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Zimbabwe

Nickname(s)	The Warriors
Association	Zimbabwe Football Association
Confederation	CAF (Africa)
Sub-confederation	COSAFA (Southern Africa)
Head coach	Sunday Chidzambwa
Captain	Knowledge Musona
Most caps	Peter Ndlovu (100)
Top scorer	Peter Ndlovu (38)
Home stadium	National Sports Stadium
FIFA code	ZIM
First colours Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	118 (16 August 2018)
Highest	40 (April 1995)
Lowest	131 (October 2009, February–March 2016)
Elo ranking
Current	96 9 (6 May 2018)
Highest	56 (April 1995)
Lowest	128 (March 2011)
First international
Southern Rhodesia 0–4 England XI (Salisbury, Rhodesia; 26 June 1929)
Biggest win
Botswana 0–7 Zimbabwe (Gaborone, Botswana; 26 August 1990)
Biggest defeat
South Africa 7–0 Rhodesia (South Africa; 9 April 1977)
Africa Cup of Nations
Appearances	3 (first in 2004)
Best result	Group stage, 2004, 2006, and 2017

The Zimbabwe national football team is the national team of Zimbabwe and is controlled by the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA), formerly known as the Football Association of Rhodesia. The team has never qualified for the World Cup finals, and qualified for their first Africa Cup of Nations in 2004.^[1]

History

Southern Rhodesia played their first official match against the England Amateur national football team as part of their tour of South Africa and Rhodesia in June 1929. Southern Rhodesia lost their first two matches against England 4–0 and 6–1 respectively.^[2] In 1965, following Southern Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence as Rhodesia, FIFA requested that the Football Association of Rhodesia reform to be a multi-racial organisation. Prior to this only white Rhodesians were selected for the national football team but after 1965 the team became multi-racial.^[3] In 1969, Rhodesia took part in the Confederation of African Football 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification tournament. This was their first attempt to qualify for the FIFA World Cup. Contrary to the team being viewed as the representative team of white Rhodesians, the team was multi-racial including black players.^[4] They were drawn against the Australia national football team. Both legs were held in Lourenco Marques, Portuguese Mozambique as the Rhodesian team were unable to get Australian visas. Rhodesia drew the first leg 1–1 but lost the second leg 3–1 thus eliminating Rhodesia from qualification.^[4]

In 1980, following the country's reconstitution as Zimbabwe, they played their first FIFA World Cup qualifying match for 11 years against the Cameroon national football team. However they lost 2–1 on aggregate after a 1–0 win in the first leg in Salisbury and a 2–0 loss in the second leg.^[5][6] Following this, the country passed a law that people who held British passports would not be permitted to hold a Zimbabwean passport, which mean that players such as goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar were not selected for the national team for 10 years.^[1] Following a change in policy that allowed Grobbelaar to play for Zimbabwe, who entered the country on his British passport, Zimbabwe under manager Reinhard Fabisch were one match away from qualifying for the 1994 FIFA World Cup. However, they lost their final qualifying match to Cameroon.^[1][7]

In 2004, Zimbabwe qualified for their first Africa Cup of Nations. During their first match against Egypt, their former anthem "Ishe Komborera Africa" was accidentally played instead of "Simudzai Mureza wedu weZimbabwe", an act which Information Minister Jonathan Moyo called "a cheap attempt by the organisers to demoralise our boys".^[8] In 2015, the Zimbabwe national football team were banned from participating in 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying due to an unpaid debt to former coach, José Claudinei.^[9]

Achievements

COSAFA Cup :

• 6-time champions (2000, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2017, 2018)


• 3-time runners-up

CECAFA Cup :

• 1-time champion (1985)


• 2-time runners-up (1983, 1987)

Competition records

World Cup record

FIFA World Cup record										FIFA World Cup Qualification record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA		Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1930	Did not enter									Did not enter
1934
1938
1950
1954
1958
1962
1966
1970	Did not qualify from Asia/Oceania zone									Did not qualify from Asia/Oceania zone
1974	Did not enter									Did not enter
1978
1982	Did not qualify from African zone									2	1	0	1	1	2
1986										2	0	1	1	1	2
1990										4	0	1	3	1	10
1994										10	6	2	2	11	10
1998										8	2	2	4	10	10
2002										8	6	0	2	11	6
2006										12	5	3	4	17	16
2010										6	1	3	2	4	6
2014										6	0	2	4	4	9
2018	Expelled from qualifying competition[10]									Expelled from qualifying competition
2022	To be determined									To be determined
2026	To be determined									To be determined
Total	—	0/21	—	—	—	—	—	—		58	21	16	23	60	71

FIFA Confederations Cup

FIFA Confederations Cup record
Appearances : 0
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1992	Did not qualify
1995
1997
1999
2001
2003
2005
2009
2013
2017
2021	To be determined
Total		0/11	0	0	0	0	0	0

Africa Cup of Nations record

Africa Cup of Nations
Appearances: 3
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1957	Did not enter
1959
1962
1963
1965
1968
1970
1972
1974
1976
1978
1980
1982	Did not qualify
1984
1986
1988
1990
1992
1994
1996
1998
2000
2002
2004	Group stage	14th	3	1	0	2	6	8
2006	Group stage	13th	3	1	0	2	2	5
2008	Did not qualify
2010
2012
2013
2015
2017	Group stage	14th	3	0	1	2	4	8
2019	To be determined
2021
2023
Total	Group stage	3/31	9	2	1	6	12	21

African Nations Championship record

• 
  2009 – Group stage


• 
  2011 – Group stage


• 
  2014 – Fourth place


• 
  2016 – Group stage

African Games

Football at the African Games has been an under-23 tournament since 1991.

African Games record
Year	Result	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1965	-	0	0	0	0	0	0
1973	-	0	0	0	0	0	0
1978	-	0	0	0	0	0	0
1987	-	0	0	0	0	0	0
1991–present	See Zimbabwe national under-23 football team
Total	4/4	0	0	0	0	0	0

COSAFA Cup record

CECAFA Cup record

Results and fixtures

2017

Mozambique  v  Zimbabwe

26 June 2017 COSAFA Cup GS	Mozambique	0–4	Zimbabwe	Moruleng, South Africa
17:00 SAST		Report	Karuru  45+2', 66' Mushure  78' Malajila  90+3'	Stadium: Moruleng Stadium Referee: Ahmad Imtehaz Heeralall (Mauritius)

Zimbabwe  v  Madagascar

28 June 2017 COSAFA Cup GS	Zimbabwe	0–0	Madagascar	Phokeng, South Africa
17:00 SAST		Report		Stadium: Royal Bafokeng Stadium Referee: Joshua Bondo (Botswana)

Zimbabwe  v  Seychelles

30 June 2017 COSAFA Cup GS	Zimbabwe	6–0	Seychelles	Phokeng, South Africa
17:00 SAST	Karuru  24', 26', 67' Dube  57' Mushure  85', 90+3'	Report		Stadium: Royal Bafokeng Stadium Referee: Jackson Pavaza (Namibia)

Swaziland  v  Zimbabwe

2 July 2017 COSAFA Cup QF	Swaziland	1–2	Zimbabwe	Phokeng, South Africa
19:30 SAST	Badenhorst  48'	Report	Karuru  16' Mutizwa  79'	Stadium: Royal Bafokeng Stadium Referee: Victor Gomes (South Africa)

Lesotho  v  Zimbabwe

5 July 2017 COSAFA Cup SF	Lesotho	3–4	Zimbabwe	Moruleng, South Africa
19:30 SAST	Motebang  42' Potloane  80' Koetle  90+2' (pen.)	Report	Mutizwa  19', 51', 83' Chawapiwa  64'	Stadium: Moruleng Stadium Referee: Hélder Martins De Carvalho (Angola)

Zambia  v  Zimbabwe

9 July 2017 COSAFA Cup Final	Zambia	1–3	Zimbabwe	Phokeng, South Africa
15:00 SAST	Mundia  39'	Report	Mutizwa  2' Chawapiwa  57' Mushure  67'	Stadium: Royal Bafokeng Stadium Referee: Ahmad Imtehaz Heeralall (Mauritius)

Namibia  v  Zimbabwe

16 July 2018 CHANQ	Namibia	1–0	Zimbabwe	Windhoek, Namibia
15:00 WAT	Somaeb  47'	Report		Stadium: Sam Nujoma Stadium Referee: Dennis Nguluwe (Malawi)

Zimbabwe  v  Namibia

23 July 2018 CHANQ	Zimbabwe	1–0 (1–1 agg.) (4–5 p)	Namibia	Harare, Zimbabwe
15:00 CAT	Dube  39'	Report		Stadium: National Sports Stadium Referee: Thulani Sibandze (Swaziland)
		Penalties

2018

Zambia  v  Zimbabwe

21 March 2018 FNT	Zambia	2–2 (a.e.t.) (5–4 p)	Zimbabwe	Ndola, Zambia
18:00 CAT	Shonga  64' Kambole  90'	Report	Shamujompa  47' (o.g.) Chawapiwa  74'	Stadium: Levy Mwanawasa Stadium Referee: Tirelo Mositwane (Botswana)

Angola  v  Zimbabwe

24 March 2018 FNT	Angola	2–2 (a.e.t.) (4–2 p)	Zimbabwe	Ndola, Zambia
14:00 CAT	Djalma  45+1' Yano  90'	Report	Amidu  22' Chawapiwa  54'	Stadium: Levy Mwanawasa Stadium Attendance: 36,000 Referee: Patrick Ngoleka (Malawi)

Zimbabwe  v  Botswana

3 June 2018 COSAFA Cup QF	Zimbabwe	1–1 (a.e.t.) (3–1 p)	Botswana	Polokwane, South Africa
17:30 SAST	Rusike  39'	Report	Makgantai  60'	Stadium: Peter Mokaba Stadium Referee: Hélder Martins De Carvalho (Angola)
		Penalties
	Amidu Mukombwe Billiat		Seakanyeng Sosome Orebonye Kgamanyane

Lesotho  v  Zimbabwe

6 June 2018 COSAFA Cup SF	Lesotho	0–0 (a.e.t.) (1–3 p)	Zimbabwe	Polokwane, South Africa
19:30 SAST		Report		Stadium: Peter Mokaba Stadium Referee: Ahmad Imtehaz Heeralall (Mauritius)
		Penalties
	Kalake Moremoholo Nkoto Thabantso		Billiat Mukombwe Mudimu

Zambia  v  Zimbabwe

9 June 2018 COSAFA Cup Final	Zambia	2–4 (a.e.t.)	Zimbabwe	Polokwane, South Africa
15:00 SAST	Kambole  8', 50'	Report	Kadewere  4', 90+3' Billiat  101' (pen.), 117'	Stadium: Peter Mokaba Stadium Referee: Hélder Martins De Carvalho (Angola)

Congo  v  Zimbabwe

7 September 2019 AFCONQ	Congo	v	Zimbabwe	Congo
		Report

DR Congo  v  Zimbabwe

10 October 2019 AFCONQ	DR Congo	v	Zimbabwe	DR Congo
		Report

Zimbabwe  v  DR Congo

13 October 2019 AFCONQ	Zimbabwe	v	DR Congo	Zimbabwe
		Report

Liberia  v  Zimbabwe

16 November 2019 AFCONQ	Liberia	v	Zimbabwe	Liberia
		Report

2019

Zimbabwe  v  Congo

22 March 2019 AFCONQ	Zimbabwe	v	Congo	Zimbabwe
		Report

Source: Soccerway

Players

Current squad

The following players for the March 2018 Four Nations Tournament^[11]Caps and goals updated as of 23 January 2017 after 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Edmore Sibanda			0	CAPS United
	1GK	George Chigova	(1991-03-07) 7 March 1991 (age 27)	7	0	Polokwane City
23	1GK	Takabva Mawaya	(1993-03-02) 2 March 1993 (age 25)	0	0	Hwange
15	2DF	Teenage Hadebe	(1995-09-17) 17 September 1995 (age 22)	11	4	Kaizer Chiefs
2	2DF	Costa Nhamoinesu	(1986-01-06) 6 January 1986 (age 32)	11	1	Sparta Prague
	2DF	Adam Chicksen	(1991-09-27) 27 September 1991 (age 26)	0	0	Bradford City
	2DF	Praise Tonha		0	0	CAPS United
	2DF	Jimmy Dzingai		0	0	Yadah Stars
	2DF	Devine Lunga		0	0	Chicken Inn
	2DF	Cliff Moyo	(1993-04-06) 6 April 1993 (age 25)	0	0	Halifax Town
	3MF	Talent Chawapiwa	(1992-06-03) 3 June 1992 (age 26)	14	3	Baroka
	3MF	Andy Rinomhota	(1997-04-21) 21 April 1997 (age 21)	0	0	Reading
	3MF	Alec Mudimu	(1995-04-08) 8 April 1995 (age 23)	0	0	Cefn Druids
	3MF	Butholezwe Ncube		0	0	Amazulu
	3MF	Marshall Munetsi	(1996-06-22) 22 June 1996 (age 22)	0	0	Orlando Pirates
18	3MF	Marvelous Nakamba	(1994-01-19) 19 January 1994 (age 24)	7	0	Club Brugge
	4FW	Ovidy Karuru	(1989-01-23) 23 January 1989 (age 29)	25	7	Amazulu
	4FW	Silas Songani	(1989-06-28) 28 June 1989 (age 29)	0	0	SonderjyskE
	4FW	Abbas Amidu		0	0	El-Entag El-Harby
8	4FW	Evans Rusike	(1990-06-13) 13 June 1990 (age 28)	10	2	Maritzburg United
21	4FW	Tino Kadewere	(1996-01-05) 5 January 1996 (age 22)	4	0	Djurgården

Recent call-ups

The following players have been called up for Zimbabwe in the last 12 months.^[12]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
16	1GK	Tatenda Mkuruva	(1996-01-04) 4 January 1996 (age 22)	17	0	Cape Town City F.C. (2016)
1	1GK	Bernard Donovan	(1995-07-12) 12 July 1995 (age 23)	10	0	How Mine
	2DF	Dennis Dauda			0	Yadah Stars
	2DF	Tendayi Darikwa	(1991-12-13) 13 December 1991 (age 26)	1	0	Nottingham Forest
	2DF	Qadr Amini				Ngezi Platinum F.C.
	2DF	Jameson Mukombwe				Black Rhinos F.C.
	2DF	Kelvin Moyo				F.C. Platinum
	2DF	Peter Muduwa				Highlanders F.C.
	3MF	Kundai Benyu	(1997-12-12) 12 December 1997 (age 20)			Celtic
4	2DF	Hardlife Zvirekwi	(1987-05-05) 5 May 1987 (age 31)	41	0	CAPS United
6	2DF	Onismor Bhasera	(1986-01-07) 7 January 1986 (age 32)	33	0	SuperSport United
5	2DF	Elisha Muroiwa	(1989-01-28) 28 January 1989 (age 29)	12	1	Dynamos
12	2DF	Bruce Kangwa	(1988-07-24) 24 July 1988 (age 30)	12	0	Azam
22	2DF	Oscar Machapa	(1987-06-01) 1 June 1987 (age 31)	12	0	Vita Club
19	2DF	Lawrence Mhlanga	(1993-12-20) 20 December 1993 (age 24)	10	2	Chicken Inn
	3MF	Ali Sadiki	(1987-12-10) 10 December 1987 (age 30)	8	1	F.C. Platinum
	3MF	Liberty Chakoroma				Ngezi Platinum F.C.
	3MF	Devon Chafa	(1990-12-25) 25 December 1990 (age 27)	3	0	CAPS United
	3MF	Leeroy Mavunga				Yadah Stars
	3MF	Ishmael Wadi				Bulawayo City F.C.
	3MF	Kudakwashe Mahachi	(1993-09-29) 29 September 1993 (age 24)	21	3	Golden Arrows
3	3MF	Danny Phiri	(1989-07-25) 25 July 1989 (age 29)	33	2	Golden Arrows
20	3MF	Khama Billiat	(1990-08-19) 19 August 1990 (age 27)	26	7	Mamelodi Sundowns
14	3MF	Willard Katsande	(1986-01-15) 15 January 1986 (age 32)	26	3	Kaizer Chiefs
17	4FW	Knowledge Musona	(1990-06-21) 21 June 1990 (age 28)	29	17	Anderlecht
11	4FW	Tendai Ndoro	(1985-04-15) 15 April 1985 (age 33)	11	4	Al-Faisaly FC
	4FW	Admiral Muskwe	(1998-08-21) 21 August 1998 (age 19)			Leicester
13	4FW	Cuthbert Malajila	(1985-10-03) 3 October 1985 (age 32)	31	9	Mamelodi Sundowns
9	4FW	Nyasha Mushekwi	(1987-08-21) 21 August 1987 (age 30)	18	6	Dalian Yifang
7	4FW	Matthew Rusike	(1990-06-28) 28 June 1990 (age 28)	8	1	Cape Town City
7	4FW	Macauley Bonne	(1995-10-26) 26 October 1995 (age 22)	2	0	Leyton Orient

References

External links

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• 
  Zimbabwe Football Association official website