Ecuador women's national football team

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Ecuador women's national football team
Country	Ecuador
First appearance	2015 FIFA Women's World Cup
Best result	Group stage (2015)

The Ecuador women's national football team represent Ecuador in women's association football. Ecuador has participated in every Copa America Femenina since 1995. They made the top four in two occasions, 1998 and 2014. They have qualified for one World Cup tournament, but came so close in 1999.

Even though football is not a popular sport in Ecuador for women, they won the playoff and booked a Canada 2015 spot.

After finishing the highest out of all the teams that didn't make the semifinals of the 2006 Sudamericano Femenino, their first major tournament was the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Ecuador hosted the next two World Cup qualifying tournaments, in 2010 and 2014.

They are considered by many to be one of the weakest teams participating in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup; due to their -16 goal difference.

2015 World Cup

Ecuadorian women's team in 2014

They made the playoff by finishing 3rd in the 2014 South American Women's Football Championship. Ecuador's first FIFA Women's World Cup appearance will be in 2015, after making the intercontinental playoff and scoring an away goal in Trinidad and Tobago. Ecuador will play in the 2015 Pan American Games football tournament, scheduled after the World Cup. They will be playing in Group C, along with eventual finalists and defending champions Japan, Switzerland and Cameroon. Ecuador will play in both tournaments. In their first ever Women's World Cup match, they were crushed 6-0 by Africans Cameroon, the same number of goals as Brazil's 1-7 loss to Germany. During the match, the first red card in the 2015 tournament came by Ligia Moreira in the 66th minute.

Ligia is booked

Their first ever Women's World Cup goal came by Angie Ponce against Switzerland by a penalty kick in the 64th minute, but lost 10-1.

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