Bhutan national football team

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Bhutan
Nickname	Yellow Dragons, The Druk XI
Association	Bhutan Football Federation
Confederation	AFC (Asia)
Head coach	Khare B. Basnet
Top scorer	Wangyel Dorji (5)
Home stadium	Changlimithang Stadium
FIFA code	BHU
FIFA ranking	192
Highest FIFA ranking	187 (December 2003)
Lowest FIFA ranking	202 (May 2001)
Elo ranking	223
First kit 　 Second kit
First international Nepal 3 - 1 Bhutan (Nepal; April 1, 1982)
Biggest win Bhutan 6 - 0 Guam (Thimphu, Bhutan; April 23, 2003)
Biggest defeat Kuwait 20 - 0 Bhutan (Kuwait City, Kuwait; February 14, 2000)

The Bhutan national football team is the national team of Bhutan and is controlled by the Bhutan Football Federation. The team was founded in 1983 and joined FIFA in the year 2000. As of late 2004 they had only won two games.

On June 30, 2002, the day of the final match of the 2002 World Cup, Bhutan, then the second-lowest ranked team in the world, won their first game ever. They played against the lowest ranked team, Montserrat, in a friendly match known jokingly as The Other Final, winning 4-0 at the Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan.

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

[edit] World Cup record

• 1930 to 2010 - Did not enter

[edit] Asian Cup record

• 1956 to 1996 - Did not enter
• 2000 - Third place
• 2004 - Did not qualify
• 2007 - Did not enter

[edit] South Asian Football Federation Cup record

• 1993 to 1999 - Did not enter
• 2003 to 2005 - Finalist

[edit] AFC Challenge Cup record

• 2006 - Round 1

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