Benin women's national football team

This article is about the women's team. For the men's team, see Benin national football team.

Benin

Association	Benin Football Federation
Confederation	CAF (Africa)
Sub-confederation	WAFU (West Africa)
Head coach	Vacant
Captain	None
Most caps	Unknown
Top scorer	Bouraïma Bathily (1)
Home stadium	Stade de l'Amitié
FIFA code	BEN
First colours Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	146 1 (13 October 2022)
Highest	92 (December 2009)
Lowest	148 (September 2015)
First international
Benin 1–0 Malawi (Benin; 19 February 2006)
Biggest win
Benin 1–0 Malawi (Benin; 19 February 2006) Benin 3–2 Guinea (Dakar, Senegal; 17 May 2006)
Biggest defeat
Senegal 5–1 Benin (Dakar, Senegal; 19 May 2006)

The Benin women's national football team represents Benin in international women's football. It is governed by the Benin Football Federation. It never reached the African Championship or the World Cup finals.

Benin's participation in the African Championships consists of only one qualification tournament, in 2006. Benin beat Malawi at home, and therefore moved through the first qualification round. They then drew 1–1 with Ivory Coast, and won in a penalty shootout. In the second round, Benin met Mali, and lost both matches.

Benin also entered the 2008 African Championships, but then pulled out before the tournament began. Their home defeat to Mali was therefore the last match Benin has played in so far.

History

2006 African Women's Championship

The national team of Benin played its first match against Malawi on February 19, 2006; in the qualifying tournament of the 2006 African Women's Championship, which was held in Nigeria. Benin won the match by a score of 1–0, but the goalscorer was unknown. The second leg was played on February 26, 2006; this time it ended with a 0–0 draw. Benin advanced to the First Round due to an aggregate score of 1–0. In the First Round, Benin was paired with Ivory Coast and drew both matches by scores of 1–1. In the second match when it was still 1–1 after extra time, Benin won in a penalty shoot-out by a score of 4–3 and they advanced to the Second Round. In the Second Round, Benin met Mali. In the first leg, on July 22, 2006; Benin lost the match 3–1, and their only goal in the game was scored by Bouraïma Bathily, the only known goalscorer for Benin. The second leg, played on August 6, 2006, was a 1–0 loss and also so far the last match that Benin played, in which they lost by one goal. Thus, Benin was eliminated from the tournament by an aggregate score of 4–1.

2008 Olympic Games qualifying

Benin was paired with Namibia in the preliminary round for the 2008 Olympic Games Football Tournament in China, but they withdrew.

2008 African Women's Championship

Once again Benin withdrew from a tournament, after being paired with Guinea in the First Round of the 2008 African Women's Championship qualification. The tournament was held in Equatorial Guinea.

Team image

Nicknames

The Benin women's national football team has been known or nicknamed as the " ".

Home stadium

The Benin women's national football team plays their home matches at the Stade de l'Amitié.

Results and fixtures

See also: 2022 in association football, 2022 in sports, and FIFA International Match Calendar

The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

Partial results are shown in parentheses.

Legend

  Win   Draw   Lose   Fixture

Date	Location	Home team	Score	Away team	Source
19 February 2006	Benin	Benin	1–0	Malawi
26 February 2006	Malawi	Malawi	0–0	Benin
12 March 2006	Cotonou	Benin	1–1 (1–0)	Ivory Coast
24 March 2006	Abidjan	Ivory Coast	1–1 (0–0) 3–4 PSO	Benin
17 May 2006	Dakar	Benin	3–2	Guinea
19 May 2006	Dakar	Senegal	5–1	Benin
21 May 2006	Dakar	Benin	3–2 (a.e.t.)	Ivory Coast
29 May 2006	Cotonou	Benin	2–3 (2–2)	Equatorial Guinea
22 July 2006	Bamako	Mali	3–1 (1–0)	Benin
27 July 2006	Cotonou	Benin	1–2	Congo
6 August 2006	Cotonou	Benin	0–1 (0–0)	Mali
27–29 October 2007		Benin	(w/o)	Namibia
30 November 2007		Guinea	(w/o)	Benin
17 December 2019	Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso	6–2	Benin
19 December 2019	Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso	4–0	Benin
23 December 2019	Lomé	Togo	2–1	Benin

2021

Burkina Faso v Benin

20 October 2021 (2021-10-20) 2022 AFWCON qualification First round 1st leg	Burkina Faso	2–1	Benin	Abidjan, Ivory Coast
<!- – 20:00 CEST (UTC+2) -->	Millogo 48' Nikiéma 78'	Report	Fachina 40'	Stadium: Stade National de la Côte d'Ivoire

Benin v Burkina Faso

24 October 2021 (2021-10-24) 2022 AFWCON qualification First round 2nd leg	Benin	1–3 (2–5 agg.)	Burkina Faso	Cotonou, Benin
<!- – 20:00 CEST (UTC+2) -->	Abamon 89'	Report	Zato 39' (o.g.) Sawadogo 50' Millogo 90+2'	Stadium: Stade de l'Amitié
Note: Burkina Faso won 5–2 on aggregate.

Coaching staff

Current coaching staff

As of 1 october 2021

Position	Name	Ref.
Head coach	Symphorien Téhou

Manager history

• Unknown (2006)
• Vacant (20??–2021)
• Symphorien Téhou(2021–)

Players

See also: Category: Benin women's international footballers

Current squad

• The following players were named on 10 October 2021 for the 2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification tournament.
• Caps and goals accurate up to and including 30 October 2021.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Diane Ogoun
	1GK	Chérita Koba
	1GK	Sébastienne Kpovihouede
	2DF	Faridatou Mama
	2DF	Cathérine Challa
	2DF	Olivia Awonon
	2DF	Abibath Zato
	2DF	Martine Hessanon
	2DF	Nouratou Lamidi
	3MF	Blandine Baba
	3MF	Valentine Clotoe
	3MF	Nadège Atanhloueto
	3MF	Catherine Zinsou
	3MF	Noëlie Abamon
	3MF	Claudine Tossou
	4FW	Yolande Gnammi
	4FW	Léa Fachinan
	4FW	Aube Bedjissi
	4FW	Idah Azonsou
	4FW	Milhad Sadikou
	4FW	Maissarath Daboutou

Recent call-ups

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

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

Records

Individual records

*Active players in bold, statistics correct as of 6 September 2021.

Most appearances

#	Player	Year(s)	Caps

Top goalscorers

#	Player	Year(s)	Goals	Caps
1	Bouraïma Bathily	20??–20??	1	??

Competitive record

FIFA Women's World Cup

FIFA Women's World Cup
Year	Result	GP	W	D*	L	GF	GA	GD
1991	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1995	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1999	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2003	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2007	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2023	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	0/9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Olympic Games

Summer Olympics
Year	Result	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	GF	GA
1996	Did Not Enter
2000
2004
2008	Withdrew
2012	Did Not Enter
2016
2021
2024	To be determined
Total	0/7	0	0	0	0	0	0

Africa Women Cup of Nations

Africa Women Cup of Nations
Year	Result	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	GF	GA
1991	Did Not Enter
1995
1998
2000
2002
2004
2006	Did Not Qualify
2008	Withdrew
2010	Did Not Enter
2012
2014
2016
2018
2020	Cancelled
2022	Did Not Qualify
Total	0/14	-	-	-	-	-	-

African Games

African Games
Year	Result	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	GF	GA
2003	Did Not Enter
2007
2011
2015
2019
2023	To be determined
Total	0/5	0	0	0	0	0	0

WAFU Women's Cup record

WAFU Zone B Women's Cup
Year	Result	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
2018	did not enter
2019
Total	Group Stage	1/1	3	0	0	3	1	17

Head-to-head record

As of 5 November 2014

Against	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	GF	GA	GD
Congo	1	0	0	1	1	2	−1
Equatorial Guinea	1	0	0	1	2	3	−1
Guinea	1	1	0	0	3	2	+1
Ivory Coast	3	1	2	0	5	4	+1
Malawi	2	1	1	0	1	0	+1
Mali	2	0	0	2	1	4	−3
Senegal	1	0	0	1	1	5	−4
Total	11	3	3	5	14	20	−6

See also

• Sport in Benin
  • Football in Benin
    • Women's football in Benin
• Benin national football team
• Africa Women Cup of Nations
• List of women's national association football teams