Burundi national football team

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Burundi
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname Les Hirondelles
(The Swallows)
Association Fédération de Football
du Burundi
Confederation CAF (Africa)
Head coach Dominique Niyonzima
Home stadium Prince Louis Rwagasore Stadium
FIFA code BDI
FIFA ranking 117
Highest FIFA ranking 96 (August 1993)
Lowest FIFA ranking 160 (July 1998)
Elo ranking 143
Team colours Team colours Team colours
Team colours
Team colours
　
First kit
Team colours Team colours Team colours
Team colours
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Second kit
First international
Flag of Tanzania Tanzania 4 - 1 Burundi Flag of Burundi
(Tanzania; December 5, 1971)
Biggest win
Flag of Burundi Burundi 6 - 2 Rwanda Flag of Rwanda
(Mbabane, Burundi; June 29, 1976)
Biggest defeat
Flag of Cameroon Cameroon 5 - 0 Burundi Flag of Burundi
(Gabon; July 10, 1976)
Flag of Côte d'Ivoire Côte d'Ivoire 6 - 1 Burundi Flag of Burundi
(Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire; June 8, 2003)

The Burundi national football team, nicknamed Les Hirondelles (The Sparrows), is the national team of Burundi and is controlled by the National Football Association of Burundi. It has never made the World Cup or the African Nations Cup.


CECAFA Cup :
  • 1 Time Runners-up

  • 1930 to 1990 - Did not enter
  • 1994 - Did not qualify
  • 1998 - Withdrew during qualifying
  • 2002 - Withdrew
  • 2006 - Did not qualify

International football
v • d • e

FIFA | World Cup | Confederations Cup | U-20 World Cup | U-17 World Cup | Olympics | Asian Games | All-Africa Games | Pan American Games | Island Games | World Rankings | Player of the Year | Teams | Codes
     Asia: AFC – Asian Cup
     Africa: CAF – African Cup of Nations
     North America: CONCACAF – Gold Cup
     South America: CONMEBOL – Copa América
     Oceania: OFC – Nations Cup
     Europe: UEFA – European Championship
     Non-FIFA: NF-Board – VIVA World Cup
National football teams of Africa (CAF)
v • d • e

Algeria | Angola | Benin | Botswana | Burkina Faso | Burundi | Cameroon | Cape Verde | Central African Republic | Chad | Comoros | Congo | Congo DR | Côte d'Ivoire | Djibouti | Egypt | Equatorial Guinea | Eritrea | Ethiopia | Gabon | Gambia | Ghana | Guinea | Guinea-Bissau | Kenya | Lesotho | Liberia | Libya | Madagascar | Malawi | Mali | Mauritania | Mauritius | Morocco | Mozambique | Namibia | Niger | Nigeria | Réunion† | Rwanda | São Tomé and Príncipe | Senegal | Seychelles | Sierra Leone | Somalia | South Africa | Sudan | Swaziland | Tanzania | Togo | Tunisia | Uganda | Zambia | Zanzibar† | Zimbabwe
†Associate member
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