Spain Women's National Football Team 2024 Players, Squad, Stadium, Kit, and much more

The Spain women’s national football team (Spanish: Selección Española de Fútbol Femenina) has represented Spain in international women’s football competitions since 1980 and is controlled by the Royal Spanish Football Federation, the governing body for football in Spain.

Here this article, you will get to know about Spain Women’s National Football Team 2024 Players, Squad, History, Stadium, Nickname, Kits, and more.

Spain Women’s National Football Team Profile Summary

Nickname(s)	La Roja (The Red One)
Association	Real Federación Española de Fútbol (RFEF)
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Jorge Vilda
Most caps	Alexia Putellas (100)
Top scorer	Jennifer Hermoso (46)
FIFA code	ESP

About Spain Women’s National Football Team

Spain has qualified twice for the FIFA Women’s World Cup and three times for the UEFA Women’s Championship, reaching the semi-finals in 1997. In contrast to these modest senior achievements, their youth teams have one of the best world records throughout the early 21st century and enjoyed great success in 2018 in particular, winning two continental titles (Under-17 and Under-19) and reaching two World Cup finals (World Cup winner Under-17 World and runners-up in the Under-20 World Cup This was followed four years later when they won the 2022 Under-20 World Cup and the 2022 Under-17 World Cup in the same calendar year.

Spain broke into the top 10 of the FIFA international rankings in the early 2020s. Its players picked up the 2020 UEFA awards for best goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, striker and best overall player, the first time that players from a single nation win all categories.

Spain Women’s National Football Team History

Early years

After clandestine women’s soccer clubs began to appear in Spain around 1970, one of their promoters, Rafael Muga, decided to create a national team. It was an unofficial project since soccer was considered a sport not suitable for women both by the Royal Spanish Football Federation and by the Women’s Section of the National Movement, which organized women’s sports in Franco’s Spain. Asked about the initiative in January 1971, the president of the RFEF, José Luis Pérez Payá, replied I am not against women’s football, but I don’t like it either. I don’t think it’s feminine from an aesthetic point of view. Women are not favored with shirts and pants. Any regional dress would suit them better.

2010s: First World Cups

Spain achieved 16 years later a place for the final phase of a Eurocup. The team qualified for the 2013 UEFA Women’s Euro Cup, after beating Scotland in the qualifying playoff. In the group stage, a win over England and a draw against Russia were enough to qualify for the quarter-finals, where they were knocked out by Norway.

Two years later, Spain qualified for the World Cup for the first time, winning nine of their ten qualifying matches. In the group stage of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Their campaign, however, ended in disaster. Spain managed just a 1-1 draw against the weakest team in the group, Costa Rica, before losing 0-1 to Brazil. In the last game with South Korea, they lost 1-2 after an early lead, becoming the worst European team in the tournament. After the World Cup, the 23 players on the roster issued a collective statement for the end of Ignacio Quereda’s reign as head coach. Later that summer, Quereda resigned and was replaced by Jorge Vilda, who had previously coached the under-19 team and was on the shortlist for the 2014 FIFA World Coach of the Year.

2020s: Mediocre Golden Generation

Spain qualified undefeated for the UEFA Women’s Euro 2022, assembled what would be the strongest Spanish team in history and ranked among the main contenders for the title. However, just before the tournament began, Spain suffered two major setbacks, with both Jennifer Hermoso and Alexia Putellas missing due to injury. Without the two talismans in the squad, Spain fell short of expectations in the tournament, only reaching the quarterfinals in second place after Germany. Spain then performed well against England, even taking the lead on 54′ from Esther González, but conceding a late Ella Toone goal before Georgia Stanway crushed Spain’s hope of winning a major European title after extra time.