Benin women's national football team explained

Benin
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Association:	Benin Football Federation
Sub-Confederation:	WAFU (West Africa)
Confederation:	CAF (Africa)
Coach:	Vacant
Captain:	None
Most Caps:	Unknown
Top Scorer:	Bouraïma Bathily (1)
Home Stadium:	Stade de l'Amitié
Fifa Trigramme:	BEN
Fifa Max:	96
Fifa Max Date:	September 2006
Fifa Min:	152
Fifa Min Date:	December 2023 – August 2024
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First Game:	1–0 (Benin; 19 February 2006)
Largest Win:	1–0 (Benin; 19 February 2006) 3–2 (Dakar, Senegal; 17 May 2006) 3–2 (Dakar, Senegal; 21 May 2006) 3–2 (Cotonou, Benin; 18 July 2023)
Largest Loss:	5–1 (Dakar, Senegal; 19 May 2006)
Regional Name:	Africa Women Cup of Nations
Type:	women

The Benin women's national football team represents Benin in international women's football. It is governed by the Benin Football Federation. It 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 2006 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.

2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations

Benin did not qualify for the 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations.

Team image

Nicknames

The Benin women's national football team has been known or nicknamed as the " ".

Home stadium

The Benin women's national football team plays their home matches at the Stade de l'Amitié.

Rivalries

Results and fixtures

See main article: Benin women's national football team results.

The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

Partial results are shown in parentheses.

Legend

2023

Coaching staff

Current coaching staff

Position	Name	Ref.
Head coach	Immaculée Agbakou ^[1]
Assistant coach	Frédéric Hounkponou
Goalkeeping coach
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Manager history

Unknown (2006)
Vacant (20??–2021)
Symphorien Téhou(2021–2023)
Immaculée Agbakou(2023-

Players

Current squad

The following players were named on 15 October 2023 for 2024 CAF Women's Olympic qualifying tournament in October 2023 .^[2]
Caps and goals accurate up to and including 30 October 2021.

Recent call-ups

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

Records

Individual records

Active players in bold, statistics correct as of 6 September 2021.

Most appearances

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Top goalscorers

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Competitive record

FIFA Women's World Cup

FIFA Women's World Cup
Year	Result	GP	W	D*	L	GF	GA	GD
1991	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1995	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1999	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2003	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2007	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2023	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2027	To be determined	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	0/10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Olympic Games

Summer Olympics
Year	Result	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	GF	GA
1996	Did Not Enter
2000
2004
2008	Withdrew
2012	Did Not Enter
2016
2020
2024
	To be determined
Total	0/9	0	0	0	0	0	0

Africa Women Cup of Nations

Africa Women Cup of Nations
Year	Result	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	GF	GA
1991	Did Not Enter
1995
1998
2000
2002
2004
2006	Did not qualify
2008	Withdrew
2010	Did Not Enter
2012
2014
2016
2018
	Cancelled
	Did not qualify
2024	Did not qualify
Total	0/14	-	-	-	-	-	-