Gabon national football team

**Gabon national football team** is the national football team of Gabon.

The team has never qualified for a World Cup. Gabon has participated in 7 Africa Cup of Nations tournaments (1994, 1996, 2000, 2010, 2012, 2015 and 2017).

The team's home stadium is the Stade Omar Bongo in Libreville. The stadium can fit 41,000 people.

## Recent matches

Source:

|width=140|Date|width=150|Type of Game|width=150|Home Team|width=60|Result|width=150|Away Team|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|4 June 2017|align=left|Friendly|align="left"||0–0|align="left"||||
|10 June 2017|align="left"|2019 AFCON Q|align="left"||2–1|align="left"||||
|12 August 2017|align=left|2018 CHAN Q|align="left"||cancelled|align="left"||||
|19 August 2017|align=left|2018 CHAN Q|align="left"||cancelled|align="left"||||
|2 September 2017|align=left|2018 FIFA WCQ|align="left"||0–3|align="left"||||
|5 September 2017|align=left|2018 FIFA WCQ|align="left"||1–2|align="left"||||
|7 October 2017|align=left|2018 FIFA WCQ|align="left"||3–0|align="left"||||
|10 October 2017|align=left|Friendly|align="left"||0–1|align="left"||||
|11 November 2017|align=left|2018 FIFA WCQ|align="left"||0–0|align="left"||||
|15 November 2017|align=left|Friendly|align="left"||0–0|align="left"||||
|22 March 2018|align="left"|2019 AFCON Q|align="left"||v.|align="left"||||
|5 September 2018|align="left"|2019 AFCON Q|align="left"||v.|align="left"||||
|9 September 2018|align="left"|2019 AFCON Q|align="left"||v.|align="left"||||

### Top scorers

|width=50px|#|style="width:200px;"|Player|width=50px|Goals|width=50px|Caps|style="width:100px;"|Career|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|**Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang**|23|56|2009–||||||
|=|Théodore Nzue Nguema|23|77|1995–2005||||||
|3|Guy Roger Nzamba|21|47|1988–2000||||||
|4|Brice Mackaya|15|38|1992–1999||||||
|5|Daniel Cousin|13|56|2000–2014||||||
|6|**Malick Evouna**|12|32|2012–||||||
|=|Valéry Ondo|12|36|1988–2001||||||
|8|Bruno Zita Mbanangoyé|11|68|1999–2012||||||

### Most appearances

|width=50px|#|style="width:200px;"|Player|width=50px|Caps|width=50px|Goals|style="width:100px;"|Career|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Didier Ovono|102|20|2003–2017||||||
|2|François Amégasse|82|9|1984–2000||||||
|3|Cédric Moubamba|81|2|1998–2012||||||
|4|Théodore Nzue Nguema|77|23|1995–2005||||||
|5|Etienne Kassa-Ngoma|74|7|1985–1997||||||
|6|**Bruno Ecuele Manga**|70|8|2007–||||||
|7|Bruno Zita Mbanangoyé|68|11|1999–2012||||||
|8|**Rodrigue Moundounga**|65|1|2001–||||||
|9|**Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang**|56|23|2009–||||||
|=|Daniel Cousin|56|13|2000–2014||||||

## Other websites

- Homepage of the national team
- Gabon  at FIFA.com

## Infobox (national football team)

- **name**: Gabon
- **nickname**: _Les Panthères_
 (The Panthers)
 _Les Brésiliens_
 (The Brazil national football team, Brazilians)
- **association**: Gabonese Football Federation
- **sub-confederation**: Central African Football Federations' Union, UNIFFAC (Central Africa)
- **confederation**: Confederation of African Football, CAF (Africa)
- **coach**: Daniel Cousin
- **captain**: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
- **most caps**: Didier Ovono (111)
- **top scorer**: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (24)
- **home stadium**: Stade Omar Bongo
- **fifa trigramme**: GAB
- **fifa max**: 30
- **fifa max date**: July 2009
- **fifa min**: 125
- **fifa min date**: April–May 2003
- **elo max**: 63
- **elo max date**: November 1996
- **elo min**: 123
- **elo min date**: June 2004
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- **first game**: 5–4
 (Madagascar; 13 April 1960)
- **largest win**: 7–0
 (Libreville, Gabon; 2 April 1995)
- **largest loss**: 6–0
 (Abidjan, Ivory Coast; 26 December 1961)
  6–0
 (Rabat, Morocco; 15 November 2006)
- **regional name**: Africa Cup of Nations
- **regional cup apps**: 7
- **regional cup first**: 1994 African Cup of Nations, 1994
- **regional cup best**: Quarter-finals, 1996 African Cup of Nations, 1996 and 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, 2012