In 1985, very few countries had a women's national football team and Mauritius was no exception, with a women's football programme only being established in the country in 1997. but this was put back to November 2012. The match was played in
Bambous on 25 November 2012, with
Réunion winning again, this time by 2 goals to 1. Mauritius was scheduled to take part in several competitions, which they ended up withdrawing from before playing a single match. In 2005, Zambia was supposed to host a regional COSAFA women's football tournament, with several countries agreeing to send teams including
South Africa,
Zimbabwe,
Mozambique,
Malawi,
Seychelles, Mauritius,
Madagascar,
Zambia,
Botswana,
Namibia,
Lesotho and
Swaziland. The tournament eventually took place in 2006, but Mauritius did not send a team. Beyond that, they were scheduled to participate in the
2008 Women's U-20 World Cup qualification, where they were scheduled to play
Zimbabwe in the preliminary round; however, Zimbabwe withdrew from the competition giving Mauritius an automatic bye into the first round. In that round Mauritius was supposed to play
South Africa, but withdrew from the competition. They took part in the
2019 COSAFA Women's Championship, losing all three matches in their group. , the head coach was Alain Jules. As of March 2012, the team was not
ranked in the world by FIFA, as it had not yet participated in any matches against other FIFA members. By June 2020, they were bottom of the FIFA rankings. ==Recruitment and organisation==