Football is a very important sport for Mauritian. Mauritius
has different football groups formed locally. There are
matches organized all around the island and with other
islands of the Indian Ocean.
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There has been since 1952 the Mauritius Football Association
which has been founded to govern the football teams of
Mauritius Island. The Mauritius Football Association known
as MFA for Mauritius is associated since 1962 to the FIFA
and since 1963 to the CAF. When the association was first
created, it was known as Mauritius Sports Association and it
was only since 1984 that it got its actual name.
The founders of the association are Saint Joseph College, FC
Dodo, Flacq SC, Royal College of Curepipe, CSC and Hounds.
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The National Team and the National Football League is
organized by the Mauritius Football Association.
The president of the Mauritius Football Association is
Dinanathlall and the coach is Rajesh Gunesh.
The national team of Mauritius is known as Club M, Les Dodos
having for home stadium the Stade George V in Forest Side
Curepipe.
The team has until now never been qualified for the World
Cup Finals.
The Mauritius national team is ranked at 161 in FIFA and its
code for FIFA is MRI. The highest ranking in the FIFA was
116 in august 2000 and the lowest ranking was in November
2007 at place 161.
