The Bhutan national football team () represents Bhutan in men's international football. The team is controlled by the governing body for football in Bhutan, the Bhutan Football Federation, which is a member of the Asian Football Federation and the regional body the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF). The national football team of Bhutan plays its home games at the national stadium, Changlimithang.
The side has consistently been ranked as one of the worst national teams in the world on both the official FIFA rankings and the Elo rating system. As of the end of November 2017, they have only won six competitive fixtures and have a goal difference of −279. The team have never qualified for the finals of a major tournament and, beyond friendlies and qualifying matches, their only participation in an official competition has been in the regional South Asian Games and the South Asian Football Federation Cup.
History
Beginning (1950s–1980s)
There is uncertainty around how the game was ultimately brought to Bhutan. During the colonial period in Bhutan, although it had signed treaties with the government of India which ceded control of its defence and foreign relations to the British, continued to function as an independent state and was never under the direct rule of the British government in India. Whereas Indians were introduced to football by the British government, the lack of a permanent British presence in Bhutan meant that foreign sports were not played there. The Bhutan Football Federation note that in the beginning there was little in the way of formal facilities or equipment and the game was played on stone-covered pitches with a ball made from a bundle of clothes. At that time, eight out of the eleven members of the team were from India. Bhutan's official entry into the international arena was comparatively late, playing their first match only in 1982, a 3–1 loss to Nepal in the 1982 ANFA Cup. However, other sources also indicate that a team representing Bhutan travelled to Nepal eight years earlier and won a tournament known as the Shripanch Mahendra Gold Cup, though it is not clear the extent to which this was a true international tournament or whether they were competing against club teams. They also played a representative team from China's Kunming Army Unit in the competition, also losing 3–1. Unfortunately, the scorers for Bhutan are not recorded, so it is unknown who scored Bhutan's first international goal. It is unclear whether a play-off for third place was held between Bhutan and the Maldives. If it was, then the result is not known. Either way, the bronze medal was awarded to the Maldives. They lost their first match narrowly, 1–0 to Nepal and were beaten 3–0 by eventual champions India to ensure that they finished bottom of the group and did not progress. Drawn in group B again, this time with Nepal and Bangladesh, history repeated itself, as Bhutan lost first to Bangladesh 3–0, with Badal Das, Khurshid Alam Babul and Ahmed Ali scoring for Bangladesh, and while the Bhutan Football Federation was admitted as member of the AFC in 1994, the national team did not compete in any matches following their defeat to Nepal in the South Asian Games until 1999, missing four editions of the Games, returning only in 1999.
Their absence from the international arena had not seen an improvement in the standard of their football, even though there had been a national championship established in the country for the previous four seasons. An opening 3–0 loss to Nepal was perhaps not surprising, with Bhutan never having gained any form of positive result against their Himalayan neighbours, and at this point in time having scored against them only once in the ANFA Cup back in 1982. Four days later they faced Kuwait and were beaten 20–0. This defeat was a world record international defeat, though this most undesirable of records was only held for fourteen months when Australia beat Tonga 22–0. As of 2016 this remains their worst ever result. Further heavy defeats were to follow, an 8–0 loss to Turkmenistan was followed by an 11–2 defeat to Yemen. Following this qualifying tournament, having been established in 1983, the Bhutan Football Federation was admitted as the 204th
The Other Final (2002)
Their defeats in 2000 in AFC Cup qualifying had left Bhutan ranked as the world's second worst national team with thirteen points in the official FIFA rankings, sandwiched between American Samoa above and Montserrat below. At this time, following the Netherlands failure to qualify for the 2002 FIFA World Cup, two Dutch ad-agency partners, Johan Kramer and Matthijs de Jongh, not having their home team to cheer on pondered who the worst team in the world might be. With Bhutan and Montserrat so close to each other at the bottom of the FIFA rankings, they set out to arrange a match between the two nations. Montserrat, their only pitch having been destroyed by one of the island nation's seven active volcanoes, a match authorised by FIFA. The game started strongly for Montserrat and Bhutan struggled to contain them during early exchanges. However, initial nerves were settled after five minutes when Wangay Dorji headed a goal to give Bhutan the lead. Players who were unemployed outside football had to exist on a stipend from the Federation of only Nu 3–5,500 per month and there were no internationally certified coaches in the country at all, only amateurs and school teachers. They took advantage though in their next set of matches as they hosted Group F of the preliminary qualifying round for the 2004 AFC Asian Cup. Drawn with Guam and Mongolia, two teams ranked much closer to them than the majority of their previous opposition, they began their campaign with a 6–0 victory over Guam (a result that as of 2016 is still their record victory) and followed it up with a 0–0 draw against Mongolia to top their group and progress to the qualifying round proper.
From 2006 to 2009 saw something of an improvement in results for Bhutan. Entering the inaugural AFC Challenge Cup, they suffered narrow defeats to Nepal, 2–0 and Sri Lanka 1–0, before holding Brunei to a 0–0 draw. Although they failed to score and did not progress to the main competition, the draw against Brunei was their first positive result of any kind for nearly three years following a similar 0–0 draw with Mongolia and ended an eleven match losing streak. Their performance was similar to the previous Challenge Cup, opening with a 3–1 loss to Tajikistan, Passang Tshering scoring for Bhutan after sixty-nine minutes, only for the Tajiks to seal the victory from the penalty spot in the dying minutes through Numonjon Hakimov. They could not repeat the performance against the hosts Sri Lanka in their next game, losing 2–0, but recovered in their final game to record a 3–1 victory over Afghanistan, Yeshey Gyeltshen scoring twice and his namesake Yeshey Dorji getting the third before H.A. Habib scored a consolation for the Afghans. but quickly worsened as Bhutan lost 7–0 to Turkmenistan and 5–0 to the Maldives to return home yet again without a point or scoring.thumb|right|Bhutan lining up against [[Maldives national football team|Maldives at the 2013 SAFF Championship|273x273px]]
Bhutan withdrew from the international stage for the next two years, re-emerging to play two back to back friendly matches against Nepal in preparation for the 2012 AFC Challenge Cup. Both of these games resulted in narrow losses, 1–0 and 2–1. Their 2012 AFC Challenge Cup qualification was essentially over before it started. Rather than being drawn in a group for initial qualification, the process was changed so that the lowest-ranked eight teams entering the competition played-off over two legs on a home-and-away basis. Bhutan perhaps suffered from the fact that neither leg was played in Bhutan, with both matches taking place at the Tau Devi Lal Stadium, Gurgaon, India, but nonetheless, a hat-trick from Sidiq Walizada in the first leg to give Afghanistan a 3–0 lead, made the second leg, which Afghanistan won 2–0, essentially irrelevant.
The team played only one match in 2012, a 5–0 lost friendly to Thailand, prior to the 2013 SAFF Championship. This tournament produced an almost identical result to the previous SAFF championship; Bhutan opened the competition losing 3–0 to Afghanistan, then 8–2 to the Maldives despite being 2–1 up at one point and level going into halftime, before rounding off another miserable year with a 5–2 loss to Sri Lanka. In 2014, the Bhutan Football Federation withdrew the Nu 4,000 monthly payment to players in the national team, and whilst money is spent at grassroots, more needs to be spent on the national team as former national head coach Kazunori Ohara noted, once players get to the end of school age they often drop out of football completely.
In their first ever qualifying match, they faced Sri Lanka in the two-legged preliminary round. In the first leg in Colombo, Bhutan produced a shock result, beating their hosts 1–0, with Tshering Dorji scoring the winner in the eighty-fourth minute. This result even drew praise from now-disgraced FIFA president Sepp Blatter who described the result as "a wonderful, historic moment" on Twitter, though Sri Lanka coach Nikola Kavazovic, whilst conceding Bhutan were the better team remained confident that his team would ultimately be victorious. Anticipation ahead of the second leg at Changlimithang ran high, a half-day holiday was declared by the government for students and public sector employees and the gates to the ground were opened four hours prior to kick off. The game started positively for Bhutan as Chencho Gyeltshen, the country's only professional footballer, scored in the sixth minute. However, Sri Lanka equalised before half time through Subash Madushan. A disallowed goal for each side increased the tension as the game progressed but in injury time at the end of the second half Gyeltshen scored his second goal of the match to seal a 3–1 aggregate victory,
For the next stage, Bhutan were drawn in Group C, along with China, Qatar, Hong Kong, and the Maldives, all sides ranked higher than Sri Lanka in the FIFA rankings. Against these much stronger teams, their results were not as successful. In their first game, they lost 7–0 against Hong Kong in the Mong Kok Stadium, and then 6–0 less than a week later against China at Changlimithang, the first time despite their lowly ranking that Bhutan had been beaten at home in an official international match. Results got worse still in the following match as they lost 15–0 to Qatar, their heaviest defeat since their then world record 20–0 loss to Kuwait in 2000. The next two matches saw an improvement in their fortunes. Though both were lost, the scorelines were much more narrow. Firstly a 4–3 home defeat to the Maldives, in which Bhutan showed a spirited display to come back from 4–0 down in the final five minutes. At half time in the match, following a disagreement with team manager Hishey Tshering, coach Norio Tsukitate was sacked, his rigid methodology having created significant friction between himself and the overall team management. Secondly a 1–0 home loss to Hong Kong, the winning goal coming in the penultimate minute of the match for the visitors. This was a result that pleased the Bhutan Football Federation so much that they awarded all of the players involved in the match a Nu 25,000 bonus to reflect their "brilliant performance". However the improvement in their performances was not to last and a visit to China resulted in a 12–0 loss, and a home match against Qatar another loss, this time 3–0.
Following their World Cup qualifying attempt, Bhutan entered the eleventh SAFF Championship, held in India between 23 December 2015 and 3 January 2016. Originally scheduled to take place in July 2015, the monsoon season and schedule congestion led to the tournament being postponed to late December. Their performance was identical to their efforts in the last four tournaments as the team lost all three group games beginning with a 3–1 defeat to the Maldives, Tshering Dorji scoring for Bhutan after 20 minutes, and followed by two 3–0 losses to Afghanistan and Bangladesh to be eliminated from the competition.
Prior to their last qualifying match, the national team visited Thailand where they played two back to back charity friendly matches against reigning Thai League T1 champions Buriram United. Although they were playing against a club side rather than a fellow national team, Bhutan were soundly beaten in both matches; firstly 6–0 and then 9–0 in a rematch the following day, with Buriram's new signing Weslley scoring five times across the two matches.
A final 4–2 defeat against the Maldives in Malé confirmed Bhutan's last place finish in their group with a −47 goal difference and extending their losing run in official competition to twelve games.
2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification
Bar the initial victories over Sri Lanka, one of the few positives to be taken from their inaugural World Cup qualifying campaign was that their presence in the second round guaranteed their qualification for the qualifying playoff round of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. Two rounds of play-off matches were played to determine the final eight qualifiers for the third round. The draw was made on 7 April 2016, at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The first round of matches were played between 2 and 7 June 2016 and the second round of matches between 6 September and 11 October 2016. The first match was played on 6 September, with the second leg played on 11 October 2016. breaking a twelve match losing streak in official matches and a fifteen match losing streak in total. Bhutan ended up winning the second match 3–1, giving them a 3–1 advantage on aggregate and enabling them to advance to round three of the Asian Cup qualification. Bhutan were drawn on 23 January 2017 with Maldives, Palestine and Oman; the draw was moved from 18 January. The Bhutanese were eliminated from contention after four straight losses, especially a 10–0 away loss to Palestine.
2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
Bhutan were eliminated when they lost 5–1 on aggregate to Guam. They won the first match at home 1–0 but lost the return leg 5–0.
Team image
Colours
thumb|right|229x229px|The flag of Bhutan which is closely echoed in the national team's colours
Bhutan's current home colours are orange shirts with yellow trim and a yellow dragon motif, orange shorts and orange socks. Their away colours is predominantly white with orange trim on the shirt and shorts and an orange dragon motif. Both their home and away colours are so closely aligned to the national colours and pattern of the Flag of Bhutan that they essentially mirror it. The current kit manufacturer of the national teams is Hummel.
There are three main themes contained within Bhutan's home colours, all of which have wider symbolism within the nation as outlined in the Constitution of Bhutan. Firstly, the use of orange signifies Mahayana Buddhist spiritual tradition, particularly the Drukpa Kagyu and Nyingma schools. Secondly, the use of yellow in the trim and also as the colour of the dragon motif signifies civil tradition and temporal authority as embodied in the Druk Gyalpo, the Dragon King of Bhutan, whose royal garb traditionally includes a yellow kabney (scarf). though the dragon depicted in the team's colours does not hold the jewels representing wealth that are found on the national flag, though the similar snarling mouth of the dragon symbolizes the Bhutanese deities' commitment to the defense of Bhutan.
The orange theme and that of the dragon motif noted above are carried over into the away colours. Additionally, the predominant white theme mirrors the colour of the dragon on the national flag which signifies the purity of inner thoughts and deeds that unite all the ethnically and linguistically diverse peoples of Bhutan.
Kit history
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Logo
The logo of the national team is identical to that used for its governing body, the Bhutan Football Federation. It consists of a football surrounded by two concentric circles, one yellow, one orange, representing the Dragon King of Bhutan and the Buddhist tradition in the country, overlaid on a Himalayan blue poppy (Meconopsis horridula), the national flower of Bhutan. Below this is a wish-fulfilling jewel, similar to that located at the top of the official Emblem of Bhutan. The stadium was initially constructed in 1974 for the coronation of the fourth Druk Gyalpo, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, Floodlighting was added to the football pitch in 2009 and an artificial pitch was laid in 2012 to coincide with the start of the first season of the National League. Unusually for a national stadium, and as a result of the conversion of the playing surface to artificial turf, the football field at Changlimithang is available for public hire and is extremely popular with people in Thimphu.
Results and fixtures
The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.
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2026
Technical staff
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| Phuntsho Tobgay
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|Video analyst
| Namgyal Tenzin Dorji
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|Team manager
| Ugyen Kinzang Wangchuck
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Coaching history
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Coached in an interim capacity.
Players
The following players were named in the squad for the 2027 AFC Asian Cup qualification – third round match against Yemen on 25th March 2025.
Caps and goals updated as of 8 September 2024
Recent call-ups
The following players have also been called up to the Bangladesh squad within the last twelve months.
<sup>INJ</sup> Withdrew due to injury<br>
<sup>PRE</sup> Preliminary squad / standby<br>
<sup>RET</sup> Retired from the national team<br>
<sup>SUS</sup> Serving suspension<br>
<sup>WD</sup> Player withdrew from the squad due to non-injury issue.
Player records
:Players in bold are still active with Bhutan.
Most appearances
thumb|200px|right|Chencho Gyeltshen is Bhutan's top goalscorer and their most capped player.
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! style="width:175px;"|Player
!width=50px|Caps
!width=50px|Goals
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| 1
|align=left|Chencho Gyeltshen
| 46
| 13
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| 2
|align=left|Karma Shedrup Tshering
| 39
| 1
| 2011–present
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| 3
|align=left|Passang Tshering
| 36
| 5
| 2003–2015
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|align=left|Pema Dorji
| 31
| 0
| 2003–2013
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|align=left|Tshering Dorji
| 31
| 5
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|align=left|Hari Gurung
| 31
| 0
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|align=left|Nima Wangdi
| 31
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|align=left|Jigme Tshering Dorji
| 29
| 1
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|align=left|Nawang Dhendup
| 27
| 2
| 2003–2011
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|align=left|Kinley Dorji
| 27
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Top goalscorers
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!width=50px|Goals
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|style="text-align:left;"|Chencho Gyeltshen
|13
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|style="text-align:left;"|Wangay Dorji
|5
|14
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|style="text-align:left;"|Tshering Dorji
|5
|31
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|style="text-align:left;"|Passang Tshering
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|36
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|style="text-align:left;"|Dinesh Chhetri
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|14
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Competitive record
FIFA World Cup
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| 2002 to 2014||colspan="6"| Did not enter ||colspan="6"| Did not enter
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| 2018||textalign="centre"; colspan="6" rowspan=3 | Did not qualify||10||2||0||8||8||53
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| 2022||2||1||0||1||1||5
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| 2026||2||1||0||1||2||4
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| 2030||colspan=6 rowspan=2|To be determined||colspan=6 rowspan=2|To be determined
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AFC Asian Cup
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!colspan=7|AFC Asian Cup
!colspan=6|AFC Asian Cup qualification
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| 1956 to 1996||textalign="centre"; colspan="6"| Did not enter ||textalign="centre"; colspan="6"| Did not enter
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| 2000||textalign="centre"; colspan="6" rowspan="2"|Did not qualify ||4||0||0||4||2||42
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| 2004||8||1||1||6||6||26
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| 2007<br>to 2015||textalign="centre"; colspan="6"| Did not enter ||textalign="centre"; colspan="6"| Did not enter
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| 2019*||textalign="centre"; colspan="6" rowspan="3"| Did not qualify ||18||3||1||14||13||93
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AFC Challenge Cup
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| 2006||Group stage||3||0||1||2||0||3||textalign="centre"; colspan="6"| No qualification stage
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| 2008||textalign="centre"; colspan="7"| Did not qualify||3||0||1||2||1||6
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| 2010||textalign="centre"; colspan="7"| Did not qualify||3||0||0||3||0||13
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| 2012||textalign="centre"; colspan="7"| Did not qualify||2||0||0||2||0||5
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| 2014||textalign="centre"; colspan="7"| Did not enter||textalign="centre"; colspan="6"| Did not enter
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SAFF Championship
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| 2003||Group stage||3||0||0||3||0||11
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| 2005||Group stage||3||0||0||3||1||9
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| 2008||Semi-finals||4||1||1||2||5||6
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| 2009||Group stage||3||0||0||3||0||17
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| 2011||Group stage||3||0||0||3||0||16
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| 2015||Group stage||3||0||0||3||1||9
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:*Denotes draws includes knockout matches decided on penalty kicks. Red border indicates that the tournament was hosted on home soil. Gold, silver, bronze backgrounds indicates 1st, 2nd and 3rd finishes respectively. Bold text indicates best finish in tournament.
Head-to-head record
:Last match updated: on 31 March 2026.
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|align=left|||1||0||0||1||0||20||−20||0%||100%
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|align=left|||1||0||0||1||1||2||−1||0%||100%
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|align=left|||10||0||0||10||8||42||−34||0%||100%
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|align=left|||1||0||1||0||0||0||0||0%||0%
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|align=left|||1||1||0||0||4||0||+4||100%||0%
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|align=left|||15||0||1||14||7||46||−39||0%||93,33%
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|align=left|||3||0||0||3||1||12||−11||0%||100%
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|align=left|||2||0||0||2||0||12||−12||0%||100%
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|align=left|||2||0||0||2||0||4||−4||0%||100%
|-style="background:#FFCCCC;"
|align=left|||2||0||0||2||0||18||−18||0%||100%
|-style="background:#FFCCCC;"
|align=left|||2||0||0||2||0||10||−10||0%||100%
|-style="background:#FFCCCC;"
|align=left|||8||2||0||6||5||20||−15||25%||75%
|-style="background:#FFCCCC;"
|align=left|||1||0||0||1||1||3||−2||0%||100%
|-style="background:#FFCCCC;"
|align=left|||1||0||0||1||0||5||−5||0%||100%
|-style="background:#FFCCCC;"
|align=left|||2||0||0||2||0||15||−15||0%||100%
|-style="background:#FFCCCC;"
|align=left|||5||0||1||4||3||30||−27||0%||80%
|-style="background:#98FB98"
!Official Total!!112!!11!!7!!94!!60!!407!!−347!!9.82%!!83.92%
|-
|}
Unofficial matches
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! style="width:350px; text-align:left;"| Opponent
! style="width:50px;"| Played
! style="width:50px;"| Won
! style="width:50px;"| Drawn
! style="width:50px;"| Lost
! style="width:50px;"| For
! style="width:50px;"| Against
! style="width:50px;"| Diff
! style="width:50px;"| Win %
! style="width:50px;"| Loss %
|-style="background:#FFCCCC;"
|align=left|||2||0||0||2||0||6||−21||0%||100%
|-style="background:#FFCCCC;"
|align=left| Buriram United||2||0||0||2||0||15||−15||0%||100%
|-style="background:#FFCCCC;"
|align=left| Guangzhou Football Team||1||0||0||1||1||6||−5||0%||100%
|-style="background:#FFFCCC;"
|align=left| Hong Kong Gurkhas||1||0||1||0||?||?||?||0%||0%
|-style="background:#FFCCCC;"
|align=left| India B||1||0||0||1||0||3||−3||0%||100%
|-style="background:#FFCCCC;"
|align=left| Kunming Army Team||1||0||0||1||1||3||−2||0%||100%
|-style="background:#FFCCCC;"
|align=left| Nepal Red||1||0||0||1||0||1||−1||0%||100%
|-style="background:#FFFCCC;"
|align=left| Nepal Youth||1||0||1||0||?||?||?||0%||0%
|-style="background:#FFCCCC;"
|align=left| Soongsil University||1||0||0||1||0||6||−6||0%||100%
|-bgcolor=#FFFFCC
|align=left|||2||1||1||0||5||4||+1||0%||0%
|-style="background:#98FB98"
!Unofficial Total*!!13!!1!!3!!9!!7!!44!!−37!!0%!!70%
|-
|}
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Rankings
FIFA
thumb|200px|Bhutan average yearly FIFA rankings 2000–2016
Prior to the victories over Sri Lanka, their highest FIFA ranking achieved was 187th, which they last reached in December 2008 following their semi-final performance in the 2008 SAFF Championship. From that high point, they slipped down the rankings to last place in December 2012 to join San Marino and the Turks and Caicos Islands in 207th. However, Bhutan rose to 163rd on the FIFA rankings after two victories over Sri Lanka in World Cup qualifying, achieving their highest ranking ever in April 2015. They then rose to 156th in June 2015. However, following their performance in the second round of world cup qualifying in which they have failed to win a game, they slipped back to 193rd as of February, but have since risen to 185th as of November 2017.
Elo ratings
thumb|200px|Bhutan year-end Elo ratings 1984–2016
The team is also ranked extremely low on the all time Elo ratings at 227th out of 234 as of December 2017. There is one FIFA affiliated team ranked below them, American Samoa.