Iraq women's national football team
The Iraq women's national football team is the female representative football team for Iraq.[3]
| Nickname(s) | Libuaat al-Rafidayn (Lionesses of Mesopotamia) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Association | Iraq Football Association | ||
| Head coach | Adil Qader | ||
| FIFA code | IRQ | ||
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| FIFA ranking | |||
| Current | 172 (14 June 2024)[1] | ||
| Highest | 107 (December 2017 – March 2018) | ||
| Lowest | 172 (March 2024) | ||
| First international | |||
| Jordan 20–0 Iraq (Riffa, Bahrain, 19 October 2010)[2] | |||
| Biggest defeat | |||
| Jordan 20–0 Iraq (Riffa, Bahrain, 19 October 2010) | |||
| WAFF Championship | |||
| Appearances | 2 (first in 2011) | ||
| Best result | Group stage (2011, 2024) | ||
The team played its first international match in 2010. Iraq's first participation in a women's major football tournament was the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification.[4]
History
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 Loss Void or postponed Fixture
2024
| 8 February 2024 Friendly | United Arab Emirates | 1–0 | Iraq | Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
| 21:00 UTC+4 |
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Report (UAEFA) | Stadium: Theyab Awana Stadium |
| 11 February 2024 Friendly | United Arab Emirates | 3–0 | Iraq | Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
| --:-- UTC+4 |
|
Report (UAEFA) | Stadium: Theyab Awana Stadium |
| 20 February 2024 2024 WAFF Women's Championship | Palestine | 3–0 | Iraq | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
| 20:00 UTC+3 | Report | Stadium: King Abdullah Sports City Reserve Stadium Referee: Esraa Al-Mbaiden (Jordan) |
| 22 February 2024 2024 WAFF Women's Championship | Iraq | 0–5 | Nepal | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
| 17:00 UTC+3 | Report | Bhandari 14', 15', 36', 43', 79' | Stadium: King Abdullah Sports City Reserve Stadium Referee: Haneen Murad (Jordan) |
| 24 February 2024 2024 WAFF Women's Championship | Syria | 3–0 | Iraq | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
| 17:00 UTC+3 |
|
Report | Stadium: King Abdullah Sports City Reserve Stadium Referee: Doumouh Al Bakkar (Lebanon) |
Coaching staff
Current coaching staff
- As of 1 February 2024
| Position | Name | Ref. |
|---|---|---|
| Head coach | Salah Radhi | |
| Assistant coach | Naji Kadhem Walid Dhahed | |
| Goalkeeping coach | Abed Karim Souhail |
Players
Current squad
The following players were called up for the 2024 WAFF Women's Championship on February 2024 .
Caps and goals correct as of 12 April 2017, after the match against Bahrain.
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Club | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GK | Faiza Jalal Mahmoud | Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya | ||||
| GK | Zahraa Ali Hussein | |||||
| GK | Salar Abdulwahid Khalid | |||||
| DF | Bahra Mohammed | 1 February 1993 (aged 31) | Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya | |||
| MF | Nadia Fadhil | 28 April 1995 (aged 28) | Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya | |||
| MF | Mina Kareem Jaber | 24 June 1998 (aged 25) | Naft Al-Shamal | |||
| MF | Direen Mulla Bakr | 13 January 2000 (aged 24) | ||||
| MF | Tiba Al-Quraishi | 13 January 1996 (aged 28) | Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya | |||
| MF | Zainab Abbas | 22 December 1996 (aged 27) | Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya | |||
| FW | Sipal Shukur Rasheed | 6 June 1996 (aged 27) | Naft Al-Shamal | |||
| FW | Shokhan Nooraldin | 10 April 2000 (aged 23) | Al Hilal | |||
| Barzeh Nidham Shawkat | ||||||
| Esraa Adnan Hashim | Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya | |||||
| Soz Kazim Kamal | Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya | |||||
| Ghoofran Sadeq Mahdi | ||||||
| Tabarak Muaead | Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya | |||||
| Mays Mahdi Hassan | Al-Zawraa | |||||
| Samera Rauf Salih | ||||||
| Yusra Ibrahim Hassan | ||||||
| Elaf Hossam-aldine | Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya | |||||
| Sara Sarhang | ||||||
| Huda Hadi Abdulamir | ||||||
| Soulin Abdullah Saadi | ||||||
Recent call-ups
The following players have been called up to the Iraq squad in the past 12 months.
| Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club | Latest call-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Records
*Active players in bold, statistics correct as of 19 September 2021.
Most capped players
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Top goalscorers
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Competitive record
FIFA Women's World Cup
| FIFA Women's World Cup record | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | Position | GP | W | D* | L | GF | GA | GD |
| 1991 to 2015 | Did not enter | ||||||||
| 2019 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
| 2023 | Withdrew | ||||||||
| 2027 | To be determined | ||||||||
| Total | 0/9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
- *Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
AFC Women's Asian Cup
| AFC Women's Asian Cup record | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finals record | Qualification record | ||||||||||||||
| Year | Result | Position | GP | W | D* | L | GF | GA | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | |
| 1975 to 2014 | Did not enter | Did not enter | |||||||||||||
| 2018 | Did not qualify | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 22 | ||||||||
| 2022 | Withdrew | Withdrew | |||||||||||||
| 2026 | To be determined | ||||||||||||||
| 2029 | |||||||||||||||
| Total | 0/20 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 22 | |
- *Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
WAFF Women's Championship
Arabia Women's Cup
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See also
- Iraq national football team
- Iraq national under-23 football team
- Iraq national under-20 football team
- Iraq national under-17 football team
- Iraq women's national under-20 football team
- Iraq women's national under-17 football team
References
- "The FIFA/Coca-Cola Women's World Ranking". FIFA. 14 June 2024. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
- "Jordan Beat Iraq 20 – 0 Women's Football Cup Arabia 2010". Women's Soccer United. 20 October 2010. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
- "Local News » Women making soccer history". Gulf Daily News. 21 October 2010. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
- "Отборочный турнир Кубка Азии-2018 среди женских сборных пройдет в Душанбе" [Qualifying tournament of the Asian Cup-2018 among women's teams will be held in Dushanbe] (in Russian). Tajik Football Federation. 11 January 2017. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
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