Kyrgyzstan national football team

Kyrgyzstan

Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)	The Blue Eagle
Association	Football Federation of Kyrgyz Republic
Confederation	AFC (Asia)
Head coach	Anarbek Ormonbekov
Most caps	Vladimir Salo (30)
Top scorer	Sergey Kutsov, Zamirbek Jumagulov, Sergey Chikishev, Farhad Haytbayev (3)
Home stadium	Spartak Stadium
FIFA code	KGZ
First colours Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	137
Highest	119 (August 2006)
Lowest	175 (November 2000)
First international
Kyrgyzstan 1–1 Kazakhstan (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; September 26, 1992)
Biggest win
Kyrgyzstan 6–0 Maldives (Tehran, Iran; June 13, 1997)
Biggest defeat
Iran 7–0 Kyrgyzstan (Damascus,Syria; June 4, 1997)

The Kyrgyzstan national football team is the national team of Kyrgyzstan and is controlled by the Football Federation of Kyrgyz Republic. After the split of Soviet Union, they played their first match against Kazakhstan on September 26, 1992.

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

AFC Challenge Cup record

• 2006 - Semi Finals
• 2008 - Not qualified

West Asian Football Federation Championship record

• 2000 - Round 1
• 2002 to 2007- Did not enter

ELF Cup

In 2006, Kyrgyzstan took part in the inaugural ELF Cup in Northern Cyprus. This competition was originally intended to be for teams that were not members of FIFA; however, the organisers extended invitations to both Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, who were both represented by their national futsal teams.

Year	Round	Position	Matches	Wins	Draws*	Losses	Goals Scored	Goals Against
2006	Semi-Final	Third Place	5	2	1	2	11	8

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Coaches

Manager	From	To
Meklis Koshaliyev	August 1992	February 1996
Yevgeniy Novikov	June 1997	February 2001
Nematjan Zakirov	March 2003	May 2008
Boris Podkorytov	July 2008	December 2008
Anarbek Ormonbekov	January 2009

Current Squad

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

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Maksim Agapov				Abdish-Ata Kant
2	2DF	Vyacheslav Amin	10 December, 1976			Abdish-Ata Kant
3	2DF	Talant Samsaliev	27 April, 1980			Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn
4	2DF	Ruslan Sydykov	4 January, 1975			Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn
5	2DF	Sergey Kniazev	1 January, 1981			Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn
7	3MF	Aibek Bokoev	?? ????, 1987			Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn
8	3MF	Vadim Harchenko	28 May, 1984			Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn
9	4FW	Cholponbek Esenkul Uulu	15 January, 1986			Abdish-Ata Kant
10	3MF	Ruslan Djamshidov	22 August, 1979			SKA-Shoro Bishkek
12	4FW	Ildar Amirov	9 October, 1987			Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn
13	2DF	Igor Kudrenko	13 November, 1978			Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn
14	4FW	Almazbek Mirzaliev	10 June, 1987			Abdish-Ata Kant
15	3MF	Roman Ablakimov
16	1GK	Vladislav Volkov	15 August, 1980			Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn
17	3MF	Bakytbek Mamatov				Zhashtyk Ak Altyn Kara-Suu
18	3MF	Valeriy Berezovsky	23 July, 1975			Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn
19	3MF	Timur Valiev	27 July, 1984			SKA-Shoro Bishkek
20	4FW	Hurshil Lutfullaev
21	3MF	Rustamjan Zakirov
23	3MF	Pavel Sidorenko
24	4FW	Roman Kornilov	30 March, 1981			Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn
25	2DF	Davron Askarov	6 January, 1988			Toulouse FC
28	2DF	Artem Muladjanov

Recent Call Ups

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
15	3MF	Azamat Ishenbaev	19 June, 1978			Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn
7	3MF	Talaibek Djumataev	19 March, 1983
15	4FW	Andrey Krasnov	6 July, 1978			Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn
	1GK	Valery Kashuba	14 September, 1984			Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn
	2DF	Radik Vodopianov	20 August ,1984			SKA-Shoro Bishkek