Angola_women's_national_basketball_team
Angola women's national basketball team (Portuguese: seleção angolana de basquetebol feminina) is the basketball team which represents Angolan women internationally. In 2011 FIBA Africa Championship for Women They won their first Continental African title and they qualified for the first time to 2012 Summer Olympics. They have made their only appearance so far in the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup in 2014, where they finished last among 16 teams.
For the men's team, see Angola men's national basketball team.
Quick Facts FIBA ranking, Joined FIBA ...
| FIBA ranking | 42  1 (15 February 2024)[1] | ||
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| Joined FIBA | 1979 | ||
| FIBA zone | FIBA Africa | ||
| National federation | Federação Angolana de Basquetebol | ||
| Coach | José Villa | ||
| Olympic Games | |||
| Appearances | 1 | ||
| World Cup | |||
| Appearances | 1 | ||
| AfroBasket | |||
| Appearances | 20 | ||
| Medals |  (2011, 2013) (1981, 1986, 1994, 2007, 2009) | ||
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FIBA Africa Championship for Women 2007
The squad traveled to Senegal for the FIBA Africa Championship for Women 2007 in September 2007. It went 4–1 in the first round of the competition, losing only to the Democratic Republic of the Congo once they had clinched advancement to the next round. In the round of single elimination, Angola beat Côte d'Ivoire 44–42, before losing to eventual champion Mali by 9. In the third place game, Angola beat Mozambique by 15 to clinch a spot in the qualifying tournament for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
FIBA Africa Championship for Women 2011
Angola won its first African title at the 2011 FIBA Africa Championship for Women in Bamako, Mali. It finished with a 7–1 record with Small forward Nacissela Maurício being named the tournament's MVP. Moreover, Power forward Sónia Guadalupe was named to the All-Tournament team. With this win, Angola secured a spot at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Olympic Games
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| Year | Reached | Position | GP | W | L | GS | GA | GD |
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 London 2012 | Group stage | 12th | 5 | 0 | 5 | 243 | 395 | −152 |
| Total | 1/1 | 0 titles | 5 | 0 | 5 | 243 | 395 | −152 |
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World Cup
More information Year, Reached ...
| Year | Reached | Position | GP | W | L | GS | GA | GD |
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 Istanbul/Ankara 2014 | Group stage | 16th | 3 | 0 | 3 | 125 | 286 | −161 |
| Total | 1/1 | 0 titles | 3 | 0 | 3 | 125 | 186 | −161 |
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African Games
More information Year, Reached ...
| Year | Reached | Position | GP | W | L | GS | GA | GD |
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 Nairobi 1987 | Final | 2nd | 5 | 2 | 3 | 243 | 278 | −35 |
 Cairo 1991 | Did not participate | |||||||
 Harare 1995 | Qualifiers | – | 1 | 0 | 1 | 45 | 46 | −1 |
 Jo'burg 1999 | ||||||||
 Abuja 2003 | round robin | 4th | 5 | 3 | 2 | 323 | 312 | +11 |
 Algiers 2007 | Semi-finals | 3rd | 7 | 5 | 2 | 384 | 362 | +22 |
 Maputo 2011 | Final | 2nd | 8 | 7 | 1 | 494 | 347 | +147 |
 Brazzaville 2015 | Semi-finals | 3rd | 7 | 5 | 2 | 392 | 361 | +31 |
| Total | 5/8 | 0 titles | 27 | 20 | 7 | 1,836 | 1,660 | +176 |
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AfroBasket
More information Year, Reached ...
| Year | Reached | Position | GP | W | L | GS | GA | GD |
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 Dakar 1981 | Semi-finals | 3rd | 5 | 3 | 2 | 366 | 325 | +41 |
 Luanda 1983 | Quarter-finals | 6th | 5 | 1 | 4 | 277 | 350 | −73 |
| Dakar 1984 | Quarter-finals | 7th | 4 | 1 | 3 | 255 | 255 | 0 |
| Maputo 1986 | Semi-finals | 3rd | 4 | 2 | 2 | 307 | 246 | +61 |
 Tunis 1990 | Quarter-finals | 5th | 4 | 2 | 2 | 268 | 233 | +35 |
| Dakar 1993 | Quarter-finals | 6th | 5 | 2 | 3 | 321 | 312 | +9 |
| Jo'burg 1994 | Semi-finals | 3rd | 5 | 3 | 2 | 310 | 236 | +74 |
| Nairobi 1997 | Quarter-finals | 5th | 5 | 3 | 2 | 316 | 252 | +64 |
| Tunis 2000 | Quarter-finals | 5th | 5 | 3 | 2 | 438 | 293 | +145 |
| Maputo 2003 | Semi-finals | 4th | 6 | 4 | 2 | 387 | 320 | +67 |
| Abuja 2005 | Quarter-finals | 6th | 5 | 2 | 3 | 295 | 222 | +73 |
| Dakar 2007 | Semi-finals | 3rd | 8 | 6 | 2 | 463 | 396 | +67 |
 Antananarivo 2009 | Semi-finals | 3rd | 8 | 6 | 2 | 508 | 436 | +72 |
 Bamako 2011 | Final | 1st | 8 | 7 | 1 | 495 | 432 | +63 |
| Maputo 2013 | Final | 1st | 8 | 8 | 0 | 490 | 399 | +91 |
 Yaoundé 2015 | Semi-finals | 4th | 8 | 5 | 3 | 485 | 415 | +70 |
| Bamako 2017 | Quarter-finals | 6th | 8 | 6 | 2 | 543 | 466 | +77 |
| Dakar 2019 | Quarter-finals | 5th | 6 | 4 | 2 | 286 | 239 | +47 |
| Yaoundé 2021 | Quarter-finals | 8th | 6 | 2 | 4 | 403 | 429 | −26 |
 Kigali 2023 | Qualification to quarterfinals | 9th | 3 | 0 | 3 | 212 | 211 | −25 |
 Abidjan 2025 | To be determined | |||||||
| Total | 20/28 | 2 titles | 116 | 70 | 46 | 7425 | 6467 | +932 |
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More information Against, Pld ...
| Against | Pld | Wn | Lst | GF | GA | GD | Details | ||
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| Algeria | 5 | 5 | 0 | 356 | 237 | +119 |
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 Botswana | 1 | 1 | 0 | 116 | 35 | +81 |
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| Cameroon | 10 | 9 | 1 | 705 | 519 | +186 |
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 Cape Verde | 2 | 2 | 0 | 142 | 92 | +50 |
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 Central African Republic | 1 | 1 | 0 | 96 | 58 | +38 |
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 China | 2 | 0 | 2 | 91 | 141 | −50 |
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| Congo | 1 | 1 | 0 | 101 | 63 | +38 |
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 Croatia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 56 | 75 | −19 |
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 Czech Republic | 1 | 0 | 1 | 47 | 82 | −35 |
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 DR Congo | 14 | 0 | 14 | 831 | 1.070 | −239 |
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| Egypt | 4 | 4 | 0 | 289 | 214 | +75 |
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 Gabon | 3 | 3 | 0 | 227 | 132 | +95 |
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 Guinea | 3 | 3 | 0 | 268 | 140 | +128 |
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| Ivory Coast | 13 | 10 | 3 | 821 | 686 | +135 |
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| Kenya | 5 | 4 | 1 | 331 | 272 | +59 |
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| Mali | 11 | 7 | 4 | 672 | 655 | +17 |
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| Mozambique | 17 | 12 | 5 | 983 | 886 | +97 |
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 Niger | 2 | 2 | 0 | 233 | 46 | +187 |
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| Nigeria | 12 | 8 | 4 | 678 | 624 | +54 |
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| Rwanda | 3 | 3 | 0 | 186 | 135 | +51 |
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| Senegal | 16 | 6 | 10 | 824 | 959 | −135 |
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 Serbia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 42 | 102 | −60 |
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| South Africa | 4 | 3 | 1 | 264 | 166 | +98 |
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 Tanzania | 1 | 1 | 0 | 118 | 46 | +72 |
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| Tunisia | 6 | 5 | 1 | 399 | 311 | +88 |
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 United States | 2 | 0 | 2 | 82 | 209 | −127 |
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 Zambia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 94 | 36 | +58 |
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| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1 | 0 | 81 | 37 | +44 |
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Main article: List of Angola women's national basketball team players
Current roster
Roster for the 2023 Women's Afrobasket.The roster was announced on 28 July 2023.[2][3]
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Head coach position
Aníbal Moreira – Sep 2009 – Oct 2014- Jaime Covilhã – Jun 2015 – Aug 2017
- "FIBA Ranking Presented by Nike". FIBA. 15 February 2024. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
- "Começa hoje a jornada da nossa Selecção Sénior Feminina no Afrobasket Rwanda". facebook.com. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
- "Team roster: Angola". fiba.basketball. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
- Official website
- FIBA profile
- Angolan National Team – Afrobasket.com Archived 30 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine
