Botswana women's national football team
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| Nickname(s) | (Female) The Zebras | ||
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| Association | Botswana Football Association | ||
| Confederation | CAF (Africa) | ||
| Sub-confederation | COSAFA (Southern Africa) | ||
| Head coach | Gaoletlhoo Nkutlwisang | ||
| Captain | Bonang Otlhagile[1] | ||
| Home stadium | Botswana National Stadium | ||
| FIFA code | BOT | ||
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| FIFA ranking | |||
| Current | 153  (15 March 2024)[2] | ||
| Highest | 92 (December 2009) | ||
| Lowest | 152 (July 2019) | ||
| First international | |||
 South Africa 14–0 Botswana  (Harare, Zimbabwe; April 19, 2002) | |||
| Biggest win | |||
Botswana 7–0 Mauritius  (Lobatse, Botswana; March 5, 2016) | |||
| Biggest defeat | |||
| South Africa 14–0 Botswana (Harare, Zimbabwe; April 19, 2002) | |||
The Botswana women's national football team nicknamed 'The Zebras' (Female) is the women's national football team of the Botswana and is controlled by the Botswana Football Association. It has never qualified for a major tournament.
Botswana played in the qualification for the 2002 African Championship, but lost in their first game. After this, they also took part in the qualification for the 2008 African Championship, where they played two matches and lost both to Namibia at the end of 2007. Botswana did not play again until the qualification for the 2010 Championship, where they lost both matches, this time against Democratic Republic of the Congo. For these games, Botswana named an entirely U20 national team.[3] They have also played games since they were eliminated from qualification.
History
Botswana played their first match in Harare, Zimbabwe on April 19, 2002 against South Africa in a series of friendlies. They lost 14–0. After this match they lost 3–0 against Swaziland and 7–1 against Mozambique, in where they scored their first goal.
Botswana's first major competition was in the 2008 African Women's Championship, in where after 5 years they played an international match, this time against Namibia. Zebras lost both legs by 3–0 and 6–1.
Botswana had played with Zambia on 4 May 2008 and lost 4–2.
With a U20 team, Zebras played 2010 African Women's Championship qualifiers against Congo DR and again lost both legs, this time by 2–0 and 5–2 and did not qualify for either the 2010 African Women's Championship and the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
A series of friendlies occurred in October 2010, against Zambia on 2 and 23 October, lost 1–4 and 1–2 respectively; against Tanzania on 25 October and 26 October, lost 2–3 and draw 1–1. In the next year, March 2011, they again played against Namibia and lost 1–0.
In 2011, one of the two friendlies in April and May with South Africa marked their first victory, by 1–0. The other match was lost 4–0. In August, they played against Tanzania on 2 August, losing 3–1; South Africa on August 3, losing 4–0 and against Zambia, also losing, 4–1.
They entered the 2012 African Women's Championship qualifiers and played against Zimbabwe, and was eliminated by an aggregate score of 3–1, due to losing the two legs by 1–0 and 2–1. Last friendlies in 2012 include two losses against South Africa (3–0) and Zimbabwe (5–0).
Before the 2014 African Women's Championship qualifiers, the team played the first 2014 matches, against Swaziland on 7 and 8 January and won for the second and third time, by 3–0 and 3–1. The first leg of the qualifiers for the African Championship started on 14 February with a loss against Zimbabwe 1–0 and the second leg was played on 2 March, with another loss, by 2–1, Botswana ended eliminated from the African Championship and the World Cup. In June 7 of the same year, they played against South Africa, losing 4–0.
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Stadium
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The Botswana women's national team play their home matches on...
Kits
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Honours
Intercontinental
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Continental
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Champions:
Runners-up:
Third place:
- Champions:
- Runners-up:
- Third place:
Regional
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- Champions:
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Other tournaments
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- Champions:
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Achievements
World Cup record
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| Year | Result | GP | W | D* | L | GF | GA | GD | |
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| Total | 0/9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
- *Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
Olympic Games record
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| Year | Result | Matches | Wins | Draws | Losses | GF | GA | ||
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| Total | 0/7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
African Championship record
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| Year | Result | Matches | Wins | Draws | Losses | GF | GA | |
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 2008
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| Total | 0/12 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Africa Games record
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| Year | Result | Matches | Wins | Draws | Losses | GF | GA | ||
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 2015
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| Total | 0/4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Coaching staff
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| Position | Name | Ref. |
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| Head coach | Gaoletlhoo Nkutlwisang | |
| Assistant coach | ||
| Goalkeeper coach | ||
| Physical coach |
Players
Current squad
The following players were called up for a friendly match against Slovak club Partizan Bardejov on 7 August 2019.[4]
Recent call-ups
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The following players have been called up to a Botswana squad in the past 12 months.
| Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club | Latest call-up |
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Previous squads
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Individual records
- *Active players in bold, statistics correct as of 2020.
Most caps
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Top scorers
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Managers
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Results and fixtures
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The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.
Win Draw Lose
2019
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| 2019 | Botswana | v |
2020
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| 2020 | Botswana | v | TBD |
See also
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Notes
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References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2014-11-07.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "The FIFA/Coca-Cola Women's World Ranking". FIFA. 15 March 2024. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
- ^ Bad start for women's football team Archived 2011-07-11 at the Wayback Machine Botswana Gazette
- ^ "Botswana touring Slovakia ahead of Banyana clash". Goal. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
External links
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