Equatorial Guinea women's national football team

The Equatorial Guinea women's national football team is the women's national team for Equatorial Guinea. Their nickname is the Nzalang Nacional.

This article is about the women's team. For the men's team, see Equatorial Guinea national football team.
Equatorial Guinea
Nickname(s)Nzalang Nacional
AssociationEquatoguinean Football Federation
ConfederationCAF (Africa)
Sub-confederationUNIFFAC (Central Africa)
Head coachJean-Paul Mpila
CaptainSalomé Nke
Most capsGenoveva Añonman (32)
Top scorerGenoveva Añonman (24)
FIFA codeEQG
First colours
Second colours
Third colours
FIFA ranking
CurrentNR (18 December 2020)[1]
Highest50 (September 2015, December 2016–March 2017)
Lowest195 (December 1998)
First international
 Equatorial Guinea 0–3 Gabon 
(Equatorial Guinea; June 10, 2000)
Biggest win
 Luxembourg 0–8 Equatorial Guinea 
(Hostert, Luxembourg; June 18, 2011)
Biggest defeat
 South Africa 7–1 Equatorial Guinea 
(Cape Coast, Ghana; November 21, 2018)
World Cup
Appearances1 (first in 2011)
Best resultGroup Stage (2011)
Africa Women Cup of Nations
Appearances4 (first in 2006)
Best resultWinners (2008 & 2012)

In the 2008 Women's African Football Championship they defeated the seven-time champions Nigeria 1–0 in the semifinal and went on to win the championship beating South Africa 2–1. They became the first nation other than Nigeria to win the Women's African Football Championship. Equatorial Guinea played at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.

The team won the 2012 African Women's Championship, winning 4–0 in the final against South Africa.

Equatorial Guinea is the third women's team (out of six) from the Confederation of African Football to qualify for a FIFA Women's World Cup (Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, and South Africa being the others).[2]

History

They defeated South Africa 2–1 in an Olympic Games Qualifier on February 18, 2007, but lost the return leg 4–2. In the 2008 Women's African Football Championship (which they hosted), they went undefeated in Group A which featured Cameroon, Congo, and Mali. They defeated Nigeria 1–0 in the semifinal and went on to win the championship beating South Africa 2–1. They became the first (and, so far, only) nation other than Nigeria to win the Women's African Football Championship. They made their debut in an international tournament at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, losing all three of their group stage matches against Norway, Australia and Brazil.

In 2012, Equatorial Guinea hosted and won the 2012 African Women's Championship. They won the semi-final 2–0 versus Cameroon, and the final 4–0 against South Africa, with two goals by Gloria Chinasa and one each by Tiga (Adriana Aparecida Costa) and the captain Genoveva Añonman.

Due to fielding Jade Boho without completing her one-time switch (from Spain), Equatorial Guinea was disqualified from the Women's Football tournament at the 2012 Olympic Games.[3]

Problems with naturalised players (mainly from Brazil) caused a ban from the 2020 Olympic women's football tournament[4] and the 2019 World Cup.[5]

Between 2006 and 2010, Bilguissa and Salimata Simporé, a sibling duo from Burkina Faso, used to play for Equatorial Guinea - the first as a central defender and the latter as a centre forward. Beyond the mechanism by which they were naturalized (similar to the Brazilians), the main controversy about the Simporés arose regarding whether they were actually two men. Around April 2011, they were removed from national team by the Italian-born Brazilian coach Marcelo Frigerio, who had recently assumed, just a few months before participating in the World Cup. Since then, the Simporé siblings never were called-up. In 2015, Frigerio, now a former national team coach, told the Brazilian press they are men.[6]

Team image

Nicknames

The Equatorial Guinea women's national football team has been known or nicknamed as the "Nzalang Nacional".

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.
Legend

  Win   Draw   Lose   Fixtures

2020
18 February UNIFFAC Women's Cup (Group stage) Equatorial Guinea  2–1  Gabon Ebibeyín
16:00 UTC+1 Manga  40'
Nke  68' (pen.)		 Report ?  79' Stadium: Estadio de Ebibeyín
20 February UNIFFAC Women's Cup (Group stage) Equatorial Guinea  1–1  DR Congo Ebibeyín
Nke  73' Report Pambani  80' Stadium: Estadio de Ebibeyín
22 February UNIFFAC Women's Cup (Group stage) Central African Republic  1–4  Equatorial Guinea Ebibeyín
Demba  32' Report Nke  10', 32'
Manga  33'
Obono  ??'		 Stadium: Estadio de Ebibeyín
24 February UNIFFAC Women's Cup (Semi-finals) Equatorial Guinea  1–1  Chad Mongomo
?  ?' Report ?  ?' Stadium: Estadio de Mongomo
28 February UNIFFAC Women's Cup (Final) DR Congo  0–0
(2–4 p)		  Equatorial Guinea Mongomo
Stadium: Estadio de Mongomo

2021
17 February Turkish Women's Cup Equatorial Guinea  v  Uzbekistan Emir Sports Complex
19:00
20 February Turkish Women's Cup Zambia  v  Equatorial Guinea Emir Sports Complex
16:00
23 February Turkish Women's Cup Equatorial Guinea  v  Nigeria Emir Sports Complex
16:00

Coaching staff

Current coaching staff
PositionNameRef.
Head coach Jean-Paul Mpila

Manager history
  • Updated on 18 February 2021 after the match against  Uzbekistan.
Name Period Matches Wins Draws Losses Winning % Notes
Jean-Paul Mpila ?–present 0 0 0 0 00.0%

Players

Current squad
  • The following players were named on date month year for the 2020 UNIFFAC Women's Cup.
  • Caps and goals accurate up to and including date month year.
No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1 1GK Lucrecia Bobuiche (1995-03-26) 26 March 1995 1 0 Estrellas de Rebola
13 1GK Dolores Hernández (2001-10-24) 24 October 2001 0 Super Leonas
5 2DF Constantina Asú
8 2DF Restituta Edho Malabo Kings
15 2DF Agapita Avosogo Inter Malabo
19 2DF Cecilia Akeng
6 3MF Nuria Baita (1999-06-07) 7 June 1999 Malabo Kings
7 3MF Elena Obono (1999-11-13) 13 November 1999 1 Estrellas de Bomudi
9 3MF Ana Maria Mba
12 3MF Celestina Manga (1999-05-12) 12 May 1999 0 Malabo Kings
16 3MF Catalina Andeme (1991-07-14) 14 July 1991
10 4FW Salomé Nke (captain) (1989-06-08) 8 June 1989 1 Malabo Kings
3 Carolina

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

Records
Players in bold are still active, at least at club level.
As of 25 January 2021

Competitive record

FIFA Women's World Cup
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 Qualify-------
2007Did Not Qualify-------
2011Group Stage300327−5
2015Did Not Qualify-------
2019Banned[5]-------
2023To be determined-------
Total1/9300327−5
*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
FIFA Women's World Cup finals history
YearRoundDateOpponentResultStadium
2011 Group stage29 June NorwayL 0–1Impuls Arena, Augsburg
3 July AustraliaL 2–3Ruhrstadion, Bochum
6 July BrazilL 0–3Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt

Olympic Games
Summer Olympics record
Year Result Matches Wins Draws Losses GF GA
1996 Did Not Enter
2000 Did Not Enter
2004 Did Not Qualify
2008 Did Not Qualify
2012 Disqualified[3]
2016 Did Not Qualify
2021 Banned[4]
Total0/6000000

Africa Women Cup of Nations
Africa Women Cup of Nations finals record
Year Result Matches Wins Draws Losses GF GA
1991 Did Not Enter
1995 Did Not Enter
1998 Did Not Enter
2000 Did Not Qualify
2002 Did Not Qualify
2004 Did Not Qualify
2006Group Stage301259
2008Champions5500114
2010Runners-Up5311118
2012Champions5500180
2014 Did Not Qualify
2016 Disqualified[7]
2018Group Stage3003118
2020 Banned[7]
Total2 Titles2113264639

See also

References
  1. "The FIFA/Coca-Cola Women's World Ranking". FIFA. 18 December 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  2. "BBC SPORT | Football | African | Equatorial Guinea lift AWC trophy". BBC News. 2008-11-30. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
  3. "E. Guinea women's team disqualified from Olympics". Usatoday.Com. 2011-07-01. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
  4. "Equatorial Guinea expelled from Women's Olympic Football Tournament 2020". FIFA.com. 11 April 2016.
  5. "Equatorial Guinea expelled from FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019". FIFA.com. 5 October 2017.
  6. De Matos, José Edgar; Bianchini, Vladimir (11 September 2015). "Técnico do São Paulo conta como barrou dois homens em seleção feminina às vésperas de Copa" [São Paulo coach tells how he banned two men in women's national team on the World Cup eve] (in Portuguese). ESPN. Retrieved 29 October 2016. Before taking the national team, I searched on the internet and I saw there was a charge that, in the African Cup of Nations, two players of the national team would be actually men. It would be a worldwide scandal I had no idea until then. I asked for the two twin sisters, who had not been presented and who were with the men's Olympic team, concentrated in a hotel. Then came two guys and they prodded me: "These are the two sisters". I replied, "You are joking, they are men". Then they trained and I asked the doctor to examine them, because I was sure that they were men. He was there and he found that they were men. Even they had been champions of the African Cup and everything else. At the time, I asked to send them back to Burkina Faso - they were naturalized - and to talk that one of them had hurt the knee and the other sister had gone along because she did not want to stay away. I cut the duo from the national team, as everyone expected their presence. When (this situation) arrived at the time of the interview, I needed to talk about that.
  7. "Equatorial Guinea disqualified, Mali in". CAF. 4 August 2016.
Sporting positions
Preceded by
2006 Nigeria 		 African Women's Champions
2008 (First title)		 Succeeded by
2010 Nigeria 
Preceded by
2010 Nigeria 		 African Women's Champions
2012 (Second title)		 Succeeded by
2014 Nigeria 
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