Djibouti national football team
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| Nickname(s) | Riverains de la Mer Rouge (Shoremen of the Red Sea) |
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| Association | Fédération Djiboutienne de Football |
| Confederation | CAF (Africa) |
| Sub-confederation | CECAFA (East & Central Africa) |
| Head coach |
 Michael Gibson
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| Most caps | Ahmed Daher (14) |
| Top scorer | Ahmed Daher (4) |
| Home stadium | Stade du Ville |
| FIFA code | DJI |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 205  (12 January 2017)
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| Highest | 169 (December 1994) |
| Lowest | 207 (April–July 2015, November 2015) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 213 (14 February 2016) |
| First international | |
 Ethiopia 5–0 French Somaliland  (Ethiopia; December 5, 1947) |
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| Biggest win | |
 Djibouti 4–1 South Yemen  (Djibouti City, Djibouti; February 26, 1988) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
 Uganda 10–1 Djibouti (Kigali, Rwanda; December 9, 2001)  Rwanda 9–0 Djibouti (Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania; December 13, 2007) |
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The Djibouti national football team, nicknamed the Riverains de la Mer Rouge ("Shoremen of the Red Sea"), is the national football team of Djibouti. It is controlled by the Fédération Djiboutienne de Football, and is a member of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and the Union of Arab Football Associations (UAFA). Until its 1–0 defeat of Somalia's national squad in the opening stage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification, the Djibouti national football team had never won a full FIFA sanctioned international.
Djibouti played its first international match under the name French Somaliland, at home against neighbouring Ethiopia on 5 December 1947 and lost 5–0. This was also Ethiopia's debut. The two played again in Djibouti on 1 June 1948 and Ethiopia won 2–1. On 1 May 1949, the fixture was played for the Emperor Cup in Ethiopia, and the host won 6–0. In 1954, Djibouti played Ethiopia three times: a 10–1 away loss on 1 May, a 2–0 home loss on 1 June and a 2–1 home loss the day after. Djibouti did not play a match again until 1960, when it entered a tournament for French-speaking countries held in Madagascar. The team lost 9–2 in the first round to Cameroon on 13 April. This was the squad's last game as French Somaliland.
After gaining independence in 1977, the team played under the name Djibouti for the first time against Ethiopia in an away match on 27 March 1983 and lost 8–1. The two played again two days later with Ethiopia again victorious, by 4–2. After a third friendly against Ethiopia, a 2–0 home defeat on 23 March 1984, Djibouti entered a tournament in Ethiopia against the host and Zimbabwe. They lost 2–0 to Ethiopia on 3 June and then 3–1 to Zimbabwe on 7 June.
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