This is a record of El Salvador '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.
El Salvador have appeared in the finals of the FIFA World Cup on two occasions in 1970 and 1982.[1]
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El Salvador have never advanced beyond the first round of the finals competition. El Salvador declined to participate at the 1950 FIFA World Cup.
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| Year | Round | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | |
| 1930 | Did not enter | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| 1934 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 1938 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 1950 | Withdrew | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| 1954 | Did not enter | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| 1958 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 1962 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 1966 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 1970 | Round 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 12 | |
| 1974 | Did not qualify | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |||||||
| 1978 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 16 | ||||||||
| 1982 | Round 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 6 | |
| 1986 | Did not qualify | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 2 | |||||||
| 1990 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 8 | ||||||||
| 1994 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 28 | 11 | ||||||||
| 1998 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 23 | 22 | ||||||||
| 2002 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 23 | 15 | ||||||||
| 2006 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 14 | ||||||||
| 2010 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 39 | 21 | ||||||||
| Total | 2/19 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 22 | 118 | 54 | 22 | 42 | 193 | 129 | |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| Soviet Union | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | +5 | 5 |
| Mexico | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | +5 | 5 |
| Belgium | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 2 |
| El Salvador | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | −9 | 0 |
| Group stage 3 June 1970 | Belgium | 3–0 | El Salvador | Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| 16:00 (CST) | Van Moer 12', 54' Lambert 76' (pen.) |
Report | Stadium: Estadio Azteca Attendance: 92,000 Referee: Andrei Rădulescu (Romania) |
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| Group stage 7 June 1970 | Mexico | 4 – 0 | El Salvador | Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| 12:00 (CST) | Valdivia 45', 46' Fragoso 58' Basaguren 83' |
Report | Stadium: Estadio Azteca Attendance: 103,000 Referee: Ali Kandil (United Arab Republic) |
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| Group stage 10 June 1970 | Soviet Union | 2–0 | El Salvador | Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| 16:00 (CST) | Byshovets 51', 74' | Report | Stadium: Estadio Azteca Attendance: 89,000 Referee: Rafael Hormazábal Díaz (Chile) |
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| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| Belgium | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 5 |
| Argentina | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | +4 | 4 |
| Hungary | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 3 |
| El Salvador | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 13 | −12 | 0 |
| Group stage 15 June 1982 | Hungary | 10–1 | El Salvador | Elche, Spain | ||
| 21:00 CEST | Nyilasi 4', 83' Pölöskei 11' Fazekas 23', 54' Tóth 50' L. Kiss 69', 72', 76' Szentes 72' |
Report | Ramírez 64' | Stadium: Nuevo Estadio Attendance: 23,000 Referee: Ibrahim Youssef Al-Doy (Bahrain) |
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| Group stage 19 June 1982 | Belgium | 1–0 | El Salvador | Elche, Spain | ||
| 21:00 CEST | Coeck 19' | Report | Stadium: Nuevo Estadio Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Malcolm Moffatt (Northern Ireland) |
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| Group stage 23 June 1982 | Argentina | 2–0 | El Salvador | Alicante, Spain | ||
| 21:00 CEST | Passarella 22' (pen.) Bertoni 52' |
Report | Stadium: Estadio José Rico Pérez Attendance: 32,500 Referee: Luis Barrancos (Bolivia) |
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