East Timorese National Football Team

East Timor

Nickname (s)

O Sol Nascente (The Raising Sun)

Association

Federação Futebol Timor-Leste

confederacy

AFC

Head coach

Fabiano Flora (since 2019)

captain

José Carlos Fonseca

Record scorer

Rufino Gama (7)

Record player

Anggisu Barbosa (22)

Home stadium

East Timor National Stadium

FIFA code

TLS

FIFA rank

196. (879 points)
(as of July 16, 2020)

First jersey

Second jersey

statistics

First international Sri Lanka 3-2 East Timor ( Colombo , Sri Lanka ; March 21, 2003)

Biggest win Cambodia 1: 5 East Timor ( Rangoon , Myanmar ; October 5, 2012)

Biggest defeat East Timor 0:10 Saudi Arabia ( Dili , East Timor ; November 17, 2015)

(As of June 11, 2019)

The East Timorese national soccer team is the national soccer team of the Southeast Asian island state of East Timor (Timor-Leste). She is the selection team of the national football association Federação Futebol Timor-Leste (FFTL). The team is one of the weakest in the world. Nevertheless, football is the most popular sport in the country. On September 12, 2005, East Timor was admitted to FIFA along with the Comoros .

history

East Timor played for the first time internationally in the qualifying round for the Asian Cup in March 2003. East Timor lost 3-2 to Sri Lanka and 3-0 to Taiwan .

In 2004, East Timor took part in the Tiger Cup for the first time . At the most important tournament in Southeast Asia, the country surprisingly took part after the Asian Football Association decided at a meeting in Petaling Jaya to allow East Timor to play, although it was not yet a full member of the association. The President of the FFTL, Francisco Kalbuadi, was also invited to the meeting.

In 2008 the “Crocs” got a point for the first time. They drew 2-2 against Cambodia. The compensation for Cambodia fell shortly before the end of the game.

The national team is victorious in regional games. At the Arafura Games 2009 she won the gold medal after victories against the teams of the Australian Northern Territory , the Indonesian East Nusa Tenggara and in the final against the Indonesian Aceh . East Timor won the final 3-0. The U23 team was the first East Timorese team to win a national game on November 5, 2011 against the selection of Brunei 2-1. The senior national team scored their first international win in qualifying for the 2012 ASEAN soccer championship when Cambodia were defeated 5-1.

On March 12, 2015, the national team played an international match in their own country for the first time. In the first round of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup , she defeated the Mongolian national football team 4-1 (2-0) in the national stadium of East Timor .

On May 28, 2015, team manager Orlando Marques Henriques Mendes was arrested in Singapore. He is said to have received $ 15,000 so that the East Timorese U23 team would lose the upcoming game against Malaysia at the Southeast Asian Games. One of the three other suspects in this case is former East Timorese international Moises Natalino de Jesus .

In order to strengthen for the national team, more than a dozen Brazilians , including Célio and Juninho , were granted East Timorese citizenship by 2015 alone . The procedure caused displeasure among fans and competing associations. On December 12, 2017, the FIFA Disciplinary Committee punished East Timor for having nine national players who did not comply with the rules because of their nationality. Seven qualifying matches for the 2018 World Cup were counted as defeats and the national association has to pay a fine of 40,000 Swiss francs. The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) had previously sanctioned East Timor. In qualifying, East Timor was eliminated in the second round after two draws and six defeats in Group A.

Results East Timor

Friendly match between the U17 team and US Navy sailors

Asia Cup

Qualification Asia Cup 2003 in Sri Lanka

East Timor 2-3 Sri Lanka (21 Mar 2003, Sri Lanka)
East Timor 0-3 Taiwan (23 Mar 2003, Sri Lanka)

Jogos da Lusofonia

Lusophonie 2006 in Macau

East Timor 0-5 Mozambique (October 4, 2006)
East Timor 0-5 Angola (6 October 2006)

Asean Football Championship ( formerly Tiger Cup )

ASEAN soccer championship 2004

East Timor 0-5 Malaysia (8 December 2004, Bukit Jalil )
East Timor 0-8 Thailand (12 December 2004, Bukit Jalil)
East Timor 1-2 Philippines (December 14th, Bukit Jalil)
East Timor 1-3 Myanmar (December 16, 2004, Bukit Jalil)

East Timor landed in Group B in 5th and last place with 0 points and 2:18 goals and was eliminated from the tournament.

Qualified 2006 in the Philippines

East Timor 2-3 Brunei (November 12, 2006, Bacolod )
East Timor 0-7 Philippines (November 14, 2006, Bacolod)
East Timor 2-3 Laos (Nov 16, 2006, Bacolod)
East Timor 1-4 Cambodia (20 Nov 2006, Bacolod)

East Timor landed in 5th and last place with 0 points and 5:17 goals and thus could not qualify for the final round.

ASEAN football championship 2012

In the qualifying round, East Timor achieved the first victories in history.

East Timor 5-1 Cambodia (October 5, 2012, Yangon )
East Timor 1-2 Myanmar (7 October 2012, Yangon )
East Timor 3-1 Laos (October 9, 2012, Yangon )
East Timor 2-1 Brunei (October 13, 2012, Yangon )

Southeast Asian Games

Vientiane 2009

East Timor - Malaysia 0:11 (December 2, 2009, Chao Anuvong Stadium, Vientiane )
East Timor 0-4 Vietnam (4th December 2009, Chao Anuvong Stadium, Vientiane)
East Timor 1-4 Cambodia (December 8th 2009, Chao Anuvong Stadium, Vientiane)

FIFA World Cup

FIFA World Cup qualifications

For the first time, East Timor took part in qualifying for a soccer World Cup in 2010 . But it was eliminated in the first round of qualifying in Asia. Against Hong Kong they lost both the first leg at the Kapten I Wayan Dipta stadium in Gianyar / Bali on October 21, 2007 with 2: 3, and the second leg in Hong Kong on October 28 with 8: 1.

Four years later, the East Timor team failed in the first round. In two games against Nepal , both of which were played in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu due to the infrastructural problems of East Timor , the team lost 1: 2 and 0: 5 and was the first team to be eliminated from the World Cup on July 2, 2011 .

In qualifying for the 2018 World Cup , the team met Mongolia in the first round in March 2015 . The first leg in Dili was won 4-1, the second leg 1-0. In the second round , the team met the United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Palestine and Malaysia . After just six games in which no victory was achieved, the team no longer had a chance to qualify for the World Cup.

In qualifying for the 2022 World Cup , the team met Malaysia in the first round in June 2019 . East Timor lost both opening games of the first round against Malaysia 7-1 and 1-5 and were eliminated.

Coach chronicle

Brazil Fernando Alcântara (2015-2016)
Brazil Fábio Magrão (2016)
Chile Simón Elissetche (2017-2018)
Japan Norio Tsukitate (2018-2019)
Portugal Fabiano Flora (since 2019)

Coach and team

2010 away shirt

Since the Tiger Cup in December 2004, the Portuguese José Luís coached the national team. He was a striker for Benfica Lisbon in the 1970s . During his coaching career, he took over the youth teams of Benfica and teams of the Portuguese Second League. After João Paulo, the new trainer was Pedro Almeida, a motorcycle mechanic from Dili . From 2018 to 2019 Norio Tsukitate was a trainer. He was replaced in 2019 by the Portuguese Fabiano Flora , who was previously the coach of the East Timorese first division club Boavista Futebol Clube Timor-Leste .

The team was captained in 2009 by Anggisu Barbosa from FC Porto Taibesi, one of the leading clubs in East Timor. Most of the players come from the state capital Dili, but some from Maliana . Goalkeeper is Henrique Oliveira. Other players are Mazario do Capmo, Nazaro Carmo, João Paulo, Bartholomeu Valadaires, Bartholomeu Verdial and Savio Ximenes.

2017 Captain José Carlos Fonseca of Cacusan CF .

National stadium

The East Timor National Stadium in Dili has a capacity of 15,000 seats. Since it can only be used to a limited extent for international matches, the qualifying game for the 2010 FIFA World Cup was held in the Kapten I Wayan Dipta stadium in Gianyar , Bali . It was not until March 12, 2015 that an international match was hosted here for the first time.