Bhutan women's national football team
| Nickname(s) | Druk Eleven |
|---|---|
| Association | Bhutan Football Federation |
| Confederation | AFC |
| Sub-confederation | SAFF |
| Head coach | Namgay |
| Top scorer | Yangdon |
| Home stadium | Changlimithang |
| FIFA code | BHU |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 113  15 (24 March 2017)
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| Highest | 113 (March 2017) |
| Lowest | 144 (September 2015) |
| First international | |
 Bangladesh 7–0 Bhutan  (Dhaka, Bangladesh; 6 December 2010) |
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| Biggest win | |
| None | |
| Biggest defeat | |
 India 18–0 Bhutan (Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh; 13 December 2010) |
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| World Cup | |
| Appearances | None yet |
| AFC Women's Asian Cup | |
| Appearances | None |
The Bhutan national women's football team represents Bhutan in international women's football. The team is controlled by the governing body for football in Bhutan, the Bhutan Football Federation, which is currently a member of the Asian Football Federation and the regional body the South Asian Football Federation. Bhutan play their home games at the national stadium, Changlimithang. It is one of the younger national teams in the world having played its first match in 2010. Bhutan took part in the 2014 SAFF Women's Championship in Islamabad, Pakistan at the end of 2014, losing all three games, including a 4-1 loss to host Pakistan in which Tshering Yangdon scored just the second official goal in the team's history.
Bhutanese football in general came to the international stage comparatively late in the day with the men's national team only playing their first competitive international match in 1982 and the only junior team to compete internationally, the Under-17s making their debut in 2003. The women's team did not enter any form of international competition until 2010. Prior to their entry into international football, a formal women's competition was established in Bhutan for the first time, supported by a grant from FIFA and run by the Bhutan Football Federation. Because of the very under-developed state of women's football in Bhutan at this time, club teams did not exist and so the tournament consisted of teams representing individual Dzongkhags. This competition was used not only to increase the popularity of football amongst women in the country, but also to act as means of identifying and coaching players who would form the first ever Bhutan women's national football squad.
Their first ever competitive game was a friendly match against Bangladesh in Dhaka on 6 December 2010 as a warm up for their appearance at the inaugural SAFF Women's Championships a week later. Unfortunately, their debut was one to forget as, having travelled to Cox's Bazar where all of the group matches were scheduled to take place, they succumbed 7-0 to their hosts. Their competition proper got off to an even worse start as they lost 18-0 to India, one of the strongest teams in the region. Bangladesh then repeated their performance in the pre-competition friendly running out 9-0 victors and eliminating Bhutan from the competition. The team were able to salvage some pride in their final game, drawing 1-1 with Sri Lanka, which marks their only positive result of any kind as well as their first competitive goal (one of two times they have scored a goal in a competitive match). Their performance at the SAFF Championships saw them gain 889 ranking points. Although they were at this stage only provisionally ranked in 127th and last place as they had not played the required number of five competitive matches against officially ranked teams, their performance saw them achieve a higher points total than four other provisionally ranked teams: the U.S. Virgin Islands, Liberia, Qatar and Afghanistan. Had they been officially ranked, their points tally would have placed them in 122nd place ahead of ranked nations Tanzania, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda and Botswana.
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