Cape Verde women's national football team

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 133 Steady (24 March 2023)[1]
Highest133 (March 2023)
Lowest133 (March 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
 Mali 4–0 Cape Verde 
(Bo, Sierra Leone; 4 March 2020)
This article is about the women's team. For the men's team, see Cape Verde national football team.

The Cape Verde women's national football team 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,[2] including Cape Verde who have yet to play in a FIFA sanctioned match.[3][4] A national team from Cape Verde has not represented the country in the major regional and international tournaments.[3] This includes the Women's World Cup,[3][5] the 2010 African Women's Championships during the preliminary rounds.,[6] and the 2011 All Africa Games.[7] In March 2012, the team was not ranked in the world by FIFA.[8]

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.[9] 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.[10] 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.[10]

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.[11] 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.[11] The lack of opportunities to go further with football inside the country also discourages continued participation in the sport.[11]

Cape Verde's FIFA trigramme is CPV.[3][12] The national association, Cape Verdean Football Federation, was founded in 1982 and became affiliated with FIFA in 1986.[13] 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.[14] 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.[15] 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.[16] Also that year, there were efforts to create a women's futsal competition in São Vicente.[17] lha do Fogo had a women's futsal league in 2005 that included six teams.[18] 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.[19] Costs for the competition were covered by the national association.[20] There were efforts to create the league by 2008.[21] 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.[22] In 2011, a women's football tournament was held in San Vicente.[23] Rights to broadcast the 2011 Women's World Cup in the country were bought by African Union of Broadcasting.[24]

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.[11]

Team image

Nicknames

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

Home stadium

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

Results and fixtures
Main article: Cape Verde 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

  Win   Draw   Lose   Fixture

2022
19 June International Friendly Luxembourg  2–1  Cape Verde Bettembourg, Luxembourg
19:15
  • Dos Santos 8'
  • Jorge 15'
 Report (FLF) Report (FLF IG)
  • Varela 7'
 Stadium: Stade Municipal
Attendance: 880
Referee: Viki De Cremer (Belgium)

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
  • Moreira 10', 45'
  • Fernandes 20'
  • Whannon 55'
 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)
  • Moreira 7' (pen.), 17', 28', 62', 71'
  • Borges 59'
 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
  • Da Luz 14'
  • Tavares Cardoso 82'
 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)

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
 Guinea110030+3100.00CAF
 Guinea-Bissau210122050.00CAF
 Liberia100101-100.00CAF
 Luxembourg100112-100.00UEFA
 Mali100404-400.00CAF
 Senegal300304-400.00CAF
 Sierra Leone101000000.00CAF
Total10217613−720.00—

Coaching staff

Current coaching staff
As of 28 August 2022
Position Name
Head coachCape Verde Silvéria Nédio[25]
Assistant coachCape Verde Gustavo Pires[26]
Cape Verde Arthur Estrela[27]
Goalkeeping coachCape Verde Fernando Carvalho[28]
Technical directorVacant
Fitness coachVacant
Delegation LeaderVacant

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 2023 WAFU Zone A Women's Cup named on January 2022 .[29]

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

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
23 1GK Jéssica de Pina 0 Cape Verde JOVENS UNIDOS
1 1GK Jacinta Rodrigues 0 Cape Verde Seven Stars
22 2DF Zuleika Brito Sousa 0 Cape Verde Mindelense
17 2DF Joseane Fernandes 5 0 Cape Verde Seven Stars
4 2DF Leonora dos Santos 7 0 Cape Verde Jovens Unidos
8 2DF Romina Rosário 5 0 Cape Verde Llana
2 2DF Varsénia da Luz (captain) 0 Cape Verde Seven Stars
2DF Lariza Rocha 0 Cape Verde Llana
16 2DF Leidina Semedo 0 Cape Verde ADEC
18 3MF Alcione Gomes 0 Cape Verde MINDELENSE
19 3MF Jussara Silva Lizardo 0 Cape Verde MINDELENSE
6 3MF Maísa Tavares Cardoso 0 Cape Verde Jovens Unidos
3MF Cristilene Neves 0 Cape Verde REAL SOCIEDADE
3MF Ruth Duarte 4 0 Cape Verde Mindelense
9 3MF Kleydiana Borges (1995-10-05) 5 October 1995 0 Portugal VITÓRIA SC
10 3MF Sasha Wahnon (1997-08-03) 3 August 1997 0 Portugal AMORA FC
3MF Edna Monteiro 3 0 Cape Verde Seven Stars
13 4FW Dara Centeio 0 Cape Verde Seven Stars
7 4FW Ivania Moreira 7 0 Cape Verde Seven Stars
20 4FW Aicha Lopes 0 Cape Verde MINDELENSE
4FW Jussara Furtado 0 Cape Verde ADEC
21 4FW Letícia dos Santos 0 Portugal SPORT CLUB MIRANDELA
11 4FW Leonilde Rodrigues (1998-08-21) 21 August 1998 0 Portugal ATLÉTICO OURIENSE

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 Sheila Gonçalves 1 0 Cape Verde Seven Stars v.  Luxembourg, 19 June 2022
GK Jacira Ramos 0 0 Cape Verde LLANA F.C 2023 WAFU Zone A Women's CupPRE
DF Mara Santos 7 0 Cape Verde Mindelense v.  Luxembourg, 19 June 2022
DF Linda Évora 0 Cape Verde Mindelense v.  Luxembourg, 19 June 2022
DF Elisiana Monteiro 0 Cape Verde Seven Stars 2023 WAFU Zone A Women's CupPRE
MF Carolyn Tomar 0 Cape Verde Llana FC v.  Luxembourg, 19 June 2022
MF Eleia Vieira (2000-08-03) 3 August 2000 0 0 Portugal TORREENSE 2023 WAFU Zone A Women's CupPRE
MF Ronise Monteiro 0 0 Cape Verde Jovens Unidos 2023 WAFU Zone A Women's CupPRE
FW Irlanda Lopes (1996-10-06) 6 October 1996 7 3 Portugal Torreense v.  Luxembourg, 19 June 2022
FW Kateline dos Santos 0 Cape Verde Red Star v.  Luxembourg, 19 June 2022
FW Keila Delgado 0 Cape Verde Benz Táxi v.  Luxembourg, 19 June 2022
FW Melany Fortes (2000-05-12) 12 May 2000 2 0 Portugal DAMAENSE 2023 WAFU Zone A Women's CupPRE
FW Eveline Pereira (1994-03-28) 28 March 1994 1 Cape Verde RACING POWER FUTEBOL CLUBE 2023 WAFU Zone A Women's CupPRE
FW Ionâ de Pina 0 Cape Verde ÁGUIAS VERMELHAS 2023 WAFU Zone A Women's CupPRE

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 1991did not exist
Sweden 1995
United States 1999
United States 2003
China 2007
Germany 2011
Canada 2015
France 2019
AustraliaNew Zealand 2023did not enter
Appearances 0/9 – – – – – – –

Olympic Games
Summer Olympics record
Year Round Position Pld W D* L GS GA
United States 1996did not exist
Australia 2000
Greece 2004
China 2008
United Kingdom 2012
Brazil 2016
Japan 2020did not enter
France 2024to 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
1991did 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
2020did not enter, tournament was later canceled
Morocco 2022did not enter
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 2020Third Place match4th511237
Cape Verde 2023Final2nd4301122
Appearances Final 2nd 9 4 1 3 15 9

Honours

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

See also

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