Kwallon kafa shine wasa mafi tashe a kasar Nijar, kasar miliyan 18. Dukda wasan kwallon kafa shine yafi fice a tsakanin wasanni a Nijar, amma kasar bata taba samun nasarar zuwa buga gasar kofin dunyi ba, sannan bata taba samun nasarar wata babbar gasa ba a yayin bugawa da kasar waje. Sau daya Nijar ta taba zuwa wasan kusa dana karshe a gasar neman shiga buga gasar duniya a 1982, inda tayi nasara a hannun Aljeriya wadda tayi nasar buge Nijar wajen zuwa gasar cin kofin duniya n 1982. Tun daga 1969, Nijar bata taba nasarar halartar buga wasan cin kofin Niahiyar Afrika ba. A 2008, babu wani dan kwallon Niajar da ya taba buga kwallo a wani kulob na Nahiyar Turai. A shekarar 2004, daga manyan yan kwallon Nijar masu buga wasa a Turai akwai Moussa Yahaya a kungiyar Legia Warsaw ta kasar Poland da [Ibrahim Tankary]] a kungiyar Jupiler League ta kasar Belgium. Moussa Narry, dan kasar Nijar mazaunin Ghana yana buga wasa a Netherlands da AJ Auxerre ta kasar Faransa. Kwallon kafa a Nijar gabaya mai tasiw ce, wadda ta fara buga gasar Lig din kasar da kungiyoyi goma a 1966.