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Nigeria’s women’s football team, the Super Falcons, have outperformed their male counterparts, the Super Eagles, according to former international Friday Ekpo, Footynaija reports.
Ekpo, a member of the Nigerian squad that reached the Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals in 1992, made the candid admission during an appearance on The PlayZone podcast.
The retired midfielder cited the Falcons’ remarkable continental dominance as the clearest measure of success.
The Super Falcons have won the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations a record ten times, compared to just three AFCON titles for the Super Eagles, whose most recent triumph was their 2013 victory in South Africa, now more than a decade ago.
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Nigeria’s women have also qualified for the FIFA World Cup nine times, advancing to the quarterfinals in 1999 and reaching the round of 16 at both the 2019 and 2023 editions.
Ekpo credited the Falcons’ early advantage in African women’s football as a decisive factor.
“We (the Falcons) started earlier than most of them. By the time they started coming up, we had already gotten five or six championships in our kitty,” he said, also acknowledging the growing threat posed by nations such as Zambia, South Africa, and Morocco.
He attributed the Super Eagles’ comparatively modest haul to the sheer depth of competition in African men’s football.
“We are so many in the men’s game, we fight for every cup but can’t get all. African men’s football is getting stronger and thicker these days,” Ekpo explained, adding that comparing the two sides was ultimately unhelpful.
“We should not be comparing them,” he concluded.
The Super Falcons will look to make it 11 continental trophies when the 2026 WAFCON kicks off in July.
