New Names
In addition to the above, other nations have been renamed:
- Belgian Congo → Congo-Léopoldville in 1960 → Congo-Kinshasa in 1963 → Zaire in 1971 → Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997
- Cambodia → Khmer Republic in 1970 → Kampuchea in 1975→ Cambodia in 1979
- Czechoslovakia (1918–1939) → Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in 1939 → Czechoslovakia in 1945
- British Gambia → Gambia in 1965
- British Guiana → Guyana in 1966
- Burma → Myanmar in 1989
- Ceylon → Sri Lanka in 1972
- Middle Congo → Congo-Brazzaville in 1960→ Congo in 1992
- Dahomey → Benin in 1975
- Dutch East Indies → Indonesia in 1945
- Suriname → Suriname in 1975
- Egypt → United Arab Republic in 1958 → Egypt in 1972
- FLN team → Algeria in 1962
- French Somaliland → Djibouti in 1977
- French Togoland → Togo in 1960
- Gold Coast → Ghana in 1957
- Irish Free State → Republic of Ireland in 1937
- Ivory Coast → Côte d'Ivoire in 19831
- Madagascar → Malagasy Republic in 1958→ Madagascar in 1975
- Malaya → Malaysia in 1963
- New Hebrides → Vanuatu in 1980
- Northern Rhodesia → Zambia in 1964
- Nyasaland → Malawi in 1966
- Palestine/Eretz Israel → Israel in 1948
- Portuguese Guinea → Guinea-Bissau in 1975
- Southern Rhodesia → Rhodesia in 1964→ Zimbabwe in 1980
- Russia → Soviet Union in 1923.
- Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes → Yugoslavia in 1929.
- Upper Volta → Burkina Faso in 1984
- Western Samoa → Samoa in 1996
Read more about this topic: List Of Men's National Association Football Teams, Former National Football Teams
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