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| Badge: | Malta Football Association logo.svg |
| Badge Size: | 180px |
| Fifa Trigramme: | MLT |
| Association: | Malta Football Association |
| Confederation: | UEFA (Europe) |
| Coach: | Manuela Tesse |
| Captain: | Emma Lipman |
| Most Caps: | Dorianne Theuma (116) |
| Top Scorer: | Dorianne Theuma (26) |
| Home Stadium: | Centenary Stadium |
| 1St Ranking Date: | July 2003 --> |
| Fifa Max: | 74 |
| Fifa Max Date: | August 2003 |
| Fifa Min: | 115 |
| Fifa Min Date: | October 2007 |
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| First Game: | 3–0 (Bucharest, Romania; 10 August 2003) |
| Largest Win: | 6–0 (Ta' Qali, Malta; 6 April 2013) |
| Largest Loss: | 0–13 (Ta' Qali, Malta; 9 September 2009) |
| Type: | women |
The Malta women's national football team (mt|Tim nazzjonali tal-futbol ta' Malta tan-nisa) represents the Malta Football Association in international women's football matches sanctioned by UEFA.[1]
The team first appeared in official competitions in the 2005 European Championship's qualifying, debuting on August 10, 2003 in Bucharest with a 3–0 loss to Romania. Malta lost all eight games in the qualifiers, scoring once and conceding 35 goals. The team's first goal was scored by Sarah Caruana on November 16, 2003, against Croatia in a match played at the Gozo Stadium.[2]
After 13 losses, Malta achieved its first draw on June 7, 2006 against Bosnia and Herzegovina in the last match of the 2007 World Cup's qualifying. The team played in the 2011 World Cup's qualifying, losing all games including a record 0–13 defeat to Spain. On March 3, 2011, Malta won an official match for the first time in the 2013 European Championship qualifying's preliminary round, beating Georgia 1–0 with a goal by D'Agostino in injury time.
On April 6, 2013 Malta beat Luxembourg 6–0 in the 2015 World Cup qualifying's preliminary round. The team also defeated Latvia and drew with Albania to top the group and make it past a preliminary round for the first time.[3]
The team was coached from its foundation until 2014 by Pierre Brincat, and then from 2015 till 2022 by former U19 coach Mark Gatt.[4] Former Italian international Manuela Tesse was appointed as the head coach from 1 January 2023[5]
The Malta women's national team play their home matches at the Centenary Stadium.
| Competition | Stage | Result | Opponent | Position | Scorers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular stage (Class B) | 0–3 0–8 0–1 0–2 0–3 1–4 0–9 0–5 | 5 / 5 | Caruana | ||
| Regular stage (Class B) | 1–4 0–1 1–4 1–3 0–1 1–1 | Croatia Slovenia Bosnia and Herzegovina | 4 / 4 | D'Agostino Theuma, Tonna Theuma | |
| Preliminary round | 0–0 2–4 0–8 | Lithuania Luxembourg Slovakia | 4 / 4 | Carabott 2 | |
| Regular stage | 0–13 0–9 0–8 0–6 0–2 0–6 0–2 1–5 | 5 / 5 | N. Pace | ||
| Preliminary round | 1–0 0–2 1–1 |  Georgia Faroe Islands Armenia | 2 / 4 | D'Agostino Cuschieri | |
| Preliminary round | 1–1 6–0 2–0 |  Albania LuxembourgLatvia | 1 / 4 | Theuma Theuma 2, Buttigieg, Carabott, Cuschieri, Xuereb Cuschieri, Theuma | |
| Regular stage | 0–2 0–2 0–5 0–8 0–3 0–5 0–11 0–5 0–8 0–5 | 6 / 6 |
The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.
| Manager | Malta career | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Win % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 2003–2014 | |||||
| | 2015–2022 | |||||
 | 2023–Present | |||||
See main article: List of Malta women's international footballers.
The following players were also named to a squad in the last 12 months.
Below is a list of the 10 players with the most caps for Malta.
| width=20px | Player | Period | width=50px | Caps | width=50px | Goals | |
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| 1 | Dorianne Theuma | 2003–present | 114 | 29 | |||
| 2 | Rebecca D'Agostino | 2003–2014 | 57 | 4 | |||
| 3 | Ylenia Carabott | 2005–present | 56 | 11 | |||
| 4 | Natasha Pace | 2003–2014 | 48 | 3 | |||
| 5 | Rachel Cuschieri | 2007–present | 42 | 6 | |||
| 6 | Charlene Zammit | 2009–present | 33 | 0 | |||
| 6 | Mandy Debono | 2006–present | 33 | 0 | |||
| 6 | Maria Azzopardi | 2003–2011 | 33 | 0 | |||
| 9 | Stefania Farrugia | 2007–present | 32 | 1 | |||
| 10 | Kathleen Saliba | 2004–2012 | 31 | 1 |
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| FIFA Women's World Cup record | Qualification record | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | GP | W | D* | L | GF | GA | GD | GP | W | D* | L | GF | GA | GD | |
 1991 | did not enter | UEFA Euro 1991 | ||||||||||||||
 1995 | UEFA Euro 1995 | |||||||||||||||
 1999 | did not enter | |||||||||||||||
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| 2007 | did not qualify | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 14 | −10 | ||||||||
 2011 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 51 | −50 | |||||||||
 2015 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 56 | −47 | |||||||||
 2019 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | |||||||||
  2023 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 17 | −11 | |||||||||
 2027 | To be determined | to be determined | ||||||||||||||
| Total | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 38 | 5 | 1 | 29 | 23 | 140 | −117 | |
| UEFA Women's Championship record | Qualifying record | |||||||||||||
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| Year | Result | |||||||||||||
 1984 | did not enter | did not enter | ||||||||||||
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 1991 | ||||||||||||||
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| 2005 | did not qualify | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 35 | |||||||
 2009 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 12 | ||||||||
| 2013 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
 2017 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 8 | ||||||||
| 2022 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 30 | ||||||||
 2025 | to be determined | To be determined | ||||||||||||
| Total | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 27 | 6 | 3 | 18 | 25 | 88 | |
| UEFA Nations League record | ||||||||||||||
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| Year | Division | Group | Round | Position | width=35 | width=28 | ||||||||
| 2023–24 | C | 1 | Group stage | 1st | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1 | P | 34th | ||
| 2024–25 | B | colspan=11 | ||||||||||||
| Total | Group stage | 1/1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 34th | |||||
Malta International Football Tournament