Malta women's national football team


The Malta women's national football team represents the Malta Football Association in international women's football matches sanctioned by UEFA.

History

The team first appeared in official competitions in the 2005 European Championship's qualifying, debuting on August 10, 2003 in Bucharest with a 3–0 loss to Romania. Malta lost all eight games, scoring once and conceding 35. The team's first goal was scored by Sarah Caruana on November 16, 2003, against Croatia.
After 13 losses, Malta achieved its first draw on June 7, 2006 against Bosnia and Herzegovina in the last match of the 2007 World Cup's qualifying. The team played in the 2011 World Cup's qualifying, losing all games including a record 0–13 defeat to Spain. On March 3, 2011 Malta won an official match for the first time in the 2013 European Championship qualifying's preliminary round, beating Georgia 1–0 with a goal by D'Agostino in injury time.
On April 6, 2013 Malta beat Luxembourg 6–0 in the 2015 World Cup qualifying's preliminary round. The team also defeated Latvia and drew with Albania to top the group and make it past a preliminary round for the first time.
The team was coached from its foundation to 2015 by Pierre Brincat, then from 22 January 2015 by former U19 coach Mark Gatt.

World Cup record

Players

Current squad

The following 22 players were named to the squad for the UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying Group B matches against and on 5 and 10 March 2020, respectively.

Recent call ups

Overall official record

CompetitionStageResultOpponentPositionScorers
2005 Euro qualifyingRegular stage
0–3 0–8
0–1 0–2
0–3 1–4
0–9 0–5		 Romania
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatia
Ireland		5 / 5
Caruana
2007 World Cup qualifyingRegular stage
1–4 0–1
1–4 1–3
0–1 1–1		 Croatia
Slovenia
Bosnia and Herzegovina		4 / 4D'Agostino
Theuma, Tonna
Theuma
2009 Euro qualifyingPreliminary round0–0
2–4
0–8		 Lithuania
Luxembourg
Slovakia		4 / 4
Carabott 2
2011 World Cup qualifyingRegular stage0–13 0–9
0–8 0–6
0–2 0–6
0–2 1–5		 Spain
England
Austria
Turkey		5 / 5
N. Pace
2013 Euro qualifyingPreliminary round1–0
0–2
1–1		 Georgia
Faroe Islands
Armenia		2 / 4D'Agostino
Cuschieri
2015 World Cup qualifyingPreliminary round1–1
6–0
2–0		 Albania
Luxembourg
Latvia		1 / 4Theuma
Theuma 2, Buttigieg, Carabott, Cuschieri, Xuereb
Cuschieri, Theuma
2015 World Cup qualifyingRegular stage0–2 0–2
0–5 0–8
0–3 0–5
0–11 0–5
0–8 0–5		 Israel
Denmark
Serbia
Switzerland
Iceland		6 / 6

Most capped players

Below is a list of the 10 players with the most caps for Malta,..
was Malta's most capped player with 64 caps.
#PlayerPeriodCapsGoals
1Dorianne Theuma2003–present6421
2Rebecca D'Agostino2003–2014574
3Ylenia Carabott2005–present5611
4Natasha Pace2003–2014483
5Rachel Cuschieri2007–present426
6Charlene Zammit2009–present330
6Mandy Debono2006–present330
6Maria Azzopardi2003-2011330
9Stefania Farrugia2007–present321
10Kathleen Saliba2004-2012311