[4] The team's other 2 games took place during the preliminary rounds of the 2010 Women's Championship tournament in Africa, which was part of the Olympic qualification process, where Sierra Leone lost during the preliminary round once 2–3 to Guinea in Conakry on 7 March 2010 and tied Guinea 1–1 in Freetown on 20 March 2010.
[13] Early development of the women's game at the time colonial powers brought football to Sierra Leone and the continent was limited, as colonial powers in the region tended to take concepts of patriarchy and women's participation in sport with them to local cultures that already had similar concepts already embedded in them.
[14] Other factors on the continent impact the development of the game, including limited access to education, poverty among women in the wider society, and fundamental inequality present in the society that occasionally allows for female specific human rights abuses.
Attempting to commercialise the game is not the solution, as demonstrated by the existence of youth and women's football camps held on the continent that have resulted in improved national team performance as players progressed through the system.
[19] In 2011, Brazilian women's football superstar Marta visited the country and met with the national team.
Her visit was part of the United Nations Development Programme where Marta is a Goodwill Ambassador.
[9] In 2012, Girls Football League was launched by the Craig Bellamy Foundation after a pilot programme in 2010/2012 in Makeni that included 4 teams.
[17] Women are football spectators, watching live games in rural and remote areas of the country.
[34] Gambia beat Sierra Leone to qualify for the final round with an aggregate score of 4–3.
The company's managing director rationalised the decision to pay saying, "We received the request from the SLFA at a very short notice but we decided to help because we want to see female football grow from the grass-roots level and also to meet our corporate social responsibility.
Win Draw Lose Fixture Updated as 2 /2/2025- The following players have been called up to a Benin squad in the past 12 months.