Some problems impact the development of the women's game in Africa that effect Niger of which sexism, abuse, homophobia, religion and financial setbacks have been huge factors.

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 male 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.

[3] When quality female football players are developed, they tend to leave for greater opportunities abroad.

[4] Continent-wide, funding is also an issue, with most development money coming from FIFA, not the National Football Association.

[11][12] The country did not have a team competing in the 2010 African Women's Championships during the preliminary rounds[13] or the 2011 All Africa Games.