Myanmar national football team

Myanmar national Football team, Nickname is asian Lions
This article is about the men ‘s team. For the women ‘s team, see Myanmar women ‘s national football team

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The Myanmar national football team ( burmese : မြန်မာ့လက်ရွေးစင်အမျိုးသားအသင်း ) represents Myanmar in men ‘s international association football and are governed by the Myanmar Football Federation. [ 4 ] They were known as the Burma national football team until 1989, when Burma was renamed Myanmar. During their flower, Burma finished second in the 1968 asian Cup, participated in the Summer Olympics in 1972 and in the asian Games and having won the asian Games doubly ; in 1966 and 1970, and the football consequence of the Southeast asian Games on five consecutive occasions ; in 1965, 1967, 1969, 1971 and 1973. They did n’t participate in any World Cup qualification for the stay of twentieth century, contributing to the precipitation of the home side. Since renamed, Myanmar ‘s highest accomplishment is the silver decoration at 1993 Southeast asian Games. Myanmar played its inaugural World Cup qualifiers in 2007 in the 2010 World Cup qualifiers, losing 0–7 and 0–4 to China .

history

1948 to 1970s : the aureate era

Burma participated in 1954 asian Games and won a bronze decoration, standing behind Taiwan ( aureate ) and South Korea ( silver ) ; this was the beginning of the golden era. On the other hand, the nation was not expected to contend for a decoration in the Olympic-type asian Games. In the meanwhile, this delegating became the foremost male Burmese team to win a continental decoration. Against all odds, the Burma team bettered their 1954 feat by winning the aureate decoration in the asian Games, which was held at Bangkok in the mid-1960s. In that tournament, Burma outwit Iran in the gold-medal game. The 1966 asian Games gold medal-winning squad established itself as one of the two best teams in the region as it finished as runner-up to Iran at the 1968 asian Cup. Having won a silver decoration in 1968, the men ‘s soccer team had a potent operation in the early 1970s as it qualified to compete in the 1972 Summer Olympics, which was held at Munich ( West Germany ), upon being one of the three finalists in the asian tournament. Despite onlying winning against Sudan with 2–0, the burmese players won the Fair Play Award. The watch year, the nation earned its one-fifth back-to-back Southeast asian Games gold decoration at Singapore City ( Kuala Lumpur 1965, Bangkok 1967, Rangoon 1969, and Kuala Lumpur 1971 ). Three years before that, the national team wrote possibly their most crucial chapter : they captured the continental title for the second base clock in a quarrel, after the Burmese Olympic Committee sent footballers to Thailand for the 1970 asian Games. Burma frankincense became the second football team to win the asian tournament twice. They were declared national heroes in Rangoon, the then capital of Burma, with their second consecutive aureate decoration in men ‘s soccer. During this golden era, Burma produced many talented footballers. One among them is Suk Bahadur who is now considered as the greatest burmese football player of all time for his outstanding contribution to Burmese football. Over the be years, chiefly due to political problems within the country, the national side ‘s ability to defend its asian title slowly faded aside .

1970s to 2010s : worsen and struggle

In the subsequently years, Burma were ineffective to achieve like results like in the golden era, due to many factors. The collapse of solid Burmese football system during the rule of Ne Win and later, the military junta, had a minus impact on Burmese football team. Lack of support and poor infrastructure prevented many burmese players to play abroad, frankincense leading to retirement. At the same time, the rise of Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and specially Vietnam and the Thailand made Myanmar ‘s golden era evanesce away. Despite this, Myanmar managed to win silver decoration in 1993 Southeast asian Games, after losing to Thailand in the final, or the 2004 Tiger Cup when Myanmar won bronze .

Since 2010s : revival

Myanmar ‘s 2011 reforms had been a major point of turning Myanmar ‘s football, which had declined since 1970s. During this earned run average, a new brandish of Burmese football had arrived with the change of Myanmar ‘s political climate, after many years under military junta ‘s rule. The arrival of Gerd Zeise, a german coach, had been the all-important bespeak. Under Gerd, Myanmar ‘s football since reforms has witnessed a meaning advancement. The U-20 Myanmar team qualified to Myanmar ‘s first always FIFA tournament, the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup after going to the semi-finals in the 2014 AFC U-19 Championship as master of ceremonies. In 2016 AFF Suzuki Cup, Myanmar, as host, once again went to semi-finals, only losing to eventual champions, Thailand. Between these successes, a draw of problems remain. Myanmar ‘s football capability has been questioned after their black 2018 World Cup reservation ; while on the same time, a set of teams in Asia have besides risen up after many years under shadows. once again, Myanmar failed to qualify for 2019 AFC asian Cup, when they suffered a frightful 1–5 kill at the hand of Kyrgyzstan. Under Antoine Hey, Myanmar besides had an abortive 2018 AFF Championship, with the team was knocked out from the group stage, and Hey resigned after. Myanmar began their 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification grouping with erstwhile rival Kyrgyzstan, ampere good as Tajikistan, Mongolia and specially powerhouse Japan. Under the steering of the raw director Miodrag Radulović, Myanmar had a black begin when the team fell 0–1 to Mongolia away, 0–2 to Japan at home and particularly a 0–7 away kill to the Kyrgyz, causing the Montenegrin to be fired. After the kill to Kyrgyzstan, old coach Antoine Hey returned, where he helped Myanmar to gain a shock home win 4–3 over Tajikistan before beating Mongolia 1–0 besides at dwelling to boost morale. however, the COVID-19 pandemic in Myanmar and subsequent Myanmar protests depleted greatly the national team when many key players refused to represent Myanmar in international football citing the military junta ‘s interest. [ 5 ] As for the resultant role, Myanmar brought to Japan with one-half of its squad members were n’t regular starters, and suffered its worst defeat in modern earned run average to the host 0–10, forcing Antoine Hey ‘s men to win their 2 remaining matches against Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan while hoping for defeats from their 2 chief opponents in the same clock time against Japan ( and even a draw or a get the better of against Mongolia for Kyrgyzstan ) to be among the 4 best runner-up. [ 6 ] Having lost to Kyrgyzstan 1–8 the next equal, Myanmar were formally eliminated from the World Cup and the top 2 spots in the group. finally, Myanmar confirmed its bottom place in the group, losing 0–4 to Tajikistan, and have to play the 2023 AFC asian Cup reservation .

base stadium

Thuwunna Stadium The national team plays most of its home matches in Thuwunna Stadium in Yangon, Myanmar. The stadium is larger and more up-to-date than Bogyoke Aung San Stadium. It was upgraded to a seat capacity of 50,000 spectators from capacity of 32000 in 2013. [ 7 ]

Kits

The Myanmar home team used to play with a kit out made by FBT. This shrink lasted until 2018. In November 2018, the Myanmar national team signed a six-year contract with Warrix Sports. The sports kit sponsorship contract is valued at US $ 5.67 million and it will run from 1 November 2018 to 31 December 2024. [ 8 ]

late results and approaching fixtures

The follow is a tilt of match results in the last 12 months, ampere well as any future matches that have been scheduled. Win Draw Lose

2021

Coaching staff

Coaching history

* As caretaker

Players

stream squad

The follow 21 players were called up for the 2020 AFF Championship. [ 14 ]

Caps and goals updated as of 25 November 2021 after the match against Indonesia.

recent call-ups

The following players have besides been called up to the Myanmar team within the last twelve months .

musician records

As of 14 November 2020

Players in bold are still active, at least at club level.

competitive record

FIFA World Cup

Banned in 2006 for withdrawing from qualification in 2002.
Initially banned from 2018 for crowd trouble during a 2014 World Cup qualifying match against Oman but later overturned to matches to be played on neutral soil.[15][16]

Olympic Games

AFC asian Cup

asian Games

AFC Challenge Cup

AFC Challenge Cup record

AFC Challenge Cup qualification record

Year

Round

Pld

2006
Did not enter
Did not enter
2008
Fourth place
5
2
0
3
6
6
2010
5
2
0
3
6
10

3
3
0
0
7
1

2012
Did not qualify

3
0
1
2
2
6

2014
Group stage
3
1
0
2
3
5

3
2
1
0
7
1

Total
Best: Fourth place
13
5
0
8
15
21

9
5
2
2
16
8

AFF Championship

AFF Championship record

AFF Championship qualification record

Year

Round

Pld

Squad

Pld

1996
Group stage
4
2
0
2
11
12
Squad
1998
3
1
1
1
8
9
Squad

2
2
0
0
7
1

2000
3
1
0
2
4
8
Squad
2002
4
2
1
1
13
5
Squad
2004
Fourth place
7
3
1
3
12
12
Squad
2007
Group stage
3
0
3
0
1
1
Squad
2008
3
1
0
2
4
8
Squad
2010
3
0
1
2
2
9
Squad
2012
3
0
1
2
1
7
Squad

4
3
1
0
6
1

2014
3
0
1
2
2
6
Squad

4
3
1
0
6
2

2016
Semi-finals
4
2
0
2
5
9
Squad
2018
Group stage
4
2
1
1
7
5
Squad
Total
Best: Fourth place
44
14
10
20
70
94
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10
8
2
0
19
4

southeast asian Games

neck and neck record

^ includes the results of Soviet Union
^^ includes the results of South Vietnam

Honours

International

Fair Play Award: 1972

Continental

Gold medal (2): 1966, 1970*

Bronze medal (1): 1954

regional

Fourth place /Semifinalist(2) : 2004, 2016

Gold medal (5): 1965*, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973

Silver medal (3): 1961, 1993, 2007, 2015
Bronze medal (2): 1975, 1977, 2011

other awards

Winners (4): 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975

Runners-up (1) 1976

AYA Bank Cup

Third Place (1): 2016

*trophy shared