The Timor-Leste women's national football team () represents

Timor-Leste Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the coastal exclave of Oecusse in the island's northwest, and ...

(formerly East Timor) in international

women's association football Women's association football, more commonly known as women's football or women's soccer, is the team sport of association football played by women. It is played at the professional level in multiple countries, and about 200 national teams partic ...

and is governed by

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

(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, Timor-Leste, 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

Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...

. The game was held in

Mandalay Mandalay is the second-largest city in Myanmar, after Yangon. It is located on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, 631 km (392 mi) north of Yangon. In 2014, the city had a population of 1,225,553. Mandalay was founded in 1857 by Ki ...

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

AFF Women's Championship The ASEAN Women's Championship (formerly known as the AFF Women's Championship), currently known as the MSIG Serenity Cup for sponsorship reasons is the competition in women's football organized by the ASEAN Football Federation. Results A 2017 ...

, 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

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

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

2019 AFF Women's Championship The 2019 AFF Women's Championship was the 11th edition of the AFF Women's Championship, an international women's football tournament organised by the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF). The tournament was hosted by Thailand from 15 to 27 August 2019. ...

Results and fixtures

2023

2024

Competitive Record

World Cup record

Summer Olympic Games record

AFC Women's Asian Cup record

Asian Games record

ASEAN Women's Championship record

South East Asian Games record

Head-to-head record

''As of 5 December 2024''

Players

Current squad

The following 23 players were named in the squad for the

2024 ASEAN Women's Cup The 2024 AFF Women's Cup is the first edition of AFF Women's Cup, a lower tier international Women's association football, women's football tournament organised by the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF). The tournament was held in Laos. The top thre ...

matches against

and Loas on the 23 and 26 November 2024
Match report
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Previous squads

* 2016 AFF Women's Championship squad * 2018 AFF Women's Championship squad * 2019 AFF Women's Championship squad * 2024 AFC Olympic Qualifying

Player records

:''Players in bold are still active with Timor-Leste.''

Most capped players

Top goalscorers

Current staff

:''As of November 2024''

Coaching history

Notes

References

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

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