Английская Википедия:Benin national football team
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The Benin national football team (French: Équipe nationale de Football du Benin), nicknamed Les Guépards (The Cheetahs), represents Benin in men's international association football and are controlled by the Benin Football Federation. They were known as Dahomey until 1975, when the Republic of Dahomey became Benin.
Benin have been affiliated with FIFA since 1962 and are a member of the Confederation of African Football since 1969. They have never qualified for the World Cup, but have participated at four Africa Cups of Nations in 2004, 2008, 2010 and 2019, never placing in the top two in the group stage at all of these occasions. However, Benin has a unique record as the country is the first national team to reach the quarter-finals of an AFCON edition without gaining a single win in their AFCON history.
History
Benin hosted its first official international match on 8 November 1959, a 1-0 loss to Nigeria. The match was played while the country was still a French dependency, prior to its independence on 1 August 1960.
Benin qualified for the 2004 Africa Cup of Nations, their first AFCON in history. However, they lost all three matches to South Africa, Morocco and again Nigeria. Benin's only goal was scored by Moussa Latoundji against Nigeria.
History repeated itself again in 2008, when Benin lost to Mali, the Ivory Coast and yet again Nigeria. They also scored only once through Razak Omotoyossi in the 4-1 defeat to the Ivory Coast.
In 2010, the Benin Football Federation's president Anjorin Moucharaf was arrested. Members of the BFF decried the imprisonment, saying that Moucharaf had been unjustly accused of fraud, leading to 12 of the 15 board members resigning in protest.[1]
In the 2010 World Cup qualifiers, Benin topped their group in the second round. They started with a defeat to Angola but went on to win the next four matches and ensure their qualification before the final day. In the third round of the qualifiers, Benin finished second in their group, three points behind Ghana. Despite not qualifying for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Benin's second place finish ensured their qualification to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, where they drew against Mozambique to receive their first ever point at the AFCON. The Squirrels then lost their other two matches against Nigeria and defending champions Egypt to finish third in their group and fail to progress to the next round. After this performance, on 8 February 2010, the BFF, not willing to accept a group stage exit for the third time in a row, dissolved the national team and sacked coach Michel Dussuyer, as well as the rest of his staff.[2][3] Dussuyer was unaware that he had been sacked and claimed that he had not done anything wrong.[4] The team became an innocent victim of enraged African countries failing to accept defeat at major tournaments and disbanding their national teams in the early 2010s, along with Nigeria, the team that Benin have met in the group stage of all three of their AFCONs before their disbandment, which were suspended for two years by President Goodluck Jonathan after the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
In the second round of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers, Benin were placed in Group H with Algeria, Mali and Rwanda. They finished third in their group, failing to advance to the next round.
On 9 May 2016, FIFA suspended Benin for unknown reasons.
At the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, despite advancing only as the third-best third-placed team, Benin, reunited with Dussuyer, reached the quarter-finals, where they lost to eventual runners-up Senegal, with a shock win over tournament favourites Morocco on penalties.
Results and fixtures
Шаблон:Main The following is a list of match results in the last twelve months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.
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Coaching history
- Шаблон:Flagicon Serge Devèze
- Шаблон:Flagicon Wabi Gomez
- Шаблон:Flagicon Peter Schnittger (1992)
- Шаблон:Flagicon Moise Ekoue (1993)
- Шаблон:Flagicon Cecil Jones Attuquayefio (2003–2004)
- Шаблон:Flagicon Hervé Revelli (2004)
- Шаблон:Flagicon Edmé Codjo (2005–2007)
- Шаблон:Flagicon Didier Notheaux (2007)
- Шаблон:Flagicon Reinhard Fabisch (2007–2008)
- Шаблон:Flagicon Michel Dussuyer (2008–2010)
- Шаблон:Flagicon Jean-Marc Nobilo (2010)
- Шаблон:Flagicon Denis Goavec (2010–2011)
- Шаблон:Flagicon Edmé Codjo (2011–2012)
- Шаблон:Flagicon Manuel Amoros (2012–2014)
- Шаблон:Flagicon Didier Ollé-Nicolle (2014)
- Шаблон:Flagicon Oumar Tchomogo (2015–2017)
- Шаблон:Flagicon Michel Dussuyer (2018–2021)
- Шаблон:Flagicon Moussa Latoundji (2022–2023)
- Шаблон:Flagicon Gernot Rohr (2023–present)
Players
Current squad
The following players were called up for the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification match against South Africa and Lesotho on 18 and 21 November 2023.[5]
Caps and goals correct as of 21 November 2023, after the match against Шаблон:Fb
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Recent call-ups
The following players have been called up for Benin in the last 12 months. Шаблон:Nat fs r start Шаблон:Nat fs r player Шаблон:Nat fs r player Шаблон:Nat fs break Шаблон:Nat fs r player Шаблон:Nat fs r player Шаблон:Nat fs r player Шаблон:Nat fs r player Шаблон:Nat fs r player Шаблон:Nat fs r player Шаблон:Nat fs r player Шаблон:Nat fs break Шаблон:Nat fs r player Шаблон:Nat fs r player Шаблон:Nat fs r player Шаблон:Nat fs r player Шаблон:Nat fs r player Шаблон:Nat fs r player Шаблон:Nat fs break Шаблон:Nat fs r player Шаблон:Nat fs r player Шаблон:Nat fs r player Шаблон:Nat fs r player Шаблон:Nat fs r player Шаблон:Nat fs r player Шаблон:Nat fs end
Player records
- Players in bold are still active with Benin.
| Rank | Player | Caps | Goals | Career |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stéphane Sessègnon | 89 | 24 | 2004–present |
| 2 | Khaled Adénon | 85 | 2 | 2006–present |
| 3 | Mickaël Poté | 69 | 10 | 2008–2022 |
| 4 | Jodel Dossou | 60 | 9 | 2013–present |
| 5 | Damien Chrysostome | 58 | 0 | 2002–2011 |
| 6 | Jocelyn Ahouéya | 55 | 3 | 2003–2013 |
| Razak Omotoyossi | 55 | 21 | 2004–2016 | |
| 8 | Romuald Boco | 52 | 1 | 2004–2013 |
| 9 | Séïdath Tchomogo | 51 | 4 | 2003–2014 |
| 10 | Steve Mounié | 49 | 16 | 2015–present |
| Rank | Player | Goals | Caps | Ratio | Career |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stéphane Sessègnon | 24 | 89 | 0.27 | 2004–present |
| 2 | Razak Omotoyossi | 21 | 55 | 0.38 | 2004–2016 |
| 3 | Steve Mounié | 16 | 49 | 0.33 | 2015–present |
| 4 | Oumar Tchomogo | 15 | 34 | 0.44 | 1995–2008 |
| 5 | Mickaël Poté | 10 | 69 | 0.14 | 2008–2022 |
| 6 | Jodel Dossou | 9 | 60 | 0.15 | 2013–present |
| 7 | Moussa Latoundji | 6 | 21 | 0.29 | 1993–2004 |
| Mouritala Ogunbiyi | 6 | 47 | 0.13 | 1998–2019 | |
| 9 | Léon Bessan | 5 | 20 | 0.25 | 1995–2007 |
| Anicet Adjamossi | 5 | 48 | 0.1 | 2002–2013 |
Competitive record
FIFA World Cup
Africa Cup of Nations
West African Nations Cup
| West African Nations Cup record | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Position | Шаблон:Tooltip | Шаблон:Tooltip | Шаблон:Tooltip* | Шаблон:Tooltip | Шаблон:Tooltip | Шаблон:Tooltip |
| Шаблон:Flagicon 1982 | Group stage | 6th | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| Шаблон:Flagicon 1983 | Did not enter | |||||||
| Шаблон:Flagicon 1984 | Group stage | 5th | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 9 |
| Шаблон:Flagicon 1986 | Did not enter | |||||||
| Шаблон:Flagicon 1987 | Group stage | 7th | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| Total | Group stage | 3/5 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 24 |
WAFU Nations Cup
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| Year | Round | Position | Шаблон:Tooltip | Шаблон:Tooltip | Шаблон:Tooltip* | Шаблон:Tooltip | Шаблон:Tooltip | Шаблон:Tooltip |
| Шаблон:Flagicon 2010 | Group stage | 7th | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Шаблон:Flagicon 2011 | Did not enter | |||||||
| Шаблон:Flagicon 2013 | Fourth place | 4th | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 |
| Шаблон:Flagicon 2017 | Fourth place | 4th | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| Total | Fourth place | 3/4 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 19 |
References
External links
- Football au Bénin Шаблон:In lang
- Benin at CAF
- Benin at FIFA
- Le miroir du football béninois! Шаблон:In lang
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