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Jordan national football team

Jordan
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s) النشامى
Al-Nashāmā
("The Chivalrous")
Association Jordan Football Association
Confederation AFC (Asia)
Sub-confederation WAFF (West Asia)
Head coach Abdullah Mesfer
Captain Amer Shafi
Most caps Amer Shafi (136)
Top scorer Hassan Abdel-Fattah (30)
Home stadium Amman International Stadium
King Abdullah II Stadium
FIFA code JOR
FIFA ranking
Current 107 Decrease 2 (12 January 2017)
Highest 37 (August–September 2004)
Lowest 152 (July 1996)
Elo ranking
Current 79 Increase 2 (25 January 2017)
Highest 37 (23 July 2004)
Lowest 143 (September 1984, July 1985)
First international
 Syria 3–1 Jordan Jordan
(Egypt; 1 August 1953)
Biggest win
Jordan Jordan 9–0 Nepal   
(Amman, Jordan; 23 July 2011)
Biggest defeat
 Japan 6–0 Jordan Jordan
(Saitama, Japan: 8 June 2012)
Asian Cup
Appearances 3 (first in 2004)
Best result Quarter-finals, 2004 and 2011

The Jordan national football team (Arabic: المنتخب الأردني لكرة القدم‎‎), known by its fans as Al-Nashama ("The Chivalrous"), is the national team of Jordan and is controlled by the Jordan Football Association, the governing body for football in Jordan. Jordan's home ground/stadium is the Amman International Stadium. Jordan have never qualified for the World Cup finals, but have appeared three times in the Asian Cup and reached its quarter-final stage in the 2004 and 2011 editions.

Jordan is a two-time champion of the Pan Arab Games, having won the 1997 and 1999 editions of the tournament. So far, Jordan has hosted the West Asian Football Federation Championship three times in (2000, 2007 and 2010), the Arab Nations Cup once in 1988, and the Pan Arab Games once in 1999.

The Jordanian national football team's first international match was played in 1953 in Egypt where the team defeated Syria 3–1. The first FIFA World Cup Qualifiers Jordan took part in was the 1986 qualifiers, but they are yet to qualify for a World Cup. For the first time in history, Jordan have qualified for the final round of the FIFA World Cup qualification AFC in the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC) campaign.


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