Burkina Faso national football team
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| Nickname(s) | Les Etalons (The Stallions) |
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| Association | Fédération Burkinabé de Foot-Ball |
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| Confederation | CAF (Africa) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach |  Paulo Duarte |
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| Home stadium | Stade du 4-Août | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA code | BFA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA ranking | 111 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest FIFA ranking | 54 (May 2007) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lowest FIFA ranking | 127 (December 1993) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elo ranking | 112 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| First international | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Upper Volta 5 - 4 Gabon  (Madagascar; 13 April 1960) |
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| Biggest win | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Burkina Faso 4 - 0 Mozambique  (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; 7 June 2003) |
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| Biggest defeat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Algeria 7 - 0 Upper Volta (Algeria; 30 August 1981) |
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| African Nations Cup | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appearances | 6 (First in 1978) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | Fourth place, 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Burkina Faso national football team, nicknamed Les Etalons (The Stallions), is the national team of Burkina Faso and is controlled by the Fédération Burkinabé de Foot-Ball. They were known as the Upper Volta national football team until 1984, when Upper Volta became Burkina Faso. Their best finish in the African Nations Cup was fourth in 1998, when they hosted the tournament. Even though they missed World Cup 2006, they were the only team in the qualification who beat the groupwinners Ghana, 1-0 at home.
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[edit] World Cup record
- 1930 to 1974 - Did not enter
- 1978 - Did not qualify
- 1982 - Did not enter
- 1986 - Did not enter
- 1990 - Did not qualify
- 1994 - Withdrew
- 1998 to 2006 - Did not qualify
[edit] African Nations Cup record
- 1957 to 1965 - Did not enter
- 1968 - Did not qualify
- 1970 - Withdrew
- 1972 - Withdrew
- 1974 - Did not qualify
- 1976 - Did not enter
- 1978 - Round 1 (as Upper Volta)
- 1980 - Did not enter
- 1982 - Did not qualify
- 1984 to 1988 - Did not enter
- 1990 - Did not qualify
- 1992 - Did not qualify
- 1994 - Withdrew during qualifying
- 1996 - Round 1
- 1998 - Fourth place
- 2000 - Round 1
- 2002 - Round 1
- 2004 - Round 1
- 2006 to 2008 - Did not qualify
[edit] Notable Players
- Abdoulaye Cissé (
Montpellier) - Amadou Coulibaly ( Rennes)
- Moumouni Dagano ( Sochaux)
- Yssouf Koné (
Rosenborg) - Siaka Ouattara
- Kassoum Ouédraogo
- Rahim Ouédraogo (
Heracles) - Lamine Traoré (
Gençlerbirliği)
[edit] Current squad
The following players were called for 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification against Tunisia on 1 June 2008.
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[edit] Recent Call-ups
[edit] External links
- (French) Official site of the Burkina Faso FA
- Burkina Faso at the FIFA website.
