Sri Lanka national football team
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| Association | Football Federation of Sri Lanka |
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| Confederation | AFC (Asia) |
| Sub-confederation | SAFF (South Asia) |
| Head coach | Dudley Steinwall |
| Captain | Sujan Perera |
| Top scorer | Kasun Jayasuriya (24) |
| Home stadium | Sugathadasa Stadium |
| FIFA code | SRI |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 197  (6 April 2017)
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| Highest | 122 (August 1998) |
| Lowest | 197 (March–April 2017) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 219 (13 March 2017)
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| Highest | 105 (23 March 1952) |
| Lowest | 220 (7 November 2016) |
| First international | |
 Ceylon 0–2 India  (Colombo, Ceylon; 1 January 1952) |
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| Biggest win | |
 Sri Lanka 7–1 Pakistan  (Taipei, Taiwan; 4 April 2008) Sri Lanka 6–0 Bhutan  (Dhaka, Bangladesh; 6 December 2009) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
Ceylon 0–14 East Germany  (Colombo, Ceylon; 8 January 1964) |
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The Sri Lanka national football team represents Sri Lanka in association football and is controlled by the Football Federation of Sri Lanka, the governing body for football in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka's home grounds are Sugathadasa Stadium and Kalutara Stadium. The Sri Lankan team was known as the Ceylon national football team until 1972, when Ceylon was renamed Sri Lanka.
A member of the AFC, the team has yet to make their first appearance in FIFA World Cup or AFC Asian Cup finals. They have been South Asian champions once, in 1995. As is true elsewhere on the sub-continent, top-level football in Sri Lanka stands somewhat in the shadow of the country's test cricket team. However, the side did reach the second qualification stage for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In the same year they became the runners-up in AFC Challenge Cup 2006.
In 2014, at the 75th anniversary of FFSL, FIFA President Sepp Blatter visited Sri Lanka and opened a new football stadium in Jaffna. During the visit Blatter said he was not pleased with the development of Football in Sri Lanka and that the authorities haven't taken enough steps to support football on the island. The AFC President Sheikh Salman Bin Ibrahim Al Kalifa also joined the visit.
In the qualification round of 2018 FIFA World Cup, Sri Lanka lost both matches against Bhutan. This was the first time that Sri Lanka lost a game against Bhutan, and Sri Lanka failed to qualify for the next round. After a long period of poor performance in international football, Sri Lanka national football team had managed to qualify for the semi-finals of the 2015 SAFF Championship.
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