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This article is about the women's team. For the men's team, see Cambodia national football team.

Cambodia
Shirt badge/Association crest
AssociationFootball Federation of Cambodia
ConfederationAFC (Asia)
Sub-confederationAFF (Southeast Asia)
Head coachOum Savong[1]
Home stadiumPhnom Penh Olympic Stadium
FIFA codeCAM
FIFA ranking
Current 119 Decrease 2 (16 August 2024)[2]
First international
 Cambodia 12–0 East Timor 
(Palembang, Indonesia; 30 June 2018)
Biggest win
 Cambodia 12–0 East Timor 
(Palembang, Indonesia; 30 June 2018)
Biggest defeat
 Thailand 11–0 Cambodia 
(Palembang, Indonesia; 4 July 2018)

The Cambodia women's national football team represents Cambodia in international women's association football and is governed by Football Federation of Cambodia (FFC). While the national federation was founded in 1933 and has received support from Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and Asian Football Confederation (AFC), the development of women's football has been slow with football not the most popular women's sport in the country. The women's first national championship was not held until 2010. The senior team had its first match in June 2018.

The under-16 national team, coached by Sam Schweingruber, played in the nation's first FIFA recognised women's international in May 2009 when they played Laos, with Nith Pean being the first woman to score a goal in international play. The under-14 team is also coached by Schweingruber, and participated in the 2011 AFC U-14 Girls' Festival of Football in Vietnam. The following year, the under-13 team competed in the 2012 AFC Girls Football Festival.

History

Background and development

The national association was founded in 1933 and became a FIFA affiliate in 1954.[3][4] The national federation is a member of ASEAN.[5] There are no full-time staff members employed by the federation to look after women's football and representation of women's football as a federation interest is not guaranteed by the federation.[3]

AFC's AID27 programme provides Cambodia a maximum of US$24,000 a year between 2008 and 2012 to support women's football in the country.[6][7] FIFA-supported grassroots development of the women's game also exists. FIFA grass roots development officer Sam Schweingruber said of this: "In Cambodia, it was unthinkable at the outset for girls to take part in the Grassroots programme. We managed to push that through, and now it's seen as perfectly normal. And that is bound to help in boosting the confidence of young Cambodian women, and making them feel more important."[8]

Football for women ranks between the 5th and 10th most popular sport in the country,[3] though its popularity is increasing.[9] Space to play sport is an issue facing all sports in the country.[10] Between 2000 and 2006, there were no registered female football players in the country, and none of the 65 football clubs in the country were open to women.[3]

In 2007, there were only two Cambodian women, Gne Kom' Sorth and Lee Heang, who had a FIFA-approved D-license football coaching badge. Both were recruited through FIFA's Spirit of Soccer program and worked to bring the game to areas with land mines.[11] In 2008, the Mine Risk Education Soccer tournament was held and several girls under-14 teams participated.[12] The first women's national championship was held in 2010.[13] Rights to broadcast the 2011 Women's World Cup in the country were bought by the Cambodian Broadcasting Service.[14] By 2012, between Battambang or Phnom Penh, there were 400 girls playing in organised clubs.[15]

The progress of women's football in the country was described by FIFA in 2009 as historic.[16] In 2009, the Com-Unity Women's Football Seminar was held Phnom Penh.[9] At the three-day seminar, the Football Federation of Cambodia indicated their support for women's football.[9] A follow-up event was supported by FIFA in 2010.[17]

Chheun Nipha from Cambodia participated in a 2012 AFC 'C' Coaching Certificate Course organised as part of the AFC U-13 Girls' Football Tournament 2012.[18][19][20] In 2012, the women's team participated in the Charity Cup, a competition designed to help with fundraising to send a team to compete at the Homeless World Cup.[21] In May 2012, an under-15 women's football festival was held in Cambodia, organised by the German embassy and German Business Group Cambodia, and held at the University of Battambang. The competition was won by the Mighty Girls in a 2–0 win over CFI.[22]

Cambodia played their first FIFA recognised match on 30 June 2018 which was a 12–0 victory over Timor-Leste.[23][24]

Team image

Kits and crest

The country's kit colours are blue, white and red shirts, white shorts, and red socks.[4]

Home stadium

The Cambodia women's national team play their home matches on the Phnom Penh Olympic Stadium.

Cambodia women's national youth teams

Under-16

The Cambodia women's national under-16 football team has been coached by Sam Schweingruber since it was created in 2009.[25] The team played in their first FIFA recognised and sponsored international in spring of 2009 when they played Laos[13][25] on 22 May.[26] The team travelled 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) to the game via bus.[26] Nith Pean scored a goal when her team was down 2-0 to bring the score to 2–1. Her goal was the first ever goal scored by a Cambodian woman in a FIFA recognised match.[26] That year, the team also played a match against Singapore.[13] Two players on the 2009 under-16 team were Nin and Vesna, a pair of sisters from the SALT Academy. The sisters had been sexually exploited in Thailand but while at the Academy, they developed their skills. Nin eventually became the captain of the team.[25]

Under-14

Kauw was a member of the Cambodia women's national under-14 football team in 2011.[27] The assistant coach was Chhoeurn Nipha and the head coach was Sam Schweingruber.[13][28] The team had a variety of players, including those who attended a football academy, school drop outs who returned just to play and girls from orphanages.[13] The country participated in the AFC U-14 Girls' Festival of Football in Vietnam, where like the other ten participating countries, they fielded two teams.[29][30] This was the first time the country participated in the event.[28][30] At the competition, Cambodia lost to the Philippines 3–0.[31] Some of the players who participated had never left the country before.[13]

Under-13

The Cambodia women's national under-13 football team competed in the June 2012 AFC Girls Football Festival against other national sides from Thailand, Myanmar, the Philippines, Guam and Vietnam.[15][32][33] The team played their first match against the Philippines.[34] Cambodia lost to Vietnam 0–1 in the bronze medal game.[35][36] Julie Teo, AFC's Head of Women's Football said of the event: "The quality of teams is good and the tournament has a lot of close matches. Cambodia had improved a lot from the first day."[36] Srey Yuen was the captain in 2012.[27] Many of the players in 2012 were drawn from the CFI club side.[27] The team is coached by Sam Schweingruber.[15]

Sopha Kol, secretary general of FFC, said: "For the very first time, very young Cambodian girls represented Cambodia in a regional tournament like this one. ... It doesn't matter if they win or lose as long as they start. If they don't start now, their potential will be ignored."[37] AFC U-13 Girl Football Tournament 2012, each game had two sessions with 25 minutes each and 10 minutes' break while the football field is 80 metres long and 60 metres wide.[38]

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

  Win   Draw   Lose   Fixture

2021

Head-to-head record

  Positive Record   Neutral Record   Negative Record

Team Pld W D L GF GA Win%[nb 1] Confederation
 Indonesia 1 0 0 1 0 4 000.00 AFC
 Malaysia 1 0 0 1 0 4 000.00 AFC
 Myanmar 1 0 0 1 1 10 000.00 AFC
 Thailand 1 0 0 1 0 11 000.00 AFC
 East Timor 1 1 0 0 12 0 100.00 AFC
 Vietnam 1 0 0 1 0 10 000.00 AFC

Coaching staff

Current coaching staff

Position Name Ref.
Head coach Cambodia Oum Savong [39]
Assistant Coach
Assistant Coach
Assistant Coach
Goalkeeper Coach
Fitness Coach
Team Doctor

Manager history

  • Cambodia Meas Samouen (20??–2020)
  • Cambodia Oum Savong (2020–present)[40]

Players

See also: Category:Cambodia women's international footballers

Current squad

The following players were named on 9 September 2021 for the xxx tournament.

Caps and goals accurate up to and including 9 September 2021.

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1GK
2DF
3MF
4FW

Recent call-ups

The following players have been called up in the past 12 months.

Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club Latest call-up

Notable players

Records

See also: Category:Cambodia women's international footballers

*Active players in bold, statistics correct as of 9 September 2021.

Competitive record

FIFA Women's World Cup

FIFA Women's World Cup
Year Round GP W D* L GF GA GD
China 1991 to AustraliaNew Zealand 2023 Did not enter - - - - - - -
Total - - - - - - -

Olympic Games

Summer Olympics
Year Round GP W D L GS GA
United States 1996 to Japan 2020 Did not enter - - - - - -
Total - - - - - -

AFC Women's Asian Cup

AFC Women's Asian Cup
Year Round GP W D L GS GA
Hong Kong 1975 to India 2022 Did not enter - - - - - -
Total - - - - - -

Asian Games

Asian Games
Year Round GP W D L GS GA GD
China 1990 to Indonesia 2018 Did not enter - - - - - - -
Total - - - - - - -

AFF Women's Championship

AFF Women's Championship
Year Round GP W D L GF GA
Vietnam 2004 to Myanmar 2016 Did not enter
Indonesia 2018 Group Stage 4 1 0 3 12 27
Thailand 2019 Group Stage 3 0 0 3 1 24
Total 2/11 7 1 0 6 13 51

Southeast Asian Games

Cambodia has never sent a women's football team at the Southeast Asian Games, but plans to do so in the 2023 edition which Cambodia will be hosting.[41]

Southeast Asian Games
Year Round GP W D L GF GA
Thailand 1985 to Philippines 2019
 Did not enter - - - - - -
Total - - - - - - -

Honours

See also

  • Cambodia women's national football team
    • Cambodia women's national football team results
    • List of Cambodia women's international footballers
  • Cambodia women's national under-20 football team
  • Cambodia women's national under-17 football team

Notes

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  1. ^ Win% is rounded to two decimal places
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