Equatorial Guinea national football team
This article is about the Equatorial Guinea men's national football team. For the women's team, see Equatorial Guinea women's national football team.
The Equatorial Guinea national football team is controlled by the Federación Ecuatoguineana de Fútbol, which was founded in 1984. In December of that year, Equatorial Guinea played its first official international match.
There had previously been an unofficial international match against China in 1975, which China won 6-2 as the home team.
The team has not yet managed to qualify for a World Cup. The team has managed to qualify for the Africa Cup. The country has been a regular participant in World Cup qualifiers since 2002 and in Africa Cup qualifiers since 2000. The team belongs to the sporting middle class of the African FIFA member states.
Equatorial Guinea co-hosted the 2012 African Championship with Gabon, marking the team's first appearance in an African championship as hosts and reaching the quarter-finals, where they lost 3-0 to Côte d'Ivoire. The team climbed 41 places to 110th in the FIFA World Ranking as a result of reaching the quarter-finals.
The Equatorial Guinean national team's greatest success to date was winning the CEMAC CUP (a football competition played by teams from Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, the Central African Republic and Chad) in 2006. In the final, defending champions Cameroon were surprisingly beaten 4-2 on penalties after a 1-1 draw in normal time. However, Cameroon played with a local side, so the match is not recognised by FIFA as a senior international.
The team finished 49th in the official FIFA World Rankings in February 2015, their best ever ranking, with the team moving up 69 places from the previous month. After that, the team went downhill again and currently occupies 134th place (as of December 2020).
Tournaments
World Cup
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- 1986 to 1998: not participated
- 2002 until 2018: not qualified
African Championship
→ Main article: African Football Championship
- 1986: not participated
- 1988: withdrawn
- 1990: not qualified
- 1992: not participated
- 1994: did not participate
- 1996: withdrawn
- 1998: not participated
- 2000: not participated
- 2002 to 2010: not qualified
- 2012: Quarter-finals (as co-hosts with Gabon)
- 2013: not qualified
- 2015: 4th place
- 2017: not qualified
- 2019: not qualified
- 2022: qualified
African Nations Championship
- 2009: not participated
- 2011: withdrawn in the qualification
- 2014: not participated
- 2016: not participated
- 2018: Preliminary round
- 2021: not qualified
CEMAC Cup
→ Main article: CEMAC Cup
- 1984: Preliminary round
- 1985: Preliminary round
- 1986: Preliminary round
- 1987: Fourth
- 1988: Preliminary round
- 1989: not participated
- 1990: Preliminary round
- 2003: not participated
- 2005: Preliminary round
- 2006: Master
- 2007: Preliminary round
- 2008: Preliminary round
- 2009: Second
- 2010: Preliminary round
- 2013: Preliminary round
- 2014: Fourth
COSAFA Senior Challenge
→ Main article: COSAFA Senior Challenge
- 2013: withdrawn
National Coach
| Years | Name |
| 1980 | Spain |
| 1989–1990 | Spain |
| 1991–1998 | Equatorial Guinea |
| 1999 | Spain |
| 1999 | Equatorial Guinea |
| 2000 | Equatorial Guinea |
| 2000–2001 | Equatorial Guinea |
| 2002 | Equatorial Guinea |
| 2003 | Spain |
| 2003 | Spain |
| 2004 | Algeria |
| 2004–2006 | Brazil |
| 2006 | Spain |
| 2007–2008 | Brazil |
| 2008–2009 | Spain |
| 2009–2010 | Paraguay |
| 2010 | Equatorial Guinea |
| 2010 | France |
| 2011 | Equatorial Guinea |
| 2012 | Brazil |
| 2013–2014 | Spain |
| 2015–2017 | Argentina |
| 2017 | Equatorial Guinea |
| 2017–2018 | France |
| 2018 | Equatorial Guinea |
| 2018 | Equatorial Guinea |
| 2018–2019 | Spain |
| 2019 | Equatorial Guinea |
| 2019 | Equatorial Guinea |
| 2019 | Equatorial Guinea |
| 2019 | Spain |
| 2019–2020 | France |
| 2020 | Equatorial Guinea |
| 2021– | Equatorial Guinea |
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