Zimbabwean national soccer team

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Zimbabwe
Republic of Zimbabwe
Association logo
Nickname (s) The Warriors
Association Zimbabwe Football Association
confederacy CAF
Head coach CroatiaCroatia Zdravko Logarusic (since 2020)
Home stadium National Sports Stadium
FIFA code ZIM
FIFA rank 111th (1180 points)
(as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey
Second jersey
Third jersey
statistics
First international match South Rhodesia 0-5 Australia ( Salisbury , Rhodesia ; June 14, 1950) Zimbabwe 6-0 Mozambique (Harare, Zimbabwe; April 20, 1980)
Rhodesia South 1923Southern Rhodesia AustraliaAustralia

ZimbabweZimbabwe Mozambique People's Republic 1975Mozambique
Biggest win Botswana 0-7 Zimbabwe ( Gaborone , Botswana ; August 26, 1990)
BotswanaBotswana ZimbabweZimbabwe
Biggest defeats Southern Rhodesia 5-0 Australia (Salisbury, Rhodesia ; June 14, 1950) Ivory Coast 5-0 Zimbabwe ( Abidjan , Ivory Coast ; August 13, 1989) Zaire 5-0 Zimbabwe ( Kinshasa , Zaire ; June 4, 1995)
Rhodesia South 1923Southern Rhodesia AustraliaAustralia

Ivory CoastIvory Coast ZimbabweZimbabwe

ZaireZaire ZimbabweZimbabwe
Successes in tournaments
African Championship
Participation in the finals 4 ( first : 2004 )
Best results Preliminary round 2004, 2006, 2017, 2019
(As of June 30, 2019)

The Zimbabwean national football team , also known as The Warriors , is the national team of Zimbabwe and is controlled by the Zimbabwe Football Association .

history

The team was known until 1980 as the national team of Rhodesia , as Zimbabwe was formerly called.

The team has never taken part in the World Cup, but has qualified for four Africa Cup tournaments and has also won the Southern African Championship four times . After failing to qualify for the Africa Cup in 2013 and being involved in match fixing, the national team was disbanded on November 3, 2012. FIFA had previously banned former national coach and player Sunday Chidzambwa and the Zimbabwe Football Association Chief Executive Officer Henrietta Rushwaya for game manipulation and 16 players for 10 years.

Tournaments

World Championship

In qualifying for the World Cup in Brazil , Zimbabwe was unable to prevail against Egypt , Guinea and neighboring Mozambique and on June 9, 2013, after a 2: 4 home defeat against Egypt, had no chance of qualifying.

African Championship

African Nations Championship

Only players who play in the national championships of their home countries are eligible to play in this championship. The matches will be counted as friendly matches or not by FIFA.

  • 2009 : preliminary round
  • 2011 : preliminary round
  • 2014 : fourth
  • 2016 : preliminary round

South African Championship (COSAFA Cup)

  • 1997 : not qualified
  • 1998 : second
  • 1999 : quarter-finals
  • 2000 : South African champion
  • 2001 : second
  • 2002 : quarter-finals
  • 2003 : South African champion
  • 2004 : semi-finals
  • 2005 : South African champion
  • 2006 : semi-finals
  • 2007 : not qualified
  • 2008 : quarter-finals
  • 2009 : South African champion
  • 2013 : second
  • 2014 : tournament canceled
  • 2015 : preliminary round
  • 2016 : preliminary round

Known players

Zimbabwe national team 2009

Trainer

International matches against German-speaking teams

date place Home team result Visiting team
1. December 04, 1983 Harare ZimbabweZimbabwe Zimbabwe 3: 2 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland

So far there have been no games against Germany, Austria, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 .
  2. ^ Zimbabwe axes national football team - Football ; AFP report at Al Jazeera English, November 2, 2012 (English); Retrieved November 5, 2012.
  3. ↑ Moses Chibaya: Sunday Chidzambwa, Rushwaya get life bans ; ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Zimbabwean, October 20, 2012, accessed November 5, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thezimbabwean.co.uk
  4. ↑ Coach not paid: Fifa excludes Zimbabwe from World Cup qualification . Spiegel Online , March 12, 2015.