Timor-Leste national football team
























































































Timor-Leste
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)
O Sol Nascente
(The Rising Sun)
Pequena Nação do Samba
(The Little Samba Nation)
Association Federação de Futebol de Timor-Leste
Confederation
AFC (Asia)
Sub-confederation
AFF (Southeast Asia)
Head coach Norio Tsukitate
Captain
Nataniel Reis [1]
Most caps

Anggisu Barbosa (30)
Top scorer
Rufino Gama and Murilo de Almeida (6)
Home stadium National Stadium
FIFA code TLS

















First colours














Second colours



FIFA ranking
Current 196 Steady(7 February 2019)[2]
Highest 146 (June 2015)
Lowest 206 (October 2012)
Elo ranking
Current 227 Decrease 1 (2 February 2019)[3]
Highest 214 (November 2015)
Lowest 230 (November 2016)
First international

 Sri Lanka 3–2 Timor-Leste 
(Colombo, Sri Lanka; 21 March 2003)[4]
Biggest win

 Timor-Leste 5–1 Cambodia 
(Yangon, Myanmar; 5 October 2012)
Biggest defeat

 Timor-Leste 0–10 Saudi Arabia 
(Dili, Timor Leste; 17 November 2015)

The Timor-Leste national football team is the national team of East Timor (Timor-Leste) and is controlled by the Federação de Futebol de Timor-Leste. East Timor joined FIFA on 12 September 2005.[5]


Timor-Leste's international debut was in the preliminary round of the 2004 AFC Asian Cup qualification in March 2003, when they lost 3–2 to Sri Lanka and 3–0 to Chinese Taipei.[6] They also participated in the 2004 AFF Championship. Timor-Leste's participation in Southeast Asia's premier international football event in 2004 was announced after an Asian Football Confederation council meeting in Petaling Jaya. Although not yet a member of the AFC, the Timor-Leste Football Association was invited to sit in on the meeting, where they were represented by FA president Francia Kalbuadi. Timor-Leste won their first international match on 5 October 2012 against Cambodia with a score of 5–1.[7]




Contents






  • 1 History


  • 2 Naturalised players controversy


  • 3 Team images


    • 3.1 Kits


    • 3.2 Grounds




  • 4 Competition records


    • 4.1 World Cup record


    • 4.2 Lusofonia Games


    • 4.3 Asian Cup record


    • 4.4 AFC Challenge Cup record


    • 4.5 AFC Solidarity Cup record


    • 4.6 AFF Championship


    • 4.7 AFF Championship Cup qualification history


    • 4.8 Results and fixtures


    • 4.9 International match records




  • 5 Players


    • 5.1 Current Squad


    • 5.2 Recent call-ups


    • 5.3 Previous squads




  • 6 Records


  • 7 Current Staff


  • 8 List of Coaches


  • 9 See also


  • 10 Notes


  • 11 References


  • 12 External links





History


Football was established in Timor-Leste during the Portuguese colonial era, when many of the locals and the Portuguese officials played amateur football. After Portugal ended its colonial rule, Indonesia invaded and occupied the island. East Timor eventually gained independence from Indonesia in 2000, which resulted in a long running battle against Jakarta-led forces.


The East Timor Football Association was accepted as an associate member of AFC at the 20th AFC Congress in 2002. Their international debut came in March 2003 when they participated in the qualifying campaign for the 2004 AFC Asian Cup in China. Given their history, it was no surprise that they crashed out with defeats against the likes of Sri Lanka and Chinese Taipei. They entered the regional competition for the first time in 2004 as they played in the ASEAN Football Federation Championship (previously known as Tiger Cup) as an invited member. They finished in last place, showing that they had a long way to go before they could compete even on the regional stage.


They again had no success in the qualifying round of the 2007 AFF Championship, with four heavy losses, including a 7–0 trouncing by the Philippines. In the third qualifying round for the 2008 AFF Championship, they surprisingly drew against Cambodia; this feat was reported in international news.


In the ninth AFF Suzuki Cup, the country's football federation (FFTL) reportedly select their foreign based players, who played in Brazil, Portugal, Australia and elsewhere, to fortify the team as they also did at the 2011 SEA Games.[8]


On 5 October 2012, Timor-Leste won their first international match in a 5–1 victory against Cambodia.[9] On 9 October 2012, the team won another match against an Indochina team, Laos at AFF Suzuki Cup qualifier. Murilo de Almeida score the penalty at 43 minutes of the first half of the match. Later Adelino Trinidade extended the Timorese advantage with a header early in the second half and then Alan Leandro added the third goal in 83 minutes.[10] After winning the second match against Laos, Emerson Alcântara stated "This is a win for the people of Timor Leste," said the Brazilian. "They had to wait a long time for our team to win their first match in this competition but now we have two wins and this was an important victory for Timor Leste. "I think that about 70 percent of people in Timor Leste are poor so it is very important to get this result for them because they love football and the people can get confidence and take pride in this result. It is very important for us to motivate our people and to help to change their lives.[11]


In 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification of Asian zone, Timor-Leste wrote history for the first country to win 4–1 over Mongolia.



Naturalised players controversy


Since 2012 several Brazilian-born footballers, who are not of East Timorese descent and had not necessarily played in the East Timorese League, were expressly naturalised to raise the level of "Sol Nascente".[12]


The country's recent history of naturalizing foreign players, mainly from Brazil such as Murilo de Almeida, Fellipe Bertoldo, and Diogo Santos Rangel has been criticized by many, including native East Timorese players and fans.[13][14]


In a match on 8 October 2015 against Palestine seven of the starting eleven for the Timorese line-up were naturalized Brazilians.[15] Following the match the Palestinian Football Association made a complaint to FIFA stating that the naturalized Timorese players were not eligible to represent Timor-Leste under FIFA rules.[16][17]


Following a concern from some Timorese who complained to the prime minister, the prosecutor general and the minister for justice regarding the naturalisation program, Timor Leste Football Federation (FFTL) decided to drop their oversea-born legion. It meant Timor Leste would be without seven naturalised Brazilian players for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and 2019 AFC Asian Cup joint qualifiers match against United Arab Emirates on 12 November 2015.[18] In that match coach Fernando Alcântara played an all national line up including six who were under twenty, including Ervino Soares who was 16. Timor Leste ended up losing the match 8–0. Alcântara took responsibility for the defeat although he also added that he had been forced to play such an inexperienced line-up by the FFTL.[19]


Jesse Pinto, an Australian-Timorese footballer, told reporters that the FFTL gives Brazilian players Timorese passports so that they can be registered as "Asian" players and meet the quotas of teams. Pinto also added that the FFTL often takes advantage of players from poor backgrounds, but that it often did not meet its promises of allowing players to travel back to Brazil to meet their families.[20]


In December 2016, the FFTL was charged with using forged and falsified documents, fielding ineligible players and bringing the game into disrepute.[21]


A decision was made on the 20 January 2017 that Timor-Leste is barred from participating in the qualification tournament for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup after being found to have fielded a total of twelve ineligible players in 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification matches among other competitions.[22]



Team images



Kits


The team was kitted out by Kubba Sportswear from June 2014 to February 2015.


Since 2018, the kits are made by Narrow, an Indonesian apparel. The home kit is traditional colours (red shirts, black shorts and red socks) and the away kit is all whites. From 2008 to 2010, their away kits were yellow but at 2010 AFF Suzuki Cup qualification, the away kits changed back into all whites.[23] Previous kit makers include mitre, Joma, Nike and Tiger.



Grounds


Home Stadium


Timor Leste's home stadium is the East Timor National Stadium. The stadium capacity is 13,000 (seated). The first official match played in the stadium was at the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification against Mongolia on 12 March 2015.


















Timor Leste national football team home stadiums
Image
Stadium
Capacity
Location
Last match

Timor Leste Nacional Stadion.jpg

East Timor National Stadium
13,000

Dili

v   Saudi Arabia
(17 November 2015; 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification)

Training ground


The training facility for the Timor Leste national football team also located at the Kampo Demokrasia.



Competition records




World Cup record



























































































































































FIFA World Cup


FIFA World Cup qualification
Year
Result
Position

Pld

W

D*

L

GF

GA

Pld

W

D

L

GF

GA

Uruguay 1930 to West Germany 1974

Part of Portugal Portugal

Part of Portugal Portugal

Argentina 1978 to France 1998

Part of Indonesia Indonesia

Part of Indonesia Indonesia

South Korea Japan 2002 to Germany 2006
Did not enter


South Africa 2010
Did not qualify
2 0 0 2 3 11

Brazil 2014
Did not qualify
2 0 0 2 1 7

Russia 2018
Did not qualify
9 2 2 5 7 30

Qatar 2022
To be determined


Canada Mexico United States 2026
To be determined

Total 0/21
13 2 2 9 11
48


Lusofonia Games











Asian Cup record



















































Asian Cup
Year
Round

Pld

W

D

L

GF

GA

Hong Kong 1956 to Thailand 1972

Part of Portugal Portugal

Iran 1976 to Lebanon 2000

Part of Indonesia Indonesia

China 2004

Did not qualify

Indonesia Malaysia Thailand Vietnam 2007

Did not enter

Qatar 2011

Australia 2015

United Arab Emirates 2019

Did not qualify
2023
Disqualified[22][dead link]
Total



AFC Challenge Cup record













































AFC Challenge Cup
Year
Round

Pld

W

D*

L

GF

GA

Bangladesh 2006

Did not enter

India 2008

Withdrew

Sri Lanka 2010

Did not enter

Nepal 2012

Did not enter

Maldives 2014

Did not enter
Total Best: −



  • 2006 – Was originally selected to take part, but was then replaced


  • 2008 – Was selected to take part, but withdrew



AFC Solidarity Cup record



































AFC Solidarity Cup
Year
Round
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA

Malaysia 2016
Group stage 2 0 1 1 0 4
Total Best: Group stage 2 0 1 1 0 4


AFF Championship


  • Finals Records Only













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