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  Nickname Bafana Bafana
  Association South African<br>Football Association
  Coach ''Vacant''
  Most Caps Shaun Bartlett (74)
  Top Scorer Shaun Bartlett ,<br> Benni McCarthy (28)
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  First Game Australia 1 - 2 South Africa<br/>( Sydney , Australia 10 May , 1947 )
  Largest Win Australia 0 - 8 South Africa<br/>( Adelaide , Australia 17 September , 1955 )
  Largest Loss Australia 5 - 1 South Africa<br/>( Newcastle , Australia 7 June , 1947 )<br/> Mexico 4 - 0 South Africa<br/>( Los Angeles , USA 6 October , 1993 )<br/> USA 4 - 0 South Africa<br/>( Washington , USA 3 June , 2000 )<br/> Nigeria 4 - 0 South Africa<br/>( Monastir , Tunisia 31 January , 2004 )
  World Cup Apps 2
  World Cup First 1998
  World Cup Best Round 1, 1998 and 2002
  Regional Name African Nations Cup
  Regional Cup Apps 6
  Regional Cup First 1996


The South Africa national football team, or ''Bafana Bafana'', is the national team of South Africa and is controlled by the South African Football Association . It has recently returned to the world stage after years of being suspended and expelled from FIFA .

South Africa was first suspended from FIFA in 1962 for the country's Apartheid regime. They were re-admitted a year later, but after deciding to take an all-white team to the 1966 World Cup and an all-black team to the 1970 one, got suspended again in 1974 . In 1976 , after the Soweto uprising, they got expelled from FIFA.

In 1991 , with apartheid no more, the new non-racial South African Football Association was formed. On July 7 , 1992 , the South African national team played their first game in decades, beating Cameroon 1-0.

Since being re-admitted, South Africa made the 1998 and 2002 World Cups , but failed to get out of the first round each time. They did host and win the 1996 African Nations Cup and will host the 2010 World Cup , the first African nation to do so.


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