Timor-Leste women's national football team

Timor-Leste
Association	Federação de Futebol de Timor-Leste
Confederation	AFC
Sub-confederation	AFF (Southeast Asia)
Head coach	Vicente Ramos Freitas
Captain	Maria de Conceicao
Most caps	Luselia Fernandes; Maria de Conceicao (8)
Top scorer	Nilda dos Reis; Godelivia Martin; Luselia Fernandes; Dolores Costa; Brigida da Costa (1)
FIFA code	TLS
First colours	Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	159 (13 December 2024)
Highest	152 (August 2022)
Lowest	159 (December 2023 – December 2024)
First international
	Myanmar 17–0 Timor-Leste ; (Mandalay, Myanmar; 27 July 2016)
Biggest win
	Timor-Leste 2–1 Singapore ; (Chonburi, Thailand; 15 August 2019)
Biggest defeat
	Australia U20 20–0 Timor-Leste ; (Mandalay, Myanmar; 29 July 2016)
AFF Championship
Appearances	4 (first in 2016)
Best result	Group Stage (2016, 2018, 2019, 2022)

The Timor-Leste women's national football team (Portuguese: Seleção Timorense de Futebol Feminino) represents Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor) in international women's association football and is governed by Federação de Futebol de Timor-Leste (FFTL).

History

In 1985, almost no country in the world had a women's national football team.^[3]

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.^[4]

In March 2012, the team was not ranked in the world by FIFA.^[5]

The FIFA trigramme is TLS.^[6]

First participations

The first match ever recorded by Timor-Leste was against Myanmar. The game was held in Mandalay on 27 July 2016 and Timor-Leste lost 0–17.

In 2016, Timor-Leste participated in their first AFF Women's Championship, 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 with a score of 2–1.^[7]^[8] 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.

Results and fixtures

2023

5 April 2023 (2023-04-05) 2024 AFC Olympic Qualifiers Round 1	Jordan	3–1	Timor-Leste	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
15:00 UTC+5	Al-Majali 45+3' (pen.) Jbarah 61' Abu-Sabbah 82'	Report	Nilda 90+5'	Stadium: Pakhtakor Stadium Attendance: 10 Referee: Plong Pich Akara (Cambodia)

8 April 2023 (2023-04-08) 2024 AFC Olympic Qualifiers Round 1	Timor-Leste	0–3	Uzbekistan	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
17:00 UTC+5		Report	Nabikulova 59' Zoirova 70' Shoyimova 79'	Stadium: Milliy Stadium

11 April 2023 (2023-04-11) 2024 AFC Olympic Qualifiers Round 1	Timor-Leste	1–3	Bhutan	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
15:00 UTC+5	Godelivia 90+5'		Namgyel 43', 67' Choden 75'	Stadium: Pakhtakor Stadium

2024

23 November 2024 (2024-11-23) AFF Women's Cup 2024 GS	Laos	0–0	Timor-Leste	Vientiane, Laos
19:30 UTC+7				Stadium: New Laos National Stadium Referee: Pansa Chaisanit (Thailand)

26 November 2024 (2024-11-26) AFF Women's Cup 2024 GS	Timor-Leste	1–1	Singapore	Vientiane, Laos
15:00 UTC+7	Natacia 90+4'		Ruhaizat 41'	Stadium: New Laos National Stadium

2 December 2024 (2024-12-02) AFF Women's Cup 2024 SF	Cambodia	3–0	Timor-Leste	Vientiane, Laos
15:00 UTC+7				Stadium: New Laos National Stadium

5 December 2024 (2024-12-05) AFF Women's Cup 2024 3rd place	Timor-Leste	0–1	Singapore	Vientiane, Laos
--:-- UTC+7				Stadium: New Laos National Stadium

Competitive Record

World Cup record

FIFA Women's World Cup									FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
Year	Result	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1991	Part of Indonesia								Part of Indonesia
1995	Part of Indonesia								Part of Indonesia
1999	did not exist, under United Nations								did not exist, under United Nations
2003	Not member of FIFA								Not member of FIFA
2007	did not enter								did not enter
2011
2015
2019
2023
2027	to be determined
Total	–	0/10	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–

Summer Olympic Games record

Summer Olympics record
Year	Result	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1996	Part of Indonesia
2000	Part of Indonesia
2004	Did Not Enter
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Total	–	0/8	–	–	–	–	–	–

AFC Women's Asian Cup record

AFC Women's Asian Cup record
Year	Result	Position	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA	GD
1975	Part of Indonesia
1977
1979
1981
1983
1986
1989
1991
1993
1995
1997
1999	did not exist, under United Nations
2001	did not exist, under United Nations
2003	did not enter
2006
2008
2010
2014
2018
2022
Total	–	0/20	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Asian Games record

Asian Games record
Year	Result	Position	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA	GD
1990	Part of Indonesia
1994
1998
2002	did not enter
2006
2010
2014
2018
2022	to be determined
2026	to be determined
Total	0/8	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

AFF Women's Championship record

AFF Women's Championship
Year	Result	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
2004	Did Not Enter
2006
2007
2008
2011
2012
2013
2015
2016	Group stage	8th	3	0	0	3	0	50
2018		10th	4	0	0	4	0	33
2019		7th	4	1	0	3	2	22
2022		11th	4	0	0	4	1	18
Total	Group stage	4/12	15	1	0	14	3	123

South East Asian Games record

SEA Games women's tournament
Year	Result	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
2001–2023	Did Not Enter
Total	N/A	0	0	0	0	0	0

Head-to-head record

Positive Record Neutral Record Negative Record

As of 5 December 2024

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Win%^{[nb 1]}	Confederation
Bhutan	1	0	0	1	1	3	000.00	AFC
Cambodia	3	0	0	3	1	18	000.00	AFC
Jordan	1	0	0	1	1	3	000.00	AFC
Laos	2	0	1	1	0	2	000.00	AFC
Malaysia	3	0	0	3	0	22	000.00	AFC
Myanmar	2	0	0	2	0	24	000.00	AFC
Philippines	1	0	0	1	0	7	000.00	AFC
Singapore	3	1	1	1	3	3	033.33	AFC
Thailand	2	0	0	2	0	17	000.00	AFC
Uzbekistan	1	0	0	1	0	3	000.00	AFC
Vietnam	1	0	0	1	0	6	000.00	AFC

Players

Current squad

The following 23 players were named in the squad for the 2024 ASEAN Women's Cup matches against Singapore and Loas on the 23 and 26 November 2024. report ^[9]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
12	1GK	Gorette De Fatima De Deus Andrade Da Costa	(2004-05-31) 31 May 2004 (age 20)	BUIBERE FC
7	4FW	Dolores Verdiana Da Silva Costa	(1991-01-31) 31 January 1991 (age 33)	S'AMUSER FC
2	2DF	Maria Auxiliadora Martins Da Conceicao	(1997-01-02) 2 January 1997 (age 27)	AD SLB LAULARA
4	2DF	Idalia Aves Belo	(1999-05-21) 21 May 1999 (age 25)	AD SLB LAULARA
5	2DF	Brigida Garcia Fatima Da Costa	(2000-06-05) 5 June 2000 (age 24)	MARANATHA FC
6	3MF	Sonia Gomes Amaral	(1997-02-05) 5 February 1997 (age 27)	AD SLB LAULARA
10		Vanessa Filomena Pimentel Fernandes
13	3MF	Julia Freitas Belo	(1997-08-10) 10 August 1997 (age 27)	AD SLB LAULARA
16		Juleica Silva Da Costa
17		Natacia Flora Boavida Pereira
19	2DF	Godelivia Fatima Mesquita Martins	(1998-12-07) 7 December 1998 (age 26)	S'AMUSER FC

1	1GK	Madalena Lucia De Fatima Soares	(2001-05-13) 13 May 2001 (age 23)	S'AMUSER FC
3		Ferelia Sousa Silva Soriano
8	3MF	Astari Wiwit Songge	(2000-04-30) 30 April 2000 (age 24)	AD SLB LAULARA
9	4FW	Elvira Ana Da Silva	(1997-08-25) 25 August 1997 (age 27)	AD SLB LAULARA
11	4FW	Marcia Imanuela Nheu Sanhes Chaves	(1988-10-17) 17 October 1988 (age 36)	BUIBERE FC
14	2DF	Tasia Duarte Canizio	(2004-10-31) 31 October 2004 (age 20)	BUIBERE FC
15		Virginia Fatima Da Silva Branco
18	3MF	Suzana Maria Barros Soares	(2000-10-14) 14 October 2000 (age 24)	S'AMUSER FC
20		Elania Carvalho Godinho
21	3MF	Letizia Da Cruz Elo Soares	(2004-06-14) 14 June 2004 (age 20)	S'AMUSER FC
22		Sonia Pires Pereira
23		Mericia De Fatima Maia Barbosa

Previous squads

Player records

As of 21 August 2019

Players in bold are still active with Timor-Leste.

Most capped players

Rank	Name	Caps	Goals	Career
1	Maria de Conceição	8	0	2016–2019
1	Luselia Fernandes	8	1	2016–2019
3	Femania Babo	7	0	2016–2019
	Sonia Amaral		0	2016–2019
	Godelvia Martins		0	2016–2019
	Natalia da Costa		0	2016–2019
	Elvira Ana da Silva		0	2018–2019
8	Julia Freitas Belo	6	0	2016–2019
	Agostinha Noguera		0	2016–2019
	Nilda dos Reis		0	2016–2019
	Rosa da Costa		0	2016–2019

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Goals	Caps	Ratio	Career
1	Dolores Costa	1	3	0.33	2019
1	Luselia Fernandes	1	8	0.13	2016–2019

Youngest debut record
#	Player	Age	Debut date	Opponent	Tournament
1.	Inacia dos Anjos	16 years 222 days	27 July 2016	Myanmar	2016 AFF Women's Championship
2.	Natacha Sarmento	17 years 221 days	31 July 2016	Malaysia	2016 AFF Women's Championship
3.	Godelivia Martins	17 years 319 days	27 July 2016	Myanmar	2016 AFF Women's Championship

Current staff

As of November 2024

Position	Name
Manager	Nivia Caldeira
Head coach	Vicente Ramos Freitas
Assistant coach	Octavio Correia Natalia Da Costa Andre Ximenes
Physical Trainer	Olisio Dos Santos Sarmento
Kit Manager	Juda Fernandes
Team Medic	Arlinda Claudina

Coaching history

Coach	Period	Pld	W	D	L
Gelasio da Silva Carvalho	2016–2017	3	0	0	3
Lee Min Young	2018–20??	8	1	0	7
Kim Shinhwan	2023–20??
Vicente Ramos Freitas	2024–Present

Notes

^ Win% is rounded to two decimal places

References

^ "The FIFA/Coca-Cola Women's World Ranking". FIFA. 13 December 2024. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
^ Game notes in debut vs Myanmar
^ Chrös McDougall (1 January 2012). Soccer. ABDO. p. 45. ISBN 978-1-61783-146-1. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
^ Tandoc Jr., Edson C. (13 April 2005). "Tourism boost for Marikina". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
^ "The FIFA Women's World Ranking". FIFA.com. 25 September 2009. Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
^ Tom Dunmore (16 September 2011). Historical Dictionary of Soccer. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7188-5. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
^ "WOMEN: Winning starts for Philippines, Timor Leste". 15 August 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
^ "Match report: Timor Leste 2–1 Singapore" (PDF). Retrieved 15 August 2019.
^ https://www.fftl.tl/en-us/national-team.aspx?category=WNT

[9] Win% is rounded to two decimal places

[FIFA_Women's_World_Rankings-1] "The FIFA/Coca-Cola Women's World Ranking". FIFA. 13 December 2024. Retrieved 13 December 2024.

[2] Game notes in debut vs Myanmar

[McDougall2012-3] Chrös McDougall (1 January 2012). Soccer. ABDO. p. 45. ISBN 978-1-61783-146-1. Retrieved 13 April 2012.

[asiangames-4] Tandoc Jr., Edson C. (13 April 2005). "Tourism boost for Marikina". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 11 June 2012.

[world-rank-fifa-5] "The FIFA Women's World Ranking". FIFA.com. 25 September 2009. Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2012.

[Dunmore2011-6] Tom Dunmore (16 September 2011). Historical Dictionary of Soccer. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7188-5. Retrieved 13 April 2012.

[7] "WOMEN: Winning starts for Philippines, Timor Leste". 15 August 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2019.

[8] "Match report: Timor Leste 2–1 Singapore" (PDF). Retrieved 15 August 2019.

[10] ttps://www.fftl.tl/en-us/national-team.aspx?category=WNT

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v t e National women's football teams of Asia (AFC)
AFC Women's Asian Cup
West Asia (WAFF)	Bahrain Iraq Jordan Kuwait Lebanon ~~Oman~~ Palestine Qatar Saudi Arabia Syria United Arab Emirates Yemen
Central Asia (CAFA)	Afghanistan Iran Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
South Asia (SAFF)	Bangladesh Bhutan India Maldives Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka
East Asia (EAFF)	China Chinese Taipei¹ Guam Hong Kong Japan Macau Mongolia North Korea Northern Mariana Islands² South Korea
Southeast Asia (AFF)	Australia ~~Brunei~~ Cambodia Indonesia Laos Malaysia Myanmar Philippines Singapore Thailand Timor-Leste Vietnam
Former	Kazakhstan (moved to UEFA in 2002) New Zealand (formed the OFC in 1966)
¹ Taiwan, officially the Republic of China, competes as "Chinese Taipei" ² Not a member of FIFA