Gambian national football team (U-20 men)

Gambia

Nickname (s)	The Scorpions
Association	Gambia Football Association
confederacy	CAF
FIFA code	GAM
(Status: unknown)

The Gambian U-20 national soccer team is a selection team of Gambian soccer players. It is subject to the Gambia Football Association and represents it internationally at the U-20 level , for example in friendly matches against the selection teams of other national associations or at the U-20 African Championships and U-20 World Championships .

In 2007 the team qualified for a World Cup finals for the only time so far.

Her greatest success at the African Championships was reaching third place in 2007 in her own country.

On April 6, 2014 first-round first leg was the U-20 African Championship qualifier against Liberia used five players with fake passports "rejuvenated" had been, after which the CAF excluded all Gambian national teams for two years from all continental competitions.

Participation in U-20 world championships

1977	not participated
1979
1981
1983	not qualified
1985
1987	not participated
1989
1991	not qualified
1993	not participated
1995
1997
1999
2001	not qualified
2003	not participated
2005	not qualified
2007	Round of 16
2009	not qualified
2011
2013
2015

Participation in the U-20 African Championships

1979	withdrawn
1981	not participated
1983	Round of 16
1985	Preliminary round
1987	not participated
1989
1991	not qualified
1993	withdrawn
1995	not participated
1997
1999	withdrawn
2001	not qualified
2003	not participated
2005	not qualified
2007	3rd place
2009	not qualified
2011	Preliminary round
2013	not qualified
2015	disqualified

See also

• Gambian national soccer team
• Gambian national football team (U-17 juniors)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gambia suspended from all competitions for two years. cafonline.com, May 3, 2014, accessed August 16, 2015 .