Equatorial Guinea

Nickname	Nzalang Femenino[1]
Association	Equatoguinean Football Federation
Confederation	CAF (Africa)
Sub-confederation	UNIFFAC (Central Africa)
Head coach	Guillermo Ganet
Captain	Dorine Chuigoué
Most caps	Genoveva Añonman (32)
Top scorer	Genoveva Añonman (24)
FIFA code	EQG
First colours Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	90 (16 June 2026)[2]
Highest	50 (September 2015, December 2016 – March 2017)
Lowest	119 (March 2006)
First international
Equatorial Guinea 0–3 Gabon  (Equatorial Guinea; 10 June 2000)
Biggest win
Luxembourg 0–8 Equatorial Guinea  (Hostert, Luxembourg; 18 June 2011)
Biggest defeat
Nigeria 9–0 Equatorial Guinea  (Ilıca, Turkey; 23 February 2021)
World Cup
Appearances	1 (first in 2011)
Best result	Group Stage (2011)
Africa Women Cup of Nations
Appearances	4 (first in 2006)
Best result	Winners (2008 & 2012)

The Equatorial Guinea women's national football team, nicknamed the Nzalang Femenino, has represented Equatorial Guinea in senior international women's football competition since 2000. It is controlled by the Equatoguinean Football Federation, the governing body for football in Equatorial Guinea.^{[citation needed]}

In the 2008 Women's African Football Championship they defeated the seven-time champions Nigeria 1–0 in the semifinal and went on to win the championship beating South Africa 2–1. They became the first nation other than Nigeria to win the Women's African Football Championship.

Equatorial Guinea played at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.

The team won the 2012 African Women's Championship, winning 4–0 in the final against South Africa.

Equatorial Guinea is the third women's team (out of eight) from the Confederation of African Football to qualify for a FIFA Women's World Cup (Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, South Africa, Morocco and Zambia being the others).^[3]

Equatorial Guinea defeated South Africa 2–1 in an Olympic Games Qualifier on 18 February 2007, but lost the return leg 4–2. In the 2008 Women's African Football Championship (which they hosted), they went undefeated in Group A which featured Cameroon, Congo, and Mali. They defeated Nigeria 1–0 in the semifinal and went on to win the championship beating South Africa 2–1. They became the first (and, so far, only) nation other than Nigeria to win the Women's African Football Championship. They made their debut in an international tournament at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, losing all three of their group stage matches against Norway, Australia and Brazil.

In 2012, Equatorial Guinea hosted and won the 2012 African Women's Championship. They won the semi-final 2–0 versus Cameroon, and the final 4–0 against South Africa, with two goals by Gloria Chinasa and one each by Tiga (Adriana Aparecida Costa) and the captain Genoveva Añonman.

Between 2006 and 2010, Bilguissa and Salimata Simporé, a sibling duo from Burkina Faso, used to play for Equatorial Guinea – the first as a central defender and the latter as a centre forward. Beyond the mechanism by which they were naturalized (similar to the Brazilians),^[4] the main controversy about the Simporés arose regarding whether they were actually two men. Around April 2011, they were removed from national team by the Italian-born Brazilian coach Marcelo Frigerio, who had recently assumed, just a few months before participating in the World Cup.^[5] Since then, the Simporé siblings never were called-up. In 2015, Frigerio, now a former national team coach, told the Brazilian press they are men.^[6]

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The women's national football team has been implicated in a controversy surrounding the naturalization of foreign-born players, a controversy which has also surrounded the men's team since the late 2000s. For example, both FIFA and CAF found the federation liable for providing fake passports of players who were actually born in Brazil. Their issues go back to 2011, when Equatorial Guinea fielded an ineligible player, Jade Boho without completing her one-time switch (from Spain), Equatorial Guinea was disqualified from the Women's Football tournament at the 2012 Olympic Games.^[7]

Since then, they fielded Camila Maria do Carmo Nobre de Oliveira, who was ruled ineligible to play for Equatorial Guinea because she was using two passports with unreliably different information during the qualifying competition for the 2016 Olympics. Specifically, she also has two birth certificates that show different information about her parents' nationality. A further investigation found that they have fielded 12 ineligible players, two of them with forged passports, and consequently, they were banned from the next three women's AFCONs, the 2020 Olympics, and the 2019 Women's World Cup.^{[8][9][10][11][12][13]} Subsequently, the federation appealed to CAS, and both CAS and CAF overturned the ban during their emergency meeting for the 2018 Women's AFCON tournament. Initially, Kenya replaced Equatorial Guinea after they were disqualified by the CAF for fielding an ineligible player,^[14][15][16] but the decision was overturned on appeal, and Equatorial Guinea were reintegrated into the competition.^[17][18] Kenya appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport,^[19][20] but failed to overturn the decision.^[21]

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

2026

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UD Almería v  Equatorial Guinea

4 June Hybrid friendly	UD Almería	0–1	Equatorial Guinea	Malaga, Spain
			Mendoua

Equatorial Guinea  v  Haiti

8 June Friendly	Equatorial Guinea	1–3	Haiti	Malaga, Spain
18:00 UTC+1	Nñegue 85'		Dumornay 19', 55' Étienne 30'

Players in bold are still active, at least at club level.

As of 25 January 2021

Most capped players [edit] This section needs expansion. You can help by adding missing information. (January 2021) # Name Caps Goals Career 1 Genoveva Añonman 32 24 2002–2018

Top goalscorers [edit] This section needs expansion. You can help by adding missing information. (January 2021) # Name Goals Caps Ratio Career 1 Genoveva Añonman 24 32 0.75 2002–2018

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

Key

• Equatorial Guinea national football team

• Official website
• FIFA profile

Sporting positions
Preceded by 2006 Nigeria	African Women's Champions 2008 (First title)	Succeeded by 2010 Nigeria
Preceded by 2010 Nigeria	African Women's Champions 2012 (Second title)	Succeeded by 2014 Nigeria