Tawil national football team
Nickname(s) | هاجهرات (romanised: Hājērāt) (The Eagles) |
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Association | Tawilan Football Association (TWA) |
Head coach | Sven Göring |
Captain | İlkay Kartal |
Most Cap | Mustafa Abdulrashid (72) |
Top scorer | Monsef (34) |
Home stadium | National Stadium |
MFA Code | TWL |
MFA World ranking | 1 ▲ 2 (26 November 2023) |
Highest MFA ranking | 1 (September 2021 – February 2022; December 2022; November 2023 – ) |
Lowest MFA ranking | 32 (December 2015 – April 2016; March 2019 – June 2019) |
First international | |
Tawil 0–0 Vyktory (Bangkok, Thailand; 15 March 2016) | |
Biggest win | |
Talcon 0–12 Tawil (Territory of Riparian Woodlands, Empire of Talcon; 23 October 2019) | |
Biggest defeat | |
Tawil 2–5 Sealand (Aswan, Egypt; 5 March 2019) |
The Tawil national football team (Tawilan: طاڤیل نشتانه ضهق فۉتباله; romanised: Tāvīl Naštānê Ẓêq Fūtbālê), is the national association football team of the State of Tawil. They play in the National Stadium and have since 2023.
Current lineup
Starting XI
The lineup is from an international friendly against Pavlov on 1 December 2023
# | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
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1 | GK | Pshtiwan Sadar | 13 July 1993 | 13 | 0 | Corvians |
4 | DF | Karim Sadat | 3 January 2007 | 5 | 2 | Tractor Youth |
3 | DF | Peter Martens | 10 February 1997 | 17 | 1 | Al Nasser |
17 | DF | Matt Davies | 2 May 1989 | 21 | 2 | Longwell Green Sports |
24 | DF | Mahmood Amir-Hosseini | 2 March 1994 | 25 | 5 | Amed SFK |
8 | MF | İlkay Kartal | 27 December 1995 | 34 | 9 | Llanelli Town |
12 | MF | Nathan de Groot | 13 January 1990 | 29 | 6 | Istiqlal Kostos |
3 | MF | Alexander O’Neil | 21 November 1988 | 34 | 8 | Corvians |
9 | FW | Monsef | 10 May 1997 | 33 | 34 | Newroz |
10 | FW | Yousef Anwar | 17 October 1999 | 19 | 12 | El Zarqa |
11 | FW | Arslan Güler | 17 April 1992 | 41 | 30 | Al Nasser |
Venues
Tawil currently play at the National Stadium, whichis located northwest of Kostos and have since its opening on 10 July 2023.
From 2016, the team played at Rajamangala Stadium for charity matches until 2020 due to Coronavirus but Tawil also played in the Aswan Stadium occasionally but they stopped playing there in 2019 after failing to pay the rent.
Player records
Their top scorer is Monsef with 34 goals, their most capped player is Mustafa Abdulrashid with 72 caps and their top assister is midfielder İlkay Kartal with 102 assists.