Myanmar women's national football team is a female

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team representing

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

and controlled by

Myanmar Football Federation The Myanmar Football Federation (MFF) ( my, မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ဘောလုံး အဖွဲ့ချုပ်) is the governing body of football in Myanmar. The MFF oversees the Burmese men's national team, the women ...

(MFF).

History

Myanmar played the first game in 1995, against the Philippines, which Myanmar drew 1–1 in the

1995 Southeast Asian Games The 1995 Southeast Asian Games ( th, กีฬาแห่งเอเชียตะวันออกเฉียงใต้ 1995, Kila haeng echeiy tawan oak cheing tai 1995), officially known as the 18th Southeast Asian Games, was a Southe ...

. Since then, Myanmar, like

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, has received more money from the state and improved its game. 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 Asian Games in Marikina in December. Myanmar first took part in the

2003 AFC Women's Championship The 2003 AFC Women's Championship was a women's football tournament held in Thailand from 8 to 21 June 2003. It was the 14th holding of the AFC Women's Championship, a tournament for women's national teams from countries affiliated to the Asian F ...

held in Thailand, and has since qualified five times, but Myanmar has neither progressed beyond the group stage in the tournament. In the

2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup The 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup was the 20th edition of the AFC Women's Asian Cup, the quadrennial international women's football tournament in Asia competed by the national teams in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). India was selected as ...

, Myanmar had come close on winning the first group game and qualify for the knockout stage for the first time, but a draw to

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2–2 after taking the lead twice put an end to that hope.

Team image

Nicknames

The Myanmar women's national football team has been known or nicknamed the "Asian Lionesses".

Home stadium

The Myanmar women's national football team plays their home matches at the

Mandalarthiri Stadium Mandalar Thiri Stadium ( my, မန္တလာသီရိ အားကစားကွင်း) is a multi-use stadium, located in Mandalay, Myanmar. It located east of the Mingalar Mandalay. Its address is between 68th and 73rd, between 102A ...

Rivalries

FIFA World Ranking

, ''after the match against ''. Best Ranking Best Mover Worst Ranking Worst Mover

Results and fixtures

The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled. ;Legend

2021

2022

2023

Coaching staff

Current coaching staff

, ''after the match against ''.

Players

Current squad

The following players were called up to the

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Recent call-ups

The following players were named to the Myanmar squad in the last 12 months. ''Caps and goals may be incorrect.''

Previous squads

; AFC Women's Asian Cup * 2003 AFC Women's Championship squad * 2006 AFC Women's Asian Cup squad * 2010 AFC Women's Asian Cup squad * 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup squad * 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup squad

Records

Individual records

''*Active players in bold, statistics correct as of February 2022.''

Most capped players

Top goalscorers

Honours

Regional

AFF Women's Championship The AFF Women's Championship is the competition in women's football organised by the ASEAN Football Federation, contested by the national teams of nations in Southeast Asia and Australia. The official tournament started in 2004, hosted by Vie ...

:* Winners (2):

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight ...

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple Inc., Apple's first iPhone (1st generation), iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakis ...

:* Runner-Up (3):

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2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gat ...

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the April ...

:* Bronze medal (3):

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Southeast Asian Games The Southeast Asian Games, also known as the SEA Games, is a biennial multi-sport event involving participants from the current 11 countries of Southeast Asia. The games are under the regulation of the Southeast Asian Games Federation with sup ...

:* Silver medal (3):

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:* Bronze medal (7):

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanist ...

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; Protests ...

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Other tournaments

* Women's Gold Cup :* Winners (1):

Competitive record

FIFA Women's World Cup

Olympic Games

AFC Women's Asian Cup

:''*Draws include knockout matches decided on

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Asian Games

AFF Women's Championship