Benin national football team

Benin

Nickname(s)	Les Écureuils (The Squirrels)
Association	Fédération Béninoise de Football
Sub-confederation	WAFU (West Africa)
Confederation	CAF (Africa)
Head coach	Denis Goavec
Top scorer	Razak Omotoyossi (18)
Home stadium	Stade de l'Amitié
FIFA code	BEN
FIFA ranking	119
Highest FIFA ranking	59 (November 2009, April 2010)
Lowest FIFA ranking	165 (July 1996)
Elo ranking	103
Home colours Away colours
First international
Dahomey 0–1 Nigeria  (Dahomey; 8 November 1959)
Biggest win
Dahomey 6–2 Chad  (Dahomey; 15 April 1963) Benin 4–0 Tanzania  (Cotonou, Benin; 8 September 2002)
Biggest defeat
Nigeria 10–1 Dahomey (Nigeria; 28 November 1959)
African Cup of Nations
Appearances	3 (First in 2004)
Best result	Round 1 all

The Benin national football team, nicknamed Les Écureuils (The Squirrels), is the national football team of Benin and is controlled by the Fédération Béninoise de Football. They were known as the Dahomey national football team until 1975, when Dahomey became Benin. They have never made the World Cup but have reached three recent African Nations Cups – 2004, 2008 and 2010. On 8 February 2010 after the preliminary competition from the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, the Fédération Béninoise de Football have dissolved the national team, coach Henri Dussuyer and his complete staff were fired.^[1]

Competition records

World Cup record

• 1930 to 1970 – Did not enter
• 1974 – Did not qualify
• 1978 to 1982 – Did not enter
• 1986 – Did not qualify
• 1990 – Did not enter
• 1994 – Did not qualify
• 1998 – Did not enter
• 2002 to 2010 – Did not qualify

Africa Cup of Nations record

• 1957 to 1970 – Did not enter
• 1972 – Did not qualify
• 1974 to 1976 – Withdrew
• 1978 – Did not enter
• 1980 – Did not qualify
• 1982 – Did not enter
• 1984 to 1986 – Did not qualify
• 1988 to 1990 – Did not qualify
• 1992 to 1994 – Did not qualify
• 1996 – Withdrew
• 1998 to 2002 – Did not qualify
• 2004 – Round 1
• 2006 – Did not qualify
• 2008 – Round 1
• 2010 – Round 1
• 2012 – Did not qualify

Recent results and forthcoming fixtures

This is a list of matches over the past six months and any future scheduled matches.

Date	Location	Opponent	Score	Competition
11 August 2010	Porto Novo	Niger	0–0	Friendly
5 September 2010	Cotonou	Burundi	1–1	2012 ACN qualification
9 October 2010	Kigali	Rwanda	3–0	2012 ACN qualification
25 March 2011	Accra	Côte d'Ivoire	1–2	2012 ACN qualification
3 June 2011	TBD	Côte d'Ivoire	2–6	2012 ACN qualification

Current squad

0#0 Pos. Player Date of Birth (Age) Caps Goals Club 1 GK Yoann Djidonou 17 May 1986 (1986-05-17) (age 25) 20 0 Libourne 13 GK Valère Amoussou 13 March 1987 (1987-03-13) (age 24) 2 0 AS Porto-Novo 22 GK Rachad Chitou 18 September 1976 (1976-09-18) (age 35) 26 0 Wikki Tourrist 2 DF Bio Aï Traoré 9 June 1985 (1985-06-09) (age 26) 0 0 Panthères 3 DF Réda Johnson 21 March 1988 (1988-03-21) (age 23) 6 0 Sheffield Wednesday 4 DF Khaled Adénon 28 July 1985 (1985-07-28) (age 26) 21 1 Le Mans 5 DF Mouftaou Adou 10 April 1991 (1991-04-10) (age 20) 3 0 Port Autonome 14 DF Junior Salomon 8 April 1986 (1986-04-08) (age 25) 11 0 ASPAC Cotonou 15 DF Félicien Singbo 25 October 1980 (1980-10-25) (age 31) 19 0 Unattached 6 MF Romuald Boco 8 July 1985 (1985-07-08) (age 26) 42 1 Shanghai East Asia F.C. 7 MF Koffi 24 May 1984 (1984-05-24) (age 27) 48 1 Denizlispor 8 MF Patrice Djokoué 16 May 1990 (1990-05-16) (age 21) 1 0 Requins 9 MF Emmanuel Imorou 16 September 1988 (1988-09-16) (age 23) 4 0 Châteauroux 11 MF Bello Babatounde 6 October 1989 (1989-10-06) (age 22) 1 0 MŠK Žilina 12 MF Gérard Adanhoume 26 November 1986 (1986-11-26) (age 24) 1 0 Soleil 16 MF Djiman Koukou 14 November 1980 (1980-11-14) (age 31) 13 1 US Créteil-Lusitanos 17 MF Séïdath Tchomogo 13 August 1985 (1985-08-13) (age 26) 39 4 East Riffa Club 18 MF Pascal Angan 19 April 1986 (1986-04-19) (age 25) 1 0 Wydad Casablanca 19 MF Mouritala Ogunbiyi 10 October 1982 (1982-10-10) (age 29) 36 6 Nîmes 20 MF Arnaud Séka 30 October 1985 (1985-10-30) (age 26) 2 0 Tonnerre d'Abomey 21 MF Stéphane Sessègnon 1 June 1984 (1984-06-01) (age 27) 37 7 Sunderland 24 MF Nouhoum Kobéna 6 January 1985 (1985-01-06) (age 26) 7 0 Almadina 10 FW Razak Omotoyossi 8 October 1985 (1985-10-08) (age 26) ? 18 Zamalek SC 23 FW Mohamed Aoudou 19 February 1990 (1990-02-19) (age 21) 8 2 Tonnerre d'Abomey 25 FW Mickaël Poté 24 September 1984 (1984-09-24) (age 27) 7 1 Dynamo Dresden

List of Benin managers

• Serge Devèze
• Wabi Gomez
• Cecil Jones Attuquayefio (2003–2004)
• Hervé Revelli (2004)
• Edmé Codjo (2005–2007)
• Didier Notheaux (2007)
• Reinhard Fabisch (2007–2008)
• Michel Dussuyer (2008–2010)
• Jean-Marc Nobilo (2010)
• Denis Goavec (2010–)

References

1. ^ Benin löst Nationalelf auf

External links

• Official Site