Cape Verde national football team

The Cape Verdean national soccer team is the selection of Federação Caboverdiana de Futebol, which was founded in 1982 and admitted to FIFA in 1986. It represents Cape Verde at international football tournaments. The first - not counted by FIFA - Game of the national team took place on January 7, 1979 instead of against Guinea- Bissau and was lost with 0:3. The first considered by FIFA Game was played on February 8th place in 1984 against Sierra Leone and was also lost (0:2). In November 2002, the team played for the first time outside of Africa, and had with the Luxembourg team for the first time a non-African opponents. The game ended 0-0.

She has never taken part in the final competition of the World Cup, but get her some remarkable results, a 0-0 draw against the national team of Portugal in their preparation for the 2010 World Cup, which was begun in full force.

In qualifying for the 2012 African Cup of Cape Verde dropped out only due to the direct comparison with Mali.

The team achieved its greatest success in 2012 through qualifying to participate in the African Cup of Nations 2013. The best ever position in the FIFA World Ranking was achieved in February 2014 with the 27th rank, and the lowest was ranked 182 in April 2000 to date.

World Cup

At their first qualification for the FIFA World Cup 2002 in South Korea and Japan, they failed in the very first round of Algeria with 0:0 and 0:2.

When qualifying for the Football World Cup 2006 in Germany Cape Verde made ​​it a 1-1 and a 3-0 over Swaziland in the group stage. With a fifth place out of six teams and ten points they exceeded expectations. She had the later World Cup participants Ghana can, among other things take precedence.

In qualifying for the World Cup in Brazil Cape Verde pulled thanks to a 2-0 victory in the final game in Tunisia temporarily into the Africa play-offs. Cape Verde benefited from this is that the lost 4-3 match against Equatorial Guinea of not eligible Emilio Nsue was rated 3-0 to Cape Verde from March 24, 2013 because of the use. However, the original 2-0 victory against Tunisia was converted on the last match in a 3-0 victory for Tunisia because Cape Verde had with Fernando Varela used an ineligible player. So Tunisia was subsequently declared a group winner of Group B and moved instead of Cape Verde in Africa, the play-offs.

Africa Cup of Nations

African Nations Cup

  • 2009: did not participate
  • 2011: did not participate
  • 2014: did not participate

Current squad

The following players have been nominated in June 2012 for the African Nations Cup qualifier against Madagascar and the friendly matches against Sierra Leone and Tunisia:

Jersey (clothing)#In sports 2011 African Nations Championship 2014 African Nations Championship Defender (association football) CD Feirense FC Vaslui France AEL Limassol FC Arouca Stade de Reims Sparta Rotterdam CD Santa Clara CS Fola Esch Gil Vicente Djaniny
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