Nigeria National Football Team

The Nigeria national football team, nicknamed the Super Eagles, is the national team of Nigeria and is controlled by the Nigeria Football Association. They reached the World Cup for the first time in Football World Cup 1994 and have been there the two times since. They have yet to make it out of the second round. Nigeria won the African Nations Cup twice (1980 and 1994), and also won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Nigeria's youth teams won the inaugural Under-16 World Championship in 1985 and the Under-17 (the age limit was raised) title in 1993.

World Cup record

African Nations Cup record

  • 1957 - Did not enter
  • 1959 - Did not enter
  • 1962 - Withdrew
  • 1963 - Round 1
  • 1965 - Did not enter
  • 1968 - Did not qualify
  • 1970 - Withdrew
  • 1972 - Did not qualify
  • 1974 - Did not qualify
  • 1976 - Third place
  • 1978 - Third place
  • 1980 - Champions
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    • 1982 - Round 1
    • 1984 - Second place
    • 1986 - Did not qualify
    • 1988 - Second place
    • 1990 - Second place
    • 1992 - Third place
    • 1994 - Champions
    • 1996 - Withdrew after qualifying
    • 1998 - Banned for failure to participate in 1996
    • 2000 - Second place
    • 2002 - Third place
    • 2004 - Third place

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