:Zanzibar women's national football team

Zanzibar is a territory consisting of two main islands, Unguja/Zanzibar and Pemba, and is a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania with its own government. As of the 2002 census, it had a total population of 984,625.{{cite book|author=Europa Publications|title=Africa South of the Sahara 2004|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jj4J-AXGDaQC&pg=PA1113|access-date=5 June 2012|date=9 December 2003|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-1-85743-183-4|page=1113|location=United Kingdom }}{{cite book|first=Tom|last=Dunmore|title=Historical Dictionary of Soccer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9j1wbp2t1usC&pg=PA59|access-date=13 April 2012|location=Lanham, Maryland|date=16 September 2011|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7188-5|pages=662–663}} Women's football in Africa has not developed compared to elsewhere because of a variety of factors, including limited access to education, poverty amongst women in the wider society, and fundamental inequality present in the society that occasionally allows for female specific human rights abuses.{{cite book|location=Oxford|first=Jean|last=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}} Another problem with the development of the game throughout the continent is that higher ability players leave to play in Europe or the United States.{{cite book|first=Gabriel|last=Kuhn|location=Oakland, California|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}} According to Kuhn, funding for the game on a regional level is problematic as national associations do not fund the women's game adequately.

Zanzibar has unique problems relating to the development of the women's game including pressures for female players to wear the hijab while playing and pressure from male family members not to participate as their involvement may bring shame to the family. There is minimal support for the game at schools, with the national federation not responding to requests from the national team coach to work harder to get girls to play the sport in school. A national women's league was created in 2004 after a 26-year effort.{{cite journal|last=Saavedra|first=Martha|author2=Center for African Studies, University of California, Berkeley|title=Women's Football in Africa|journal=Third Transnational Meeting on Sport and Gender, Urbino|location=Berkeley, California|edition=December 2007|year=2007|url=http://africa.berkeley.edu/Courses/SportDevelopment/WomenFB-Africa07.pdf|access-date=17 April 2012|archive-date=28 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228195939/http://africa.berkeley.edu/Courses/SportDevelopment/WomenFB-Africa07.pdf|url-status=dead}} Five teams competed in the inaugural season: Women Fighters, Nyuki FC, Koani Sisters, Bungi Sisters and Policewomen FC. Women Fighters won the first two editions of the league,{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesz/zanz-wom07.html |first=Hans |last=Schöggl |title=Zanzibar (Women) 2007 |publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation |location=Austria |date=29 May 2007 |access-date=5 June 2012}} however, the league has since collapsed.{{cite news|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/201105241757.html |title=Tanzania: Meet Nassra a True Female Local Football Coach |newspaper=Tanzania Daily News |first=Nasongelya |last=Kilyinga |location=Dar es Salaam |date=21 May 2011 |access-date=5 June 2012}}

Founded in 1988 by Nassra Juma Mohammed of Tanzania, the Women Fighters was Zanzibar's first women's football club, upon which the national team was built,{{cite web|page=25|url=http://www.mamacash.org/uploads/File/she%20has%20news/publicaties/Shes_into_sports_18-05-07_web.pdf|location=Netherlands|access-date=28 April 2012|editor=Mariëtte van Beek|title=(she's into sports), How Sports Promote, Gender-equity Worldwide|date=May 2007|publisher=Mama Cash|archive-date=7 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707142616/http://www.mamacash.org/uploads/File/she%20has%20news/publicaties/Shes_into_sports_18-05-07_web.pdf|url-status=dead}}{{Cite news|location=United States|url=http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/382876/moviemain.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111054322/http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/382876/moviemain.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 January 2014|publisher=MTV|title=Zanzibar Soccer Queens|access-date=2 June 2012|author=MTV Movies}} and the team was created at a time when there were very few women's national teams in existence.{{cite book|location=Minneapolis, Minnesota|first=Chrös|last=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}} Prior to 1988, women had played informally or on men's only teams; several of these players, as well as those from other sports, including badminton, made up the inaugural team. The team soon played a game against the touring Swedish women's club side, Tyresö FF in Zanzibar's largest football stadium, losing the game 0–15 at Amaan Stadium.{{cite web|url=http://www.schattenblick.de/infopool/sport/fakten/sfber649.html|publisher=Schattenblick|location=Vienna, Australia|access-date=28 April 2012|date=12 June 2010|language=de|title=Viele glauben, dass wir nicht normal sind...|first=Claudia|last=Dal-Bianco|trans-title=Women's football in Zanzibar (Women Solidarity)|quote=Den Anfangspunkt des organisierten Frauenfußballs auf Sansibar bildet ein Besuch des schwedischen Frauenteams Tyresö FC, die eine Tour durch Afrika machten, um Frauenfußball zu begünstigen. [...] Für viele Frauen, die zuvor schon Fußball spielten, war es eines der größten Ereignisse, in einem Frauenteam gegen ein anderes Frauenteam im größten Stadion auf Sansibar, dem Amaan-Stadion, zu spielen.}} At the time the team was created, there were few opportunities for it to compete against other women's teams in Zanzibar, but they have played and sometimes beaten men's teams in Zanzibar while receiving support from the Zanzibar Football Association and Zanzibar's Ministry of Sport.{{cite book|first1=Ulrika|last1=Mårtensson|first2=Jennifer|last2=Bailey|location=London|title=Fundamentalism in the Modern World Vol 2: Fundamentalism and Communication: Culture, Media and the Public Sphere|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2w6A19pcK8QC&pg=PA322|access-date=13 April 2012|date=19 July 2011|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-1-84885-331-7|pages=320–325}}{{cite web |url=http://irisfilmsuk.com/main/?page_id=28 |location=United Kingdom |title=About Women's Fighters |work=Zanzibar Soccer Teams |type=website |first=Florence |last=Ayisi |publisher=Iris Films |access-date=2 June 2012 |archive-date=14 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514213707/http://irisfilmsuk.com/main/?page_id=28 |url-status=dead }} The players do not wear a hijab or cover up as part of their kit, which has led to criticism from religious leaders for playing in public while wearing shorts and jersey tops, instead of covering their bodies according to Muslim custom.{{cite web|location=New York City|url=http://filmakers.com/index.php?a=filmDetail&filmID=1575|title=Zanzibar Soccer Queens|work=Filmakers Library|publisher=Alexander Street Press|access-date=28 April 2012|archive-date=11 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120811201714/http://filmakers.com/index.php?a=filmDetail&filmID=1575|url-status=dead}} The team trains in Stone Town at the Mao Tse Tung Stadium.{{cite web|url=http://irisfilmsuk.com/main/?page_id=28|access-date=2 June 2012|title=Zanzibar Soccer Queens|year=2007|publisher=Iris Films UK|location=United Kingdom|archive-date=14 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514213707/http://irisfilmsuk.com/main/?page_id=28|url-status=dead}} Player recruitment and retention has been a problem because some members of the national team have been prohibited from playing by their husbands or family members.{{cite web|url=http://www.schattenblick.de/infopool/sport/fakten/sfber649.html|publisher=Schattenblick|location=Vienna, Austria|access-date=28 April 2012|date=12 June 2010|language=de|title=Viele glauben, dass wir nicht normal sind...|first=Claudia|last=Dal-Bianco|trans-title=Women's football in Zanzibar (Women Solidarity)|quote=Zuwena Saleh, die von ihrem Mann zurückgewiesen wurde, weil sie keine Kinder bekommen konnte, sieht in Fußball eine neue Aufgabe und fühlt sich zu einer Gruppe zugehörig; dies lässt sie ihre Schmerzen vergessen. .... Nachdem sie heiratete, wurde ihr von ihrem Ehemann verboten, weiterhin Fußball zu spielen.}}{{cite web|url=http://www.filmfrasor.no/no/nyheter/2007/intvj-zanzibar.html|location=Oslo, Norway|access-date=28 April 2012|language=no|title=Modige fotballspillende dronninger|publisher=Film fra Sør|trans-title=Brave Soccer Queens|quote=vinnene som spiller på laget nå har ikke lenger noen problemer i forhold til familie og venner, men Nassra forteller at flere spillere har falt fra fordi de ikke fikk tillatelse til å spille, enten det var fra foreldre eller ektemenn.|archive-date=23 February 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130223042527/http://www.filmfrasor.no/no/nyheter/2007/intvj-zanzibar.html|url-status=dead}} Male relatives of the Fighters team have beaten players because they "disgrace them".{{cite web|url=http://fulltext.ausport.gov.au/fulltext/1999/nsw/p18-25.pdf|location=Canberra, Australia|access-date=17 April 2012|title=Sport and Social Development in Africa: Some Major Human Rights Issues|first=Richard|last=Giulianotti|publisher=Australian Institute of Sport|archive-date=30 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110330084741/http://fulltext.ausport.gov.au/fulltext/1999/nsw/p18-25.pdf|url-status=dead}} National team players are eligible to play for Tanzania in all competitions. Aziza Mwadini and Sabai Yusuf are two Zanzibar based players who have participated in a Tanzanian national team training camp.{{cite news|access-date=5 June 2012|url=http://dailynews.co.tz/sports/?n=26828|newspaper=Daily News|location=Tanzania|date=30 December 2011|title=TFF calls for Twiga Stars support}} {{as of|2011}}, Mohammed remained the team's head coach.{{cite web|url=http://www.daressalam.diplo.de/Vertretung/daressalam/en/Seite__Football__coach.html|location=Daressalam|title=German Football Association offered professional training to Tanzanian Women's Football Coach|publisher=Deutsche Botschaft Daressalam|year=2011|access-date=2 June 2012|archive-date=11 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811085249/http://www.daressalam.diplo.de/Vertretung/daressalam/en/Seite__Football__coach.html|url-status=dead}}

The national association, founded in 1926,{{cite web|url=http://www.schattenblick.de/infopool/sport/fakten/sfber649.html|publisher=Schattenblick|location=Vienna, Austria|access-date=28 April 2012|date=12 June 2010|language=de|title=Viele glauben, dass wir nicht normal sind...|first=Claudia|last=Dal-Bianco|trans-title=Women's football in Zanzibar (Women Solidarity)|quote=Schon 1926 wurde die Zanzibar Football Association (ZFA) gegründet.}} is recognised by the Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA), but not by Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) despite repeated attempts for such recognition.{{cite news|url=http://dailynews.co.tz/sports/?n=25353|access-date=5 June 2012|newspaper=Daily News|location=Tanzania|title=Dar es Salaam to press for Zanzibar's FIFA membership status |date=10 November 2011|first=Nasonelya|last=Kilyinga}} However, it became a member of CAF in 2017, after previously being an associate member, and plans to re-apply for FIFA membership, which it last did unsuccessfully in 2005.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39305382|access-date=5 June 2017|title=Zanzibar admitted as full Caf member|year=2017|publisher=BBC|location=United Kingdom}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40153414|access-date=5 June 2017|title=Tanzania confirms Zanzibar's bid for Fifa membership|year=2017|publisher=BBC|location=United Kingdom}}

Zanzibar were meant to play in the inaugural CECAFA Women's Challenge Cup in October 2007, but the tournament was ultimately cancelled because of an inability to attain funding from CECAFA to cover costs connected to the competition.{{cite news|title=Investment in Youth Soccer Reaping Rewards|newspaper=The Monitor|location=Kampala, Uganda|date=29 August 2007|first=Douglas|last=Bugingo|access-date=16 April 2012|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AUNB:UMOB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=11B5D6B162369F08&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=1053B823C33F21F9}}{{cite news|newspaper=New Vision|location=Uganda|title=Cecafa Puts Off Women Tourney|date=27 September 2007|first=Reuben|last=Olita}} The competition was to have been jointly funded by CAF and CECAFA. The CECAFA secretary, Nicholas Musonye said of the event, "CAF wants to develop women football in this region in recognition of the milestones CECAFA has achieved over the years. CAF appreciates what CECAFA has done despite the hardships the association has gone through, from financial problems to political instability in member states and poor management of associations. Member states in the CECAFA region have not taken women's football seriously. CAF now wants to sponsor a long-term campaign to attract women from this region into the game."{{cite news|title=CAF to Fund Regional Women's Championships|newspaper=Daily Nation|location=Nairobi, Kenya|date=4 January 2007|access-date=16 April 2012|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AUNB:KNAB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=1167BD819C5F9C60&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=1053B823C33F21F9}} CECAFA, after many false starts, eventually staged the first ever CECAFA Women's Championship in 2016 in Uganda, and Zanzibar were one of seven participating teams. They lost all 3 group games, scoring just 1 goal and conceding 30.

In 2007, a movie was made about the team called Zanzibar Soccer Queens. The film was featured at the BFI London Film Festival in 2007.{{cite news|title=The BFM International Film Festival London|newspaper=The Guardian|location=London, England|date=1 September 2007|first=Phelim|last=O'Neill|access-date=16 April 2012|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AUNB:GRDC&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=11B67BEF79C33758&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=1053B823C33F21F9}}

{{See also|2022 in association football|2022 in sports|FIFA International Match Calendar}}

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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| format = 1

| date = {{Start date|2019|11|16|df=y}}

| time = 14:00

| round = CECAFA Women's Championship

| score = 5–0

| report = http://www.cecafafootball.com/burundi-stop-zanzibar-5-0-in-cecafa-senior-womens-challenge-cup-opening-tie/

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

| goals1 =

• Saidi Sakina {{goal|24||26}}
• Sandrine Niyonkuru {{goal|50}}
• Aziza Mwadini {{goal|?|o.g.}}
• Aniella Umimana {{goal|88}}

| team2 = {{fbw|ZAN}}

| goals2 =

| stadium = Chamazi Stadium

| location = Mbagala

| attendance =

| referee =

| result = L

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| format = 1

| date = {{Start date|2019|11|18|df=y}}

| time = 14:00

| round = CECAFA Women's Championship

| score = 5–0

| report =

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

| goals1 =

• Amy Lasu {{goal|24||82}}
• Suzy Iriamba {{goal|39}}
• Mwajuma {{goal|62|o.g.}}
• Manyol {{goal|77}}

| team2 = {{fbw|ZAN}}

| goals2 =

| stadium = Chamazi Stadium

| location = Mbagala

| attendance =

| referee = Asnakech Gebre

| result = L

}}

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| format = 1

| date = {{Start date|2019|11|20|df=y}}

| time = 14:30

| round = CECAFA Women's Championship

| score = 7–0

| report =

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

| goals1 =

• Donisia Minja {{goal|26||56}}
• Diana Lucas {{goal|33}}
• Philomena Daniel {{goal|71}}
• Asha Rashid {{goal|85||87}}
• Anastazia Katunzi {{goal|90}}

| team2 = {{fbw|ZAN}}

| goals2 =

| stadium = Chamazi Stadium

| location = Mbagala

| attendance =

| referee =

| result = L

}}

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|date = {{Start date|2022|6 |2 |df=y}}

|time = 13:00

|event =

|round =CECAFA Women's Championship

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

|score = 0–5

|aet =

|report =https://www.flashscore.com/match/4jYgK7OI/#/match-summary

|team2 = {{fbw|ETH }}

|goals1 =

|goals2 =

• Tadesse {{goal|2}}
• Abera {{goal|27||55}}
• Zeleke {{goal|73||84}}

|stadium = FUFA Technical Centre, Njeru

|attendance =

|referee =

|penalties1 =

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|penalties2 =

|result = L

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|date = {{Start date|2022|6 | |df=y}}

|time =16:00

|event =

|round =CECAFA Women's Championship

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

|score = 1–0

|aet =

|report = https://www.flashscore.com/match/UXiELHKh/#/match-summary

|team2 = {{fbw|ZAN }}

|goals1 = Stephen {{goal|80}}

|goals2 =

|stadium = FUFA Technical Centre, Njeru

|attendance =

|referee = Shamirah Nabadda (Uganda)

|penalties1 =

|penaltyscore =

|penalties2 =

|result = L

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|date = {{Start date|2022|6 |6 |df=y}}

|time = 16:00

|event =

|round =CECAFA Women's Championship

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

|score = 12–0

|aet =

|report = http://www.flashscore.mobi/match/bDqVHZJH/

|team2 = {{fbw|ZAN }}

|goals1 =

• Clement {{goal|1||32||59||85}}
• Pangamwene {{goal|21}}
• Msewa {{goal|22}}
• Kasonga {{goal|29}}
• Omary {{goal|48||61||81}}
• Mbunda {{goal|50}}
• Mabanza {{goal|60}}

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|stadium = FUFA Technical Centre, Njeru

|attendance =

|referee =

|penalties1 =

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|result = L

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