Ivory Coast women's national football team

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Ivory Coast
AssociationIvorian Football Federation
ConfederationCAF (Africa)
Sub-confederationWAFU (West Africa)
Head coachClémentine Touré
CaptainCynthia Djohoré
FIFA codeCIV
First colours
Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current 61 Increase 1 (20 August 2021)[1]
Highest59 (March 2017)
Lowest136 (2011)
First international
 Ivory Coast 0–3 Netherlands 
(1 June 1988, Foshan, China)
Biggest win
 Ivory Coast 7–0 Mozambique 
(26 May 2012, Abidjan, Ivory Coast)
Biggest defeat
 Ivory Coast 0–10 Germany 
(7 June 2015, Ottawa, Canada)
World Cup
Appearances1 (first in 2015)
Best resultGroup Stage, (2015)
Africa Women Cup of Nations
Appearances2 (first in 2012)
Best result3rd place, (2014)

The Ivory Coast women's national football team represents Ivory Coast in international women's football and is controlled by the Ivorian Football Federation. They played their first international match in 1988. The team is currently ranked 64th in the FIFA Women's World Rankings and as the 6th best team in CAF.

History[]

The beginning[]

In 1985, almost no country in the world had a women's national football team,[2] including Ivory Coast who did not play their first FIFA recognised match until 1988[3] when they participated in the Women's FIFA Invitational Tournament 1988. The country was in Group A. On 1 June, they lost to the Netherlands 0–3 in a game in Foshan. On 3 June, they lost to Canada 0–6 in a game in Foshan. In a game on 5 June, they lost to China 1–8 in a game in Guangzhou.[4] In 1992, they competed at the 1st Lyon'ne Cup — Women, held in Lyon, France from 17–20 April. Ivory Coast was in the nation's group. They lost to the United States U20 team 0–4, lost to the CIS team 0–3 and lost to France 1–6.[5] In 2002, the team competed in 2 matches.[6] In 2003, they played in 0 matches.[6] In 2004, they played in 0 matches.[6] In 2005, they played in 3 matches.[6] In 2006, they played in 2 matches.[6] In 2006, the team had 3 training sessions a week.[6] In 2005, they played in the women's Tournoi de Solidarité in Dakar, Senegal. On 18 May, they lost to Mali 1–6. On 20 May, they tied Senegal 3–3. They did not make the finals and overall finished last in the tournament.[7] On 17 May 2006 in Dakar, Togo tied Ivory Coast 3–3.[8] In 2007, the country competed at the Tournoi de Cinq Nations] held in Ouagadougou. On 2 September, they tied Mali 1–1 with Rita Akaffou scoring for the team in the 65th minute. On 5 September, they beat Togo 5–0 before Togo was disqualified from the competition for bringing a club team. On 6 September, they lost to Mali 1–2.[9] In 2010, the country had a team at the African Women's Championships during the preliminary rounds. In the round, they beat Guinea 5–1. They lost to Malawi 4–2 in the return leg.[10] In the 2010, Women's Championship in Africa, they lost in the preliminary round in March, they beat Gabon at home and away 2–1 and 3–1. In the first round against Nigeria, they lost both matches by scores of 1–2 and 1–3.[11] The country did not have a team competing at the 2011 All Africa Games.[12]

The national team has trained in Abidjan.[13] As of 2006, the country did not have an under-17 or under-20 side.[6] In June 2012, the team was ranked 67th in the world by FIFA and the 6th best team in CAF.[14] This was an improvement of four places from March 2012 when they were ranked 71st in the world. The team's worst ever ranking was in 2011 when they were ranked 136th in the world. Other rankings include 73 in 2006, 75 in 2007, 74 in 2008, 92 in 2009, and 77 in 2010.[15]

However, in 2014 African Women's Championship, Ivory Coast surprised everyone by passing through into the semi-final, and later, they shocked Africa by beating giant South Africa, marked for the first time they would play in FIFA Women's World Cup, in Canada 2015. In the later tournament, the World Cup, they were eliminated with three total losses to Germany (0–10), Thailand (2–3) and Norway (1–3). Despite having lost all, Ange N'Guessan's goal over Norway was voted as one of ten best goal in the whole tournament.

Background and development[]

Early development of the women's game at the time colonial powers brought football to the continent was limited, as colonial powers in the region tended to take concepts of patriarchy and women's participation in sport with them to local cultures that had similar concepts already embedded in them.[16] The lack of later development of the national team on a wider international level symptomatic of all African teams is a result of several factors, including limited access to education, poverty amongst women in the wider society, and fundamental inequality present in the society that occasionally allows for female-specific human rights abuses.[17] When quality female football players are developed, they tend to leave for greater opportunities abroad.[18] Continent-wide, funding is also an issue, with most development money coming from FIFA, not the national football association.[18] Future success for women's football in Africa is dependent on improved facilities and access by women to these facilities. Attempting to commercialise the game and make it commercially viable is not the solution, as demonstrated by the current existence of many youth and women's football camps held throughout the continent.[16]

Football is the fourth most popular girls' sport, trailing behind handball, basketball and athletics.[6] A women's football program was set up in the country in 1975[13] and girls' football is played in schools.[6] Player registration starts at nine years of age.[13] In 2006, there were 610 registered female players, 560 of whom were senior players and 50 were under 18 years of age.[6] This was an increase from 2002 when there were 130 registered female players, 2003 when there were 220, 2004 when there were 253, and 2005 when there were 428 registered players.[6] In 2006, there were 123 football clubs in the country, of which 11 were women's-only sides.[6] As of 2009, there are 36 senior teams and 4 youth teams for women.[13] A school based competition exists.[13]

The national federation was created in 1960 and became FIFA affiliated in 1964.[6][19][20] Their kit includes orange shirts, white shorts and green socks.[19] The national committee does not have a full-time employee in charge of women's football.[6] Representation of women's football is not guaranteed in the federation's constitution.[6] The FIFA trigramme is CIV.[21] A FIFA-run women's MA football course was run in the country in 2007.[13]

Results and fixtures[]

The following is a list of match results within the last 12 months.

  Win   Draw   Lose   Fixture

2021[]

18 October 2022 AFWCON qualification First round 1st leg Niger  v  Ivory Coast TBD
[Report (FIFA)]
[Report (CAF)]
[Report (SW)]		 Stadium: TBD
26 October 2022 AFWCON qualification First round 2nd leg Ivory Coast  v  Niger TBD
[Report (FIFA)]
[Report (CAF)]
[Report (SW)]		 Stadium: TBD

Coaching staff[]

Current coaching staff[]

Position Name Ref.
Head coach Ivory Coast Clémentine Touré

Manager history[]

Players[]

Main article: List of Ivory Coast women's international footballers

Up-to-date caps, goals, and statistics are not publicly available; therefore, caps and goals listed may be incorrect.

Current squad[]

The following players were called up for the fourth round of the 2020 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament.[22]

Caps and goals accurate up to and including 26 July 2021.

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1 1GK Cynthia Djohoré (C) (1987-12-16) 16 December 1987 (age 33) 29 0 Ivory Coast
16 1GK (1998-11-15) 15 November 1998 (age 22) Ivory Coast
2 2DF Fatou Coulibaly (1987-02-13) 13 February 1987 (age 34) 33 1 Cyprus Pyrgos Limassol
4 2DF Nina Kpaho (1996-12-30) 30 December 1996 (age 24) 14 0 Belarus Neman Grodno
5 2DF Mariam Diakité (1995-04-11) 11 April 1995 (age 26) 14 9 Belarus Neman Grodno
13 2DF Fernande Tchetche (1988-06-20) 20 June 1988 (age 33) 20 0 Ivory Coast
18 2DF Raymonde Kacou (1987-01-07) 7 January 1987 (age 34) 6 0 Ivory Coast
20 2DF Lynda Gauzé (1990-06-11) 11 June 1990 (age 31) 1 0 Belarus Neman Grodno
6 3MF Bernadette Amani (1997-09-05) 5 September 1997 (age 23) 3 0 Spain FF La Solana
14 3MF Rebecca Guehai (1994-07-15) 15 July 1994 (age 27) 23 1 Spain Logroño
15 3MF Christine Lohoues (1992-10-18) 18 October 1992 (age 28) 22 1 Ivory Coast
17 3MF Nadège Cissé (1997-04-04) 4 April 1997 (age 24) 6 0 Belarus Dinamo Minsk
19 3MF Jessica Aby (1998-06-16) 16 June 1998 (age 23) 2 0 Ivory Coast
3 4FW Espérance Agbo 1995 (age 25–26) 2 0 India Gokulam Kerala
7 4FW Nadege Essoh (1990-05-05) 5 May 1990 (age 31) 31 4 France FC Milhaud
8 4FW Inès Tia (1993-10-01) 1 October 1993 (age 27) 19 14 South Korea Gyeongju KHNP
10 4FW Priscille Kreto (1997-05-08) 8 May 1997 (age 24) 1 1 Ivory Coast Africa
11 4FW Rebecca Elloh (1994-12-25) 25 December 1994 (age 26) 17 3 Spain Logroño
12 4FW Rosemonde Kouassi (2001-12-26) 26 December 2001 (age 19) 3 0 Israel Hapoel Ra'anana
4FW Binta Diakité (1988-05-07) 7 May 1988 (age 33) 22 2 Belarus FC Minsk
9 Inès Konan 1 0 Unknown

Recent call ups[]

The following players have been called up to the Ivory Coast squad in the past 12 months.

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

Records[]

Individual records[]

Main article: List of Ivory Coast women's international footballers

*Active players in bold, statistics correct as of 26 July 2021.

Competitive record[]

FIFA Women's World Cup[]

FIFA Women's World Cup record
Year Result Position Pld W D L GF GA
China 1991 Did Not Enter
Sweden 1995 Did Not Enter
United States 1999 Did Not Enter
United States 2003 Did Not Qualify
China 2007 Did Not Qualify
Germany 2011 Did Not Qualify
Canada 2015 Group Stage 23rd 3 0 0 3 3 16
France 2019 Did Not Qualify
AustraliaNew Zealand 2023 To be determined
Total 1/9 - 3 0 0 3 3 16
FIFA Women's World Cup history
Year Round Date Opponent Result Stadium
Canada 2015 Group stage 7 June  Germany L 0–10 TD Place Stadium, Ottawa
11 June  Thailand L 2–3
15 June  Norway L 1–3 Moncton Stadium, Moncton

Olympic Games[]

Africa Women Cup of Nations[]

Africa Women Cup of Nations record
Year Result Matches Wins Draws Losses GF GA
1991 Did not enter
1995
Nigeria 1998
South Africa 2000
Nigeria 2002 Did not qualify
South Africa 2004 Did not enter
Nigeria 2006 Did not qualify
Equatorial Guinea 2008
South Africa 2010
Equatorial Guinea 2012 Group stage 3 1 0 2 7 7
Namibia 2014 Third place 5 2 1 2 8 8
Cameroon 2016 Did not qualify
Ghana 2018 Did not qualify
Total 2/13 8 3 1 4 15 15

African Games[]

See also[]

References[]

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