Kosovo women's national football team

The Kosovo women's national football team (Albanian: Kombëtarja e futbollit të femrave të Kosovës; Serbian: Женска фудбалска репрезентација Косова, romanized: Ženska fudbalska reprezentacija Kosova) represents Kosovo in international women's football and is controlled by the Football Federation of Kosovo.

On 6 February 2013, FIFA gave Kosovo the permission to play international friendly games against other member associations.^[3] On 13 January 2014, there was a change of this permit that forbade Kosovo to play against the national teams of the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Club teams were also allowed to play friendlies and this happened after a FIFA Emergency Committee meeting. However, it was stipulated that clubs and representative teams of the Football Federation of Kosovo may not display national symbols as flags, emblems, etc. or play national anthems. The go-ahead was given after meetings between the Football Association of Serbia and Sepp Blatter.

In September 2015 at an UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Malta was approved the request from the federation to the admission in UEFA to the next Ordinary Congress to be held in Budapest.^[4] On 3 May 2016, at the Ordinary Congress. Kosovo were accepted into UEFA after members voted 28–24 in favor of Kosovo.^[5][6] Ten days later, Kosovo was accepted in FIFA during their 66th congress in Mexico with 141 votes in favour and 23 against.^[7]

Kosovo began to make their debut in the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification, where Kosovo was drawn with Albania, Greece and Malta.^[8] The Kosovars despite the efforts failed to qualify and finished last in the group with three losses.

After failing to qualify for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, Kosovo participated in the UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying, together with Estonia, Russia, Slovenia, Turkey and 2019 World Cup runners-up finisher Netherlands,^[9] the Kosovars created their first big surprise, defeating Turkey in a 2–0 home win, which was also the team's first-ever competitive win,^[10] victory which increased the enthusiasm which unfortunately did not last long and after the positive results began to experience a decline which resulted in disqualification.

The Kosovo women's national football team has been known by the nickname "Dardanet (Dardanets)". Prior to 2016, the team was also sometimes referred to as "Shqipëria B" ("Albania B") due to the exchange of players between the national teams of Kosovo and Albania, which led to informal references to both teams as reserve (B) sides of one another. Kosovo received this nickname because several players joined the team after limited opportunities with Albania, while the Albanian national team was occasionally described as "Kosovo B" because of the significant presence of players of Kosovo Albanian descent in its squad.^[11]

The Kosovo women's national football team wears blue jerseys for home matches, white jerseys for away matches, and black jerseys for neutral venues; the black kit is primarily used as an alternative kit, following the tradition of the Kosovo men's team.

On 5 October 2016, Kosovo signed a four-year contract with the Spanish sportswear company Kelme, becoming the team's first official kit supplier following the country's membership in UEFA and FIFA.^[12] On 23 February 2022, Kosovo signed a three-year contract with the Italian sportswear company Erreà, making it the team's current kit supplier.^[13] From June 2026, the German sportswear company Adidas is set to become the team's next kit supplier.^[14]

Kosovo's home stadium is the Fadil Vokrri Stadium, which has a capacity of 13,500 and is the second-largest national stadium in the country. The previous national stadium was the Adem Jashari Olympic Stadium, which is currently undergoing renovation. While matches are primarily played at the Fadil Vokrri Stadium, alternative venues have been used for specific purposes. The FFK National Educational Camp and Gjakova City Stadium have mainly hosted friendly matches despite not meeting UEFA stadium category requirements, while the Zahir Pajaziti Stadium was used during the period when the Fadil Vokrri Stadium underwent surface renovation.^[15]

On 12 July 2019, the construction of Kosovo National Stadium began,^[16] and two days later the project of this stadium was presented which would have a capacity of 30,000 seats,^[17] but after the presentation, the construction was suspended for political reasons related to the location.^[18]

• The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

Legend

  Win   Draw   Lose   Void or postponed   Fixture

• The following players were called up for the 2027 World Cup qualification matches against Gibraltar and Croatia, on 3 and 7 March 2026.^[19]

The following players have been called up for the team within the last 12 months and are still available for selection.

On 19 January 2017, in Nyon, it was decided that Kosovo should be part in Group 2 of the 2019 FIFA World Cup qualification, together with Albania, Greece and Malta.^[8] On 6 April 2017, Kosovo made their debut on 2019 FIFA World Cup qualifications with a 3–2 away defeat against Albania.^[20]

On 21 February 2019, in Nyon, it was decided that Kosovo should be part in Group A of the UEFA Euro 2021 qualifying, together with Estonia, Russia, Slovenia, Turkey and 2019 World Cup runners-up finisher Netherlands.^[9] On 30 August 2019, Kosovo made their debut on UEFA European Championship qualifying with a 2–0 home win against Turkey, which was also the team's first-ever competitive win.^[10]

On 2 May 2023, in Nyon, it was decided that Kosovo should be part of League C in Group 5 of the 2023–24 UEFA Nations League, together with Bulgaria and North Macedonia.^[21]

Kosovo has so far participated in four editions of the Turkish Women's Cup, the first time was in the 2017 edition, when Kosovo lost in all three matches of this tournament against Poland (0–5), which was also her first international match as a FIFA member, against Romania (0–3) and against the host Turkey (2–4). A year later, Kosovo again participated in the 2018 edition, when they lost against France (0–6), Ukraine (0–2), draw against Kazakhstan (1–1) and win against Northern Ireland (1–0).

As of 25 February 2025

Head-to-head records are included only matches as FIFA member.

• Sport in Kosovo
  • Football in Kosovo
    • Women's football in Kosovo

Men's

• Senior
• Under-21
• Under-19
• Under-17
• Under-15
• Futsal

Women's

• Under-19
• Under-17

• Official website (in Albanian and English)
• Kosovo (women) News about the team
• Kosovo (women) on Instagram