Tajikistan national football team
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| Nickname(s) | The Persian Lions (Persian: Шерҳои Порсӣ, Şerhoi Porsī, شیرهای پارسی) |
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| Association | Tajikistan Football Federation |
| Confederation | AFC (Asia) |
| Sub-confederation | CAFA |
| Head coach | Khakim Fuzailov |
| Most caps | Fatkhullo Fatkhuloev (48) |
| Top scorer | Yusuf Rabiev (15) |
| Home stadium | Pamir Stadium, Dushanbe |
| FIFA code | TJK |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 132  3 (12 January 2017)
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| Highest | 106 (July 2013) |
| Lowest | 180 (July 2003, October 2003) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 163 |
| Highest | 87 (March 2004) |
| Lowest | 147 (13 March 2012, 21 March 2013) |
| First international | |
 Tajikistan 2–2 Uzbekistan  (Dushanbe, Tajikistan; 17 June 1992) |
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| Biggest win | |
 Tajikistan 16–0 Guam  (Tabriz, Iran; 26 November 2000) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
 Japan 8–0 Tajikistan (Osaka, Japan; 11 October 2011) |
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The Tajikistan national football team (Tajik: Тими миллии футболи Тоҷикистон, Timi millii futʙoli Toçikiston; Persian: تیم ملی فوتبال تاجیکستان) represents Tajikistan in association football and is controlled by the Tajikistan Football Federation, the governing body for football in Tajikistan. Tajikistan's home ground is the Pamir Stadium in Dushanbe.
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Tajikistan played its first match against Uzbekistan on 17 June 1992. It was not until 1994 that the Tajikistan National Football Federation was admitted to FIFA.
Tajikistan played its first official game on 11 April 1994 in Tashkent as part of a regional tournament. They lost that game against Kazakhstan 0–1. The first official competition the team entered was qualification for the 1996 Asian Cup, when it was seeded in the three-team Group 8 with Uzbekistan and Bahrain. Bahrain later withdrew, leaving Tajikistan to a play-off against their Middle Asian neighbors. Tajikistan won the first game 4–0, but were beaten in the away game 0–5 after extra time. They did not enter a World Cup qualifying competition until the France 1998 edition, recording four victories in their preliminary group stage including a 5–0 triumph over Turkmenistan, and losing only to China, which placed them second behind their eastern neighbors but out of the competition.
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