From Noon today, Nigeria’s U17 female football team will aim to go up one gear, as they face their counterparts from Colombia in the seventh edition of the FIFA World Cup for that category. The Nigerian girls have already made history by reaching the semi-final with their victory over United States, runners-up to Germany in the inaugural edition at New …

For the first time in six appearances at the FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup, Nigeria land in the last four. The feat was achieved after missing the last edition in Uruguay four years ago, three consecutive quarterfinals — 2010, 2012 and 2014 — and group stage exits in 2008 (the first edition of the championship) and 2016. On Friday, the …

Despite losing their opening match, Nigeria qualified for the quarter finals of the FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup finals in India on Monday having won their last two matches. Monday’s 2-1 result over Chile in Bhubaneswar followed the victory over New Zealand last Friday. Blessing Emmanuel’s goal in the 4th minute and Bisola Mosaku’s strike off a free-kick by dead-ball …

Nigeria’s U20 female football team are all but certain of featuring at the world stage when this year’s FIFA World Cup kicks off on 10th August in Costa Rica. The Falconets only need to sustain the 3-1 away result recorded against their Senegalese counterparts on Saturday evening to secure one of Africa’s two tickets into the finals. Nigeria had been …

Nigeria’s U17 female football team kick-off the qualifying campaign for this year’s FIFA World Cup in India with a clash against DR Congo at the Stade des Martyrs de la Pentecôte in Kinshasa. It’s the first leg of the second round of a four-stage route to India 2022 slated for October. Nigeria, along with Ghana, qualified for the inaugural FIFA …