Nigeria women's national football team

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Nigeria
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname Super Falcons
Association Nigeria Football Association
Coach Joseph Ladipo
Most caps Florence Omagbemi (80)
Top scorer Mercy Akide
FIFA rank 24
Team colours Team colours Team colours
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Home kit
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Away kit
First International
Nigeria 5 - 1 Ghana ;
( Nigeria; February 16, 1991)
Largest win
Nigeria 9 - 0 Sierra Leone;
(Nigeria; unknown date, 1994)
Worst defeat
Norway 8 - 0 Nigeria
(Tingvallen, Norway; June 6, 1995)
World Cup
Appearances 4 (First in 1991)
Best result Quarterfinals, 1999
Olympic Games
Appearances 2 (First in 2000)
Best result Quarterfinals, 2004
Africa Champions Cup
Appearances *number of times* (First in *Date*)
Best result Won, *Date*, *Date*, 1998
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The Nigeria national women's football team, nicknamed the Super Falcons, is the national team of Nigeria and is controlled by the Nigeria Football Association. They are the six-time African champions, and have lost only one game in their history to African competition (December 12, 2002 to Ghana in Warri).

  • Mercy Akide
  • Ifeanyichukwu Chiejine
  • Rita Chikwelu
  • Florence Iweta
  • Perpetua Nkwocha
  • Florence Omagbemi
  • Rokiatou Samake
  • Cynthia Uwak

International women's football
v • d • e

FIFA | World Cup | Olympics | Algarve Cup | Pan American Games | World Rankings | Player of the Year | FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship | FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup | Teams
     Asia: AFC – Women's Championship
     Africa: CAF – Women's Championship
     North America: CONCACAF – Women's Gold Cup
     South America: CONMEBOL – Sudamericano Femenino
     Oceania: OFC – Women's Championship
     Europe: UEFA – Women's Championship
National women's football teams of Africa (CAF)
v • d • e

Algeria | Angola | Benin | Botswana | Cameroon | Central African Republic | Congo | Congo DR | Côte d'Ivoire | Djibouti | Egypt | Equatorial Guinea | Eritrea | Ethiopia | Egypt | Gabon | Ghana | Guinea | Kenya | Lesotho | Libya | Malawi | Mali | Morocco | Mozambique | Namibia | Nigeria | São Tomé and Príncipe | Senegal | South Africa | Swaziland | Tanzania | Togo | Tunisia | Uganda | Zambia | Zimbabwe
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