Tajikistan national football team
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| Nickname(s) | The crown (Persian: تاج) |
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| Association | Tajikistan National Football Federation |
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| Confederation | AFC (Asia) | ||
| Head coach |  Pulod Kodirov |
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| Top scorer | Takhir Muminov(10) | ||
| Home stadium | Pamir Stadium | ||
| FIFA code | TJK | ||
| FIFA ranking | 148 | ||
| Highest FIFA ranking | 114 (July 1997) | ||
| Lowest FIFA ranking | 180 (July 2003) | ||
| Elo ranking | 127 | ||
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| First international | |||
 Tajikistan 2 - 2 Uzbekistan  (Dushanbe, Tajikistan; 17 June 1992) |
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| Biggest win | |||
Tajikistan 16 - 0 Guam  (Tabriz, Iran; 26 November 2000) |
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| Biggest defeat | |||
 Iran 9 - 0 Tajikistan (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; April 10, 2005) |
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The Tajikistan national football team (Persian: تیم ملی فوتبال تاجیکستان) 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.
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