Sierra Leone national football team
| Nickname(s) | Leone Stars |
|---|---|
| Association | Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) |
| Confederation | CAF (Africa) |
| Sub-confederation | WAFU (West Africa) |
| Head coach | Sellas Tetteh |
| Captain | Umaru Bangura |
| Home stadium | Freetown National Stadium |
| FIFA code | SLE |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 96  (12 January 2017)
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| Highest | 50 (August 2014) |
| Lowest | 172 (September 2007) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 116 (26 January 2017) |
| Highest | 59 (15 January 1996) |
| Lowest | 156 (7 June 2008) |
| First international | |
 Sierra Leone 0–2 Nigeria  (Freetown, Sierra Leone; 10 August 1949) |
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| Biggest win | |
 Sierra Leone 5–1 Niger  (Freetown, Sierra Leone; 7 March 1976) Sierra Leone 5–1 Niger (Freetown, Sierra Leone; 3 June 1995) Sierra Leone 4–0 São Tomé & Príncipe  (Freetown, Sierra Leone; 22 April 2000) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
 Mali 6–0 Sierra Leone (Bamako, Mali; 17 June 2007) |
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| Africa Cup of Nations | |
| Appearances | 2 (first in 1994) |
| Best result | Group stage, 1994 and 1996 |
The Sierra Leone national football team is the national team of the Republic of Sierra Leone was controlled by the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA), The team is affiliated to the West African Football Union of CAF and they have never qualified for the World Cup.
Sierra Leone's first match was at home on 10 August 1949 against another British colony, Nigeria, and was lost 2–0. In 1954 they played another British colony and British administered U.N trust territory, Gold Coast and Trans-Volta Togoland (now Ghana, and lost 2–0 away. On 22 April 1961 they again hosted Nigeria and lost 4–2. On 12 November 1966 they hosted Liberia in their first match against a non-British colony and earned their first draw, 1–1. A week later, they lost 2–0 in Liberia. On 13 January 1971 Sierra Leone played their first match against a non-African team, West Germany's B-team. The match in Sierra Leone was won 1–0 by the Germans. Sierra Leone's first match outside of Africa was also their first against an Asian nation, China. They lost 4–1 in China on 5 April 1974.
In August 2014, the Sierra Leone FA cancelled all football matches in an effort to stop the spread of the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic in Sierra Leone, a week after the Liberian FA did the same. Sierra Leonean players playing outside of Sierra Leone, such as Michael Lahoud playing in the United States, were discriminated against, with opposition players refusing to swap shirts, shake hands and allow them to certain places of the stadium just because they fear that they could be carrying the disease. The Sierra Leonean national team isn't allowed to play home games and all players must be foreign based. In 2016 Sierra Leone entered the Grecian Shield at Exeter university on Sunday 13 March.
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