Burundi national football team

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Burundi

Nickname	Les Hirondelles (The Swallows)
Association	Fédération de Football du Burundi
Head coach	Dominique Niyonzima
Most caps	?
Top scorer	?
FIFA code	BDI
FIFA ranking	128
Highest FIFA ranking	96 (August 1993)
Lowest FIFA ranking	160 (July 1998)
Elo ranking	143
Home kit 　 Away kit
First international Tanzania 4 - 1 Burundi (Tanzania; December 5, 1971)
Largest win Burundi 6 - 2 Rwanda (Mbabane, Burundi; June 29, 1976)
Worst defeat Cameroon 5 - 0 Burundi (Gabon; July 10, 1976) Côte d'Ivoire 6 - 1 Burundi (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire; June 8, 2003)

The Burundi national football team, nicknamed Les Hirondelles (The Sparrows), is the national team of Burundi and is controlled by the National Football Association of Burundi. It has never made the World Cup or the African Nations Cup.

[edit] Burundi Football Achievements

CECAFA Cup :

• 1 Time Runners-up

[edit] World Cup record

• 1930 to 1990 - Did not enter
• 1994 - Did not qualify
• 1998 - Withdrew during qualifying
• 2002 - Withdrew
• 2006 - Did not qualify

[edit] African Nations Cup record

• 1957 to 1974 - Did not enter
• 1976 - Did not qualify
• 1978 - Did not enter
• 1980 - Withdrew
• 1982 to 1992 - Did not enter
• 1994 - Did not qualify
• 1996 - Did not enter
• 1998 - Withdrew
• 2000 to 2006 - Did not qualify

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