The Belarus women's national football team represents Belarus in international women's football. The team is governed by the Football Federation of Belarus

Football Federation of Belarus

The Football Federation of Belarus is the governing body of football in Belarus. It organizes Belarusian Premier League, Belarusian national football team and the Belarus women's national football team. It is based in Minsk.-External links:...

 (Беларуская фэдэрацыя па футболу).

History

Belarus first appeared in a FIFA

FIFA

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association , commonly known by the acronym FIFA , is the international governing body of :association football, futsal and beach football. Its headquarters are located in Zurich, Switzerland, and its president is Sepp Blatter, who is in his fourth...

/UEFA

UEFA

The Union of European Football Associations , almost always referred to by its acronym UEFA is the administrative and controlling body for European association football, futsal and beach soccer....

 qualification stage in the 1997 European Championship

1997 UEFA Women's Championship qualification

The qualification for the UEFA Women's Euro 1997 was held between September 17, 1995 & September 29, 1996. The first-placed of the group stage qualified directly...

, where it was paired with the Czech Republic

Czech Republic women's national football team

The Czech Republic women's national football team are the official football women's team for the Czech Republic, they are currently ranked 26th in the world . At the moment, the captain of the team is Eva Šmeralová, who plays for Sparta Prague....

, Poland

Poland women's national football team

The Poland women's national football team represents Poland in international women's football. The team, controlled by the Polish Football Association, has never qualified for a major international tournament.-World Cup record:...

 and Estonia

Estonia women's national football team

The Estonia women's national team is controlled by the Estonian Football Association. The team is composed of players from the domestic league.-World Cup record:-European Championship record:*1984 to 1991 – Did not enter, was part of Soviet Union...

. In its first official match they lost 0-1 to the Czech Republic on 7 October 1995. In May 1996 they attained their first official win by beating 3-0 Poland, which had defeated them 2-0 in the first match. They subsequently beat Estonia 0-4 and 4-0 to end 3rd, tied at 9 points with Poland. The Czech Republic qualified for the play-offs.

In the 1999 World Cup qualifying Belarus was ranked in Class B, with no qualifying options, together with Poland, Ireland

Republic of Ireland women's national football team

The Republic of Ireland women's national football team, selects players from both the 350 Women's Football Association of Ireland teams, in 21 affiliate leagues throughout the nation, and the international women's football community. The WFAI was founded in 1973...

 and Wales

Wales women's national football team

The Wales women's national football team team represents Wales in international women's football. They have yet to qualify for the final stages of the World Cup or European Championships and are currently ranked 47th in the world and 27th in Europe...

. Belarus beat Wales 4-1 and tied in Wales (3-3) and Ireland (0-0), losing all other three matches: 0-1 and 3-1 to Poland, 0-1 to Ireland. Belarus ranked 3rd with 5 points, and Poland qualified for the promotion play-offs.

In the 2001 European Championship qualifying

2001 UEFA Women's Championship qualification

The qualification for the UEFA Women's Euro 2001 was held between August 21, 1999 & November 28, 2000. The first-placed of the group stage qualified directly...

, again in Class B, Belarus beat Estonia 4-1 and 0-7, Israel

Israel women's national football team

The Israel women's national football team represents Israel in international women's football. The Israel women's national football team was established in 1997. Women's Football in Israel was developed as an upside down pyramid by first opening the national team and then after 2 years opening the...

 0-5 and 1-0 and Slovakia 1-0, and tied 1-1 in Romania, but the Romanians earned the spot in the promotion play-offs after beating Belarus 0-1. With this settled Belarus lost 6-1 to Slovakia in the last match.

In the 2003 World Cup qualifying, Class B, Belarus beat Bosnia

Bosnia and Herzegovina women's national football team

The Bosnia and Herzegovina women's national football team represents Bosnia and Herzegovina in international football and is controlled by the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina.-World Cup record:-European Championship record:...

 5-2 and 2-7, Turkey 4-0 and 1-5, Slovakia 3-2. They lost the remaining three games: 3-1 in Slovakia, and 2-0 and 2-4 against Hungary

Hungary women's national football team

The Hungary women's national football team represents Hungary in international women's football. The team, controlled by the Hungarian Football Federation.-World Cup record:- European Championship record :*1984 : Did Not Enter*1987 : Did not qualify...

. Belarus was 3rd, tied at 15 points with Slovakia.

In the 2005 European Championship qualification

2005 UEFA Women's Championship qualification

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, Class B, Belarus beat Estonia 5-0 and 1-3, Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan women's national football team

Kazakhstan women's national football team represent Kazakhstan in international football.Kazakhstan made their debut in the Asian championships in 1995. Kazakhstan came second-to-last in their group. Two years later, Kazakhstan came last in the same championships...

 0-2 and 8-1, and Israel 0-2. They just conceded two points, from a home 1-1 tie against Israel. Belarus topped the group for the first time, but there were no promotion play-offs as the qualifying system was unified for 2009.

In the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification Belarus was promoted for the First Category, and grouped with Sweden

Sweden women's national football team

Sweden women's national football team are a football team officially representing Sweden in women's football. They won the unofficial European Championships in 1984, a success the team has not managed to repeat, it has however won one World Cup-silver as well as three European Cup-silvers...

, Iceland

Iceland women's national football team

The Iceland women's national football team represents Iceland in international women's football. It is currently ranked as the 15th best national team in the world by FIFA...

, the Czech Republic and Portugal

Portugal women's national football team

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. Belarus won 0-1 and 3-2 to Portugal, and tied 1-1 with the Czech Republic. They lost the remaining five matches: 3-0 and 1-2 to Iceland, 6-0 and 0-6 to Sweden and 3-0 to the Czech Republic, ending second to last with 7 points.

In the 2009 European Championship qualifying Belarus was grouped with England

England women's national football team

The England women's national football team represents England in international women's football. The side has been quite successful of late, qualifying for three World Cups, 1995, 2007 and 2011...

, Spain

Spain women's national football team

The Spain women's national football team represents Spain in international women's football.-World Cup record:- Olympic Games record :- European Championship record :- U-20 :- U-19 :- U-18 :- U-17 :- Current squad :...

, the Czech Republic and Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland women's national football team

The Northern Ireland women's national football team represents Northern Ireland in international women's football.-World Cup record:-Current squad:Northern Ireland squad for 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifiers versus France on 27 and 31 March 2010...

. Belarus beat Northern Ireland 5-0, and tied 1-1 with the same opponent. They lost the six remaining matches: 0-3 and 1-6 to Spain, 1-4 and 1-3 to the Czechs and 4-0 and 1-6 to England, again ending second to last.

In the 2011 World Cup qualifying

2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA)

In the UEFA qualification for 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, 41 entrants were drawn into eight groups, from which the group winners advanced to a play-off round...

 Belarus was grouped with Norway

Norway women's national football team

The Norway women's national football team represents Norway in international women's football. The team, controlled by the Football Association of Norway, are former European, World and Olympic champions and thus one of the most successful national teams...

, the Netherlands

Netherlands women's national football team

The Netherlands women's national football team represents the Netherlands in international women's football. The team played the first women's international recognized by FIFA, on 17 April 1971 against France.-World Cup record:-Current squad:...

, Slovakia and Macedonia. They beat Slovakia 0-2 and 2-0, and Macedonia 1-6 and 6-0. They also attained a surprise 1-1 tie in the Netherlands. They lost 0-5 and 3-0 to Norway, and 0-4 to the Netherlands. Belarus was 3rd, their best result in a top-flier qualifying stage yet.

In the 2013 European Championship qualifying

UEFA Women's Euro 2013 qualifying

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 Belarus was grouped with Finland

Finland women's national football team

The Finland women's national football team represents Finland in international women's football. The team, controlled by the Football Association of Finland , reached the semi-finals of the 2005 European Championship, surprising the female football world having drawn with Sweden and beaten Denmark...

, Ukraine

Ukraine women's national football team

The Ukraine women's national football team represents Ukraine in international women's football. The team is administered by the Football Federation of Ukraine....

, Slovakia and Estonia. In their first four matches they have beaten Estonia 2-1 and Ukraine

Ukraine women's national football team

The Ukraine women's national football team represents Ukraine in international women's football. The team is administered by the Football Federation of Ukraine....

 0-1, tied 2-2 with Finland and lost 3-0 to Slovakia.

World Cup record

World Cup Finals
Year	Result	GP	W	D*	L	GF	GA	GD
1991	Did Not Enter
1995	Did Not Enter
1999	Did Not Qualify
2003	Did Not Qualify
2007	Did Not Qualify
2011	Did Not Qualify
2015 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup will be the seventh FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international women's football world championship tournament...	To Be Determined
Total	0/6

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks

Penalty shootout (football)

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.

Performance in European Championship

• 1984 to 2009
  2009 UEFA Women's Championship
  The 2009 UEFA Women's Championship, or just Women's Euro 2009, was played in Finland between August 23 and September 10, 2009. The host was appointed on July 11, 2006, in a UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Berlin and the Finnish proposal won over the Dutch proposal.The UEFA Women's Championship...
  
   - Did not qualify

Current squad

No.	Pos.	Player	Club
	GK	Inna Botyanovskaya	Minsk
	GK	Ekaterina Kovalchuk	Zorka Minsk
	GK	Svetlana Novikova	Bobruichanka
	DF Defender (football) Within the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....	Yulia Borisenko	Ryazan Ryazan VDV Ryazan VDV is a Russian women's football team from Ryazan.Founded in 1996, it was one of the leading women's team between 1997 and 2002, winning one League and two Cups in the last years of the twentieth century...
	DF Defender (football) Within the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....	Maria Buzunova	Bobruichanka
	DF Defender (football) Within the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....	Ekaterina Lutskevich	Bobruichanka
	DF Defender (football) Within the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....	Anastasia Shayko	Zorka Minsk
	DF Defender (football) Within the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....	Oksana Shpak	Bobruichanka
	DF Defender (football) Within the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....	Alina Vasilyeva	Minsk
	DF Defender (football) Within the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....	Yana Vyshedko	Zorka Minsk
	MF Midfielder A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...	Olga Aniskovtseva Olga Aniskovtseva Olga Aniskovtseva is an international football midfielder currently playing for SShVSM-Kairat Almaty.She debuted in international competitions in the inaugural UEFA Women's Cup edition in 2001, playing for Bobruichanka...	SShVSM-Kairat CSHVSM CSHVSM-Kairat as used by UEFA or SShVSM-Kairat is a women's football club based in Almaty, Kazakhstan....
	MF Midfielder A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...	Svetlana Astashova	Bobruichanka
	MF Midfielder A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...	Elena Buzinova	Bobruichanka
	MF Midfielder A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...	Marina Huzarevich
	MF Midfielder A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...	Anastasia Kharlanova	Gomel
	MF Midfielder A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...	Natalia Lastochkina	Nadezhda Mogilev
	MF Midfielder A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...	Olga Manzhuk	Bobruichanka
	MF Midfielder A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...	Valentina Nizhegorodova	Minsk
	MF Midfielder A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...	Olga Novikova Olga Novikova Olga Novikova is a Kazakhstani ski-orienteering competitor. She was born in Kazakhstan, and later moved to Russia. She is Junior World Champion from 2004. She won a silver medal at the World Ski Orienteering Championships in 2007, competing for Russia...	Zorky Krasnogorsk
	MF Midfielder A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...	Tatiana Shramok	Lehenda Chernihiv
	MF Midfielder A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...	Anna Tatarynova	Zhilstroy-1 Kharkiv
	FW Striker Forwards, also known as strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...	Ekaterina Avkhimovich	Ryazan Ryazan VDV Ryazan VDV is a Russian women's football team from Ryazan.Founded in 1996, it was one of the leading women's team between 1997 and 2002, winning one League and two Cups in the last years of the twentieth century...
	FW Striker Forwards, also known as strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...	Ekaterina Khavanskaya	Kubanochka Kubanochka Krasnodar FK Kubanochka Krasnodar is a Russian women's football team, currently competing in the country's top category.Founded in 1988 as Zhemchuzhina Krasnodar, it took its current shortly after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Kubanochka chained two consecutive promotions to reach the top division in...
	FW Striker Forwards, also known as strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...	Tatiana Loginova	Bobruichanka
	FW Striker Forwards, also known as strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...	Hanna Pilipenka	Ryazan Ryazan VDV Ryazan VDV is a Russian women's football team from Ryazan.Founded in 1996, it was one of the leading women's team between 1997 and 2002, winning one League and two Cups in the last years of the twentieth century...
	FW Striker Forwards, also known as strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...	Irina Tretyakova	Bobruichanka
	FW Striker Forwards, also known as strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...	Elvira Urazaeva	Zorka Minsk

External links

• Belarus National Football official site