Benin

Missing image Benin_football_association.gif Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname	Les Ecureuils (The Squirrels)
Association	Fédération Béninoise de Football
Coach	Herve Revelli
Most caps	?
Top scorer	?
Home colours 　 Away colours
First International Dahomey 0 - 1 Nigeria (Dahomey; 8 November, 1959) Nigeria 7 - 0 Benin (Nigeria; 14 February, 1977)
Largest win Dahomey 6 - 2 Chad (Dahomey; 15 April, 1963) Benin 4 - 0 Tanzania (Cotonou, Benin; 8 September, 2002)
Worst defeat Nigeria 10 - 1 Dahomey (Nigeria; 28 November, 1959)
World Cup
Appearances	none (First in -)
Best result	-
African Nations Cup
Appearances	1 (First in 2004)
Best result	Round 1, 2004

The Benin national football team, nicknamed Les Ecureuils (The Squirrels), is the national team of Benin and is controlled by the Fédération Béninoise de Football. They were known as the Dahomey national football team until 1975, when Dahomey became Benin. They have never made the World Cup and only made their first African Nations Cup in 2004.

World Cup record

• 1930 to 1970 - Did not enter
• 1974 - Did not qualify
• 1978 - Did not enter
• 1982 - Did not enter
• 1986 - Did not qualify
• 1990 - Did not enter
• 1994 - Did not qualify
• 1998 - Did not enter
• 2002 - Did not qualify

African Nations Cup record

• 1957 to 1970 - Did not enter
• 1972 - Did not qualify
• 1974 - Withdrew
• 1976 - Withdrew
• 1978 - Did not enter
• 1980 - Did not qualify
• 1982 - Did not enter
• 1984 - Did not qualify
• 1986 - Did not qualify
• 1988 - Did not enter
• 1990 - Did not enter
• 1992 - Did not qualify
• 1994 - Did not qualify
• 1996 - Withdrew
• 1998 to 2002 - Did not qualify
• 2004 - Round 1

National football teams of Africa (CAF)

Algeria | Angola | Benin | Botswana | Burkina Faso | Burundi | Cameroon | Cape Verde | Central African Republic | Chad | Congo | Congo DR | Côte d'Ivoire | Djibouti | Egypt | Equatorial Guinea | Eritrea | Ethiopia | Gabon | Gambia | Ghana | Guinea | Guinea-Bissau | Kenya | Lesotho | Liberia | Libya | Madagascar | Malawi | Mali | Mauritania | Mauritius | Morocco | Mozambique | Namibia | Niger | Nigeria | Rwanda | São Tomé and Príncipe | Senegal | Seychelles | Sierra Leone | Somalia | South Africa | Sudan | Swaziland | Tanzania | Togo | Tunisia | Uganda | Zambia | Zimbabwe

International Football

FIFA - World Cup - Women's World Cup - World Rankings - Player of the Year Asia: AFC - Asian Cup | Africa: CAF - African Nations Cup South America: CONMEBOL - Copa América | North America: CONCACAF - Gold Cup Oceania: OFC - OFC Nations Cup | Europe: UEFA - European Championship