The Saudis traveled to the Maldives to beat the Seychelles 2-0 in a pleasant which comes only a month after the ultimate crew was named.
It will now face the Maldives in its second match on Thursday on the National Stadium in Malé.
The crew was congratulated by Brazilian soccer legend Pelé, who referred to as it a “historic day.”
“I need to congratulate the @saudiFF and their Women’s National Football Team for his or her first ever official @FIFAcom match,” he wrote on Twitter.
“Today is a historic day not just for you, however for everybody who loves soccer.”
Saudi Arabia is managed by German Monica Stubb who famous the importance of the tie even earlier than a ball was kicked.
“We are going through a historic second for Saudi ladies’s soccer,” she mentioned.
“And I wish to ask the gamers to get pleasure from this match and to be proud to be on this record and to have the chance to reside this expertise, which is barely the start of what’s to come back.”
It is one other gesture towards loosening a few of the strict guidelines which can be nonetheless imposed on ladies dwelling within the ultra-conservative kingdom.
Until the previous couple of years, Saudi ladies had been principally barred from taking part in sports activities in public.
However, Saudi leaders have been highlighting progress on gender points at a time of scrutiny within the West over Saudi Arabia’s human rights report.
In 2020, it launched a ladies’s soccer league which organizers mentioned can be “another main leap ahead for the way forward for our nation.”