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Maldives Women's National Football Team
The Maldives women's national football team was first formed in 2003. The team represents Maldives in international women's football and thus falls under the governance of the Football Association of Maldives. The team played its first official international match against Myanmar on 1 October 2004. Team image Home stadium The Maldives women's national football team plays their home matches on the National Football Stadium. 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 2024 2025 Coaching staff Manager history * Mohamed Athif (2018) * Ahmed Nashid (2019) * Mohamed Nizam(2024-) Players Current squad *The following players were called up for the friendly matches against India in December 2024 and January 2025. Caps and goals accurate up to and including 13 July 2021. Recent call-ups The following players have been cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Association Of Maldives
The Football Association of Maldives (FAM), founded in 1982, is the governing body of football (soccer), football in the Maldives. The association under the guidance of the Government of the Maldives, Ministry of Youth, Sports and Community Empowerment is responsible for all regulatory aspects of the sport in the Maldives. In 1986, FAM became a member of Asian Football Confederation, AFC and FIFA respectively. ''For the full history, statistics and records of the senior team, see Maldives national football team.'' Organization The FAM has an executive committee of five members under the president, in addition to a senior vice president, vice president and general secretary. It is located in the ''FAM House'' in Malé, which was constructed with funding from the FIFA "Goal" Project. While FIFA and AFC required their members to constitute elected governance, FAM first had an appointed governance by the government of Maldives, which was reshuffled by the Ministry of Youth in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dashrath Stadium
Dasharath Rangasala ( ; ) is a multi-purpose stadium in Tripureshwar, Kathmandu. It is named after Dasharath Chand, one of the four great martyrs of Nepal. The stadium is used mostly for football matches and cultural programmes. The stadium has also been the only host of the inaugural 2021 Nepal Super League season. History The stadium was built in 1956. It was built over a large lotus pond. On 13 March 1988, the 1988 Kathmandu stadium disaster occurred. About 30,000 people were present in the stadium to watch a match between two clubs from Nepal and Bangladesh when a hailstorm broke out, causing a stampede as the supporters rushed to locked exits to escape the hailstorm. According to reports, about 93 people died in the stampede, including two police officers and a 12-year-old child. More than 100 people were hospitalized with injuries. It was considered one of the most catastrophic events in the history of sports. The stadium was renovated in 1998 to host the 1999 South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sorokhaibam Ranjana Chanu
Sorokhaibam Ranjana Chanu (born 10 March 1999) is an Indian professional footballer from Manipur. She plays as a defender for the India women's national football team and for Kickstart in the Indian Women's League. Early life Her father was a rickshaw puller. She started playing football at school and made her junior national debut as a 15 year old. Her brother is also a football player. She started at her village club in 2009 and later shifted to Kryphsa FC, before getting selected for Assam Riffles. Career Chanu made her junior national debut in 2015. Within three years, she made her senior national debut against Turkmenistan. In November 2021, she played for Gokulam Kerala FC which made its debut in the AFC Women's Club Championship. She has also participated at the 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup. In December 2024, she played the friendlies against Maldives in Bengaluru. International career Chanu made her Junior India debut in the 2015 AFC Under 19 Women's Championship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sangita Basfore
Sangita Basfore (born 12 July 1996) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for East Bengal in Indian Women's League and the India women's national football team. Club career West Bengal Sangita had featured for the West Bengal State Team before moving to Rising Student Club. Rising Student Club On 2016, Sangita signed for the Indian Women's League side Rising Student Club based in Odisha SSB Women On 2018, Sangeeta signed for SSB Women's FC. On the 2018–19 Indian Women's League, SSB Women's qualified for the Semi-Finals by a comfortable 2–0 victory against Hans Women FC where Sangita scored a fabulous goal before they lost the semi-finals to Sethu FC on a big margin of 8–1. She ended up scoring 3 goals at the end of the season. International career Sangita was selected for the India Women's U19 team at the age of 17. Sangeeta was called up for the Indian National Team at the age of 19 for the Olympics Tournament in 2016. Sangita scor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neha Sillay
Neha Sillay (born 19 May 2006) is an Indian professional footballer from Haryana. She is part of the India women's national football team and also plays in the Indian Women's League for the Odisha Football Club. Early life Sillay is from Mangali village, Hissar, Haryana. Career Sillay was part of the Indian squad which played at the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup at Bhubaneswar in 2022. Earlier in October 2022, she played the Under-17 friendly matches in Spain against WSS Barcelona. In 2023, she was called for the Senior camp to prepare for AFC Olympic Qualifiers Round 2. She made her Senior India debut in the friendlies against the Maldives at Bengaluru on 2 January 2025. In October 2024, she played for Odisha FC against Ho Chi Minh city the AFC Women’s Champions League 2024–2025, at the Thong Nhat Stadium in Vietnam. Honours Haryana *Senior Women's National Football Championship runner-up: 2022–23 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynda Kom
Lynda Kom Serto (born 28 February 2005) is an Indian professional footballer from Manipur, who plays as a forward for Odisha in the Indian Women's League and the India national football team. Early life and education Lynda hails from Khoirentak Khunou village in Manipur. Her father is a farmer, and her mother runs a stationery shop. She is the youngest of four children. She always used to play with the boys who used to play in the ground, which is close to her house. Despite her father's hesitation, she continued to play with the boys and got selected for the Sports Authority of India Training Centre hostel at Imphal. Her nickname is Biju, after the Manipuri actress Biju Ningombam. Career Lynda made her debut for India in 2017, at the SAFF U-15 Women's Championship in Bangladesh. She also played in the U-16 AFC Championship Qualifiers. She performed well for Manipur at the 2019 Junior Nationals at Kolhapur that paved the way for her selection to the 2019 Under-17 World Cup. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyari Xaxa
Pyari Xaxa (born 18 May 1997) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a forward for the Indian Women's League club Odisha and the India national team. Club career Xaxa began her football career with the club Kunwarmunda based in her home State of Odisha. In 2016, she was signed by Rising Student to play in the inaugural season of the Indian Women's League. She finished the season with 14 goals, with ten in the preliminary and four in the final round. Her team lost to Eastern Sporting Union in the final. International career Xaxa made her senior international debut in 2015 after playing in the India U19 team. She was awarded the AIFF Emerging Woman Footballer of the Year for the year. She was a part of the team that won gold medal at the 2016 South Asian Games in Shillong. Career statistics International :''Scores and results list India's goal tally first.'' Honours India * South Asian Games Gold medal: 2016 Odisha *Indian Women's League: 2023–24 Risi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exhibition Game
An exhibition game (also known as a friendly, scrimmage, demonstration, training match, pre-season game, warmup match, or preparation match, depending at least in part on the sport) is a sporting event whose prize money and impact on the player's or the team's rankings is either zero or otherwise greatly reduced. Exhibition games often serve as "warm-up matches", particularly in many team sports where these games help coaches and managers select and condition players, before the competitive matches of a league season or tournament. If the players usually play in different teams in other leagues, exhibition games offer an opportunity for the players to learn to work with each other. The games can be held between separate teams or between parts of the same team. An exhibition game may also be used to settle a challenge, to provide professional entertainment, to promote the sport, to commemorate an anniversary or a famous player, or to raise money for charities. Several sports le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladesh Football Federation
Bangladesh Football Federation (, ''Bānglādesh fūṭbôl fēḍārēshôn'') is the governing body that administers the sport of association football in Bangladesh. It is in charge of running the country's men's and women's national teams, as well as the Bangladesh Premier League and various other competitions and tournaments. The BFF was one of founding members of the South Asian Football Federation. Its office is based at the BFF Bhaban, in Motijheel Thana of the country's capital, Dhaka. History The Bangladesh Football Federation was founded on 15 July 1972 by Md. Yousuf Ali, the country's former Minister for Education, Culture and Sport; the general secretary under Ali was Abul Hashem of Wari Club. It became affiliated with the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) in 1973, and FIFA in 1976. It is also a founding member of South Asian Football Federation. Bangladesh has been elected to be part of the AFC Executive Committee for two four-year terms: in 1982–1986 and 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deki Lhazom
Deki Lhazom is a Bhutanese professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football), forward for the Bhutan women's national football team, Bhutan women's national team. She is the joint highest goal scorer of Bhutan's senior national team with 3 goals. Club career Lhazom began playing football at age eight. She was noticed by a district coach while playing for her school club. She was then invited to the 2017 Milo Cup before entering into the women's academy in Gelephu. After impressing in senior international friendlies against Saudi Arabia women's national football team, Saudi Arabia, she was offered a contract with Al-Ittihad Club (Jeddah, women), Al-Ittihad of the Saudi Women's Premier League. By joining the club, she became the first female Bhutanese player in history to play abroad. The Bhutan Football Federation reported that it was initially a one-year contract worth $3000 US Dollar, USD or about Bhutanese ngultrum, Nu. 240,000 per mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pema Choden Tshering
Pema Choden Tshering is a Bhutanese footballer who plays as a forward for the Bhutan women's national football team and Thimphu City Women's FC. She is currently captain of Bhutan Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia, in the Eastern Himalayas between China to the north and northwest and India to the south and southeast. With a population of over 727,145 and a territory of , .... Early life She was born to Hishey Tshering, the president of Thimphu City FC. Career She has served as head of women's football of Bhutan Football Federation. She was the first person to score a hat trick for Bhutan women's national team, in a 4-2 friendly win against Saudi Arabia. Style of play She has been described as "an all-rounder player who plays in midfield". International goals Personal life She enjoys reading. References External links Living people Bhutanese women's footballers Bhutan women's international footballers Women's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Sri Lanka
The Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL), also known as Football Sri Lanka (FSL), is the governing body of football in Sri Lanka. It operates the Sri Lanka national football team and Sri Lanka Football Premier League. History FFSL was founded on 1939 as Ceylon Football Association, later rechristened as Football Federation of Sri Lanka in 1972. FSL affiliated with FIFA in 1952. FFSL affiliated with Asian Football Confederation in 1954 and was the founding member of South Asian Football Federation which was founded in 1997. In 2014, at the 75th anniversary of FFSL, FIFA President Sepp Blatter visited Sri Lanka and opened a new football stadium in Jaffna. During the visit, Blatter said he was not pleased with the development of Football in Sri Lanka and that the authorities haven't taken enough steps to support football on the island. The AFC President Sheikh Salman Bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa also joined the visit. In 2021, the organisation introduced a new logo and adopted a new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
