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Algerian national football team

Algeria
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s) الخُضر   "El Khadra" (The Greens)
الأفناك  (The Fennecs)
محاربي الصحراء  (The Desert Warriors)
Association Fédération Algérienne
de Football
(FAF)
Confederation CAF (Africa)
Sub-confederation UNAF (North Africa)
Head coach Rabah Madjer
Captain Raïs M'Bolhi
Most caps Lakhdar Belloumi (100)
Top scorer Abdelhafid Tasfaout (34)
Home stadium Stade Mustapha Tchaker
July 5, 1962 Stadium
FIFA code ALG
FIFA ranking
Current 62 Decrease 14 (14 September 2017)
Highest 15 (October 2014)
Lowest 103 (June 2008)
Elo ranking
Current 74 (10 October 2017)
Highest 8 (December 1981)
Lowest 59 (July 2008)
First international
 Bulgaria 1–2 Algeria 
(Sofia, Bulgaria; 6 January 1963)
Biggest win
 Algeria 15–1 South Yemen 
(Tripoli, Libya; 17 August 1973)
Biggest defeat
 Hungary 9–2 Algeria 
(Budapest, Hungary; 16 August 1967)
World Cup
Appearances 4 (first in 1982)
Best result Round of 16, 2014
Africa Cup of Nations
Appearances 17 (first in 1968)
Best result Champions, 1990
African Nations Championship
Appearances 1 (first in 2011)
Best result Fourth place, 2011

The Algeria national football team represents Algeria in association football and is controlled by the Algerian Football Federation. The team plays its home games at the Stade 5 Juillet 1962 in Algiers.

Algeria joined FIFA on 1 January 1964, a year and a half after gaining independence.

Algeria have qualified for four World Cups in 1982, 1986, 2010 and 2014. Algeria won the African Cup of Nations once in 1990, when they hosted the tournament. At the 2014 World Cup, Algeria became the first African team to score four goals in a match at the World Cup against South Korea.

The traditional rivals of Algeria have been Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt. However, more recently, Egypt has become the main rival after a number of incidents involving the two teams, most recently during the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification, in which Algeria defeated Egypt 1–0 in a tense tiebreaker in Omdurman in Sudan to qualify to the World Cup. A few months later, Algeria was then defeated by Egypt 0–4 in a tense match in Angola during the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, which added to the rivalry.


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