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The Malaysia women's national football team represents Malaysia in international women's association football; it is controlled by the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM). Despite football being one of the nation's favorite sports, Malaysia is not among the strongest teams in the AFC, especially its women's side.
In July 2003, Malaysia qualified for the 2003 FA Premier League Asia Cup as the host nation and as the only national team to ever do so, and on 24 July 2003, they lost 4–1 against Chelsea in the semi-finals in a match where Hairuddin Omar scored Malaysia's only goal of the tournament to bring the match to 1–1.
The team recorded its first non-win with a 2–2 draw to Poland in the final of the 2021 Deaflympics in Brazil (held in 2022), but won the title 4–2 on penalties. [8] [9] Along with the US Deaf Men's National Team, the women's team also came under the umbrella of the United States Soccer Federation as one of its extended national teams in ...
The team is governed by the DPR Korea Football Association. They have won the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup three times, in 2006 , 2016 and 2024 . Upon the former triumph, they became the first Asian team to win a FIFA women's tournament and the first Asian football team to win any FIFA tournaments since Saudi Arabia 's victory in the 1989 FIFA U ...
Indonesia has participated in five AFC Women's Asian Cup, formerly known as the AFC Women's Championship.They finished as high as fourth in 1977 and 1986.. In 2021, Indonesia qualified for the 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup for the first time since 1989, after absence for 33 years. [2]
Football match in British Malaya 's capital of Kuala Lumpur, c. 1903. Football arrived in Malaysia ( Malaya at that time) with the British. The locals soon picked up the game, and before long, it was the country's leading sport. Towards the end of the 19th century, football was one of the central pillars of most sports clubs in Malaya.
The Malaysian football league system, also known as the Malaysian football pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for men's football clubs in Malaysia.The system has a hierarchical format with promotion and relegation between leagues at different levels, allowing even the smallest club the hypothetical possibility of ultimately rising to the very top of the system.
1994 to 1997: Era of professional football. MSPFL was the nation's top-tier league until the formation of the Malaysia Premier League (1994–97) in 1994 by the FAM. In its inaugural season, 16 teams competed in the league. The teams were based in all states in Malaysia and two foreign teams; Singapore and Brunei.