Botswana national football team
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| Nickname(s) | The Zebras | ||
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| Association | Botswana Football Association | ||
| Confederation | CAF (Africa) | ||
| Head coach | Stanley Tshosane | ||
| Most caps | Dipsy Selolwane | ||
| Top scorer | Dipsy Selolwane | ||
| Home stadium | Botswana National Stadium | ||
| FIFA code | BOT | ||
| FIFA ranking | 134 | ||
| Highest FIFA ranking | 95 (September 2007) | ||
| Lowest FIFA ranking | 165 (November 1999) | ||
| Elo ranking | T117 | ||
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| First international | |||
 Malawi 8 - 1 Botswana  (Malawi; July 13, 1968) |
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| Biggest win | |||
Botswana 6 - 2 Swaziland  (Gaborone, Botswana; March 2, 2002) ]]) |
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| Biggest defeat | |||
| Malawi 8 - 1 Botswana (Malawi; July 13, 1968) Botswana 0 - 7 Zimbabwe  (Gaborone, Botswana; August 26, 1990)  Zambia 6 - 0 Botswana Zambia; 15 February 1986) |
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The Botswana national football team, nicknamed The Zebras, or EZIMBIZI is the national team of Botswana and is controlled by the Botswana Football Association. They have never qualified for the finals of the World Cup nor the African Nations Cup.
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[edit] History
Even though Botswana have thrice entered the FIFA World Cup preliminary stages, it took them nearly 11 years after playing their first match to register their first victory, a 4-1 victory in the African pre-preliminary qualifying rounds for Germany 2006 against Lesotho.
The southern African nation took part in their first preliminary competition for the 1994 finals in the USA, where they faced Niger and Cote d'Ivoire. They managed a 0-0 draw with the latter in Gaborone but lost their other three matches, finishing last in their group.
The next competition they entered was for Korea/Japan 2002, where they faced Zambia in a two-legged tie to decide which team would advance to the group stages. Zambia won both matches to qualify, while Botswana were knocked out.
Recently Botswana had some poor results with the team losing 3-0 to Zambia and losing to second string sides from South Africa and Zimbabwe at home in Gabarone. This led to some supporters getting frustrated. In the first match in the world cup 2008 and African cup of nations 2008 qualifiers Botswana drew at home with a Madagascar side who are ranked 146th in the world. This led to the Botswana fa sacking manager Colwyn Rowe despite him being the man to lead Botswana to their highest ever ranking of 95th. They claimed this was because they feared for his safety from angry fans. Stanley Tshosane was named as his replacement and in his first game in charge Botswana achieved an impressive 2-1 win away to Mozambique to put them in a relatively srong position in their qualifying group. Then on their next fixture they took everyone by surprise by holding Ivory Coast to a one all draw.
[edit] World Cup record
- 1930 to 1990 - Did not enter
- 1994 - Did not qualify
- 1998 - Did not enter
- 2002 to 2010 - Did not qualify
[edit] African Nations Cup record
[edit] Former Managers
Peter Cormack (1986-87)
Rudi Gutendorf
Colwyn Rowe- Stanley Tshosane
[edit] Current squad
The following players were called for 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification against Mozambique on October 11, 2008.
[edit] Recent call-ups 2008
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