Gambian national football team (U-20 men)
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1979 | withdrawn |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1993 | withdrawn |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1999 | withdrawn |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
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gambia suspended from all competitions for two years. cafonline.com, May 3, 2014, accessed August 16, 2015 .