The Timor-Leste women's national football team, represents

East Timor East Timor (), also known as Timor-Leste (), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is an island country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-w ...

in international

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and is governed by

Federação de Futebol de Timor-Leste The East Timor Football Federation ( pt, Federação de Futebol de Timor-Leste - FFTL) is the governing body of football in East Timor. In 2016 Timor-Leste run their own league under supervision of and Secretary of State for Youth and Sport. ...

(FFTL).

History

In 1985, almost no country in the world had a women's national football team. 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. In March 2012, the team was not ranked in the world by FIFA. The FIFA trigramme is TLS.

First participations

The first match ever recorded by Timor-Leste was against

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. The game was held in

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on 27 July 2016 and Timor-Leste lost 0–17. In 2016, Timor-Leste participated in their first

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, 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, Timor-Leste won their first international match against

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with a score of 2–1. Luselia made history as the first player to score a goal for Timor-Leste, she scored against Singapore in the 59th minute which gave Timor-Leste a 1–0 lead over Singapore in the first match of Timor-Leste in the

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Results and fixtures

2022

2023

Competitive Record

World Cup record

Summer Olympic Games record

AFC Women's Asian Cup record

Asian Games record

AFF Women's Championship record

South East Asian Games record

Head-to-head record

''As of 13 July 2022''

Players

Current squad

The following 23 players were called up for the

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

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federal constitutional monarchy consists of thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two regions: Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo's East Mal ...

.'' Head Coach: Lee Min-young

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

Top goalscorers

Current Staff

:''As of August 2019''

Coaching history

Notes

References

{{National sports teams of East Timor Asian women's national association football teams

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