The East Timor women's national football team (Portuguese: Seleção Timorense de Futebol Feminino, recognized as Timor-Leste by FIFA) represents East Timor in international women's association football and is governed by Federação de Futebol de Timor-Leste (FFTL).
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Association | Federação de Futebol de Timor-Leste | ||
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Confederation | AFC | ||
Sub-confederation | AFF (Southeast Asia) | ||
Head coach | ![]() | ||
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 | ||
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FIFA ranking | |||
Current | 159 ![]() | ||
Highest | 152 (August 2022) | ||
Lowest | 159 (December 2023 – August 2024) | ||
First international | |||
![]() ![]() (Mandalay, Myanmar; 27 July 2016)[2] | |||
Biggest win | |||
![]() ![]() (Chonburi, Thailand; 15 August 2019) | |||
Biggest defeat | |||
![]() ![]() (Mandalay, Myanmar; 29 July 2016) | |||
AFF Championship | |||
Appearances | 4 (first in 2016) | ||
Best result | Group Stage (2016, 2018, 2019, 2022) |
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, 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.[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 East Timor was against Myanmar. The game was held in Mandalay on 27 July 2016 and East Timor lost 0–17.
In 2016, East Timor 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, East Timor 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 East Timor, she scored against Singapore in the 59th minute which gave East Timor a 1–0 lead over Singapore in the first match of East Timor in the 2019 AFF Women's Championship.
2023
5 April 2023 2024 AFC Olympic Qualifiers Round 1 | Jordan ![]() | 3–1 | ![]() | Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
15:00 UTC+5 |
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Report |
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Stadium: Pakhtakor Stadium Attendance: 10 Referee: Plong Pich Akara (Cambodia) |
8 April 2023 2024 AFC Olympic Qualifiers Round 1 | East Timor ![]() | 0–3 | ![]() | Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
17:00 UTC+5 | Report | Stadium: Milliy Stadium |
11 April 2023 2024 AFC Olympic Qualifiers Round 1 | East Timor ![]() | 1–3 | ![]() | Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
15:00 UTC+5 |
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Stadium: Pakhtakor Stadium |
World Cup record
FIFA Women's World Cup | FIFA Women's World Cup qualification | ||||||||||||||
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Year | Result | Position | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | |
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![]() | did not exist, under United Nations | did not exist, under United Nations | |||||||||||||
![]() | Not member of FIFA | Not member of FIFA | |||||||||||||
![]() | did not enter | did not enter | |||||||||||||
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![]() | to be determined | ||||||||||||||
Total | – | 0/10 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Summer Olympic Games record
AFC Women's Asian Cup record
Asian Games record
AFF Women's Championship record
South East Asian Games record
SEA Games women's tournament | ||||||||
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Year | Result | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | |
2001–2023 | Did Not Enter | |||||||
Total | N/A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Positive Record Neutral Record Negative Record As of 11 April 2023[9]
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Win%[nb 1] | Confederation |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0.00 | AFC |
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2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 0.00 | AFC |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0.00 | AFC |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | AFC |
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 0.00 | AFC |
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2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 0.00 | AFC |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0.00 | AFC |
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1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 100.00 | AFC |
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2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 0.00 | AFC |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0.00 | AFC |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0.00 | AFC |
Current squad
- The following 24 players are named in the squad for the 1st Round AFC Olympic matches against Jordan ,Uzbekistan and Bhutan on 5, 8 and 11 April 2023.[10]
- Caps and goals updated as 21 August 2019 after match against Malaysia.
No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
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12 | GK | Leonilda (vice-captain) | 2 | 0 | ||
20 | GK | Madalena | 0 | 0 | ||
GK | Gorette | 0 | 0 | |||
5 | DF | Maria | 1 February 1997 | 8 | 0 | ![]() |
2 | DF | Brigida | 1 | 0 | ||
6 | DF | Natalia | 23 December 1992 | 7 | 0 | |
2 | DF | Adelaide | ||||
2 | DF | Tasia | ||||
2 | DF | Idália | ||||
2 | DF | Saturnina | ||||
18 | MF | Godelivia | 12 September 1998 | 7 | 0 | ![]() |
13 | MF | Nilda | 3 April 1999 | 6 | 0 | |
MF | Vanessa | |||||
MF | Liticia | |||||
MF | Suzana | |||||
MF | Joana | |||||
MF | Astari | |||||
MF | Natalia | |||||
17 | FW | Sonia | 2 May 1997 | 7 | 0 | ![]() |
11 | FW | Julia | 8 October 1997 | 6 | 0 | |
11 | FW | Milenia | ||||
11 | FW | Deonizia |
Previous squads
- 2016 AFF Women's Championship squad
- 2018 AFF Women's Championship squad
- 2019 AFF Women's Championship squad
- As of 21 August 2019
- Players in bold are still active with Timor-Leste.
Most capped players
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Top goalscorers
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# | Player | Age | Debut date | Opponent | Tournament |
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1. | Inacia dos Anjos | 16 years 222 days | 27 July 2016 | ||
2. | Natacha Sarmento | 17 years 221 days | 31 July 2016 | 2016 AFF Women's Championship | |
3. | Godelivia Martins | 17 years 319 days | 27 July 2016 | 2016 AFF Women's Championship |
- As of August 2019
Coaching history
- Win% is rounded to two decimal places
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