FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 / Cameroon

This article covers the Cameroon national football team at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup . Cameroon took part in the Confederations Cup for the second time and qualified as the last team by winning the 2017 African Cup after the groups had already been drawn. When they first played in 2003, the team lost the final against hosts France with a golden goal .

Squad

None of the nominated players played in Cameroon. This made Cameroon the only team for which only legionnaires were nominated. Only Vincent Aboubakar and Benjamin Moukandjo took part in the 2014 World Cup.

No.	Surname.	society	International matches	Länderspiel- gates	birthday	debut	Last use	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
01	Fabrice Ondoa *	Seville Atlético	32	0	Dec. 24, 1995	2014	06/10/2017	3
16	André Onana	Ajax Amsterdam	02	0	0Apr 2, 1996	2016	06/13/2017
23	Georges Bokwé *	Mjøndalen IF	00	0	July 14, 1989
Defender
02	Ernest Mabouka *	MŠK Žilina	06th	00	June 16, 1988	2017	06/13/2017	3		1		1
04th	Adolphe Teikeu *	FC Sochaux	15th	00	June 23, 1990	2016	06/13/2017	3
05	Michael Ngadeu-Ngadjui *	Slavia Prague	15th	02	Nov 23, 1990	2016	06/10/2017	3
06th	Ambroise Oyongo *	Montreal Impact	32	02	June 22, 1991	2013	06/10/2017
12	Jérôme Guihoata	Panionios Athens	13	00	0Oct 7, 1994	2013	06/13/2017	1
19th	Collins Fai *	Standard Liege	12	00	Aug 13, 1992	2012	06/10/2017	3
21st	Lucien Owona	AD Alcorcón	01	00	0Aug 9, 1990	2017	06/13/2017
22nd	Jonathan Ngwem *	Progresso Associação do Sambizanga	10	00	July 20, 1991	2015	06/13/2017
midfield player
03	André Zambo Anguissa	Olympique Marseille	04th	00	Nov 16, 1995	2017	06/13/2017	3	1
14th	Georges Mandjeck *	FC Metz	40	00	0Dec 9, 1988	2009	06/13/2017	1
15th	Sébastien Siani *	KV Ostend	19th	02	Dec. 21, 1986	2015	06/10/2017	3		2
17th	Arnaud Djoum *	Heart of Midlothian	12	00	0May 2, 1989	2016	06/13/2017	3
striker
07th	Nicolas Moumi Ngamaleu	SCR Altach	09	02	0July 9, 1994	2015	06/13/2017	2
08th	Benjamin Moukandjo *	FC Lorient	52	10	Nov 12, 1988	2011	06/13/2017	3
09	Jacques Zoua *	1. FC Kaiserslautern	23	00	06 Sep 1991	2011	03/28/2017
10	Vincent Aboubakar *	Beşiktaş Istanbul	57	17th	Jan. 22, 1992	2010	06/10/2017	3	1
11	Olivier Boumal	Panathinaikos Athens	02	00	17 Sep 1989	2017	06/13/2017
13	Christian Bassogog *	Henan Jianye	13	02	Oct 18, 1995	2016	06/10/2017	3
18th	Robert Ndip Tambe *	FC Spartak Trnava	10	00	Feb 22, 1994	2016	06/13/2017
20th	Karl Toko Ekambi *	SCO Angers	15th	02	Sep 14 1992	2015	06/13/2017	2
Coaching staff
	Hugo Broos	Trainer	24	00	Apr 10, 1952	2016

1. ↑ Numbers according to the FIFA squad list  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  
2. ↑ Players marked with "*" were also in the squad for the 2017 African Championship
3. ↑ As a player for Belgium

preparation

In preparation for the tournament, the Cameroonians played on June 10 as part of the qualification for the 2019 African Cup of Nations - for which Cameroon is already qualified as host - against Morocco in Yaoundé and won 1-0. They lost 4-0 in a friendly against Colombia in Getafe on June 13 , with two of the four goals conceded from a red card to Tambe.

Group stage

Moscow St. Petersburg Sochi

Venues

The Cameroonian team before the game against Australia

In Group B, Cameroon met South American champions Chile, Asian champions Australia and world champions Germany. Cameroon had never played against Australia before. Before the tournament, there was only one game against Chile that ended in a draw in the 1998 World Cup preliminary round. There was only one competitive game against Germany, which was lost in the 2002 World Cup, with the Cameroonians being trained by the German Winfried Schäfer . There was also one defeat and one draw in friendly matches.

After a defeat against Chile, a draw against Australia and another defeat against Germany, the Cameroonians were eliminated as bottom of the group. In the fourth game against Germany, a Cameroonian was sent off for the third time.

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Germany	3	2	1	0	007: 400	+3	07th
2.	Chile	3	1	2	0	004: 200	+2	05
3.	Australia	3	0	2	1	004: 500	−1	02
4th	Cameroon	3	0	1	2	002: 600	−4	01

Sun., June 18, 2017, 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Moscow
Cameroon	-	Chile	0: 2 (0: 0)
Thursday, June 22, 2017, 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CEST) in Saint Petersburg
Cameroon	-	Australia	1: 1 (1: 0)
Sun., June 25, 2017, 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CEST) in Sochi
Germany	-	Cameroon	3: 1 (3: 1)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fecafoot-officiel.com: "Eliminatoires Can 2019: Le Cameroun surclasse le Maroc"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Cameroon vs. Colombia 0-4
3. ↑ Cameroon - Germany 0: 2 (0: 0)
4. ↑ Germany - Cameroon 3: 0 (0: 0)