Nigeria

Missing image Nigeria_national_team.gif Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname	Super Eagles
Association	Nigeria Football Association
Coach	Christian Chukwu
Most caps	Mudashiru Lawal (86)
Top scorer	Rashidi Yekini (37)
Home colours 　 Away colours
First International Ghana 1 - 0 Nigeria (Accra, Ghana; 28 May, 1950)
Largest win Nigeria 8 - 1 Uganda (Ismailia, Egypt; 23 September, 1991)
Worst defeat Ghana 7 - 0 Nigeria (Accra, Ghana; 1 June, 1955)
World Cup
Appearances	3 (First in 1994)
Best result	Round 2, 1994 and 1998
African Nations Cup
Appearances	13 (First in 1963)
Best result	Winners, 1980 and 1994

The Nigeria national football team, nicknamed the Super Eagles, is the national team of Nigeria and is controlled by the Nigeria Football Association. They reached the World Cup for the first time in Football World Cup 1994 and have been there the two times since. Nigeria won the African Nations Cup twice (1980 and 1994), and also won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Nigeria's youth teams won the inaugural Under-16 World Championship in 1985 and the Under-17 (the age limit was raised) title in 1993.

Contents

1 World Cup record 2 African Nations Cup record 3 Famous players 4 External links

World Cup record

• 1930 to 1958 - Did not enter
• 1962 - Did not qualify
• 1966 - Withdrew
• 1970 to 1990 - Did not qualify
• 1994 - Quarterfinals
• 1998 - Quarterfinals
• 2002 - Round 1

African Nations Cup record

1957 - Did not enter 1959 - Did not enter 1962 - Withdrew 1963 - Round 1 1965 - Did not enter 1968 - Did not qualify 1970 - Withdrew 1972 - Did not qualify 1974 - Did not qualify 1976 - Third place 1978 - Third place 1980 - Champions

1982 - Round 1 1984 - Second place 1986 - Did not qualify 1988 - Second place 1990 - Second place 1992 - Third place 1994 - Champions 1996 - Withdrew after qualifying 1998 - Banned for failure to participate in 1996 2000 - Second place 2002 - Third place 2004 - Third place

Famous players

• Nwankwo Kanu
• Jay-Jay Okocha
• Taribo West
• Aiyegbeni Yakubu

External links

• RSSSF archive of results 1955- (http://www.rsssf.com/tablesn/nig-intres.html)

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