Founded :1960
 Affiliated :1964
 WC participations: None
 WC: honours None
 Continental Titles:None
                                                                                             Facts
 • Burkina Faso's first appearance in the FIFA World Cup™ qualifiers was in 1978 when they were named Upper Volta. On that occasion they knocked out Mauritania, before falling in a double defeat at the hands of the Côte d'Ivoire.
 • On their second appearance twelve years later, Burkina Faso were knocked out by Libya. In the France 98 qualifiers they managed a 2-0 win over Mauritania, but were unsuccessful in their remaining games.
 • In 2002 Burkina Faso managed to hold eventual group winners South Africa to a one-all draw at home. In the 2006 FIFA World Cup preliminary qualifiers they won by default when the Central African Republic failed to compete.

                                                                                          The youngsters are growing up

The Stallions of Burkina Faso received an unexpected bye into the group stage of the 2006 FIFA World Cup™ qualification process, when their opening round contestant, the Central African Republic, withdrew after initially entering the competition. This gave the West Africans, who were at that stage ranked 14th on the continent, the certainty that their name would be in the hat when the Preliminary Draw for the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany is made.

Football fans in Burkina Faso had few doubts though that they would have managed to oust the CAR, had the two-legged encounter taken place. Their optimism is well founded as the Stallions have managed to work their way towards the top of African football in recent years. They have been ever-present at the finals of the African Cup of Nations since 1996 and managed a fourth place finish at home two years later.