Ivory Coast

12 entrants predicted Ivory Coast to win the World Cup

187 entrants are supporting Ivory Coast

Top 10 Ivory Coast supporters

Pos	Name	Po
1	Dinny Breen  Kildare	110
2	monahans monsters limerick	101
2	Chris Ahearn  Cow Hampshire	101
4	Brian   Galway	94
5	Adam Scher The Moon	93
6	Dangermouse A dark room of gloom	92
7	Dublin Bay Prawns Dublin, Ireland	89
7	efialtis PE	89
9	Zoltan   London	88
10	lleyton monga taroge	86

Group matches

Team profile

• Coach: Henri Michel
• World Cup appearances: 1
• First World Cup: 2006
• Best performance at World Cup: -

The Côte d'Ivoire national football team, nicknamed Les Éléphants (The Elephants), is the national team of Côte d'Ivoire and is controlled by the Fédération Ivoirienne de Football. Until 2005, their greatest accomplishment was winning the 1992 African Nations Cup against Ghana on penalties at the Stade de l'Amitie in Dakar, Senegal. On October 8, 2005, they qualified for the 2006 World Cup finals, marking their first appearance on the sport's greatest stage.

World Cup record

• 1930 to 1970 - Did not enter
• 1974 - Did not qualify
• 1978 - Did not qualify
• 1982 - Did not enter
• 1986 to 2002 - Did not qualify
• 2006 - Qualified

Trivia

The Côte d'Ivoire team is notable for having participated in (and won) the two highest-scoring penalty shoot-outs in international football competition - the 24-shot shoot-out in the final of the 1992 African Cup of Nations when Ghana was defeated 11-10, and the 24-shot shoot-out in the quarter-final of the 2006 African Cup of Nations, when Cameroon was defeated 12-11.

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