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.
Botswana played their first match in Harare, Zimbabwe on April 19, 2002, against South Africa in a series of friendlies. They lost 14âÂÂ0. After this match, they lost 3âÂÂ0 against Swaziland and 7âÂÂ1 against Mozambique, where they scored their first goal.
Botswana's first major competition was in 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 3âÂÂ0 and 6âÂÂ1.
Botswana had played with Zambia on 4 May 2008 and lost 4âÂÂ2.
With a U20 team, Zebras played 2010 African Women's Championship qualifiers against Congo DR and again lost both legs, this time by 2âÂÂ0 and 5âÂÂ2 and did not qualify for either the 2010 African Women's Championship and the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
A series of friendlies occurred in October 2010, against Zambia on 2 and 23 October. They lost 1âÂÂ4 and 1âÂÂ2 respectively; against Tanzania on 25 October and 26 October, lost 2âÂÂ3 and draw 1âÂÂ1. In the next year, March 2011, they again played against Namibia and lost 1âÂÂ0.
In 2011, one of the two friendlies in April and May with South Africa marked their first victory, by 1âÂÂ0. The other match was lost 4âÂÂ0. In August, they played against Tanzania on 2 August, losing 3âÂÂ1; South Africa on August 3, losing 4âÂÂ0 and against Zambia, also losing, 4âÂÂ1.
They entered the 2012 African Women's Championship qualifiers and played against Zimbabwe, and were eliminated by an aggregate score of 3âÂÂ1, due to losing the two legs by 1âÂÂ0 and 2âÂÂ1. Last friendlies in 2012 included two losses against South Africa (3âÂÂ0) and Zimbabwe (5âÂÂ0).
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 3âÂÂ0 and 3âÂÂ1. The first leg of the qualifiers for the African Championship started on 14 February with a loss against Zimbabwe 1âÂÂ0 and the second leg was played on 2 March, with another loss, by 2âÂÂ1. Botswana were eliminated from the African Championship and the World Cup. On June 7 of the same year, they played against South Africa, losing 4âÂÂ0.
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.
The Botswana women's national football team plays their home matches at the Botswana National Stadium.
The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.
Source: globalsportsarchive.com
Caps and goals accurate up to and including 12 July 2025.
The following players have been called up to a Botswana squad in the past 12 months.
The list shown below shows the Djibouti national football team allâÂÂtime international record against opposing nations.<br /> *As of xxxxxx after match against xxxx.
*As ofxxxxx after match against xxxxx.
The following table shows Djibouti's all-time official international record per opponent: