Filipino national soccer team

Philippines

Nickname (s)	Azkals (street dogs)
Association	Philippine Football Federation
confederacy	AFC
Head coach	Goran Milojević (since September 2019)
captain	Phil Younghusband
Record scorer	Phil Younghusband (52)
Record player	Phil Younghus Band (108)
Home stadium	Rizal Memorial Stadium
FIFA code	PHI
FIFA rank	124th (1136 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey Third jersey
Balance sheet
268 games 53 wins 34 draws 181 losses
statistics
First international match Philippines 2-1 China (Philippines; February 1, 1913)
Biggest win Japan 2:15 Philippines ( Tokyo , Japan ; Sep 10, 1917)
Biggest defeat Japan 15-0 Philippines (Tokyo, Japan; Sep 27, 1967)
Successes in tournaments
Asian Championship
Participation in the finals	1 ( First : 2019 )
Best results	Preliminary round 2019
(As of January 16, 2019)

The Philippine national soccer team is subordinate to the Philippine Football Federation (PFF), the leading association in Philippine soccer.

history

Despite being one of the first Asian countries to have a national soccer team (their first game, a home game, was against China on February 1, 1913), the Philippines never had any significant success internationally. The Philippine team has not yet managed to qualify for a soccer World Cup . In 2019 , the team took part in an Asian soccer championship for the first time.

They are currently 120th out of 209 countries in the FIFA rankings (2016), making them one of the weaker teams. Nevertheless, an upward trend can be seen, among other things by the German coach Michael Weiß , who recruited many new players from Europe and North America, among others. After 2002, the Philippines did not take part in the qualifications for the 2006 World Cup in Germany and 2010 in South Africa, to focus more on promoting young talent and on regional tournaments, such as B. the Southeast Asian Games. In qualifying for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the team failed in the second round to Kuwait. Nevertheless, a World Cup qualifier was won for the first time in the history of Philippine football: on July 3, 2011, the Azkals beat the selection of Sri Lanka 4-0.

Football in the Philippines has been developing steadily since qualifying in the AFC Challenge Cup in 2012 . The main cause of the lack of success is that soccer is not a major sport in the Philippines like in most European countries. The preferred sport for Filipinos is basketball . Still, football is very popular in the Philippines and is played by many people in Barotac Nuevo , Negros Occidental , Mindanao and Iloilo Province . Due to the sporting success of the team and the increased level of awareness of the players through advertising, football is more popular in the Philippines than ever before. By winning the Philippine Peace Cup in 2012, the Philippines managed to win their first ever trophy, even if none of Asia's big teams took part in this tournament.

Paulino Alcántara (1896–1964), who played for FC Barcelona for a long time , is the most famous football player in the Philippines. His father was a Spanish officer and his mother was from Iloilo City , where he was born. He played 357 games for FC Barcelona, ​​scoring 369 goals.

Through the German scout and official consultant of the Philippine association PFF (2008–2011), Paul Weiler, the German Michael Weiß became national coach of the Philippines from 2011 to 2014 . Since 2010, the Philippine association has been looking for possible candidates for the national team in European leagues. Because of Weiler, some "Azkals" players in Europe were scouted for the team (including Dennis Cagara , Jerry Lucena , Roland Müller , Ray Jónsson , Patrick Reichelt). In addition to many lower-class debutants, experienced players such as Stephan Schröck could also be won for the national team in 2011 .

Participation in the soccer world championship

• 1930 to 1962 - did not take part
• 1966 - suspended by FIFA because the country could not pay the necessary costs
• 1970 to 1994 - did not participate
• 1998 and 2002 - not qualified
• 2006 and 2010 - did not participate
• 2014 to 2018 - not qualified

Participation in the Asian football championship

• 1956 to 1968 : not qualified
• 1972 and 1976 : did not participate
• 1980 and 1984 : not qualified
• 1988 and 1992 : did not participate
• 1996 : Disqualified because an ineligible player, Mark Yutan, was used.
• 2000 : not qualified
• 2004 and 2007 : did not participate
• 2011 and 2015 : not qualified
• 2019: preliminary round

Participation in the Southeast Asian Football Championship

• 1996 - preliminary round
• 1998 - preliminary round
• 2000 - preliminary round
• 2002 - preliminary round
• 2004 - preliminary round
• 2007 - preliminary round
• 2008 - did not qualify
• 2010 - semi-finals
• 2012 - semi-finals
• 2014 - semi-finals
• 2018 - semi-finals

AFC Challenge Cup

• 2006 - preliminary round
• 2008 - did not qualify
• 2010 - did not qualify
• 2012 - third
• 2014 - second

International match records

A balance sheet of the competitive matches in the tournaments and qualifications for the World Championships , Asian Championships , Southeast Asian Championships and AFC Challenge Cups . The Philippines have not yet played a competitive game against a non-Asian team.

(As of November 19, 2019)

country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Goal difference	Goal difference	supreme victory	ultimate defeat
Afghanistan	2	0	2	0	01: 1	0
Bahrain	5	1	1	3	05: 9	−4	2: 1 (2015)	0: 2 (2015)
Bangladesh	3	2	0	1	06: 3	3	3-0 (2012)	2: 3 (1984)
Bhutan	2	2	0	0	04-0	4th	3-0 (2008)
Brunei	4th	2	1	1	07: 3	4th	4: 1 (2007)	0: 1 (1996)
China	7th	0	1	6th	01:31	−30		0: 8 (2000)
Chinese Taipei	5	1	0	4th	09:21	−12	5: 1 (2014)	0: 9 (1967)
Fiji	1	1	0	0	03: 2	1	3: 2 (2017)
Guam	2	2	0	0	06: 1	5	4: 1 (2019)
Hong Kong	2	0	0	2	00:15	−15		0: 8 (1996)
India	1	1	1	1	03: 3	0	2-0 (2012)	0: 2 (1996)
Indonesia	10	1	2	7th	08:30	−22	4: 0 (2014)	1:13 (2002)
Iran	1	0	0	1	01: 7	−6		1: 7 (1984)
Japan	1	0	0	1	00: 2	−2		0: 2 (1967)
Yemen	4th	1	2	1	05: 4	1	2: 0 (2015)	0: 1 (2015)
Cambodia	7th	4th	2	1	016: 4	9	8: 0 (2013)	0: 1 (2002)
Qatar	1	0	0	1	00: 5	−5		0: 5 (1996)
Kyrgyzstan	3	2	0	1	04: 4	0	2: 1 (2016)	1: 3 (2019)
Kuwait	2	0	0	2	01: 5	−4		0: 3 (2011)
Laos	9	4th	2	3	17:12	+5	4: 1 (2014)	0: 2 (2001)
Macau	2	0	0	2	02: 7	−5		1: 5 (1996)
Malaysia	4th	0	1	3	01:15	−14		0: 7 (1996)
Maldives	4th	3	0	1	09: 6	3	2: 0 (2015)	2: 3 (2010)
Mongolia	2	1	0	1	03: 2	1	2-0 (2012)	1: 2 (2012)
Myanmar	9	1	3	5	08:19	−11	2-0 (2012)	1: 6 (2002)
Nepal	3	2	1	0	07: 1	6th	4: 1 (2017)
North Korea	6th	2	2	2	07: 9	−2	3: 2 (2016)	0: 2 (2012)
Oman	3	0	1	2	01:10	−9		0: 7 (2001)
East Timor	6th	5	0	1	018: 4	14th	7-0 (2006)	0: 1 (2017)
Palestine	2	1	1	1	04: 4	0	4: 3 (2012)	0: 1 (2014)
Papua New Guinea	1	1	0	0	05-0	5	5: 0 (2014)
Singapore	7th	1	3	3	02: 6	−4	1: 0 (2018)	0: 3 (1996)
Sri Lanka	3	1	1	1	05: 4	1	4: 0 (2011)	0: 3 (1996)
South Korea	5	0	0	5	00:16	−16		0: 7 (1967)
Syria	5	0	0	5	03:25	−22		0:12 (2001)
Tajikistan	5	3	1	1	09:10	−1	4: 3 (2017)	0: 2 (2018)
Thailand	11	0	2	9	04:27	−23		0: 5 (1996)
Turkmenistan	4th	2	0	2	04: 7	−3	2-0 (2014)	0: 5 (2010)
Uzbekistan	2	0	0	2	01: 6	−5		1: 5 (2015)
Vietnam	8th	2	0	6th	09:18	−9	2: 0 (2010)	1: 4 (2002)

Previous trainers

• Alan Rogers (1962-1963)
• Danny McLennan (1963)
• Carlos Cavagnaro (1989)
• Eckhard Krautzun (1991–1992)
• Noel Casilao (1993-1996)
• Juan Cutillas (1996-2000)
• Rodolfo Alicante (2000)
• Masataka Imai (2001)
• Sugao Kambe (2002-2003)
• Jose Ariston Caslib (2004-2007)
• Norman Fegidero (2008)
• Juan Cutillas (2008-2009)
• Jose Ariston Caslib (2009)
• Des Bulpin (2009-2010)
• Simon McMenemy (2010)
• Michael White (2011-2014)
• Thomas Dooley (2014-2018)
• Terry Butcher (2018)
• Sven-Göran Eriksson (2018-2019)
• Scott Cooper (2019)
• Goran Milojević (since 2019)

Web links

• Philippine Football Federation
• List of the current Philippine national soccer team

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ soccer-warriors.de: The half-Philippine national team is still looking for new players… . Azkals Europe (www.azkals.eu) from Mr Weiler and Mr Peters help with this.