Togolese national football team

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Togo
République Togolaise
FA Togo.svg
Nickname (s) The sparrowhawks
Les Eperviers
Association Fédération Togolaise de Football
confederacy CAF
Head coach FranceFrance Claude Le Roy (since 2016)
captain Serge Akakpo
Record scorer Emmanuel Adebayor (32)
Home stadium Stade de Kégué
FIFA code TOG
FIFA rank 126. (1127 points)
(as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey
Second jersey
statistics
First international game Togo 1: 1 Gold Coast October 13, 1956
TogoTogo Gold Coast 1878Gold coast
Biggest win Togo 6-0 Swaziland ( Accra , Ghana ; October 11, 2008 )
TogoTogo SwazilandSwaziland
Biggest defeats Morocco 7-0 Togo ( Morocco ; October 28, 1979 ) Tunisia 7-0 Togo ( Tunis , Tunisia ; January 7, 2000)
MoroccoMorocco TogoTogo

TunisiaTunisia TogoTogo
Successes in tournaments
World Championship
Participation in the finals 1 ( first : 2006 )
Best results Preliminary round 2006
African Championship
Participation in the finals 8 ( first : 1972 )
Best results Quarterfinals 2013
(As of August 21, 2019)

The Togolese national soccer team represents the African country Togo in soccer . She achieved great fame when she took part in the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

The Togolese national team did not come out of nowhere, as was often portrayed in the media before and during the World Cup. Indeed, if of no magnitude, it was at least a serious opponent within Africa. Before the World Cup she took part in the Africa Cup six times, but failed six times in the preliminary round. It was not until 2013 that the preliminary round was overcome and the knockout round reached.

Tournament participation

Participation in soccer world championships

1930 in Uruguay to 1970 in Mexico not participated
1974 in Germany not qualified
1978 in Argentina not qualified
1982 in Spain not qualified
1986 in Mexico withdrawn
1990 in Italy withdrawn
1994 in the USA not qualified
1998 in France not qualified
2002 in South Korea / Japan not qualified
2006 in Germany Preliminary round
2010 in South Africa not qualified
2014 in Brazil not qualified
2018 in Russia not qualified

World Cup 2006

The team in 2006.

Surprisingly Togo was in qualifying for the 2006 World Cup to Senegal leave behind, who was regarded as clearly favored.

The Togolese team was coached by Nigerian Stephen Keshi during qualification. In the 14 international matches between May 2004 and September 2005, the team achieved nine wins in 14 games and suffered only one defeat. In the FIFA world rankings , Togo rose from 99th to 59th.

The newcomer to the World Cup, Togo, released coach Stephen Keshi after his disappointing performance at the 2006 Africa Cup. After qualifying for the first time in the World Cup, the Togoers lost all three preliminary round matches at the continental championship - against Congo (0: 2), Cameroon (0: 2) and Angola (2: 3).

On February 18, 2006 Otto Pfister became the coach of the Togolese national team. Immediately before the first World Cup game, he resigned on June 9, 2006 after a dispute over bonuses. On June 12, he surprisingly returned to the office of coach after Winfried Schäfer had previously been traded as his successor.

On June 13, 2006, Mohamed Kader scored the only goal in World Cup history to make it 1-0 (final score 1: 2) in Togo's first World Cup game against South Korea . After the two 2-0 defeats against Switzerland and the eventual runner-up world champion France , the tournament was over for Togo after the preliminary round.

Participation in the African Championships

1957 in Sudan not participated
1959 in Egypt not participated
1962 in Ethiopia not participated
1963 in Ghana not participated
1965 in Tunisia not participated
1968 in Ethiopia not qualified
1970 in Sudan not qualified
1972 in Cameroon Preliminary round
1974 in Egypt withdrawn
1976 in Ethiopia not qualified
1978 in Ghana not qualified
1980 in Nigeria not qualified
1982 in Libya not qualified
1984 in Ivory Coast Preliminary round
1986 in Egypt not qualified
1988 in Morocco not qualified
1990 in Algeria withdrawn
1992 in Senegal not qualified
1994 in Tunisia withdrawn during qualification
1996 in South Africa not qualified
1998 in Burkina Faso Preliminary round
2000 in Ghana / Nigeria Preliminary round
2002 in Mali Preliminary round
2004 in Tunisia not qualified
2006 in Egypt Preliminary round
2008 in Ghana not qualified
2010 in Angola not started after attacking the team bus for the final round
2012 in Gabon / Equatorial Guinea not qualified
2013 in South Africa Quarter finals
2015 in Equatorial Guinea not qualified
2017 in Gabon Preliminary round
2019 in Egypt not qualified

African Nations Championship

  • 2009 : not qualified
  • 2011 : not qualified
  • 2014 : not qualified
  • 2016 : not qualified
  • 2018 : not qualified
  • 2020 : qualified

Special occurrences

Helicopter crash

On June 3, 2007, a crashed helicopter of the Paramount Airlines close to the Lungi International Airport in Sierra Leone from. Up to 22 people were killed, including fans of the Togolese national football team who attended a game of their team in Freetown , as well as Richard Attipoe , the Togolese sports minister.

Attack on the team bus in 2010

Two days before the start of the African Championship in Angola , the team's bus was ambushed by a faction of the FLEC on January 8, 2010, ten kilometers after entering the Angolan exclave of Cabinda near Lagoa Massabi . The bus was stopped by several masked people with machine guns and shot at. Two people died: press spokesman Stanislaus Ocloo and assistant coach Améleté Abalo . The players Kodjovi Obilalé and Serge Akakpo were injured. The team had decided to take part in the African Cup of Nations despite the attack in honor of the dead and injured. However, the Togolese government ordered all team members to return to their own country and prohibited participation.

The African Football Association CAF announced on January 30, 2010 that Togo would not be allowed to participate in the next two African Championships. The reason for this is the interference of the Togolese government, which ordered the withdrawal from the tournament after the attack on the team bus of its national team. The CAF Executive Committee also decided that the Togolese Football Association would be fined US $ 50,000 for violating Article 78 of the Africa Cup of Nations. Togo announced that it would take legal action against the exclusion from the 2012 and 2014 African Cup of Nations.

On May 14, 2010, after talks with FIFA boss Joseph Blatter, among others, the CAF made the decision to reverse Togo's 4-year ban.

Game of a fake national team

In September 2010, a match- fixing case made headlines in which a fake Togolese national team played an international match against the real Bahraini national soccer team . The game took place in Bahrain and was lost 3-0, although it was noticeable that the Togolese team made an inexperienced impression. Josef Hickersberger , the coach of the Bahraini team, said the Togolese soccer players weren't fit enough to play 90 minutes.

As it turned out shortly afterwards, the Togolese team was not the national team of the country, but consisted of completely unknown players. The match was apparently organized with the help of agent Wilson Raj Perumal from Singapore , who had been sentenced to prison in 1995 for match-fixing . The Bahraini Association had good experiences with this intermediary. An official confirmation for the game was received from the Togolese association. However, he announced after the game that he had not sent a team at all.

There were no sanctions by FIFA because the organization of friendly matches is in the hands of the associations. The former national coach Tchanilé Bana , who was present as the coach of the Togolese team at the fake game, was banned from the Togolese Football Association for three years for match-fixing in September 2010.

Well-known trainers

International matches against German-speaking national soccer teams

date place Home team result Visiting team
1. 06/02/2006 Vaduz LiechtensteinLiechtenstein Liechtenstein 0: 1 TogoTogo Togo
2. 06/19/2006 Dortmund SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 2-0 TogoTogo Togo

So far there have been no official international matches against Germany and Austria.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emmanuel rsssf.com: Sheyi Adebayor - Goals in International Matches
  2. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Failed in the first qualifying round on Benin after two 1: 1 with 7: 8 on penalties , whereby all 22 players had to compete.
  4. ↑ Sierra Leone / Togo: Helicopter Crash Kills at Least 19, Allafrica.com, June 4, 2007
  5. ↑ Incident claims one dead (accessed on January 9, 2010)
  6. ↑ Togo wants to play in Angola (accessed on January 10, 1:36 p.m.)
  7. ↑ Regulations of the Orange Africa Cup of Nations ANGOLA 2010 (accessed on January 31, 9:01 p.m.; PDF; 455 kB)
  8. ↑ Velud: "Il faut réagir" ( Memento of February 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 31, 8:30 pm)
  9. ↑ Togo's withdrawal (accessed on January 31, 9:02 p.m.)
  10. ↑ Togo's sanctions lifted and general amnesty, CAF Online, May 14, 2010
  11. ↑ Wrong national team against Bahrain: Togo blocks impostor trainers. Spiegel Online , September 20, 2010, accessed September 20, 2010 .
  12. ^ Christian Putsch: faked national team. Die Welt , September 16, 2010, accessed on September 21, 2010 .