Canada men's national soccer team
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| Nickname(s) | The Canucks, Les Rouges (The Reds) | ||||||||||||
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| Association | Canadian Soccer Association | ||||||||||||
| Confederation | CONCACAF | ||||||||||||
| Head coach | Michael Findlay (interim) | ||||||||||||
| Captain | Julian de Guzman | ||||||||||||
| Most caps | Julian de Guzman (89) | ||||||||||||
| Top scorer | Dwayne De Rosario (22) | ||||||||||||
| Home stadium | BMO Field | ||||||||||||
| FIFA code | CAN | ||||||||||||
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| Current | 120  3 (January 12, 2017)
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| Highest | 40 (December 1996) | ||||||||||||
| Lowest | 122 (August 2014, October 2014) | ||||||||||||
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| Current | 78  (January 22, 2017)
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| Highest | 32 (May 30, 2000) | ||||||||||||
| Lowest | 92 (May 1979, June 2014) | ||||||||||||
| First international | |||||||||||||
Unofficial: Canada 1–0 United States  (Newark, United States; November 28, 1885) Official:  Australia 3–2 Canada  (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; June 7, 1924) |
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| Biggest win | |||||||||||||
Unofficial: Canada 7–0 United States  (St. Louis, United States; November 16, 1904) Official:  Canada 7–0 Saint Lucia  (Gros Islet, St. Lucia; October 7, 2011) |
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| Biggest defeat | |||||||||||||
 Mexico 8–0 Canada (Mexico City, Mexico; June 18, 1993) |
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| World Cup | |||||||||||||
| Appearances | 1 (first in 1986) | ||||||||||||
| Best result | Group stage, 1986 | ||||||||||||
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CONCACAF Championship & Gold Cup |
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| Appearances | 15 (first in 1977) | ||||||||||||
| Best result | Champions, 1985 and 2000 | ||||||||||||
| Confederations Cup | |||||||||||||
| Appearances | 1 (first in 2001) | ||||||||||||
| Best result | Group stage, 2001 | ||||||||||||
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Medal record
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The Canada men's national soccer team (French: Équipe du Canada de soccer masculin) represents Canada in international soccer competitions at the senior men's level. They are overseen by the Canadian Soccer Association and compete in the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF).
Their most significant achievements are winning the 1985 CONCACAF Championship to qualify for the 1986 FIFA World Cup and winning the 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup to qualify for the 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup. Canada also won a gold medal in the 1904 Summer Olympics. The 1986 World Cup was their only successful qualification campaign in their history.
Soccer was being played in Canada with the Dominion Football Association (1877) and Western Football Association (1880) acting as precursors to the modern-day Canadian Soccer Association. In 1885, the WFA sent a representative team to New Jersey to take on a side put forth by the American Football Association, the then-unofficial governing body of the sport in the United States. In an unofficial friendly, Canada defeated their hosts 1–0 in East Newark, New Jersey. The American team won 3–2 in a return match one year later. In 1888, a team represented the WFA in a tour of the British Isles, earning a record of nine wins, five draws, and nine losses. The squad comprised 16 Canadian-born players with the only exception being tour organizer David Forsyth, who had immigrated to Canada one year after his birth.
In 1904 Galt Football Club represented the WFA at the Olympic Games in St Louis, Missouri. As just one of three teams competing, Galt defeated two American clubs, Christian Brothers College (7–0) and St. Rose (4–0) to win the tournament. The Toronto Mail and Empire of November 18, 1904, reports that "Immediately after the game, the Galt aggregation, numbering about 50 persons, retired to the office of James W. Sullivan, chief of the Department of Physical Culture, where they received their prize. After a short talk by Mr. James E. Conlon of the Physical Culture Department, Mayor Mundy, of the City of Galt, presented each player on the winning team with a beautiful gold medal." The medals are clearly engraved with the name of the company in St. Louis that made them.
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