04 March 2012
AFC CHALLENGE CUP 2012 TEAM REVIEW: Tajikistan
The Tajikistan national football team (Tajik: тими миллии Тоҷикистон,Persian: تیم ملی تاجیکستان) represents Tajikistan in association football and is controlled by the Tajikistan National Football Federation, the governing body for football in Tajikistan. Tajikistan's home ground is Pamir Stadium in Dushanbe.
History
After the split of Soviet Union, they played their first match against Uzbekistan on June 17, 1992. It was not until 1994 that the Tajikistan National Football Federation was admitted to FIFA.
Tajikistan played its first official game on April 11, 1994 in Tashkent as part of a regional tournament. They lost that game againstKazakhstan 0:1.[1] The first official competition the team entered was the Asian Nations Cup 1996 when it was seeded in the three-team Group 8 with Uzbekistan and Bahrain. Bahrain later withdrew leaving Tajikistan to play-off against their Middle Asian neighbors. Tajikistan won the first game 4:0, but were beaten in the away game 0:5 after extra time. They did not enter the World Cup qualifying competition until the France 1998 edition, recording four victories in their preliminary group stage including a 5–0 triumph over Turkmenistan, and losing only toChina, which placed them second behind their eastern neighbors but out of the competition.[2]
In a three-team qualifying section for Korea/Japan 2002, they had a record 16–0 win over Guam before losing 2–0 to Iran. After beatingBangladesh 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.
[edit]World Cup record
| World Cup Finals | World Cup Qualifications | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | Position | GP | W | D* | L | GS | GA | GP | W | D* | L | GS | GA | |
 1994 | Did not enter | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
 1998 | Did not qualify | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 2 | |
  2002 | Did not qualify | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 2 | |
 2006 | Did not qualify | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | |
 2010 | Did not qualify | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | |
 2014 | Did not qualify | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 14 | |
| Total | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 25 | 12 | 4 | 10 | 52 | 31 | ||
[edit]Asian Nations Cup record
| Asian Cup Finals | Asian Cup Qualifications | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | Position | GP | W | D* | L | GS | GA | GP | W | D* | L | GS | GA | |
| 1992 | Did not enter | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||||
 1996 | Did not qualify | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||
 2000 | Did not qualify | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | ||
 2004 | Did not qualify | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||
    2007 | Did not enter | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||||
 2011 | Did not enter | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||||
| Total | Best: | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 15 | ||
- 2010 AFC Challenge Cup was used to determine qualification for the 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification
[edit]AFC Challenge Cup record
[edit]Asian Games record
Note: As of 2002 only U23 teams permitted to take part in Asian Games Football Tournament. So in 2006 U23 team took part in the tournament.
[edit]RCD Cup/ECO Cup record[edit]Other Tournaments
[edit]ELF Cup
In 2006, Tajikistan 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 Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, who were both represented by their national futsal teams. Tajikistan failed to get past the group stage.
[edit]Kit
The team strip is currently sponsored by Italian company Legea. It is red,white and green to reflect the colors of the Tajik national flag.
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