Rwanda national football team

The Rwanda national football team represents Rwanda in international football and is controlled by the Rwandese Association Football Federation, the governing body of football in Rwanda, and competes as a member of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), as well as the Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA), a CAF sub-confederation that governs football in East and Central Africa. The team bears the nickname Amavubi (Kinyarwanda for The Wasps), and primarily plays its home games at the Stade Amahoro in Kigali, the nation's capital. They have never qualified for a World Cup finals, and reached their first Africa Cup of Nations in 2004.

This article is about the men's team. For the women's team, see Rwanda women's national football team.
Rwanda
Nickname(s)Amavubi (The Wasps)
AssociationRwandese Association Football Federation
ConfederationCAF (Africa)
Sub-confederationCECAFA (East Africa)
Head coachVincent Mashami[1]
CaptainJacques Tuyisenge
Most capsHaruna Niyonzima (96)
Top scorerOlivier Karekezi (24)
Home stadiumStade Amahoro
FIFA codeRWA
First colours
Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current 131 (16 July 2020)[2]
Highest64 (March 2015)
Lowest178 (July 1999)
First international
 Burundi 6–2 Rwanda
(Libreville, Gabon; 29 June 1976)
Biggest win
 Rwanda 9–0 Djibouti 
(Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; 13 December 2007)
Biggest defeat
 Cameroon 5–0 Rwanda
(Libreville, Gabon; 7 July 1976)
 Zaire 6–1 Rwanda
(Gabon; 12 July 1976)
 Tunisia 5–0 Rwanda
(Tunis, Tunisia; 10 April 1983)
 Uganda 5–0 Rwanda
(Kampala, Uganda; 1 August 1998)
Africa Cup of Nations
Appearances1 (first in 2004)
Best resultGroup stage, 2004

History

Rwanda qualified for its first Africa Cup of Nations in the 2004 edition.[3] At the tournament, they lost their opening match 2–1 to Tunisia before winning their first ever point in the competition after a 1–1 draw against Guinea.[4] Rwanda went on to beat DR Congo in their final group match by a 1–0 scoreline, but it wasn't enough, as elsewhere in the group, Guinea and Tunisia drew, meaning both teams progressed to the quarter-finals, and Rwanda were eliminated.[5]

Team image

Kit

In 2001, after adopting the new flag of Rwanda, The Federation (FERWAFA) changed the color of the team kit. The new team kit consists of a yellow jersey, blue shorts and green socks for home matches, while their away kit is either all white or all blue. Adidas has generally been the manufacturer for the Rwandan team since 2001.[6] However, between 2004 and 2009, Rwanda used L-sport as their outfitter, and in 2015 the side started wearing kit provided by AMS, an emerging Australian supplier.

Names

Under the official FIFA Trigramme the team's name is abbreviated as RWA; this acronym is used by FIFA, the CAF and the CECAFA to identify the team in official competitions.[7] However the team was more commonly known as the RR, the acronym for the country's official name, Repubulika y'u Rwanda or République du Rwanda, which the local press used when they referred to the team as the RR XI. The national team is often referred to as Amavubi (The Wasps).[8][9]

Honours

Competition records

World Cup record
FIFA World Cup record FIFA World Cup Qualification record
Year Round Position Pld W D* L GF GA Pld W D L GF GA
1930 Did not enter Declined participation
1934
1938
1950
1954
1958
1962
1966
1970
1974
1978
1982
1986
1990 Withdrew Withdrew
1994 Did not enter Declined participation
1998 Did not qualify 2 0 0 2 1 5
2002 2 0 1 1 2 4
2006 12 2 3 7 10 17
2010 10 3 2 5 8 11
2014 8 1 3 4 7 13
2018 2 0 0 2 1 4
2022 To be determined To be determined
2026
Total 0/21 36 6 9 21 29 54

CECAFA Cup record
Main article: CECAFA Cup
CECAFA Cup
Appearances: 21
Year Round Position Pld W D L GF GA
1973Did not enter
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979Group stage6th201115
1980Champions1st430152
1981Group stage7th302124
19826th200203
19835th421143
1984Did not enter
1985
1987
1988
1989
1990Runners-up2nd421153
1991Fourth place4th401339
1992Did not enter
1994
1995
1996Third place3rd412166
1999Quarter-finals8th302114
2000Did not enter
2001
2002Group stage6th411245
2003Fourth place4th421182
2004Third place3rd5311116
2005Group stage6th4202712
2006Champions1st623174
20071st523086
2008Group stage6th412132
2009Did not enter
2010Group stage10th301205
2011Third place3rd633063
2012Group stage9th310213
2013Runners-up2nd640284
2015Fourth place4th621374
2017Did not enter
Total3 Titles21/39863127338761

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