| South Sudan | |
| Nickname: | Bright Starlets |
| Association: | South Sudan Football Association (SSFA) |
| Sub-Confederation: | CECAFA (East & Central Africa) |
| Confederation: | CAF (Africa) |
| Coach: | Sidi Mohammed Karouane |
| Top Scorer: | Debora Stephen (4) |
| Fifa Trigramme: | SSD |
| Fifa Max: | 175 |
| Fifa Max Date: | December 2021 |
| Fifa Min: | 192 |
| Fifa Min Date: | August 2024 |
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| Largest Loss: | 11–0 (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 10 April 2021) |
| Largest Win: | 0–6 (Khartoum, Sudan, 16 February 2022) |
| Type: | women |
The South Sudan women's national team represents South Sudan in international women's football competitions.
South Sudan gain its independent from Sudan in 2011. That same year the women's team was created.[1]
The team then gained Confederation of African Football (CAF) membership in February 2012 and full FIFA membership in May.[2] [3]
They played their first international competition at the 2019 CECAFA Women's Championship where they lost their first game 0–9 on16 November 2019 against Tanzania, achieved their first win in their second match 5 - 0 vs Zanzibar on 18 November 2019, and two days later on 20 November 2019, dropped their third game 0 - 5 against Burundi. The team was eliminated in the group stage. Kenya women national team went on to win the tournament with 2 - 0 victory over Tanzania women national team.
The South Sudan women's national football team has been known or nicknamed as the "Bright Starlets" derived from the men's national team "Bright Star".
See main article: South Sudan 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.
| Position | Name | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head coach |  Sidi Mohamed Karoune | [4] | |
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The following players have been called up to a South Sudan squad in the past 12 months.
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| 1 | Deborah Stephen | 2022 | 5 | ???? | |||||
| 2 | chiang Tomas | 2022 | 3 | ??? | |||||
| 3 | Amy Lasu | 2019 | 2 | 5 | |||||
| 4 | Suzy Iriamba | 2019 | 1 | ? | |||||
| 5 | Manyol | 2019 | 1 | 3 | |||||
| 6 | Makuei Josephine | 2021 | 1 | ? | |||||
| 7 | Chieng Riek | 2021 | 1 | ? | |||||
| 8 | Sarah Aparo | 2022 | 1 | ?? | |||||
| 9 | Diana Padonyi | 2022 | 1 | ???< | -- | ||||
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| FIFA Women's World Cup record | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | GP | W | D* | L | GF | GA | GD | |
 2015 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
 2019 | Did not enter | ||||||||
  2023 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
 2027 | To be determined | ||||||||
| Total | 0/4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Summer Olympics record | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | ||||||||
 1996 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
| 2000 | |||||||||
 2004 | |||||||||
 2008 | |||||||||
 2020 | |||||||||
| 2024 | |||||||||
| Total | 0/8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
The team was in the draw for qualifying to the 2014 African Championship, but had withdrawn from their first round match against Ethiopia.
| Africa Women Cup of Nations record | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | GP | W | D* | L | GF | GA | GD | |
| 2012 | Did not enter | ||||||||
 2014 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
 2016 | Did not enter | ||||||||
 2018 | Did not enter | ||||||||
| 2020 | Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Africa | ||||||||
| 2022 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
| 2024 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
| Total | 0/4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| African Games record | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | GP | W | D | L | GS | GA | |
 2003 | Did not qualify | |||||||
 2007 | Did not qualify | |||||||
 2011 | Did not qualify | |||||||
| 2015 | Did not qualify | |||||||
| 2019 | Did not qualify | |||||||
| 2023 | Did not qualify | |||||||
| Total | 2/4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| CECAFA Women's Championship | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | GP | W | D* | L | GS | GA | GD | |
 2016 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
| Did not qualify | |||||||||
| 2019 | Groupe stage | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 12 | −7 | |
| 2021 | Cancelled | ||||||||
| 2022 | Groupe stage | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | −5 | |
| Total | 2/5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 18 | −12 | |