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The Maltese Women’s National Team To Face Denmark In Opening World Cup Qualifier The local women’s national team will be launching their 2023 Women’s World Cup qualification campaign with a trip to Denmark on September 16! Then, on September 21, Mark Gatt’s first home game will take place when Malta will host Bosnia-Herzegovina, who were in Pot 3. Meanwhile, in Group E, Malta was pitted alongside 2022 EUFA Women’s Euro participants Denmark and Russia, Bosnia, Azerbaijan, and Montenegro. st, before taking on Azerbaijan 5 days later.
The Malta women’s national team will be one of the record 51 entrants in the upcoming 2023 World Cup draw, scheduled for April 30. Malta, ranked 94, have moved up one pot following the successful UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 qualifying campaign and will be now placed in the fifth among the six pots that were announced by UEFA. In Pot 5, Malta will be joined Kosovo, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Cyprus, Faroe Islands and Latvia. Moreover, Mark Gatt’s side have Turkey who played Malta in a friendly last year and Georgia, whom Malta beat twice in the recent qualifiers, joining them in this pot. Continue ...
Mark Gatt has been confirmed in his role as coach of the Malta women’s national team through to the end of the 2023 Women’s World Cup qualifying competition. The Executive Committee of the Malta Football Association ratified Gatt’s contract extension at today’s ongoing meeting. Gatt, 49, has been in charge of the women’s national side since 2015. Under his guidance, the team has made significant and sustained improvement, culminating in the very positive UEFA Women’s EURO 2022 qualifying campaign that saw Malta obtain a record number of 10 points, finishing fourth in Group B.
The Malta women’s team are reaping the rewards of their remarkable progress as our girls have made most progress in this month’s FIFA Women’s World Ranking, moving up 16 places and recording a significant point-increase of 37 points. This improvement comes on the back of the team’s away wins in Georgia (114th) and Israel (68th) with Mark Gatt’s team ending 2020 in 85th place, a ranking they have not attained for three years. Indeed, 2020 has been a positive year for the Malta women’s team who have concluded their UEFA Women’s EURO qualifiers with a record tally of 10 points.