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TOURNAMENT	P	W	D	L	GF	GA
2025 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers	3	1	0	2	1	5
2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers - Africa	4	2	0	2	6	5
2022 COSAFA Cup	6	4	0	2	7	3
2023 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers	6	1	1	4	3	9
2021 COSAFA Cup	4	1	1	2	6	4
2022 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers	6	1	1	4	2	9
2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers - Africa	2	0	1	1	0	1
2018 COSAFA Cup	6	3	1	2	12	6
2017 COSAFA Cup	2	1	0	1	2	3
2018 CHAN Qualifiers	2	0	0	2	0	3
2019 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers	6	0	1	5	1	8
COSAFA Castle Cup 2016	3	2	0	1	3	4
2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers - Africa	4	3	0	1	7	4
2017 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers	6	2	0	4	5	8
2015 Cosafa Cup	2	1	0	1	1	2
2015 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers	10	2	3	5	5	12
2013 Cosafa Cup	3	1	2	0	5	4
2014 CHAN Qualifiers	2	0	1	1	1	3
2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers	6	2	1	3	8	10
2012 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers	8	5	2	1	7	3
2011 CHAN Qualifiers	2	0	1	1	1	2
2010 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers - Africa	6	1	2	3	3	8
2013 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers	1	0	0	1	0	3
2012 Africa Cup of Nations	1	0	0	1	0	1
2013 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers	1	0	0	1	1	4
2012 Africa Cup of Nations	2	0	0	2	2	8

Botswana

Nickname:: Ezimbizi (The Zebras)

Founded:: 1970

Joined FIFA:: 1978

Website:: www.bfa.co.bw

Botswana have showed a marked improvement
in international competition over the last years, using Cosafa tournaments as
the basis of their preparation and progress.

It took almost a decade of competition
before the Zebras made a breakthrough, but the side reached the semifinals of
the Cosafa Castle Cup in 2006 and repeated the feat the next year.

Their achievement in 2006 came after they
beat South Africa on post-match penalties and the next year there was another
upset triumph, this time over World Cup finalists Angola.

It was in 2003 that Botswana finally ended
their search for the ‘Holy Grail’ when their seven-year run without a win in
the Cosafa Castle Cup was broken. They had long been the only country of the
original entrants to the tournament never to win a game.

An early goal from Tshepiso Molwantwa in
their first round match away against Namibia in Windhoek finally broke the
duck.

Botswana also came close to qualification
to the Africa Cup of Nations finals in 2008, when they needed an away win in
Egypt in their last game to qualify, only to lose the match by a single goal.

They went one better in 2012 though,
reaching the continental showpiece event in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, but
exited in the first round.

Botswana was formerly the seat of the
Council of Southern Africa Football Associations but it has been handicapped
over the years by the country’s sparse population. Botswana remains one of
Africa’s richest and most political stable countries and is also where FIFA
have placed its development office for the region.

GALLERY

Tumisang Orebonye of Botswana challenged by Siyabonga Nhlapho of South Africa during 2018 Chan Qualifiers game between South Africa and Botswana at Moruleng Stadium on 22 July 2017 ©Aubrey Kgakatsi/BackpagePix

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STATISTICS

2014 CHAN QUALIFIERS TEAM RECORD
	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Y	R	PTS
OVERALL RECORD	2	0	1	1	1	3	0	0	0	1
HOME RECORD	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	1
AWAY RECORD	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	2	1	0
LAST 10
LAST 10:	10	4	0	6	10	16	-4	0	0	12
LAST 10 HOME:	5	2	0	3	6	10	-4	0	0	6
LAST 10 AWAY:	5	2	0	3	4	6	0	0	0	6