Afghanistan national football team

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Afghanistan

Nickname(s)	Team Melli تیم ملی ("The National Team")
Association	Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF)
Confederation	AFC (Asia)
Head coach	Mohammad Yousef Kargar
Most caps	Hafizullah Qadami (25)
Top scorer	Mohammad Saber Rohparwar (25)
Home stadium	Ghazi Stadium
FIFA code	AFG
FIFA ranking	187
Highest FIFA ranking	173 (July 2006)
Lowest FIFA ranking	204 (January 2003)
Elo ranking	199
Home colours Away colours
First international
Afghanistan 0 - 0 Iran (Afghanistan; August 25, 1941)
Biggest win
Sri Lanka 1 - 2 Afghanistan (Karachi, Pakistan; 11 December 2005) Kyrgyzstan 0 - 1 Afghanistan (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; 7 May 2008)
Biggest defeat
Turkmenistan 11 - 0 Afghanistan (Ashgabat, Turkmenistan; November 19, 2003)
South Asian Football Federation Cup
Appearances	3 (First in 2003)
Best result	Group Stage - 2003, 2005, 2008

The Afghanistan national football team (Persian: تیم ملی فوتبال افغانستان)(Pashto: دافغانستان ملی فوتبال تیم)is the national team of Afghanistan and is controlled by the Afghanistan Football Federation.The national team was founded in 1922 and joined FIFA in 1948 and the AFC in 1954. The Afghanistan national team play their home games at the Ghazi National Olympic Stadium, which was built in the 1920s with a capacity of over 25,000.

Afghanistan's best performance in international competition was in the 1951 Asian Games when they finished 4th. At present Afghanistan has low levels of participation in football compared to many countries^{[citation needed]}, and the game was not encouraged under the Taliban regime from 1996 to 2001. Afghanistan played no international fixtures from 1984 to 2003, since when the team rose to a peak of 173rd in the FIFA World Rankings.

Contents 1 Afghanistan all time record against all nations 2 Fixtures 3 FIFA World Cup Record 3.1 World Cup Qualification Records 4 Olympic Games record 5 AFC Asian Cup record 5.1 Asian Cup Qualification records 6 Asian Games record 7 South Asian Football Federation 7.1 SAFF Championship Record 8 AFC Challenge Cup 8.1 AFC Challenge Cup Record 9 Managers 10 Current squad 11 Top goalscorers 12 References 13 External links

[edit] Afghanistan all time record against all nations

Against	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	GF	GA	GD	% Won
Bangladesh	4	0	3	1	5	8	-3	0%
Bhutan	1	0	0	1	1	3	-2	0%
China PR	1	0	0	1	0	6	-6	0%
Chinese Taipei	1	0	1	0	2	2	0	0%
Hong Kong	2	0	1	1	2	4	-2	0%
India	3	0	0	3	0	8	-8	0%
Iran	2	0	1	1	0	4	-4	0%
Iraq	2	0	0	2	1	7	-6	0%
Japan	1	0	0	1	0	2	-2	0%
Jordan	1	0	0	1	1	6	-5	0%
Kyrgyzstan	2	2	0	0	3	1	+2	100%
Luxembourg	1	0	0	1	0	6	-6	0%
Malaysia	1	0	0	1	0	6	-6	0%
Maldives	1	0	0	1	1	9	-8	0%
Nepal	2	0	1	1	2	6	-4	0%
Pakistan	2	0	0	2	0	2	-2	0%
Philippines	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0%
Qatar	4	0	1	3	3	13	-10	0%
Saudi Arabia	2	0	0	2	0	8	-8	0%
Syria	2	0	0	2	1	5	-4	0%
Korea Republic	1	0	0	1	2	8	-6	0%
Sri Lanka	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	33.33%
Tajikistan	2	0	0	2	0	8	-8	0%
Turkmenistan	3	0	0	3	0	18	-18	0%
Total	45	3	10	32	28	145	-117	6.66%

[edit] Fixtures

No Upcoming Fixtures Confirmed as of 31 May 2009

[edit] FIFA World Cup Record

[edit] World Cup Qualification Records

Asian Qualification Records
Year	Round	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1930 to 2002	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
2006	Did not qualify	2	0	0	2	0	13
2010	Did not qualify	2	0	0	2	1	5
Total		4	0	0	4	1	18

[edit] Olympic Games record

• Afghanistan's only appearance in an Olympic Games football tournament was at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games when they played Luxembourg on 31 July 1948 and lost 6-0.

Olympic Games record
Year	Round	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1900 to 1940	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
1948	Round 3	1	0	0	1	0	6
1952 to 1956	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
1960	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1964 to 2008	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	Best: Round 1	1	0	0	1	0	6

[edit] AFC Asian Cup record

[edit] Asian Cup Qualification records

Asian Cup
Year	Round	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA
1956 to 1972	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
1976	Did not qualify	6	0	1	5	3	18
1980	Did not qualify	4	0	1	3	4	11
1984	Did not qualify	4	0	1	3	1	20
1988 to 2000	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
2004	Did not qualify	2	1	0	1	2	5
2007	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	0/4	16	1	3	12	10	54

[edit] Asian Games record

Year	Round
New Delhi 1951	4th Place
Manila 1954	Round 1
Tokyo 1958 to Bangkok 1998	Did not enter
Busan 2002	Round 1
Doha 2006	Did not enter

• From the 2002 Asian Games Campaign onwards, the U23 team replaced the full team in the tournament.

[edit] South Asian Football Federation

[edit] SAFF Championship Record

SAFF Championship Year Round GP W D L GF GA 1993 Did Not Enter - - - - - - 1995 Did Not Enter - - - - - - 1997 Did Not Enter - - - - - - 1999 Did Not Enter - - - - - - 2003 Group Stage 3 0 0 3 0 6 2005 Group Stage 3 1 0 2 3 11 2008 Group Stage 3 0 2 1 5 7 Total Best: Group Stage 9 1 2 6 8 24 [edit] AFC Challenge Cup [edit] AFC Challenge Cup Record AFC Challenge Cup Year Round GP W D L GF GA 2006 Group Stage 3 0 2 1 3 5 2008 Group Stage 3 0 0 3 0 10 2010 Withdrew[1] - - - - - - Total Best: Group Stage 6 0 2 4 3 15 [edit] Managers This section does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (May 2009) Name Nat Period Matches Wins Draws Losses Honours Holger Obermann January 2003 3 0 0 3 Mir Ali Akbarzada March 2003 2 1 0 1 Ali Askar Lali 2003-2005 7 1 0 6 Klaus Stark 2005-2008 16 2 5 9 Mohammad Yousef Kargar October 2008- - - - - [edit] Current squad This section does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (May 2009) No. Pos. Player DoB (Age) Caps Goals Club GK Shamsuddin Amiri February 12, 1985 (1985-02-12) (age 24) 30 0 Kabul Bank F.C. GK Mansur Faqiryar January 3, 1986 (1986-01-03) (age 23) 0 0 FC Oberneuland GK Emal Gariwal 1 0 DF Bashir Ahmad Saadat September 13, 1981 (1981-09-13) (age 27) 9 0 Maiwand Kabul FC DF Zohib Islam June 15, 1984 (1984-06-15) (age 25) 9 0 Kabul Bank F.C. DF Yusuf Barak February 2, 1984 (1984-02-02) (age 25) 6 0 KSV Hessen Kassel DF Maqadar Qazizadah DF Sayed Maqsood Hashemi 20 2 DF Qudratullah Husaini DF Mohammad Ibrahim Jebran DF Amanullah Omari DF Faisal Sakhizada DF Ali Ahmad Yarzada 5 MF Obaidullah Karimi December 21, 1979 (1979-12-21) (age 29) 10 1 Hamm United FC 21 MF Ata Yamrali July 5, 1982 (1982-07-05) (age 27) 7 2 Niendorfer TSV MF Raza Mahmoudi May 12, 1984 (1984-05-12) (age 25) 4 0 free agent MF Said Daftari November 26, 1982 (1982-11-26) (age 26) 3 1 Wuppertaler SV Borussia II MF Harez Habib February 12, 1982 (1982-02-12) (age 27) 6 3 KSV Hessen Kassel MF Djelaludin Sharityar February 12, 1982 (1982-02-12) (age 27) 5 ß 1.FC Schweinfurt 05 MF Saboor Khalili September 5, 1985 (1985-09-05) (age 23) SV Curslack-Neuengamme MF Sayed Bashir Azimi MF Israfeel Kohistani MF Ahmad Khesraw FW Milad Salem March 3, 1988 (1988-03-03) (age 21) 1 0 FW Hafizullah Qadami February 20, 1985 (1985-02-20) (age 24) 25 5 Maiwand Kabul FC FW Hashmatullah Barakzai 9 3 Kabul Bank F.C. FW Mustafa Hadid August 25, 1988 (1988-08-25) (age 20) 3 2 Eintracht Norderstedt FW Hamidullah Rastagar FW Abdul Saboor Aser FW Azam Ayoubi April 25, 1991 (1991-04-25) (age 18) 26 15 Kabul Bank F.C. [edit] Top goalscorers This section does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (May 2009) As of January 1, 2009[update], the players with the most goals for Afghanistan are: Please note that only Goals scored in A International are counted and not goals scored in unofficial matches. It must also be noted that, Mohammad Saber Rohparwar may have scored 25 goals for Afghanistan, but as the national team have only ever scored 28 in total in full 'A' internationals, then the majorty of Rohparwar's goals would not have been counted in official records. # Name Career Goals Caps 1 Mohammad Saber Rohparwar ?-1980 25 ? 2 Hafizullah Qadami* 2005-present 3 25 = H.A. Habib* 2007–present 3 7 3 Sayed Maqsood Hashemi* 2005–present 2 20 [edit] References ^ "Afc challenge cup qualifiers:Afghanistan pull out". thehimalayantimes.com. 24 March 2009. http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullstory.asp?filename=aSAaoa0sdqzpma0Qa9a9a.axamal&folder=aSAaoar7as&Name=Sports&sImageFileName=&dtSiteDate=20090325. Retrieved on 25 March 2009.  [edit] External links ELORATINGS FIFA RSSSF Asian Games 1951 RSSSF Asian Games 1954 RSSSF Asian Games 2002 Afghanland Football in Afghanistan v • d • e League competitions National Association Cup competitions Premier League Afghanistan Kabul Football League Afghanistan Women List of clubs List of leagues List of venues v • d • e International football FIFA · World Cup · Confederations Cup · U-20 World Cup · U-17 World Cup · Olympics · Asian Games · All-Africa Games · Pan American Games · Minor Tournaments · World Rankings · Player of the Year · Teams · Competitions · Federations · Codes Asia AFC – Asian Cup Africa CAF – Africa Cup of Nations North America CONCACAF – Gold Cup South America CONMEBOL – Copa América Oceania OFC – Nations Cup Europe UEFA – European Championship Non-FIFA NF Board – Viva World Cup v • d • e National football teams of Asia (AFC) Afghanistan · Australia · Bahrain · Bangladesh · Bhutan · Brunei · Cambodia · China PR · Chinese Taipei · Guam · Hong Kong* · India · Indonesia · Iran · Iraq · Japan · Jordan · Korea DPR · Korea Republic · Kuwait · Kyrgyzstan · Laos · Lebanon · Macau* · Malaysia · Maldives · Mongolia · Myanmar · Nepal · Oman · Pakistan · Palestine · Philippines · Qatar · Saudi Arabia · Singapore · Sri Lanka · Syria · Tajikistan · Thailand · Timor-Leste · Turkmenistan · United Arab Emirates · Uzbekistan · Vietnam · Yemen *FIFA and AFC use Hong Kong and Macau; the EAFF uses Hong Kong, China and Macau, China.