Algeria

The Algeria women's national football team (Arabic: منتخب الجزائر لكرة القدم للسيدات‎) represents Algeria in international women's football. The team is currently ranked 76th in the world in the FIFA women's rankings. The team's highest ranking was 64th, in June 2009. The team plays its home games at the Stade du 5 Juillet in Algiers and is coached by Radia Fertoul since August 2018. Algeria played its first match on May 14, 1998, against France, and lost 14–0.

Algeria has never qualified for a World Cup. It has qualified five times for the Africa Women Cup of Nations, in 2004, 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018, all finishing in group stage.

History

The beginning

The Algerian Football Federation was founded in 1962, after the Algerian Independence. It joined the CAF in 1963 and FIFA in 1964. By this time, no nation in the world had an official women's football team, instead they appeared in the 1970s. Algeria's first recorded match dates back on 1997. On 14 May 1998, the team played it first match against France in Cesson-Sevigne. The result was a heavy 0-14 defeat, which is still Algeria's worst result. Although the team was formed in 1997, a futsal team had played a game with Morocco in the same year, losing by 5–0.

In 2000, Algeria disputed its second game, facing Morocco in Casablanca on July 30, 2000, in a qualifier for the 2000 AWC in South Africa. They didn't score in the match and it ended in a 0-3 defeat. The second leg in Algiers on August 12 finished with a 1-3 loss. The aggregate score was 1-6.

The team was not registered on the qualifiers for the 2002 AWC, which took place in Nigeria.

In international competitions

In the 2003 All-Africa Games, as no qualifying took place, Algeria was invited to the first women's football tournament of the All-Africa Games, in Nigeria. The team was paired in Group B with South Africa, DR Congo and Mali. The results weren't favorable as they lost all three games they played by crushing