Sahrawi national football team
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| Nickname(s) | Los Dromedarios (The Dromedaries) |
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| Association | Sahrawi Football Federation |
| Confederation | NF-Board |
| Head coach |
 Sidahmed Erguibi Ahmed Baba Haiai |
| First international | |
Unofficial Galicia 2–1 Western Sahara XI (Teo, Spain, December 23, 2011) Official Western Sahara 0–6 Iraqi Kurdistan  (Erbil, Iraq, June 4, 2012) |
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| Biggest win | |
Western Sahara 5–1 Darfur  (Erbil, Iraq, June 7, 2012) Western Sahara 4–0  Esperanto(Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France, July 31, 2015) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
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Western Sahara 0–6 Iraqi Kurdistan (Erbil, Iraq, June 4, 2012) |
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| VIVA World Cup | |
| Appearances | 1 (first in 2012) |
| Best result | 6th in 2012 |
The Sahrawi national football team represents Western Sahara, a disputed territory, in association football. Controlled by the Sahrawi Football Federation, they are members of the New Federations Board for non-FIFA-affiliated nations.
Many teams have represented Western Sahara, or the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), in unofficial matches. The first known games were played against Algerian league teams in 1984, before the creation of the Sahrawi Football Federation. In 1986, 1987 and 1994, friendly matches were played against Algerian, Spanish and Italian league teams. In 1988, a Sahrawi Republic team played with Le Mans UC 72 in France, losing 3–2. On 27 February 2001, during the 25th anniversary of the proclamation of the SADR, a match was played in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria between a Sahrawi Republic team and a Basque Country veterans team. The match was attended by more than 4,000 fans, and was abandoned during the second half owing to the temperature (38°C) with the score at 2–2.
On 12 December 2003, the Sahrawi Football Federation became provisionally affiliated to the Nouvelle Fédération Board. In 2007, a team representing Western Sahara beat Macau 1–0. On 23 December 2011, a team from the Spanish region of Galicia beat a team composed of members of the Sahrawi diaspora in Spain 2–1, in a match played in Teo that was attended by 1,500 fans. On 5 December 2009, three Sahrawi representatives participated in the 6th General Assembly of the N.F.-Board in Paris, France.
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