Cambodia national football team

Cambodia
Nickname(s)
  • អ្នកចម្បាំងអង្គរ
    ("Angkor Warriors")[1]
  • គោព្រៃកម្ពុជា
    ("Koupreys of Cambodia")[2]
AssociationFootball Federation of Cambodia (FFC)
ConfederationAFC (Asia)
Sub-confederationAFF (Southeast Asia)
Head coachRyu Hirose
CaptainSoeuy Visal
Most capsKouch Sokumpheak (65)
Top scorerHok Sochetra (20)[3]
Home stadiumPhnom Penh Olympic Stadium and Morodok Techo National Stadium
FIFA codeCAM
First colours
Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current 170 (19 November 2021)[4]
Highest153 (March 2011)
Lowest198 (August 2014)
First international
 Malaya 9–2 Cambodia 
(Kuala Lumpur, Malaya; 17 March 1956)[5]
Biggest win
 Cambodia 11–0 North Yemen 
(Phnom Penh, Cambodia; 29 November 1966)
Biggest defeat
 Iran 14–0 Cambodia 
(Tehran, Iran; 10 October 2019)
Asian Cup
Appearances1 (first in 1972)
Best resultFourth place (1972)
AFC Challenge Cup
Appearances1 (first in 2006)
Best resultGroup stage (2006)
AFF Championship
Appearances7 (first in 1996)
Best resultGroup Stage (1996, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2016, 2018)
This article is about the men's team. For the women's team, see Cambodia women's national football team.

The Cambodia national football team (Khmer: ក្រុមបាល់ទាត់ជម្រើសជាតិកម្ពុជា, Krŏm Băltoăt Chômreus Chéatĕ Kâmpŭchéa) represents Cambodia in international football and is administered by the Football Federation of Cambodia (FFC),[6] which is part of the Asian Football Confederation and sub-confederation AFF.

Known as the Khmer Republic national football team from 1970 to 1975, the team finished fourth in the 1972 Asian Cup, which still remains as Cambodia's greatest achievement in an international competition. The team was founded in 1933 and joined FIFA's ranks in 1953.

History

Beginning of an era

Cambodia formed its first national team following the end of French colonization in 1954. Immediately following the end of French colonialism, Cambodia played its first home game against Malaya. The game ended with a 9–2 win for the Malays.

Like most Asian countries at the time, Cambodia did not seek to participate in the FIFA World Cup qualification nor even AFC Asian Cup qualification, as the country was still trying to consolidate its early football development. However, when Lon Nol decided to topple the Cambodian Kingdom and replaced by a Republic, Cambodia finally decided to participate in the 1972 AFC Asian Cup qualification. The Cambodians managed to qualify for the 1972 AFC Asian Cup in its first qualification attempt, a major success up to date. Cambodia managed to win over Hong Kong, which sent the country to Thailand.

In the tournament as Khmer Republic, the Cambodians lost to Iran and had to play in group B along with South Korea and Kuwait. Despite early loss to the South Koreans, they had qualified to the semi-finals thanked for a resounding 4–0 win over Kuwait, only got beaten later by Iran, again, and Thailand, and won the 4th place overall. It remains as Cambodia's greatest achievement in an international tournament.

Following the success, Cambodia could not participate in further tournament, due to the eventual rise of Khmer Rouge.

1990s to 2010s

After decades of war, in which witnessed both Khmer Rouge's genocide and the later Vietnamese invasion which toppled the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia returned to international football at 1993. Cambodia's first tournament as a new team was the Tiger Cup, in which Cambodia was defeated in all four matches. In this tournament, although Cambodia was the weakest among all teams participating in the tournament, Cambodia demonstrated high spirit of football. However, in successive tournaments, Cambodia was not successful and they could not manage to play with high spirits as it used to be. Despite this, Cambodia still gave birth to what would one of Cambodia's football talents in its young history, Hok Sochetra.

Also during this time, Cambodia sent its national team to the 1998 World Cup qualification, the first time Cambodia had ever done so. However, Cambodia had been unsuccessful by large, and often got eliminated in the bottom of their group. The country also withdrew from participating in the 2006 World Cup qualification. Likewise, Cambodia also only participated in the 2000 AFC Asian Cup qualification, before withdrew from 2004 and 2007 qualification attempts. The country later suffered AFF Championship drought, failing to qualify for three consecutive tournaments.

Since 2010s
2018 AFF Championship group stage starting line-up in a 3–1 win against Laos.[7]

Cambodia's football has witnessed resurgence after decades being under shadows. The resurgence of Cambodia had begun with the arrival of South Korea's Lee Tae-hoon, who had introduced a significant development of football in Cambodia, with the change of its tactics, as well as youth development and promotion of Cambodian youngsters to the national team, has given a hope for the change of Cambodia. At this team, the team has a lot of newly young talents, notably Chan Vathanaka, the first ever Cambodian to play professional football outside Cambodia, and the fanbase increased as for the achievement. Cambodia once again demonstrated a full spirit of football, despite during 2018 World Cup qualifying stage, Cambodia didn't record any win at all. Cambodia however missed out the 2012 and 2014 AFC Challenge Cups, thus missed out the 2015 AFC Asian Cup.

During 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification, Cambodia finished bottom in a group where they suffered losses to Jordan and neighbor Vietnam. Despite this, Cambodia has managed what could be Cambodia's greatest achievement in their qualification history, when they defeated Afghanistan, which ranked 158 that time, above Cambodia which was ranked 174, and had already defeated Cambodia twice in the World Cup qualification, 1–0 at home. It is still regarded to be Cambodia's best performance in its modern football history. It was the country's only win in the qualification.

Following the failure to qualify for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, Cambodia participated in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification, where they had to face Pakistan in the first round. Cambodia comfortably beat Pakistan both games with a 4–1 on aggregate to reach the second round.[8] Once the team had entered this stage again, Cambodia had to deal with much stronger Hong Kong, Iraq, Iran and Bahrain. Despite passionate support from home fans, the country itself could only obtain a 1–1 draw at home to Hong Kong, before getting crushed in the remaining games, including a 0–14 annihilation away by Iran, an Asian football giant, which became Cambodia's heaviest loss in the history.[9]

Kits

The national kits of Cambodia reflect the colors of the national flag which are blue, red, and white. Currently, the home kit is a blue and black shirt, black shorts and blue socks; while the current away kit is all white with a series of horizontal red stripes on the shirt. Cambodia's latest kit sponsor was FBT.[10]

Kit provider Period Ref
FBT 2010–2021 [11]
TBD 2021–

Home stadiums

The historic Olympic Stadium in Phnom Penh hosts the majority of the national team's home matches. With a capacity of 70,000, it still remains as Cambodia's largest sporting venue since its completion in 1964. However, by the end of May 2021, this will no longer be the case, as the newly constructed Morodok Techo National Sports Complex, with a capacity of 75,000, is expected to be completed. Once completed, the Morodok Techo National Stadium will be the biggest sports facility in Cambodia and one of the largest in Southeast Asia.[12] The sports complex is meant to be the main venue of the 2023 Southeast Asian Games. It is also anticipated that the new stadium and associated facilities will also be used to facilitate international friendly football matches and regional football qualifiers.[13][14]

Fixtures and results
Main article: Cambodia national football team results

  Win   Draw   Lose

2021
3 June 2021 2022 WCQ R2 Bahrain  8–0  Cambodia Riffa, Bahrain
19:30 UTC+3
Report Stadium: Bahrain National Stadium
Referee: Hiroyuki Kimura (Japan)
7 June 2021 2022 WCQ R2 Iraq  4–1  Cambodia Arad, Bahrain
17:30 UTC+3
Report
Stadium: Al Muharraq Stadium
Referee: Yaqoob Abdul Baki (Oman)
11 June 2021 2022 WCQ R2 Cambodia  0–10  Iran Isa Town, Bahrain
17:30 UTC+3 Report
Stadium: Khalifa Sports City Stadium, Bahrain
Referee: Kim Jong-hyeok (South Korea)
9 October 2021 2023 ACQ Play-off Guam  0–1  Cambodia Isa Town, Bahrain
20:30 UTC+3 Report
Stadium: Khalifa Sports City Stadium
Referee: Hussein Abo Yehia (Lebanon)
12 October 2021 2023 ACQ Play-off Cambodia  2–1  Guam Isa Town, Bahrain
 Report
Stadium: Khalifa Sports City Stadium
Referee: Ismaeel Habib (Bahrain)
6 December 2021 2020 AFF Championship Cambodia  1–3  Malaysia Bishan, Singapore
17:30
Report
Stadium: Bishan Stadium
Referee: Shukri Hussain Al-Alhunfush (Saudi Arabia)
9 December 2021 2020 AFF Championship Indonesia  4–2  Cambodia Bishan, Singapore
20:30
Report
Stadium: Bishan Stadium
15 December 2021 2020 AFF Championship Cambodia  3–0  Laos Bishan, Singapore
17:30
Report Stadium: Bishan Stadium
Referee: Ahmad A'Qashan (Singapore
19 December 2021 2020 AFF Championship Vietnam  v  Cambodia Bishan, Singapore
Stadium: Bishan Stadium

Coaching staff
Position Name
General Manager Keisuke Honda[15][16]
Head Coach Ryu Hirose[17][18]
Team Manager Chhouk Piseth[19]
Assistant Coach Phea Sopheaktra[20][21]
Ouk Sothy[22][23]
Goalkeeper Coach Toshihiro Mitsumaru[24]
Fitness Coach Kiyomasa Komatsu[25]
Video Analyst Shinya Kizaki[26]
Performance Director Taichi Oshita[27]
Team Doctor Aum Puthi[28]
Physiotherapist Hun Penglong[29]
Nay Chankdeb[30]

Coaching history

Updated 15 December 2021, after the match against  Laos.

Name Period Matches Wins Draws Losses Win %
Vladimír Mirka 1965 – 1967
Joachim Fickert June 1996 – January 2003
Som Saran 2003 – June 2005 4 0 0 4 0%
Scott O'Donnell July 2005 – December 2007 15 2 3 10 13%
Yoo Kee-heung December 2007 – July 2008 2 1 0 1 50%
Prak Sovannara July 2008 – May 2009 12 3 1 8 25%
Scott O'Donnell June 2009 – August 2010 0 0 0 0 0%
Lee Tae-hoon August 2010 – May 2012 10 3 2 5 30%
Hok Sochetra July 2012 – October 2012 5 0 1 4 0%
Prak Sovannara December 2012 – September 2013 2 0 0 2 0%
Lee Tae-hoon September 2013 – March 2017 35 13 2 20 37%
Kazunori Ohara (Interim) April 2015 4 1 1 2 25%
Leonardo Vitorino March 2017 – October 2017 7 1 0 6 14%
Prak Sovannara (Interim) October 2017 – August 2018 4 1 0 3 25%
Félix Dalmás[31][32] August 2018 – August 2020 16 3 3 10 19%
Ryu Hirose[33][34] March 2021 – 8 3 0 5 38%

Current squad

The following 30 players were selected for the 2020 AFF Championship.[35]

Caps and goals updated as of 15 December 2021, after the match against Laos.

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1 1GK Keo Soksela (1997-08-01) 1 August 1997 16 0 Visakha
21 1GK Vireak Dara (2003-10-30) 30 October 2003 0 0 Prey Veng
22 1GK Hul Kimhuy (2000-04-07) 7 April 2000 3 0 Boeung Ket
2 2DF Ken Chansopheak (1998-06-15) 15 June 1998 11 0 Visakha
3 2DF Sath Rosib (1997-07-07) 7 July 1997 23 2 Boeung Ket
4 2DF Sareth Krya (1996-03-03) 3 March 1996 19 0 Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng
5 2DF Soeuy Visal (Captain) (1995-08-19) 19 August 1995 62 4 Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng
6 2DF Tes Sambath (Vice-captain) (2000-10-20) 20 October 2000 8 0 Visakha
15 2DF Yue Safy (2000-11-08) 8 November 2000 5 1 Phnom Penh Crown
19 2DF Cheng Meng (1998-02-27) 27 February 1998 26 0 Visakha
23 2DF Sor Rotana (2002-10-09) 9 October 2002 3 0 Prey Veng
25 2DF Chan Sarapich (2002-04-05) 5 April 2002 1 0 Prey Veng
26 2DF Soeuth Nava (2001-02-13) 13 February 2001 0 0 Boeung Ket
27 2DF Leng Nora (2004-09-19) 19 September 2004 2 0 Prey Veng
8 3MF Orn Chanpolin (1998-03-15) 15 March 1998 21 0 Phnom Penh Crown
10 3MF Kouch Sokumpheak (1987-02-15) 15 February 1987 65 7 Nagaworld
12 3MF Sos Suhana (1992-04-04) 4 April 1992 64 3 Nagaworld
13 3MF Min Ratanak (2002-07-30) 30 July 2002 4 0 Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng
16 3MF Chrerng Polroth (1997-07-04) 4 July 1997 27 2 Visakha
17 3MF Lim Pisoth (2001-08-29) 29 August 2001 8 0 Phnom Penh Crown
18 3MF Brak Thiva (1998-12-05) 5 December 1998 8 0 Phnom Penh Crown
24 3MF Choun Chanchav (1999-05-05) 5 May 1999 1 0 Phnom Penh Crown
28 3MF Sin Sovannmakara (2004-12-06) 6 December 2004 0 0 Prey Veng
30 3MF Ean Pisey (2002-03-11) 11 March 2002 1 0 Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng
7 4FW Prak Mony Udom (1994-08-24) 24 August 1994 58 11 Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng
9 4FW Sieng Chanthea (2002-09-09) 9 September 2002 16 2 Boeung Ket
11 4FW Chan Vathanaka (1994-01-23) 23 January 1994 48 19 Boeung Ket
14 4FW Keo Sokpheng (1992-03-03) 3 March 1992 53 12 Visakha
20 4FW Nhean Sosidan (2002-10-11) 11 October 2002 4 0 Tiffy Army
29 4FW Sa Ty (2002-04-04) 4 April 2002 0 0 Electricite du Cambodge

Recent call-ups

The following players have been called up for the team in the last 12 months.

Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club Latest call-up
GK Reth Lyheng (2004-01-01) 1 January 2004 0 0 Bati Academy v.  Guam, 12 October 2021
GK Um Vichet (1993-11-27) 27 November 1993 6 0 Phnom Penh Crown v.  Iran, 11 June 2021
DF Seut Baraing (1999-09-29) 29 September 1999 5 0 Angkor Tiger v.  Guam, 12 October 2021
DF Nhoem Lyhuor (2002-11-17) 17 November 2002 0 0 Visakha v.  Guam, 12 October 2021
DF Ouk Sovann (1998-05-15) 15 May 1998 10 0 Visakha v.  Iran, 11 June 2021
MF Choeun Nacha (2001-06-10) 10 June 2001 0 0 Tiffy Army v.  Guam, 12 October 2021
MF Lim Aarun Raymond (2003-06-25) 25 June 2003 0 0 Boeung Ket v.  Guam, 12 October 2021
MF Long Menghav (2000-11-11) 11 November 2000 0 0 Angkor Tiger v.  Guam, 12 October 2021
MF Roth Samnang (1999-06-06) 6 June 1999 0 0 Soltilo Angkor v.  Guam, 12 October 2021
MF Dani Kouch (1990-10-11) 11 October 1990 9 0 Nagaworld v.  Guam, 12 October 2021
MF Thierry Bin (1991-06-01) 1 June 1991 38 3 Visakha v.  Iran, 11 June 2021
FW Narong Kakada (1999-07-05) 5 July 1999 1 0 Tiffy Army v.  Guam, 12 October 2021
FW Ky Rina (2002-05-08) 8 May 2002 0 0 Prey Veng v.  Guam, 12 October 2021
FW Mat Noron (1998-06-17) 17 June 1998 3 0 Boeung Ket v.  Iran, 11 June 2021
FW Wut Tola (2002-10-06) 6 October 2002 2 0 Visakha v.  Iran, 11 June 2021

INJ Withdrew due to injury
PRE Preliminary squad / standby
RET Retired from the national team
SUS Serving suspension
WD Player withdrew from the squad due to non-injury issue.

Previous squads

Records
As of 12 October 2021
Players in bold are still active with Cambodia.

Competition history

FIFA World Cup
FIFA World Cup record FIFA World Cup qualification record
Year Round Pld W D L GF GA
1930 Part of  France
1934
1938
1950
1954 Did not enter
1958
1962
1966
1970
1974
1978
1982
1986
1990
1994
1998Did not qualify6015227
20026015222
2006Did not enter
2010Did not qualify200215
2014210168
201810118528
202210217645
2026To be determined
Total 0/22 36 4 4 28 22 135

AFC Asian Cup
AFC Asian Cup record AFC Asian Cup qualification
Year Round Pld W D L GF GA Pld W D L GF GA
1956Did not qualify 2101511
1960WithdrewWithdrew
1964
1968Did not qualify 320142
1972Fourth place5113810 521288
1976Did not enterDid not enter
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996
2000Did not qualify 4004419
2004Did not enterDid not enter
2007
2011Did not qualify AFC Challenge Cup
2015
2019 1832131247
2023To be determined 10217645
Total Best: Fourth place 5 1 1 3 8 10 42 10 4 28 39 132

AFC Challenge Cup
AFC Challenge Cup record
Year Round Pld W D L GF GA
2006Group stage310246
2008Did not qualify
2010
2012
2014
Total Best: Group stage 3 1 0 2 4 6

AFF Competitions History

Final records only.

AFF Championship record
Year Round Pld W D L GF GA
1996Group stage4004112
1998Did not qualify
2000Group stage4103510
20024103518
20044004222
2007Did not qualify
2008Group stage3003212
2010Did not qualify
2012
2014
2016Group stage300348
2018Group stage410349
2020To be determined
Total Best: Group stage 22 3 0 23 23 91

Head-to-head record

Last match updated was against  Guam on 12 June 2021[36]

Key
Positive balance (more Wins)
Neutral balance (equal W/L ratio)
Negative balance (more Losses)
Opponents Pld W D L GF GA GD Confederation
 Afghanistan410326−4AFC
 Australia1010000AFC
 Bahrain200209−9AFC
 Bangladesh401325−3AFC
 Bhutan110020+2AFC
 Brunei8521229+11AFC
 China PR6006324−21AFC
 Chinese Taipei4211660AFC
 Guam430163+3AFC
 Guinea100112−1CAF
 Hong Kong9216921−12AFC
 India5104517−12AFC
 Indonesia2323181486−72AFC
 Iran4004128−27AFC
 Iraq200218−7AFC
 Japan4004110−9AFC
 Jordan200208−8AFC
 Kuwait110040+4AFC
 Kyrgyzstan200268−2AFC
 Laos167362724+3AFC
 Lebanon100115−4AFC
 Macau6411147+7AFC
 Malaysia2943222888−60AFC
 Maldives4013314−11AFC
 Mongolia1010110AFC
 Myanmar2022161358−45AFC
   Nepal100101−1AFC
 North Korea100102−2AFC
 Pakistan330051+4AFC
 Palestine2101440AFC
 Philippines113441118−7AFC
 Saudi Arabia100127−5AFC
 Singapore1921151138−27AFC
 South Korea8107424−20AFC
 Sri Lanka3201102+8AFC
 Syria3003117−16AFC
 Tajikistan100103−3AFC
 Thailand152581736−19AFC
 Timor-Leste85212116+5AFC
 Turkmenistan3003112−11AFC
 Uzbekistan2002110−9AFC
 Vietnam133191548−33AFC
 Yemen2101880AFC

Honours

Including results from Khmer Republic.

See also

Leagues

Cups

National teams

Men

Women

Futsal

Other

Notes

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