Vietnam women's national football team

The Vietnam women's national football team is a women's football team representing Vietnam and controlled by Vietnam Football Federation (VFF). It is the most successful women's football team in Southeast Asia and ranks 5th in Asia. The team attended the Women's World Cup in 2023 for the first time but was knocked out in the group stages. History Early history and an established Southeast Asian powerhouse 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 in Southeast Asia since 2001 along with Thailand. Vietnam cemented its position in the region by winning gold medals at the AFF Women's Championship in 2006, 2012 and 2019. Also, in the SEA Games women's level, Vietnam also cemented its position, winning gold in 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023 editions. In spite of being a major powerhouse in Southeast Asian women's football, Vietnam has fallen short in continental tournaments like the AFC Women's Asian Cup and Asian Games. Vietnam first qualified for the Women's Asian Cup in 1999 and has since maintained the qualifying streak, and had hosted the competitions twice, first in 2008 and second in 2014, but Vietnam failed to progress from the group stage each time. To make the matter worse, Vietnam even missed out the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in a painful playoff defeat at home to arch-rival Thailand 1–2.