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TOURNAMENT	P	W	D	L	GF	GA
2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers - Africa	4	1	0	3	11	13
2022 COSAFA Cup	3	0	0	3	1	6
2023 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers	2	0	1	1	1	3
2022 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers	2	0	0	2	1	3
2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers - Africa	2	0	0	2	0	10
2018 COSAFA Cup	3	0	2	1	3	4
2017 COSAFA Cup	3	0	0	3	1	9
2018 CHAN Qualifiers	2	0	1	1	2	3
2019 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers	6	0	1	5	3	25
COSAFA Castle Cup 2016	3	0	0	3	0	10
2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers - Africa	2	0	0	2	0	3
2017 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers	6	1	1	4	5	11
2015 Cosafa Cup	3	0	1	2	0	2
2015 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers	3	0	1	2	0	5
2013 Cosafa Cup	2	0	0	2	2	8
2014 CHAN Qualifiers	2	0	0	2	1	6
2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers	2	0	0	2	0	7
2011 CHAN Qualifiers	2	1	1	0	1	0
2010 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers - Africa	6	0	0	6	4	17
2013 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers	4	0	2	2	0	7

Seychelles

Nickname:: The Pirates

Founded:: 1979

Joined FIFA:: 1986

Website:: www.sff.sc

The Seychelles competed in the Cosafa
Castle Cup for the first time in 2005 when they played in the mini tournament
in Mauritius, but were beaten 3-0 by South Africa on a pond-like pitch in
Curepipe.

The island nation, who were granted
membership of Cosafa in 1999, had been excluded from previous editions of the
competition because of their failure to send a team to all of Cosafa’s youth
tournaments, which is prerequisite for participation in the Cosafa Senior
Challenge.

But in recent years, they have fulfilled
that obligation and now pit their talent against the region’s best.

After a disappointing showing in 2006 and
2007, they won their first-ever match in the competition as they hammered
Mauritius 7-0, in no small part thanks to four goals from Philip Zialor, the
only player to score four times in a Cosafa senior tournament match.

However, a draw against Madagascar and a
defeat to Swaziland meant they failed to make the quarterfinals.

They lost all three of their matches in the
2009 event to Swaziland, Comoros and Botswana.

The Seychelles is the smallest country in
Africa but have made fine strides at full international level, winning two of
their matches in the 2004 African Nations Cup qualifying group, when they beat
both Zimbabwe and Eritrea at home. In 2001, the country also hosted the African
under-17 championships.

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Percy Tau of South Africa challenged by Bertrand Esther of Seychelles during the 2019 African Cup of Nations match between South Africa and Seychelles at the FNB Stadium, Johannesburg on 13 October 2018 ©Muzi Ntombela/BackpagePix