Ayeyawady W.F.C.
| Full name | Ayeyawady Women's Football Club |
|---|---|
| Nickname | The Ayeyawady |
| Short name | AYA |
| Founded | 2024 |
| President | U Moe Aung Chaw |
| Coach | U Aung Kyaw Zan |
| League | Myanmar Women League |
| 2025-26 | 1st (Champions) |
Ayeyawady Women's Football Club (Burmese: ဧရာဝတီအက်ဖ်စီ အမျိုးသမီး ဘောလုံးအသင်း) is a Burmese professional women's association football club based in the Ayeyawady Region, Myanmar. The club competes in the Myanmar Women League, the top-tier of women's football in the country.
The club achieved historical milestones in the 2025–26 season, becoming the first Myanmar women's club to sign international players and winning their league title undefeated.[1]
History
Formation and Debut (2024)
Ayeyawady Women's Football Club was started in 2024. The team is managed by U Moe Aung Chaw and was created to bring professional football to the Ayeyawady Region.[2] In their first year, the club finished in third place, and their striker San Thaw Thaw became the league’s top scorer with 19 goals.
Retired national team footballer and native of Nyaungdon Township, Than Than Htwe returned after a 9 year hiatus to play in the club's Week 9 match as a midfielder.[3]
2025–26: Historic Championship and Foreign Transfers
At the beginning of the 2025–26 season, Ayeyawady W.F.C signed Myanmar midfielder Phyu Phyu Win from Myawady W.F.C. In mid-2025, they became the first ever women's team in Myanmar to sign foreign players, bringing in Alyssa Ube from the Philippines and Kirara Ogawa from Japan.[4][5] These signings were a major change in how professional clubs in Myanmar operate.[6]
The 2025 Match between Ayeyawady and Yangon United was the most watched women's football match in league history, according to the Myanmar Football Federation.[7]
On 31 January 2026, Ayeyawady won the league title with an undefeated record (12 wins and 4 draws in 16 matches). This achievement made them the champions of the 2025–26 season with an undefeated record.[8] The ASEAN Football Federation also reported on their win.[1] They finished their final match against ISPE FC to a goalless draw, winning the championship with 40 points. They were presented with 500 million kyat as the grand prize for the championship.[9] To celebrate this first national title, the club held a trophy parade in Pathein for their local community.[10]
Players
Current squad
- As of January 2026
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Kits and sponsors
| Period | Kit manufacturer | Title sponsor |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 - | Glory Sport | Livan |
Ayeyawady is also partnered with Premier League team West Ham United, who provides support for Ayeyarwady's sports science. They are the first Myanmar women's team to have a Sports Science Partner with BTL Medical Myanmar for athletic testing and rehabilitation equipment.[11]
Honours
Domestic League
- Myanmar Women League
- Champions (1): 2025–26
- Third Place (1): 2024
Domestic record
| Season | League | Top goalscorer | Coach | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Name | Goals | ||
| 2024[12] | 1st | 3rd | 18 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 31 | 26 | 27 | San Thaw Thaw | 19 | Aung Kyaw Zan |
| 2025-26 | 1st | 1st | 16 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 44 | 11 | 40 | San Thaw Thaw | 20 | |
References
- ^ a b "Ayeyawady FC - Champions". ASEAN Football Federation. Retrieved 31 January 2026.
- ^ "7 teams to compete in 2024 Myanmar Women's League". Myanmar Digital News. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ^ "ယနေ့ ယှဉ်ပြိုင်ကစားသည့် ဧရာဝတီအမျိုးသမီးအသင်း ပွဲထွက်စာရင်းတွင် ကွင်းလယ်ကစားသမား သန်းသန်းထွေး ပါဝင်လာ" [Midfielder Than Than Htwe Added to Ayeyarwady Women's Team's Starting Lineup for Today's Match]. Popular Myanmar. 23 July 2024.
- ^ "ဧရာဝတီအက်ဖ်စီ အမျိုးသမီးအသင်းမှ ဖိလစ်ပိုင်တောင်ပံကစားသမား Alyssa Jane Ube ကို ခေါ်ယူ" [Ayeyawady FC Women's Team Calls in Filipina Winger Alyssa Jane Ube]. World2MM. 21 December 2026.
- ^ "ဂျပန်ကွင်းလယ်ကစားသမား Kirara Ogawa ကို ဧရာဝတီအက်ဖ်စီ အမျိုးသမီးအသင်း ခေါ်ယူ" [Japanese Midfielder Kirara Ogawa Called In to Ayeyawady FC Women's Team]. Popular Myanmar. 18 December 2025.
- ^ "မြန်မာအမျိုးသမီးဘောလုံးလိဂ်ရဲ့ ပထမဆုံး ပြည်ပကစားသမားခေါ်ယူမှုအဖြစ် ဧရာဝတီအက်ဖ်စီက ဖိလစ်ပိုင်တိုက်စစ်ကစားသမားကို ခေါ်ယူ". Global Reporter. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
- ^ "ယခုနှစ်သည် မြန်မာ့ဘောလုံးလောကအတွက် အမျိုးသမီးပြိုင်ပွဲများမှာ အပေါင်းလက္ခဏာဆောင်သည့် အားပေးမှုများ ရရှိလာဟုဆို" [This Year Brought Positive Encouragement to Women's Sports]. Popular Myanmar. 13 November 2025.
- ^ "Ayeyawady clinch maiden Myanmar Women's League title". Global New Light of Myanmar. Retrieved 1 February 2026.
- ^ "မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဘောလုံးအဖွဲ့ချုပ်၊ မြန်မာနေရှင်နယ်လိဂ်ကော်မတီက ကြီးမှူးကျင်းပခဲ့သည့် Myanmar Women League 2025-26 အမှတ်ပေးဘောလုံးပြိုင်ပွဲတွင် ဧရာဝတီအက်ဖ်စီအမျိုးသမီးအသင်းက ရှုံးပွဲမရှိစံချိန်ဖြင့် အမှတ်ပေးဆုဖလားကို ဆွတ်ခူးရရှိ" [Ayeyarwady FC Women's Team wins Myanmar National League Committee's Myanmar Women League 2025-26 Championship with an Undefeated Record and Receive Trophy.]. Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs (Myanmar). 31 January 2026.
- ^ "Ayeyawady FC to celebrate MWL title with trophy event in Pathein". Global New Light of Myanmar. Retrieved 3 February 2026.
- ^ "ဧရာဝတီအက်ဖ်စီ အမျိုးသမီးအသင်း၏ ပါတနာအဖြစ် BTL Medical Myanmar မှ လက်တွဲမည်" [Ayeyarwady FC Women's Team partners with BTL Medical Myanmar]. Popular Myanmar. 24 September 2025.
- ^ "Myanmar (Women) 2024". Rec Sport Soccer Statistics Foundation.