Ivory Coast women's national football team

Côte d'Ivoire
AssociationIvorian Football Federation
ConfederationCAF (Africa)
Sub-confederationWAFU (West Africa)
Head coachClémentine Touré
CaptainCynthia Djohoré
FIFA codeCIV
First colours
Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current 64 3 (25 March 2022)[1]
Highest59 (March 2017)
Lowest136 (2011)
First international
 Ivory Coast 0–3 Netherlands 
(Foshan, China; 1 June 1988)
Biggest win
 Ivory Coast 11–0 Niger 
(Abidjan, Ivory Coast; 25 October 2021)
Biggest defeat
 Ivory Coast 0–10 Germany 
(Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; 7 June 2015)
World Cup
Appearances1 (first in 2015)
Best resultGroup Stage, (2015)
Africa Women Cup of Nations
Appearances2 (first in 2012)
Best result3rd place, (2014)

The Ivory Coast women's national football team (French: Équipe de Côte d'Ivoire féminine de football, recognized as Côte d'Ivoire by FIFA[2]) represents Ivory Coast in international women's football and is controlled by the Ivorian Football Federation. They played their first international match in 1988. The team is currently ranked 64th in the FIFA Women's World Rankings and as the 6th best team in CAF.

History

The beginning

In 1985, almost no country in the world had a women's national football team,[3] including Ivory Coast who did not play their first FIFA recognised match until 1988[4] when they participated in the Women's FIFA Invitational Tournament 1988. The country was in Group A. On 1 June, they lost to the Netherlands 0–3 in a game in Foshan. On 3 June, they lost to Canada 0–6 in a game in Foshan. In a game on 5 June, they lost to China 1–8 in a game in Guangzhou.[5] In 1992, they competed at the 1st Lyon'ne Cup — Women, held in Lyon, France from 17 to 20 April. Ivory Coast was in the nation's group. They lost to the United States U20 team 0–4, lost to the CIS team 0–3 and lost to France 1–6.[6] In 2002, the team competed in 2 matches.[7] In 2003, they played in 0 matches.[7] In 2004, they played in 0 matches.[7] In 2005, they played in 3 matches.[7] In 2006, they played in 2 matches.[7] In 2006, the team had 3 training sessions a week.[7] In 2005, they played in the women's Tournoi de Solidarité in Dakar, Senegal. On 18 May, they lost to Mali 1–6. On 20 May, they tied Senegal 3–3. They did not make the finals and overall finished last in the tournament.[8] On 17 May 2006 in Dakar, Togo tied Ivory Coast 3–3.[9] In 2007, the country competed at the Tournoi de Cinq Nations] held in Ouagadougou. On 2 September, they tied Mali 1–1 with Rita Akaffou scoring for the team in the 65th minute. On 5 September, they beat Togo 5–0 before Togo was disqualified from the competition for bringing a club team. On 6 September, they lost to Mali 1–2.[10] In 2010, the country had a team at the African Women's Championships during the preliminary rounds. In the round, they beat Guinea 5–1. They lost to Malawi 4–2 in the return leg.[11] In the 2010, Women's Championship in Africa, they lost in the preliminary round in March, they beat Gabon at home and away 2–1 and 3–1. In the first round against Nigeria, they lost both matches by scores of 1–2 and 1–3.[12] The country did not have a team competing at the 2011 All Africa Games.[13]

The national team has trained in Abidjan.[14] As of 2006, the country did not have an under-17 or under-20 side.[7] In June 2012, the team was ranked 67th in the world by FIFA and the 6th best team in CAF.[15] This was an improvement of four places from March 2012 when they were ranked 71st in the world. The team's worst ever ranking was in 2011 when they were ranked 136th in the world. Other rankings include 73 in 2006, 75 in 2007, 74 in 2008, 92 in 2009, and 77 in 2010.[16]

However, in 2014 African Women's Championship, Ivory Coast surprised everyone by passing through into the semi-final, and later, they shocked Africa by beating giant South Africa, marked for the first time they would play in FIFA Women's World Cup, in Canada 2015. In the later tournament, the World Cup, they were eliminated with three total losses to Germany (0–10), Thailand (2–3) and Norway (1–3). Despite having lost all, Ange N'Guessan's goal over Norway was voted as one of ten best goal in the whole tournament.

Background and development

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 concepts of patriarchy and women's participation in sport with them to local cultures that had similar concepts already embedded in them.[17] 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.[18] When quality female football players are developed, they tend to leave for greater opportunities abroad.[19] Continent-wide, funding is also an issue, with most development money coming from FIFA, not the national football association.[19] Future success for women's football in Africa is dependent on improved facilities and access by women to these facilities. Attempting to commercialise 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.[17]

Football is the fourth most popular girls' sport, trailing behind handball, basketball and athletics.[7] A women's football program was set up in the country in 1975[14] and girls' football is played in schools.[7] Player registration starts at nine years of age.[14] In 2006, there were 610 registered female players, 560 of whom were senior players and 50 were under 18 years of age.[7] This was an increase from 2002 when there were 130 registered female players, 2003 when there were 220, 2004 when there were 253, and 2005 when there were 428 registered players.[7] In 2006, there were 123 football clubs in the country, of which 11 were women's-only sides.[7] As of 2009, there are 36 senior teams and 4 youth teams for women.[14] A school based competition exists.[14]

The national federation was created in 1960 and became FIFA affiliated in 1964.[7][20][21] Their kit includes orange shirts, white shorts and green socks.[20] The national committee does not have a full-time employee in charge of women's football.[7] Representation of women's football is not guaranteed in the federation's constitution.[7] The FIFA trigramme is CIV.[22] A FIFA-run women's MA football course was run in the country in 2007.[14]

Results and fixtures

The following is a list of match results within the last 12 months.

  Win   Draw   Lose   Fixture

2021

20 October 2022 AFWCON qualification First round 1st leg Niger  0–9  Ivory Coast Niamey, Niger
Report
Stadium: Stade Général Seyni Kountché
Referee: Aurore Ligan (Benin)
25 October 2022 AFWCON qualification First round 2nd leg Ivory Coast  11–0
(20–0 agg.)
 Niger Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Report Stadium: Stade Robert Champroux
Note: Ivory Coast won 20–0 on aggregate.

2022

18 February 2022 AFWCON qualification Second round 1st leg Nigeria  2–0  Ivory Coast Abuja
Report Stadium: Moshood Abiola National Stadium
Referee: Ayawa Mana Mawoufemo (Togo)
23 February 2022 AFWCON qualification Second round 2nd leg Ivory Coast  0–1
(0–3 agg.)
 Nigeria Abidjan
Report Stadium: Stade Robert Champroux
Referee: Zouwaira Souley Sani (Niger)
Note: Nigeria won 3–0 on aggregate.

Coaching staff

Current coaching staff

Position Name Ref.
Head coach Clémentine Touré

Manager history

Players

Up-to-date caps, goals, and statistics are not publicly available; therefore, caps and goals listed may be incorrect.

Current squad

The following players were pre-called up for the Second round of the 2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualificationon February 2022.[23]

Caps and goals accurate up to and including 26 July 2021.

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1 1GK Aminata Diabaté (1998-11-15) 15 November 1998 Juventus
16 1GK Cynthia Djohoré (captain) (1987-12-16) 16 December 1987 29 0 Onze Sœurs de Gagnoa

2 2DF Fatou Coulibaly (1987-02-13) 13 February 1987 33 1 DUX Logroño
4 2DF Nina Kpaho (1996-12-30) 30 December 1996 14 0 Fenerbahçe
5 2DF Mariam Diakité (1995-04-11) 11 April 1995 14 9 ES Adobo
9 2DF Inès Konan (2002-01-08) 8 January 2002 1 0 Inter d'Abidjan
13 2DF Michaela Koutouan (1990-10-29) 29 October 1990 1 0 Onze Sœurs de Gagnoa
18 2DF Raymonde Kacou (1987-01-07) 7 January 1987 6 0 Malabo Kings
2DF Fernande Tchetche (1988-06-20) 20 June 1988 20 0 Inter d'Abidjan

6 3MF Bernadette Amani (1997-09-05) 5 September 1997 3 0 Onze Sœurs de Gagnoa
10 3MF Ange N'Guessan (1990-11-18) 18 November 1990 22 5 Granadilla
11 3MF Rebecca Guehai (1994-07-15) 15 July 1994 23 1 DUX Logroño
15 3MF Christine Lohoues (1992-10-18) 18 October 1992 22 1 ASDCT
17 3MF Nadège Cissé (1997-04-04) 4 April 1997 6 0 ES Adobo
3MF Jessica Aby (1998-06-16) 16 June 1998 2 0 DUX Logroño

3 4FW Binta Diakité (1988-05-07) 7 May 1988 22 2 Soyaux
7 4FW Espérance Agbo (1995-05-14) 14 May 1995 2 0 Lahou Essor
8 4FW Sandrine Niamien (1994-08-30) 30 August 1994 2 1 ES Adobo
12 4FW Rosemonde Kouassi (2001-12-26) 26 December 2001 3 0 Onze Sœurs de Gagnoa
14 4FW Josée Nahi (1989-05-29) 29 May 1989 Rossiyanka
4FW Rebecca Elloh (1994-12-25) 25 December 1994 17 3 DUX Logroño
4FW Stéphanie Gbogou (1995-05-09) 9 May 1995 Malabo Kings
4FW Inès Tia (1993-10-01) 1 October 1993 19 14 Gyeongju KHNP

Voli Lou Irie Danielle 1 0 JEUNESSE ESPOIR OUAZANE DE FOOTBALL
Kokora Adjoua Sylviane 1 0 SPORTING CLUB DE CASABLANCA
Gnaly Estelle 1 0 ATHLETICO d’ABIDJAN

Recent call-ups

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

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

DF Lynda Gauzé (1990-06-11) 11 June 1990 1 0 Juventus de Yopougon Firstround of the 2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification
DF Anaïs M'bassidjé (1993-09-21) 21 September 1993 0 0 Marseille Firstround of the 2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification

MF Inès Koré (1992-02-20) 20 February 1992 0 0 Nice Firstround of the 2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification

FW Inès Affri (1999-07-09) 9 July 1999 0 0 Montauban Firstround of the 2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification
FW Kelly Koné (1997-06-03) 3 June 1997 0 0 Metz Firstround of the 2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification

Records

Individual records

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

Competitive record

FIFA Women's World Cup

FIFA Women's World Cup record
Year Result Position Pld W D L GF GA
1991 Did not enter
1995
1999
2003 Did not qualify
2007
2011
2015 Group stage 23rd 3 0 0 3 3 16
2019 Did not qualify
2023
Total1/9-3003316
FIFA Women's World Cup history
YearRoundDateOpponentResultStadium
2015 Group stage7 June GermanyL 0–10TD Place Stadium, Ottawa
11 June ThailandL 2–3
15 June NorwayL 1–3Moncton Stadium, Moncton

Olympic Games

Summer Olympics record
Year Result Pld W D* L GS GA GD
1996Did not qualify
2000
2004
2008
2012
2016
2020|
Total0/70000000
*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Africa Women Cup of Nations

Africa Women Cup of Nations record
Year Result Matches Wins Draws Losses GF GA
1991 Did not enter
1995
1998
2000
2002 Did not qualify
2004 Did not enter
2006 Did not qualify
2008
2010
2012 Group stage310277
2014 Third place521288
2016 Did not qualify
2018 Did not qualify
2020 Cancelled due to covid
2022 Did not qualify
Total2/1383141515

African Games

African Games record
Year Result Matches Wins Draws Losses GF GA
2003 Did Not Enter
2007
2011 Did Not Qualify
2015 3rd540163
2019 Did Not Qualify
2023 TBD
Total0/4000000

WAFU Women's Cup record

WAFU Zone B Women's Cup
Year Result Position Pld W D L GF GA
2018Runner up2nd5311112
2019Runner up2nd5320122
TotalGroup Stage1/13003117

All−time record against FIFA recognized nations

The list shown below shows the Djibouti national football team all−time international record against opposing nations.
*As of xxxxxx after match against xxxx.

Key
  Positive balance (more wins than losses)
  Neutral balance (as many wins as losses)
  Negative balance (more losses than wins)
Against Pld W D L GF GA GD Confederation

    Record per opponent

    *As ofxxxxx after match against xxxxx.

    Key
      Positive balance (more wins than losses)
      Neutral balance (as many wins as losses)
      Negative balance (more losses than wins)

    The following table shows Djibouti's all-time official international record per opponent:

    Opponent Pld W D L GF GA GD W% Confederation
    Total

    See also

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