Women's football in Seychelles faces several development problems inside the country including a lack of popularity for the sport, and few female players and teams.
Women have gained football leadership positions in the country with one coaching a men's team and another umpiring international matches.
[3] The Patron's Cup, the major women's competition in the country that is the final for the national league, was won by Olympia Coast in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2005.
[8] The lack of later development of the national teams on a wider international level is symptomatic of most of African teams and 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.
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.
[8] In 1985, almost no country in the world had a women's national football team[11] including the Seychelles who did play in a single FIFA sanctioned match between 1950 and June 2012.
[13] In 2005, Zambia was supposed to host a regional COSAFA women's football tournament, with ten teams agreeing to send teams including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Seychelles, Mauritius, Madagascar, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland.