Zambia national football team - Definition and Overview

Zambia

Zambia_FA.gif Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname	Chipolopolo
Association	Football Association of Zambia
Coach	Kalusha Bwalya
Most caps	Kalusha Bwalya
Top scorer	Kalusha Bwalya
Home colours 　 Away colours
First International Zambia 1 - 0 Tanzania (Malawi; 3 July, 1964)
Largest win Zambia 9 - 0 Kenya (Malawi; 13 November, 1978)
Worst defeat Congo DR 10 - 1 Zambia (Congo-Kinshasa; 22 November, 1969) Belgium 9 - 0 Zambia (Brussels, Belgium; 3 June, 1994)
World Cup
Appearances	none (First in -)
Best result	-
African Nations Cup
Appearances	11 (First in 1974)
Best result	Second place, 1974 and 1994

The Zambia national football team, nicknamed Chipolopolo, is the national team of Zambia and is controlled by the Football Association of Zambia. They have never made the World Cup.

The Zambian national team endured one of the biggest tragedies in the history of sport; in 1993 a plane carrying the team crashed off the coast of Gabon.

World Cup record

• 1930 to 1966 - Did not enter
• 1970 to 2002 - Did not qualify

African Nations Cup record

• 1957 to 1968 - Did not enter
• 1970 - Did not qualify
• 1972 - Did not qualify
• 1974 - Second place
• 1976 - Did not qualify
• 1978 - Round 1
• 1980 - Did not qualify
• 1982 - Third place
• 1984 - Did not qualify
• 1986 - Round 1
• 1988 - Withdrew
• 1990 - Third place
• 1992 - Quarterfinals
• 1994 - Second place
• 1996 - Third place
• 1998 - Round 1
• 2000 - Round 1
• 2002 - Round 1
• 2004 - Did not qualify