Seychelles women's national football team

The Seychelles women's national football team is the national team of the Seychelles.

The national team, captained by Abby Boone, played in two eighty-minute long games in 2005 in a youth tournament hosted by Mauritius, with the Seychelles losing both matches. An official under-17 national team exists and had regular training sessions in 2006.

The sport faces several development problems inside the country including a lack of popularity for the sport, and few female players and teams. Women have gained football leadership positions in the country with one coaching a men's team and another umpiring international matches. There are other development issues for the sport that are ones facing the whole of Africa.

History

The Seychelles Football Federation was founded in 1979, and became a FIFA affiliate in 1986. Women's football is represented in the federation by specific mandate and currently they employ one full-time employee to look after the women's game.

The Seychelles played in a single FIFA sanctioned match between 1950 and June 2012.

In 2005, a youth team from Seychelles competed in a three nation tournament hosted by Mauritius, where all games were 80 minutes in length. They lost to Mauritius 1–4 and also to Réunion 0–9. Overall, they finished last, scoring only one goal in the competition. In 2005, Zambia was supposed to host a regional COSAFA women's football tournament, with ten teams agreeing to participate, including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Seychelles, Mauritius, Madagascar, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland. Seychelles did not record a match in the event.

In 2006, the country did not have an official FIFA recognised senior "A" team, a situation unchanged by 2009. However, according to FIFA's Women's Football Today, the country has an official under-17 team, the Seychelles women's national under-17 football team. In 2016, they had two training sessions a week but had yet to record an official FIFA recognised match.

The country did not have a team competing in the 2010 African Women's Championship, or at the 2011 All Africa Games. In March 2012, the team was not ranked in the world by FIFA due to inactivity.

In 2022, Seychelles entered the FIFA/Coca-Cola Women's World Ranking for the first time under the Singaporean head coach Angeline Chua. For a team to be ranked on the FIFA list, the team has to play a minimum of six international matches against ranked teams. On 4 April 2022, the Seychelles women's national team played its sixth international match in Singapore.

In October 2023, Singaporean Chris Yip-Au joined the Seychelles Football Federation as its head of women's football and women's national team coach.

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

2025

2026

Coaching staff Current coaching staff As of September 2023

Position Name Ref. Team Manager Peggy Freminot Assistant Team Manager Militna Marie Technical Director Osama Haroun Head coach Chris Yip-Au Assistant coach Florence Marie Coach Michel Renaud Goalkeeping coach Slim William

Head coaches

Caretaker head coaches/managers are listed in italics.

Angeline Chua (2021–2023) Florence Marie (2023) Chris Yip-Au (2023–present)

Players

Current squad This is the selected squad for the two international friendlies vs Singapore on 25 and 28 November 2025.

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

Previous squads COSAFA Women's Championship 2024 COSAFA Women's Championship squad

Competitive record FIFA Women's World Cup FIFA Women's World Cup recordYearResultGPWD*LGFGAGD 1991did not exist 1995 1999 2003 2007did not enter 2011 2015did not qualify 2019did not enter 2023 2027to be determinedTotal0/10-------

Olympic Games Summer Olympics recordYearResult* 1996did not exist 2000 2004 2008did not Qualify 2012 did not enter 2016 2020 2024Total0/80000000 *Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Africa Women Cup of Nations Africa Women Cup of Nations recordYearResultMatchesWins DrawsLossesGFGA 1991 to 2004did not exist 2006 to 2012 did not enter 2014did not qualify 2016did not enter 2018 2020Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Africa 2022did not enter 2024 Did not enter Total0/12------

African Games African Games recordYearResultMatchesWins DrawsLossesGFGAGD 2003Did Not exist 2007Did not enter 2011 2015 2019 2023Total0/50000000

Regional COSAFA Women's Championship COSAFA Women's Championship recordYearRound*Squad 2002did not exist 2006 did not enter 2008 2011 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Group Stage 3 0 0 3 1 21 −20 SquadTotalGroup stage 3 0 0 3 1 21 −20 *Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Seychelles women's national football team

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