Early development of the women's game at the time colonial powers brought football to the continent was limited as colonial powers in the region tended to take make concepts of patriarchy and women's participation in sport with them to local cultures that had similar concepts already embedded in them.

[2] The lack of later development of the national team on a wider international level symptomatic of all African teams is a result of several factors, including limited access to education, poverty amongst women in the wider society, and fundamental inequality present in the society that occasionally allows for female specific human rights abuses.

[4] Continent wide, funding is also an issue, with most development money coming from FIFA, not the national football association.

Attempting to commercialise the game and make it commercially viable is not the solution, as demonstrated by the current existence of many youth and women's football camps held throughout the continent.

[6] Rights to broadcast the 2011 Women's World Cup in the country were bought by Al Jazeera and Eurosport.

[9] In 2021, the Libyan Football Association, headed by Abdul Hakim Al-Shalmani, announced the launch of the first women's league in the country's history, with the actual start would be on the first of September later that year.