Burkina Faso national football team

Infobox National football team
Name = Burkina Faso
Badge = Burkina Faso FA.png FIFA Trigramme = BFA
Nickname = Les Etalons
("The Stallions")
Association = Fédération Burkinabé
de Foot-Ball
Confederation = CAF (Africa)
Coach = flagicon|POR Paulo Duarte
Most caps =
Top scorer =
Home Stadium = Stade du 4-Août
FIFA Rank = 64
FIFA max = 54
FIFA max date = May 2007
FIFA min = 127
FIFA min date = December 1993

Elo Rank = 102

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First game = flagicon|Republic of Upper Volta Upper Volta 5 - 4 Gabon Flagicon|Gabon (Madagascar; 13 April 1960)
Largest win = Flagicon|Burkina Faso Burkina Faso 4 - 0 Mozambique Flagicon|Mozambique (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; 7 June 2003)
Largest loss = Flagicon|Algeria Algeria 7 - 0 Upper Volta flagicon|Republic of Upper Volta (Algeria; 30 August 1981)
World cup apps =
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World cup best =
Regional name = African Nations Cup
Regional cup apps = 6
Regional cup first = 1978
Regional cup best = Fourth place, 1998The 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.

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"

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"

Notable Players

*Abdoulaye Cissé (flagicon|FRA Montpellier)
*Amadou Coulibaly (flagicon|FRA Rennes)
*Moumouni Dagano (flagicon|FRA Sochaux)
*Yssouf Koné (flagicon|Romania CFR Cluj)
*Siaka Ouattara
*Kassoum Ouédraogo
*Rahim Ouédraogo (flagicon|Netherlands Heracles)
*Lamine Traoré (flagicon|Turkey Gençlerbirliği)

Current squad

The following players were called for 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification against Seychelles on 21 June 2008.

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Recent Call-ups

External links

* [http://www.fasofoot.com Official site of the Burkina Faso FA]
* [http://www.fifa.com/associations/association=bfa/index.html Burkina Faso] at the FIFA website.