Lesotho national football team

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Lesotho
Nickname	Likuena (Crocodiles)
Association	Lesotho Football Association
Confederation	CAF (Africa)
Head coach	Antoine Hey
Home stadium	Setsoto Stadium
FIFA code	LES
FIFA ranking	166
Highest FIFA ranking	120 (August 2003)
Lowest FIFA ranking	166 (March 2007)
Elo ranking	166
First kit 　 Second kit
First international Lesotho 1 - 2 Malagasy (Lesotho; March 7, 1971)
Biggest win Botswana 0 - 4 Lesotho (Gaborone, Botswana; June 28, 1992)
Biggest defeat Zaire 7 - 0 Lesotho (Kinshasa, Zaire; July 25, 1993)

The Lesotho national football team, nicknamed the Likuena (Crocodiles), is the national team of Lesotho and is controlled by the Lesotho Football Association. It has never qualified for the final stages of the World Cup or the African Nations Cup.

Contents 1 Players 2 Lesotho Football Achievements 3 World Cup record 4 African Nations Cup record

[edit] Players

The players of the Likuena team are Thabo Khoboli, Esaiah Mosala, Moitheri Ntobo, Mohaoi Ntobo, Sello Seholoholo, Brown Makobe, Lengana Nkhethoa, Sheli Ramoseka, Boraro Matsoso, Ramashalane Taeli, Sello Komane, and Bushy Moletsane.

[edit] Lesotho Football Achievements

COSAFA Cup :

• 1 Time Runners-up

[edit] World Cup record

• 1930 to 1970 - Did not enter
• 1974 - Did not qualify
• 1978 - Withdrew
• 1982 - Did not qualify
• 1986 - Withdrew
• 1990 - Withdrew
• 1994 - Did not enter
• 1998 - Did not enter
• 2002 - Did not qualify
• 2006 - Did not qualify

[edit] African Nations Cup record

• 1957 to 1972 - Did not enter
• 1974 - Did not qualify
• 1976 - Withdrew
• 1978 - Did not enter
• 1980 - Did not qualify
• 1982 - Did not qualify
• 1984 - Withdrew
• 1986 - Did not enter
• 1988 - Withdrew
• 1990 - Did not enter
• 1992 - Did not enter
• 1994 - Did not qualify
• 1996 - Withdrew during qualifying
• 1998 - Banned for withdrawing in 1996
• 2000 to 2006 - Did not qualify

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