Thai Women's National Football Team / World Championships

Thailand
( Thai : ฟุตบอล หญิง ทีม ชาติ ไทย )

World Cup record scorer :	Orathai Srimanee (2)
World Cup record player:	6 players (6 games each)
Rank :	28
Balance sheet
6 World Cup games 1 win 0 draw 5 defeats 4:30 goals
statistics
First World Cup game Thailand 0: 4 Norway Ottawa ( CAN ); June 7, 2015
Biggest World Cup victory Thailand 3-2 Ivory Coast Ottawa ( CAN ); June 11, 2015
Biggest World Cup defeat USA 13: 0 Thailand Reims ( FRA ); June 11, 2019
successes
World Championship
Participation in the finals	2 ( first : 2015 )
Best results	Preliminary round 2015, 2019
Best placements in the countries that host the FIFA World Cup
(As of June 20, 2019 )

The article contains a detailed description of the Thai national soccer team for women at world championships . Thailand qualified for the 2015 World Cup for the first time in 2014. The team is the sixth Asian team to qualify for a World Cup and, after the Republic of China and Equatorial Guinea, the third country from which only women were able to qualify for the World Cup. After their first participation, Thailand was the second worst Asian team in 23rd place in the all-time ranking and deteriorated in 2019 with three defeats to 28th place.

The national team at world championships

Overview

year	Host country	Participation until ...	opponent	Result	Trainer	Comments and special features
1991	People's Republic of China	not qualified				In the AFC Asian Cup Women 1991 in the People's Republic and the Republic of China failed.
1995	Sweden	not participated
1999	United States	not participated
2003	United States	not qualified				At the Asian women's soccer championship in 2003 , North and South Korea failed.
2007	People's Republic of China	not qualified				Failed to North Korea and Australia in the 2006 Asian women's soccer championship .
2011	Germany	not qualified				At the Asian women's soccer championship in 2010, the eventual world champions Japan and North Korea failed.
2015	Canada	Preliminary round	Norway , Ivory Coast and Germany	17th	Nuengrutai Srathongvian	Eliminated as the fifth-best third party in the group
2019	France	Preliminary round	Chile , Sweden and USA		Nuengrutai Srathongvian	Qualified as the third team. Biggest World Cup defeat (0:13)

statistics

(Information incl. 2019: eight world championships)

• not participated: twice (25%)
• not qualified: four times (50%)
• qualified: twice (25% or 33.3% of the attempts)
  • Preliminary round: twice (25%)

The tournaments

World Cup 1991 in the People's Republic of China

Since the first women's World Cup was held in the People's Republic of China , the Chinese women did not have to qualify. Nevertheless, the team took part in the Asian women's soccer championship in 1991 , which served as a qualification for the other Asian teams. Thailand met China in the preliminary round and lost 1:10. Before that, there had been a 3-0 win against South Korea . In the last group game, in which it was all about second place, it was only enough for a goalless draw against the Republic of China . So both teams were tied and now the goals against the People's Republic of China were decisive. As the Republic of China only lost 3-0 and scored six more goals against South Korea, Thailand was only third in the group and eliminated. The People's Republic of China ultimately won the championship with five victories and would therefore have been athletically qualified. Japan qualified as runner-up and the Republic of China as third.

World Cup 1995 in Sweden

Two years later, Thailand not participated in the AFC Asian Cup Women 1993 in part and could thus not apply to qualify . Asia was represented there only by the People's Republic of China and Japan.

World Cup 1999 in the USA

Also at the AFC Asian Cup Women 1997 Thailand did not participate and thus could not for the third World Cup qualifying . Again the People's Republic of China and Japan and, for the first time, North Korea for Asia took part in the World Cup.

2003 World Cup in the USA

The 2003 World Cup should actually take place again in the People's Republic of China . Because of the SARS epidemic, the tournament was moved to the USA at short notice. This was the second time that the World Cup took place in the USA. Thailand hosted the 2003 Asian Women's Soccer Cup , which served as qualification for the World Cup and was postponed from April to June due to the SARS crisis. In the group stage, Thailand won 3-0 against Singapore , but then lost 6-0 against South and then North Korea 0-14. The subsequent 3-1 against Hong Kong was then useless. The two Koreas as well as Japan and the People's Republic of China qualified for the World Cup.

World Cup 2007 in the People's Republic of China

Four years later, the World Cup took place in the People's Republic of China for the second time , which meant that China did not have to qualify. However, China took part in the 2006 Asian Women's Football Championship , which served as a qualification for the other teams in the AFC. Thailand had to qualify for the Asian Cup by playing two games against Indonesia and Singapore , both of which were won: 4-0 and 5-1. At the finals, which took place in Australia for the first time , as Australia - in particular to offer the men's national team better chances of qualifying for a World Cup - had switched to the Asian association. Thailand then met the Australians in the group stage , but initially Myanmar , who were defeated 2-1. After a 0: 9 against North Korea and a 0:11 against South Korea, Thailand had no chance to qualify before the last game against Australia. The 0: 5 was then not decisive. Australia then also reached the final against the People's Republic of China. After North Korea was better twice in a row, this was able to win the title for the eighth time and to this day for the last time and thus set a record for official continental championships, which Germany only set in 2013 . Australia and North Korea qualified as runners-up and third, Japan over the intercontinental play-off games against Mexico .

World Cup 2011 in Germany

For the last time Thailand could not qualify for the World Cup in Germany . First , Thailand qualified for the 2010 Asian women's soccer championship with two wins against Uzbekistan (6: 1) and the Iranians (8: 1) . In the championship, which took place in the People's Republic of China , the Thais lost to North Korea (0: 3) and Japan (0: 4), but were able to defeat Myanmar 2: 0. Thus, Thailand retired as third party. The People's Republic of China could not use the home advantage and only came in third and so for the first time a women's World Cup took place without China. For Asia, Australia, Japan - which then became the first Asian team to become soccer world champions - and North Korea started - which, however, attracted attention through doping offenses.

2015 World Cup in Canada

Starting line-up of the Thai women in their first World Cup game

→ Main article : 2015 Women's World Cup / Thailand

Kanjana Sung-ngoen in February 2015

In qualifying for the World Cup in Canada , for which the Asians were granted five starting places after the increase in the field of participants, Thailand was then able to qualify for the first time and also benefited from North Korea's ban because of the doping offenses at the 2011 World Cup Qualifying tournament in Bangladesh defeated the hosts 9-0, the Philippines 1-0 and the Iranians 5-1. At the women's soccer Asian Cup in 2014 , the first game against the People's Republic of China was lost 7-0 and then against South Korea 4-0. This meant that Thailand had no chance of becoming Asian champions, but the last group game should decide who should move into the game for 5th place. Thailand won 2-1 against Myanmar and were allowed to play for the last Asian World Cup ticket against hosts Vietnam . After a goalless first half, Kanjana Sung-ngoen scored two goals. Vietnam managed to hit the connection shortly before the end of the game, but it came too late and Thailand qualified for the World Cup for the first time.

In addition to the new Asian champions Japan, Australia qualified second, China third and South Korea fourth.

When the groups were drawn, Thailand was not seeded and group B with European champions Germany was drawn.

In addition, the team met runner-up European champions Norway and Ivory Coast , which also took part for the first time. Thailand clearly lost the two games against Norway and Germany, but won 3-2 against Ivory Coast and finished third in the group. However, this was not enough to advance.

World Cup 2019 in France

In qualifying for the World Cup in France, for which the Asians were again granted five starting places, Thailand qualified as the second team for the World Cup finals by reaching the semi-finals at the 2018 Asian Women's Football Championship . For this championship, which will take place in Jordan in April 2018, Thailand qualified at a tournament in the Palestinian Territories by winning against the host and Chinese Taipei. At the finals in Jordan, the first game against China was lost 4-0, but wins against hosts Jordan and the Philippines both reached the semi-finals of the Asian Cup and the World Cup finals.

In France, the Thais met defending champions USA and lost 0:13 - highest defeat in a World Cup game, and for the first time Chile and Sweden . After a 1: 5 against Sweden they still had the chance to reach the round of 16 with a record win against Sweden. But they also lost this game with 0: 2. With 1:20 goals they set a new negative record.

Games

All World Cup games
No.	date	Result	opponent		venue	occasion	Remarks
1	06/07/2015	0: 4	Norway	*	Ottawa ( CAN )	Preliminary round
2	06/11/2015	3: 2	Ivory Coast	*	Ottawa ( CAN )	Preliminary round	First game against Ivory Coast
3	06/15/2015	0: 4	Germany	*	Winnipeg ( CAN )	Preliminary round	First game against Germany
4th	06/11/2019	0:13	USA (TV)	*	Reims ( FRA )	Preliminary round	Biggest World Cup defeat (men and women)
5	June 16, 2019	1: 5	Sweden	*	Nice ( FRA )	Preliminary round	First game against Sweden
6th	06/20/2019	0: 2	Chile	*	Rennes ( FRA )	Preliminary round	First game against Chile

Note: The teams in bold were champions of their confederation at the time of the match.

The Thai team achieved their highest victories against the following countries in World Cup tournaments:

•  Ivory Coast : 3-2 (preliminary round 2015) - only game against Ivory Coast

The Thai team suffered their biggest defeats against the following countries at World Cup tournaments:

•  Chile : 0: 2 (preliminary round 2019) - only game against Chile
•  Germany : 0: 4 (preliminary round 2015) - only game against Germany
•  Sweden : 1: 5 (preliminary round 2019) - only game against Sweden
•  USA : 0:13 (preliminary round 2019) - only game against the USA

Negative records

• Biggest defeat in a World Cup game: 0:13 against the USA
• Most goals conceded in one half: 10 in the second half at 0:13 against the USA
• Worst goal difference after the group stage: 1:20

Web links

• FIFA Women's World Cup ^TM

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The placements from 5th place onwards were determined by FIFA without any placement games, see Technical Report FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015 ™ , page 159
2. ↑ Nigeria has won a total of nine African Championships, but two of them are unofficial.
3. ↑ Match summary Vietnam - Thailand 1: 2 (0: 0)
4. ↑ framba.de: "Women's World Cup 2015: group draw degenerates into a farce" ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ fifa.com: Thailand celebrates second World Cup participation in a row