Zambia women's national under-20 football team, the Young Copper Queens,[1] represents the country in international U20 competitions.

Because of local conditions related to the whole of women's football on the continent, the team faces challenges for improving their performance.

[4] Women's football in Africa as a whole faces problems that include 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.

[5] When quality football players are produced in Africa, often they leave the country to seek greater opportunities elsewhere, to the detriment of the local game.

They made it to the quarterfinals, where they met South Africa women's national under-20 football team whom Zambia lost to twice with scores of 0–1 and 2–3.

They played a home and away series in Round 1 against Mozambique women's national under-20 football team, losing the match in Kitwe 0–4.

On 23 January 2010, they played their second match, a return game at home Zambia, with the side being skippered by Veronica Banda, Jane Mutambo in goal and with Wisdom Kaira was the team's coach[12] 2010 also saw Zambia's U20 team compete in the FIFA U20 World Cup qualifying tournament for Africa.

They changed most of the players who we played with in Zambia and that made it very hard for us in the midfield which failed to click."