Turkmenistan national futsal team
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| Association | Football Federation of Turkmenistan | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Confederation | AFC (Asia) | ||
| Head coach | Ýakup Öwezow [1] | ||
| Captain | Abdylla Gurbannepesow[2] | ||
| FIFA code | TKM | ||
| FIFA ranking | 69  1 (12 December 2025)[3] | ||
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| First international | |||
 Thailand 23 – 2 Turkmenistan  (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, May 23, 2005) | |||
| Biggest win | |||
Turkmenistan 8 – 0 Maldives  (Kuantan, Malaysia, April 18, 2006) | |||
| Biggest defeat | |||
| Thailand 23 – 2 Turkmenistan (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, May 23, 2005) | |||
| FIFA World Cup | |||
| Appearances | none | ||
| AFC Futsal Championship | |||
| Appearances | 7 (First in 2005) | ||
| Best result | Round 1, 6 times | ||
| Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games | |||
| Appearances | 3 (First in 2009) | ||
| Best result | 4th Place (2009) | ||
The Turkmenistan national futsal team represents Turkmenistan in international futsal competitions and is controlled by the Football Federation of Turkmenistan.
The team avoided preliminary qualification for the 2008 AFC Futsal Championship. They made the last direct spot in the finals despite finishing bottom of their finals group in 2007. Turkmenistan caused the first real upset of the championship with a 1–0 win over Australia in their opening game, Elman Tagayev scoring the only goal in the first half. After this came a 1–7 loss to Kyrgyzstan and a 2–5 reversal to Korea Republic. Turkmenistan was not expected to make it out of the group after poor performances in previous championships. The team performed poorly in 2005, and in the following year they had little chance in a group that included Iran and Thailand.
In March 2019, the Football Federation of Turkmenistan named Robert Grdović as the head coach of the Turkmenistan national futsal team, signing a one-year contract.[4][5]
Tournament records
FIFA Futsal World Cup
- 1989 – Part of Soviet Union
- 1992 – Did not enter
- 1996 – Did not enter
- 2000 – Did not enter
- 2004 – Did not enter
- 2008 – Did not qualify
- 2012 – Did not qualify
- 2016 – Did not qualify
- 2021 – Did not qualify
- 2024 – Withdrew
AFC Futsal Asian Cup
| AFC Futsal Asian Cup | Qualification | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | M | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | M | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Link | |
 1999 | Did not enter | ||||||||||||||||
| 2000 | |||||||||||||||||
 2001 | |||||||||||||||||
 2002 | Withdrew | ||||||||||||||||
| 2003 | |||||||||||||||||
 2004 | Did not enter | ||||||||||||||||
 2005 | Round 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 28 | 53 | -25 | |||||||||
 2006 | Round 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 25 | -14 | |||||||||
 2007 | Round 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 12 | -8 | |||||||||
| 2008 | Round 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 9 | -1 | |||||||||
| 2010 | Round 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 12 | -7 | |||||||||
 2012 | Round 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 10 | -7 | |||||||||
| 2014 | Did not qualify | ||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | |||||||||||||||||
 2018 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2020 | Cancelled | ||||||||||||||||
 2022 | Round 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 20 | -11 | |||||||||
| 2024 | Withdrew | ||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | Did not qualify | ||||||||||||||||
| Total | 7/18 | 24 | 6 | 1 | 17 | 68 | 141 | -73 | |||||||||
