Tajikistan national football team

Infobox National football team
Name = Tajikistan
Badge = Tajikistan_FA.gif
Nickname = the crown
Association = Tajikistan National
Football Federation
Confederation = AFC (Asia)
Coach = flagicon|HUN Tibor Nyilasi
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Top scorer = Takhir Muminov - 10
Home Stadium = Pamir Stadium
FIFA Trigramme = TJK
FIFA Rank = 154
1st ranking date = November 1994
FIFA max = 114
FIFA max date = July 1997
FIFA min = 180
FIFA min date = July 2003
Elo Rank = 127

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First game = flagicon|Tajik SSR Tajikistan 2 - 2 fb-rt|Uzbekistan (Dushanbe, Tajikistan; 17 June, 1992)
Largest win = Flagicon|Tajikistan Tajikistan 16 - 0 fb-rt|Guam (Tabriz, Iran; 26 November, 2000)
Largest loss = fb|Iran 9 - 0 Tajikistan Flagicon|Tajikistan (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; April 10, 2005)
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Regional name = AFC Asian Cup
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Regional cup best = The Tajikistan national football team is the national team of Tajikistan and is controlled by the Tajikistan National Football Federation. After the split of Soviet Union, they played their first match against Uzbekistan on June 17, 1992.

They did not enter the World Cup qualifying competition until France 1998, recording four victories in their preliminary group stage including a 5-0 triumph over Turkmenistan before being knocked out by China.

In a three-team qualifying section for Korea/Japan 2002, they recorded a record 16-0 win over Guam before losing 2-0 to Iran. After beating Bangladesh 4-0 on aggregate in the preliminary round of qualifiers for Germany 2006, they held AFC Asian Cup semi-finalists and eventual group winners Bahrain to a goalless draw on 31 March 2004.

The team won its first international tournament, the inaugural AFC Challenge Cup, in 2006, beating Sri Lanka 4-0 in Dhaka.

World Cup record

*1930 to 1994 - "Did not enter, was part of USSR"
*1998 to 2010 - "Did not qualify"

Asian Nations Cup record

*1956 to 1992 - "Did not enter, was part of USSR"
*1996 to 2004 - "Did not qualify"
*2007 - "Did not enter"

Asian Games record

* 1951 to 1990 - "Did not enter, was part of USSR"
* 1994 - "Did not enter"
* 1998 - Second Round
* 2002 - "Did not enter"
* 2006 - Round 1

*Note: As of 2002 only U23 teams permitted to take part in Asian Games Football Tournament. So in 2006 U23 team took part in the tournament.

AFC Challenge Cup record

*2006 - Winners
*2008 - Runners Up

Honours

*AFC Challenge Cup 2006 - Winners
*ECO Cup 1993 - 3rd Place

Results and Upcoming fixtures

Recent results

Current squad

The following players were called up for the 2008 AFC Challenge Cup final round.

Recent Call Ups 2007

Famous Former Players

Rashid Rakhimov

Mukhsin Mukhamadiev

Sergey Mandreko

Arsen Avakov

Shukhrat Mamadzhanov

Tohirjon Muminov

Rahmatullo Fuzailov

Dzhamolidin Oev

Ibrahim Rabimov