However, in recent years there have been national teams formed in various age groups, and the sport is gaining popularity.
Women's football officially began in the country in 1998, and faced a number of structural, population and geographic hurdles.
Participation increased for several years, with girls eligible to play on school teams with boys at the F, E and D junior levels.
[3] In 2008, LFV created "Mädchen am Ball", a project designed to encourage girls to take up the sport.
[4] This program was still active in 2011, with LFV holding a pair of introductory training courses for girls in grades 2 to 5 in May of that year.
[6] In 2010, FC Triesen held a training day for junior and senior women's players, with the goal of encouraging them to get more involved in the sport and get in the practice of playing every Saturday.
[7] In 2012, the program saw FC Triesenberg become the first junior girls team to participate in an LFV sponsored tournament.
[4] Representatives from the country participated in a 2014 study group called "Women´s football in Iceland" as visitors.
Their delegation was headed by Monika Burgmeier, along with top level women's club coaches Stefan Negele, Anton Kindle and Walter Vogt.
In September 2017, as part of a program with FIFA, kits, safety equipment and training materials were provided to 200 girls in the country to encourage their participation in the sport.
[8] The first women's club side in the country was FC Ruggell, who were founded in 1987 and played in the first division of the Meisterschaftsbetrieb des Ostschweizer Fussballverbandes (OFV) in eastern Switzerland.
[14] Playing in Switzerland is the norm for most women's clubs in the country as a result of the size of their population and its location.
[1] Liechtenstein women's clubs that have played in Switzerland based leagues include FC Ruggell and Triesen/Balzers.
In 2017, three women from the country played for FC St. Gallen / Staad including Katja Beck, Sophia Hürlimann and Lena Göppel.
[1] FC Triesen is one of the football clubs in the country that has been working on developing female players on the grassroots level.
[1][21] Progress on the development front as a result of activities by the LFV were part of the reason that Radio Liechtenstein cited as why in September 2017, it was the time to create a senior women's national team.
[1] The LFV took the initial steps in building the national women's team for the first time in January 2020, starting with a training camp where older players were called up from clubs in Austria or Switzerland, joining their under-19 compatriots.
Liechtenstein played their first matches, both unofficial, against Grasshopper Club Zürich Frauen U17s and FC Bühler on 12 and 26 January.
They will make their senior debut in international women's football with a friendly against Luxembourg in Ruggell on 11 April 2021.
Herrman, a former player in the top women's league in the country, chose Monica Burgmeier to serve as her assistant coach.
Their victory against Macedonia was the first time a Liechtenstein women's national football team had ever won an international match across all age levels.
Following this ceremony at Sportplatz Blumenau in Triesen, the national U-19 team played their first game in their history against East Switzerland women's U-19 club side St.Gallen-Goldach.