Bhutan , the world 's worst international team according to FIFA rankings , picked up a 1-0 win against Sri Lanka in their World Cup qualifying debut on Thursday . Tshering Dorji scored the only goal of the match in the 84th minute for the small Himalayan nation , ranked last of the 209 teams in FIFA 's rankings , in steamy Colombo . Before Thursday , Bhutan had only three wins to their name and were beaten 5-2 by Sri Lanka in their last international match at the 2013 South Asian Football Championships in Kathmandu . Tshering Dorji ( left ) celebrates after scoring the winner for Bhutan in their qualifier against Sri Lanka . Bhutan players celebrate after their 1-0 victory against Sri Lanka in the opening Russia 2018 qualifiers . Bhutan captain Karma Shedrup Tshering ( left ) passes the ball during the qualifier in Colombo on Thursday . Timor-Leste 4-1 Mongolia . Cambodia 3-0 Mecau . Sri Lanka 0-1 Bhutan . Chinese Taipei 0-1 Brunei . India 2-0 Nepal . Yemen 3-1 Pakistan . *All are first legs of two-legged ties . The performance from the side , who were once thrashed 20-0 by Kuwait in an Asian Cup qualifier in 2000 , drew praise from even FIFA president Sepp Blatter . ' A wonderful , historic moment . Bhutan , ranked 209/209 in world , won their 1st ever # WCQ today , 1-0 in Sri Lanka , ' Blatter said on his Twitter handle . After Bhutan , Brunei also won for the first time in the World Cup qualifiers , beating Taiwan with a 36th-minute goal from Adi Said while Cambodia defeated Macau 3-0 in Phnom Penh . Lowly East Timor earlier kicked off the long and winding road to Russia 2018 by registering their first ever World Cup qualifying win , a 4-1 success over Mongolia in Dili . Striker Chiquito Filipe do Carmo scored the first goals of the three-year qualifying campaign that will see all of FIFA 's 208 members play more than 800 matches to determine which 31 sides will join the hosts at the finals . Bhutan supporters wave their flags as they celebrate a famous victory for their team on Thursday . Sri Lanka 's Kavidu Ishan ( left ) looks to pass , while Chencho Gyeltshen and Thilina Bandara vie for the ball . FIFA president Sepp Blatter announces Russia in December 2010 as the host of the 2018 World Cup . The victory was only the fourth the 185th-ranked East Timor achieved since becoming FIFA members in 2005 . Such was the excitement for the fixture in the Portuguese-speaking Southeast Asian nation , that a big screen was erected outside the Municipal Stadium for fans who could n't get their hands on one of the 10,000 tickets on sale . They would have seen their diminutive striker , better known as Quito , strike in the seventh and 10th minutes before Brazilian-born Rodrigo Silva netted a third in the 89th minute and substitute Neto grabbed a fourth in stoppage time . Batmonkhiin Erkhembayar grabbed a late consolation for the visitors to give them some slight hope of overturning the deficit in the second leg in Mongolia on Tuesday . In other matches , India beat Nepal 2-0 , while Yemen play Pakistan . The six aggregate winners will move into the second round of the Asian World Cup campaign , which doubles as the qualifiers for the 24-team 2019 Asian Cup , where the likes of regional powerhouses Japan , Australia and Iran enter the fold .
The first 2018 World Cup qualifiers were held on Thursday . Bhutan , the world 's lowest ranked side , upset Sri Lanka 1-0 . East Timor were first to claim victory , beating Carmo .