Botswana women's national football team

The Botswana women's national football team 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.

History

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 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 played against Zambia on 4 May 2008 and lost 4–2.

With a U20 team, the 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 or 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 and 26 October, they 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. They lost the other match 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.

Women's Africa Cup of Nations 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. They qualified for the quarterfinals as the second best third ranked team where they lost 2-1 against hosts Morocco.

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

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

Source: globalsportsarchive.com

Coaching staff Current coaching staff

Position Name Ref. Head coach Basimanebotlhe Alex Malete Assistant coach Tapaphiwa Tracy GaebolaeJacqualine Lorato GaobinelweGoalkeeper coachDavid PusoPhysicianKealebogga K. Rakereng

Manager history Gaoletlhoo Nkutlwisang (2021–2023) Basimanebotlhe Alex Malete (2023–)

Players

Current squad The following 24 players were called up for the 2025 COSAFA Women's Championship squads during February 2026.

Caps and goals accurate up to and including 12 July 2025.

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

Previous squads

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

Records

Active players in bold, statistics correct as of 2020.

Most capped players

#PlayerYear(s)Caps

Top goalscorers

#PlayerYear(s)GoalsCaps

Honours Regional COSAFA Women's Championship Runners-up: 2020

Competitive record FIFA Women's World Cup FIFA Women's World Cup recordYearResultGPWD*LGFGAGD 1991Did not enter 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011Did not qualify 2015 2019 2023 2027 2031To be determined 2035To be determinedTotal0/12------- *Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Olympic Games Summer Olympics recordYearResultMatchesWinsDrawsLossesGFGA 1996Did Not Enter 2000 2004 2008 2012Did Not Qualify 2016 2021 2024 2028To be determinedTotal0/9000000

Africa Women Cup of Nations Africa Women Cup of Nations recordYearResultMatchesWinsDrawsLossesGFGA1991Did not enter1995 1998 2000 2002Withdrew 2004Did not enter 2006Withdrew 2008Did not qualify 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020Cancelled 2022Quarter-finals510458 2024Group stage310223 2026Did not qualifyTotal2/168206711

African Games African Games recordYearResultMatchesWinsDrawsLossesGFGA 2003Did Not Enter 2007 2011Did Not Qualify 2015 2019See Botswana women's national under-20 football team 2023 2027TBDTotal0/5000000

COSAFA Women's Championship COSAFA Women's Championship recordYearRound* 2002Group Stage3003124−23 2006Did not enter 2008 ---- 2011 Group Stage3003211−9 2017 Group Stage311145−1 2018 Group Stage311121+1 2019 Fourth4211440 2020 Runner -up430153+2 2021 Group Stage310275+2 2022 Group stage312071+6 2023 Group stage312052+3 2024 Group stage312061+5 2025 Group stage301215−4TotalRunner-up3011 10 14 4462 -18 *Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Honours

All−time record against FIFA recognized nations The list shown below shows the Botswana 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 Botswana's all-time official international record per opponent: OpponentConfederation Total —

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