Swaziland national football team

Swaziland
Umbuso weSwatini

Nickname (s)	Sihlangu
Association	Eswatini Football Association
confederacy	CAF
Head coach	Dominic Kunene (since 2020)
Record scorer	Sibusiso Dlamini (26)
Record player	Mlungisi Ngubane (91)
Home stadium	Somhlolo National Stadium
FIFA code	SWZ
FIFA rank	153. (1042 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
statistics
First international match Swaziland 2-0 Malawi (Swaziland; May 1, 1968)
Biggest win Djibouti 0-6 Swaziland ( Djibouti , Djibouti ; October 8, 2015)
Biggest defeat Egypt 10-0 Swaziland ( Alexandria ; March 22, 2013)
(As of October 8, 2015)

Association logo until 2018

The Swaziland national football team represents the football association of the African state of Swaziland (Eswatini) . She has not qualified for a World Cup or African Championship since 1968, the year the association was founded .

history

In April 2017, the team achieved 88th place in the FIFA world rankings, the best in their history. Before that, they only narrowly failed to qualify for the 2017 African Cup of Nations .

Tournaments

World Championship

• 1970 to 1990 : did not participate
• 1994 to 2022 : not qualified

African Championship

• 1970 to 1982 : did not participate
• 1984 : withdrawn
• 1986 : not qualified
• 1988 : did not participate
• 1990 : not qualified
• 1992 : not qualified
• 1994 : did not participate
• 1996 : withdrawn
• 1998 : did not participate
• 2000 to 2012 : not qualified
• 2013 : withdrawn
• 2015 to 2019 : not qualified

African Nations Championship

• 2009 : not qualified
• 2011 : not qualified
• 2014 : not qualified
• 2016 : not qualified

Southern Africa Championship (COSAFA Cup)

• 1997 : not qualified
• 1998 : not qualified
• 1999 : semi-finals
• 2000 : quarter-finals
• 2001 : quarter-finals
• 2002 : semi-finals
• 2003 : semi-finals
• 2004 : quarter-finals
• 2005 : not qualified
• 2006 : not qualified
• 2007 : not qualified
• 2008 : not qualified
• 2009 : not qualified
• 2013 : preliminary round
• 2014 : tournament canceled
• 2015 : preliminary round
• 2016 : 3rd place
• 2017 : quarter-finals
• 2018 : quarter-finals
• 2019 : preliminary round

Trainer

• Jan van Winckel (2005-2006)
• Raoul Savoy (2007-2008)
• Ephraim Mashaba (2008-2010)
• Obed Mlotsa (2011)
• Valère Billen (2013-2014)
• Harris Bulunga (2014-2016)
• Pieter de Jongh (2017-2018)
• Kosta Papic (2018-2020)
• Dominic Kunene (since 2020)

Web links

• All international matches for Swaziland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Report at fifa.com (English), accessed on February 7, 2017
3. ↑ kickoff.com: Swazis withdraw from Afcon (January 1, 2012)