Sri Lankan national soccer team

Sri Lanka

Association

Football Federation of Sri Lanka

confederacy

AFC

Head coach

Amir Alagić (since 2020)

Record scorer

Kasun Nadika Jayasuriya Weerarathne (27)

Home stadium

Sugathadasa Stadium

FIFA code

SRI

FIFA rank

206. (853 points)
(as of July 16, 2020)

First jersey

Second jersey

statistics

First international match Ceylon 1: 2 India ( Ceylon ; 1952)

Biggest win Sri Lanka 7-1 Pakistan ( Taipei , Taiwan ; April 4, 2008 )

Biggest defeat Ceylon 1:12 DDR ( Colombo , Ceylon ; January 12, 1964 )

(Status: Nov. 6, 2008)

The Sri Lankan national soccer team is the national team of the South Asian island state of Sri Lanka . Until 1972, the team took part in international competitions under the name Ceylon .

Football is more of a marginal sport in Sri Lanka and the team is one of the weakest in Asia. Sri Lanka has not yet managed to qualify for a soccer World Cup or the soccer Asian Cup.

team

World championships

1930 to 1970 - did not participate
1974 to 1978 - withdrawn
1982 to 1990 - did not participate
1994 to 2018 - not qualified

Asian Championships

1956 to 1968 - did not participate
1972 - did not qualify
1976 - did not participate
1980 and 1984 - did not qualify
1988 and 1992 did not participate
1996 to 2004 - not qualified
2007 - withdrawn
2011 to 2019 - not qualified

South Asian Championships

1993 - second
1995 - South Asian champion
1997 - fourth
1999 - preliminary round
2003 - preliminary round (national coach: Marcus Fereira (Brazil), assistant coach: Sampath Perera)
2005 - preliminary round (national coach: Sampath Perera )
2008 - semi-finals
2009 - semi-finals
2011 - preliminary round
2013 - preliminary round
2015 - semi-finals

AFC Challenge Cup

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

AFC Solidarity Cup

2016 - preliminary round

International matches against German-speaking national soccer teams

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
1.	01/12/1964	Colombo	Ceylon Ceylon	1:12	Germany Democratic Republic 1949 GDR

So far, no international matches against Germany , Liechtenstein , Austria or Switzerland .

Trainer

Germany Karl-Heinz Weigang (1964–1965)
Korea South Jang Jung (2007-2008)
Sri Lanka Mohamed Amanulla (2009-2010)
Korea South Jang Jung (2010-2012)
Brazil Claudio Roberto (2013-2014)
Serbia Nikola Kavazović (2014-2015)
Sri Lanka Sampath Perera (2015-2016)
Sri Lanka Dudley Lincoln Stone Wall (2016-2018)
Sri Lanka Nizam Packeer Ali (2018-2020)
Bosnia and Herzegovina Amir Alagić (since 2020)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 .
^ National Football Teams
↑ ^a ^b SAFF Vibes: Duddley expects to retain captaincy of Sri Lanka ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) from www.socceragenepal.com.np dated December 2, 2005, accessed January 8, 2012@1@ 2

[1] The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 .

[2] National Football Teams

[socceragenepal.com.np-3] SAFF Vibes: Duddley expects to retain captaincy of Sri Lanka ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) from www.socceragenepal.com.np dated December 2, 2005, accessed January 8, 2012@1@ 2