The Guam women's national football team is the female representative
football
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team for
Guam
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.
History
Guam took part in the
2003 South Pacific Games
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in
Suva
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, Fiji, finishing second.
The team competes regularly in the
EAFF E-1 Football Championship
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. The team first played in the tournament's preliminary competition in 2007 against round winners
South Korea
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,
Chinese Taipei
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, and
Hong Kong
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.
Guam, officially nicknamed "Masakåda" (meaning "brave woman" in
Chamorro), played in the preliminary round of the
2013 EAFF East Asian Cup
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, losing to
Northern Mariana Islands
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and Hong Kong.
In the
2015 EAFF East Asian Cup
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First preliminary round
*All matches were pl ...
, Guam qualified to Preliminary round 2 after defeating Northern Mariana Islands 7–0 and Macau 11–0, Guam's biggest victory to date. Guam's Samantha Kaufman won Tournament MVP honors and teammate Paige Surber won the Tournament Golden Boot Award.
In 2016, under head coach Mark Chargualaf, the Masakåda again qualified for Round 2 of the EAFF tournament, again with back-to-back 5–0 shutout wins over both the Northern Mariana Islands and Macau. Guam's Samantha Kaufman repeated as Tournament MVP, while also earning the Co-Golden Boot Award with teammate Paige Surber.
Guam competed in the
2019 EAFF E-1 Football Championship
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Preliminary Competition Round 1 and finished second to host country
Mongolia
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, despite scoring the most goals and allowing the fewest goals in the tournament.
Team image
Nicknames
The Guam women's national football team has been known or nicknamed as the "Masakåda".
Home stadium
The team plays at the
Guam National Football Stadium
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in
Hagåtña. It holds 1,000 people.
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
Current coaching staff
Managerial history
* Noel Casilao (1996–1999)
* Thomas Renfro (1999–2004)
*
Kim Sang-hoon (2004–2009)
* Cheri Stewart (2010–2011)
* Elias Merfalen (2012–2013)
*
Kim Sang-hoon (2014–2015)
* Belinda Wilson (2016–2019)
*
Kim Sang-hoon (2020–2021)
*
Ross Awa (2021)
* Sakiko Ogura (2021–2022)
* Chyna Ramirez (interim) (2022)
* Kristin Thompson (2023–2024)
* Kimberly Sherman (December 2024–present)
Players
Current squad
The following players were called up for the
2024 WAFF Women's Championship
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in February 2024 .
''Caps and goals accurate up to and including 12 September 2021.''
Recent call-ups
The following players have been called up to the squad in the past 12 months.
Records
''*Active players in bold, statistics correct as of 1 November 2020.''
Most capped players
Top goalscorers
Competitive record
FIFA Women's World Cup
:''*Draws include knockout matches decided on
penalty kicks
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.''
AFC Women's Asian Cup
:''*Draws include knockout matches decided on
penalty kicks
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.''
EAFF E-1 Football Championship
Pacific Games
:''*Draws include knockout matches decided on
penalty kicks
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See also
*
Sport in Guam
**
Football in Guam
The sport of association football in the United States territory of Guam is run by the Guam Football Association. The association administers the national football team, as well as the Guam Soccer League
The Budweiser G-League is the men's foo ...
***Women's football in Guam
*
Guam men's national football team
*
Guam men's national under-19 football team
*
Guam men's national under-17 football team
References
* https://www.fifa.com/about-fifa/associations/GUM
External links
Guam women's national football team– official website a
GuamFA
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Asian women's national association football teams
1997 establishments in Guam