Tajikistan · History

The Tajikistan national association football team represents Tajikistan in association football and is controlled by the Tajikistan Football Federation. Tajikistan played its first official game on 11 April 1994 in Tashkent as part of a regional tournament. It lost that game against Kazakhstan 0–1. The first official competition the team entered was the qualifiers for the 1996 AFC Asian Cup, when it was seeded in the 3-team Group 8 with Uzbekistan and Bahrain.