Nigeria women's national football team
The Nigerian national football team of women (nicknamed " Super Falcons " ) represented Nigeria in international women's football. The team reports to the Nigerian Football Federation. The Nigerian national team selection is the strongest of the African continent. Until now, the Nigerian team eight out of ten African Cup win and was always semi-finals. 2012 was achieved with the fourth place, the worst result so far. At the World Championships and Olympic Games could reach the quarter-finals only once each. Record national Maureen Mmadu is the only African player with at least 100 caps. The nickname of the junior teams are "Olympic Falcons ' (U -23), " Falco Nets " (U -20) and" Flamingoes " (U -17).
- 3.1 Germany
- 3.2 Switzerland
- 3.3 Austria
Tournament Record
World cup
Nigeria took the only African team participated in all World Cup finals, but could only get through the first round in 1999 and move in a second group to the quarterfinals. There, they lost in extra time with 3:4 against Brazil. Nigeria holds the negative record of nine World Cup matches without a win and is the only country that has achieved twice in four consecutive games no goal. Only in the last group match of the World Cup 2011 Nigeria could again win a game and finish the second zero -goal series. Nigeria is next to Brazil, the only country that took in all six appearances with another coach. The highest defeat in a competitive match cashed in Nigeria in 1995 World Cup against eventual champion Norway.
African Cup of Nations
- 2014: qualified for the second qualifying round
Olympic games
Nigeria took on three occasions at the football tournament of the women at the Olympics in part. Only in 1996 could not qualify, because automatically the seven best teams in the World Cup 1995 and Brazil were invited to England. In qualifying for 2012 Nigeria met in the final qualifying round on Cameroon which took after the disqualification of Equatorial Guinea. After a 2-1 win in the first leg, the second leg was lost with 1:2 and in the subsequent penalty shoot- Cameroon was able to prevail. Coach Ngozi Uche was subsequently dismissed.
- 2008: Preliminary
- 2012: not qualified
Squad for the World Cup
At the World Cup Nigeria stepped in with the following squad:
Games against teams of German-speaking countries
All results from Nigerian perspective.
Germany
Switzerland
So far, there were no games against the Swiss selection.