Mexico at the FIFA World Cup

This is a record of Mexico's results at the FIFA World Cup. The World Cup is the premier competitive international football tournament, first played in 1930, whose finals stage has been held every four years since, except 1942 and 1946, due to World War II.

Mexico's national football team entered the competition until in the inaugural 1930 FIFA World Cup, and has entered ever since, for a total of 14 tournaments, although it has failed to qualify for the finals proper on 3 occasions, 1934 (Italy), 1974 (Germany) and 1982 (Spain). In addition, it withdrew from the finals in the 1938 (France), and was banned by FIFA from entering the 1990 (Italy) after having been found fielding over-aged players during the 1988 Olympic Games qualifiers which was a youth tournament.

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.[1]

Records

FIFA World Cup record
Year Round Position Pld W D L GF GA
1930 Group Stage 13th 3 0 0 3 4 13
1934 Did Not Qualify
1938 Withdrew
1950 Group Stage 12th 3 0 0 3 2 10
1954 Group Stage 14th 2 0 0 2 2 8
1958 Group Stage 16th 3 0 1 2 1 8
1962 Group Stage 11th 3 1 0 2 3 4
1966 Group Stage 12th 3 0 2 1 1 3
1970 Quarter-Final 6th 4 2 1 1 6 4
1974 Did Not Qualify
1978 Group stage 16th 3 0 0 3 2 12
1982 Did Not Qualify
1986 Quarter-Final 6th 5 3 2 0 6 2
1990 Banned
1994 Round of 16 13th 4 1 2 1 4 4
1998 Round of 16 13th 4 1 2 1 8 7
2002 Round of 16 11th 4 2 1 1 4 4
2006 Round of 16 15th 4 1 1 2 5 5
2010 Round of 16 14th 4 1 1 2 4 5
2014 To Be Determined
2018
2022
Total Quarter-Final 14/19 49 12 13 24 52 89

References

  1. ^ 2006 FIFA World Cup TV Coverage (PDF), FIFA.com, Retrieved on 6 June 2007

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