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The South Africa women's national football team, nicknamed Banyana Banyana (The Girls), is the national team of South Africa and is controlled by the South African Football Association. South Africa competed in two Olympic Games , two FIFA Women's World Cups , and 14 Women's African Cup of Nations , where they were runners up five times before ...
In 2009, a semi-professional women's football league the Sasol Women's League was established with the aim of developing the women's game. [ 5 ] In 2012, the Ministry of Sports and Recreation called for the creation of a women's football league after the national women's football team, Banyana Banyana , returned from the 2012 Olympic Games ...
The South Africa women's national football team has represented South Africa at the FIFA Women's World Cup on two occasions, in 2019 and 2023. [1] On August 2, 2023, South Africa beat Italy 3–2 to qualify for the Round of 16.
In South Africa in the 1960s, women several tried to create women's football clubs including Jessie Maseko who tried to create a girls high school football club in 1962. [3] In Cape Town a high school team called the Mother City Girls was created and played against boys' clubs. [ 3 ]
The South Africa women's national under-19 team were runners up twice for the African U-19 Women's Championship in 2002 and 2004. The team competed in the women's tournament at the 2019 African Games held in Rabat, Morocco. [1] [2] They won the AUSC Region 5 Games title in 2016 and defended it in 2018. [3] [4]
In 2018, they won their first University Sport South Africa (USSA) title and defended the title in 2019. [2] [3]In 2022, they won the 2022 FNB Women's Varsity Football Cup edition 5-3 on penalties following a goalless draw against defending champions UWC Ladies on Sunday, 16 October 2022.
South Africa at the FIFA Women's World Cup (3 C, 1 P) Pages in category "South Africa women's national soccer team" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The Sasol Women's League is the second-tier South African women's association football league, sponsored by Sasol since 2013. [1] It is semi-professional, [2] and operates as a provincial league, with two "streams" of 8-10 teams in each of South Africa's nine provinces (in some cases, multiple streams per province), and each province's champion then competing in a single-location National ...