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Côte d'Ivoire

Association	Ivorian Football Federation
Confederation	CAF (Africa)
Sub-confederation	WAFU (West Africa)
Head coach	Clémentine Touré
Captain	Cynthia Djohoré
FIFA code	CIV
First colours Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	64 (5 August 2022)[1]
Highest	59 (March 2017)
Lowest	136 (2011)
First international
Ivory Coast 0–3 Netherlands  (Foshan, China; 1 June 1988)
Biggest win
Ivory Coast 11–0 Niger  (Abidjan, Ivory Coast; 25 October 2021)
Biggest defeat
Ivory Coast 0–10 Germany  (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; 7 June 2015)
World Cup
Appearances	1 (first in 2015)
Best result	Group stage (2015)
Africa Women Cup of Nations
Appearances	2 (first in 2012)
Best result	3rd place, (2014)

The Ivory Coast women's national football team (French: Équipe de Côte d'Ivoire féminine de football, recognized as Côte d'Ivoire by FIFA[2]) represents Ivory Coast in international women's football and is controlled by the Ivorian Football Federation. They played their first international match in 1988. The team is currently ranked 64th in the FIFA Women's World Rankings and as the 6th best team in CAF.

History

The beginning

In 1985, almost no country in the world had a women's national football team,[3] including Ivory Coast who did not play their first FIFA recognised match until 1988[4] when they participated in the Women's FIFA Invitational Tournament 1988. The country was in Group A. On 1 June, they lost to the Netherlands 0–3 in a game in Foshan. On 3 June, they lost to Canada 0–6 in a game in Foshan. In a game on 5 June, they lost to China 1–8 in a game in Guangzhou.[5] In 1992, they competed at the 1st Lyon'ne Cup — Women, held in Lyon, France from 17 to 20 April. Ivory Coast was in the nation's group. They lost to the United States U20 team 0–4, lost to the CIS team 0–3 and lost to France 1–6.[6] In 2002, the team competed in 2 matches.[7] In 2003, they played in 0 matches.[7] In 2004, they played in 0 matches.[7] In 2005, they played in 3 matches.[7] In 2006, they played in 2 matches.[7] In 2006, the team had 3 training sessions a week.[7] In 2005, they played in the women's Tournoi de Solidarité in Dakar, Senegal. On 18 May, they lost to Mali 1–6. On 20 May, they tied Senegal 3–3. They did not make the finals and overall finished last in the tournament.[8] On 17 May 2006 in Dakar, Togo tied Ivory Coast 3–3.[9] In 2007, the country competed at the Tournoi de Cinq Nations] held in Ouagadougou. On 2 September, they tied Mali 1–1 with Rita Akaffou scoring for the team in the 65th minute. On 5 September, they beat Togo 5–0 before Togo was disqualified from the competition for bringing a club team. On 6 September, they lost to Mali 1–2.[10] In 2010, the country had a team at the African Women's Championships during the preliminary rounds. In the round, they beat Guinea 5–1. They lost to Malawi 4–2 in the return leg.[11] In the 2010, Women's Championship in Africa, they lost in the preliminary round in March, they beat Gabon at home and away 2–1 and 3–1. In the first round against Nigeria, they lost both matches by scores of 1–2 and 1–3.[12] The country did not have a team competing at the 2011 All Africa Games.[13]

The national team has trained in Abidjan.[14] As of 2006^[update], the country did not have an under-17 or under-20 side.[7] In June 2012, the team was ranked 67th in the world by FIFA and the 6th best team in CAF.[15] This was an improvement of four places from March 2012 when they were ranked 71st in the world. The team's worst ever ranking was in 2011 when they were ranked 136th in the world. Other rankings include 73 in 2006, 75 in 2007, 74 in 2008, 92 in 2009, and 77 in 2010.[16]

However, in 2014 African Women's Championship, Ivory Coast surprised everyone by passing through into the semi-final, and later, they shocked Africa by beating giant South Africa, marked for the first time they would play in FIFA Women's World Cup, in Canada 2015. In the later tournament, the World Cup, they were eliminated with three total losses to Germany (0–10), Thailand (2–3) and Norway (1–3). Despite having lost all, Ange N'Guessan's goal over Norway was voted as one of ten best goal in the whole tournament.

Background and development

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 concepts of patriarchy and women's participation in sport with them to local cultures that had similar concepts already embedded in them.[17] 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.[18] When quality female football players are developed, they tend to leave for greater opportunities abroad.[19] Continent-wide, funding is also an issue, with most development money coming from FIFA, not the national football association.[19] 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.[17]

Football is the fourth most popular girls' sport, trailing behind handball, basketball and athletics.[7] A women's football program was set up in the country in 1975[14] and girls' football is played in schools.[7] Player registration starts at nine years of age.[14] In 2006, there were 610 registered female players, 560 of whom were senior players and 50 were under 18 years of age.[7] This was an increase from 2002 when there were 130 registered female players, 2003 when there were 220, 2004 when there were 253, and 2005 when there were 428 registered players.[7] In 2006, there were 123 football clubs in the country, of which 11 were women's-only sides.[7] As of 2009, there are 36 senior teams and 4 youth teams for women.[14] A school based competition exists.[14]

The national federation was created in 1960 and became FIFA affiliated in 1964.[7][20][21] Their kit includes orange shirts, white shorts and green socks.[20] The national committee does not have a full-time employee in charge of women's football.[7] Representation of women's football is not guaranteed in the federation's constitution.[7] The FIFA trigramme is CIV.[22] A FIFA-run women's MA football course was run in the country in 2007.[14]

Results and fixtures

The following is a list of match results within the last 12 months.

Legend

  Win   Draw   Lose   Fixture

2021

2022

Source :Global archive

Coaching staff

Current coaching staff

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Position	Name	Ref.
Head coach	Clémentine Touré

Manager history

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• Adélaïde Koudougnon (2004–2010)
• Clémentine Touré (2010–)

Players

Up-to-date caps, goals, and statistics are not publicly available; therefore, caps and goals listed may be incorrect.

Current squad

The following players were called up for the Friendly game against  Morocco on 23 June 2022.[23]

Caps and goals accurate up to and including 26 July 2021.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Aramatou Diakité
16	1GK	Cynthia Djohoré (captain)	(1987-12-16) 16 December 1987 (age 34)	29	0	Onze Sœurs de Gagnoa
2	2DF	Fatou Coulibaly	(1987-02-13) 13 February 1987 (age 35)	33	1	DUX Logroño
	2DF	Fernande Tchetche	(1988-06-20) 20 June 1988 (age 34)	20	0	Inter d'Abidjan
9	2DF	Inès Konan	(2002-01-08) 8 January 2002 (age 20)	1	0	Fleury
5	2DF	Mariam Diakité	(1995-04-11) 11 April 1995 (age 27)	14	9	Fleury
4	2DF	Nina Kpaho	(1996-12-30) 30 December 1996 (age 25)	14	0	Fenerbahçe
4	2DF	Matoba Cissé			0
6	3MF	Bernadette Amani	(1997-09-05) 5 September 1997 (age 25)	3	0	DUX Logroño
15	3MF	Christine Lohoues	(1992-10-18) 18 October 1992 (age 29)	22	1	Malabo Kings
	3MF	Gnaly Estelle		1	0	ATHLETICO d’ABIDJAN
	3MF	Jessica Aby	(1998-06-16) 16 June 1998 (age 24)	2	0	Alavés
	3MF	Mariam Sidibé			0
	3MF	Kokora Adjoua Sylviane		1	0	SPORTING CLUB DE CASABLANCA
	3MF	Yeti Doudou Touré			0
10	4FW	Ange N'Guessan	(1990-11-18) 18 November 1990 (age 31)	22	5	Granadilla
3	4FW	Binta Diakité	(1988-05-07) 7 May 1988 (age 34)	22	2	Soyaux
7	4FW	Espérance Agbo	(1995-05-14) 14 May 1995 (age 27)	2	0	Lahou Essor
12	4FW	Rosemonde Kouassi	(2001-12-26) 26 December 2001 (age 20)	3	0	Fleury
8	4FW	Sandrine Niamien	(1994-08-30) 30 August 1994 (age 28)	2	1	ES Adobo
3	4FW	Akebie Abrogoua

Recent call-ups

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

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club	Latest call-up
GK	Aminata Diabaté	(1998-11-15) 15 November 1998 (age 23)			Juventus	2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification
DF	Lynda Gauzé	(1990-06-11) 11 June 1990 (age 32)	1	0	Juventus de Yopougon	Firstround of the 2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification
DF	Anaïs M'bassidjé	(1993-09-21) 21 September 1993 (age 29)	0	0	Marseille	Firstround of the 2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification
DF	Michaela Koutouan	(1990-10-29) 29 October 1990 (age 31)	1	0	Le Puy	2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification
DF	Raymonde Kacou	(1987-01-07) 7 January 1987 (age 35)	6	0	Malabo Kings	2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification
MF	Inès Koré	(1992-02-20) 20 February 1992 (age 30)	0	0	Nice	Firstround of the 2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification
MF	Rebecca Guehai	(1994-07-15) 15 July 1994 (age 28)	23	1	DUX Logroño	2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification
MF	Nadège Cissé	(1997-04-04) 4 April 1997 (age 25)	6	0	Dinamo Minsk	2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification
FW	Inès Affri	(1999-07-09) 9 July 1999 (age 23)	0	0	Le Mans	Firstround of the 2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification
FW	Kelly Koné	(1997-06-03) 3 June 1997 (age 25)	0	0	Metz	Firstround of the 2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification
FW	Josée Nahi	(1989-05-29) 29 May 1989 (age 33)			Gyeongju KHNP	2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification
FW	Rebecca Elloh	(1994-12-25) 25 December 1994 (age 27)	17	3	Alavés	2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification
FW	Stéphanie Gbogou	(1995-05-09) 9 May 1995 (age 27)			Soyaux	2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification
FW	Inès Tia	(1993-10-01) 1 October 1993 (age 28)	19	14	Changnyeong	2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification
	Voli Lou Irie Danielle		1	0	JEUNESSE ESPOIR OUAZANE DE FOOTBALL	2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification

Records

Individual records

*Active players in bold, statistics correct as of 26 July 2021.

Competitive record

FIFA Women's World Cup

FIFA Women's World Cup record
Year	Result	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1991	Did not enter
1995
1999
2003	Did not qualify
2007
2011
2015	Group stage	23rd	3	0	0	3	3	16
2019	Did not qualify
2023
Total	1/9	-	3	0	0	3	3	16

FIFA Women's World Cup history
Year	Round	Date	Opponent	Result	Stadium
2015	Group stage	7 June	Germany	L 0–10	TD Place Stadium, Ottawa
		11 June	Thailand	L 2–3
		15 June	Norway	L 1–3	Moncton Stadium, Moncton

Olympic Games

Summer Olympics record
Year	Result	Pld	W	D*	L	GS	GA	GD
1996	Did not qualify
2000
2004
2008
2012
2016
2020|
Total	0/7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Africa Women Cup of Nations

Africa Women Cup of Nations record
Year	Result	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	GF	GA
1991	Did not enter
1995
1998
2000
2002	Did not qualify
2004	Did not enter
2006	Did not qualify
2008
2010
2012	Group stage	3	1	0	2	7	7
2014	Third place	5	2	1	2	8	8
2016	Did not qualify
2018	Did not qualify
2020	Cancelled due to covid
2022	Did not qualify
Total	2/13	8	3	1	4	15	15

African Games

African Games record
Year	Result	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	GF	GA
2003	Did Not Enter
2007
2011	Did Not Qualify
2015	3rd	5	4	0	1	6	3
2019	Did Not Qualify
2023	TBD
Total	0/4	0	0	0	0	0	0

WAFU Women's Cup record

WAFU Zone B Women's Cup
Year	Result	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
2018	Runner up	2nd	5	3	1	1	11	2
2019	Runner up	2nd	5	3	2	0	12	2
Total	Group Stage	1/1	3	0	0	3	1	17

Honours

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All−time record against FIFA recognized nations

The list shown below shows the Djibouti national football team all−time international record against opposing nations.
*As of xxxxxx after match against xxxx.

Key

Against	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Confederation

Record per opponent

*As ofxxxxx after match against xxxxx.

Key

The following table shows Djibouti's all-time official international record per opponent:

Opponent	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W%	Confederation
Total									—

See also

• Sport in Ivory Coast
  • Football in Ivory Coast
    • Women's football in Ivory Coast
• Ivory Coast men's national football team

References

External links

• Official website
• FIFA profile

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