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The Sri Lanka national football team represents Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

in association football and is controlled by the Football Federation of Sri Lanka

Football Federation of Sri Lanka

The Football Federation of Sri Lanka is the governing body of football in Sri Lanka.-External links:* * at the FIFA website.* at AFC site...

, the governing body for football in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka's home grounds are Sugathadasa Stadium and Kalutara Stadium and their head coach is Jang Jung

Jang Jung

Jang Jung is a South Korean football player. He mostly played at defender.He formerly played with Lucky-Goldstar Hwangso in South Korea, Perak FA and Singapore FA in Malaysia and Geylang United in Singapore....

. Sri Lanka was known as the Ceylon national football team until 1972, when Ceylon was renamed Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

.

A member of the AFC

Asian Football Confederation

The Asian Football Confederation is the governing body of association football in Asia. It has 46 member countries, mostly located on the Asian continent. However, due to the disputed boundary of Europe and Asia, nations such as Russia and Turkey which are located mostly in geographic Asia are...

, the team have yet to make their first appearance in FIFA World Cup

FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body...

or AFC Asian Cup

AFC Asian Cup

The AFC Asian Cup is an international association football tournament run by the Asian Football Confederation . It is the second oldest continental football championship in the world after Copa América. The winning team becomes the champion of Asia and automatically qualifies for the FIFA...

championship play. They have been South Asian champions once, in 1995. As is true elsewhere on the sub-continent, top-level football in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

stands somewhat in the shadow of the country's test cricket

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

team. However, the side did qualify for the second stage of Asian qualifying for the 2006 World Cup.

Fixtures and Results

Date	Competition	Location	Result	Scorers for Sri Lanka
April 07, 2011	AFC Challenge qualifiers 2012 AFC Challenge Cup qualification The 2012 AFC Challenge Cup qualification phase saw eight teams advance to the final tournament in Nepal. The qualification draw was held on 20 October 2010, in AFC House.-Seeding:...	Kathmandu	0–4	N/A
April 09, 2011	AFC Challenge qualifiers 2012 AFC Challenge Cup qualification The 2012 AFC Challenge Cup qualification phase saw eight teams advance to the final tournament in Nepal. The qualification draw was held on 20 October 2010, in AFC House.-Seeding:...	Kathmandu	0–1	N/A
April 11, 2011	AFC Challenge qualifiers 2012 AFC Challenge Cup qualification The 2012 AFC Challenge Cup qualification phase saw eight teams advance to the final tournament in Nepal. The qualification draw was held on 20 October 2010, in AFC House.-Seeding:...	Kathmandu	0–0	N/A
June 29, 2011	2014 World Cup qualifiers 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC First Round This page provides the summaries of the AFC First Round matches for 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification.-Format:In this round the sixteen lowest seeded teams were drawn into 8 home-and-away ties...	Sugathadasa Stadium, Colombo Sugathadasa Stadium Sugathadasa Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It is currently used mostly for football matches and athletic tournaments. The stadium holds 25,000 people. The 1991 and 2006 South Asian Games were held in this stadium. It also hosted the majority of matches for the 2010 AFC...	1–1	Chathura Gunarathna 43'
July 3, 2011	2014 World Cup qualifiers 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC First Round This page provides the summaries of the AFC First Round matches for 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification.-Format:In this round the sixteen lowest seeded teams were drawn into 8 home-and-away ties...	Rizal Stadium, Manila Rizal Memorial Track and Football Stadium The Rizal Memorial Track and Football Stadium, simply known as the Rizal Memorial Stadium since it is the main stadium within the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex, is the national stadium of the Philippines. It served as the main stadium of the 1954 Asian Games and the Southeast Asian Games on three...	0–4	N/A
December 3, 2011	2011 South Asian Football Federation Cup 2011 South Asian Football Federation Cup The 2011 South Asian Football Federation Cup will be the ninth edition of SAFF Championship to be held in New Delhi, India. It was originally scheduled to take place in Orissa, India in December 2011, but was switched to New Delhi by the Executive Committee of the All India Football Federation on...	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium	–
December 5, 2011	2011 South Asian Football Federation Cup 2011 South Asian Football Federation Cup The 2011 South Asian Football Federation Cup will be the ninth edition of SAFF Championship to be held in New Delhi, India. It was originally scheduled to take place in Orissa, India in December 2011, but was switched to New Delhi by the Executive Committee of the All India Football Federation on...	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium	–
December 7, 2011	2011 South Asian Football Federation Cup 2011 South Asian Football Federation Cup The 2011 South Asian Football Federation Cup will be the ninth edition of SAFF Championship to be held in New Delhi, India. It was originally scheduled to take place in Orissa, India in December 2011, but was switched to New Delhi by the Executive Committee of the All India Football Federation on...	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium	–

Kit

The official team kit representing Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

is characterized by the yellow jersey, the black shorts, and yellow socks. The away jersey features a blue jersey, white shorts, and blue socks. The team also have their third kit that features a red jersey, black shorts, and white socks.

Current squad

The 25-man player pool for the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification first round

2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC First Round

This page provides the summaries of the AFC First Round matches for 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification.-Format:In this round the sixteen lowest seeded teams were drawn into 8 home-and-away ties...

External links

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