The Nigeria Soccer Federation (NFF) has confirmed that the Tremendous Falcons will function in no less than one worldwide pleasant match in the course of the February 2026 FIFA window, following mounting considerations over the group’s lack of aggressive motion.
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The nine-time African champions missed latest worldwide home windows, a lapse that contributed to their slight drop within the newest FIFA Girls’s World Rating—from thirty sixth to thirty seventh.
The inactivity additionally drew criticism from a number of gamers, who voiced their frustrations on social media as Nigeria ramps up preparations for the 2026 Girls’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in Morocco.
Girls’s soccer analysts have echoed comparable sentiments, stressing that common high-level competitors is crucial for the Tremendous Falcons as they intention to defend their continental crown and safe qualification for the 2027 FIFA Girls’s World Cup.
Responding to the rising strain, the NFF Government Committee addressed the problem throughout its assembly held on Wednesday, 10 December 2025, on the Federation’s Secretariat in Abuja.
Within the communiqué issued after the assembly, the Federation acknowledged:
“The Government Committee equally mandated the NFF Secretariat to commit efforts, vitality and significant considering to securing high quality pleasant matches for the Senior Girls Nationwide Group, Tremendous Falcons, within the February 2026 FIFA window, because the 10-time African champions gun for an eleventh title and a 2027 FIFA Girls’s World Cup ticket, on the 14th Girls Africa Cup of Nations scheduled for Morocco, seventeenth March – third April 2026.”
The NFF is anticipated to announce the opponent(s) and venue(s) for the February pleasant match(es) within the coming weeks.
The Tremendous Falcons will head to Morocco subsequent yr searching for an eleventh continental title and trying to efficiently defend the WAFCON crown they reclaimed in 2024.
The event, scheduled for 17 March to three April 2026, will even function the African qualifiers for the 2027 FIFA Girls’s World Cup.
