Eritrea national football team

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Eritrea
Nickname	Red Sea Boys
Association	Eritrean National Football Federation
Confederation	CAF (Africa)
Head coach	Dorian Marin
Home stadium	Cicero Stadium
FIFA code	ERI
FIFA ranking	142
Highest FIFA ranking	135 (September 2006)
Lowest FIFA ranking	189 (October 1998)
Elo ranking	174
First kit 　 Second kit
First international Eritrea 1 - 0 Seychelles (Kenya; November 29, 1994)
Biggest win 2 - 1, twice; 1 - 0, three times
Biggest defeat Ghana 5 - 0 Eritrea (Dakar, Senegal; February 28, 1999) Angola 6 - 1 Eritrea (Luanda, Angola; February 25, 2007)

The Eritrea national football team, nicknamed the Red Sea Boys, is the national team of Eritrea and is controlled by the Eritrean National Football Federation. A member of CAF, it is one of its newest teams. Also giveing great credit to Abel Naizghi part of our youth team set up that leads to our international 1st team, now plays. Abel has great potential & exceptional work rate and hopefully one to look out for the future.

[edit] World Cup record

• 1930 to 1998 - Did not enter
• 2002 - Did not qualify
• 2006 - Did not qualify

[edit] African Nations Cup record

• 1957 to 1998 - Did not enter
• 2000 to 2006 - Did not qualify

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