Botswana women's national football team

Botswana played their first match in Harare, Zimbabwe on April 19, 2002 against South Africa in a series of friendlies. They lost 14–0. After this match they lost 3–0 against Swaziland and 7–1 against Mozambique, in where they scored their first goal.

Botswana's first major competition was in the 2008 African Women's Championship, in where after 5 years they played an international match, this time against Namibia. Zebras lost both legs by 3–0 and 6–1.

Botswana had played with Zambia on 4 May 2008 and lost 4–2.

With a U20 team, Zebras played 2010 African Women's Championship qualifiers against Congo DR and again lost both legs, this time by 2–0 and 5–2 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, lost 1–4 and 1–2 respectively; against Tanzania on 25 October and 26 October, lost 2–3 and draw 1–1. In the next year, March 2011, they again played against Namibia and lost 1–0.

In 2011, one of the two friendlies in April and May with South Africa marked their first victory, by 1–0. The other match was lost 4–0. In August, they played against Tanzania on 2 August, losing 3–1; South Africa on August 3, losing 4–0 and against Zambia, also losing, 4–1.

They entered the 2012 African Women's Championship qualifiers and played against Zimbabwe, and was eliminated by an aggregate score of 3–1, due to losing the two legs by 1–0 and 2–1. Last friendlies in 2012 include two losses against South Africa (3–0) and Zimbabwe (5–0).

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 3–0 and 3–1. The first leg of the qualifiers for the African Championship started on 14 February with a loss against Zimbabwe 1–0 and the second leg was played on 2 March, with another loss, by 2–1, Botswana ended eliminated from the African Championship and the World Cup. On June 7 of the same year, they played against South Africa, losing 4–0.

The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

Legend

  Win   Draw   Lose   Fixture

2021

South Africa  v  Botswana

13 April Friendly	South Africa	2–0	Botswana	Johannesburg, South Africa
15:00 UTC+2	Kgatlana  52' Salgado  57'	Report		Stadium: Bidvest Stadium

Botswana  v  South Sudan

29 September COSAFA Women's Championship GS Group B	Botswana	7–0	South Sudan	Port Elizabeth, South Africa
	Tholakele  9', 30', 40' Radiakanyo  15' Thanda  24' Johannes  39' Montsho  87'	Report		Stadium: Wolfson Stadium

Botswana  v  Tanzania

2 October COSAFA Women's Championship GS Group B	Botswana	0–2	Tanzania	Port Elizabeth, South Africa
			5'  79'	Stadium: Gelvandale Stadium

Botswana  v  Zimbabwe

4 October COSAFA Women's Championship GS Group B	Botswana	0–3	Zimbabwe	Port Elizabeth, South Africa
				Stadium: Wolfson Stadium

Angola  v  Botswana

20 October 2022 AFWCON qualification First round 1st leg	Angola	1–5	Botswana	Luanda, Angola
	Ngonguinha  8'	Report	Tholakele  5', 49' Thanda  42' Radiakanyo  48', 74'	Stadium: Estádio dos Coqueiros

Botswana  v  Angola

26 October 2022 AFWCON qualification First round 2nd leg	Botswana	2–0 (7–1 agg.)	Angola	Francistown, Botswana
	Thanda  14' Ramafifi  16'	Report		Stadium: Francistown Stadium
Note: Botswana won 7–1 on aggregate.

2022

Zimbabwe  v  Botswana

14 February 2022 AFWCON qualification Second round 1st leg

Zimbabwe

v

Botswana

Botswana  v  Zimbabwe

23 February 2022 AFWCON qualification Second round 2nd leg

Botswana

v

Zimbabwe

• Active players in bold, statistics correct as of 2020.

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• Botswana women's national under-20 football team
• Botswana women's national under-17 football team
• Botswana men's national football team

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