Tarper national football team

Tarper national football team

Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)	The Lions The Mint-Blues
Association	Tarperti Football Federation
Confederation	UFAC
Head coach	Gerhardt Watt
Captain	Ivan Allan
Most caps	Jean-Charles Crisp (150)
Top scorer	Laurence Yates (71)
Home stadium	Federal Olympic Stadium
Code	TAR
First colours Second colours
First international
Skerieyvos 5–3 Tarper (Based, Skerieyvos; 5 April 1908)
Biggest win
Tarper 16–0 Eastern Kingdom (Indsnia, Indsniastan; 1 July 1912)
Biggest defeat
Froiston 9–0 Tarper (Wackford, Froiston; 13 March 1909)
Covenant Championship
Appearances	13 (first in 1972)
Best result	Champions (1972, 1980, 1996)

The Tarper national football team represents Tarper in men's international football and played its first match in 1908. The team is governed by the Tarperti Football Federation (TFF), founded in 1900.

Team image

Kits

The national team's home kit has been traditionally a white and blue shirt, black shorts, and white socks. The colors were derived from the flag of the United Kingdoms of Tarper and the Kingdom of Astra. The home kit has had its share of derivations. The first kit was a white shirt with navy shorts and socks. Later on, the team would adopt the blue and white shirt but with white shorts and socks. After the communist takeover, the kit would switch to a gold trimmed crimson shirt with navy blue shorts and socks. The current kit colors were chosen in 2004 as the TFF revised its image after the Second Civil War.

The away colors have remained even more constant than the home colors. The team did not have away colors until 1910, the colors of a black shirt with white trim and white shorts and socks were appropriated from Terraum Olympic, as that was the stadium that the national team was playing on and needed to borrow uniforms from. The communist era would invert the away colors, opting for a black trimmed white shirt with black shorts and white socks. In 2004, the national team would revert to the original colors of a black shirt with white trim and white shorts but choosing to wear blue socks as to resemble the current Flag of Tarper.