Egypt women's national football team

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Egypt
Nickname(s)The Cleopatras
AssociationEgyptian Football Association
ConfederationCAF (Africa)
Sub-confederationUNAF (North Africa)
Head coachMohamed Mostafa Abdelhameed
Top scorerAmany Rashad (21)
Home stadiumCairo International Stadium
FIFA codeEGY
First colours
Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current 94 Decrease 2 (15 March 2024)[1]
Highest58 (December 2005)
Lowest121 (March 2008)
First international
Egypt Egypt 1–1 Uganda 
(Egypt; 29 March 1998)[2]
Biggest win
Egypt Egypt 15–0 Iraq 
(Manama, Bahrain; 21 October 2010)
Biggest defeat
 Nigeria 6–0 Egypt Egypt
(Kaduna, Nigeria; 23 October 1998)
African Women's Championship
Appearances2 (first in 1998)
Best resultGroup stage (1998
2016)

The Egypt women's national football team represents Egypt in international women's football.[3]

Like most African Nations, women's football in Egypt has lacked development, whereas the men's team is one of the continent's most traditional.

History

The team had an agonizing start. As shown when they were lost 17–0 by Russia in a 1993 unofficial friendly. An unimpressed correspondent in the Egyptian Mail newspaper wrote of the players:[4]

Their bucksome blubbery bodies played havoc, with their running becoming turtle-paced. And the crowd shouted at them to go back home.

After some development, the Cleopatras were able to make their official debut in the 1998 African Championship after beating Uganda in the qualifying round. They lost all 3 matches with horrible results but were able to score 2 goals.

In 2012 they made their fourth appearance in the African Championship's qualifiers. They were knocked out by Ethiopia.

Egypt was able to qualify to the 2016 Tournament after beating Ivory Coast on Away Goals rule. This was considered an upset since the Ivory Coast had recently played at the World Cup.

In the tournament, Egypt lost 2-0 to Cameroon and 5-0 to South Africa but were able to snatch their first victory against Zimbabwe after a sole goal by Tarik.

Egypt did not enter the qualification rounds to the 2019 World Cup nor the African Women's Cup. They have not played a friendly in over a year and are currently unranked.

Coaching staff

Position Name Ref.
Head coach
Assistant coach
Goalkeeper coach
Physical coach

Players

Current squad

The following players have been selected to the squad for the.

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1GK
2DF
3MF
4FW

Recent call-ups

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

Player records

Main article: List of Egypt women's international footballers
*Active players in bold, statistics correct as of 2020.

Managers

Recent results and fixtures

Main article: Egypt women's national football team results

2020

All-time results

The following table shows Egypt's all-time international record, correct as of 1 June 2018.

Against Played Won Drawn Lost GF GA
Total 55 22 9 24 101 85

Overall competitive record

Competition Stage Opponen Result Position Scorers
1998 African Championship qualifying Single round  Uganda 1–1 1–0
Nigeria 1998 African Championship First round  DR Congo
 Morocco
 Nigeria		 1–4
1–4
0–6		 4 / 4
2000 African Championship qualifying Single round  Réunion 3–4 1–1
2006 African Championship qualifying First round  Eritrea Walkover
Second round  Algeria 0–1 0–3
2008 African Championship qualifying First round  Tunisia Withdrew
Tunisia 2009 North African Tournament Single round  Tunisia
 Algeria		 2–6
1–1		 3 / 3
2010 African Championship qualifying First round  Algeria Withdrew
2012 African Championship qualifying First round  Ethiopia 4–2 0–4 Atia (2), Tarek, Abd El-Hafiz
2014 African Championship qualifying First round  Tunisia 0–3, 2–2 Tarek

Honours

Competitive record

FIFA Women's World Cup

FIFA Women's World Cup record
Year Result GP W D* L GF GA GD
China 1991 Did Not Enter - - - - - - -
Sweden 1995 Did Not Enter - - - - - - -
United States 1999 Did Not Qualify - - - - - - -
United States 2003 Did Not Enter - - - - - - -
China 2007 Did Not Qualify - - - - - - -
Germany 2011 Did Not Enter - - - - - - -
Canada 2015 Did Not Qualify - - - - - - -
France 2019 Did Not Qualify - - - - - - -
AustraliaNew Zealand 2023 To Be Determined - - - - - - -
Total 0/9 - - - - - - -
*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Olympic Games

Africa Women Cup of Nations

Africa Women Cup of Nations record
Year Round GP W D L GS GA GD
1991 Did Not Enter - - - - - - -
1995 Did Not Enter - - - - - - -
Nigeria 1998 Group Stage 3 0 0 3 2 14 -12
South Africa 2000 Did Not Qualify - - - - - - -
Nigeria 2002 Did Not Enter - - - - - - -
South Africa 2004 Did Not Enter - - - - - - -
Nigeria 2006 Did Not Qualify - - - - - - -
Equatorial Guinea 2008 Did Not Enter - - - - - - -
South Africa 2010 Did Not Enter - - - - - - -
Equatorial Guinea 2012 Did Not Qualify - - - - - - -
Namibia 2014 Did Not Qualify - - - - - - -
Cameroon 2016 Group Stage 3 1 0 2 1 7 -6
Total Group Stage 6 1 0 5 3 21 -18

African Games

See also

References

  1. ^ "The FIFA/Coca-Cola Women's World Ranking". FIFA. 15 March 2024. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
  2. ^ Egypt vs. Uganda – 29 March 1998 – FIFA WWC 1999 Prel. Comp. CAF
  3. ^ "Good but could be better". Al-Ahram. Archived from the original on 2012-04-15. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
  4. ^ Maume, Chris (24 December 1993). "Sports Quotes of the Year: Wit and women: Verbal volleys, wars of words: 'He gets my daughter and I get tickets to the internationals'". The Independent. Retrieved 14 May 2013.

External links

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