 In 1997, following FIFA orders, the IFA established a women's national team ahead of the 1999 FIFA women's World Cup.Rony Schneider was appointed as team manager and supervised a series of trials, which resulted in a 26 women squad, which played its first official match against Romania on 2 November 1997.As of April 2015, the national team played 95 matches (31 wins, 7 draws, 57 losses), scoring 111 goals.