Seychelles women's national football team explained

Seychelles
Badge:Seychelles Football Federation.png
Association:Seychelles Football Federation
Sub-Confederation:COSAFA
(Southern Africa)
Confederation:CAF (Africa)
Coach:Chris Yip-Au
Top Scorer:Natacha Bibi (13+)
Fifa Trigramme:SEY
Fifa Max:160
Fifa Max Date:June 2022
Fifa Min:170
Fifa Min Date:December 2023 – August 2024
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First Game: 7–3
(White River, South Africa; 5 July 2015)
Largest Win: 0–4
(Malé, Maldives; 18 February 2022)
Largest Loss: 17–0
(Blantyre, Malawi; 25 September 2023)
17–0
(Blantyre, Malawi; 28 September 2023)
Type:women

The Seychelles women's national football team is the national team of the Seychelles.

The national team, captained by Abby Boone, played in two eighty-minute long games in 2005 in a tournament hosted by Mauritius, with the Seychelles losing both matches. An official under-17 national team exists and had regular training sessions in 2006.

The sport faces several development problems inside the country including a lack of popularity for the sport, and few female players and teams. Women have gained football leadership positions in the country with one coaching a men's team and another umpiring international matches. There are other development issues for the sport that are ones facing the whole of Africa.

History

See also: Women's football in Seychelles. The Seychelles Football Federation was founded in 1979, and became a FIFA affiliate in 1986.[1] [2] Women's football is represented in the federation by specific mandate and currently they employ one full-time employee to look after the women's game.[1]

In 1985, almost no country in the world had a women's national football team[3] including the Seychelles who did play in a single FIFA sanctioned match between 1950 and June 2012.[4]

In 2005, they competed in a three nation tournament hosted by Mauritius, where all games were 80 minutes in length. They lost to Mauritius 1–4 and also to Réunion 0–9. Overall, they finished last, scoring only one goal in the competition.[5] In 2005, Zambia was supposed to host a regional COSAFA women's football tournament, with ten teams agreeing to send teams including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Seychelles, Mauritius, Madagascar, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland.[6] Seychelles did not record a match in the event.

In 2006, the country did not have an official FIFA recognised senior "A" team, a situation unchanged by 2009. However, according to FIFA's Women's Football Today, the country has an official under-17 team, the Seychelles women's national under-17 football team. In 2016, they had two training sessions a week but had yet to record an official FIFA recognised match.[1]

The country did not have a team competing in the 2010 African Women's Championship,[7] or at the 2011 All Africa Games.[8] In March 2012, the team was not ranked in the world by FIFA due to inactivity.[9]

In 2022, Seychelles have entered the FIFA/Coca-Cola Women’s World Ranking for the first time under the Singaporean head coach Angeline Chua.[10] For a team to be ranked on the FIFA list, the team has to play a minimum of six international matches against ranked teams. On 4 April 2022, the Seychelles women's national team played its sixth international match in Singapore.[11]

In October 2023, Singaporean Chris Yip-Au joined the Seychelles Football Federation as its head of women’s football and women’s national team coach.[12]

Results and fixtures

See main article: Seychelles 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.

Legend

2024

Coaching staff

Current coaching staff

As of September 2023

Position Name Ref.
Team Manager Peggy Freminot[13]
Assistant Team Manager Militna Marie
Technical Director Osama Haroun
Head coach Chris Yip-Au
Assistant coach Florence Marie
Coach Michel Renaud
Goalkeeping coach Slim William

Head coaches

Caretaker head coaches/managers are listed in italics.

Players

Current squad

Caps and goals correct as of 27 February 2022

Recent call-ups

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

Competitive record

FIFA Women's World Cup

FIFA Women's World Cup record
YearResultGPWD*LGFGAGD
1991did not exist
1995
1999
2003
2007did not enter
2011
2015did not qualify
2019did not enter
2023
2027to be determined
Total0/10-------

Olympic Games

Summer Olympics record
YearResult
1996did not exist
2000
2004
2008did not Qualify
did not enter
2024
Total0/80000000

Africa Women Cup of Nations

Africa Women Cup of Nations record
YearResultMatchesWins DrawsLossesGFGA
1991 to 2004did not exist
did not enter
2014did not qualify
2016did not enter
2018
2020Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
2022did not enter
2024 Did not enter
Total0/12------

African Games

African Games record
YearResultMatchesWins DrawsLossesGFGAGD
2003Did Not exist
2007Did Not enter
2011
2015
2023
Total0/50000000

Regional

COSAFA Women's Championship

COSAFA Women's Championship record
YearRound
2002did not exist
did not enter
TotalGroup stage60 154 47 −43

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. 2006. Women's Football Today. https://web.archive.org/web/20120814213100/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/afdeveloping/women/93/77/21/factsheets.pdf. dead. August 14, 2012. FIFA. 171. 5 June 2012.
  2. Web site: 5 June 2012. FIFA. Goal! Football: Seychelles . https://web.archive.org/web/20140201214626/http://www.fifa.com/mm/goalproject/sey_eng.pdf. dead. February 1, 2014. 21 April 2009. 4.
  3. Book: Chrös McDougall. Soccer. 13 April 2012. 1 January 2012. ABDO. 978-1-61783-146-1. 45.
  4. Web site: Seychelles: Fixtures and Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20110621141507/http://www.fifa.com/associations/association=sey/fixturesresults/gender=f/index.html . dead . June 21, 2011 . . 2012 . 13 April 2012.
  5. Web site: Women Tournament (Mauritius) 2005 . Rsssf.com . 10 September 2005 . 13 April 2012.
  6. News: Zambia to Host Cosafa Women's Soccer Tourney. The Post. Lusaka, Zambia. 16 August 2005. Augustine. Mukoka. 23 April 2012.
  7. Web site: Fixtures — African Women Championship 2010 – CAF . CAF . 13 April 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120414133659/http://www.cafonline.com/competition/african-women-championship_2010/results . 14 April 2012 .
  8. Web site: Groups & standings — All Africa Games women 2011 – CAF . CAF . 13 April 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120510122431/http://www.cafonline.com/competition/all-africa-games-women_2011/groups . 10 May 2012 .
  9. Web site: The FIFA Women's World Ranking . https://web.archive.org/web/20111008164448/http://www.fifa.com/worldranking/rankingtable/women/index.html . dead . October 8, 2011 . . 25 September 2009 . 13 April 2012.
  10. Web site: Chua makes history with the Seychelles . . 24 June 2022.
  11. News: Nicette . Sedrick . Women's football: Seychelles bids farewell to history-making Singaporean coach . 19 Feb 2023 . .
  12. Web site: Former Singapore footballer Chris Yip-Au relishes new challenge as Seychelles coach . 19 November 2023 . .
  13. Web site: Women’s International friendly football . . 17 November 2022 .
  14. Web site: Football – Seychelles women’s national team on another journey in quest for Fifa ranking . 12 January 2023 . .
  15. Web site: Malawi Scorch Seychelles . 25 Sep 2023 . .
  16. News: The Seychelles ’ is on its way to Dar-es-Salam to play a series of two International Friendlies . Facebook. 1 June 2024 .