Thailand national football team
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| Nickname(s) | ช้างศึก (The War Elephants) |
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| Association | Football Association of Thailand (FAT) |
| Confederation | AFC (Asia) |
| Sub-confederation | AFF (South-East Asia) |
| Head coach | Kiatisuk Senamuang |
| Captain | Teerasil Dangda |
| Most caps | Kiatisuk Senamuang (134) |
| Top scorer | Kiatisuk Senamuang (71) |
| Home stadium | Rajamangala Stadium |
| FIFA code | THA |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 127  1 (9 February 2017)
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| Highest | 43 (September 1998) |
| Lowest | 165 (October 2014) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 100 (23 January 2017) |
| Highest | 62 (January 2001) |
| Lowest | 137 (April 1985) |
| First international | |
 Thailand 1–6 Republic of China  (Bangkok, Thailand; 20 August 1948) |
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| Biggest win | |
Thailand 10–0 Brunei  (Bangkok, Thailand; 24 May 1971) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
 United Kingdom 9–0 Thailand (Melbourne, Australia; 30 November 1956) |
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| AFC Asian Cup | |
| Appearances | 7 (first in 1972) |
| Best result | Third Place, 1972 |
The Thailand national football team (Thai: ฟุตบอลทีมชาติไทย, rtgs: futbon thim chat thai, pronounced [fút.bɔ̄n tʰīːm t͡ɕʰâːt tʰāj]) represents Thailand in international association football competition and is governed by the Football Association of Thailand. With five ASEAN Football Championship titles and nine senior-level Southeast Asian Games titles, the team has a history as the most successful team in Southeast Asia. Thailand also won third place in the 1972 Asian Cup, competed twice in the Summer Olympics and won fourth place twice in the 1990 and 1998 Asian Games.
The team was founded in 1915 as the Siam national football team and played its first unofficial match (against a team of Europeans) at the Royal Bangkok Sport Club Stadium on 20 December of that year. On 25 April 1916, King Vajiravudh established the Football Association of Siam. The team played its first international match in 1930 against the Indochina national team, which included both South Vietnamese and French players. Both the Siam team and its governing association were renamed in 1949 when Siam became Thailand.
Thailand appeared in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where they lost to Great Britain by a score of 0–9 (the largest defeat in team history) and failed to advance to the quarterfinals. In 1965, Thailand won the first place in the Southeast Asian Games for the first time.
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