Football players of the Turkmenistan national team will play a friendly match with the Greenland team on June 1 in Antalya. Turkmenportal was informed about this by the Football Federation of Turkmenistan.
The upcoming game Is planned as part of the training camp of the national team of Turkmenistan, which is preparing for the qualifying matches for the 2026 World Cup against Uzbekistan (June 6) and Hong Kong (June 11).
This will be the first match between the national teams of Turkmenistan and Greenland in history.
The head coach of the Turkmenistan national team is Mergen Orazov. His assistants are Mekan Muhammetmyradov, Velsahet Ovezov, Pavel Matus, Ildar Tashliev and Batyr Rozyev.
The training camp of the Turkmen team will last until June 4, after which the players will go to Tashkent for a match with the Uzbekistan national team. After the game in Uzbekistan, the Turkmenistan team will return to Ashgabat, where they will host Hong Kong on June 11 in the final match of the second round of the 2026 World Cup qualifying tournament.
At the moment, Iran and Uzbekistan are in the lead in Group E, with 10 points each. Turkmenistan and Hong Kong occupy 3-4 places respectively, having one point each.
