Myanmar national football team

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Myanmar

Nickname

Association

Myanmar Football Federation

Head coach

San Win

Most caps

Top scorer

FIFA code

MYA

FIFA ranking

150

Highest FIFA ranking

97 (April 1996)

Lowest FIFA ranking

164 (August 2006)

Elo ranking

160





Home kit





Away kit

First international

Iran 2 - 0 Burma

(India; March 6, 1951)

Largest win

Burma 9 - 0 Singapore

(Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; November 9, 1969)

Worst defeat

Malaysia 9 - 1 Burma

(Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; November 25, 1977)

AFC Asian Cup

Appearances

1 (First in 1968)

Best result

Runners-up, 1968

The Myanmar national football team is the national team of Myanmar and is controlled by the Myanmar Football Federation. It was known as the Burma national football team until 1989, when Burma was renamed Myanmar. It finished second in the 1968 Asian Cup, but has not had much success since, and has never even played a World Cup qualifier.

1 World Cup record
2 Asian Cup record
3 Tiger Cup record
4 Other records

[edit] World Cup record

1930 to 1938 - Did not enter
1950 - Withdrew
1954 to 1990 - Did not enter
1994 - Withdrew
1998 - Did not enter
2002 - Withdrew
2006 - Disqualified for withdrawal in 2002

[edit] Asian Cup record

1956 to 1964 - Did not enter
1968 - Second place
1972 to 1992 - Did not enter
1996 to 2004 - Did not qualify
2007 - Did not enter

[edit] Tiger Cup record

1996 to 2002 - Round 1
2004 - Semi Finals

[edit] Other records

Won gold medals at the Asian Games football tournaments in 1966 and 1970. Qualified for Football at the 1972 Summer Olympics but lost in the Group (pool) play. Still the region's best is the best than aside from the South East Asian Nations but the glory days of the 1960s are long behind the now-struggling Asean nation. The lack of success must, at least in part, be attributed to the nation's long-running economic crisis.