The Kyrgyzstan national football team represents the Kyrgyz Republic in international football and is governed by the Football Federation of Kyrgyzstan, based in Bishkek. Kyrgyzstan declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, and its national football association subsequently joined the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) in 1994, the same year that all five newly independent Central Asian states — Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan — made the collective move from the UEFA sphere into AFC membership.
As a relatively young footballing nation, Kyrgyzstan spent its early decades building domestic infrastructure and competing in the lower stages of AFC qualification rounds. The country fields clubs in the Kyrgyzstan League, which has been dominated by sides such as FC Dordoi Bishkek and FC Alga Bishkek, and the competitive domestic environment has gradually helped raise the national team's profile.
A defining moment in the team's history came during the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, when Kyrgyzstan qualified for the tournament finals for the first time — a landmark achievement that signalled genuine progress for Central Asian football. Competing in that tournament gave the side its first taste of a major continental finals stage.
Kyrgyzstan operates within the Central Asian Football Association (CAFA) sub-confederation and tends to see its closest regional contests against fellow Central Asian nations. The team continues to develop, with an emphasis on growing homegrown talent through youth structures including Team Kyrgyzstan U-17 and U-21 sides, both of which participate in domestic competition.