Moldova national football team
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| Association | Federația Moldovenească de Fotbal (FMF) |
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| Confederation | UEFA (Europe) |
| Head coach | Igor Dobrovolski |
| Captain | Alexandru Epureanu |
| Most caps | Alexandru Epureanu (75) |
| Top scorer | Serghei Cleșcenco (11) |
| Home stadium | Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău |
| FIFA code | MDA |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 162  1 (9 March 2017)
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| Highest | 37 (April 2008) |
| Lowest | 173 (October 2016) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 122 1 (19 March 2017)
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| Highest | 86 (February 2008) |
| Lowest | 130 (October/November 2002) |
| First international | |
 Moldova 2–4 Georgia  (Chişinău, Moldova; July 2, 1991) |
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| Biggest win | |
Moldova 5–0 Pakistan  (Amman, Jordan; August 18, 1992) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
 Sweden 6–0 Moldova (Gothenburg, Sweden; June 6, 2001) |
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The Moldova national football team (Romanian: Echipa națională de fotbal a Moldovei) represents Moldova in association football and is controlled by the Football Association of Moldova, the governing body for football in Moldova. Moldova's home ground is Zimbru Stadium in Chișinău and their head coach is Igor Dobrovolski. After the break-up of the Soviet Union, they played their first match against Georgia on July 2, 1991.
Two of their three best results in the 1990s years, came during the qualifiers for the Euro 96, with wins over Georgia (1–0) in Tbilisi and Wales (3–2) in Chișinău. In 2007 Moldova obtained a very good result, beating Hungary 3–0 in Chișinău in the Euro 2008 qualifiers. Their best recent result was a 5–2 win over Montenegro during the 2014 World Cup qualifiers. The team has never qualified for the final stages of the European Championship or the FIFA World Cup.
Following Moldova's 4–0 defeat to England in September 1997, the British writer and comedian Tony Hawks travelled to Moldova to challenge and beat all 11 Moldovan international footballers at tennis. The feature film version of the book of the same name, Playing the Moldovans at Tennis, was filmed in and around Chișinău in May and June 2010 and was released in the spring of 2012.
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