They made their debut in an international tournament at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, losing all three of their group stage matches against Norway, Australia and Brazil.

They won the semi-final 2–0 versus Cameroon, and the final 4–0 against South Africa, with two goals by Gloria Chinasa and one each by Tiga (Adriana Aparecida Costa) and the captain Genoveva Añonman.

Between 2006 and 2010, Bilguissa and Salimata Simporé, a sibling duo from Burkina Faso, used to play for Equatorial Guinea – the first as a central defender and the latter as a centre forward.

Around April 2011, they were removed from national team by the Italian-born Brazilian coach Marcelo Frigerio, who had recently assumed, just a few months before participating in the World Cup.

[6] In recent years, Equatorial Guinea has courted controversy by recruiting foreign players and giving them citizenship despite having little or no ties to the country.

DR Congo head coach Claude Le Roy complained that the Equatorial Guinea were acting like the "United Nations of football".

[8] Before the arrival of new coach Andoni Goikoetxea to Malabo, in March 2013, the Equatoguinean board made the squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Cape Verde and again called-up nine Brazilian players.

[18] Nsue continued to play for Equatorial Guinea despite FIFA declaring his ineligibility, including the 2015, 2021, and 2023 editions of the African Cup of Nations.

[20] Since then, they fielded Camila Maria do Carmo Nobre de Oliveira, who was ruled ineligible to play for Equatorial Guinea because she was using two passports with unreliably different information during the qualifying competition for the 2016 Olympics.

Win Draw Lose Fixture The following players were called up for the 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations qualification matches against Tanzania on 20 and 26 February 2025.