Mauritius national football team

The Mauritius national football team (French: Équipe de Maurice de football), nicknamed Club M and Les Dodos (The Dodos), is the national team of Mauritius. They are overseen by the Mauritius Football Association and are members of FIFA, the Confederation of African Football (CAF), and the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA). The head coach is Boualem Mankour.

Mauritius

Nickname(s)	Club M, Les Dodos
Association	Mauritius Football Association
Confederation	CAF (Africa)
Sub-confederation	COSAFA (Southern Africa)
Head coach	Boualem Mankour
Captain	Kevin Bru
Most caps	Henri Speville (72)
Top scorer	Daniel Imbert (17)
Home stadium	Stade George V
FIFA code	MRI
First colours Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	172 (10 December 2020)[1]
Highest	112 (December 1992)
Lowest	203 (November 2012)
First international
Mauritius 2–1 Réunion  (Madagascar; 1947)
Biggest win
Mauritius 15–2 Réunion  (Madagascar; 1950)
Biggest defeat
Egypt 7–0 Mauritius  (Port Said, Egypt; 8 June 2003)  Seychelles 7–0 Mauritius  (Witbank, South Africa; 19 July 2008)  Senegal 7–0 Mauritius  (Dakar, Senegal; 9 October 2010)
Africa Cup of Nations
Appearances	1 (first in 1974)
Best result	Group stage, 1974

Their most significant achievements are qualification for the 1974 African Cup of Nations, and winning the Indian Ocean Island Games football tournament in 1985 and 2003. They have also been a finalist in this competition in 1990, 2011 and 2019.

History

Early years

Mauritius played its first competitive international game in 1947 against Réunion, which they won 2–1. For the next twenty years, they would only play Réunion and Madagascar (probably due to the close proximity of the three islands to each other) in friendlies and the Indian Ocean Games Triangulaire, which existed from 1947–1963. Mauritius won the competition ten times over that time period, were runners-up twice, and came in third once.

1960s–1990s

Starting in 1967, Mauritius began competing against other countries, playing friendlies and entering in such competitions as the Africa Cup of Nations and the FIFA World Cup qualifiers, though they haven't found much success. While they have never qualified for the World Cup finals, they have qualified once for the Africa Cup of Nations, in 1974, however, they were eliminated in the group stages. Mauritius did manage to win the resurrected Indian Ocean Games in 1985. In 1999, after deadly riots caused by supporters of Scouts Club (renamed as Port Louis Sporting Club[2]) angry about a controversial penalty awarded to Fire Brigade Sports Club (now renamed as Pamplemousses SC[2]) in the championship deciding game, which gave Fire Brigade a 1–0 win, all domestic football was suspended for 18 months, and only the national team was allowed to play. This is regarded as the point at which Mauritian football, both on the domestic and international stage, started on a downward slope.

The new millennium to present day

Throughout the new millennium, the national team's performances progressively declined. From a high of the 116th place in the FIFA rankings in 2000, they tumbled down to an all-time low of the 195th place in the Summer of 2011. The best result since the 1974 CAN Championship has been reaching the quarterfinals of the 2004 COSAFA Cup, beating South Africa 2–0 in January 2004. Mauritius eventually lost out 3–1 to the tournament's favourites Zambia. Mauritius has also cycled through many head coaches, especially since the new millennium, but none have had true success. Mauritius did win its second IOG championship in the 2003 edition, held in Mauritius, under head coach Akbar Patel. Besides that, Mauritius has lost a majority of its matches.

During 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification, Les Dodos achieved their best results in many year, defeating both Mozambique and Rwanda. However, they were unable to build on these wins, losing to Comoros and then São Tomé and Príncipe in the preliminary round of the next two editions.

Awards and records

Indian Ocean Games Triangulaire (10) :

• Winners : 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957

Indian Ocean Games (2) :

• Winners : 1985, 2003

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 to 1970	Did not enter									Did not enter
1974	Did not qualify									2	0	1	1	3	5
1978 to 1982	Did not enter									Did not enter
1986	Did not qualify									2	0	0	2	0	5
1990	Banned by FIFA									Banned by FIFA
1994	Did not enter									Did not enter
1998	Did not qualify									2	0	0	2	1	7
2002										2	0	0	2	2	6
2006										2	1	0	1	3	4
2010										6	0	1	5	3	17
2014	Withdrew during qualifying									Withdrew during qualifying
2018	Did not qualify									2	0	1	1	2	5
2022	Did not qualify									2	0	0	2	0	3
2026	To be determined									To be determined
Total										20	1	3	16	14	52

Africa Cup of Nations record

Africa Cup of Nations record
Host nation(s) / Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA
1957	Not affiliated to CAF
1959
1962
1963
1965
1968	Did not qualify
1970
1972
1974	Group stage	8th	3	0	0	3	2	8
1976	Did not qualify
1980
1982
1984
1986
1988	Withdrew
1990	Did not qualify
1992
1994
1996
1998
2000
2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
2013	Did not enter
2015	Did not qualify
2017
2019
2021
2023	To be determined
Total	Round 1	1/32	3	0	0	3	2	8

COSAFA Senior Challenge Cup record 1997 to 1999 – Did not enter 2000 – First round knockout 2001 – Quarter-finals 2002 to 2003 – First round knockout 2004 – Quarter-finals 2005 – Group A final 2006 – Group A 3rd place 2007 – Group B final 2008 – Group A 4th place 2009 – Group A 3rd place 2010 – Cancelled 2013 – Group A 2nd place 2015 – Group A 3rd place 2016 – Group B 3rd place 2017 – Group A 3rd place 2018 – Group B 3rd place

COSAFA Cup COSAFA Cup Record Year Rank Pld W D L GF GA 1997 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1998 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1999 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2001 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2002 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2003 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2004 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2005 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2006 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2007 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2008 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2009 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2013 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2015 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2016 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2017 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2018 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2019 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 0/19 - - - - - - African Nations Championship record African Nations Championship Appearances: 0 Year Round Position Pld W D L GF GA 2009 Withdrew 2011 Did not enter 2014 Did not qualify 2016 2018 2020 2022 TBD

International matches record

• Last update: 20 August 2017  Mauritius 1–0 Rwanda 

Opponent	Played	Won	Drew	Lost	GF	GA	GD	Last Played	Best Result
Angola	4	1	1	2	4	7	−3	29 April 2006	Angola 0–2 Mauritius  (Angola; 28 February 1999)
Burundi	1	0	1	0	2	2	0	25 March 2015	Mauritius 2–2 Burundi  (Mauritius; 25 March 2015)
Botswana	2	1	1	0	1	0	+1	10 June 1990	Botswana 0–1 Mauritius  (Botswana; 10 June 1990)
Cameroon	4	0	0	4	1	16	−15	3 September 2011	Mauritius 1–3 Cameroon  (Mauritius; 4 September 2010)
Cape Verde	2	0	0	2	1	4	−3	22 June 2008	Mauritius 0–1 Cape Verde  (Mauritius; 15 June 2008)
Comoros	8	7	1	0	22	1	+21	15 December 2012	Mauritius 5–0 Comoros  (Mauritius; 4 September 2003)
Congo	3	0	1	2	1	4	−3	3 June 2001	Congo 0–0 Mauritius  (Congo; 3 June 2001)
DR Congo	2	0	0	2	1	5	−4	5 June 2011	Mauritius 1–2 DR Congo  (Mauritius; 5 June 2011)
Ivory Coast	1	0	0	1	0	3	−3	21 March 2007	Mauritius 1–2 Ivory Coast  (Mauritius; 21 March 2007)
Egypt	5	0	0	5	2	18	−16	2 October 2009	Mauritius 0–1 Egypt  (Mauritius; 29 March 2003)
Ethiopia	4	1	0	3	3	5	−2	24 April 1983	Mauritius 1–0 Ethiopia  (Mauritius; 24 April 1983)
Gabon	4	0	1	3	2	10	−8	20 June 1999	Mauritius 2–2 Gabon  (Réunion; 20 June 1999)
Guinea	1	0	0	1	1	2	−1	5 March 1974	Guinea 2–1 Mauritius  (Egypt; 5 March 1974)
Hong Kong	1	0	0	1	3	4	−1	12 October 1999	Hong Kong 4–3 Mauritius  (Hong Kong; 12 October 1999)
India	1	0	0	1	1	2	-1	20 August 2017	India 2–1 Mauritius  (India; 20 August 2017)
Kenya	5	0	2	3	5	9	−4	12 July 1981	Mauritius 0–0 Kenya  (Mauritius; 18 July 1971)  Mauritius 2–2 Kenya  (Mauritius; 17 February 1973)
Lesotho	10	4	3	3	15	10	+5	21 October 2009	Mauritius 5–1 Lesotho  (Mauritius; 30 September 1973)
Liberia	2	0	0	2	0	6	−6	16 June 2001	Mauritius 0–2 Liberia  (Mauritius; 16 June 2001)
Madagascar	38	15	8	15	74	53	+21	23 July 2008	Mauritius 7–0 Madagascar  (Réunion; 31 July 1952)
Malawi	9	1	2	6	8	16	−8	21 June 1997	Mauritius 3–2 Malawi  (Mauritius; 28 January 1977)
Maldives	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	4 August 2011	Maldives 1–1 Mauritius  (Seychelles; 4 August 2011)
Mauritania	2	0	0	2	0	3	−3	20 April 2014	Mauritania 1–0 Mauritius  (Mauritania; 12 April 2014)
Mayotte	4	0	2	2	1	4	−3	11 August 2011	Mayotte 0–0 (4–5) Mauritius  (Seychelles; 11 August 2011)
Mozambique	5	0	2	3	1	9	−8	30 April 2006	Mauritius 0–0 Mozambique  (Mauritius; 16 September 1984)  Mauritius 0–0 Mozambique  (Lesotho; 30 April 2006)
Namibia	3	2	0	1	4	3	+1	6 July 2013	Namibia 1–2 Mauritius  (Namibia; 7 June 1990)  Mauritius 1–0 Namibia  (Mauritius; 8 April 2001)
Qatar	1	0	0	1	0	3	−3	5 September 2013	Qatar 3–0 Mauritius  (Qatar; 5 September 2014)
Réunion	36	19	10	7	102	40	+62	15 September 2012	Mauritius 15–2 Réunion  (Madagascar; 1950)
Rhodesia	2	2	0	0	5	3	+2	26 November 1967	Rhodesia 1–2 Mauritius  (Rhodesia; 25 November 1967)  Rhodesia 2–3 Mauritius  (Rhodesia; 26 November 1967)
Senegal	2	0	0	2	0	9	−9	9 October 2011	Senegal 2–0 Mauritius  (Mauritius; 9 October 2011)
Seychelles	22	11	5	6	39	27	+12	10 July 2013	Seychelles 2–6 Mauritius  (Mauritius; 28 August 1993)  Seychelles 0–4 Mauritius  (Zambia; 10 July 2013)
South Africa	12	1	3	8	5	19	−14	30 May 2009	Mauritius 2–0 South Africa  (Mauritius; 10 January 2004)
Sudan	2	0	0	2	1	5	−4	2 June 2007	Mauritius 1–2 Sudan  (Mauritius; 25 March 2007)
Tanzania	12	3	4	5	13	22	−9	6 September 2008	Mauritius 3–2 Tanzania  (Mauritius; 16 September 1979)
Togo	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	28 March 2015	Mauritius 1–1 Togo  (Mauritius; 28 March 2015)
Tunisia	2	0	1	1	0	2	−2	16 June 2007	Mauritius 0–0 Tunisia  (Mauritius; 3 September 2006)
Uganda	5	1	1	3	5	13	−8	16 November 2003	Mauritius 3–1 Uganda  (Mauritius; 16 November 2003)
Zaire	3	0	0	3	2	11	−9	16 June 1996	Zaire 2–0 Mauritius  (Zaire; 16 June 1996)
Zambia	11	0	2	9	6	28	−22	31 July 2004	Zambia 2–2 Mauritius  (Mauritius; 17 November 1978)  Mauritius 0–0 Zambia  (Mauritius; 23 February 1997)
Zimbabwe	8	1	1	6	4	15	−11	4 August 2013	Mauritius 2–0 Zimbabwe  (Mauritius; 29 August 1982)
Total	240	70	55	115	335	394	−59	28 March 2015	Mauritius 15–2 Réunion  (Madagascar; 1950)

Team image

Media coverage

For most home games of significant importance, the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation provides televised coverage.

Uniforms

Mauritius had relied on local clothing manufacturers to provide their uniforms before switching to Adidas in 2009. For home matches, Mauritius has white uniforms with red trim, while for road matches, the colors are switched. Emblazoned on the front is the MFA badge on the left and the Mauritian flag on the right. As from 2017, Spanish sportswear company Joma took over as their new kit supplier. In 2019 however, they switched back to Adidas.

Supporters' groups

On 30 May 2011, the official fan club of Club M, Kop Moris, was launched. The objective of this club is to build up excitement for Mauritius' games, fill up the stands as much as possible, and create a festive and family-friendly atmosphere. This fan club is officially sanctioned by the MFA.

Stadia

Mauritius plays the majority of their games at Stade George V (cap. 6,200). Games at Stade Anjalay (cap. 18,000) are reserved for higher profile matches. A new modern stadium Complexe Sportif de Côte d'Or, part of a larger sports complex, is currently under construction and is scheduled to be opened in July 2019. Once completed, the stadium will have a capacity of 30,000 seats.

Schedule

  Win   Draw   Loss

Players

Current squad

The following is the 18-man squad for the friendly match against Singapore on 7 September 2018.

Caps and goals as of 20 January 2020, after the game against  Seychelles.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	GK	Kévin Jean-Louis	27 June 1989	48	0	Pamplemousses
13	GK	Christopher Caserne	22 February 1993	13	0	Bolton City YC
2	DF	Lindsay Rose	8 February 1992	1	0	Aris Thessaloniki F.C.
6	DF	Jean-Fabrice Augustin	28 February 1995	3	1	La Cure Sylvester
	DF	Jean Francois		0	0
	DF	Jonathan Spéville	26 January 1991			Bolton City Youth Club
4	DF	Walter Duprey St Martin	7 July 1984			Pamplemousses
	DF	Mervyn Jocelyn	21 August 1991	2	0	Pamplemousses
5	DF	Francis Rasolofonirina	22 July 1987	46	2	Petite Rivière Noire
11	DF	Kerlson Agathe	27 September 1997	13	0	Pamplemousses
	MF	Samuel Brasse	15 July 1996	26	0	Bolton City
	MF	Adel Langue	27 September 1997	13	0	Deportivo Alaves
	MF	Andy Patate	18 June 1985			Petite Rivière Noire
16	MF	Kévin Perticots	1 May 1996	40	6	Pamplemousses
20	MF	Jérémy Villeneuve	25 April 1994	2	0	Ivry
	FW	Jonathan Justin	27 February 1991	4	0	US Colomiers Football
9	MF	Jean Nabab				Savanne SC
	MF	Gary Noël	7 March 1990	6	1	Weiche
7	FW	Andy Sophie	7 May 1990	53	11	Saint-Louisienne

Staff

Current staff

Position	Name
Head coach	Boualem Mankour
Technical Director	Zunaid Mall
Assistant coach	Gopal Jayasuriya
Assistant coach	Chady
Physiotherapist	Anuj Kumar
Head of Delegation	Deepak Choudhury

Managerial history

Dates	Name
1957–59	Harry Brophy
1959–63	Joseph Le Roy
1963–64	Danny McLennan
1970–88	Mohammad Anwar Elahee
1976–88	Helmut Kosmehl
1993	Rudi Gutendorf
1994–96	Mohammad Anwar Elahee
1997	Rudi Gutendorf
1998	Ashok Chundunsing
1998–02	Rajen Dorasami – France L'Aiguille
2002–03	Patrick Parizon
2003	Akbar Patel - Saoud Lallmahomed
2003–05	Elvis Antoine – Rajesh Gunesh
2006	Sarjoo Gowreesunkur
2006	Rajen Dorasami – France L'Aiguille
2007	Akbar Patel (2nd Time)
2007–08	Ashok Chundunsing
2008–09	Benjamin Théodore
2009–14	Akbar Patel (3rd Time)
2015	Didier Six
2015–16	Alain Happe
2016–17	Joe Tshupula
2017–18	Francisco Filho
2018–19	Akbar Patel (4th time)
2020-	Boualem Mankour

Player records

As of 20 January 2020[3]

Players in bold text are still active with Mauritius.

Most Caps # Player Caps Goals Career 1 Henri Speville 72 1 1995–2007 2 Jimmy Cundasamy 69 4 1997–2014 3 Jean Gilbert Bayaram 64 1 1995–2008 4 Daniel Imbert 53 17 1972–1983 Andy Sophie 53 11 2007–present 6 Jean-Marc Ithier 50 11 1988–2003 Christopher Perle 50 11 1995–2007 8 Jerry Louis 49 4 1999–2011 9 Kevin Jean-Louis 48 0 2009–present 10 Joseph Philogène 47 3 1988–2001

Most Goals # Player Caps Goals Ratio Career 1 Daniel Imbert 17 53 0.32 1972–1983 2 Jean-Yves L'Enflé 15 29 0.52 1976–1984 3 Regis Jean 13 - - 1947–1955 Roland Desvaux de Marigny 13 - - 1949–1955 5 France Martin 12 - - 1947–1950 Doona Raman 12 - - 1953–1957 7 Kersley Appou 11 46 0.24 1993–2001 Jean-Marc Ithier 11 50 0.22 1988–2003 Christopher Perle 11 50 0.22 1995–2007 Andy Sophie 11 53 0.21 2007–present

See also

• Mauritius national under-17 football team
• Mauritius national under-20 football team
• Mauritius national beach soccer team

References

1. "The FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking". FIFA. 10 December 2020. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
2. Mauritius 2000/01
3. Mamrud, Roberto. "Mauritius - Record International Players". RSSSF.

External links

• Official Site
• FIFA.com: Mauritius national football team profile
• National Football Teams: Mauritius Profile
• Mauritius national football team picture