Benin women's national football team

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

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	NR (26 June 2020)[1]
Highest	92 (December 2009)
Lowest	148 (September 2015)
First international
Benin 1–0 Malawi  (Benin; February 19, 2006)
Biggest win
Benin 1–0 Malawi  (Benin; February 19, 2006)  Benin 3–2 Guinea  (Dakar, Senegal; May 17, 2006)
Biggest defeat
Senegal 5–1 Benin  (Dakar, Senegal; May 19, 2006)

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.

Competition Records

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 Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2007	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2023	TBD	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	0/9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Africa Women Cup of Nations record

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
Total	0/14	-	-	-	-	-	-

Olympic Games record

Summer Olympics
Year	Result	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	GF	GA
1996	Did Not Enter
2000
2004
2008	Withdrew
2012	Did Not Enter
2016
Total	0/6	0	0	0	0	0	0

All-Africa Games record

All-Africa Games
Year	Result	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	GF	GA
2003	Did Not Enter
2007
2011
2015
Total	0/4	0	0	0	0	0	0

Official Record

Partial results are shown in parentheses

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	[2]
24 March 2006	Abidjan	Ivory Coast	1–1 (0–0) 3–4 PSO	Benin	[2]
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	[2]
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

All-time record

• Correct as of November 5, 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

Coaches

• Unknown (2006)

See also

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

References

1. "The FIFA/Coca-Cola Women's World Ranking". FIFA. 26 June 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
2. "Results: Côte d'Ivoire". FIFA. 29 September 2009. Retrieved 9 June 2012.