Equatorial Guinea women's national football team

Equatorial Guinea
Nickname(s)	Nzalang Nacional
Association	Equatoguinean Football Federation
Confederation	CAF (Africa)
Sub-confederation	UNIFFAC (Central Africa)
Head coach	Jean-Paul Mpila
Captain	Salomé Nke
Most caps	Genoveva Añonma (28)
Top scorer	Genoveva Añonma (24)
FIFA code	EQG
FIFA ranking
Current	71 (26 June 2020)[1]
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
	South Africa 7–1 Equatorial Guinea ; (Cape Coast, Ghana; November 21, 2018)
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.

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 Añonma.

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]

Coaching staff

Position	Name	Start date	Ref.
Head coach
Assistant coach
Assistant coach
Physical coach

Players

Current squad

The next are some of the players who competed at the 2020 UNIFFAC Women's Cup.[7]

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

10	2DF	Salomé Nke (captain)	(1989-06-08) 8 June 1989		1	Malabo Kings

12	3MF	Celestina Manga	(1999-05-12) 12 May 1999		0
23	3MF	Elena Obono	(1999-11-13) 13 November 1999		1	Estrellas de Bomudi

Notes

Recent results and fixtures

Win Draw Lose

2020

18 February 2020 UNIFFAC Women's Cup GS	Equatorial Guinea	2–1	Gabon	Ebibeyín
16:00 UTC+1	Manga 40' Nke 68' (pen.)	Report	? 79'	Stadium: Estadio de Ebibeyín

20 February 2020 UNIFFAC Women's Cup GS	Equatorial Guinea	1–1	DR Congo	Ebibeyín
	Nke 73'	Report	Pambani 80'	Stadium: Estadio de Ebibeyín

22 February 2020 UNIFFAC Women's Cup GS	Central African Republic	1–4	Equatorial Guinea	Ebibeyín
	Demba 32'	Report	Nke 10', 32' Manga 33' Obono ??'	Stadium: Estadio de Ebibeyín

24 February 2020 UNIFFAC Women's Cup GS	Equatorial Guinea	1–1	Chad	Mongomo
	? ?'	Report	? ?'	Stadium: Estadio de Mongomo

28 February 2020 UNIFFAC Women's Cup F	DR Congo	0–0 (2–4 p)	Equatorial Guinea	Mongomo
				Stadium: Estadio de Mongomo

Honours

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 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[5]	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2023	To be determined	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	1/9	3	0	0	3	2	7	−5

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

FIFA Women's World Cup history
Year	Round	Date	Opponent	Result	Stadium
2011	Group stage	29 June	Norway	L 0–1	Impuls Arena, Augsburg
		3 July	Australia	L 2–3	Ruhrstadion, Bochum
		6 July	Brazil	L 0–3	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt

Olympic Games

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
2020	Banned[4]
Total	0/6	0	0	0	0	0	0

Africa Women Cup of Nations

Africa Women Cup of Nations 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
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[8]
2018	Group Stage	3	0	0	3	1	18
2020	Banned[8]
Total	2 Titles	21	13	2	6	46	39

References

"The FIFA/Coca-Cola Women's World Ranking". FIFA. 26 June 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
"BBC SPORT | Football | African | Equatorial Guinea lift AWC trophy". BBC News. 2008-11-30. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
"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.
"Equatorial Guinea expelled from FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019". FIFA.com. 5 October 2017.
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.
@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.
"Equatorial Guinea disqualified, Mali in". CAF. 4 August 2016.

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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[FIFA_Women's_World_Rankings-1] "The FIFA/Coca-Cola Women's World Ranking". FIFA. 26 June 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.

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

[usa2011-3] "E. Guinea women's team disqualified from Olympics". Usatoday.Com. 2011-07-01. Retrieved 2013-08-15.

[fifa2016-4] "Equatorial Guinea expelled from Women's Olympic Football Tournament 2020". FIFA.com. 11 April 2016.

[fifa2017-5] "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] @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.

[disqualified-8] "Equatorial Guinea disqualified, Mali in". CAF. 4 August 2016.

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 eSwatini Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Seychelles South Africa Zambia Zimbabwe
Non-regional Members	Réunion^†
^†Associate member of CAF but not member of FIFA