Mauritius national football team
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| Nickname(s) | Club M, Les Dodos |
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| Association | Mauritius Football Association |
| Confederation | CAF (Africa) |
| Sub-confederation |
COSAFA (Southern Africa) |
| Head coach | Joe Tshupula |
| Captain | Jonathan Bru |
| Top scorer | Andy Sophie (11) |
| Home stadium | Stade George V |
| FIFA code | MRI |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 160  14 (6 April 2017)
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| Highest | 112 (December 1992) |
| Lowest | 203 (November 2012) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 184 (26 March 2017) |
| Highest | 46 (November 1968) |
| Lowest | 187 (6 August 2011) |
| First international | |
 Mauritius 2–1 Réunion  (Madagascar; Date Unknown, 1947) |
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| Biggest win | |
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Mauritius 15–2 Réunion (Madagascar; Date unknown, 1950) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
 Egypt 7–0 Mauritius  (Cairo, Egypt; June 8, 2003)  Seychelles 7–0 Mauritius (Witbank, South Africa; July 19, 2008)  Senegal 7–0 Mauritius (Dakar, Senegal; October 9, 2010) |
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| Africa Cup of Nations | |
| Appearances | 1 (first in 1974) |
| Best result | Group stage, 1974 |
The Mauritius national football team (French: Équipe de Maurice de football), nicknamed Club M and Les Dodos (The Dodos), is the national team of Mauritius. They are overseen by the Mauritius Football Association and are members of FIFA, the Confederation of African Football (CAF), and the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA). The head coach is Joe Tshupula.
Their most significant achievements are qualification for the 1974 African Cup of Nations, and winning the Indian Ocean Island Games football tournament in 1985 and 2003. They have also been a finalist in this competition in 1990 and 2011.
Mauritius played its first competitive international game in 1947 against Réunion, which they won 2–1. For the next 20 years, they would only play Réunion and Madagascar (probably due to the close proximity of the three islands to each other) in friendlies and the Indian Ocean Games Triangulaire, which existed from 1947–1963. Mauritius won the competition 10 times over that time period, were runners-up twice, and came in third once.
Starting in 1967, Mauritius began competing against other countries, playing friendlies and entering in such competitions as the Africa Cup of Nations and FIFA World Cup qualification, though they haven't found much success. While they have never qualified for the World Cup finals, they have qualified once for the Africa Cup of Nations, in 1974. However, they were eliminated in the group stages. Mauritius did manage to win the resurrected Indian Ocean Games in 1985. In 1999, after deadly riots caused by supporters of Scouts Club (renamed as Port Louis Sporting Club) angry about a controversial penalty awarded to Fire Brigade Sports Club (now renamed as Pamplemousses SC) in the championship deciding game, which gave Fire Brigade a 1–0 win, all domestic football was suspended for 18 months, and only the national team was allowed to play. This is regarded as the point at which Mauritian football, both on the domestic and international stage, started on a downward slope.
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