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Appearances
2002
First appearance
Kit colours
White / Green
Senegal national football team
26 players called up for World Cup 2026.
Yehvann Diouf
Edouard Mendy
Mory Diaw
Mamadou Sarr
Kalidou Koulibaly
Abdoulaye Seck
Ismail Jakobs
Krepin Diatta
Moussa Niakhate
Antoine Mendy
El Hadji Malick Diouf
Idrissa Gana Gueye
Pathe Ciss
Lamine Camara
Pape Matar Sarr
Habib Diarra
Bara Sapoko Ndiaye
Pape Gueye
Assane Diao
Bamba Dieng
Sadio Mane
Nicolas Jackson
Cherif Ndiaye
Iliman Ndiaye
Ismaila Sarr
Ibrahim Mbaye
Announced: 2026-06-22
Sources: FIFA
Senegal arrive at World Cup 2026 in Group I, representing CAF.
Pape Thiaw leads the tactical plan, with the group phase defining whether SEN can build momentum into the knockout rounds.
Group rivals include France, Norway, Iraq. Every result can shift the path to the round of 32.
Senegal national football team
The Senegal national football team, nicknamed Les Lions de la Teranga, represents Senegal in men's international association football and is operated by the Senegalese Football Federation. One of Africa's most famous national football teams, Senegal reached the quarter-finals of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the second team from Africa to do so. They managed to upset defending world champions France, finish second in their group, and beat Sweden in extra time in the round of 16, before losing to Turkey in the quarter-finals. Senegal has won one Africa Cup of Nations title, in 2021. Their first appearance in the competition was in 1965, when they lost 1–0 to Ivory Coast for fourth place. They hosted the 1992 African Cup of Nations, where they made it to the quarter-finals, and finished as runners-up in 2002, 2019, and 2025.
See Senegal fixtures and simulate their possible path to the final.
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An explanation of group-stage ranking logic, football tiebreakers, and why goal difference can decide an entire tournament path.
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