Gambia national football team
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| Nickname | The Scorpions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Association | Gambia Football Association | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Confederation | CAF (Africa) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach | Antoine Hey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Captain | Seyfo Soley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home stadium | Stade Brikama | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA code | GAM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA ranking | 134 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest FIFA ranking | 101 (September 1994) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lowest FIFA ranking | 166 (March 2006) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elo ranking | 117 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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First international Gambia 3 - 2 Senegal  (Gambia; Date Unknown, 1962) |
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Biggest win Gambia 6 - 0 Lesotho  (Banjul, Gambia; October 12, 2002) |
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Biggest defeat Guinea 8 - 0 Gambia (Guinea; May 14, 1972) |
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The Gambia national football team, nicknamed The Scorpions, is the national team of Gambia and is controlled by the Gambia Football Association. It has never made the World Cup or the African Nations Cup.
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[edit] Gambia Football Achievements
- Amilcar Cabral Cup :
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- 3 Times Runners-up
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[edit] World Cup record
- 1930 to 1978 - Did not enter
- 1982 - Did not qualify
- 1986 - Did not qualify
- 1990 - Did not enter
- 1994 - Withdrew
- 1998 to 2006 - Did not qualify
[edit] African Nations Cup record
- 1957 to 1974 - Did not enter
- 1976 - Did not qualify
- 1978 - Did not enter
- 1980 to 1988 - Did not qualify
- 1990 - Withdrew
- 1992 - Did not qualify
- 1994 - Did not enter
- 1996 - Withdrew during qualifying
- 1998 - Banned for withdrawing in 1996
- 2000 - Withdrew
- 2002 to 2006 - Did not qualify
[edit] Famous Players
- Seyfo Soley
- Cherno Samba (from Gambia but has not played for them and has played for England Youth Team)
- Arthur Gomez
- Tijan Jaiteh
- Ebou Sillah
- Edrissa Sonko
- Pa Dembo Tourray
