Nicaraguan national soccer team

Nicaragua
República de Nicaragua

Association	Federación Nicaragüense de Fútbol
confederacy	CONCACAF
Head coach	Henry Duarte (since 2014)
Record scorer	Juan Barrera (17)
Record player	Josué Quijano (64)
Home stadium	Estadio Nacional de Fútbol
FIFA code	NCA
FIFA rank	151. (1051 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
Balance sheet
126 games 16 wins 10 draws 100 losses
statistics
First international match El Salvador 9-0 Nicaragua ( El Salvador ; May 1, 1929 )
Biggest wins Nicaragua 5-0 Anguilla ( Managua , Nicaragua ; March 23, 2015 ) Nicaragua 5-0 Cuba ( Managua , Nicaragua ; December 8, 2015 )
Biggest defeat Honduras 10-0 Nicaragua ( San José , Costa Rica ; March 13, 1946 )
Successes in tournaments
North and Central American Championship
Participation in the finals	5 ( first : 1963 )
Best results	6th place in 1967
(As of February 25, 2020)

The Nicaraguan national soccer team is the national soccer team of the Central American state of Nicaragua . It is one of the most unsuccessful football teams in Central America. So far, the team has not yet managed to qualify for a soccer World Cup . The first qualification for the CONCACAF Gold Cup was achieved in 2009, for qualification the 5th place at the UNCAF Nations Cup 2009 was enough. Qualification was also successful in 2017, but all games in the group stage were lost.

World Cup qualification

As part of the qualification for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa, the team met in the first round of the CONCACAF zone against the national team of the Netherlands Antilles , which was 21 places below Nicaragua in the FIFA world rankings . After Nicaragua had already lost all three previous encounters against the Netherlands Antilles, the two qualifying games in February 2008 were lost 1-0 at home in Diriamba and 2-0 away. Thus, the selection was eliminated in the first round.

Tournaments

World Championship

• 1930 to 1990 - did not participate
• 1994 - In qualifying for the 1994 World Cup , they were eliminated in the central zone of the 1st round with 0-0 and 0-2 against Honduras .
• 1998 - In qualifying for the 1998 World Cup in France , they met Guatemala in the central zone of the preliminary round and lost with 0: 1 and 1: 2.
• 2002 - In qualifying for the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea , the draw was drawn in the central zone 2 of the 1st round against Panama and Honduras . But was eliminated after 4 defeats as bottom of the group.
• 2006 - In qualifying for the 2006 World Cup in Germany , they met St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the 2nd round and were eliminated 2: 2 and 1: 4.
• 2010 - In qualifying for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa , the Netherlands Antilles played in the first round and were eliminated there with 0: 1 and 0: 2.
• 2014 - In qualifying for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil , Panama and Dominica were played in the 2nd round . After 2 wins out of 4 games you were eliminated as second in the group.
• 2018 - In qualifying , the team beat Anguilla 5-0 and 3-0 in the first round in March 2015 and met Suriname in the second round . There they qualified 1-0 and 3-1 for the third round, in which they were eliminated 3-2 and 0-2 against Jamaica .

CONCACAF championship

CONCACAF Nations Cup

From 1973 the tournament also served as a World Cup qualifier.

• 1963 - preliminary round
• 1965 - did not qualify
• 1967 - 6th place
• 1969 - did not take part
• 1971 to 1989 - did not participate

CONCACAF Gold Cup

• 1991 - did not participate
• 1993 - did not qualify
• 1996 - did not participate
• 1998 to 2007 - not qualified
• 2009 - preliminary round
• 2011 to 2015 - not qualified
• 2017 - preliminary round
• 2019 - preliminary round
• 2021 - did not qualify

UNCAF Nations Cup

• 1991 - did not participate
• 1993 - did not qualify
• 1995 - did not participate
• 1997 - preliminary round
• 1999 - preliminary round
• 2001 - preliminary round
• 2003 - 6th place
• 2005 - preliminary round
• 2007 - 6th place
• 2009 - 5th place

Central American Championship

The Central American Football Championship is the successor to the UNCAF Nations Cup.

• 2011 - 6th place
• 2013 - 7th place
• 2014 - 6th place
• 2017 - 5th place

Trainer

•  Mauricio Cruz (1993-2001)
•  Maurizio Battistini (2002-2004)
•  Marcelo Zuleta (2005-2006)
•  Carlos de Toro (2006-2007)
•  Mauricio Cruz (2008)
•  Ramón Olivas (2008-2009)
•  Enrique Llena (2010-2014)
•  Javier Londoño (2014)
•  Henry Duarte (since 2014)

Record holder

Status: February 25, 2020, source: rsssf.com

Record player

rank	Surname	Calls	Gates	position	Period
01.	Josué Quijano	64	1	Defense	2011–0000
02.	Juan Barrera	58	17th	attack	2009–0000
03.	Manuel Rosas	53	2	Defense	2013–0000
04th	David Solorzano	49	1	Defense / midfield	1999-2014
05.	Carlos Alonso	37	0	Defense	2000-2010
	Marlon Andrés López Moreno	37	0	midfield	2015–0000
	Carlos Chavarria Rodriguez	37	10	attack	2013–0000
08th.	Luis Fernando Copete	34	3	attack	2014–0000
09.	Justo Lorente Collado	33	0	goal	2013–0000
	Denis Espinoza	33	1	goal	2004-2013

Record goal scorers

rank	Surname	Gates	Calls	Period
01.	Juan Barrera	17th	58	2009–0000
02.	Emilio Palacios	11	26th	2001-2009
03.	Carlos Chavarria Rodriguez	10	37	2013–0000
04th	Raúl Leguias	08th	23	2010-2016

See also

• Nicaraguan women's national soccer team

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Matches counted by FIFA
3. ↑ Luis Fernando Passo Alpuin: Nicaragua - Record International Players ( English ) rsssf.com. April 30, 2020. Accessed May 5, 2020.

Web links

• Federación Nicaragüense de Fútbol
• National team game results