Type: | Women |
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Nickname: | Arabic: الفدائيات (The Fedayeen) |
Association: | Palestinian Football Association (الاتحاد الفلسطيني لكرة القدم) |
Confederation: | AFC (Asia) |
Sub-Confederation: | WAFF (West Asia) |
Coach: | Nasser Beitello |
Captain: | Aya Khattab |
Fifa Trigramme: | PLE |
Fifa Max: | 84 |
Fifa Max Date: | December 2013 |
Fifa Min: | 136 |
Fifa Min Date: | December 2023 – March 2024 |
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First Game: | 9–0 (Amman, Jordan, 23 September 2005) |
Largest Win: | 18–0 (Manama, Bahrain, 20 October 2010) |
Largest Loss: | 10–0 ( 10–0 (Amman, Jordan; 19 April 2014) |
2Ndregional Name: | WAFF Championship |
2Ndregional Cup Apps: | 7 |
2Ndregional Cup First: | 2005 |
2Ndregional Cup Best: | Runners-up (2014) |
The Palestine women's national football team (Arabic: المنتخب الفلسطيني لكرة القدم النسائي) represents Palestine in international women's football competitions. The team was established by Samar Araj in 2003[1] [2] and is controlled by the Palestinian Football Association (PFA), the governing body for football in Palestine.
Palestine played their first match in 2005 against Jordan in a 9–0 defeat at the WAFF Women's Championship. Five years later, they entered their first AFC Women's Asian cup Qualification. Although Palestine didn't make it to the final tournament, they recorded their first international win during the qualification campaign with a 4–0 win against the Maldives.
Whilst the team has yet to qualify for any major international tournament, they participated in seven (out of eight) WAFF Women's Championship editions. Their best performance came in 2014 when they finished as runners-up, marking their highest achievement to date.
On 15 May 2024, 76 years from the Nakba, the Palestine women's national team played an unofficial friendly game against Irish club Bohemians in Dublin, Ireland, winning 2–1. The game marked the first time any senior Palestine national team played a game in Europe.[3]
See main article: Palestine women's national football team results.
See also: FIFA International Match Calendar.
The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.
Position | Name | |
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Team manager | Amal F. M. Abusharekh | |
Head coach | Nasser Beitello | |
Assistant coach | Ahmad M. M. Hammad | |
Fitness coach | Remah B M Mahmoud | |
Physiotherapist | Salwa M. A. Baba Sabreen A. A. Owda |
The following players have been called up to the squad in the past 12 months.
FIFA Women's World Cup record | ||||||||||
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Year | Result | Position | GP | W | D* | L | GF | GA | GD | |
2003 | Did not enter | |||||||||
2007 | ||||||||||
2011 | Did not qualify | |||||||||
2015 | ||||||||||
2019 | ||||||||||
2023 | ||||||||||
2027 | To be determined | |||||||||
Total | 0/6 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Summer Olympics record | |||||||||||||||
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Year | Result | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | |||||||
Did not enter | |||||||||||||||
2000 | |||||||||||||||
Did not qualify | |||||||||||||||
2016 | |||||||||||||||
2020 | |||||||||||||||
2024 | Withdrew | ||||||||||||||
Total | 0/7 |
AFC Women's Asian Cup record | |||||||||
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Year | Result | GP | W | D* | L | GF | GA | GD | |
2003 | Did not enter | ||||||||
2006 | |||||||||
2008 | |||||||||
2010 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
2014 | |||||||||
2018 | |||||||||
2022 | |||||||||
2026 | To be determined | ||||||||
Total | 0/8 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
See also: WAFF Women's Championship.
Hosts / Year | Result | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | |||||||
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5th place | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 21 | −20 | ||||||||
2007 | Did not enter | ||||||||||||||
4th place | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 17 | +2 | ||||||||
Group stage | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 16 | −12 | ||||||||
Runners-up | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 10 | −2 | ||||||||
5th place | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 11 | −11 | ||||||||
4th place | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | −7 | ||||||||
Semi-finalist | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 9 | −5 | ||||||||
Total | 7/8 | 25 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 37 | 92 | −55 |
Hosts / Year | Result | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | |||||||
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Group stage | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 15 | −14 | ||||||||
Group stage | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | −6 |