Ivory Coast national football team

Côte d'Ivoire

Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)	Les Éléphants (The Elephants)
Association	Fédération Ivoirienne de Football
Head coach	Henri Michel
Most caps	Didier Drogba (29)
Top scorer	Didier Drogba (21)
First colours Second colours
First international
Côte d'Ivoire 3 - 2 Benin (Madagascar; 13 April, 1960)
Biggest 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)
Biggest 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)
Best result	-
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

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

1957 to 1963 - Did not enter 1965 - Third place 1968 - Third place 1970 - Fourth place 1972 - Did not qualify 1974 - Round 1 1976 - Did not qualify 1978 - Disqualified 1980 - Round 1 1982 - Did not enter 1984 - Round 1

1986 - Third place 1990 - Round 1 1992 - Champions 1994 - Third place 1996 - Round 1 1998 - Quarterfinals 2000 - Round 1 2002 - Round 1 2004 - Did not qualify 2006 - Runner Up

Famous past players

• 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.

2006 World Cup Squad

Head coach: Henri Michel

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1	1GK	Jean-Jacques Tizie	7 September 1972		Espérance
2	2DF	Arthur Boka	2 April 1983		RC Strasbourg
3	3MF	Kanga Akale	7 March 1981		AJ Auxerre
4	2DF	Kolo Toure	19 March 1981		Arsenal
5	3MF	Didier Zokora	14 December 1980		AS Saint-Etienne
6	2DF	Blaise Kouassi	2 February 1975		Troyes
7	3MF	Emerse Fae	24 January 1984		Nantes Atlantique
8	4FW	Bonaventure Kalou	12 January 1978		Paris Saint-Germain
9	4FW	Arouna Kone	11 November 1983		PSV Eindhoven
10	3MF	Gilles Yapi Yapo	30 January 1982		Young Boys
11	4FW	Didier Drogba	11 March 1978		Chelsea
12	2DF	Abdoulaye Meite	6 October 1980		Olympique Marseille
13	2DF	Marc Zoro	27 December 1983		Messina
14	4FW	Bakary Kone	17 September 1981		OGC Nice
15	4FW	Aruna Dindane	26 November 1980		RC Lens
16	1GK	Gerard Gnanhouan	12 February 1979		Montpellier
17	2DF	Cyrille Domoraud	22 July 1971		Creteil
18	3MF	Kader Keita	6 August 1981		Lille
19	3MF	Yaya Toure	13 May 1983		Olympiakos
20	3MF	Guy Demel	13 June 1981		Hamburger SV
21	2DF	Emmanuel Eboue	4 June 1983		Arsenal
22	3MF	Romaric	4 June 1983		Le Mans
23	1GK	Boubacar Barry	30 December 1979		KSK Beveren

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 21-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