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'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

African Women's Championship record

Olympic Games record

All-Africa Games record

Official Record

Partial results are shown in parentheses
DateLocationHome teamScoreAway teamSource
19 February 2006Benin Benin1–0 Malawi
26 February 2006Malawi Malawi0–0 Benin
12 March 2006Cotonou Benin1–1 Ivory Coast
24 March 2006Abidjan Ivory Coast1–1 3–4 PSO Benin
17 May 2006Dakar Benin3–2 Guinea
19 May 2006Dakar Senegal5–1 Benin
21 May 2006Dakar Benin3–2 Ivory Coast
29 May 2006Cotonou Benin2–3 Equatorial Guinea
22 July 2006Bamako Mali3–1 Benin
27 July 2006Cotonou Benin1–2 Congo
6 August 2006Cotonou Benin0–1 Mali
27–29 October 2007 Benin Namibia
30 November 2007 Guinea Benin
17 December 2019Ouagadougou Burkina Faso6-2 Benin
19 December 2019Ouagadougou Burkina Faso4-0 Benin
23 December 2019Lomé Togo2-1 Benin

All-time record

AgainstPlayedWonDrawnLostGFGAGD
100112-1
100123-1
110032+1
312054+1
211010+1
200214-3
100115−4
Total113351420−6

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