The Angola national football team formed as recently as 1979. The team was quick to join both FIFA and the African Football Confederation in 1980. Despite its youth, the team has already appeared at a world cup finals.
The team’s first recorded game came a few years before official formation, a 1-0 over Cuba. Angola did not meet much success until the 1990’s, when it began to qualify for the African Cup of Nations. The team would later reach the quarter-finals of the cup in both 2008 and 2010.