Equatorial Guinea women's national football team

Equatorial Guinea
Nickname(s)	Nzalang Nacional
Association	Federación Ecuatoguineana de Fútbol
Confederation	CAF (Africa)
Sub-confederation	UNIFFAC (Central Africa)
Head coach	Daniel Lola (interim)
Captain	Genoveva Añonma
Most caps	Genoveva Añonma (28)
Top scorer	Genoveva Añonma (24)
FIFA code	EQG
FIFA ranking
Current	55 2 (23 March 2018)
Highest	50 (September 2015, December 2016–March 2017)
Lowest	195 (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
	Equatorial Guinea 0–3 Gabon ; (Equatorial Guinea; June 10, 2000); Gabon 4–1 Equatorial Guinea ; (Gabon; June 24, 2000); Angola 3–0 Equatorial Guinea ; (Angola; August 11, 2002)
World Cup
Appearances	1 (first in 2011)
Best result	Group Stage (2011)
Africa Women Cup of Nations
Appearances	4 (first in 2006)
Best result	Winners (2008 & 2012)

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

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 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.

Equatorial Guinea is the third women's team (out of five) from the Confederation of African Football to qualify for a FIFA Women's World Cup (Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, and Côte d'Ivoire being the others).^[1]

Simporés' gender case

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, the main controversy arose regarding whether they were actually two men. They had integrated the Equatorial Guinea's squads that won the 2008 African Women's Championship and reached the second place in the 2010 African Women's Championship, which allowed Equatorial Guinea to qualify for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. 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 in fact men.^[2]

Honours

World Cup record

World Cup Finals
Year	Result	GP	W	D*	L	GF	GA	GD
1991	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1995	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1999	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2003	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2007	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011	Group Stage	3	0	0	3	2	7	−5
2015	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019	Banned^[3]	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	1/8	3	0	0	3	2	7	−5

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

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^[4]
2016	Did Not Qualify
2020	Banned^[5]
Total	0/6	0	0	0	0	0	0

Performance in Africa Women's Championship

Africa Women Cup of Nations
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
2006	Group Stage	3	0	1	2	5	9
2008	Champions	5	5	0	0	11	4
2010	Runners-Up	5	3	1	1	11	8
2012	Champions	5	5	0	0	18	0
2014	Did Not Qualify
2016	Disqualified^[6]
2018	Qualified
2020	Banned^[6]
Total	2 Titles	18	13	2	3	45	21

Players

Current squad

The next are some of the players who were called up for two 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualifying matches against Kenya in June 2018.^[7]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Dolores Hernández	(2001-10-24) 24 October 2001		0
13	1GK	Diana	(1986-10-24) 24 October 1986	1	0	Estrellas de Waiso Ipola
25	1GK	Lucrecia Bobuiche	(1995-03-26) 26 March 1995	1	0	Estrellas de Rebola

2	2DF	Avelina Abang		0	0	Leones Vegetarianos
3	2DF	Salomé Nke	(1989-06-08) 8 June 1989		1	Estrellas de Waiso Ipola
4	2DF	Esperanza Mbang	(1989-10-22) 22 October 1989	1	0	Estrellas de Waiso Ipola
9	2DF	Dorine Chuigoué	(1988-12-29) 29 December 1988		3	Logroño
19	2DF	Cecilia Akeng	(1994-02-17) 17 February 1994	0	0	Estrellas del Sur
20	2DF	Maricruz Mangue	(1986-03-06) 6 March 1986	1	0	Estrellas de Waiso Ipola
22	2DF	Leocadia Nchama	(1998-04-04) 4 April 1998	0	0	Deportivo Evinayong

5	3MF	Jacky Messomo	(1993-03-01) 1 March 1993		0	Unattached
12	3MF	Fadimatou Nsongone	(1999-05-12) 12 May 1999		0
14	3MF	Ramona Mibuy	(2002-06-28) 28 June 2002	0	0	Leones Vegetarianos
16	3MF	Mayka	(1987-02-12) 12 February 1987	1	0	Fuensalida
17	3MF	Blessing Diala	(1989-12-08) 8 December 1989		1	Deportivo Evinayong
21	3MF	Lætitia Chapeh	(1987-04-07) 7 April 1987		0	Lille
23	3MF	Elena Obono	(1999-11-13) 13 November 1999		1	Estrellas de Bomudi

8	4FW	Jade Boho	(1986-08-30) 30 August 1986		18	Logroño
10	4FW	Genoveva Añonman (captain)	(1989-04-19) 19 April 1989		24	Leones Vegetarianos
11	4FW	Luz Milagrosa Obono	(1996-04-07) 7 April 1996	1	0	Leones Vegetarianos
15	4FW	Chinasa Okoro	(1987-12-08) 8 December 1987		13	Estrellas de Waiso Ipola
	4FW	Anais Bokoka	(1995-06-03) 3 June 1995	1	1	Estrellas de Waiso Ipola
	4FW	Nove	(1992-08-13) 13 August 1992	0	0	Llamoro

Recent call-ups

The following players have been called up in the last 12 months.

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club	Latest call-up
MF	Nuria Baita	(1999-06-07) 7 June 1999	0	0	Estrellas de Rebola	vs. Comoros on 26 November 2017
MF	Teodora Borico			0	Estrellas de Rebola	vs. Comoros on 26 November 2017

Notes

References

↑ "BBC SPORT | Football | African | Equatorial Guinea lift AWC trophy". BBC News. 2008-11-30. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
↑ 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.
↑ "Equatorial Guinea expelled from FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019". FIFA.com. 5 October 2017.
↑ "E. Guinea women's team disqualified from Olympics". Usatoday.Com. 2011-07-01. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
↑ "Equatorial Guinea expelled from Women's Olympic Football Tournament 2020". FIFA.com. 11 April 2016.
1 2 "Equatorial Guinea disqualified, Mali in". CAF. 4 August 2016.
↑ @EUDLlamoro (25 May 2018). "Nove (Féminas) con la Selección Nacional Femenina de la República de Guinea Ecuatorial. Nuestra jugadora viajará a Malabo para concentrarse con su Selección y disputar la segunda ronda de clasificación para la 11th total women´s Ghana 2018 ....(1)" (Tweet). Retrieved 25 May 2018 – via Twitter.

External links

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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[1] "BBC SPORT | Football | African | Equatorial Guinea lift AWC trophy". BBC News. 2008-11-30. Retrieved 2013-08-15.

[2] 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.

[3] "Equatorial Guinea expelled from FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019". FIFA.com. 5 October 2017.

[4] "E. Guinea women's team disqualified from Olympics". Usatoday.Com. 2011-07-01. Retrieved 2013-08-15.

[5] "Equatorial Guinea expelled from Women's Olympic Football Tournament 2020". FIFA.com. 11 April 2016.

[disqualified-6] 1 2 "Equatorial Guinea disqualified, Mali in". CAF. 4 August 2016.

[7] @EUDLlamoro (25 May 2018). "Nove (Féminas) con la Selección Nacional Femenina de la República de Guinea Ecuatorial. Nuestra jugadora viajará a Malabo para concentrarse con su Selección y disputar la segunda ronda de clasificación para la 11th total women´s Ghana 2018 ....(1)" (Tweet). Retrieved 25 May 2018 – via Twitter.

National women's football teams of Africa (CAF)
North Africa (UNAF)	Algeria Egypt Libya Morocco Tunisia
West Africa (WAFU)	Benin Burkina Faso Cape Verde Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Liberia Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Togo
East Africa (CECAFA)	Burundi Djibouti Eritrea Ethiopia Kenya Rwanda Somalia South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Uganda Zanzibar^†
Central Africa (UNIFFAC)	Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Congo DR Congo Equatorial Guinea Gabon São Tomé and Príncipe
Southern Africa (COSAFA)	Angola Botswana Comoros Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Seychelles South Africa Swaziland Zambia Zimbabwe
Non-regional Members	Réunion^†
^†Associate member of CAF but not member of FIFA