Cape Verde women's national football team

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Cape Verde
Shirt badge/Association crest
AssociationCape Verdean Football Federation
ConfederationCAF (Africa)
Sub-confederationWAFU (West Africa)
Head coachSilvéria Nédio
Most caps(10)
Top scorerIrlanda Lopes (3)
FIFA codeCPV
First colours
Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current 131 Steady (15 March 2024)[1]
Highest131 (December 2023)
Lowest134 (June 2023)
First international
 Cape Verde 0–1 Guinea-Bissau 
(Praia, Cape Verde; 16 November 2018)
Biggest win
 Cape Verde 6–0 Mauritania 
(Sal, Cape Verde; 24 January 2023)
Biggest defeat
 Nigeria 5–0 Cape Verde 
(Lagos, Nigeria; 30 November 2023)

The Cape Verde women's national football team (recognized as Cabo Verde by FIFA[2]) represents Cape Verde in international women's association football and is governed by the Cape Verdean Football Federation.

History

Introduction

In 1985, almost no country in the world had a women's national football team,[3] including Cape Verde who have yet to play in a FIFA sanctioned match.[4][5] A national team from Cape Verde has not represented the country in the major regional and international tournaments.[4] This includes the Women's World Cup,[4][6] the 2010 African Women's Championships during the preliminary rounds.,[7] and the 2011 All Africa Games.[8] In March 2012, the team was not ranked in the world by FIFA.[9]

Background and development

Women's football in Africa in general faces several challenges, 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.[10] At the same time, if quality female players in Africa are developed, many leave their home countries to seek greater football opportunities in places like Northern Europe or the United States.[11] Funding for women's football in Africa is also an issue: Most of the funding for women's football and for the women's national teams comes from FIFA, not the national football association.[11]

The development of football on a national level in Cape Verde is hindered by several factors, including local definitions of femininity that discourage participation in sport, lack of adequate training, a lack of competitive spirit in matches and during training.[12] There is also a lack of available players, with participation rates having peaked at roughly 350 a few years back to roughly 200 current players.[12] The lack of opportunities to go further with football inside the country also discourages continued participation in the sport.[12]

Cape Verde's FIFA trigramme is CPV.[4][13] The national association, Cape Verdean Football Federation, was founded in 1982 and became affiliated with FIFA in 1986.[14] Between 1990 and 2010, no football administrators from the country attended FIFA run courses related solely to women's football though some attended courses about both men and women's football.[15] Facilities were built to support football for everyone in 2001 when there was a surge of interest in the sport from women and youth players.[16] In 2004, national football umpire training took place, with six of the twenty-six enrolled participants being women, with the women being expected to referee both men and women's matches.[17] Also that year, there were efforts to create a women's futsal competition in São Vicente.[18] lha do Fogo had a women's futsal league in 2005 that included six teams.[19] In July 2011 on the island of St. Nicholas, the first women's soccer national championship was held in the country with EPIF da Praia being crowned the winners and Ajax de São Nicolau coming in second. The national competition had six teams in its inaugural season including EPIF de São Vicente, Ajax de São Nicolau, EPIF da Praia, Académica do Sal, Académica da Boa Vista e Lém.[20] Costs for the competition were covered by the national association.[21] There were efforts to create the league by 2008.[22] In 2011, a FIFA and the Cape Verdean Football Federation sponsored women's coaching clinic was held in the country. The training was conducted by James Doyen French from Portugal and Francisco Baptista Asselan Khan of Mozambique. The training was conducted to help demonstrate the national federation's commitment to women's football.[23] In 2011, a women's football tournament was held in San Vicente.[24] Rights to broadcast the 2011 Women's World Cup in the country were bought by African Union of Broadcasting.[25]

Some female Cape Verdan footballers have gone on to play internationally for clubs in places like the Canary Islands with some of the earliest players joining clubs around 2001. Other footballers have played abroad starting in 2004 in the Netherlands, Spain and Luxembourg.[12]

Team image

Nicknames

The Cape Verde women's national football team has been known or nicknamed as the " ".[clarification needed]

Home stadium

The Cape Verde women's national football team plays their home matches on...

Results and fixtures

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

  Win   Draw   Lose   Fixture

2023

20 January 2023 (2023-01-20) 2023 WAFU Zone A Women's Cup GS Cape Verde  4–0  Guinea-Bissau Sal,Cape Verde
16:00
Report (FCF) Stadium: Estádio Marcelo Leitão
24 January 2023 (2023-01-24) 2023 WAFU Zone A Women's Cup GS Mauritania  0–6  Cape Verde Sal, Cape Verde
16:00 Report (FCF)
Stadium: Estádio Marcelo Leitão
Referee: Ngum Fatou (Gambia)
27 January 2023 (2023-01-27) 2023 WAFU Zone A Women's Cup SF Cape Verde  2–1  Gambia Sal, Cape Verde
15:00 Report (FCF) Jatta 66' Stadium: Estádio Marcelo Leitão
29 January 2023 (2023-01-29) 2023 WAFU Zone A Women's Cup Final Cape Verde  0–1  Senegal Sal, Cape Verde
18:00 Report (FCF)
Stadium: Estádio Marcelo Leitão
Referee: Sylvina Garnett (Liberia)
22 September 2023 (2023-09-22) 2024 AFWCON qualification First round 1st leg Cape Verde  3–0  Liberia Praia, Cape Verde
16:00 UTC−1
Report (FCF) Stadium: Estádio Nacional de Cabo Verde
26 September 2023 (2023-09-26) 2024 AFWCON qualification First round 2nd leg Liberia  2–3
(2–6 agg.)
 Cape Verde Monrovia, Liberia
15:30 UTC±0
Report (FCF)
Stadium: Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex
Note: Cape Verde won 6–2 on aggregate.
30 November 2023 (2023-11-30) 2024 AFWCON qualification Second round 1st leg Nigeria  5–0  Cape Verde Lagos, Nigeria
16:00 UTC+1
Report (NFF) Stadium: Onikan Stadium
5 December 2023 (2023-12-05) 2024 AFWCON qualification Second round 2nd leg Cape Verde  1–2
(1–7 agg.)
 Nigeria Praia
Stadium: Estádio Nacional de Cabo Verde
Note: Nigeria won 7–1 on aggregate.

Source :globalsportsarchive

All-time record

As of 30 August 2022
Key
  Positive balance (more wins than losses)
  Neutral balance (as many wins as losses)
  Negative balance (more losses than wins)

The following table shows Cape Verde' all-time official international record per opponent:

Opponent Pld W D L GF GA GD W% Confederation
 Gambia 1 1 0 0 2 1 +1 100.00 CAF
 Guinea 1 1 0 0 3 0 +3 100.00 CAF
 Guinea-Bissau 3 2 0 1 6 2 0 66.67 CAF
 Liberia 3 2 0 1 6 3 +3 66.67 CAF
 Luxembourg 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 00.00 UEFA
 Mali 1 0 0 4 0 4 -4 00.00 CAF
 Mauritania 1 1 0 0 6 0 +6 100.00 CAF
 Senegal 4 0 0 4 0 5 -5 00.00 CAF
 Sierra Leone 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 00.00 CAF
Total 16 7 1 8 24 17 +7 43.75

Coaching staff

Current coaching staff

As of 28 August 2022
Position Name
Head coach Cape Verde Silvéria Nédio[26]
Assistant coach Cape Verde Gustavo Pires[26]
Cape Verde Arthur Estrela[26]
Goalkeeping coach Cape Verde Fernando Carvalho[26]
Technical director Vacant
Fitness coach Vacant
Delegation Leader Vacant

Manager history

Name Period Tournament
Cape Verde Luana Siqueira 2018
Cape Verde Silvéria Nédio 2018–present 2020 WAFU Zone A Women's Cup: Fourth Place

Players

Current squad

This is the convened selection for the 2024 WAFCON qualification 2nd Round against  Nigeria in November 2023 .[27]

Caps and goals accurate up to and including 8 September 2021.

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1 1GK Jacinta Rodrigues (1996-09-03) 3 September 1996 (age 27) 0 Cape Verde Seven Stars
23 1GK Jéssica de Pina 0 Cape Verde Jovens Unidos

2 2DF Varsénia da Luz (captain) 0 Cape Verde Seven Stars
3 2DF Hedy Santos 0 Cape Verde Mindelense
4 2DF Leonora dos Santos (1999-11-28) 28 November 1999 (age 24) 7 0 Cape Verde Jovens Unidos
8 2DF Romina do Rosário 5 0 Cape Verde Llana
16 2DF Leidina Semedo (1999-11-28) 28 November 1999 (age 24) 0 Cape Verde ADEC
11 2DF Leonilde Rodrigues (1998-08-21) 21 August 1998 (age 25) 0 Portugal Amora

18 3MF Alcione Gomes (2000-11-28) 28 November 2000 (age 23) 0 Cape Verde Mindelense
19 3MF Jussara Lizardo 0 Cape Verde Mindelense
6 3MF Maísa Cardoso (1996-11-28) 28 November 1996 (age 27) 0 Cape Verde Seven Stars
9 3MF Kleydiana Borges (1995-10-05) 5 October 1995 (age 28) 0 Portugal Vitória de Guimarães
5 3MF Eleia Vieira (2000-08-03) 3 August 2000 (age 23) 0 0 Portugal Amora
10 3MF Sasha Wahnon (1997-08-03) 3 August 1997 (age 26) 0 0 Portugal Amora

7 4FW Ivania Moreira (1993-05-13) 13 May 1993 (age 30) 7 7 Portugal Racing Power
13 4FW Dara Centeio 0 Cape Verde Seven Stars
4FW Maya Cape Verde Llana
20 4FW Aicha Lopes 0 Cape Verde Mindelense
22 4FW Irlanda Lopes (1996-10-06) 6 October 1996 (age 27) 7 3 Portugal Amora
15 4FW Melatcha (2000-05-12) 12 May 2000 (age 23) 2 0 Portugal Damaiense
17 4FW Evy Pereira (1994-03-28) 28 March 1994 (age 29) 1 Portugal Racing Power

Recent call-ups

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

Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club Latest call-up


GK Jacira Ramos 0 0 Cape Verde LLANA F.C 2023 WAFU Zone A Women's CupPRE
GK Luana Tavares 0 Cape Verde EFAT v.  LiberiaPRE,15 September 2023

DF Zuleika Brito Sousa (1993-03-13) 13 March 1993 (age 31) 0 Cape Verde Mindelense 2023 WAFU Zone A Women's Cup
DF Joseane Fernandes (1999-11-30) 30 November 1999 (age 24) 5 0 Cape Verde Seven Stars 2023 WAFU Zone A Women's Cup
DF Lariza Rocha (1998-10-03) 3 October 1998 (age 25) 0 Cape Verde Llana 2023 WAFU Zone A Women's Cup
DF Silviana Varela 0 Cape Verde ADEC v.  LiberiaPRE,15 September 2023
DF Elisiana Monteiro 0 Cape Verde Seven Stars v.  LiberiaPRE,15 September 2023
DF Norberta Monteiro 0 Cape Verde ADEC v.  LiberiaPRE,15 September 2023
DF Adriana Semedo (1999-10-30) 30 October 1999 (age 24) 0 0 Spain Zaragoza CFF v.  Liberia,15 September 2023

MF Ronise Monteiro 0 0 Cape Verde Jovens Unidos 2023 WAFU Zone A Women's CupPRE
MF Cristilene Neves 0 Cape Verde REAL SOCIEDADE 2023 WAFU Zone A Women's Cup
MF Ruth Duarte 4 0 Cape Verde Mindelense 2023 WAFU Zone A Women's Cup
MF Edna Monteiro 3 0 Cape Verde Seven Stars 2023 WAFU Zone A Women's Cup
MF Maria Cabral 0 Cape Verde Seven Stars v.  LiberiaPRE,15 September 2023
MF Jocilene Martins 0 Cape Verde Llana v.  LiberiaPRE,15 September 2023

FW Ionâ de Pina 0 Cape Verde ÁGUIAS VERMELHAS 2023 WAFU Zone A Women's CupPRE
FW Letícia dos Santos 0 Portugal SPORT CLUB MIRANDELA 2023 WAFU Zone A Women's Cup
FW Jolina Amani (1999-08-26) 26 August 1999 (age 24) 7 0 Portugal Braga v.  LiberiaPRE,15 September 2023
FW Jussara Furtado 0 Cape Verde ADEC v.  LiberiaPRE,15 September 2023
FW Kelissa Fortes 0 Cape Verde Llana
FW Josiane Monteiro 0 Cape Verde Seven Stars v.  LiberiaPRE,15 September 2023
FW Maísa Da Luz 7 0 Cape Verde Llana v.  Liberia,15 September 2023

Previous squads

WAFU Zone A Women's Cup

Records

*Active players in bold, statistics correct as of 8 September 2021.

Competitive record

FIFA Women's World Cup

FIFA Women's World Cup record
Year Round Position Pld W D* L GS GA
China 1991 did not exist
Sweden 1995
United States 1999
United States 2003
China 2007
Germany 2011
Canada 2015
France 2019
AustraliaNew Zealand 2023 did not enter
Appearances 0/9

Olympic Games

Summer Olympics record
Year Round Position Pld W D* L GS GA
United States 1996 did not exist
Australia 2000
Greece 2004
China 2008
United Kingdom 2012
Brazil 2016
Japan 2020 did not enter
France 2024 to be determined
United States 2028
Appearances 0/7
*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Africa Women Cup of Nations

Africa Women Cup of Nations record
Year Round Position Pld W D* L GS GA
1991 did not exist
1995
Nigeria 1998
South Africa 2000
Nigeria 2002
South Africa 2004
Nigeria 2006
Equatorial Guinea 2008
South Africa 2010
Equatorial Guinea 2012
Namibia 2014
Cameroon 2016
Ghana 2018
2020 did not enter, tournament was later canceled
Morocco 2022 did not enter
Morocco 2024 Did not qualify
Appearances 0/12

WAFU Zone A Women's Cup

COSAFA Women's Championship record
Year Round Position Pld W D* L GS GA
Sierra Leone 2020 Third Place match 4th 5 1 1 2 3 7
Cape Verde 2023 Final 2nd 4 3 0 1 12 2
Appearances Final 2nd 9 4 1 3 15 9

Honours

Continental

Regional

WAFU Zone A Women's Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 2nd place, silver medalist(s)2023

See also

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