Bhutan national football team
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| Nickname(s) | Druk Eleven Druk Yul Dragon Boys |
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| Association | Bhutan Football Federation |
| Confederation | AFC (Asia) |
| Sub-confederation | SAFF (South Asia) |
| Head coach | Torsten Spittler |
| Captain | Karma Shedrup Tshering |
| Most caps | Chencho Gyeltshen (23) |
| Top scorer | Chencho Gyeltshen (9) |
| Home stadium | Changlimithang Stadium |
| FIFA code | BHU |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 176  1 (12 January 2017)
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| Highest | 159 (June 2015) |
| Lowest | 209 (November 2014 – March 2015) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 230 (29 March 2016) |
| Highest | 190 (1 April 1982) |
| Lowest | 231 (6 September 2013) |
| First international | |
 Nepal 3–1 Bhutan  (Kathmandu, Nepal; 1 April 1982) |
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| Biggest win | |
Bhutan 6–0 Guam  (Thimphu, Bhutan; April 23, 2003) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
 Kuwait 20–0 Bhutan (Kuwait City, Kuwait; February 14, 2000) |
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| World Cup | |
| Appearances | None |
| Best result | Qualifying – second round |
| AFC Asian Cup | |
| Appearances | None |
| South Asian Football Federation Cup | |
| Appearances | 7 (first in 2003) |
| Best result | Semi-finals, 2008 |
The Bhutan national 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 (BFF), which is a member of the Asian Football Federation and the regional body the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF). The team play their home games at the national stadium, Changlimithang. The side have consistently been ranked as the worst, or one of the worst national teams in the world on both the official FIFA rankings and the Elo rating system. As of the end of 2015 they have won only eight competitive fixtures against other international teams and have a goal difference of −249 in official matches. The team have never qualified for the finals of a major tournament and beyond friendlies and qualifying matches, their only official competition has been in the regional South Asian Games and the South Asian Football Federation Cup.
They are one of the younger national teams in the world having played their first official match in 1982 in the ANFA Cup. Prior to this, a nominal representative team consisting mainly of imported players from India competed in a number of regional tournaments. Throughout the 1980s Bhutan's appearances on the international scene were restricted to the South Asian Games where they lost every game they played that decade having to wait until 1987 to score their first goal outside of the ANFA Cup.
Through the 1990s they made only one international appearance, again at the South Asian Games in 1999 and again losing all their matches. Their first continental appearance occurred the following year when they travelled to Kuwait to take part in qualifying for the 2000 AFC Asian Cup. Their qualifying performance was not positive and they headed home with their losing streak now sat at sixteen games and their performance in Kuwait including a then world record 20–0 defeat to the hosts. Following a seventeenth straight defeat to Bangladesh the next year, Bhutan recorded their first ever win in 2002, just over twenty years since their début on the international stage, a victory over Montserrat in a game organised by a Dutch advertising agency, sanctioned by FIFA to coincide with the 2002 FIFA World Cup Final and itself known as The Other Final.
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