The Benin national football team, nicknamed Les Ecureuils (The Squirrels), is the national football team of Benin and is controlled by the Fédération Béninoise de Football . They were known as the Dahomey national football team until 1975, when Dahomey became Benin. They have never made the World Cup and only made their first African Nations Cup in 2004.

World Cup record

• 1930 to 1970 - Did not enter
• 1974 - Did not qualify
• 1978 - Did not enter
• 1982 - Did not enter
• 1986 - Did not qualify
• 1990 - Did not enter
• 1994 - Did not qualify
• 1998 - Did not enter
• 2002 - Did not qualify
• 2006 - Did not qualify

African Nations Cup record

• 1957 to 1970 - Did not enter
• 1972 - Did not qualify
• 1974 - Withdrew
• 1976 - Withdrew
• 1978 - Did not enter
• 1980 - Did not qualify
• 1982 - Did not enter
• 1984 - Did not qualify
• 1986 - Did not qualify
• 1988 - Did not enter
• 1990 - Did not enter
• 1992 - Did not qualify
• 1994 - Did not qualify
• 1996 - Withdrew
• 1998 to 2002 - Did not qualify
• 2004 - Round 1