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.
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).
History 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), 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. 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.
Eligibility of players controversy
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.
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. 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, but the decision was overturned on appeal, and Equatorial Guinea were reintegrated into the competition. Kenya appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, but failed to overturn the decision.
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Nicknames The Equatorial Guinea women's national football team has been known or nicknamed as the "Nzalang Femenino".
Results and fixtures The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.
Legend
2026
Coaching staff
Current coaching staff
Position Name Ref. Head coach Guillermo Ganet
Manager history
, after the match against Tanzania. Name Period Matches Wins Draws Losses Winning % Notes Jean-Paul Mpila2018–2022 0 0 0 0 00.0% José David Ekang2023 4 0 2 2 00.0% Guillermo Ganet2025 2 0 1 1 00.0%
Players
Current squad The following players were called up for the friendlies against Spanish club Almería and Haiti on 4 and 8 June 2026.
Caps and goals as of 8 June 2026, after the match against Haiti.
Recent call-ups The following players have been called up to an Equatorial Guinea squad in the past 12 months.
INJ Player withdrew from the squad due to an injury PRE Preliminary squad / standby WD Player withdrew from the squad due to non-injury issue RET Player retired from the national team SUS Player is serving suspension
Records
Players in bold are still active, at least at club level.
Most capped players
#NameCapsGoalsCareer 1 Genoveva Añonman 32 24 2002–2018
Top goalscorers
#NameGoalsCapsRatioCareer 1 Genoveva Añonman 24 32 2002–2018
Competitive record Worldwide FIFA Women's World Cup FIFA Women's World Cup finals recordYearResultGPWD*LGFGAGD 1991Did not enter 1995 1999 2003Did not qualify 2007 2011Group Stage300327−5 2015Did not qualify 2019Banned 2023Did not qualify 2027 2031 To be determined 2035Total1/12300327−5 *Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
FIFA Women's World Cup finals historyYearRoundDateOpponentResultStadium 2011Group stage29 JuneL 0–1Impuls Arena, Augsburg3 JulyL 2–3Ruhrstadion, Bochum6 JulyL 0–3Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt
Olympic Games Summer Olympics recordYearResultMatchesWins DrawsLossesGFGA 1996Did Not Enter 2000Did Not Enter 2004 Did not qualify 2008 Did not qualify 2012Disqualified 2016 Did not qualify 2020 Banned 2024 Did not qualify 2028 To be determined Total0/9000000
Africa Women Cup of Nations Africa Women Cup of Nations recordYearResultMatchesWins DrawsLossesGFGA1991Did Not Enter1995Did Not Enter 1998Did Not Enter 2000Did not qualify 2002Did not qualify 2004Did not qualify 2006Group Stage301259 2008Champions5500114 2010Runners-Up5311118 2012Champions5500180 2014Did not qualify 2016Disqualified 2018Group Stage3003118 2020Banned, later cancelled 2022Did not qualify 2024Did not qualify 2026Did not qualifyTotal2 Titles2113264639
African Games African Games recordYearResultMatchesWins DrawsLossesGFGA 2003Did Not Enter 2007 2011Did not qualify 2015Did Not Enter 2019See Equatorial Guinea women's national under-20 football team 2023Total0/4000000
Regional UNIFFAC Women's Cup
UNIFFAC Women's Cup YearResultMatchesWins DrawsLossesGFGAGD2020winner532084+4 Total 1/1 5320126+6
Turkish Women's Cup
Turkish Women's Cup recordYearResultGPWDLGFGAGD20214th Place3003016−16 Total 1/5 3003016−16
Honours
Major competitions Africa Women Cup of Nations Champions (2): 2008, 2012 Runners-up (1): 2010
Regional UNIFFAC Women's Cup Champions (1): 2020
All−time record against FIFA recognized nations 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
Against Confederation
Record per opponent *As ofxxxxx after match against xxxxx. Key
The following table shows Equatorial Guinea's all-time official international record per opponent: OpponentConfederation Total —
See also
Equatorial Guinea national football team
Notes
References
External links Official website FIFA profile