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[[Category:Football in Oman]]
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[[Category:Women's sport in Oman]]
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Revision as of 07:22, 12 May 2023

The national federation became a FIFA affiliate in 1980.[1] The development of women's football in the Middle East and central Asia dates back only about ten years.[2]

National Team

Oman
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)Al-Ahmar
(The Reds)
Samba Al-Khaleej
(Gulf Samba)
AssociationOman Football Association
ConfederationAFC (Asia)
Sub-confederationWAFF (West Asia)
Head coachVacant
Home stadiumSultan Qaboos Sports Complex
FIFA codeOMA
First colours
Second colours
FIFA ranking
CurrentNR (13 December 2024)[3]

The Oman women's national football team (Template:Lang-ar) is the official women's national football team of the Sultanate of Oman. The team is run by the Oman Football Association, the main governing body of football in Oman.

History

Main article: Women's football in Oman

Like most of its Arab neighbours, including the fellow countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council, Oman has a long history of discrimination against women, thus women's sport in Oman has struggled to coexist with their men's counterpart.[5] Although Oman has made better progresses than some of her neighbours about women's rights and has a more relaxed law, women's sports, including football, remain obsolete for many Omani women by 2015.[6][7]

Several initiatives to promote football have been made as far as early 2000s, in which football is emphasised.[8] In 2015, the OFA officially established the Women's Football Department.[9] In 2018, Maha Janoub, a Syrian woman who became the first woman to coach a men's team in West Asia, expressed her desire to plant the women's football seed in Oman and has been working with the Omani officials to materialise this from the grassroots.[10] In 2020, several progresses have been made with over 30 women's teams and 16 women's clubs in all level, though none of them have been professional so far.[9] Currently, Oman has no official women's football league.

In August 2021, Oman's neighbour Saudi Arabia announced the creation of a new women's team and appointed a new manager, in response to the growing interests toward women's football in the region.[11] Due to the influence of Saudi Arabia in the regional nations of the GCC and the country's main newspaper, Arab News, have called for the development of women's football across the Arab countries, it is expected that Oman may field a future women's national team.[12] In response, at the same month, Oman began the process to establish a full-time women's football team.

In May 2022, Oman unveiled its women's futsal team for the first time ever (which was wrongly labelled as its football team in various Omani media) to take part in the 2022 WAFF Women's Futsal Championship held in Saudi Arabia; nonetheless this is also an indication of growing interest toward a potential official women's football team to be fully established by the Omani officials.[13][14]

Competitive record

FIFA Women's World Cup

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

AFC Women's Asian Cup

AFC Women's Asian Cup record
Hosts / Year Result GP W D* L GS GA GD
Hong Kong 1975 did not enter
Taiwan 1977
India 1979
Hong Kong 1981
1983
Hong Kong 1986
Hong Kong 1989
Japan 1991
Malaysia 1993
Malaysia 1995
China 1997
Philippines 1999
Chinese Taipei 2001
2003
Australia 2006
Vietnam 2008
China 2010
Vietnam 2014
Jordan 2018
India 2022
Total 0/19 — — — — — — —
*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Summer Olympics

Main article: Oman at the Olympics

Asian Games

Main article: Oman at the Asian Games
Asian Games record
Hosts / Year Result GP W D* L GS GA GD
China 1990 did not enter
Japan 1994
1998
South Korea 2002
Qatar 2006
China 2010
South Korea 2014
Indonesia 2018
China 2022 To be decided
Japan 2026
Total 0/10 — — — — — — —
*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

WAFF Women's Championship

WAFF Women's Championship record
Host nation(s)
and year 		Round Pos Pld W D L GF GA
Jordan 2005 did not enter
Jordan 2007
United Arab Emirates 2010
United Arab Emirates 2011
Jordan 2014
Bahrain 2019
Jordan 2022 to be determined
Total — 0/7 — — — — — —

Other representative teams

Baroucher

In 2006, a team representing the country, Baroucher, played in the Women's Sevens Tournament in Abu Dhabi. The tournament was a seven-a-side one and they were in Group A, where they finished last overall. On 21 February, they lost 1–5 to Abu Dhabi. On 23 February, they lost 2–3 to a team from Jordan. On 24 February, they lost 0–3 to Iraq. On 25 February, they lost to Syria 0–9. In group play, they had a total of 3 goals for and 20 against.[15][16]

Five A Side

In 2006, Oman hosted and played in a 5-a-side women's championship. Other countries participating in the tournament included Pakistan, Bahrain, Syria, Palestine, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Afghanistan.[17]

Futsal

A club team representing the country participated in the fifth Amman Arab Women's Futsal Championships in Jordan.[2]

In June 2022, the Oman women's national futsal team made a history by debuting in the 2022 WAFF Women's Futsal Championship, the first ever competitive women's football team of the country to participate in the tournament. Oman finished bottom in the group, losing all two games in their maiden appearance.[18]

References

  1. ^ Pickering, David (1994). The Cassell soccer companion : history, facts, anecdotes. London: Cassell. p. 230. ISBN 0304342319. OCLC 59851970.
  2. ^ a b New statesman. New Statesman, Ltd. 2008. p. 20. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
  3. ^ "The FIFA/Coca-Cola Women's World Ranking". FIFA. 13 December 2024. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
  4. ^ Elo rankings change compared to one year ago. "World Football Elo Ratings". eloratings.net. 25 December 2024. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
  5. ^ "Gender Discrimination in Oman: Women's Rights". 2 July 2020.
  6. ^ Women’s Day celebrations today, 17 October 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
  7. ^ "Soccer is Still Out of Reach for Half the World's Women". 8 July 2015.
  8. ^ Hamann, Jennifer. "Football: A Grassroots Approach to Exploring Female Empowerment in Oman".
  9. ^ a b "'Promising future awaited for women's football in Oman'". 13 March 2020.
  10. ^ "Pioneering Janoud breaking down barriers".
  11. ^ "Monika Staab appointed coach of Saudi women's national football team". Arab News. 2021-08-11. Retrieved 2022-02-25.
  12. ^ "Arab nations cannot afford to ignore the rise of women's football". 29 July 2020.
  13. ^ "Oman launches first women's football team". 25 May 2022.
  14. ^ "OFA launches Oman women's futsal team". 24 May 2022.
  15. ^ "Women's Sevens Tournament (Abu Dhabi) 2006". Rsssf.com. 2008-05-28. Retrieved 2012-04-13.
  16. ^ "Stage set for women's soccer". gulfnews. 2006-02-13. Retrieved 2012-06-15.
  17. ^ "Pak first Women's football team to participate in Oman". PakTribune. 2006-04-28. Retrieved 2012-06-11.
  18. ^ "Oman women's futsal team suffer defeat against Kuwait at West Asian championships". 19 June 2022.
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