Ethiopia's Women Put Sixteen Past Seychelles Without Reply

Ethiopia's women's national team beat Seychelles 16-0 on Wednesday, Tikvah Sports reported. The two sides meet again on Saturday.

The scoreline

Sixteen goals without reply is not a competitive result, and treating it as one would flatter nobody. What it is worth is as a fixture: a squad that has had little regular international football gets ninety minutes of it, and a group of forwards gets to finish chances in a national shirt rather than in training.

The report credits goals across most of the attacking group rather than one or two players, with several scoring twice. Fact.et is not listing the scorers here — the published team sheet reaches us only through machine translation, and the names are not reliable enough to print.

What it is preparation for

The team's 2028 Olympic qualifying tie is against Rwanda. That is the match the Seychelles fixtures are pointed at, and Rwanda is a different proposition — a federation that has invested in its women's programme with some continuity, against an Ethiopian side whose recent record at this level is thin.

A 16-0 tells you about the gap between Ethiopia and Seychelles. It tells you nothing about the gap between Ethiopia and Rwanda, which is the only one that decides anything.

Open

The report is inconsistent about the status of Wednesday's match, describing it in one line as part of the Olympic qualifying programme and in another as a friendly ahead of it. Fact.et has treated it as a preparation fixture pending confirmation from the federation. No venue, attendance or team sheet has been published.

Sources: Tikvah Ethiopia, 30 September 2026