FLN football team
| Home stadium | Various | ||
|---|---|---|---|
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| First international | |||
| Tunisia 1–5 FLN (Tunis, Tunisia; 3 May 1958) | |||
| Last international | |||
| Yugoslavia 1–5 FLN (Belgrade, Yugoslavia; 29 March 1961) | |||
| Biggest win | |||
| Tunisia 0–8 FLN (Tunis, Tunisia; 15 April 1958) Morocco 0–8 FLN (Casablanca, Morocco; 8 October 1959) | |||
| Biggest defeat | |||
| Tianjin XI 5–1 FLN (Tianjin, China; 25 October 1959) | |||
The FLN football team (in Arabic: فريق جبهة التحرير الوطني لكرة القدم, in French: Équipe du FLN de football), also known as Le onze de l'indépendance (English: The eleven of the Independence), was a team made up mainly of professional players in France, who then joined the Algerian independence movement of the National Liberation Front (FLN), and assisted in organizing football matches against national football teams. The FLN linked African football to anti-colonial resistance using the idea of Pan-Africanism as a legitimizing tool and symbol of national identity.