Benin national football team

Benin
République du Bénin

Nickname (s)	Les Écureuils The squirrels
Association	Fédération Beninoise de Football
confederacy	CAF
Technical sponsor	Umbro
Head coach	Michel Dussuyer (since 2018)
Record scorer	Stéphane Sessègnon (24)
Record player	Stéphane Sessègnon (82)
Home stadium	Stade Charles de Gaulle Stade de l'Amitié
FIFA code	BEN
FIFA rank	84th (1295 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
statistics
First international match Dahomey 0-1 Nigeria ( Dahomey ; November 8 , 1959 ) Nigeria 7-0 Benin ( Nigeria ; February 14, 1977 )
Biggest win Dahomey 7-0 Mauritania ( Abidjan , Ivory Coast ; December 26, 1961 )
Biggest defeat Nigeria 10-1 Dahomey ( Nigeria ; November 28, 1959 )
Successes in tournaments
African Championship
Participation in the finals	4 ( first : 2004 )
Best results	Quarterfinals 2019
(As of November 17, 2019)

The Benin national football team (also French Les Ecureuils , the squirrels) is the football selection of Benin and was controlled by the Fédération Béninoise de Football . The team was known as the Dahomey national team until 1975, as Benin was formerly called Dahomey.

Due to the poor performance at the Africa Cup 2010 (out in the preliminary round), the national team was dissolved on February 9, 2010 with immediate effect. However, only six months later, Benin was already qualifying for the 2012 Africa Cup again.

The team has never qualified for a World Cup, but in 2004 , 2008 , 2010 and 2019 they qualified for the Africa Cup .

On May 10, 2016, the association was suspended by FIFA in accordance with Art. 38 of the FIFA Statutes with immediate effect, as a decision by a local court made it impossible to hold an upcoming election.

Known players

The Benin national players active in Europe are mostly under contract in France due to the language .

• National team captain Romuald Boco plays for Sligo Rovers . Boco is known as the "King of Benin".
• Alain Gaspoz played in Swiss professional clubs from 1992 to 2007
• Moussa Latoundji played in the Bundesliga with Energie Cottbus .
• Anicet Adjamossi is an active and well-known defender in France.
• Oumar Tchomogo stood u. a. under contract with EA Guingamp .
• Moudachirou Amadou played for Energie Cottbus , Hannover 96 , FC St. Pauli and Karlsruher SC
• Razak Omotoyossi plays for Helsingborgs IF , where he scored very successfully in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup
• Jocelyn Ahouéya has played for FC Sion since the 2004/2005 season
• Mickaël Poté has played for SG Dynamo Dresden since the 2011/2012 season
• Hyacinthe Sèwanou has played for FC Dieppe since 2012
• Cebio Soukou has played for Arminia Bielefeld since 2019

Trainer

• Peter Schnittger (1992)
• Moise Ekoue (1993)
• Cecil Jones Attuquayefio (2003-2004)
• Hervé Revelli (2004)
• Edmé Codjo (2005-2007)
• Didier Notheaux (2007)
• Reinhard Fabisch (2007-2008)
• Michel Dussuyer (2008-2010)
• Jean-Marc Nobilo (2010)
• Denis Goavec (2010-2011)
• Edmé Codjo (2011–2012)
• Manuel Amoros (2012-2014)
• Didier Ollé-Nicolle (2014)
• Oumar Tchomogo (2015-2017)
• Michel Dussuyer (since 2018)

Record player

As of November 17, 2019

Players marked in bold are still active.

#	Surname	Period	Games	Gates
1.	Stéphane Sessègnon	2004-0000	82	24
2.	Abdul Khaled Adénon	2006-0000	65	02
3.	Damien Chrysostome	2002-2011	58	00
4th	Mickaël Poté	2008-0000	57	09
5.	Jocelyn Ahouéya	2003-2013	55	03
	Razak Omotoyossi	2004-2016	55	21st
7th	Romuald Boco	2004-2013	52	01
8th.	Séïdath Konabe Tchomogo	2003-2014	51	04th
9.	Anicet Kayodé Adjamossi	2002-2013	44	01
10.	Mouritala Ola Ogounbiyi	2007-2014	42	06th
11.	Djiman Waidi Koukou	2008-2018	40	01

Record goal scorers

As of November 17, 2019

Players marked in bold are still active.

#	Surname	Period	Gates	Games
1.	Stéphane Sessègnon	2004-0000	24	82
2.	Razak Omotoyossi	2004-2016	21st	55
3.	Oumar Tchomogo	1995-2008	15th	34
4th	Mickaël Poté	2008-0000	09	57
5.	Steve Mounié	2015-0000	07th	25th
6th	Moussa Latoundji	1993-2004	06th	21st
	Mouritala Ola Ogounbiyi	2007-2014	06th	42

Tournaments

Football World Cup

1930 in Uruguay to 1958 in Sweden	did not take part as not a FIFA member
1962 in Chile	not participated
1966 in England	not participated
1970 in Mexico	not participated
1974 in the FRG	not qualified
1978 in Argentina	not participated
1982 in Spain	not participated
1986 in Mexico	not qualified
1990 in Italy	not participated
1994 in the USA	not qualified
1998 in France	not participated
2002 in South Korea / Japan	not qualified
2006 in Germany	not qualified
2010 in South Africa	not qualified
2014 in Brazil	not qualified
2018 in Russia	not qualified

African Cup of Nations

1957 in Sudan to 1970 there	not participated as not a CAF member
1972 in Cameroon	not qualified
1974 in Egypt	withdrawn
1976 in Ethiopia	withdrawn
1978 in Ghana	not participated
1980 in Nigeria	not qualified
1982 in Libya	not participated
1984 in Ivory Coast	not qualified
1986 in Egypt	not qualified
1988 in Morocco	not participated
1990 in Algeria	not participated
1992 in Senegal	not qualified
1994 in Tunisia	not qualified
1996 in South Africa	withdrawn
1998 in Burkina Faso	not qualified
2000 in Ghana / Nigeria	not qualified
2002 in Mali	not qualified
2004 in Tunisia	Preliminary round
2006 in Egypt	not qualified
2008 in Ghana	Preliminary round
2010 in Angola	Preliminary round
2012 in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea	not qualified
2013 in South Africa	not qualified
2015 in Equatorial Guinea	not qualified
2017 in Gabon	not qualified
2019 in Egypt	Quarter finals

African Nations Championship

• 2009 : withdrawn in qualification
• 2011 : did not participate
• 2014 : withdrawn in qualification
• 2016 : not participated

See also

• Benin National Football Team (U-20 men)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ^ National team of Benin dissolved, goal.com, February 9, 2010
3. ↑ fifa.com: "FIFA Council agrees on four-stage application process for 2026 FIFA World Cup ™"
4. ↑ rsssf.com: Benin - Record International Players