| Type: | women |
| Niger | |
| Badge: | Flag of Niger.svg |
| Badge Size: | 190px |
| Association: | Nigerien Football Federation |
| Sub-Confederation: | WAFU (West Africa) |
| Confederation: | CAF (Africa) |
| Coach: | Ali Mamadou |
| Fifa Trigramme: | NIG |
| Fifa Max: | 161 |
| Fifa Max Date: | December 2021 – June 2022 |
| Fifa Min: | 166 |
| Fifa Min Date: | October 2022 – June 2023; December 2023 – August 2024 |
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| Largest Loss: | 15–0 (Côte d'Ivoire; 11 April 2019) |
The Niger women's national football team represents Niger in international women's football. It is governed by the Nigerien Football Federation. It has played in four FIFA recognised matches, two of which were losses to Burkina Faso women's national football team in 2007. There is an under-20 women's national team who were supposed to participate in the 2002 African Women U-19 Championship but withdrew before playing a game. There are problems that impact the development of the women's game in Africa that effect Niger.
Early development of the women's game at the time colonial powers brought football to the continent was limited as colonial powers in the region tended to take male concepts of patriarchy and women's participation in sport with them to local cultures that had similar concepts already embedded in them. The lack of later development of the national team on a wider international level symptomatic of all African teams is a result of several factors, including limited access to education, poverty amongst women in the wider society, and fundamental inequality present in the society that occasionally allows for female specific human rights abuses.[1] When quality female football players are developed, they tend to leave for greater opportunities abroad.[2] Continent wide, funding is also an issue, with most development money coming from FIFA, not the national football association. Future, success for women's football in Africa is dependent on improved facilities and access by women to these facilities. Attempting to commercialise the game and make it commercially viable is not the solution, as demonstrated by the current existence of many youth and women's football camps held throughout the continent.[3]
The Nigerien Football Federation was founded in 1967 and became a FIFA affiliate that same year.[4] [5] The FIFA trigramme is NIG.[6] The national association does not have a full-time staffer dedicated to women, and there are no organisational or constitutional provisions specifically pertaining to the women's game.[4]
No organised women's football programme existed in the country despite football being one of the most popular sports in the country by 2009.[7] For women though, basketball is the most popular participation sport.[4] In 2006, there were zero registered female players and zero registered football clubs for women only.[4] Rights to broadcast the 2011 Women's World Cup in the country were bought by the African Union of Broadcasting and Supersport International.[8]
In 1985, almost no country in the world had a women's national football team[9] including Niger who officially had no women's national senior A team before 2006[4] and only had their first FIFA recognised international in 2007 when they competed at the Tournoi de Cinq Nations held in Ouagadougou. On 2 September, they lost to Burkina Faso 0–10. On 6 September, they lost to Burkina Faso 0–5.[10] [11] The country did not have a team competing in the 2010 African Women's Championships during the preliminary rounds[12] or the 2011 All Africa Games.[13] In June 2012, the team was not ranked in the world by FIFA.[14] The country has never been ranked by FIFA.[15]
The country has had a Niger women's national under-19 football team who have competed in the 2002 African Women U-19 Championship, the first edition of the competition to be held. They had a bye in the first round. In the quarterfinals, they were supposed to play Morocco but Niger withdrew from the competition.[16]
See main article: Niger women's national football team results.
See also: 2022 in association football, 2022 in sports and FIFA International Match Calendar.
The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.
| Role | Name | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head coach | Ali Badje Mamadou | [17] | |
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Ali Badje Mamadou(20??–present)
The following players have been called up to a Niger squad in the past 12 months.
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| FIFA Women's World Cup record | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | GP | W | D* | L | GS | GA | GD | |
 1991 to  2015 | Did not exist | ||||||||
 2019 | Did not enter | ||||||||
  2023 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
 2027 | To be determined | ||||||||
| Total | 0/2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Summer Olympics | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | Matches | Wins | Draws | Losses | GF | GA | ||
 1996 | Did Not Enter | ||||||||
| 2000 | |||||||||
| 2004 | |||||||||
| 2008 | Withdrew | ||||||||
 2012 | Did Not Enter | ||||||||
| 2016 | |||||||||
 2021 | |||||||||
| 2024 | |||||||||
| Total | 0/8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Africa Women Cup of Nations | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | GP | W | D* | L | GS | GA | GD | |
1991 to  2014 | Did not exist | ||||||||
 2016 to  2018 | Did not enter | ||||||||
| 2020 | Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Africa | ||||||||
 2022 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
| 2024 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
| Total | 0/3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| African Games | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | Matches | Wins | Draws | Losses | GF | GA | ||
 2003 | Did Not Enter | ||||||||
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| 2023 | |||||||||
| Total | 0/6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| WAFU Zone B Women's Cup | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | Position | ||||||
 2018 | Group Stage | 7th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 20 |
| 2019 | Group Stage | 7th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 32 |
| Total | Group Stage | 1/1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 17 |