Liechtenstein national football team
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| Nickname(s) | The Blues-Reds |
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| Association |
Liechtenstein Football Association (Liechtensteiner Fussballverband) |
| Confederation | UEFA (Europe) |
| Head coach |
 Rene Pauritsch
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| Most caps | Mario Frick (125) |
| Top scorer | Mario Frick (16) |
| Home stadium | Rheinpark Stadion |
| FIFA code | LIE |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 184  3 (9 March 2017)
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| Highest | 118 (January 2008, July 2011, September 2011) |
| Lowest | 189 (November–December 2016) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 165 (9 September 2015) |
| Highest | 150 (September 2011) |
| Lowest | 184 (September 2004) |
| First international | |
 Liechtenstein 0–1 Switzerland "B"  (Balzers, Liechtenstein; 9 March 1982) |
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| Biggest win | |
 Luxembourg 0–4 Liechtenstein (Luxembourg, Luxembourg; 13 October 2004) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
Liechtenstein 1–11 Macedonia  (Eschen, Liechtenstein; 9 November 1996) |
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The Liechtenstein national football team (German: Liechtensteinische Fußballnationalmannschaft) is the national football team of the Principality of Liechtenstein and is controlled by the Liechtenstein Football Association. The organisation is known as the Liechtensteiner Fussballverband in German. The team's first match was an unofficial match against Malta in Seoul, a 1–1 draw in 1981. Their first official match came two years later, a 0–1 defeat from Switzerland. Liechtenstein's largest win, a 4–0 win over Luxembourg in a 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifier on 13 October 2004, was both its first away win ever and its first win in any World Cup qualifier. Liechtenstein suffered its biggest ever loss in 1996, during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, with an 11–1 thrashing at the hands of Macedonia, the result also being Macedonia's largest ever win to date.
Liechtenstein are only a relatively recent affiliate to FIFA, and did not participate in any qualifying series until the UEFA Euro 1996 qualifiers. There they managed to surprise the Republic of Ireland by holding them to a 0–0 draw on 3 June 1995. On 14 October 1998, they managed their first victory in a qualifying campaign by winning 2–1 against Azerbaijan in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying match.
Since then, the presence of Liechtenstein clubs in the Swiss league system and of a handful of professional players (most notably Mario Frick) has seen the side's competitiveness improve enormously. The Euro 2004 qualifiers saw Liechtenstein improve to the extent they restricted England to 2–0 wins. The 2006 World Cup qualifiers, however, brought even better results as two wins over Luxembourg and draws against both Slovakia and Portugal meant that Liechtenstein finished with eight points.
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