Super Falcons news: An Algiers friendly with Morocco already in view

The Super Falcons are lining up a friendly against Algeria, expected in Algiers during the November and December international window, as their first step towards a 2028 Olympic qualifier against Morocco.

The game was reported by Complete Sports on 10 November. No date has been fixed, but the FIFA women's window runs from 24 November to 5 December and allows each national team up to three matches.

It would be Nigeria's first outing since October, when they swept past Comoros 7-0 on aggregate in the second qualifying round for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics, with Augustine Eguavoen in charge as interim coach.

Morocco, not Algeria, is the real fixture

The friendly matters because of what follows it. Nigeria meet Morocco's Atlas Lionesses in the third qualifying round between February and March 2027, and only the winner moves on to the final round of the African race for Los Angeles.

That tie arrives with the Super Falcons already carrying one major disappointment this cycle. Missing the 2027 Women's World Cup in Brazil cost the programme a place on the biggest stage, which leaves the Olympics as the next realistic global target.

The players at least go into the window with one long-running grievance settled, after the $100,000 WAFCON reward was finally paid earlier this month.

Analysis: North African opposition is the right rehearsal

Comoros offered goals but little resistance. Seven without reply over two legs tells Nigeria very little about how they will cope with a far stronger Morocco side.

An away game in Algiers is a better dress rehearsal: North African opposition, an away crowd and a style of football closer to what waits in the Olympic tie. If the friendly goes ahead in Algeria, the conditions alone will ask more of the Super Falcons than the whole Comoros tie did.

The window also gives the coaching staff a chance to settle a back line and a front three before Morocco, rather than experiment in February. Whoever leads the side in Algiers, the selection will say a lot about the plan for the spring.

Confirmation of the date and venue is the next thing to watch, with the window opening on 24 November.