East Timor women's national football team explained

Timor-Leste
Badge:Flag of Timor-Leste.svg
Association:Federação de Futebol de Timor-Leste
Sub-Confederation:AFF (Southeast Asia)
Confederation:AFC
Coach: Lee Min-young
Captain:Maria de Conceicao
Most Caps:Luselia Fernandes
Maria de Conceicao (8)
Top Scorer:Nilda dos Reis
Godelivia Martin
Luselia Fernandes
Dolores Costa
Brigida da Costa (1)
Fifa Trigramme:TLS
Fifa Max:152
Fifa Max Date:August 2022
Fifa Min:159
Fifa Min Date:December 2023 – August 2024
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First Game: 17–0
(Mandalay, Myanmar; 27 July 2016)[1]
Largest Win: 2–1
(Chonburi, Thailand; 15 August 2019)
Largest Loss: 20–0
(Mandalay, Myanmar; 29 July 2016)
2Ndregional Name:AFF Championship
2Ndregional Cup Apps:4
2Ndregional Cup First:2016
2Ndregional Cup Best:Group Stage (2016, 2018, 2019, 2022)
Type:women

The East Timor women's national football team (recognized as Timor-Leste by FIFA) represents East Timor in international women's association football and is governed by Federação de Futebol de Timor-Leste (FFTL).

History

In 1985, almost no country in the world had a women's national football team.[2]

In 2005, the country was one of seven teams that included Brunei, Thailand, Indonesia, East Timor, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Burma and Singapore, that were expected to field a women's football team to compete at the Southeast Asian Games in Marikina in December.[3]

In March 2012, the team was not ranked in the world by FIFA.[4]

The FIFA trigramme is TLS.[5]

First participations

The first match ever recorded by East Timor was against Myanmar. The game was held in Mandalay on 27 July 2016 and East Timor lost 0–17.

In 2016, East Timor participated in their first AFF Women's Championship, held in Myanmar between 26 July and 4 August 2016. The squad lost all their matches, being eliminated from the competition.

First international victory

On 15 August 2019, East Timor won their first international match against Singapore with a score of 2–1.[6] [7] Luselia made history as the first player to score a goal for East Timor, she scored against Singapore in the 59th minute which gave East Timor a 1–0 lead over Singapore in the first match of East Timor in the 2019 AFF Women's Championship.

Results and fixtures

See also: FIFA International Match Calendar.

2023

Competitive Record

World Cup record

FIFA Women's World Cupwidth=1% rowspan=39FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
YearResultPosition
1991Part of Part of
1995
1999did not exist, under United Nationsdid not exist, under United Nations
2003Not member of FIFANot member of FIFA
2007did not enterdid not enter
2011
2015
2027to be determined
Total0/10

Summer Olympic Games record

Summer Olympics record
YearResultPositionPldWDLGFGA
1996Part of
2000
Did Not Enter
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Total0/8

AFC Women's Asian Cup record

AFC Women's Asian Cup record
YearResultPosition
Part of
1977
1979
1981
1983
1986
1989
1991
1993
1995
1997
did not exist, under United Nations
2001
did not enter
2006
2008
2010
2014
2018
2022
Total 0/20

Asian Games record

Asian Games record
YearResultPosition
Part of
1994
1998
2002did not enter
2006
2010
2014
2018
2022to be determined
2026
Total 0/8

AFF Women's Championship record

AFF Women's Championship
YearResultPositionPldWDLGFGA
2004Did Not Enter
2006
2007
2008
2011
2012
2013
2015
Group stage 8th3003050
10th4004033
7th4103222
11th4004118
TotalGroup stage4/12 15 1 0 14 3 123

South East Asian Games record

SEA Games women's tournament
YearResultPldWDLGFGA
2001–2023Did Not Enter
TotalN/A 0 0 0 0 0 0

Head-to-head record

As of 11 April 2023[8]

TeamWin%[9]
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AFC
AFC
AFC
AFC
AFC
AFC
AFC
AFC
AFC
AFC

Players

Current squad

  • The following 24 players are named in the squad for the 1st Round AFC Olympic matches against Jordan,Uzbekistan and Bhutan on 5, 8 and 11 April 2023.[10]

Caps and goals updated as 21 August 2019 after match against Malaysia.

Previous squads

  • 2016 AFF Women's Championship squad
  • 2018 AFF Women's Championship squad
  • 2019 AFF Women's Championship squad

Player records

Players in bold are still active with Timor-Leste.

Most capped players

RankNameCapsGoalsCareer
1Maria de Conceição802016–2019
Luselia Fernandes12016–2019
3Femania Babo702016–2019
Sonia Amaral02016–2019
Godelvia Martins02016–2019
Natalia da Costa02016–2019
Elvira Ana da Silva02018–2019
8Julia Freitas Belo602016–2019
Agostinha Noguera02016–2019
Nilda dos Reis02016–2019
Rosa da Costa02016–2019

Top goalscorers

RankNameGoalsCapsRatioCareer
1Dolores Costa132019
Luselia Fernandes82016–2019
+Youngest debut record
Player Age Debut date Opponent Tournament
1. Inacia dos Anjos
2. Natacha Sarmento
3. Godelivia Martins

Current staff

As of August 2019

PositionName
Manager Lee Joo-young
Head coach Lee Min-young
Assistant coach Januario De Almeida
Assistant coach Agostinho Mesquita Martins
Goalkeeping coach Laurenco da Costa
Team Doctor Marcelina Eugenia da Costa Ximenes
Kitman Agapito Gonzaga Martins

Coaching history

CoachPeriodPldWDL
Gelasio da Silva Carvalho2016–20173003
Lee Min Young2018–20??8107
Kim Shinhwan2023–Present

Notes and References

  1. http://www.aseanfootball.org/results/2016_AFF_WOMEN_CHAMPIONSHIP-003.pdf Game notes in debut vs Myanmar
  2. Book: Chrös McDougall. Soccer. 13 April 2012. 1 January 2012. ABDO. 978-1-61783-146-1. 45.
  3. News: Philippine Daily Inquirer. 13 April 2005. 11 June 2012. Tourism boost for Marikina. Edson C.. Tandoc Jr..
  4. Web site: The FIFA Women's World Ranking . https://web.archive.org/web/20111008164448/http://www.fifa.com/worldranking/rankingtable/women/index.html . dead . 8 October 2011 . FIFA.com . 25 September 2009 . 13 April 2012.
  5. Book: Tom Dunmore. Historical Dictionary of Soccer. 13 April 2012. 16 September 2011. Scarecrow Press. 978-0-8108-7188-5.
  6. Web site: WOMEN: Winning starts for Philippines, Timor Leste . 15 August 2019 . 15 August 2019 .
  7. Web site: Match report: Timor Leste 2–1 Singapore . 15 August 2019 .
  8. Web site: Fixtures Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20161024155223/http://www.fifa.com/live-scores/teams/country=tls/women/matches/index.html . dead . 24 October 2016 . 5 December 2010 . FIFA.
  9. Win% is rounded to two decimal places
  10. https://globalsportsarchive.com/match/soccer/2023-04-08/timor-leste-vs-uzbekistan/2953029/ squad