🇸🇳 Senegal — Country Guide, World Cup 2026

The Lions of Teranga

How They Play

Athletic, powerful, and technically improving — plays with intensity and pace that overwhelms opponents who underestimate them.

Star Player

Sadio Mané

Fun Fact

Senegal eliminated defending champions France in the 2002 World Cup group stage in one of the competition's greatest ever upsets — their first ever World Cup match.

World Cup 2026 Outlook

Mané leads a squad with real quality throughout — capable of matching anyone on their day and always dangerous at set pieces.