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Afghanistan
Nickname	Team Melli
Association	Football Federation of Afghanistan
Confederation	AFC (Asia)
Head coach	Mohammed Yousuf Kargar (2000-)
Most caps	Amiri Shamsuddin (23)
Top scorer	Hafizullah Qadami (4)
Home stadium	Ghazi Stadium
FIFA code	AFG
FIFA ranking	179
Highest FIFA ranking	173 (July 2006)
Lowest FIFA ranking	204 (January 2003)
Elo ranking	198
First kit 　 Second kit
First international Afghanistan 0 - 0 Iran (Afghanistan; August 25, 1941)
Biggest win Afghanistan 2 - 1 Kyrgyzstan (Kathmandu, Nepal; March 16, 2003)
Biggest defeat Turkmenistan 11 - 0 Afghanistan (Ashgabat, Turkmenistan; November 19, 2003)

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 and AFC in 1954. 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 has low participation levels in football compared to many countries, and the game was not encouraged under the Taliban regime from 1996 to 2001. There were not international fixtures from 1984 to 2003, since when the Afghanistan team has risen to 175th in the FIFA World Rankings.

Contents 1 World Cup record 2 Asian Cup record 3 South Asian Football Federation Cup record 4 AFC Challenge Cup record 5 Current squad

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

• 1956- Withdrew
• 1960 to 2000 - Did not enter
• 2004 - Did not qualify
• 2007 - Did not enter

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

• 2006 - Round 1

Team Trainer

• Chung

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

International football v • d • e
FIFA | World Cup | Confederations Cup | U-20 World Cup | U-17 World Cup | Olympics | Asian Games | All-Africa Games | Pan American Games | Island Games | World Rankings | Player of the Year | Teams | Codes
Asia: AFC – Asian Cup      Africa: CAF – African 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
National football teams of Asia (AFC) v • d • e
Afghanistan | Australia | Bahrain | Bangladesh | Bhutan | Brunei | Cambodia | China PR | Chinese Taipei | East Timor | 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 | Turkmenistan | United Arab Emirates | Uzbekistan | Vietnam | Yemen Note: FIFA and AFC use Hong Kong and Macau; the EAFF uses Hong Kong, China and Macau, China.