Lesotho national football team

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Lesotho
Kingdom of Lesotho
Fed lesoto.svg
Nickname (s) Likuena
Association Lesotho Football Association
confederacy CAF
Head coach South AfricaSouth Africa Thabo Senong (since 2019)
Assistant coach LesothoLesotho Seephephe Matete (since 2014)
Home stadium Setsoto Stadium
FIFA code LES
FIFA rank 139th (1074 points)
(as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey
Second jersey
statistics
First international match Lesotho 1: 2 Madagascar ( Maseru , Lesotho ; March 7, 1971)
Lesotho 1966Lesotho MadagascarMadagascar
Biggest win Botswana 0-4 Lesotho ( Gaborone , Botswana ; 7 July 1976)
BotswanaBotswana Lesotho 1987Lesotho
Biggest defeats Zaire 7-0 Lesotho ( Kinshasa , Zaire ; July 25, 1993) Ghana 7-0 Lesotho ( Kumasi , Ghana ; June 1, 2012)
ZaireZaire Lesotho 1987Lesotho

GhanaGhana Lesotho 1987Lesotho
(As of June 1, 2012)

The Lesotho national soccer team , called Likuena (Sesotho for: crocodiles) by its fans , is the national soccer team of the country Lesotho , which is located in southern Africa . The team has never played in a World Cup or African Championship finals since it was founded in 1932 and when it entered FIFA in 1964 . The greatest success was a second place in the COSAFA Cup 2000 .

Tournaments

World Championship

1930 to 1970 not participated
1974 in Germany not qualified
1978 in Argentina withdrawn
1982 in Spain not qualified
1986 in Mexico withdrawn
1990 in Italy withdrawn
1994 in the USA not participated
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
2022 in Qatar not qualified

African Championship

1957 to 1972 not participated
1974 in Egypt not qualified
1976 in Ethiopia withdrawn
1978 in Ghana not participated
1980 in Nigeria not qualified
1982 in Libya not qualified
1984 in Ivory Coast withdrawn
1986 in Egypt not participated
1988 in Morocco withdrawn
1990 in Algeria not participated
1992 in Senegal not participated
1994 in Tunisia not qualified
1996 in South Africa withdrawn during qualification
1998 in Burkina Faso excluded due to withdrawal in 1996
2000 in Ghana and Nigeria not qualified
2002 in Mali not qualified
2004 in Tunisia not qualified
2006 in Egypt not qualified
2008 in Ghana not qualified
2010 in Angola not qualified
2012 in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon not participated
2013 in South Africa not qualified
2015 in Equatorial Guinea not qualified
2017 in Gabon not qualified
2019 in Egypt not qualified

African Nations Championship

  • 2009 : did not participate
  • 2011 : did not participate
  • 2014 : did not participate

Southern Africa Football Championship

1997 : not qualified
1998 : not qualified
1999: Quarter finals
2000: Second
2001: Quarter finals
2002: not qualified
2003: not qualified
2004: not qualified
2005: not qualified
2006: not qualified
2007: not qualified
2008: not qualified
2009: Preliminary round
2013: Fourth
2015: Preliminary round
2016: Quarter finals
2017 : Quarter finals
2018 : Quarter finals
2019 : Quarter finals

Trainer

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 .