State of women's football in Kenya: A game growing against the odds Gender Just now
It is Kenya's second appearance at the tournament after the Junior Starlets made history in 2024, becoming the first Kenyan football team to qualify for any Fifa World Cup.
Even without one, Kenya made global strides when Harambee Starlets, the first women's national team, was formed in 1985, at a time when few countries in the world had a women's team at all.
That vibrancy was on full display in 2024, when Kenya's Under-18 girls' secondary school football team won silver at the International Schools Sports Federation Football World Cup in Dalian, China, losing 6-4 on penalties to hosts China in the final.
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