Sri Lanka national under-23 football team
| Nickname(s) | ල০කා සි০හයෝ , Lankan Lions |
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| Association | Football Federation of Sri Lanka |
| Confederation | AFC (Asia) |
| Sub-confederation | SAFF (South Asia) |
| Head coach | Nikola Kavazovic |
| Captain | Dananju Madushan |
| FIFA code | SRI |
| First international | |
 Sri Lanka 1 - 0 Nepal  (Islamabad, Pakistan; March 29, 2004) |
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| Biggest win | |
Sri Lanka 4 - 0 Bhutan  (Colombo, Sri Lanka; August 21, 2006) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
Sri Lanka 0 - 7 Saudi Arabia  (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; June 30, 2012) |
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| South Asian Games | |
| Appearances | 3 |
| Best result |
 Silver Medal (2006) |
Sri Lanka National U-23 Team is the National team which participate in international Football Tournaments like Summer Olympics and AFC U-23 Championship representing Sri Lanka. The team has won the First Bronze Medal in 2004 South Asian Games and in 2014 Lusophony Games. Before AFC U-23 Championship.Sri Lanka won the Silver Medal in 2006 South Asian Games.It was the First Silver Medal won by Sri Lanka in an international tournament.
Sri Lanka didn't have any official U-23 team.Before 2013 Sri Lanka national football team participated in the Summer Olympic qualifications and other international events. Sri Lanka is yet to participate in Summer Olympic football tournament.
Due to the popularity of cricket in Sri Lanka, football has been not popular. But in recent years football has become more popular with Sri Lanka's youth. As a result, Sri Lanka's National U-23 Football team was formed. In the 2010s, the Sri Lanka national football team competed in the International football tournaments.Sri Lanka u-23 team has won a silver medal and two Bronze Medals in competitions.
2006 South Asian Games was the 10th edition of the Tournament.It was held in Sri Lanka.In the football tournament Sri Lanka competed in the group stage against Pakistan,Bhutan and Maldives u-23 Football Teams. Sri Lanka won the Bronze Medal in the Previous 2004 tournament. Sri Lanka beat Maldives and Bhutan to qualify for the Semi Final stage and Beat India in Penalties to qualify for the final with Pakistan and lost it 1-0.Sri Lanka won the Silver Medal as a result.
Sri Lanka has participated in AFC U-23 Championship Qualifiers competition as an in experienced football team.Because of that they couldn't win a single match.The first match was played with Palestine. Sri Lanka did well to draw this game with the first goal of a major U-23 football tournament that was scored by bandara in the 73rd minute.
In the next match with Pakistan also ended with a draw.None of the players from both teams failed to score a goal in the full-time. In the next match against the power full and experienced Syria national under-23 football team Sri Lanka lost the game 4-0. In the next match they played against the host Saudi Arabia and lost the game 7-0 after the full-time and it was the Biggest defeat of the team in the tournament.In the last match of the qualifiers Sri Lanka played against the Kyrgyzstan team and lost 5-0 and failed to qualify for the inaugural AFC U-22 Championship tournament.
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