The Spain women's national football team ( es, Selección Española de Fútbol Femenina) has represented

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in international women's football competition since 1980, and is controlled by the

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, the governing body for football in Spain. Spain have qualified two times for the

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and three times for the UEFA Women's Championship, reaching the semifinals in

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. In contrast to these modest achievements at senior level, their youth teams have one of the best records in the world across the early 21st century and enjoyed great success in 2018 in particular, winning two continental titles ( U-17 and U-19), and reaching the two

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finals (winning the U-17 World Cup and runners-up in the

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. This was followed up four years later when they won the 2022 U-20 World Cup and the 2022 U-17 World Cup in the same calendar year. Spain broke into the top 10 of the FIFA international rankings in the early 2020s. Their players collected the 2020 UEFA awards for best goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, forward and overall best player – the first time players from a single nation won all the categories.

History

Early years

After underground women's football clubs started appearing in Spain around 1970 one of its instigators,

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, decided to create a national team. It was an unofficial project as football was considered an unsuitable sport for women by both the

and National Movement's

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, which organized women's sports in

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. When asked about the initiative in January 1971 RFEF president

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answered ''I'm not against women's football, but I don't like it either. I don't think it's feminine from an esthetic point of view. Women are not favored wearing shirt and trousers. Any regional dress would fit them better.'' One month later, on 21 February 1971, the unofficial Spanish national team, including

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, who played professionally in the

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, made its debut in

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's La Condomina against

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, ending in a 3–3 draw. The team wasn't allowed to wear RFEF's crest and the referee couldn't wear an official uniform either. On 15 July, with a 5-days delay for transfer issues, it played its first game abroad against

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's Stadio Comunale, suffering an 8–1 defeat. It was then invited to the 2nd edition of unofficial women's world cup ( Mundialito 1981), but RFEF forbid them to take part in the competition. Despite these conditions Spain was entrusted hosting the 1972 World Cup. RFEF vetoed the project, and the competition was cancelled and disbanded. The unofficial Spanish team itself broke up shortly after.

1980s: Officiality of the team

After the transition to democracy in the second half of the decade RFEF finally accepted women's football in November 1980, creating first a national cup and next a national team, which finally made its debut under coach

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on 5 February 1983 in

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. The opponent was again Portugal, which defeated Spain 0–1. The team subsequently played 2-leg friendlies against

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and

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drawing with both opponents in

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and

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and losing in

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before it finally clinched its first victory in

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(0–1). On 27 April 1985 it played its first official match in the 1987 European Championship's qualification, losing 1–0 against

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. After losing the first four matches Spain defeated Switzerland and drew with Italy to end third. The team also ended in its group's bottom positions in the subsequent

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and

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qualifiers. After the former Nieto was replaced by

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, who has coached the team since 1 September 1988. Years later he would confess: ''There was never love or support from the Federation towards those women soccer players''. Teodoro Nieto left the most International Footballer Conchi sanchez (Amancio) out of the Spanish Team even when the player was the first Capitain during the 70s, She was playing in Italy at the time winning championships and Italian Cups, there was not substantial reasons to leave such extraordinary player out at the peak of her career, the damaged was done to such brilliant player who loved to play for her country and fully deserved more respect and recognition.

1990s and 2000s: Growing up

The 1995 Euro qualifying marked an improvement as Spain ended 2nd, one point from

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, which qualified for the final tournament. In these qualifiers Spain attained its biggest victory to date, a 17–0 over

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. In the 1997 Euro qualifying it made a weaker performance, including a record 0–8 loss against

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, but the European Championship was expanded to eight teams and Spain still made it to the repechage, where it defeated England on a 3–2 aggregate to qualify for the competition for the first time. In the first stage the team drew 1–1 against France, lost 0–1 against host Sweden, and beat 1–0

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to qualify on goal average over France to the semifinals, where it was defeated 2–1 by Italy. All three goals were scored by

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. This success was followed by a long series of unsuccessful qualifiers. In the 1999 World Cup's qualifying Spain ended last for the first time, not winning a single game. In the 2001 Euro's it made it to the repechage, where it suffered a 3–10 aggregate defeat against

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. In the 2003 World Cup's it again ended last despite starting with a 6–1 win over

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. In the 2005 Euro's, where a 9–1 win over

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was followed by a 5-game non scoring streak, it ended 3rd behind Denmark and

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. In the 2007 World Cup's the team again ended 3rd behind Denmark and

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despite earning 7 more points. In the 2009 Euro's Spain made its better performance since the 1995 qualifiers, narrowly missing qualification as England clinched the top position by overcoming a 2–0 in the final match's second half. Spain had to play the repechage, where it lost both games against the

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. In the 2011 World Cup's Spain again ended 2nd, with no repechage, after England again overcame a half-time 2–0 in their second confrontation.

2010s: First World Cups

Spain achieved 16 years later a place for the final stage of a European Championship. The team qualified for the

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, after beating

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in the qualifiers playoff. In the group stage, a win over

and a draw against

was enough to qualify for the quarterfinals, where they were eliminated by Norway. Two years later, Spain qualified for the first time ever to a

, winning nine of its ten matches of the qualifying round. In the group stage of the

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. Their campaign, however, ended up being a disaster. Spain managed only a 1–1 draw into the weakest team in the group,

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, before losing 0–1 to

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. In the last match with

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, they still lost 1–2 after an initial lead, becoming the worst European team in the tournament. After the World Cup, the 23 players on the roster issued a collective statement for the end of Ignacio Quereda's reign as head coach. Later that summer, Quereda stepped down and was replaced by

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, who had previously coached the U-19 team, and was on the shortlist for the 2014 FIFA World Coach of the Year. Spain has achieved to qualify for the

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by winning all the matches and ahead in 11 points to the second classified. In 2017 the national team participated for the first time in the

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winning the tournament. However, its performance in the

was very disappointing: only one match won (against

, the worst ranked team in Euro), two defeats against

(0–2) and

(0–1) in group stage, Miraculously Spain advanted to the quarter-finals, where losing against

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in a quarter-final finishing 0–0 after extra time, then 3–5 in penalty shoot-out. Eventually, the national football team was eliminated after more than 345 minutes without scoring a single goal. At the 2019 Women's World Cup, Spain were in Group B with

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, and

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. They finished second in the group to progress to the

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of a World Cup for the first time in their history. However, the team was eliminated in the round of 16 by the eventual champions

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. In October 2019, the federation announced the creation of ''España Promesas'' (essentially Spain B), a team for players too old for younger age groups but not in the latest full squad, to provide training and occasional match experience for those in consideration for the future, that was later reconverted and renamed Spain under-23.

2020s: Lacklustre Golden Generation

Spain qualified for the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 undefeated, and assembled what would be the strongest ever Spanish team in the history, and was ranked among the top contenders for the title. However, just before the tournament began, Spain suffered two big blows, with both

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and

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withdrew due to injury. Without the two taliswomen in the squad, Spain failed to perform at full expectation in the tournament, only reached the quarter-finals in second place after Germany. Spain then performed well against England, even took the lead in 54' by

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, but conceded a late equaliser by

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before

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crushed Spain's hope to win a major European title in extra time.

Competitive record

FIFA Women's World Cup

UEFA Women's Championship

Other tournaments

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

2022

2023

Overall official record

Coaching staff

Current coaching staff

Manager history

: ''Updated on 16 November 2022''

Players

Current squad

The following players were called up for the

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from 16 to 22 February 2023. :''Caps and goals as of 16 November 2022''

Recent call-ups

* The following players were also named to a squad in the last 12 months. ^INJ Player withdrew from the squad due to an injury.
^PRE Preliminary squad.
^WD Player has been withdrew from the squad due to non-injury issue.

Previous squads

;World Cup * 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup squad * 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup squad ;European Football Championship * UEFA Women's Championship 1997 squad * UEFA Women's Euro 2013 squad * UEFA Women's Euro 2017 squad * UEFA Women's Euro 2022 squad ;Others * Algarve Cup 2017 squad * Cyprus Cup 2018 squad * Algarve Cup 2019 squad * SheBelieves Cup 2020 squad * Arnold Clark Cup 2022 squad * Cup of Nations 2023 squad

Honours

Titles

:''Champions:''

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:''Champions:''

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* SheBelieves Cup :''Runners-up:''

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* Arnold Clark Cup :''Runners-up:''

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:''Third place:'' 1995

Individual awards

* UEFA Women's Championship All-Star Team:

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(

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(

) * Grand Hotel Varna Tournament top scorer:

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(1992) *

best player:

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(

) *

Golden Glove: Dolores Gallardo (

) *

top scorer:

(

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) * SheBelieves Cup best player:

(

) * SheBelieves Cup top scorer:

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and

(

) * Arnold Clark Cup best player: Athenea del Castillo (

) * Arnold Clark Cup top scorer:

(

)

Other awards

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(National Sports Awards): Baron de Güell Cup (2014)

Records

:''Caps and goals as of 12 November 2022.'' :''Players in bold are still active, at least at club level.''

Most caps

Most goals

Hat-tricks

^X Player scored X goals

Clean sheets

Clean Sheets: Goalkeeper must play at least 60 minutes to obtain the points of a clean sheet.

Rankings

FIFA Women's World Rankings

''*13 October 2022'' UEFA Women's National Team Coefficient Ranking ;Ziaian Women's Football Rankings ''**31 January 2023''

Youth teams

Under-23

The Spain under-23 is a

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team operated under the auspices of the

. Its primary role is the development of players in preparation for the senior Spain women's national team.

Under-20

Under-19

Under-18

Under-17

;FIFA Under-17 Women's World Cup ;UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship

Under-16

There is also a women's national team that represents

in international

in under-16 categories and is controlled by the

. This team usually participates each year in UEFA Women U-16 Development Tournament (although it is not an official tournament) with remarkable success

References

External links

* by RFEF
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