Namibian national soccer team

This article is about the Namibian men's national soccer team . For the women's team, see Namibian Women's National Football Team .

Republic of Namibia
Republic of Namibia

Nickname (s)	Brave Warriors Brave Warriors
Association	Namibia Football Association
confederacy	CAF
Technical sponsor	puma
Head coach	Bobby Samaria (interim since July 15, 2019)
captain	Michael Pienaar
Record scorer	Rudolf Bester (13)
Home stadium	Independence Stadium Sam Nujoma Stadium
FIFA code	NAM
FIFA rank	117th (1160 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
Balance sheet
217 games 56 wins 63 draws 98 losses
statistics
First international match Namibia 0: 1 Angola Namibia 1: 5 Zimbabwe ( Windhoek , Namibia ; May 16, 1989 ) ( Windhoek , Namibia ; March 23, 1990 )
Last game Namibia 0-0 Comoros ( Port Elizabeth , South Africa ; August 4, 2019 )
Biggest wins Namibia 8-2 Benin ( Windhoek , Namibia ; July 15, 2000 ) Namibia 6-0 Botswana ( Windhoek , Namibia ; August 25, 1996 )
Biggest defeats Egypt 8-2 Namibia ( Alexandria , Egypt ; July 13, 2001 ) Egypt 7-1 Namibia ( Alexandria , Egypt ; November 8, 1996 )
Successes in tournaments
African Championship
Participation in the finals	3 ( first : 1998 )
Best results	Preliminary round 1998, 2008, 2019
(As of: 2019-08-04)

The Namibian national football team is the football - national team of the southwest African country of Namibia .

The Namibian national soccer team was only founded in 1992 when the Namibia Football Association joined FIFA and has played almost 250 international matches to date (as of August 2019).

The greatest success of the national team was winning the COSAFA Cup 2015 , the soccer championship of Southern Africa as well as reaching the finals of the Africa Cup in 1998 , 2008 and 2019 and reaching the quarter-finals at the African Nations Cup in 2018 . The country has not yet qualified for a soccer world championship.

The team is known as “Brave Warriors” ( German  brave warriors ) and is sponsored by Namibia Breweries under the name “Tafel Lager”.

International success

See also: List of international matches for the Namibian national soccer team

Football World Cup

1994 United States	not qualified
1998 France	not qualified
2002 Japan South Korea	not qualified
2006 Germany	not qualified
2010 South Africa	not qualified
2014 Brazil	not qualified
2018 Russia	not qualified
2022 Qatar

African Cup of Nations

1992 Senegal	not participated
1994 Tunisia	not participated
1996 South Africa	not qualified
1998 Burkina Faso	Preliminary round
2000 Ghana Nigeria	not qualified
2002 Mali	not qualified
2004 Tunisia	not qualified
2006 Egypt	not qualified
2008 Ghana	Preliminary round
2010 Angola	not qualified
2012 Gabon Equatorial Guinea	not qualified
2013 South Africa	not qualified
2015 Equatorial Guinea	not qualified
2017 Gabon	not qualified
2019 Egypt	Preliminary round
2021 Cameroon

African Nations Championship

2009 Ivory Coast	not qualified
2011 Sudan	not qualified
2014 South Africa	not qualified
2016 Rwanda	not qualified
2018 Morocco	Quarter finals
2020 Cameroon	qualified

COSAFA Cup

The COSAFA Cup was not played from 1997 to 2008 in tournament in a host country, but in individual games in all participating States. It was not until 2008 that they agreed to host the tournament in one country.

1997 Southern Africa	2nd place
1998 Southern Africa	4th Place
1999 Southern Africa	2nd place
2000 Southern Africa	Quarter finals
2001 Southern Africa	not qualified
2002 Southern Africa	not qualified
2003 Southern Africa	not qualified
2004 Southern Africa	not qualified
2005 Southern Africa	not qualified
2006 Southern Africa	not qualified
2007 Southern Africa	not qualified
2008 Southern Africa	Quarter finals
2009 Zimbabwe	Quarter finals
2010 Angola	postponed to 2011; finally canceled
2013 Zambia	7th place
2014 Botswana	not carried out
2015 South Africa	1st place
2016 Namibia	5th place (winner of the consolation round)
2017 South Africa	6th place (2nd place consolation round)
2018 South Africa	Quarterfinals (semi-finals consolation round)
2019 South Africa	Preliminary round

Squad

The specified squad is based on the provisional nomination for the Africa Cup 2019 (left) and for the qualification for the African Nations Cup 2020 (right).

No.	Surname	society	birth date
goal
1	Ratanda Mbazuvara	African stars	Aug 15, 1989
2	Maximilian Mbaeva	Golden Arrows	Apr 14, 1989
3	Lloyd Kazapua	Maccabi FC	25th Mar 1989
Defense
4th	Ananias Gebhardt	Baroka FC	08 Sep 1988
5	Charles Hambira	Baroka FC	03rd June 1990
6th	Denzil Haoseb	Highlands Park FC	Feb 25, 1991
7th	Riaan Hanamub	Jomo Cosmos	0Feb 8, 1995
8th	Larry Horaeb	Tura Magic	Nov 12, 1991
9	Ivan Kamberipa	African stars	0Feb 3, 1994
10	Ryan Nyambe	Blackburn Rovers	0Dec. 4, 1997
midfield
11	Dynamo Fredericks	Black Africa	0Apr 4, 1992
12	Deon Hotto	Bidvest Wits	Oct 29, 1990
13	Absalom Iimbondi		Oct 11, 1991
14th	Ronald Ketjijere	African stars	Dec 12, 1987
15th	Marcel Papama	UNAM FC	Apr 28, 1996
16	Petrus Shitembi	Lusaka dynamos	0Aug 1, 1992
17th	Manfred Starke	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	Feb 21, 1992
18th	Willy Stephanus		June 26, 1991
attack
19th	Isaskar Gurirab	Life Fighters FC	0Jan. 3, 1998
20th	Joslyn Kamatuka	Cape Umoya United FC	July 22, 1991
21st	Itamunua germ ruin	Dire Dawa City FC	0May 1, 1993
22nd	Peter Shalulile	Highlands Park FC	Oct 23, 1993
23	Benson Shilongo	Ismaily SC	May 18, 1992

No.	Surname	society	birth date
goal
1	Ratanda Mbazuvara	African stars	Aug 15, 1989
2	Charles Uirab	UNAM FC	10 Mar 1985
Defense
3	Vitapi Ngaruka	Black Africa	Oct 16, 1995
4th	Ivan Kamberipa	African stars	0Feb 3, 1994
5	Emilio Martin	Black Africa	Aug 15, 1990
6th	Aprocius Peter	Eleven Arrows
7th	Ambrose Amseb	African stars	May 26, 1994
8th	Larry Horaeb	Tura Magic	Nov 12, 1991
midfield
9	Gustav Isaak	African stars	0March 8 1989
10	Marcel Papama	UNAM FC	Apr 28, 1996
11	Dynamo Fredericks	Black Africa	0Apr 4, 1992
12	Gregory Auchumeb
13	Immanuel Heita	Black Africa	Apr 20, 1992
14th	Stanley Llewelyn	Tigers
15th	Elmo Kambindu	Mighty Gunners
attack
16	Isaskar Gurirab	Life Fighters FC	0Jan. 3, 1998
17th	Revered Matroos	Young Brazilians
18th	Junias Theophilus	Tura Magic	04th Sep 1991
19th	Absalom Iimbondi	Tigers	Oct 11, 1991
20th	Wendell Rudath	Black Africa

Known players

• Collin Benjamin (1998-2012)
• Johannes Jantze (2001)
• Richard Biwa (2002-2006)
• Razundara Tjikuzu (2002-2008)
• Oliver Risser (2002–2011)
• Wilko Risser (2007-2011)
• Manfred Starke (2012–)

Record player

• Ronald Ketjijere (2010–2019) is the record player with 74 appearances for the Namibian national team .
• Rudolf Bester (2004–2014) is the most successful goalscorer with 13 goals.

Well-known trainers

• Heinz-Peter Überjahn (1992-2004)
• Tom Saintfiet (2008-2010)
• Lutz Pfannenstiel (2009–2010) assistant coach and goalkeeping coach
• Brian Isaacs (2010-2013)
• Roger Palmgren (2013)
• Ricardo Mannetti (2013-2015)
• Ronnie Kanalelo (2015)
• Ricardo Mannetti (2015-2019)
• Bobby Samaria (since 2019; interim)

See also

• Namibian women's national soccer team

Web links

Commons : Namibian National Soccer Team  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Side of the National Namibia (English)
• Information about Namibia at fifa.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Samaria appointed Brave Warriors coach. Namibia Press Agency , July 15, 2019.
2. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Mannetti names 23-man Afcon squad, drops experienced players. Namibia Press Agency, June 10, 2019.
4. ^ Brave Warriors receive code of conduct from sports commission. Namibia Press Agency, July 22, 2019.
5. ↑ Ketjijere aiming to go out with a bang. The Namibian, May 29, 2019.