Botswana women's national football team

The Botswana women's national football team ^[4] is the women's national football team of Botswana and is controlled by the Botswana Football Association. They qualified for their maiden Women's Africa Cup of Nations tournament 2022 in Morocco where they made it to the quarterfinals.^[5][6]

Botswana played their first match in Harare, Zimbabwe on April 19, 2002, against South Africa in a series of friendlies. They lost 14–0. After this match, they lost 3–0 against Swaziland and 7–1 against Mozambique, where they scored their first goal.

Botswana's first major competition was in the 2008 African Women's Championship qualification where after 5 years, they played an international match, this time against Namibia. The Mares lost both legs by 3–0 and 6–1.

Botswana had played with Zambia on 4 May 2008 and lost 4–2.

With a U20 team, Zebras played 2010 African Women's Championship qualifiers against Congo DR and again lost both legs, this time by 2–0 and 5–2 and did not qualify for either the 2010 African Women's Championship and the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup

A series of friendlies occurred in October 2010, against Zambia on 2 and 23 October. They lost 1–4 and 1–2 respectively; against Tanzania on 25 October and 26 October, lost 2–3 and draw 1–1. In the next year, March 2011, they again played against Namibia and lost 1–0.

In 2011, one of the two friendlies in April and May with South Africa marked their first victory, by 1–0. The other match was lost 4–0. In August, they played against Tanzania on 2 August, losing 3–1; South Africa on August 3, losing 4–0 and against Zambia, also losing, 4–1.

They entered the 2012 African Women's Championship qualifiers and played against Zimbabwe, and were eliminated by an aggregate score of 3–1, due to losing the two legs by 1–0 and 2–1. Last friendlies in 2012 included two losses against South Africa (3–0) and Zimbabwe (5–0).

Before the 2014 African Women's Championship qualifiers, the team played the first 2014 matches, against Swaziland on 7 and 8 January and won for the second and third time, by 3–0 and 3–1. The first leg of the qualifiers for the African Championship started on 14 February with a loss against Zimbabwe 1–0 and the second leg was played on 2 March, with another loss, by 2–1. Botswana were eliminated from the African Championship and the World Cup. On June 7 of the same year, they played against South Africa, losing 4–0.

They made their debut at the 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations. They won their first match 4-2 against fellow debutants Burundi and lost their next two matches 2-0 against Nigeria and 1-0 against South Africa to finish third in group C.^[7] They qualified for the quarterfinals as the second best third ranked team where they lost 2-1 against hosts Morocco.^[8][9]

The Botswana women's national football team plays their home matches at the Botswana National Stadium.

The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

Legend

  Win   Draw   Lose   Fixture

Source: globalsportsarchive.com

As of 7 November 2023

• Gaoletlhoo Nkutlwisang (2021–2023)
• Basimanebotlhe Alex Malete(2023–)

• The following players were called up for the two friendlies against South Africa and Zambia on 28 May and 3 June 2025. ^[11]

Caps and goals accurate up to and including 30 October 2021.

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

Africa Women Cup of Nations

• 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations squads

COSAFA Women's Championship

• 2020 COSAFA Women's Championship squad
• 2022 COSAFA Women's Championship squad
• 2023 COSAFA Women's Championship squad

• Active players in bold, statistics correct as of 2020.

• COSAFA Women's Championship

Runners-up: 2020

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

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

*As ofxxxxx after match against xxxxx.

Key

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

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• Botswana women's national under-20 football team
• Botswana women's national under-17 football team
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