Super Falcons of Nigeria

Nigeria’s women’s national team

The Super Falcons

Super Falcons is a national women football team in Nigeria comprising a number of professional female athletes who have found their career in football playing. The team is controlled by the Nigeria Football Federation.

Nigeria national women’s football team always known as the Super Falcons represents the country at competitive championships as the senior women’s football team.

They also have the junior team operating under them which is known as the Falconets, which is Nigeria’s Under 20 women’s football team which comprises of young females who their ages fall within the range of 20 years and below.

The team in their pursuit to achieve fame have competed in several tournaments such as the maiden West Africa Football Union (WAFU) Cup of Nations for Women, the Olympic Games and the FIFA Women’s World Cup. They won the first African Women’s Championship in 1991 and have gone on to become Africa’s most successful women’s team, with a record 10 continental titles.

Super Falcons is the name for Nigeria national women’s football team, the team have shown active participation in some of their featured competitive tournaments.

They took part in 2003 and 2007 when they faced the ’group of death’ in which they were grouped with historic women’s superpower like the USA, traditional European power Sweden and Asian power North Korea.

The team, in spite of their inability to overcome basic developmental challenges at the Olympic Games or FIFA World Cup, won the 2016 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations on Saturday 3rd December 2016 by defeating the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon. That was their third time of defeating Cameroon to win the AWCON final; they did the same in 2004 and 2014.

The junior team of the Nigeria national women’s football team known as the Falconets (Under 20) showcased an unbelievable performance during the 2006 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup that was held in Russia when they beat Finland 8 - 0.

Nigeria national women’s football team, Super Falcons, has taken part in every FIFA Women’s World Cup from 1991 to 2023; their best record came in 1999, when they finished among the top eight by reaching the quarter-finals. Similarly, they have tried taking the lead in the FIFA Women’s World Cup or the Olympic Games but to no avail.

In 2018, the Super Falcons of Nigeria defeated Mali at the inaugural West Africa Football Union (WAFU) Women’s Cup in Cote d’Ivoire on Saturday, 24th February. They gained victory over Mali to win a bronze medal.

The National football team for women is working hard to come out better in their future championships and tournaments by winning more and losing less.

Checked 30 September 2026

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