Friday, at Chonburi Stadium in Thailand, was a day to forget for Nepal. The reason: the Nepali team conceded a dozen goals against the hosts at the AFC U17 Women’s Asian Cup Qualifiers’ group stage. To make it worse, Nepal did not get a single consolation goal, and got knocked out of the Qualifier.

Nepal had to face two opponents in the group stage, facing one another in a single round-robin format. Nepal faced Turkmenistan first, on October 15, and played a goalless draw in the match affected by rain.

Earning only one point in the match against Turkmenistan, the team against whom Nepal expected three points, the Gorkhalis were hopeful of a positive result against Thailand, the team that defeated Turkmenistan 17-0 in the group’s opening fixture on October 13.

However, the result against Thailand was something they would never want to remember in the future.

Thailand scored the first in the sixth minute, with Monthida Numnuan as the scorer.

The hosts did not have to wait for long to keep the score ticking. Within a minute, Kurisara Limpwanich made it 2-0; Pattaramon Saengta scored the team’s third goal.

Numnuan scored her second, and team’s fourth, in the 17th, while Charlotte Sitiprason made it 5-0 in the 19th.

Limpwanich, with three more consecutive goals in the 32nd, 37th and 45+1 minutes, took the score to 8-0 before the first half ended.

Already at a devastated point, Nepal did not have any hope of a remontada. All they focused on in the second half was playing more defensively and restricting the opponent from scoring further.

And compared to the first 45 minutes, Nepal managed to concede only four more.

Lipwanich was the first to score in the second half—in the 52nd minute. It was her fifth individual goal, and the team’s ninth.

Thailand reached the double figures with an own goal, by Nepal’s Ashika Karki, in the 56th.

Sitiprason, with her second, made it 11-0 in the 62nd minute. Nepal held their nerves for the next 38 minutes as the 90 minutes of regulation time concluded. But Saengta made it a dozen with her second goal in the second minute of additional time.

Thailand, with two wins in two games, qualified for the 2026 Asian Cup in China. Nepal will now soon be landing at the Tribhuvan International Airport.