Moldova national football team

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Moldova

Nickname	-
Association	Football Association of Moldova (Federaţia Moldovenească de Fotbal)
Head coach	Anatol Teslev
Most caps	Serghei Cleschenko (63)
Top scorer	Serghei Cleschenko (10)
FIFA code	MDA
FIFA ranking	85
Highest FIFA ranking	73 (August 2006)
Lowest FIFA ranking	149 (May 1994)
Elo ranking	102
Home kit 　 Away kit
First international Moldova 2 - 4 Georgia (Chişinău, Moldova; July 2, 1991)
Largest win Moldova 5 - 0 Pakistan (Ammann, Jordan; August 18, 1992)
Worst defeat Sweden 6 - 0 Moldova (Gothenburg, Sweden; June 6, 2001)

The Moldova national football team is the national football team of Moldova and is controlled by the Football Association of Moldova. After the break-up of the Soviet Union, they played their first match against Georgia on July 2, 1991.

Their two best ever results came within a month of each other in the mid-1990s, during the qualifiers for Euro 96. On September 7, 1994, they beat Georgia 1-0 in Tbilisi with a goal from Ilie Opera. A month later, on October 12, 1994, they defeated Wales 3-2 in Chişinău; the Moldovan scorers were Serghei Belous, Serghiu Secu and Valerii Pogorelov. However, they could not keep up the momentum and finished well out of contention in the group.

The team achieved some fame in the United Kingdom in 1999 when Tony Hawks published a book, Playing The Moldovans At Tennis, about his efforts to beat all the team's players at tennis after a drunken bet.

[edit] World Cup record

• 1930 to 1938 - Did not enter, was part of Romania
• 1950 to 1994 - Did not enter, was part of USSR
• 1998 to 2006 - Did not qualify

[edit] European Championship record

• 1960 to 1992 - Did not enter, was part of USSR
• 1996 to 2004 - Did not qualify

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