Mauritius women's national football team

Mauritius
AssociationMauritius Football Association
ConfederationCAF (Africa)
Sub-confederationCOSAFA
(Southern Africa)
Head coachYves-Pierre Bodineau
FIFA codeMRI
First colours
Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current 178 2 (25 March 2022)[1]
Highest117 (March 2018)
Lowest178 (March 2022)
First international
 Réunion 3−0 Mauritius 
(Saint-Denis; 3 June 2012)
Biggest defeat
 Zambia 15–0 Mauritius 
(Ibhayi, South Africa; 1 August 2019)

The Mauritius women's national football team is a women's association football team that represents the country of Mauritius. They are controlled by the Mauritius Football Association and are members of FIFA, the Confederation of African Football (CAF), and the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA). As of 2012 the head coach is Yves-Pierre Bodineau. The development of women's football in the country and in Africa as a whole faces a number of challenges, with a programme for women's football not being created in the country until 1997. FIFA gives money to the Mauritius Football Association, 10% of which is aimed at developing football in the country in areas that include women's football, sport medicine and futsal.

History

In 1985, almost no country in the world had a women's national football team[2] and Mauritius was no exception with a women's football programme only being established in the country in 1997.[3] As of January 2013, the team had not played in, nor have they scheduled, any FIFA sanctioned matches. Their only match had been against Réunion on 3 June 2012 in Saint-Denis. This match ended in a 3–0 defeat. A return match was planned for July 2012 in Mauritius,[4] but this was put back to November 2012. The match was played in Bambous on 25 November 2012, with Réunion winning again, this time by 2 goals to 1.

Mauritius was scheduled to compete in several competitions, which they ended up withdrawing from before playing a single match.[5][6] The list includes the 2002 Confederation of Southern African Football Associations women's tournament in Harare, Zimbabwe from which they withdrew.[6] In 2005, Zambia was supposed to host a regional Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) women's football tournament, with several countries agreeing to send teams including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Seychelles, Mauritius, Madagascar, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland.[7] The tournament eventually took place in 2006, but Mauritius did not send a team.[8] Beyond that, they were scheduled to participate in the 2008 Women's U-20 World Cup qualification, where they were scheduled to play Zimbabwe in the preliminary round; however, Zimbabwe withdrew from the competition giving Mauritius an automatic bye into the first round. In that round Mauritius was supposed to play South Africa, but withdrew from the competition.[5]

They took part in the 2019 COSAFA Women's Championship, losing all three matches in their Group.

As of 2012, the head coach was Alain Jules.[9] As of March 2012, the team was not ranked in the world by FIFA, as it had not yet participated in any matches against other FIFA members.[10] By June 2020, they were bottom of the FIFA rankings.[11]

Recruitment and organisation

Women's football in Africa as a whole faces several challenges, including limited access to education, poverty amongst women in the wider society, and fundamental gender inequality present in the society that occasionally allows for female specific human rights abuses.[12] Another problem with the development for the national team, one faced throughout the continent, is if quality female football players are found, many leave the country seeking greater opportunity in Northern Europe or the United States.[13]

Women's football was formally established in Mauritius in 1997. As of 2009, there was no national or regional women's competition but a school competition existed. There are 17 clubs for women over the age of 16 and four youth clubs in the country. The country has three national women's football teams: senior, under-15, and under-19.[3][14] In the period between 2002 and 2006, none of them played even one international match.[15] 10% of the money from the FIFA Financial Assistance Programme (FAP) is targeted at the technical development of the game, which includes women's football, sport medicine and futsal. This compares to 15% for men's competitions and 4% for youth football development.[16] Between 1991 and 2010 in Mauritius, there was no FIFA FUTURO III regional course for women's coaching, no women's football seminar held in the country and no FIFA MA course held for women/youth football.[3]

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.

  Win   Draw   Lose   Fixture

2022

Coaching staff

Current coaching staff

As of 4 July 2021
Position Name Ref.
Head coach Yves-Pierre Bodineau

Manager history

  • Yves-Pierre Bodineau (20??–)

Players

Current squad

  • The following players were named on date month year for the xxx tournament. tournament.
  • Caps and goals accurate up to and including 30 October 2021.
No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club



Recent call-ups

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

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



Records

*Active players in bold, statistics correct as of 31 August 2021.

Competitive record

FIFA Women's World Cup

FIFA Women's World Cup record
Year Result GP W D* L GF GA GD
1991 Did not exist
1995
1999
2003
2007 Did not enter
2011
2015 Did not qualify
2019 Did not enter
2023
Total0/9-------

Olympic Games

Summer Olympics record
Year Result Pld W D* L GS GA GD
1996Did not exist
2000
2004
2008Did not Qualify
2012Did not enter
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 to 2004 Did not exist
2006 to 2012Did not enter
2014 Did not Qualify
2016 Did not enter
2018
2020 Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
2022 Did not enter
Total0/12------

African Games

African Games record
Year Result Matches Wins Draws Losses GF GA GD
2003 Did Not exist
2007 Did Not enter
2011
2015
2019
2023To be determined
Total0/4000000

COSAFA Women's Championship

COSAFA Women's Championship record
Year Round Pld W D* L GS GA GD
2002did not exist
2006did not enter
2008
2011
2017Group stage3003017-17
2018did not enter
2019Group stage3003026-26
2020did not enter
2021
TotalGroup stage6015447-43
*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

See also

References

  1. "The FIFA/Coca-Cola Women's World Ranking". FIFA. 25 March 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  2. Chrös McDougall (2012). Soccer. ABDO. p. 45. ISBN 978-1-61783-146-1.
  3. "Goal! Football: Mauritius" (PDF). FIFA. 21 April 2009. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 March 2014. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 July 2012. Retrieved 11 June 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "African Women U-20 World Cup 2008 Qualifying". RSSSF. 25 March 2010. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  6. "COSAFA Women Tournaments". RSSSF. 7 September 2006. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  7. Mukoka, Augustine (16 August 2005). "The Post (Zambia) – AAGM: Zambia to Host Cosafa Women's Soccer Tourney". The Post. Lusaka, Zambia. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  8. "COSAFA Women Tournaments".
  9. "Mauritius". FIFA. Archived from the original on 14 June 2007. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  10. "FIFA/Coca-Cola Women's World Ranking". FIFA. 16 March 2012. Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  11. FIFA.com
  12. Jean Williams (2007). A Beautiful Game: International Perspectives on Women's Football. Berg. p. 186. ISBN 978-1-84520-674-1.
  13. Gabriel Kuhn (2011). Soccer Vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics. PM Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-60486-053-5.
  14. Saavedra, Martha; Center for African Studies, University of California, Berkeley (December 2007). "Women's Football in Africa" (PDF). Third Transnational Meeting on Sport and Gender, Urbino. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2012.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  15. FIFA (2006). "Women's Football Today" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 August 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2012. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  16. "Goal! Football: Mauritius" (PDF). FIFA. 21 April 2009. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 March 2014. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
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