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Côte D'Ivoire National Football Team
The Ivory Coast national football team ( French: ''Équipe de football de Côte d'Ivoire'', recognized as the Côte d'Ivoire by FIFA) represents Ivory Coast in men's international football. Nicknamed ''the Elephants'', the team is managed by the Ivorian Football Federation (FIF). The team has won the Africa Cup of Nations three times, in 1992, 2015 and 2024, and has qualified for the FIFA World Cup three times, in 2006, 2010, and 2014. Ivory Coast's home colours are all orange. Since 2020 their home games have been played at Alassane Ouattara Stadium, in Abidjan. Prior to this their home ground was Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium, also in Abidjan. Didier Zokora holds the record for number of caps, with 123. The nation's leading goalscorer is Didier Drogba, who scored 65 goals for ''the Elephants'' in 105 Appearances. History 1960s The team played its first international match against Dahomey, now known as Benin, which they won 32 on 13 April 1960 in Madagascar. The team to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivorian Football Federation
The Ivorian Football Federation (; FIF) is the governing body of football in Ivory Coast and is in charge of the Ivory Coast national team and other footballing matters in the country. Staff * Mariam Dao Gabala The top teams are as follows: Ligue 1 Ligue 2 References External links * Ivory Coast Football in Ivory Coast Sports organizations established in 1960 Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ... Association football governing bodies in Africa {{Côted'Ivoire-sport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Africa Cup Of Nations
The 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, known as the Orange Africa Cup of Nations, Equatorial Guinea 2015 for sponsorship reasons, was the 30th staging of the Africa Cup of Nations, the international men's football championship of Africa. It was organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and was held from 17 January to 8 February 2015. The tournament was initially scheduled to be hosted by Morocco who later demanded postponement of the event because of the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa; subsequently Morocco was ruled out as a host country and replaced by Equatorial Guinea. Ivory Coast won the tournament for their second Africa Cup of Nations title, defeating Ghana 9–8 in a penalty shoot-out after the final finished goalless following extra time. The DR Congo came third and the hosts Equatorial Guinea fourth, while defending champions Nigeria did not qualify. Host selection Bids : *Botswana (withdrew) *Cameroon (withdrew) *DR Congo (withdrew) *Guinea (withdre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benin National Football Team
The Benin national football team ( French: Équipe nationale de Football du Bénin), nicknamed ''Les Guépards (The Cheetahs)'', represents Benin in men's international association football and are controlled by the Benin Football Federation. They were known as Dahomey until 1975, when the Republic of Dahomey became Benin. Benin have been affiliated with FIFA since 1962 and are a member of the Confederation of African Football since 1969. They have never qualified for the World Cup, but have participated at four Africa Cups of Nations in 2004, 2008, 2010 and 2019, never placing in the top two in the group stage at all of these occasions. However, Benin has a unique record as the country is the first national team to reach the quarter-finals of an AFCON edition without gaining a single win in their AFCON history. History Benin hosted its first official international match on 8 November 1959, a 1–0 loss to Nigeria. The match was played while the country was still a French dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium
The Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium, nicknamed Le Félicia, is a multi-purpose stadium, which can host football, rugby union and athletics, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. It is the former national stadium of the Ivory Coast national football team. It is named after the first president of the country, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, and is located in the commune of Le Plateau. The stadium has a capacity of 33,000. It also hosts matches of ASEC Mimosas. It has been the site of several deadly stampedes. History Built in 1964 to organize the "Games of Abidjan", the stadium was formerly known as Stade Andre Geo, and it took the name of the President Felix Houphouet-Boigny after undergoing restoration. Gradually it emerged as the National Stadium, hosting the ASEC Mimosas and Ivorian Soccer Team. Along the Stadium of Peace of Bouake, Stade Felix Houphouet-Boigny hosted Africa Cup of Nations soccer. In 2009 after a complete renovation, which included lawn seating and the treatment room, the stadiu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often called the World Cup, is an international association football competition among the senior List of men's national association football teams, men's national teams of the members of the FIFA, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament has been held every four years since the 1930 FIFA World Cup, inaugural tournament in 1930, with the exception of 1942 and 1946 due to the Second World War. The reigning champions are Argentina national football team, Argentina, who won their third title at the 2022 FIFA World Cup, 2022 World Cup by defeating France national football team, France. The contest starts with the FIFA World Cup qualification, qualification phase, which takes place over the preceding three years to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase. In the tournament phase, 32 teams compete for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over the course of about a month. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 African Cup Of Nations
The 1992 African Cup of Nations was the 18th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the football championship of Africa ( CAF). It was hosted by Senegal. The field expanded to twelve teams, split into four groups of three; the top two teams in each group advanced to the quarterfinals. Ivory Coast won its first championship, beating Ghana on penalty kicks 11–10 after a goalless draw. Qualified teams The 12 qualified teams are: ;Notes Venues The competition was played in two venues in Dakar and Ziguinchor. Squads Group stage Tiebreakers If two or more teams finished level on points after completion of the group matches, the following tie-breakers were used to determine the final ranking: # Greatest total goal difference in the three group matches # Greatest number of goals scored in the three group matches # Most points earned in matches against other teams in the tie # Greatest goal difference in matches against other teams in the tie # Greatest number of goa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital city of Yamoussoukro is located in the centre of the country, while its largest List of cities in Ivory Coast, city and economic centre is the port city of Abidjan. It borders Guinea to the Guinea–Ivory Coast border, northwest, Liberia to the Ivory Coast–Liberia border, west, Mali to the Ivory Coast–Mali border, northwest, Burkina Faso to the Burkina Faso–Ivory Coast border, northeast, Ghana to the Ghana–Ivory Coast border, east, and the Atlantic Ocean's Gulf of Guinea to the south. With 31.5 million inhabitants in 2024, Ivory Coast is the List of African countries by population, third-most populous country in West Africa. Its official language is French language, French, and indigenous languages are also widely used, including Bété languages, Bété, Baoulé language, Baoulé, Dyula language, Dyula, Dan language, Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIFA
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (), more commonly known by its acronym FIFA ( ), is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal. It was founded on 21 May 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Royal Belgian Football Association, Belgium, Danish Football Union, Denmark, Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques, France, German Football Association, Germany, the Royal Dutch Football Association, Netherlands, Royal Spanish Football Federation, Spain (represented by Real Madrid CF), Swedish Football Association, Sweden, and Swiss Football Association, Switzerland. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, its membership now comprises List of FIFA Member Associations, 211 national associations. These national associations must also be members of one of the six regional confederations: Confederation of African Football, CAF (Africa), Asian Football Confederat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Northern Old Gallo-Romance, a descendant of the Latin spoken in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien language, Francien) largely supplanted. It was also substratum (linguistics), influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul and by the Germanic languages, Germanic Frankish language of the post-Roman Franks, Frankish invaders. As a result of French and Belgian colonialism from the 16th century onward, it was introduced to new territories in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, and numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole, were established. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 King Fahd Cup
The 1992 King Fahd Cup (), named after Fahd of Saudi Arabia, was the first association football tournament of the competition that would later be known as the FIFA Confederations Cup. It was hosted by Saudi Arabia in October 1992, and was won by Argentina, who beat the hosts Saudi Arabia 3–1 in the final. The 1992 tournament was the only one not to feature a group stage and only featured four nations. In 1997, FIFA took over the organization of the tournament, named it the FIFA Confederations Cup and staged the competition every two years and recognized the first two editions. Qualified teams Squads Venue All matches were played at the 75,000-capacity King Fahd International Stadium in the city of Riyadh. Match referees ;Africa * Lim Kee Chong ;Asia * Jamal Al Sharif ;North, Central America and Caribbean * Rodrigo Badilla ;South America * Ulisses Tavares da Silva Final tournament Bracket Semi-finals ---- Third place match Final Statistics Goalscorers W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 African Nations Championship
The 2016 African Nations Championship, also known for short as the 2016 CHAN and for sponsorship purposes as the Orange S.A., Orange African Nations Championship, was the 4th edition of the biennial African association football tournament organized by Confederation of African Football, CAF featuring national teams consisting of players playing in their respective national leagues. It was held in Rwanda from 16 January to 7 February 2016. 2014 African Nations Championship final, The defending champions Libya A' national football team, Libya failed to qualify for this edition. It was the first edition which featured the semi-final stage consisting of the runners-up from all 4 groups and the last to be sponsored by Orange as French energy and petroleum giant TotalEnergies, Total was set to take over from 2018 African Nations Championship, the following edition onward. Qualification Rwanda qualified automatically as hosts with the remaining spots being determined by the qualifyin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
