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The Bhutan national men's football team represents Bhutan in international men's football. The team is controlled by the governing body for football in Bhutan, the Bhutan Football Federation, which is currently a member of the Asian Football Federation and the regional body the South Asian Football Federation. Bhutan play their home games at the national stadium, Changlimithang. It is one of the younger national teams in the world having played its first match in 1982. The team are currently one of the very weakest in the world and are, as of 17 July 2014 ranked 46th and last in the Asian Football Confederation with zero points[2] and 208th and joint last globally in the FIFA World Rankings with San Marino on zero points.[3] Their highest ranking achieved was 187th, which they last reached in December 2008 following their semi-final performance in the 2008 SAFF Championship.[2] From that high point, they slipped down the rankings to last place in December 2012 to join San Marino and the Turks and Caicos Islands in 207th.[2] They have remained rooted to the bottom ever since, having lost all their competitive fixtures since then and fell to 208th place following the admission to FIFA of South Sudan in July 2014.[2] The team are also ranked extremely low on the all time Elo ratings at 231st out of 234.[4] the only FIFA affiliated nation below them are American Samoa, with the other two spots taken by the Northern Marianas Islands and Palau.[4] The team's joint top scorers are Passang Tshering and Wangay Dorji both with five goals in twenty appearances.
Nickname(s) | Druk Eleven[1] | ||
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Association | Bhutan Football Federation | ||
Confederation | AFC | ||
Sub-confederation | South Asian Football Federation | ||
Captain | Passang Tshering | ||
Most caps | Wangay Dorji & Passang Tshering (20) | ||
Top scorer | Wangay Dorji & Passang Tshering (5) | ||
Home stadium | Changlimithang Stadium | ||
FIFA code | BHU | ||
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FIFA ranking | |||
Current | 208 1 (17 July 2014) | ||
Highest | 187 (December 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2008) | ||
Lowest | 208 (July 2014) | ||
First international | |||
Nepal 3–1 Bhutan (Kathmandu, Nepal; 1 April 1982) | |||
Biggest win | |||
Bhutan 6–0 Guam (Thimphu, Bhutan; April 23, 2003) | |||
Biggest defeat | |||
Kuwait 20–0 Bhutan (Kuwait City, Kuwait; February 14, 2000) |