For more than three decades, Nigeria’s Super Falcons have been an unmissable staple of the FIFA Women’s World Cup, featuring in every edition of the tournament since its inaugural staging in 1991. But that historic unbroken streak has finally come to a shocking end, after a tense 2-1 knockout playoff defeat to South Africa’s Banyana Banyana at the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) in Casablanca.