This is a record of Canada's results at the FIFA World Cup. The FIFA World Cup, sometimes called the Football World Cup or the Soccer World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the first tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946, due to World War II.
The tournament consists of two parts, the qualification phase and the final phase (officially called the World Cup Finals). The qualification phase, which currently take place over the three years preceding the Finals, is used to determine which teams qualify for the Finals. The current format of the Finals involves 32 teams competing for the title, at venues within the host nation (or nations) over a period of about a month. The World Cup Finals is the most widely-viewed sporting event in the world, with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the 2006 tournament final.
Canada have appeared in the finals of the FIFA World Cup on one occasion in 1986.[1]
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| FIFA World Cup record | ||||||||
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| Year | Round | Position | GP | W | D* | L | GS | GA |
| 1930 | Did Not Enter | |||||||
| 1934 | ||||||||
| 1938 | ||||||||
| 1950 | ||||||||
| 1954 | ||||||||
| 1958 | Did Not Qualify | |||||||
| 1962 | Withdrew | |||||||
| 1966 | Did Not Enter | |||||||
| 1970 | Did Not Qualify | |||||||
| 1974 | ||||||||
| 1978 | ||||||||
| 1982 | ||||||||
| 1986 | Group Stage | 24th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1990 | Did Not Qualify | |||||||
| 1994 | ||||||||
| 1998 | ||||||||
| 2002 | ||||||||
| 2006 | ||||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2014 | Has not yet qualified |
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| 2018 | ||||||||
| 2022 | ||||||||
| Total | Group Stage | 1/19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
Head coach: Tony Waiters
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| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| Soviet Union | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | +8 | 5 |
| France | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 5 |
| Hungary | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | −7 | 2 |
| Canada | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | −5 | 0 |
| 1 June 1986 16:00 CST |
Canada | 0 – 1 | France | Estadio Nou Camp, León Attendance: 36,000 Referee: Hernán Silva (Chile) |
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| Report | Papin 79' |
| 6 June 1986 12:00 CST |
Hungary | 2 – 0 | Canada | Estadio Sergio León Chavez, Irapuato Attendance: 13,800 Referee: Jamal Al Sharif (Syria) |
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| Esterházy 2' Détári 75' |
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| 9 June 1986 12:00 CST |
Soviet Union | 2 – 0 | Canada | Estadio Sergio León Chavez, Irapuato Attendance: 14,200 Referee: Idriss Traore (Mali) |
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| Blokhin 58' Zavarov 74' |
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