Libya national football team
The Libyan national football team is the national football team of Libya and is run by the Libyan Football Federation. Libya has never qualified for a World Cup. Greatest success is winning the African Nations Cup in 2014, but in which only players from the domestic leagues and may be used in the in the knockout round, all games were won only about the penalties.
At the Africa Cup of Nations Libya participated twice: in 1982, when the country was host of the tournament, the unknown team surprisingly reached the final, which it lost against Ghana on penalties at his first participation. 2006 Libya was qualified for the second time, but could not prevail in the heavy preliminary round group with the eventual finalists Egypt and Ivory Coast.
The 21:0 win against Oman in Baghdad on April 1, 1966, to September 2, 1971, the largest margin of victory in an international match and is still the largest margin of victory of an African team and largest margin of victory against a member of another continental federation.
Originally Libya should host the African Cup in 2013, because of the civil war and the unstable security situation in the country South Africa was determined as the new host. Libya will instead host the African Cup of Nations 2017.
Tournaments
World cup
In the qualification Libya met in the group stage to Cameroon, Togo and the Democratic Republic of Congo. At the end of Libya took second place group and thus failed to qualify.
African Cup of Nations
African Nations Cup
- 2009: Preliminary
- 2011: not qualified
- 2014: Nations champion