Botswana national football team

Botswana's national football team, the The Zebras ( " The Zebras " ) is called, is the football national team of Botswana and is controlled by the Botswana Football Association.

Botswana has never participated in the Soccer World Cup. The greatest success was to qualify for the African Cup in 2012. Qualifying succeeded, among other things with a 1-0 away victory against Tunisia on 1 July 2010. In the finals in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea Botswana lost all three games. The 1:6 defeat against Guinea 28 January 2012 was the first defeat with 5 goals difference at an African Cup of Nations for 42 years.

Tournaments

World Cup

In the qualification Botswana had to compete against their neighbors South Africa, the Central African Republic and Ethiopia and had initially no chance to qualify after the 1-2 home defeat on June 8, 2013 against Ethiopia. The 2-1 victory by Ethiopia but was converted by FIFA on 1 July 2013 in a 3-0 to Botswana since Ethiopia had with Minyahile Teshome Beyene used a player who was suspended after 2 yellow cards. This also Botswana and South Africa could still qualify for the next round. Since Ethiopia won the last game in the Central African Republic, Botswana and South Africa had no chance ultimately to qualify. In addition, Botswana lost to Süfafrika and was third in the group.

African Cup of Nations

African Nations Cup

  • 2009: not qualified
  • 2011: not qualified
  • 2014: not qualified

South Africa Football Championship

Squad of the African Cup 2012

Known player

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