Africa - World Cup Qualifying | 03/17 13:00 | - | Rwanda v Nigeria | - | View | |
Africa - World Cup Qualifying | 03/21 13:00 | - | Rwanda v Lesotho | - | View | |
Africa - World Cup Qualifying | 09/01 13:00 | - | Nigeria v Rwanda | - | View | |
Africa - World Cup Qualifying | 09/05 13:00 | - | Zimbabwe v Rwanda | - | View | |
Africa - World Cup Qualifying | 10/06 13:00 | - | Rwanda v Benin | - | View | |
Africa - World Cup Qualifying | 10/10 13:00 | - | South Africa v Rwanda | - | View |
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 only Africa Cup of Nations in 2004.
Rwanda qualified for its first Africa Cup of Nations in the 2004 edition. 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. 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.