Guinea national football team

The Guinea national football team, nicknamed Syli national ("National Elephant"), is the national team of Guinea and is controlled by the Fédération Guinéenne de Football. They have never qualified for the World Cup finals, and their best finish in the African Nations Cup was second in the 1976. The team reached the quarter-finals in three successive tournaments (2004, 2006, 2008).

History

Guinea made their footballing debut on 2 October 1960 at the 1960 West African Games in Nigeria, and lost 4-1 to the hosts. Their next match was a home friendly on 16 December 1962, lost 3-2 against their first European opponents, East Germany. In 1963, Guinea entered its first qualification campaign for an African Cup of Nations, the 1963 tournament in Ghana. Drawn in a two-legged qualifier against Nigeria, Guinea drew the first leg 2-2 away on 27 July, and on 6 October won 1-0 at home to win 3-2 on aggregate. They were later disqualified for using Guinean officials in the second leg, and Nigeria went through to the finals in their place. In 1965, Guinea enteerd qualification for the African Cup of Nations in Tunisia and was placed in Group A with Senegal and Mali. On 28 February they lost 2-0 in Senegal before beating them 3-0 at home on 31 March, Senegal's win over Mali allowed them to qualify instead of Guinea. ^[1]

Guinea Football Achievements

Amilcar Cabral Cup :

• 5 Times Champion (1981, 1982, 1987, 1988, 2005)

• 1 Time Runners-up

World Cup record

• 1930 to 1962 – Did not enter
• 1966 – Withdrew
• 1970 – Entry not accepted by FIFA
• 1974 to 1998 – Did not qualify
• 2002 – Disqualified by FIFA during qualifying
• 2006 to 2010 – Did not qualify

African Nations Cup record

• 1957 to 1962 – Did not enter
• 1963 – Disqualified for failure to provide neutral officials
• 1965 to 1968 – Did not qualify
• 1970 – Round 1
• 1972 – Did not qualify
• 1974 – Round 1
• 1976 – Second place
• 1978 – Did not qualify
• 1980 – Round 1
• 1982 to 1992 – Did not qualify
• 1994 – Round 1
• 1996 – Did not qualify
• 1998 – Round 1
• 2000 – Did not qualify
• 2002 – Disqualified for failure to reinstall FA functionaries
• 2004 – Quarter-finals
• 2006 – Quarter-finals
• 2008 – Quarter-finals
• 2010 – Did not qualify
• 2012 – Qualified

Other Tournaments

Current squad

Head Coach: Michel Dussuyer

The squad was selected for the 2012 African Nations Cup qualifying match against Nigeria on 8 October 2011.

Caps and goals updated as of 8 October 2011.

Recent callups

List of Coaches

References