Reunion football selection

Réunion
La Réunion

Nickname (s)

Club R

Association

Ligue Réunionnaise de Football

confederacy

CAF

Head coach

Jean-Pierre Bade

captain

Mamoudou Diallo

Record scorer

Mamoudou Diallo (12)

Record player

Thierry Goree (32)

Home stadium

Stade Jean-Ivoula

First jersey

Second jersey

Balance sheet

100 games
36 wins
19 draws
45 losses

statistics

First international game Madagascar 4: 2 Réunion ( Madagascar ; 1947 )

Biggest win Reunion 11-0 Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (Saint-Gratien, France ; September 22, 2010)

Biggest defeat Mauritius 15: 2 Réunion ( Madagascar ; 1950)

(As of January 29, 2013)

The national soccer team of Réunion is the selection team of the French overseas department of Réunion . It is organized by the Ligue Réunionnaise de Football, a regional sub-organization of the French federation Fédération Française de Football .

Réunion is not a member of the world football association FIFA and therefore does not take part in qualifying matches for football world championships . La Réunion is only an associated member of the continental association CAF , which does not entitle the team to participate in the qualifying games for the Africa Cup . The national team also takes part in the Coupe de l'Outre-Mer , the competition for national teams from France's overseas territories . In 2008 and 2012, Réunion won the trophy. In 1979, 1998, 2007 and 2015 they also won gold at the Indian Ocean Island Games .

In addition, La Réunion has already played a number of international games, most of them against Madagascar , Mauritius and the Seychelles .

In recent times, professional footballers from the island have played an increasingly important role in the French national team . So their coach Laurent Blanc with Guillaume Hoarau , Benoît Trémoulinas and Dimitri Payet three of them in his squad for the European Championship qualifiers appointed in October of 2010.