Mauritania national football team

Mauritania

Nickname(s)	Mourabitounes
Association	Fédération de Foot-Ball de la Républic Islamique de Mauritanie
Confederation	CAF (Africa)
Head coach	Moustapha Sall
Home stadium	Stade Nacional
FIFA code	MTN
FIFA ranking	200
Highest FIFA ranking	85 (December 1995)
Lowest FIFA ranking	200 (October 2011)
Elo ranking	165
Home colours Away colours
First international
Congo DR 6 - 0 Mauritania (Senegal; April 11, 1963)
Biggest win
Mauritania 8 - 2 Djibouti (Beirut, Lebanon; December 27, 2006)
Biggest defeat
Guinea 14 - 0 Mauritania (Guinea; 1 January 1972)

The Mauritania national football team, nicknamed Mourabitounes, is the national team of Mauritania and is controlled by the Fédération de Foot-Ball de la Républic Islamique de Mauritanie and is a member of CAF. They have not qualified for the FIFA World Cup or Africa Cup of Nations. However, in the Amilcar Cabral Cup, a regional tournament for West Africa, Mauritania came fourth in 1980 on hosting the competition. They were later runners-up in 1995, losing on penalties to Sierra Leone after the final finished 0-0.

Mauritania lost all six of their 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification matches, in a group that included Rwanda and Morocco.

The national team is made up of a combination of players from the domestic league, as well as various other leagues in North Africa and Eastern Europe.

Debut

Mauritania played its first match after independence from France on 11 April 1963, against Congo Kinshasa (also making their debut) and lost 6-0 ^[1]. The match was held in Dakar, Senegal as part of the L'Amitié tournament between African sides. It also saw the debuts of Chad, Liberia and Niger. Mauritania lost its three other matches in the tournament: 2-0 to the Ivory Coast, 4-0 to Tunisia and 7-0 to Congo Brazzaville.

Mauritania's first goal and avoidance of defeat came four years after their debut, in 1967 with a 1-1 draw away in Tanzania. On 12 October 1980, seventeen years after their first game, Mauritania won for the first time by beating Mali 2-1 at home in a qualifier for the African Cup of Nations. ^[2] Mali won 3-2 on aggregate having won the first leg 2-0.

World Cup record

• 1930 to 1962 - Did not exist
• 1966 to 1974 - Did not enter
• 1978 - Did not qualify
• 1982 to 1994 - Did not enter
• 1998 to 2010 - Did not qualify
• 2014 - Did not enter

African Nations Cup record

• 1957 to 1978 - Did not enter
• 1980 to 1982 - Did not qualify
• 1984 - Did not enter
• 1986 - Did not qualify
• 1988 - Did not enter
• 1990 - Withdrew
• 1992 - Did not qualify
• 1994 - Withdrew
• 1996 to 1998 - Did not qualify
• 2000 - Withdrew
• 2002 to 2010 - Did not qualify
• 2012 - Withdrew
• 2013 - Did not enter

Amilcar Cabral Cup

Annual Tournaments 1979-1989

• 1979: Did not place
• 1980: Fourth place
• 1981-1982: Did not place
• 1983: Fourth place (host)
• 1984-1989: Did not place

Bi-annual Tournaments 1991-

• 1991-93: Did not place
• 1995: Runners-up (host)
• 1997-: Did not place

Recent result

11 August 2010 22:30 UTC±0	Mauritania	0 – 0	Palestine	Stade Olympique, Nouakchott

Current squad

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n°	Player	Position	DoB	Caps (goals)	Club
1	Souleymane Diallo	Goalkeeper			FC Tevragh Zeina
12	M’Baye Oumar Niang	Goalkeeper			ACS Ksar
16	Babacar Harouna Touré	Goalkeeper			ASC Nasr de Sebkha
2	Bilal Sidibé	Centre Back	31.12.1978		GSI Pontivy
2	Karamokho N’Diaye	Centre Back / Right Back			ACS Ksar
4	Yacoub Fall	Left Back			FC Nouadhibou
4	Ould Cheikhani	Centre Back			ASC Nasr de Sebkha
5	Babacar Dieng	Centre Back
13	Moise Kande	Centre Back	01.08.1978		PAEEK
15	Brahim Boubacar Sidina	Right Back			FC Tevragh Zeina
18	Abdelaziz Kamara	Left Back / Defensive Midfielder	April 10, 1984		FC Farul Constanţa
	Sy Ibrahima Mamadou	Centre Back	31.12.1991		ASAC Concorde
6	Pascal Gourville	Defensive Midfielder	12.01.1975		Vallée de la Gresse
7	Yacoub Ba	Defensive Midfielder	20 January 1984		Kenitra AC
8	Taghiyoullah Denna	Defensive Midfielder			CF Cansado
8	Lemine Balla Cherif	Defensive Midfielder			FC Tevragh Zeina
10	Yoann Langlet	Left Winger	December 25, 1982	20(7)	Thrasyvoulos Fylis F.C.
14	Mohamed Lemine	Right Winger
16	Dahmed Ould Teguedi	Attacking Midfielder	November 15, 1984		CA Batna
7	Ismaél Diakité	Striker / Right Winger	13.12.1991		ASAC Concorde
9	Dominique Da Silva	Striker	16.08.1989.		Al-Ahly
9	Voulany Ely	Striker			ACS Ksar
9	Ahmed Sidibé	Striker	25.12.1974
	Boubacar Jiddou	Striker			FC Tevragh Zeina
	Sidi Mohamed Youssef Sy	Striker			CF Cansado

References

1. ^ "DR Congo (Zaire, Congo-Kinshasa) - List of International Matches". Rsssf.com. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesz/zaire-intres.html. Retrieved 2011-10-21. 
2. ^ "Mauritania - List of International Matches". Rsssf.com. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesm/maur-intres.html. Retrieved 2011-10-21. 

External sources

• Mauritania at National-Football-Teams.com.