Bangladesh national football team
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| Nickname(s) | The Bengal Tigers |
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| Association | Bangladesh Football Federation |
| Confederation | AFC (Asia) |
| Sub-confederation | SAFF (South Asia) |
| Head coach | Vacant |
| Captain | Ashraful Islam Rana |
| Most caps | Jahid Hasan Ameli (64) |
| Top scorer | Jahid Hasan Ameli (15) |
| Home stadium | Bangabandhu National Stadium |
| FIFA code | BAN |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 190  5 (12 January 2017)
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| Highest | 110 (April 1996) |
| Lowest | 190 (January 2017) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 209 7 (10 October 2016)
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| Highest | 147 (September 1986) |
| Lowest | 209 (October 2016) |
| First international | |
 Bangladesh 2–2 Thailand  (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; 26 July 1973) |
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| Biggest win | |
Bangladesh 8–0 Maldives  (Dhaka, Bangladesh; 23 December 1985) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
 South Korea 9–0 Bangladesh (Incheon, South Korea; 16 September 1979)  Iran 9–0 Bangladesh (Karachi, Pakistan; 25 February 1982) |
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| Asian Cup | |
| Appearances | 1 (first in 1980) |
| Best result | Group stage, 1980 |
The Bangladesh national football team (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ জাতীয় ফুটবল দল) is the national team of Bangladesh controlled by the Bangladesh Football Federation. It is a member of the Asian Football Confederation, and became a member of FIFA in 1974 even though the Bangladesh Football Federation was first founded in 1972. Bangladesh was elected as member in the AFC Executive Committee 1982–86 and 1998–02. The current Executive Committee was elected democratically, under an AFC approved constitution and direct supervision of FIFA & AFC, in April 2008.
Bangladesh's national team debuted in 1973 and has yet to qualify for the World Cup finals. They were dismissed in the first round of their only Asian Cup appearance to date in 1980, and the 1986 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. But the nation's best results came at South Asian level where it won the SAFF Championship once and were gold medalists in South Asian Games twice. As is the case elsewhere on the subcontinent, top-level football in Bangladesh is played somewhere in the shadow of the country's national cricket team. It was one of Southern Asia's leading team in the 2000s.
The first instance of a Bangladesh national football team was the emergence of the Shadhin Bangla football team during the 1971 liberation war. They toured throughout India to raise international awareness and economic support for the liberation war.
Following her independence from Pakistan achieved at the end of 1971, the Bangladesh football team played its first official game on July 26, 1973, a 2–2 draw against Thailand. During the period between July 26 and August 14, 1973, the national team played 13 friendly matches against Asian teams, all hosted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, resulting in 3 draws and 10 defeats. One year later, the national team played 2 more friendlies, this time in Bangkok, and were defeated twice more.
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