Mongolia

Beginning

With women's association football starting to flourish in Asia and especially in East Asia. The Mongolian Football Federation announced new policies to improve the women's game in the country, the federation appointed the Japanese coach Iki Yoji to support women's football development. Later in 2016, the Japanese coach was reappointed as coach of the U-16 girls' team in which within one year period, the team debuted internationally by participating in category C of the East Asian U-16 girls competition in 2017. History was made as the Mongolian team managed to score their first goal internationally and win their first match since debuting. The MFF had initial plans to debut the senior team in the 2017 EAFF E-1 Football Championship, however, they withdrew before the preliminary round started.

In 2018 the EAFF announced that Mongolia will be hosting the 2019 EAFF E-1 Football Championship Preliminary Round, Mongolia started its international football journey led by their coach Ganbold Tsedevsuren with a win against Northern Mariana Islands in which they came from behind of two-goal, to win the match three goals to two in front of a home crowd with an estimated 421 attendance with Narmandakh Namuunaa scoring Mongolia's first goal. In their second match against Guam the Mongolian have beat the odds with an impressive one-nil win, with 6 points Mongolia led the table. The third matchday saw Mongolia and Macau play to a scoreless draw in their last match. History was made as Mongolia advanced to the second preliminary round winning the first round undefeated.

In October 2018, the Mongolian federation announced its participation in the 2020 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament to be the first major tournament outside of East Asia. the team was drawn to face Tajikistan the host and the Philippines, Singapore and Chinese Taipei.