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Burma national football team

Myanmar
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s) The White Angels
Association Myanmar Football Federation
Confederation AFC (Asia)
Sub-confederation AFF (South-East Asia)
Head coach Gerd Zeise
Captain Yan Aung Kyaw
Home stadium Thuwunna Stadium
FIFA code MYA
FIFA ranking
Current 166 Increase 6 (6 April 2017)
Highest 97 (April 1996)
Lowest 182 (August 2012, October 2012)
Elo ranking
Current 180 (26 March 2017)
Highest 31 (ca. May 1972)
Lowest 186 (4 March 2013, 2015)
First international
 Hong Kong 5–2 Burma Myanmar
(Hong Kong; 17 February 1950)
Biggest win
Myanmar Burma 9–0 Singapore 
(Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; 9 November 1969)
Biggest defeat
 Kuwait 9–0 Myanmar Myanmar
(Doha, Qatar; 3 September 2015)
Asian Cup
Appearances 1 (first in 1968)
Best result Runners-up, 1968

The Myanmar national football team (မြန်မာအမျိုးသားဘောလုံးအသင်း) is the national team of Myanmar and is controlled by the Myanmar Football Federation. It was known as the Burma national football team until 1989, when Burma was renamed Myanmar. It finished second in the 1968 Asian Cup. They have participated in the Summer Olympics in 1972 and in the Asian Games. The Burma team was dominant in Asia in the 1960s and 1970s, having won the Asian Games twice; in 1966 and 1970, and the football event of the Southeast Asian Games on five successive occasions; in 1965, 1967, 1969, 1971 and 1973. Since then, Myanmar's highest achievement is the silver medal in 1993. Myanmar played its first World Cup qualifiers in 2007, losing 0–7 and 0–4 to China.

Burma sent players to the Philippines in 1954 Asian Games and captured a bronze medal, behind Taiwan (gold) and South Korea (silver); this fact marked the beginning of the golden age. On the other hand, the nation was not expected to contend for a medal in the Olympic-type Asian Games. In the meantime, this delegation became the first male Burmese team to win a continental medal. But this was only the beginning. Then, against all odds, the team of Burma bettered their 1954 effort by winning the gold medal in the Asian Games, which were held at Bangkok in the mid-1960s. In that tournament, Burma beat Iran in the gold-medal game.


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