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Afghanistan
	Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)	Team-e Melli - تیم ملی ; Stars of Ariana - ستاره های آریانا ;
Association	Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF)
Confederation	AFC
Head coach	Mohammad Yousef Kargar
Most caps	Shamsuddin Amiri (30)
Top scorer	Mohammad Saber Rohparwar (25)
Home stadium	Ghazi Stadium
FIFA code	AFG
First colours	Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	195
Highest	173 (July 2006)
Lowest	204 (January 2003)
First international
	Afghanistan 0 - 0 Iran ; (Afghanistan; August 25, 1941)
Last international
	Afghanistan 1 - 2 Syria ; (Dushanbe, Afghanistan; October 26, 2007)
Biggest win
	Sri Lanka 1 - 2 Afghanistan ; (Karachi, Pakistan; 11 December 2005)
Biggest defeat
	Turkmenistan 11 - 0 Afghanistan ; (Ashgabat, Turkmenistan; November 19, 2003)

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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 that joined FIFA in 1948 and the AFC in 1954. The Afghanistan national team plays its home games at the Ghazi National Olympic Stadium in Kabul and will soon play its home games on a turf pich in Khushal Khan of Kabul.

Afghanistan's best performance in international competition was in the 1951 Asian Games when they finished 4th. Afghanistan played no international fixtures from 1984 to 2003, since when the team rose to a peak of 173rd in the FIFA World Rankings. The game was not encouraged under the Taliban regime from 1996 to 2001. At present Afghanistan has low level of participation in football due to lack of funds and security problems inside the country. Despite this, Afghanistan's Olympic Football Team made to the final of (2010 South Asian Games)after winning all its matches in the group stage against India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan and winning its semi-final clash against Maldives.

Fixtures and Results

Date	Competition	Location	Opponent	Result	Scorers for Afghanistan
9 February 2011	AFC Challenge qualifiers	TBC	Bhutan
16 February 2011	AFC Challenge qualifiers	TBC	Bhutan
23 November 2010	Friendly	Dushanbe	Tajikistan U23	1-0	Kohistani 37'
17 November 2010	Friendly	Dushanbe	Tajikistan	0-1	N/A
9 December 2009	SAFF 2009	Dhaka	Nepal	0-3	N/A
7 December 2009	SAFF 2009	Dhaka	Maldives	1-3	Barakzai 30'
5 December 2009	SAFF 2009	Dhaka	India	0-1	N/A

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	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	2	0	0	2	2	12	-10	0%
Nepal	3	0	1	2	2	9	-7	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%
South Korea	1	0	0	1	2	8	-6	0%
Sri Lanka	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	33.33%
Tajikistan	3	0	0	3	0	9	-9	0%
Turkmenistan	3	0	0	3	0	18	-18	0%
Total	46	3	10	33	30	146	-118	6.66%

Competition records

FIFA World Cup Record

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

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 1	1	0	0	1	0	6
1952 to 1956	Did not enter
1960	Did not qualify
1964 to 2004	Did not enter
2008	Did not qualify
Total	Best: Round 1	1	0	0	1	0	6

AFC Asian Cup record

Asian Cup
Year	Round	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA
1956 to 1972	Did not enter
1976 to 1984	Did not qualify
1988 to 2000	Did not enter
2004	Did not qualify
2007	Did not enter
2011	Did not qualify
Total

Asian Games record

Year	Round
1951	4th Place
1954	Round 1
1958 to 1998	Did not enter
2002	Round 1
2006	Did not enter

From the 2002 Asian Games Campaign onwards, the U-23 team replaced the full team in the tournament.

South Asian Football Federation

SAFF Championship
Year	Round	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA
1993 to 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
2009	Group stage	3	0	0	3	1	7
Total	Best: Group stage	12	1	2	9	9	31

AFC Challenge Cup

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

Managers

Name	Period	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	Win%
Efimov ^[2]	1976
Holger Obermann	January 2003	3	0	0	3
Mir Ali Akbarzada	March 2003	2	1	0	1
Ali Askar Lali	2003–2005	5	1	0	4	25%
Klaus Stark	2005–2008	17	2	7	8	12%
Mohammad Yousef Kargar	October 2008-November 2009	-	-	-	-
Mohammad Farid	December 2009	3	0	0	3	0%
Mohammad Yousef Kargar	November 2010	1	0	0	1	0%

Current squad

The following players were called up to the squad by manager Mohammad Yousef Kargar for the friendly games vs. Tajikistan which took place on 17 & 23 November in Dushanbe.^[3]
Appearances and goals correct as of 23 November 2010, after Tajikistan u-23 0-1 Afghanistan.
Statistics include official FIFA-recognised matches only.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
23	1GK	Hamidullah Yosufzai		5	0	Kabul Bank F.C.
73	1GK	Bashir Darman	(1989-09-11) September 11, 1989 (age 35)	0	0	Seramiasht F.C.

2	2DF	Muqadar Qazizadah	(1988-09-11) September 11, 1988 (age 36)	5	0	Kabul Bank F.C.
3	2DF	Zohib Islam Amiri	(1989-04-19) April 19, 1989 (age 35)	53	0	Kabul Bank F.C.
4	2DF	Faisal Sakhizada	(1990-10-22) October 22, 1990 (age 34)	4	0	Ordu Kabul F.C.
5	2DF	Ali Yarzada	(1985-10-15) October 15, 1985 (age 39)	44	0	Herat Kabul Bank
13	2DF	Mujtaba Faiz	(1989-11-21) November 21, 1989 (age 34)	3	1	Kabul Bank F.C.
14	2DF	Zakria Rezai	(1989-07-29) July 29, 1989 (age 35)	5	0	Ordu Kabul F.C.
19	2DF	Sayed Sher Darwish		0	0	Kabul Bank F.C.

6	3MF	Sayed Maqsood Hashemi		22	2	Ordu Kabul F.C.
7	3MF	Israfeel Kohistani	(1987-06-05) June 5, 1987 (age 37)	44	13	Kabul Bank F.C.
8	3MF	Waheed Nadeem	(1989-06-02) June 2, 1989 (age 35)	3	0	Kabul Bank F.C.
11	3MF	Masihullah Barakzai	(1990-12-06) December 6, 1990 (age 33)	2	0	Seramiasht F.C.
12	3MF	Ghulam Hazrat Niazi		2	0	Ordu Kabul F.C.

10	4FW	Hashmatullah Barakzai	(1987-06-04) June 4, 1987 (age 37)	15	4	Kabul Bank F.C.
18	4FW	Toryalai Hakimi	(1989-09-05) September 5, 1989 (age 35)	2	0	Herat Kabul Bank
9	4FW	Belal Arezou	(1989-09-06) September 6, 1989 (age 35)	56	6	Oscar
20	4FW	Sidiq Walizada		2	0	Ordu Kabul F.C.
99	4FW	Ben Sherratt	(1911-09-06) September 6, 1911 (age 113)	964	0	Unknown.

Top goalscorers

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
3	Said Azimshah Garibzada*	1976–1980	2	20

References

^ "Afc challenge cup qualifiers:Afghanistan pull out". thehimalayantimes.com. 24 March 2009. Retrieved 25 March 2009. ^{[dead link]}
^ http://afg-de-sport.npage.de/%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF_%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%87_%D8%BA%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A8_%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87_43653607.html
^ http://www.ozodi.org/content/article/2222332.html

External links

[1] "Afc challenge cup qualifiers:Afghanistan pull out". thehimalayantimes.com. 24 March 2009. Retrieved 25 March 2009. ^{[dead link]}

[2] ttp://afg-de-sport.npage.de/%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF_%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%87_%D8%BA%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A8_%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87_43653607.html

[3] ttp://www.ozodi.org/content/article/2222332.html

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