Ayeyawady W.F.C.

Ayeyawady
Full nameAyeyawady Women's Football Club
NicknameThe Ayeyawady
Short nameAYA
Founded2024 (2024)
GroundKoe Thein Stadium
Capacity2500
PresidentU Moe Aung Chaw
Head coachKumiko Tashiro
LeagueMyanmar Women League
2025–261st (Champions)

Ayeyawady Women's Football Club (Burmese: ဧရာဝတီအမျိုးသမီး ဘောလုံးအသင်း) is a 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, by winning the league title undefeated and qualifying for the AFC Women's Champions League.[1]

History

Formation and debut (2024)

Ayeyawady Women's Football Club 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 footballer and native of Nyaungdon Township, Than Than Htwe, returned after a 9 year hiatus to play for the club.[3]

2025–26: Historic championship

At the beginning of the 2025–26 season, Ayeyawady W.F.C. signed Myanmar midfielder Phyu Phyu Win. In mid-2025, they signed Alyssa Ube from the Philippines and Kirara Ogawa from Japan.[4][5] These international signings were a first for Myanmar's professional women's clubs and presented a major change for the league.[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,[8] The ASEAN Football Federation also reported on their win.[1] with 40 points. They were presented with 500 million kyat as the grand prize for the championship.[9] The club held a trophy parade in Pathein for their local community.[10] Ayeyawady later signed Bangladeshi women’s player Ritu Porna Chakma on loan, to compete in the AFC Champions League.[11] [12] Also called former player Alyssa Ube and Thailand U-20 women's player Nachanok Kosonsaksakul[13]

2026–27 season

In August 2026, they played their first-ever AFC Champions League match against Albirex Jurong, winning by 4–0 at Thuwunna Stadium.[14][15] The team also signed American footballer McKenna Davidson who previously played for the Philippine club Stallion Laguna and in the UEFA Women's Champions League. In an interview, Davidson expressed that there was a lot support for the local women's league in Myanmar, seeing a full stadium for her debut game with Ayeyawady.[16]

Players

Current squad

As of June 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.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  MYA Ei Sandar Zaw
2 DF  MYA Thae Ei Hlaing
3 DF  MYA Nan Phyu Phwe
4 DF  MYA Zune Yu Ya Oo
5 MF  MYA Phyu Phyu Win
6 MF  MYA Naw Htet Htet Wai (vice-captain)
7 FW  MYA May Htet Lu
8 MF  USA McKenna Davidson
9 FW  MYA Su Su Khin
10 FW  MYA San Thaw Thaw
11 MF  MYA Lae Lae Hlaing (captain)
12 MF  MYA Htet Htet Win
13 MF  PHI Alyssa Ube
No. Pos. Nation Player
15 MF  MYA Nang Khine Zin Myint
17 MF  BAN Ritu Porna Chakma
18 DF  MYA Naing Naing Win
19 DF  MYA Phyu Phyu Kyaw
22 DF  MYA Phoo Phoo Khin Kyaw
23 GK  MYA Pan Nu Wai
26 MF  MYA L L Seng Htoi Nan
28 MF  MYA May Htone May Zitar
29 MF  MYA Hnin Ei Lwin
30 DF  MYA Khin Moe Win
35 GK  MYA Khin Khin Kyaw
47 MF  MYA Zi Tar Shin

Kits and sponsors

Period Kit manufacturer Title sponsor Co-sponsor
2024–2025 Myanmar Glory Sport Livan
2026– Guotai Auto Oppo
GYCT

Ayeyawady partnered with West Ham United, who provides support for Ayeyarwady's sports science. BTL Medical Myanmar is club's partner for athletic testing and rehabilitation equipment.[17]

Honours

Domestic league

Domestic record

Season League Top goalscorer Coach
Div.Pos.Pl.WDLGSGAP NameGoals
2024[18] 1st3rd18837312627 San Thaw Thaw19 Aung Kyaw Zan
2025–26 1st1st161240441140 San Thaw Thaw20
2026–27 1st

Continental record

All results list Ayeyawady's goal tally first.

Season Competition Round Opponent Result
2026–27 AFC Champions League Preliminary stage Singapore Albirex Jurong 4–0
Lebanon No Limits 8–0
Chinese Taipei NTC Hang Yuan 1–0
Group stage To Be Determined
To Be Determined
To Be Determined

References

  1. 1 2 "Ayeyawady FC - Champions". ASEAN Football Federation. Retrieved 31 January 2026.
  2. ↑ "7 teams to compete in 2024 Myanmar Women's League". Myanmar Digital News. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ "ဧရာဝတီအက်ဖ်စီ အမျိုးသမီးအသင်းမှ ဖိလစ်ပိုင်တောင်ပံကစားသမား Alyssa Jane Ube ကို ခေါ်ယူ" [Ayeyawady FC Women's Team Calls in Filipina Winger Alyssa Jane Ube]. World2MM. 21 December 2026.
  5. ↑ "ဂျပန်ကွင်းလယ်ကစားသမား Kirara Ogawa ကို ဧရာဝတီအက်ဖ်စီ အမျိုးသမီးအသင်း ခေါ်ယူ" [Japanese Midfielder Kirara Ogawa Called In to Ayeyawady FC Women's Team]. Popular Myanmar. 18 December 2025.
  6. ↑ "မြန်မာအမျိုးသမီးဘောလုံးလိဂ်ရဲ့ ပထမဆုံး ပြည်ပကစားသမားခေါ်ယူမှုအဖြစ် ဧရာဝတီအက်ဖ်စီက ဖိလစ်ပိုင်တိုက်စစ်ကစားသမားကို ခေါ်ယူ". Global Reporter. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
  7. ↑ "ယခုနှစ်သည် မြန်မာ့ဘောလုံးလောကအတွက် အမျိုးသမီးပြိုင်ပွဲများမှာ အပေါင်းလက္ခဏာဆောင်သည့် အားပေးမှုများ ရရှိလာဟုဆို" [This Year Brought Positive Encouragement to Women's Sports]. Popular Myanmar. 13 November 2025.
  8. ↑ "Ayeyawady clinch maiden Myanmar Women's League title". Global New Light of Myanmar. Retrieved 1 February 2026.
  9. ↑ "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.
  10. ↑ "Ayeyawady FC to celebrate MWL title with trophy event in Pathein". Global New Light of Myanmar. Retrieved 3 February 2026.
  11. ↑ "Ritu Porna Chakma Secures Historic Move to Myanmar Women's League". glive24.com. Retrieved 5 May 2026.
  12. ↑ "Ritu Parna to play in Myanmar League". dailynewnation.com. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
  13. ↑ "မြန်မာအမျိုးသမီးလိဂ်တွင် ဧရာဝတီအသင်း ထိုင်း ယူ-၂၀ လက်ရွေးစင် တိုက်စစ်ကစားသမားကိုထပ်မံ ခေါ်ယူ". Popular News. Retrieved 14 May 2026.
  14. ↑ "Ayeyawady FC - Women got off to a resounding start in the AFC Women's Champions League 2026/27™ Preliminary Stage as they outplayed FC Jurong of Singapore 4-0 at the Thuwunna Football Stadium on Monday". .the-afc.com. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  15. ↑ ""သာမာန်အဆင့်" တွေ မဟုတ်လို့ ခြေစစ်ပွဲအောင်ဖို့ယုံကြည်တယ်" [I am confident that we will qualify because we are not at "normal" levels.]. Media Queen (in Burmese). 15 August 2026.
  16. ↑ ""ဧရာဝတီ" နဲ့ အောင်မြင်မှုတွေရဖို့ မျှော်လင့်နေတဲ့ "အမေရိကန်သူ"" ["American" hoping to achieve success with "Ayeyawady"]. Media Queen. 15 August 2026.
  17. ↑ "ဧရာဝတီအက်ဖ်စီ အမျိုးသမီးအသင်း၏ ပါတနာအဖြစ် BTL Medical Myanmar မှ လက်တွဲမည်" [Ayeyarwady FC Women's Team partners with BTL Medical Myanmar]. Popular Myanmar. 24 September 2025.
  18. ↑ "Myanmar (Women) 2024". Rec Sport Soccer Statistics Foundation.
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