:Guinea-Bissau women's national football team

In 1985, few countries had women's national football teams.{{cite book|author=Chrös McDougall|title=Soccer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2nrhG5ovUSQC&pg=PA45|access-date=13 April 2012|date=1 January 2012|publisher=ABDO|isbn=978-1-61783-146-1|page=45}} While the sport gained popularity worldwide in the ensuing years, Guinea-Bissau's team only began playing more than two decades later. By the end of 2006, the team had played in two FIFA-recognised matches. The first was on 28 October 2006 against Guinea in Bissau, which ended in a 1–1 tie after Guinea-Bissau led 1–0 at half-time. On 12 November 2006, the team played in their second FIFA-recognised match in Conakry, where Guinea-Bissau lost to Guinea 1–3.{{cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/associations/association=gnb/fixturesresults/gender=f/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091124124438/http://www.fifa.com/associations/association=gnb/fixturesresults/gender=f/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 24, 2009 |title=Guinea-Bissau: Fixtures and Results |publisher=FIFA |access-date=28 June 2012}} At the time, the team held three training sessions a week. The team has not participated in some of the major international and regional football competitions, including the Women's World Cup, the 2010 African Women's Championship and the 2011 All-Africa Games.{{cite book|title=The dictionary of football : the complete A-Z of international football from Ajax to Zinedine Zidane|first1=John|last1=Ballard|first2=Paul|last2=Suff|location=London|publisher=Boxtree|date=1999|isbn=0752224344|oclc=59442612|page=284}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cafonline.com/competition/african-women-championship_2010/results |title=Fixtures - African Women Championship 2010 |publisher=CAF |access-date=13 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414133659/http://www.cafonline.com/competition/african-women-championship_2010/results |archive-date=14 April 2012 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.cafonline.com/competition/all-africa-games-women_2011/groups |title=Groups & standings – All Africa Games women 2011 |publisher=CAF |date=2011 |location=Africa |access-date=13 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510122431/http://www.cafonline.com/competition/all-africa-games-women_2011/groups |archive-date=10 May 2012 }}

The team's average FIFA world ranking since 2006 is 119th. Its highest-ever ranking was 92nd in December 2009, and its lowest ranking was 144th in December 2007. Guinea-Bissau's best-ever rise in the rankings came in March 2008, when the team climbed 23 places compared to its previous FIFA ranking.{{cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/associations/association=gnb/ranking/gender=f/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020203845/http://fifa.com/associations/association=gnb/ranking/gender=f/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 20, 2007 |title=Guinea-Bissau: FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking |publisher=FIFA|location=Switzerland |date=2012 |access-date=15 April 2012}} In March 2012, the team was ranked the 135th in the world by FIFA and 30th in the Confederation of African Football (CAF).{{cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/worldranking/rankingtable/women/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008164448/http://www.fifa.com/worldranking/rankingtable/women/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 8, 2011 |title=The FIFA Women's World Ranking |publisher=FIFA|location=Switzerland|date=25 September 2009 |access-date=13 April 2012}} In June 2012, they moved up five spots to 130th in the world but fell to 33rd in Africa.

Guinea-Bissau has a FIFA-recognised under-17 football team, which was established in 2006 but did not play any matches that year. The team competed in the CAF qualifiers for the FIFA U-17 World Cup to be held in Azerbaijan in September 2012. They did not advance beyond regional qualifiers.{{cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/u17womensworldcup/qualifiers/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080711070916/http://www.fifa.com/u17womensworldcup/qualifiers/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 11, 2008 |title=FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup: Qualifiers |publisher=FIFA|location=Switzerland|access-date=13 April 2012}}

The development of women's football in Africa faces several challenges, including limited access to education, poverty amongst women, inequalities and human rights abuses targeting women.{{cite book|author=Jean Williams|title=A Beautiful Game: International Perspectives on Women's Football|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VuIp04RvKX8C&pg=PA157|access-date=13 April 2012|date=15 December 2007|publisher=Berg|isbn=978-1-84520-674-1|page=186}}{{cite book|author1=Richard Giulianotti|author2=David McArdle|title=Sport, Civil Liberties and Human Rights|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LxBU1FE5l6wC&pg=PA77|access-date=28 June 2012|year=2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-7146-5344-0|page=77}}{{cite book|author1=Chris Hallinan|author2=Steven J. Jackson|title=Social And Cultural Diversity In A Sporting World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w8BuCcSj8HoC&pg=PA40|access-date=28 June 2012|date=31 August 2008|publisher=Emerald Group Publishing|isbn=978-0-7623-1456-0|pages=40–41}}{{cite book|author=Jean Williams|title=A Game for Rough Girls?: A History of Women's Football in Britain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V62Qau3-HCIC&pg=PA173|access-date=28 June 2012|date=18 December 2003|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-26338-2|pages=173–175}} Many quality football players leave to seek greater opportunities in Europe or the United States.{{cite book|author=Gabriel Kuhn|title=Soccer Vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BwmsLxiWvnwC&pg=PA34|access-date=13 April 2012|date=24 February 2011|publisher=PM Press|isbn=978-1-60486-053-5|page=34}} Funding for women's football in Africa is also an issue with most of the financial assistance for women's football coming from FIFA, and not the national football associations.

Guinea-Bissau won its independence in 1974, the same year its national football federation, Football Federation of Guinea-Bissau, was founded. The federation became a FIFA affiliate in 1986.{{cite journal|author=FIFA|title=Women's Football Today|year=2006|url=https://www.fifa.com/mm/document/afdeveloping/women/93/77/21/factsheets.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120814213100/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/afdeveloping/women/93/77/21/factsheets.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 14, 2012|access-date=17 April 2012|page=88}}{{cite web|access-date=16 April 2012|publisher=FIFA|url=https://www.fifa.com/mm/goalproject/gnb_eng.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131206205236/http://www.fifa.com/mm/goalproject/gnb_eng.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 6, 2013|date=4 November 2009|page=1|title=Goal! Football: Guinea-Bissau}} Women's football is provided for in the constitution of the Football Federation of Guinea-Bissau, and the organisation has four full-time staff members focusing on it.

Football is the country's most popular sport for women and is supported by football programmes in schools. A national women's football programme was established in 2004.{{cite web|access-date=16 April 2012|publisher=FIFA|url=https://www.fifa.com/mm/goalproject/gnb_eng.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131206205236/http://www.fifa.com/mm/goalproject/gnb_eng.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 6, 2013|date=4 November 2009|page=4|title=Goal! Football: Guinea-Bissau}} By 2006, the country had 80 total football clubs, five of which were mixed and three of which were for women only. There were 380 registered female players, and a women's team played in a national football championship. Three years later, there were 24 active women's teams in Guinea-Bissau.

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{{Main|Guinea-Bissau women's national football team results}}

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

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|time = 16:00

| round =2023 WAFU Zone A Women's Cup GS

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|score = 4–0

|team2 = {{fbw|GNB}}

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• Moreira {{Goal|10||45}}
• Fernandes {{Goal|20}}
• Whannon {{Goal|55}}

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|location = Sal, Cape Verde

|stadium = Estádio Marcelo Leitão

|attendance =

|referee =

|report = [https://twitter.com/fcfcomunica/status/1616515830199554066 Report (FCF)]
[https://www.cafonline.com/development/women-football/news/cape-verde-thrash-guinea-bissau-in-wafu-a-women-s-tournament-opener Report (CAF)]

|result = L

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|date = {{Start date|2023|1|22|df=y}}

|time = 16:00

| round =2023 WAFU Zone A Women's Cup GS

|team1 = {{fbw-rt|GNB}}

|score = 1–0

|team2 = {{fbw|MTN}}

|goals1 = Paulo Mendes {{Goal|55}}

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|location = Sal, Cape Verde

|stadium = Estádio Marcelo Leitão

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|report = [https://twitter.com/fcfcomunica/status/1617237445526917126 Report (FCF)]

|result = W

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|date = {{Start date|2023|1|27|df=y}}

|time = 18:00

|round = 2023 WAFU Zone A Women's Cup SF

|team1 = {{fbw-rt|SEN}}

|score = 4–0

|team2 = {{fbw|GNB}}

|goals1 =

• Ndiaye {{Goal|13}}
• Diallo {{Goal|51|pen.|68}}
• Fall {{Goal|82}}

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|location = Sal, Cape Verde

|stadium = Estádio Marcelo Leitão

|attendance =

|referee = Aissata Diarra (Mali)

|report = [https://twitter.com/fcfcomunica/status/1619065256730591232 Report (FCF)]

|result = L

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|date = {{Start date|2023|1|29|df=y}}

|time = 15:00

|round = 2023 WAFU Zone A Women's Cup 3rd place

|team1 = {{fbw-rt|GAM}}

|score = 3–2

|team2 = {{fbw|GNB}}

|goals1 =

• Buwaro {{Goal|28||37}}
• Jarju {{Goal|90+1}}

|goals2 =

• Da Silva {{Goal|50}}
• Mendes {{Goal|90+5}}

|location = Sal, Cape Verde

|stadium = Estádio Marcelo Leitão

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|date ={{Start date|2023|7|14|df=y}}

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|round = 2024 Olympic qualifying

|team1 = {{fbw-rt|GNB}}

|score = 2–2

|team2 = {{fbw|BEN}}

|goals1 =

• Quade {{goal|45}}
• Soares {{goal|60}}

| goals2 =

• Gnammi {{goal|14}}
• Gbedjissi {{goal|76}}

|location = Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

|stadium = Estádio 24 de Setembro

|attendance =

|referee =

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|result = D

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|date ={{Start date|2023|7|18|df=y}}

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|round = 2024 Olympic qualifying

|team1 = {{fbw-rt|BEN}}

|score = 3–2

| aggregatescore = 5–4

|team2 = {{fbw|GNB}}

|goals1 =

|goals2 =

|location = Cotonou, Benin

|stadium = Stade de l'Amitié

|attendance =

|referee =

|report =

|result = l

|note = Benin won 5–4 on aggregate.

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| date = {{Start date|2023|9|21|df=y}}

| time = {{UTZ||0}}

| round = 2024 AFWCON qualification First round 1st leg

| score = 0–1

| report = https://fut245.com/2023/09/21/guine-bissau-perde-em-casa-com-congo-brazavile-na-corrida-ao-can-feminino-2024/

| team1 = {{fbw-rt|GNB}}

| goals1 =

| team2 = {{fbw|CGO}}

| goals2 =

• Indira {{Goal|89|o.g.}}

| stadium = Estádio 24 de Setembro

| location = Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

| attendance =

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| result = L

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| date = {{Start date|2023|9|26|df=y}}

| time = {{UTZ|15:30|1}}

| round = 2024 AFWCON qualification First round 2nd leg

| score = 2–0

| aggregatescore = 3–0

| report =

| team1 = {{fbw-rt|CGO}}

| goals1 =

• Senga {{Goal|58}}
• Dembélé {{Goal|78}}

| team2 = {{fbw|GNB}}

| goals2 =

| stadium = Stade Alphonse Massemba-Débat

| location = Brazzaville, Congo

| attendance =

| referee =

| result = L

| note = Congo won 3–0 on aggregate.

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|date = {{Start date|2025|5|19|df=y}}

|time = 19:00

|round = 2025 WAFU Zone A Cup GS

|team1 = {{fbw-rt|GNB}}

|score =

|team2 = {{fbw|LBR}}

|goals1 =

|goals2 =

|location = Nouakchott, Mauritania

|stadium = Cheikha Ould Boïdiya Stadium

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|date = {{Start date|2025|5|21|df=y}}

|time = 16:00

|round = 2025 WAFU Zone A Cup GS

|team1 = {{fbw-rt|GNB}}

|score =

|team2 = {{fbw|MLI}}

|goals1 =

|goals2 =

|location = Nouakchott, Mauritania

|stadium = Cheikha Ould Boïdiya Stadium

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|date = {{Start date|2025|5|24|df=y}}

|time = 17:00

|round = 2025 WAFU Zone A Cup GS

|team1 = {{fbw-rt|MTN}}

|score =

|team2 = {{fbw|GNB}}

|goals1 =

|goals2 =

|location = Nouakchott, Mauritania

|stadium = Cheikha Ould Boïdiya Stadium

|attendance =

|referee =

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|result =

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