Senegal national football team

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Senegal
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname Les Lions de la Teranga
(Lions of Teranga)
Association Fédération Sénégalaise
de Football
Confederation CAF (Africa)
Head coach Flag of Poland Henryk Kasperczak
Most caps El Hadji Diouf (41)
Top scorer El Hadji Diouf (16)
Home stadium Stade Leopold Senghor
FIFA code SEN
FIFA ranking 45
Highest FIFA ranking 26 (June 2004)
Lowest FIFA ranking 95 (December 1998)
Elo ranking 46
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 Benin Dahomey 3 - 2 Senegal Flag of Senegal
(Côte d'Ivoire; 31 December 1961)
Biggest win
Flag of Senegal Senegal 6 - 0 Mauritania Flag of Mauritania
(Sierra Leone; 13 February 1984)
Biggest defeat
0 - 4, 7 times
World Cup
Appearances 1 (First in 2002)
Best result Quarterfinals, 2002
African Nations Cup
Appearances 10 (First in 1965)
Best result Second place, 2002

The Senegal national football team, nicknamed the Lions of Teranga, is the national team of Senegal and is controlled by the Fédération Sénégalaise de Football. It made its first World Cup in 2002 and made quite a splash, pulling a huge upset by defeating world and European champions France 1-0 in the tournament's opening game.

Especially notable about this result was the appearance of Patrick Vieira, widely considered to be the best player Senegal had ever produced, playing for the opposition; this was due to France being a former colonial power in the country. Senegal went on to make the quarterfinals, only the second African team to do so (the first being Cameroon in 1990 - interestingly, in 1990, Cameroon also defeated the defending champions (Argentina) 1-0 in the tournament's opening match). In the group, after defeating France, they drew with Denmark and Uruguay, and beat Sweden in extra time in Round 2, before losing to Turkey in the quarter finals.

Senegal disappointed its fans in 2006 when it failed to qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. in the 2006 FIFA World Cup Qualification, Senegal finished second in their group after losing 3-1 to the winners of the group, Togo.

Senegal's first appearance in the African Nations Cup was in 1965, when Senegal, after finishing second in their group, lost 1-0 to the Ivory Coast to finish in 4th place. in the 1990 African Nations Cup, Senegal once again finished 4th. Senegal hosted the African Nations Cup in 1992, in which, after qualifying for the quarter finals by finishing second in their group, Senegal lost 1-0 to Nigeria in the quarter finals. Senegal's best finish in the African Nations Cup came in 2002, when they lost the final on penalties after drawing 0-0 with Cameroon .

Senegal has won the Amilcar Cabral Cup (a regional soccer tournament for West African nations) 8 times, more than any other country (second place: Guinea has only won 5 times).

Contents

Amilcar Cabral Cup :
  • 8 Times Champion (1979, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1991, 2001)
  • 5 Times Runners-up
CEDEAO Cup :
  • 1 Time Champion (1985)
  • 2 Times Runners-up

Announced on 27th December 2005.

Not including players in African Nations Cup 2006 squad.

International football
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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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