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Mauritius women's national football team
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| Field | Value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Mauritius | ||||
| Association | Mauritius Football Association | ||||
| Confederation | CAF (Africa) | ||||
| Sub-confederation | COSAFA | ||||
| (Southern Africa) | |||||
| Coach | Kersley Levrai | ||||
| FIFA Trigramme | MRI | ||||
| FIFA Rank | |||||
| FIFA max | 117 | ||||
| FIFA max date | March 2018 | ||||
| FIFA min | 196 | ||||
| FIFA min date | March – June 2025 | ||||
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| Largest loss | 15–0 | ||||
| (Ibhayi, South Africa; 1 August 2019) | |||||
| Regional name | African Women's Championship | ||||
| type | women |
the women's team
| Sub-confederation = COSAFA (Southern Africa) Unofficial 3–0 Rodrigues Rodrigues (Bambous, Mauritius; 3 April 2011) Official 3–0 (Saint-Denis, Réunion; 3 June 2012) Unofficial 5–0 Rodrigues Rodrigues (Quatre Bornes, Mauritius; 7 July 2022) Official 3–1 (Saint Pierre, Mauritius; 5 December 2023) (Ibhayi, South Africa; 1 August 2019) The Mauritius women's national football team is the first women's association football team that represents the country of Mauritius. They are controlled by the Mauritius Football Association and are members of FIFA, the Confederation of African Football (CAF), and the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA). The development of women's football in the country and in Africa as a whole faces a number of challenges, with a programme for women's football not being created in the country until 1997. FIFA gives money to the Mauritius Football Association, 10% of which is aimed at developing football in the country in areas that include women's football, sport medicine and futsal.
History
In 1985, very few countries had a women's national football team and Mauritius was no exception, with a women's football programme only being established in the country in 1997. but this was put back to November 2012. The match was played in Bambous on 25 November 2012, with Réunion winning again, this time by 2 goals to 1.
Mauritius was scheduled to take part in several competitions, which they ended up withdrawing from before playing a single match. In 2005, Zambia was supposed to host a regional COSAFA women's football tournament, with several countries agreeing to send teams including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Seychelles, Mauritius, Madagascar, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland. The tournament eventually took place in 2006, but Mauritius did not send a team. Beyond that, they were scheduled to participate in the 2008 Women's U-20 World Cup qualification, where they were scheduled to play Zimbabwe in the preliminary round; however, Zimbabwe withdrew from the competition giving Mauritius an automatic bye into the first round. In that round Mauritius was supposed to play South Africa, but withdrew from the competition.
They took part in the 2019 COSAFA Women's Championship, losing all three matches in their group.
, the head coach was Alain Jules. As of March 2012, the team was not ranked in the world by FIFA, as it had not yet participated in any matches against other FIFA members. By June 2020, they were bottom of the FIFA rankings.
Recruitment and organisation
Women's football in Africa as a whole faces several challenges, including limited access to education, poverty amongst women in the wider society, and fundamental gender inequality present in the society that occasionally allows for female specific human rights abuses. Another problem with the development for the national team, one faced throughout the continent, is if quality female football players are found, many leave the country seeking greater opportunity in Northern Europe or the United States.
Women's football was formally established in Mauritius in 1997. As of 2009, there was no national or regional women's competition but a school competition existed. There are 17 clubs for women over the age of 16 and four youth clubs in the country. The country has three national women's football teams: senior, under-15, and under-19. In the period between 2002 and 2006, none of them played even one international match. 10% of the money from the FIFA Financial Assistance Programme (FAP) is targeted at the technical development of the game, which includes women's football, sport medicine and futsal. This compares to 15% for men's competitions and 4% for youth football development. Between 1991 and 2010 in Mauritius, there was no FIFA FUTURO III regional course for women's coaching, no women's football seminar held in the country and no FIFA MA course held for women/youth football.
Results and fixtures
Main article: Mauritius 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.
Coaching staff
Current coaching staff
| Position | Name |
|---|---|
| Head coach | MRI Kersley Levrai |
| Technical Director | |
| Assistant coach | |
| Goalkeeping Coach | |
| Physical coach | |
| Team Manager |
Manager history
| Name | Period |
|---|---|
| FRA Pierre-Yves Bodineau | |
| MRI Anielle Collet | 2022–2023 |
| MRI Kersley Levrai- | 2023–present |
Players
Current squad
- The following 24 players were called up for the 2024 COSAFA Women's Championship on 18 October 2024. :Caps and goals correct as of 7 July 2022
Recent call-ups
The following players have been called up to a Mauritius squad in the past 12 months.
INJ Player withdrew from the squad due to an injury.
PRE Preliminary squad.
SUS Player is serving a suspension.
WD Player withdrew for personal reasons.
Previous squads
;COSAFA Women's Championship
Records
*Active players in bold, statistics correct as of 31 August 2021.
Most capped players
| # | Player | Year(s) | Caps |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 3 | |||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | |||
| 6 | |||
| 7 | |||
| 8 | |||
| 9 | |||
| 10 |
Top goalscorers
| # | Player | Year(s) | Goals | Caps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| 2 | ||||
| 3 | ||||
| 4 | ||||
| 5 | ||||
| 6 | ||||
| 7 | ||||
| 8 | ||||
| 9 | ||||
| 10 |
Competitive record
FIFA Women's World Cup
Main article: Mauritius at the FIFA Women's World Cup
| [](fifa-women-s-world-cup) | Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | D* | L | GS | GA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHN 1991 | did not exist | ||||||||
| SWE 1995 | |||||||||
| USA 1999 | |||||||||
| USA 2003 | |||||||||
| CHN 2007 | did not enter | ||||||||
| GER 2011 | |||||||||
| CAN 2015 | did not qualify | ||||||||
| FRA 2019 | did not enter | ||||||||
| AUSNZL 2023 | |||||||||
| BRA 2027 | to be determined | ||||||||
| Appearances | 0/10 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Olympic Games
| [](football-at-the-summer-olympics) | Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | D* | L | GS | GA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USA 1996 | did not exist | ||||||||
| AUS 2000 | |||||||||
| GRE 2004 | |||||||||
| CHN 2008 | did not enter | ||||||||
| GBR 2012 | |||||||||
| BRA 2016 | |||||||||
| JPN 2020 | |||||||||
| FRA 2024 | |||||||||
| USA 2028 | to be determined | ||||||||
| AUS 2032 | |||||||||
| Appearances | 0/9 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
:*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
Africa Women Cup of Nations
| [](africa-women-cup-of-nations) | Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | D* | L | GS | GA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | did not exist | ||||||||
| 1995 | |||||||||
| NGA 1998 | |||||||||
| RSA 2000 | |||||||||
| NGA 2002 | |||||||||
| RSA 2004 | |||||||||
| NGA 2006 | did not enter | ||||||||
| EQG 2008 | |||||||||
| RSA 2010 | |||||||||
| EQG 2012 | |||||||||
| NAM 2014 | |||||||||
| CMR 2016 | did not qualify | ||||||||
| GHA 2018 | did not enter | ||||||||
| 2020 | did not enter, tournament was later canceled | ||||||||
| MAR 2022 | did not enter | ||||||||
| MAR 2024 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
| Appearances | 0/12 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
African Games
| [](football-at-the-african-games) | Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | D* | L | GS | GA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NGA 2003 | did not exist | ||||||||
| ALG 2007 | did not enter | ||||||||
| MOZ 2011 | |||||||||
| CGO 2015 | |||||||||
| MAR 2019 | |||||||||
| GHA 2023 | |||||||||
| EGY 2027 | to be determined | ||||||||
| Appearances | 0/6 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
COSAFA Women's Championship
| [](cosafa-women-s-championship) | Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | D* | L | GS | GA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZIM 2002 | did not exist | ||||||||
| ZAM 2006 | did not enter | ||||||||
| ANG 2008 | |||||||||
| ZIM 2011 | |||||||||
| ZIM 2017 | Group stage | 12th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 17 | |
| RSA 2018 | did not enter | ||||||||
| RSA 2019 | Group stage | 11th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 26 | |
| RSA 2020 | did not enter | ||||||||
| RSA 2021 | |||||||||
| RSA 2022 | Group stage | 11th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 12 | |
| Appearances | Group Stage | 11th | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 55 |
:*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
References
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- Mukoka, Augustine. (16 August 2005). "The Post (Zambia) – AAGM: Zambia to Host Cosafa Women's Soccer Tourney". The Post.
- "COSAFA Women Tournaments".
- (25 March 2010). "African Women U-20 World Cup 2008 Qualifying".
- "2019 COSAFA women's snr".
- "Mauritius". [[FIFA]].
- (16 March 2012). "FIFA/Coca-Cola Women's World Ranking". FIFA.
- "Women's Ranking".
- Jean Williams. (2007). "A Beautiful Game: International Perspectives on Women's Football". Berg.
- Gabriel Kuhn. (2011). "Soccer Vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics". PM Press.
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- (18 October 2024). "COSAFA Women's Championship 2024: Lady Club M - Squad list". [[Mauritius Football Association]].
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