Guinea-Bissau national football team

Guinea-Bissau
República da Guiné-Bissau

Nickname (s)	Djurtus
Association	Federação de Futebol da Guiné-Bissau
confederacy	CAF
Technical sponsor	Qelemes
Head coach	Baciro Candé (since 2016)
Home stadium	Estádio 24 de Setembro Estádio Lino Correia
FIFA code	GNB
FIFA rank	118. (1155 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
statistics
First international match Guinea-Bissau 2-2 Mali ( Banjul , Gambia ; January 15, 1976)
Biggest win Benin 2: 7 Guinea-Bissau ( Bamako , Mali ; November 3, 2001)
Biggest defeat Mali 6: 1 Guinea-Bissau (Banjul, Gambia; December 1, 1997)
Successes in tournaments
African Championship
Participation in the finals	2 ( first : 2017 )
Best results	Preliminary round 2017, 2019
(As of July 2, 2019)

The Guinea-Bissau national soccer team is the soccer team of Guinea-Bissau and is subordinate to the Federação de Futebol da Guiné-Bissau . So far, she has not qualified for any final round of the World Cup. The qualification for the African Cup of Nations was achieved for the first time in 2017 .

The greatest successes in Guinea-Bissau football so far have been the final of the Amilcar Cabral Cup in 1983, which the team lost to Senegal , and participation in the last three World Cup qualifying rounds.

In 2007, Guinea-Bissau hosted the Amílcar Cabral Cup .

Colloquially, the national team also bears the nickname Djurtus , the local Creole name for the African wild dog .

Tournaments

Football World Cup

1934 to 1994	not participated
1998 to 2018	not qualified

African Cup of Nations

1957 to 1984	not participated as not a CAF member
1986 in Egypt	not participated
1988 in Morocco	not participated
1990 in Algeria	not participated
1992 in Senegal	not participated
1994 in Tunisia	not qualified
1996 in South Africa	withdrawn
1998 in Burkina Faso	excluded due to withdrawal in 1996
2000 in Ghana / Nigeria	not participated
2002 in Mali	withdrawn
2004 in Tunisia	withdrawn
2006 in Egypt	not qualified
2008 in Ghana	not participated
2010 in Angola	not qualified
2012 in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon	not qualified
2013 in South Africa	not qualified
2015 in Equatorial Guinea	not qualified
2017 in Gabon	Preliminary round
2019 in Egypt	Preliminary round

African Nations Championship

• 2009 : did not participate
• 2011 : did not participate
• 2014 : did not participate
• 2016 : not qualified

Amilcar Cabral Cup

• 1979 fourth
• 1980 preliminary round
• 1981 preliminary round
• 1982 preliminary round
• 1983 second
• 1984 preliminary round
• 1985 preliminary round
• 1986 preliminary round
• 1987 preliminary round
• 1988 preliminary round
• 1989 preliminary round
• 1991 preliminary round
• 1993 preliminary round
• 1995 fourth
• 1997 preliminary round
• 2000 preliminary round
• 2001 fourth
• 2005 fourth
• 2007 fourth

Trainer

• Baciro Candé (2001-2010)
• Baciro Candé (since 2016)

Web links

• All international matches for Guinea-Bissau
• The Guinea-Bissau Association on fifa.com
• Website about football events in Guinea-Bissau (port.)

Individual evidence

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