Afghanistan national football team

Afghanistan

Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)	Team Melli
Association	Football Federation of Afghanistan
Head coach	Mohammed Yousuf Kargar (2000-)
Most caps	Amiri Shamsuddin (17)
Top scorer	Hafizullah Qadami (3)
FIFA code	AFG
First colours Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	174
Highest	173 (July 2006)
Lowest	204 (January 2003)
First international
Template:Country data Afghanistan 31-74 Afghanistan 0 - 0 Iran Template:Country data Iran old (Afghanistan; August 25, 1941)
Biggest win
Afghanistan 2 - 1 Kyrgyzstan (Kathmandu, Nepal; March 16, 2003) Afghanistan 2 - 1 Sri Lanka (Karachi, Pakistan; December 11, 2005)
Biggest defeat
Turkmenistan 11 - 0 Afghanistan (Ashgabat, Turkmenistan; November 19, 2003)
Appearances	(first in -)
Best result	-
Appearances	(first in -)
Best result	-

The Afghanistan national football team is the national team of Afghanistan and is controlled by the Football Federation of Afghanistan.The national team was founded in 1933 and joined FIFA in 1948. The Afghanistan national team play their home games in Ghazi National Olympic Stadium which was built in the 1920s with capacity of over 55,000. The Afghan national football team is also known as Team Melli. Afghanistan are currently ranked 173, their highest rank ever since rejoining FIFA in January 2003 after being the last country in FIFA World Rankings (204th). Having the lowest rate of football players in the world Afghanistan team has battled their way out to reached this positive position in the FIFA World Rankings. [1]

World Cup record

• 1930 to 2002 - Did not enter
• 2006 - Did not qualify

Asian Cup record

• 1956 to 2000 - Did not enter
• 2004 - Did not qualify
• 2007 - Did not enter

South Asian Football Federation Cup record

• 1993 to 1999 - Did not enter
• 2003 to 2005 - Round 1

AFC Challenge Cup record

• 2006 - Round 1

Current squad

Team Trainer

• Klaus Staerk

Coach

• Ramin Sujad, Aminzadah

Assistant Coach

• Ahmad Tamiz, Aminzadah

Goalkeepers

• Amiri, Shamsuddin
• Griwal, Emal
• Yousufzai, Hamidullah

Defenders

• Ahmadi, Ali
• Amiri, Islamuddin
• Azizi, Manochahr
• Gullestani, Abdul Maroof
• Hussaini, Qudratullah
• Raeesi, Mohammad Zarif
• Saadat, Bashir Ahmad
• Said, Sayed
• Yarzada, Ali Ahmad

Midfielders

• Abbasi, Ahmed Wahid
• Azimi, Sayed Bashir
• Khan, Farhad Reza
• Kohistani, Muhammad Salim
• Maqsood, Sayed
• Pg Kamaludin, Ak Kamarulzaman
• Sharifi, Sayed Qasim
• Atiqullah
• Mahmoudi, Raza
• Farhad, Reza Khan

Strikers

• Afshar, Muhammad Jalal
• Akhwan, Souraj
• Nazari, Mushtaba
• Delawar, Mohammad Khalid
• Omidwar, Rozeddin
• Qadami, Hafizullah
• Raufi, Mohammad Taher
• Mustafa, Bayat

A. Shamsuddin
# 1

A. Ali
# 2

M. Gullistani
# 5

Q. Hussaini
# 4

B. Saadat
# 3

Atiqulla
# 18

R. Mahmoudi
# 13

S. Maqsood
# 7

M. Afshar
# 10

A. Abassi
# 8

H. Qadami
# 9