Togo national football team
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| Nickname(s) |
Les Eperviers (The Sparrow Hawks) |
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| Association | Fédération Togolaise de Football |
| Confederation | CAF (Africa) |
| Sub-confederation | WAFU (West Africa) |
| Head coach | Claude Le Roy |
| Captain | Serge Akakpo |
| Most caps | Abdoul-Gafar Mamah (84) |
| Top scorer | Emmanuel Adebayor (30) |
| Home stadium | Stade de Kégué |
| FIFA code | TOG |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 101  11 (9 February 2017)
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| Highest | 46 (August 2006) |
| Lowest | 125 (September 2014) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 109 6 (24 January 2017)
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| Highest | 56 (November 2005, January 2006) |
| Lowest | 128 (4 September 1994) |
| First international | |
 French Togoland 1–1 Gold Coast  and  Trans-Volta Togoland(French Togoland; 13 October 1956) |
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| Biggest win | |
 Togo 6–0 Swaziland  (Accra, Ghana; 11 November 2008) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
 Morocco 7–0 Togo (Morocco; 28 October 1979)  Tunisia 7–0 Togo (Tunis, Tunisia; 7 January 2000) |
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| World Cup | |
| Appearances | 1 (first in 2006) |
| Best result | Group stage, 2006 |
| Africa Cup of Nations | |
| Appearances | 8 (first in 1972) |
| Best result | Quarter-finals, 2013 |
The Togo national football team, nicknamed Les Eperviers (The Sparrow Hawks), is controlled by the Fédération Togolaise de Football. They played at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Their team bus underwent a fatal attack in Angola prior to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations. They withdrew and were subsequently banned from the following two tournaments by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). In 2013 for the first time in history, Togo reached the quarter-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations.
They made their first FIFA World Cup appearance in their history in 2006, having been coached throughout the qualifying campaign by Stephen Keshi; German coach Otto Pfister managed the team at the finals, despite having resigned three days before their first match over a players' bonuses dispute, only to be persuaded by the players to return. Prior to gaining independence in 1960, the team were known as French Togoland.
Togo lost their opening game of the World Cup, despite having taken the lead against South Korea through a goal by Mohamed Kader. In the second half, Jean-Paul Abalo was sent off after 55 minutes, and goals from Lee Chun-Soo and Ahn Jung-Hwan sealed a 2–1 defeat for Togo.
Togo's next opponents in Group G were Switzerland, with the match scheduled for the afternoon of 19 June. However, the Togo squad and manager Pfister threatened to refuse to fulfill the fixture and take strike action. The squad and manager had been quoted as requesting payments from the Fédération Togolaise de Football for participating in the tournament of around €155,000 (US$192,000) with added bonuses for victories or draws. FIFA negotiated with the squad and manager on 17 June, persuading them to travel to Dortmund in time to fulfill the fixture; goals from Alexander Frei and Tranquillo Barnetta resulted in a 2–0 defeat. FIFA subsequently imposed a CHF100,000 fine on the Togolese federation for "behaviour unworthy of a participant in the World Cup."
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