africa)
Sub-confederationWAFU (West Africa)
Head coachVacant
CaptainNone
Most capsUnknown
Top scorerBouraïma Bathily (1)
Home stadiumStade de l'Amitié
FIFA codeBEN
First colours
Second colours
FIFA ranking
CurrentNR (18 December 2020)[1]
Highest92 (December 2009)
Lowest148 (September 2015)
First international
 Benin 1–0 Malawi 
(Benin; February 19, 2006)
Biggest win
 Benin 1–0 Malawi 
(Benin; February 19, 2006)
 Benin 3–2 Guinea 
(Dakar, Senegal; May 17, 2006)
Biggest defeat
 Senegal 5–1 Benin 
(Dakar, Senegal; May 19, 2006)

Benin's participation in the African Championships consists of only one qualification tournament, in 2006. Benin beat Malawi at home, and therefore moved through the first qualification round. They then drew 1-1 with Ivory Coast, and won in a penalty shootout. In the second round, Benin met Mali, and lost both matches.

Benin also entered the 2008 African Championships, but then pulled out before the tournament began. Their home defeat to Mali was therefore the last match Benin has played in so far.

History

2006 African Women's Championship

The national team of Benin played its first match against Malawi on February 19, 2006; in the qualifying tournament of the 2006 African Women's Championship, which was held in Nigeria. Benin won the match by a score of 1–0, but the goalscorer was unknown. The second leg was played on February 26, 2006; this time it ended with a 0–0 draw. Benin advanced to the First Round due to an aggregate score of 1–0. In the First Round, Benin was paired with Ivory Coast and drew both matches by scores of 1–1. In the second match when it was still 1–1 after extra time, Benin won in a penalty shoot-out by a score of 4–3 and they advanced to the Second Round. In the Second Round, Benin met Mali. In the first leg, on July 22, 2006; Benin lost the match 3–1, and their only goal in the game was scored by Bouraïma Bathily, the only known goalscorer for Benin. The second leg, played on August 6, 2006, was a 1–0 loss and also so far the last match that Benin played, in which they lost by one goal. Thus, Benin was eliminated from the tournament by an aggregate score of 4–1.

2008 Olympic Games qualifying

Benin was paired with Namibia in the preliminary round for the 2008 Olympic Games Football Tournament in China, but they withdrew.

2008 African Women's Championship

Once again Benin withdrew from a tournament, after being paired with Guinea in the First Round of the 2008 African Women's Championship qualification. The tournament was held in Equatorial Guinea.

Team image

Nicknames

The Benin women's national football team has been known or nicknamed as the " ".

Home stadium

The Benin women's national football team plays their home matches on the Stade de l'Amitié.

Results and fixtures
  • The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.
  • Partial results are shown in parentheses.

  Win   Draw   Lose   Fixtures

DateLocationHome teamScoreAway teamSource
19 February 2006 Benin Benin 1–0 Malawi
26 February 2006 Malawi Malawi 0–0 Benin
12 March 2006 Cotonou Benin 1–1 (1–0) Ivory Coast [2]
24 March 2006 Abidjan Ivory Coast 1–1 (0–0) 3–4 PSO Benin [2]
17 May 2006 Dakar Benin 3–2 Guinea
19 May 2006 Dakar Senegal 5–1 Benin
21 May 2006 Dakar Benin 3–2 (a.e.t.) Ivory Coast [2]
29 May 2006 Cotonou Benin 2–3 (2–2) Equatorial Guinea
22 July 2006 Bamako Mali 3–1 (1–0) Benin
27 July 2006 Cotonou Benin 1–2 Congo
6 August 2006 Cotonou Benin 0–1 (0–0) Mali
27–29 October 2007 Benin (w/o) Namibia
30 November 2007 Guinea (w/o) Benin
17 December 2019 Ouagadougou Burkina Faso 6-2 Benin
19 December 2019 Ouagadougou Burkina Faso 4-0 Benin
23 December 2019 Lomé Togo 2-1 Benin

Coaching staff

Current coaching staff

As of November 2020

PositionNameRef.

Manager history
  • (2006) Unknown
  • (–present)

Players

Current squad
  • The following players were named on date month year for the xxx tournament.
  • Caps and goals accurate up to and including date month year.
No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club

Recent call-ups
  • The following players have been called up to the ???? squad in the past 12 months.
Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club Latest call-up

Records

Individual records
  • Active players in bold, statistics correct as of 2020.

Competitive record

FIFA Women's World Cup
Finals record
Year Result GP W D* L GF GA GD
1991Did Not Enter-------
1995Did Not Enter-------
1999Did Not Enter-------
2003Did Not Enter-------
2007Did Not Qualify-------
2011Did Not Enter-------
2015Did Not Enter-------
2019Did Not Qualify-------
2023TBD-------
Total0/9-------
*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Olympic Games
Finals record
Year Result Matches Wins Draws Losses GF GA
1996 Did Not Enter
2000
2004
2008 Withdrew
2012 Did Not Enter
2016
Total0/6000000

Africa Women Cup of Nations
Finals record
Year Result Matches Wins Draws Losses GF GA
1991 Did Not Enter
1995
1998
2000
2002
2004
2006 Did Not Qualify
2008 Withdrew
2010 Did Not Enter
2012
2014
2016
2018
2020 Cancelled
Total0/14------

African Games
Finals record
Year Result Matches Wins Draws Losses GF GA
2003 Did Not Enter
2007
2011
2015
Total0/4000000

Head-to-head record
  • Correct as of November 5, 2014
Against Played Won Drawn Lost GF GA GD
 Congo100112-1
 Equatorial Guinea100123-1
 Guinea110032+1
 Ivory Coast312054+1
 Malawi211010+1
 Mali200214-3
 Senegal100115−4
Total113351420−6

Honours

See also

References
  1. "The FIFA/Coca-Cola Women's World Ranking". FIFA. 18 December 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  2. "Results: Côte d'Ivoire". FIFA. 29 September 2009. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
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