Equatorial Guinea national football team
The Equatorial Guinean national football team is controlled by the Federación de Fútbol Ecuatoguineana, which was established in 1984. In December of the same year, Equatorial Guinea played his first official international match.
Previously there had been in 1975 an unofficial match against China, which China had won as the home team 6-2.
Since 2002, the country takes part in the qualifications to the world championships since 2000 at the African Nations Cup qualifier. Equatorial Guinea has yet to qualify for any major tournament sporty. The team belongs to the sporty middle class of African FIFA member states.
Equatorial Guinea will host together with Gabon, the African Cup of Nations in 2012, making the team as a host for the first time took part in a European Championship and reached the quarter-finals, where they defeated the Ivory Coast 0-3. In the FIFA world rankings, the team climbed through the quarter-finals by 41 places to number 110
The biggest success of the Equatorial Guinean national team was winning the CEMAC CUP ( a football competition the teams from Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic and Chad unsubscribe ) 2006. In the final, defending champions Cameroon was surprising, according to 1:1 in regular time, 4-2 defeated on penalties. However, Cameroon played with a local selection, so the game by FIFA is not recognized as 'A' game.
The team is in the official FIFA world rankings with the 59th rank currently her best placement, but the team could be compared with the previous month to 45 places better (April 2013).
- 3.1 cadres of the African Cup of Nations 2012
Tournaments
World cup
In qualifying for the World Cup in Brazil Equatorial Guinea met first in Return Game on Madagascar. After the first leg was won 2-0, despite a 1:2 in the second leg, the second round could be achieved. There, Cape Verde, Sierra Leone and Tunisia were the opponents. By a 1:1 on June 16, 2013 against Tunisia, the team lost the chance of qualifying for the World Cup.
African Cup of Nations
African Nations Cup
- 2009: did not participate
- 2011: withdrew in qualifying
- 2014: did not participate
CEMAC Cup
COSAFA Senior Challenge
- 2013: invited
Coach
Known player
Due to the Equatorial Guinean Official language Spanish European Legionnaires play mostly in Spain. In the better-known names but are often the offspring of former refugees who left the country to Spain during the dictatorship of Francisco Macías Nguema. Javier Balboa, a former Real Madrid youth players, is in the Portuguese Primeira Liga SC Beira -Mar in under contract. In the Spanish Segunda División currently play in Spain grew Rodolfo Bodipo Díaz (Deportivo La Coruña), Iván Bolado (FC Cartagena), Striker Juvenal Edjogo - Owono Montalbán, called Juvenal (CE Sabadell), Raúl Fabiani (CD Alcoyano ) and Iban Iyanga, called Randy, (UD Las Palmas).