Thailand national football team
| Nickname(s) | ช้างศึก (Changsuek) (War elephants) | |||
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| Association | Football Association of Thailand (FAT) | |||
| Confederation | AFC (Asia) | |||
| Sub-confederation | AFF (Southeast Asia) | |||
| Head coach | Masatada Ishii | |||
| Captain | Chanathip Songkrasin | |||
| Most caps | Kiatisuk Senamuang (134) | |||
| Top scorer | Kiatisuk Senamuang (71) | |||
| Home stadium | Rajamangala Stadium | |||
| FIFA code | THA | |||
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| FIFA ranking | ||||
| Current | 99 2 (3 April 2025) | |||
| Highest | 43 (September 1998) | |||
| Lowest | 165 (October 2014) | |||
| First international | ||||
| Thailand 1–6 China (Bangkok, Thailand; 20 August 1948) | ||||
| Biggest win | ||||
| Thailand 10–0 Brunei (Bangkok, Thailand; 24 May 1971) Timor-Leste 0–10 Thailand (Hanoi, Vietnam; 8 December 2024) | ||||
| Biggest defeat | ||||
| Great Britain 9–0 Thailand (Melbourne, Australia; 30 November 1956) | ||||
| Asian Cup | ||||
| Appearances | 8 (first in 1972) | |||
| Best result | Third place (1972) | |||
| ASEAN Championship | ||||
| Appearances | 15 (first in 1996) | |||
| Best result | Champions (1996, 2000, 2002, 2014, 2016, 2020, 2022) | |||
The Thailand national football team (Thai: ฟุตบอลทีมชาติไทย, RTGS: futbon thim chat thai, pronounced [fút.bɔ̄n tʰīːm t͡ɕʰâːt tʰāj]) represents Thailand in senior international football and is controlled by the Football Association of Thailand.
In the regional competition, Thailand is the most successful football team in Southeast Asia with seven ASEAN Championship trophies and nine senior-level gold medals from the Southeast Asian Games, the most of any Southeast Asian country. In higher levels, Thailand achieved the third place in the 1972 AFC Asian Cup where it was the host, and has a total of seven appearances in the AFC Asian Cup so far. Furthermore, the team reached the fourth-place in the 1990 and 1998 Asian Games and participated in the Summer Olympics twice. However, Thailand has failed to obtain higher achievements in the continental and global records. The team obtained their first win in the AFC Asian Cup in 2007 and had to wait 47 years to finally sneak out of the group stage in 2019. Thailand also advanced to the final round of World Cup qualification twice, in 2002 and 2018, but failed to qualify for the FIFA World Cup.