TheVietnam women's national football team (Vietnamese:Đội tuyển bóng đá nữ quốc gia Việt Nam) is a women's seniorfootball team representingVietnam and controlled byVietnam Football Federation (VFF). The team's nickname is theGolden Star Women Warriors (Vietnamese:Những Nữ Chiến Binh Sao Vàng).
Vietnam women's football was established in 1990, but it was not until 1997 that the women's team had their first match. The team has become one of the most powerful football women's team inSoutheast Asia since 2001 along withThailand. Vietnam cemented its position in the region by winning gold medals at theAFF Women's Championship in2006,2012 and2019. Also, in theSEA Games women's level, Vietnam also cemented its position, winning gold in2001,2003,2005,2009,2017,2019,2021, and2023 editions. Two of these occurred when they and the men's U23 team won gold medals of the SEA Games.
In spite of being a major powerhouse in Southeast Asian women's football, Vietnam has fallen short in continental tournaments like theAFC Women's Asian Cup andAsian Games. Vietnam first qualified for the Women's Asian Cup in1999 and has since maintained the qualifying streak, and has hosted the competitions twice, first in2008 and second in2014, but Vietnam failed to progress from the group stage each time. To make matters worse, Vietnam even missed out on the2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in a painful playoff defeat at home to arch-rival Thailand 1–2.
At the Asian Games, Vietnam first participated in the1998 Asian Games in Thailand, and for the first four editions, Vietnam had little to impress, and Vietnam's first win only came in the2010 Asian Games. Vietnam made a major breakthrough at the2014 Asian Games, finishing fourth place for the first time. Vietnam again progressed from the group stage in the2018 Asian Games, but failed toChinese Taipei after a penalty shootout.
In the pre-2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup friendlies in Spain, preparations had been plagued by theCOVID-19 pandemic as several players were found to be infected with the virus.[3] However, the Vietnamese side was able to have enough players for the group stage, where they lost to two Asian powerhousesSouth Korea andJapan both by 0–3. The Vietnamese team finally reached the quarter-finals of a Women's Asian Cup for the first time after a struggling 2–2 draw withMyanmar, which also effectively knocked the Burmese out of the tournament. In Vietnam's first knockout phase experience, Vietnam lost toChina in the quarterfinals, then entered the playoff phase against old foes Thailand and Chinese Taipei. This time, with Thailand and Chinese Taipei, plagued by a coronavirus, Vietnam was able to win the playoff round, thus qualified for the2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, their first World Cup in history.[4]
The successful participation of Vietnam women's team has been notable after a string of football reforms initiated since the late 2010s to promote women's football at a universal level such as schools, universities, and companies after the failure to qualify for the 2015 Women's World Cup, though challenges have persisted due to cultural issues and the lack of a professional domestic league in the country. To further improve Vietnam women's football standards, an attempt to create an independent development fund for women's football has been underlined, while calls to professionalize the domestic league have also been taken for the first time.[5][6]
Their first match against defending championsUnited States in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup ended 3–0, followed by their second, 2–0 defeat against fellow debutantsPortugal, ending their Round of 16 dreams. The team was again out-matched 7–0 by theNetherlands in their final game of the tournament. The Vietnamese women's team finished dead last in their debut appearance of the Women's World Cup, but brought some impressions of the spirit of not giving up in their first world stage tournament.
The team's nickname is theGolden Star Women Warriors (Vietnamese:Những Nữ Chiến Binh Sao Vàng),[7][8] similar to the nicknameNhững Chiến Binh Sao Vàng (Golden Star Warriors) fromthe men's team.
^Thảo Du."Lý do nhãn hàng lớn bỏ bóng đá Việt Nam" [The reason the big brand abandons Vietnamese football] (in Vietnamese). Nhượng Quyền Việt Nam. Archived fromthe original on 8 February 2018. Retrieved8 February 2018.
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