Cameroon national football team

The **Cameroon national football team** (French: _Équipe nationale du camerounaise de football_) is the national football team of Cameroon.

## Competitive record

|colspan=9|FIFA World Cup|width=1% rowspan=39||colspan=6|FIFA World Cup Qualifying|||||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1930|colspan=8 rowspan=7|_Did not enter_|colspan=6 rowspan=7|_Did not enter_||||||||||||
|1934||||||||||||||||
|1938||||||||||||||||
|1950||||||||||||||||
|1954||||||||||||||||
|1958||||||||||||||||
|1962||||||||||||||||
|1966|colspan=8|_Withdrew_|colspan=6|_Withdrew_||||||||||||
|1970|colspan=8 rowspan=3|_Did not qualify_|2|0|1|1|3|4||||||||
|1974|3|1|1|1|1|3||||||||||
|1978|2|0|1|1|2|4||||||||||
|1982|Group Stage|17th|3|0|3|0|1|1|8|5|1|2|16|5||
|1986|colspan=8|_Did not qualify_|2|0|1|1|2|5||||||||
|1990|Quarter-finals|7th|5|3|0|2|7|9|8|6|1|1|12|6||
|1994|rowspan=3|Group stage|22nd|3|0|1|2|3|11|8|5|2|1|14|4|
|1998|25th|3|0|2|1|2|5|6|4|2|0|10|4|||
|2002|20th|3|1|1|1|2|3|10|8|1|1|20|4|||
|2006|colspan=8|_Did not qualify_|10|6|3|1|18|10||||||||
|2010|rowspan=2|Group stage|31st|3|0|0|3|2|5|12|9|2|1|23|4|
|2014|32nd|3|0|0|3|1|9|8|5|2|1|12|4|||
|2018|colspan=8|_Did not qualify_|8|2|5|1|10|9||||||||
|2022|colspan=8 rowspan=2|_To be determined_||||||||||||||
|2026||||||||||||||||
|**Total**|<small>**Quarter-finals**</small>|**7/21**|**23**|**4**|**7**|**12**|**18**|**43**|**87**|**51**|**23**|**13**|**143**|**65**||

### FIFA Confederations Cup

|colspan=10|FIFA Confederations Cup record|||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1992|rowspan=4 colspan=9|_Did not qualify_||||||||
|1995||||||||||
|1997||||||||||
|1999||||||||||
|2001|Group stage|6th|3|1|0|2|2|4|Squad|
|2003|**Runners-up**|**2nd**|**5**|**3**|**1**|**1**|**3**|**1**|Squad|
|2005|rowspan=3 colspan=9|_Did not qualify_||||||||
|2009||||||||||
|2013||||||||||
|2017|Group stage|7th|3|0|1|2|2|6|Squad|

### Africa Cup of Nations

|colspan=9|Africa Cup of Nations record||||||||||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1957|_Part of _||||||||||||||||
|1959|||||||||||||||||
|1962|_Not affiliated to CAF_||||||||||||||||
|1963|||||||||||||||||
|1965|_Did not enter_||||||||||||||||
|1968|_Did not qualify_||||||||||||||||
|1970|Group stage|5th|3|2|0|1|7|5|||||||||
|1972|**Third place**|**3rd**|**5**|**3**|**1**|**1**|**10**|**5**|||||||||
|1974|_Did not qualify_||||||||||||||||
|1976|||||||||||||||||
|1978|||||||||||||||||
|1980|||||||||||||||||
|1982|Group stage|5th|3|0|3|0|1|1|||||||||
|1984||**Champions**||**1st**||**5**||**3**||**1**||**1**||**9**||**3**|
|1986||**Runners-up**||**2nd**||**5**||**3**||**2**||**0**||**8**||**5**|
|1988||**Champions**||**1st**||**5**||**3**||**2**||**0**||**4**||**1**|
|1990|Group stage|5th|3|1|0|2|2|3|||||||||
|1992|**Fourth place**|**4th**|**5**|**2**|**2**|**1**|**4**|**3**|||||||||
|1994|_Did not qualify_||||||||||||||||
|1996|Group stage|9th|3|1|1|1|5|7|||||||||
|1998|Quarter-finals|8th|4|2|1|1|5|4|||||||||
|2000||**Champions**||**1st**||**6**||**3**||**2**||**1**||**11**||**5**|
|2002||**Champions**||**1st**||**6**||**5**||**1**||**0**||**9**||**0**|
|2004|rowspan=2|Quarter-finals|6th|4|1|2|1|7|6||||||||
|2006|5th|4|3|1|0|8|2||||||||||
|2008||**Runners-up**||**2nd**||**6**||**4**||**0**||**2**||**14**||**8**|
|2010|Quarter-finals|7th|4|1|1|2|6|8|||||||||
|2012|_Did not qualify_||||||||||||||||
|2013|||||||||||||||||
|2015|Group stage|13th|3|0|2|1|2|3|||||||||
|2017|**Champions **|**1st**|**6**|**3**|**3**|**0**|**7**|**3**|||||||||
|2019|Round of 16|13th|4|1|2|1|4|3|||||||||
|2021|_Qualified as hosts_||||||||||||||||
|2023|_To be determined_||||||||||||||||
|2025|||||||||||||||||
|**5 Titles**|**19/33**|84|41|27|16|123|75||||||||||
- _*Denotes draws including knockout matches decided on penalties._
- _**Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil._

### African Nations Championship

|colspan=9|African Nations Championship record||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2009|_Did not qualify_||||||||
|2011|**Quarter-finals**|5th|4|3|1|0|5|0|
|2014|_Did not qualify_||||||||
|2016|**Quarter-finals**|5th|4|2|1|1|4|4|
|2018|Group stage|12th|3|0|1|2|1|3|
|2020|**Fourth place**|4th|6|2|2|2|4|8|
|2022|_To be determined_||||||||

### Summer Olympics

|colspan=9|Olympic Games Record||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1900 to 1960||colspan=8|_Did not enter_|||||||||
|1964 to 1972||colspan=8|_Did not qualify_|||||||||
|1976|_Did not enter_||||||||
|1980|_Did not qualify_||||||||
|1984|Round 1|11th|3|1|0|2|3|5|
|1988|_Did not qualify_||||||||
|1992–present|colspan=8|_See Cameroon national under-23 football team_|||||||
- _Football at the Summer Olympics has been an under-23 tournament since 1992._

### African Games

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

|colspan=9|African Games Record|||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|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|colspan=8|_See Cameroon national under-23 football team_||||||
|**Total**|**4/4**|**0**|**0**|**0**|**0**|**0**|**0**|

## Results and fixtures

The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

### Current squad

- The following 25 players were called up for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matches against Cape Verde and Rwanda on 26 and 30 March 2021.
- **Caps and goals are correct as  of:** 16 November 2020, after the match against Mozambique.

## Coaching staff

|Position|Name|
| --- | --- |
|Head coach|Toni Conceição|
|Assistant coach|Filipe Batista|
|Goalkeeping coach|Vasco Ferraz|
|Fitness coach|António Correia|
|Physiotherapist|Nuno Pontes|

## Records

- _Players in bold text are still active with Cameroon._

|width=30px|#|style="width:175px;"|Player|width=50px|Caps|width=50px|Goals|style="width:100px;"|Career|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Rigobert Song|137|5|1993–2010||||||
|2|Samuel Eto'o|118|56|1997–2014||||||
|Geremi Njitap|118|13|1996–2010|||||||
|4|Emmanuel Kundé|102|17|1979–1992||||||
|5|Jacques Songo'o|80|0|1983–2002||||||
|6|Roger Milla|77|43|1973–1994||||||
|7|**Nicolas N'Koulou**|75|2|2008–||||||
|8|François Omam-Biyik|73|26|1985–1998||||||
|9|**Carlos Kameni**|72|0|2001–||||||
|10|**Vincent Aboubakar**|69|23|2010–||||||
|Pierre Womé|69|1|1995–2012|||||||

|width=30px|#|style="width:175px;"|Player|width=50px|Goals|width=50px|Caps|width=50px|Ratio|style="width:100px;"|Career|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Samuel Eto'o <small>(list)</small>|56|118||1997–2014|||||||
|2|Roger Milla|43|77||1973–1994|||||||
|3|Patrick M'Boma|33|55||1995–2004|||||||
|4|François Omam-Biyik|26|73||1985–1998|||||||
|5|**Vincent Aboubakar**|23|69||2010–|||||||
|6|Alphonse Marie Tchami|21|57||1988–1998|||||||
|7|Pierre Webó|19|59||2003–2014|||||||
|8|Emmanuel Kundé|17|102||1979–1992|||||||
|9|**Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting**|16|55||2010–|||||||
|10|André Kana-Biyik|15|59||1985–1994|||||||

## Managers

|Dates|Name||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="vertical-align:top;"|{| class="wikitable"||||
|1960–1965|technical committee||||
|1965–1970|Dominique Colonna||||
|1970|Raymond Fobete||||
|1970–1973|Peter Schnittger||||
|1973–1975|Vladimir Beara||||
|1976–1979|Ivan Ridanović||||
|1980–1982|Branko Žutić||||
|1982|Jean Vincent||||
|1982–1984|Radivoje Ognjanović||||
|1985–1988|Claude Le Roy||||
|1988–1990|Valery Nepomnyashchy||||
|1990–1993|Philippe Redon||||
|1993–1994|Jean Manga-Onguéné||||
|}|style="vertical-align:top;"|{| class="wikitable"|||
|1994|Léonard Nseké||||
|1994|Henri Michel||||
|1994–1996|Jules Nyongha||||
|1996–1997|Henri Depireux||||
|1997–1998|Jean Manga-Onguéné||||
|1998|Claude Le Roy||||
|1998–2001|Pierre Lechantre||||
|2001|Robert Corfou||||
|2001|Jean-Paul Akono||||
|2001–2004|Winfried Schäfer||||
|2004–2006|Artur Jorge||||
|2006–2007|Arie Haan||||
|2007|Jules Nyongha|}|style="vertical-align:top;"|{| class="wikitable"|
|2007–2009|Otto Pfister||||
|2009|Thomas N'Kono||||
|2009–2010|Paul Le Guen||||
|2010–2011|Javier Clemente||||
|2011–2012|Denis Lavagne||||
|2012–2013|Jean-Paul Akono||||
|2013–2015|Volker Finke||||
|2015–2016|Alexandre Belinga||||
|2016–2017|Hugo Broos||||
|2017–2018|Rigobert Song||||
|2018–2019|Clarence Seedorf||||
|2019–present|Toni Conceição|}|||

## Infobox (national football team)

- **name**: Cameroon
- **badge size**: 170px
- **nickname**:
 (The Indomitable Lions)
- **association**: Cameroonian Football Federation, Fédération Camerounaise de Football
- **sub-confederation**: Central African Football Federations' Union, UNIFFAC
 (Central Africa)
- **confederation**: Confederation of African Football, CAF (Africa)
- **captain**: Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting
- **coach**: Toni Conceição
- **most caps**: Rigobert Song (137)
- **top scorer**: Samuel Eto'o (List of international goals scored by Samuel Eto'o, 56)
- **home stadium**: Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo
- **fifa trigramme**: CMR
- **fifa max**: 11
- **fifa max date**: November 2006 – January 2007, November – December 2009
- **fifa min**: 79
- **fifa min date**: February – March 2013
- **elo max**: 12
- **elo max date**: June 2003
- **elo min**: 76
- **elo min date**: April 1995
- **pattern b1**: _cmr21h
- **leftarm1**: 007B5E
- **body1**: 007B5E
- **rightarm1**: 007B5E
- **shorts1**: FF0000
- **socks1**: FFDD00
- **pattern la2**: _cmr19a
- **pattern b2**: _cmr19a
- **pattern ra2**: _cmr19a
- **leftarm2**: FFDD00
- **body2**: FFDD00
- **rightarm2**: FFDD00
- **shorts2**: 006E2F
- **socks2**: 006E2F
- **first game**: DR Congo national football team, Belgian Congo 3–2 **French Cameroon**
 (Belgian Congo; September 1956)
- **largest win**: 9–0
 (Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo; 7 April 1965)
- **largest loss**: 5–0
 (Seoul, South Korea; 4 October 1984)
  6–1
 (Oslo, Norway; 31 October 1990)
  6–1
 (Palo Alto, California, United States, USA; 28 June 1994)
  5–0
 (San José, Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica; 9 March 1997)
- **world cup apps**: 7
- **world cup first**: 1982
- **world cup best**: Quarter-finals, 1990 FIFA World Cup, 1990
- **regional name**: Africa Cup of Nations
- **regional cup apps**: 19
- **regional cup first**: 1970 African Cup of Nations, 1970
- **regional cup best**: Champions, 1984 African Cup of Nations, 1984, 1988 African Cup of Nations, 1988, 2000 African Cup of Nations, 2000, 2002 African Cup of Nations, 2002, 2017 Africa Cup of Nations, 2017
- **confederations cup apps**: 3
- **confederations cup first**: 2001
- **confederations cup best**: Second place, 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup, 2003
- **2ndregional name**: African Nations Championship
- **2ndregional cup apps**: 1
- **2ndregional cup first**: 2016 African Nations Championship, 2016
- **2ndregional cup best**: Quarter-finals, 2016 African Nations Championship, 2016