Senegal national football team
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| Nickname(s) |
Les Lions de la Teranga (Lions of Teranga) |
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| Association | Fédération Sénégalaise de Football |
| Confederation | CAF (Africa) |
| Sub-confederation | WAFU (West Africa) |
| Head coach | Aliou Cissé |
| Captain | Kara |
| Most caps | Henri Camara (99) |
| Top scorer | Henri Camara (29) |
| Home stadium | Stade Léopold Sédar Senghor |
| FIFA code | SEN |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 33  (12 January 2017)
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| Highest | 26 (June 2004) |
| Lowest | 99 (June 2013) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 33  1 (23 January 2017)
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| Highest | 19 (June 2002) |
| Lowest | 100 (October 1994) |
| First international | |
 British Gambia 1–2 French Senegal  (Gambia; 1959) |
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| Biggest win | |
 Senegal 7–0 Mauritius  (Dakar, Senegal; 9 October 2010) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
 Czechoslovakia 11–0 Senegal (Praha, Czechoslovakia; 2 November 1966) |
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| World Cup | |
| Appearances | 1 (first in 2002) |
| Best result | Quarter-finals, 2002 |
| Africa Cup of Nations | |
| Appearances | 14 (first in 1965) |
| Best result | Runners-up, 2002 |
The Senegal national football team, nicknamed the Lions of Teranga, is the national team of Senegal and is controlled by the Fédération Sénégalaise de Football. It made its first, and thus far only, FIFA World Cup appearance in 2002 and caused a huge upset by defeating world and European champions France 1–0 in the tournament's opening game.
Senegal eventually reached the quarter-finals of the 2002 World Cup, one of only three African teams to do so (the first being Cameroon in 1990; the other being Ghana in 2010). In the group, after defeating France, they drew with Denmark and Uruguay, and beat Sweden in extra time in the round of 16, before losing to Turkey in the quarter-finals.
Senegal's first appearance in the Africa Cup of Nations was in 1965, when Senegal, after finishing second in their group, lost 1–0 to the Ivory Coast to finish in fourth place. In the 1990 Africa Cup of Nations, Senegal again finished fourth. Senegal hosted the 1992 tournament, in which, after qualifying for the quarter-finals by finishing second in their group, Senegal lost 1–0 to Cameroon. Senegal's best finish in the tournament came in 2002, when they lost the final on a penalty shootout after drawing 0–0 with Cameroon.
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