Green Buffaloes Women F.C.
GroundArakan Barracks Ground
ManagerCarol Kanyemba
LeagueFAZ Women's Super Division
2021–221st of 14th

Green Buffaloes Women's Football Club is a Zambian women's professional football club affiliated to Green Buffaloes and based in Lusaka that competes in the FAZ Women's Super Division, the top tier of Zambian women's football. Sponsored by the Zambian Army, they play their home games at Arakan Barracks Ground.

History

Domestically, Green Buffaloes has won a record 12 trophies; 7 in the Lusaka League and 5 in the Zambian National Championship. Green Buffaloes won the first two Women's Super Division titles in 2020[1] and 2021, gaining qualification for the first two editions of the COSAFA Women's Champions League. The finished as semi-finalists in the inaugural edition and won the title in 2022,[2][3] the latter which gained them qualification for the 2022 CAF Women's Champions League[4] where there they were drawn in Group A with the 2022 host nation's team AS FAR, Simba Queens and Determine Girls.[5]

Players

Current squad

As of 8 September 2023

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Zambia ZAM Blessing Kazila
2 DF Zambia ZAM Martha Tembo
3 DF Zambia ZAM Lushomo Mweemba
4 DF Zambia ZAM Anita Mulenga
5 DF Zambia ZAM Esther Banda
6 FW Zambia ZAM Regina Kayambona
7 MF Zambia ZAM Ireen Lungu
8 FW Zambia ZAM Diana Banda
9 DF Zambia ZAM Maylan Mulenga
10 FW Zambia ZAM Theresa Chewe
11 DF Zambia ZAM Memory Nthala
12 MF Zambia ZAM Hellen Chanda
13 MF Zambia ZAM Judith Zulu
No. Pos. Nation Player
14 MF Zambia ZAM Natasha Nanyangwe
15 DF Zambia ZAM Patricia Lampi
16 MF Zambia ZAM Joana Benai
17 MF Zambia ZAM Loveness Malunga
18 GK Zambia ZAM Aisha Mbwana
19 DF Zambia ZAM Agness Musase
20 FW Zambia ZAM Lucy Kajiya
21 DF Zambia ZAM Margaret Chisenga
22 DF Zambia ZAM Atness Phiri
23 FW Zambia ZAM Bwalya Chileshe
— GK Zambia ZAM Aisha Gama

Current technical staff

Position Staff
Head coach Carol Kanyemba
Assistant coach
Fitness coach
Goalkeeping coach

Last updated: 13 September 2022
Source: Official squad line-up picture from Facebook

Honours

Domestic

  • FAZ Women's Super Division: 2019−20
  • Lusaka League (7): 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
  • Zambia National Championship (5): 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022

International

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Green Buffaloes crowned Zambia Women's League champions". CAFOnline.com. 18 March 2020. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  2. ↑ "Zambia : Green Buffaloes Women FC Win COSAFA Title". Lusaka Times. 13 August 2022. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  3. ↑ Diphoko, Oarabile (14 August 2022). "Green Buffaloes Crowned COSAFA Women's Champions League Winners". GSport4Girls. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  4. ↑ "Green Buffaloes, Mamelodi Sundowns book TotalEnergies CAF Women's Champions League, Morocco 2022 place". CAFOnline.com. 15 August 2022. Archived from the original on 16 August 2022. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  5. ↑ "TotalEnergies CAF Women's Champions League 2022 groups unveiled". CAFOnline.com. 9 September 2022. Archived from the original on 9 September 2022. Retrieved 14 September 2022. In group A, the host club ASFAR FC (Morocco), which won the Women's Champions League the bronze medal in Egypt last year, will face Tanzania's Simba Queens, Zambia's Green Buffaloes and Liberia's Determine Girls.
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