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#Super Falcons Lift 7th Africa Women Championship At #AWC2014

Super Falcons of Nigeria defeat Indomitable Lionesses 2-0 to lift their 7th AWC trophy since the tournament took off in 1998; scoring 18 goals and conceding 2 in 7 AWC final appearances

Nigeria’s senior women national team, the Super Falcons set a football tournament as the first team to win a continental tournament for a record seventh time at the 9 AWC Finals in Namibia

Goals from the eventual highest goal scorer of the tournament , Desire Eberechi Oparanozie and Asisat Oshoala who was voted the Most Valuable Player of the Namibia 2014 AWC, ensured Nigeria defeated their Central African neighbours, Cameroon for the third time in the Africa Women Championship final

In the third place match played earlier in the day, Ivorian ladies cut short the journey for the Banyana Banyana of South Africa as they fell the Rainbow girls by one goal to nothing to book the last ticket to the 2015 FIFA Women World Cup slated for Canada

Africa’s three representatives are Nigeria, Cameroon and Ivory Coast.

Nigeria has played in 7 final matches out of 9 AWC finals and have won everyone of they appeared; three times over the female Indomitable Lions of Cameroon, twice against the Ghanaian female national team, once against the South Africans

Since the first edition of the Africa Women Championship in 1998, Nigeria has been at every one of them, losing to 2008 champions, Equatorial Guinea and missing out of the 2012 final where the the girl form the Equator beat the Banyana Banyanas to retain the trophy

Nigeria At The AWC: Nigeria has scored a total 18 goals while conceding just 2 in 7 AWC final appearances, the biggest win was against Cameroon in South Africa 2004.

Final:Nigeria 2-0 Ghana (Abeokuta) Oct 31, 1998

Final: Nigeria 2-0 South Africa (Boksburg) Nov 25, 2000

Final: Nigeria 2-0 South Africa (Boksburg) Nov 25, 2000

Final: Nigeria 5-0 Cameroon (Johannesburg) Oct 3, 2004

Final: Nigeria 1-0 Ghana (Warri) Nov 11, 2006

3rd Place: Nigeria 1- 1 Cameroon (5-4 Penalties, 2008)

Final: Nigeria 4-2 Equatorial Guinea (Daveyton) Nov 14, 2010

Final: Nigeria 2-0 Cameroon (Sam Mujoma Stadium, Windhoek, Namibia) October 25, 2014

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