Sri Lanka national under-23 football team

Sri Lanka U-23 Football Team
Nickname(s) ල০කා සි০හයෝ , Lankan Lions
Association Football Federation of Sri Lanka
Confederation AFC (Asia)
Sub-confederation SAFF (South Asia)
Head coach Nikola Kavazovic
Captain Dananju Madushan
FIFA code SRI
First colours
Second colours
First international
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 1 - 0 Nepal Nepal
(Islamabad, Pakistan; March 29, 2004)
Biggest win
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 4 - 0 Bhutan Bhutan
(Colombo, Sri Lanka; August 21, 2006)
Biggest defeat
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 0 - 7 Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia
(Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; June 30, 2012)
South Asian Games
Appearances 3
Best result Silver Medal (2006)

Sri Lanka National U-23 Team is the National team which participate in international Football Tournaments like Summer Olympics and AFC U-23 Championship representing Sri Lanka. The team has won the First Bronze Medal in 2004 South Asian Games and in 2014 Lusophony Games. Before AFC U-23 Championship.Sri Lanka won the Silver Medal in 2006 South Asian Games.It was the First Silver Medal won by Sri Lanka in an international tournament.

Sri Lanka didn't have any official U-23 team.Before 2013 Sri Lanka national football team participated in the Summer Olympic qualifications and other international events. Sri Lanka is yet to participate in Summer Olympic football tournament.

History

Due to the popularity of cricket in Sri Lanka, football has been not popular. But in recent years football has become more popular with Sri Lanka's youth. As a result, Sri Lanka's National U-23 Football team was formed. In the 2010s, the Sri Lanka national football team competed in the International football tournaments.Sri Lanka u-23 team has won a silver medal and two Bronze Medals in competitions.

2006 South Asian Games was the 10th edition of the Tournament.It was held in Sri Lanka.In the football tournament Sri Lanka competed in the group stage against Pakistan,Bhutan and Maldives u-23 Football Teams. Sri Lanka won the Bronze Medal in the Previous 2004 tournament. Sri Lanka beat Maldives and Bhutan to qualify for the Semi Final stage and Beat India in Penalties to qualify for the final with Pakistan and lost it 1-0.Sri Lanka won the Silver Medal as a result.

Sri Lanka has participated in AFC U-23 Championship Qualifiers competition as an in experienced football team.Because of that they couldn't win a single match.The first match was played with Palestine. Sri Lanka did well to draw this game with the first goal of a major U-23 football tournament that was scored by bandara in the 73rd minute.

In the next match with Pakistan also ended with a draw.None of the players from both teams failed to score a goal in the full-time. In the next match against the power full and experienced Syria national under-23 football team Sri Lanka lost the game 4-0. In the next match they played against the host Saudi Arabia and lost the game 7-0 after the full-time and it was the Biggest defeat of the team in the tournament.In the last match of the qualifiers Sri Lanka played against the Kyrgyzstan team and lost 5-0 and failed to qualify for the inaugural AFC U-22 Championship tournament.

The Palestine Championship tournament was organized by the Palestinian Football Association. Four Olympic national u-23 teams played against each other in this tournament by the invitation of Palestinian Football Association. The national u-23 teams of Palestine, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Jordan competed in this tournament.

Sri Lanka played their first match against Pakistan national under-23 football team. They lost the match 3-0.In the next match Sri Lanka played against the host Palestine and lost that game also 3-0. Sri Lanka played their last match in the tournament against Jordan national under-23 football team.It also ended with a lost for Sri Lanka after the final score 4-0. Sri Lanka failed to score a goal in this tournament and lost all three matches. Sri Lanka national under-23 football team participated in 2014 Lusophony Games for the first time. Sri Lanka team advanced to the Semi Final stage of this tournament by defeating Macau and drew against Sao Tome and Principe.In the semifinals Sri Lanka lost the match against Mozambique 1-0 and won the Bronze Medal match against Macau 3-0. This was the first time that Sri Lanka u23 team won a major international tournament.

Sri Lanka entered to 2016 AFC U-23 Championship Qualification stage with the national u-23 teams from UAE,Yemen and Tajikistan.Sri Lanka lost both opening games against the host UAE and Yemen 4-0 and 5-0.They lost to Tajikistan 5-1 in the last group match. Sri Lanka's very disappointing football skills were seen in this Tournament.Sri Lanka scored only one goal in the tournament.After losing all three matches Sri Lanka Team failed to qualify for the Summer Olympics 2016 Football Tournament.

Competitive record

Olympic Games

Olympic Games finals Olympic Games qualifications
Hosts/year Result GP W D L GS GA GD GP W D L GS GA
Brazil 2016Did not Qualify3 003114
Japan 2020TBDTBD
Total0/2 ------ -3003114

AFC U-23 Championship

AFC U-22 finals AFC U-22 Championship qualification
Hosts/Year Result GP W D L GS GA GD GP W D L GS GA
Oman 2013Did not Qualify5 023117
Qatar 20163 003114
Total0/2-------8026231

South Asian Games

Year Host Pos. P W D L GF GA
2004  Pakistan 3/7430120
2006  Sri Lanka 2/8540163
2010  Bangladesh 5/8311112
2016  India 5/6210123
Total 14914118

Fixtures and results

2015

  Win   Draw   Lose

2016

  Win   Draw   Lose

Squad

This is the squad played in 2016 AFC U-23 Championship qualification[1]

0#0 Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1 1GK Prabath Arunasiri 2 0 Sri Lanka
12 1GK Dhanushka Rajapaksha 2 0 Sri Lanka
22 1GK Mohamed Uzman 0 0 Sri Lanka
3 2DF Asikumar Rahuman (1993-12-31) December 31, 1993 7 0 Sri Lanka Pelicans SC
17 2DF Sunil Roshan 2 0 Sri Lanka
21 2DF Shanaka Wijesingha (1992-12-26) December 26, 1992 1 0 Sri Lanka
2 2DF Oshad Perera 0 0 Sri Lanka
6 2DF Chameera De Silva 1 0 Sri Lanka
13 2DF Mohamed Nifras 2 0 Sri Lanka
7 2DF Chaturanga Madushan (1993-11-16) November 16, 1993 8 0 Sri Lanka Army
18 2DF Tharindu Lakmal 2 0 Sri Lanka
20 2DF Chameera Sajith 2 0 Sri Lanka
4 3MF Sahayam Godwin (1994-12-10) December 10, 1994 3 0 Sri Lanka
5 3MF Mohamed Rizkhan 2 0 Sri Lanka
7 3MF Mohamed Cassim 3 0 Sri Lanka
10 3MF Dhananju Madushan (C) 3 0 Sri Lanka
14 3MF Mohamed Rawzan 1 0 Sri Lanka
16 3MF Hasahn Darshaka 3 0 Sri Lanka
21 3MF Shanaka Wijesena 1 0 Sri Lanka
9 3MF Zarwan Johar (1996-02-15) February 15, 1996 8 4 Sri Lanka Renown
8 4FW Udara Gamage 1 0 Sri Lanka
9 4FW Pradeep Rodrigo 1 0 Sri Lanka
11 4FW Iqbal Humaid 0 0 Sri Lanka
19 4FW Janith Pumal 1 0 Sri Lanka

Honors

See also

References

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150326121002/http://www.football.lk/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=1&Itemid=210&lang=en. Archived from the original on March 26, 2015. Retrieved March 27, 2015. Missing or empty |title= (help)


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