Somalia national football team

Infobox National football team
Name = Somalia F.C
Badge = Somalia_FA.gif
Nickname = The Ocean Stars |The lions of Africa
Association = Somali Football Federation
Confederation = CAF (Africa)
Coach = flagicon|Somalia Ahmed Osman
Most caps =
Top scorer = | Home Stadium = Pavilion Stadium
FIFA Trigramme = SOM | FIFA Rank = 197
FIFA max = 158
FIFA max date = April 1995
FIFA min = 199
FIFA min date = March 2000

Elo Rank = 196

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First game =flagicon|Cameroon|1961 Cameroon 2 - 6 Somalia flagicon|Somalia (Madagascar; April 13, 1960)
Largest win =flagicon|Somalia Somalia 2 - 0 Mauritania flagicon|Mauritania (Somalia; August 12, 1973)
Largest loss =flagicon|Ethiopia|1897 Ethiopia 7 - 0 Somalia flagicon|Somalia (Addis Ababa,Ethiopia; January 5, 1969)
flagicon|Tanzania Tanzania 7 - 0 Somalia flagicon|Somalia (Jinja, Uganda; December 1, 1995)
fb|Uganda 7 - 0 Somalia flagicon|Somalia (Kigali, Rwanda 1 December 2005)| - World cup apps = | - World cup first = | - World cup best = - Regional name = African Nations Cup | - Regional cup apps = | - Regional cup first = | - Regional cup best =

The Somalia national football team, nicknamed "The Ocean Stars", is the national team of Somalia and is controlled by the Somali Football Federation. It is a member of CAF. It has never qualified for the final stages of a World Cup. FIFA sactioned games can not currently be played in Somalia due to the ongoing Somali Civil War. All qualifying matches for the African Cup of Nations and the World Cup must be played away from home.

World Cup record

*1930 to 1978 - " Did not enter"
*1982 - " Did not qualify"
*1986 to 1998 - "Did not enter"
*2002 to 2010 - " Did not qualify"

African Nations Cup record

*1957 to 1968 - "Did not enter"
*1970 - "Did not enter"
*1972 - "Did not enter"
*1974 - "Did not qualify"
*1976 - "Did not enter"
*1978 - "Did not qualify"
*1980 - "Withdrew"
*1982 - "Did not enter"
*1984 to 1988 - "Did not qualify"
*1990 to 2002 - "Did not enter"
*2004 - "Did not qualify"
*2006 - "Did not qualify"
*2008 - "Did not enter"

Current squad

The following players were called up for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification.