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Côte d'Ivoire

Côte d'Ivoire

Nickname	Les Éléphants (The Elephants)
Association	Fédération Ivoirienne de Football
Coach	Henri Michel
First international Côte d'Ivoire 3 - 2 Benin (Madagascar; 13 April 1960)
Largest win Côte d'Ivoire 6 - 0 Mali (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire; 13 March 1985) Côte d'Ivoire 6 - 0 Botswana (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire; 11 October 1992) Côte d'Ivoire 6 - 0 Niger (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire; 15 July 2000) Côte d'Ivoire 6 - 0 Madagascar (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire; 1 July 2001)
Worst defeat Côte d'Ivoire 2 - 6 Ghana (Côte d'Ivoire; 2 May 1971) Malawi 5 - 1 Côte d'Ivoire (Malawi; 6 July 1974)
World Cup
Appearances	1 (First in 2006)
African Nations Cup
Appearances	16 (First in 1965)
Best result	Winners, 1992

The Côte d'Ivoire national football team, nicknamed Les Éléphants (The Elephants), is the national team of Côte d'Ivoire and is controlled by the Fédération Ivoirienne de Football. Until 2005, their greatest accomplishment was winning the 1992 African Nations Cup against Ghana on penalties at the Stade de l'Amitie in Dakar, Senegal. On October 8, 2005, they qualified for the 2006 World Cup finals, marking their first appearance on the sport's greatest stage.

World Cup record

1930 to 1970 - Did not enter
1974 - Did not qualify
1978 - Did not qualify
1982 - Did not enter
1986 to 2002 - Did not qualify
2006 - Qualified

African Nations Cup record

Famous players

Ibrahima Bakayako
Didier Drogba
Arouna Koné
Kolo Touré
Yaya Touré
Emmanuel Eboué
Bakary Koné
Aruna Dindane
Bonaventure Kalou
Laurent Pokou: the African Cup highest scorer of all time
Yousouf Falikou Fofana: "The Black Diamond of Monaco"
Abdoulaye Traore: named as one of the greatest forwards in the world several times in the 1990s.

Trivia

The Côte d'Ivoire team is notable for having participated in (and won) the two highest-scoring penalty shoot-outs in international football competition - the 24-shot shoot-out in the final of the 1992 African Cup of Nations when Ghana was defeated 11-10, and the 24-shot shoot-out in the quarter-final of the 2006 African Cup of Nations, when Cameroon was defeated 12-11.

External links

• Côte d'Ivoire Association - official website

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