Israel at the FIFA World Cup

This is a record of Israel's results at the FIFA World Cup. They have qualified for the finals on one occasion, in 1970. 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.^[1]

World Cup Record

FIFA World Cup record										FIFA World Cup Qualification record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA		Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1930	Did Not Enter									–	–	–	–	–	–
1934	Did Not Qualify (as Eretz Israel Team)									2	0	0	2	2	11
1938										2	0	0	2	1	4
1950	Did Not Qualify									2	0	0	2	2	11
1954										4	0	0	4	0	5
1958										2	0	0	2	0	4
1962										6	3	1	2	13	14
1966										4	0	0	4	1	12
1970	Group Stage	12th	3	0	2	1	1	3		4	3	1	0	8	1
1974	Did Not Qualify									5	3	1	1	5	3
1978										5	2	1	1	5	3
1982										8	1	3	4	6	10
1986										6	3	1	2	17	6
1990										6	1	4	1	5	5
1994										10	1	3	6	10	27
1998										8	4	1	3	9	7
2002										8	3	3	2	11	7
2006										10	4	6	0	15	10
2010										10	4	4	2	20	10
2014										10	3	5	2	19	14
2018	To Be Determined
2022
Total	Group Stage	1/20	3	0	2	1	1	3		102	33	29	40	137	149

Israel at the 1970 FIFA World Cup

Squad

Head coach: Emmanuel Scheffer

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Yitzchak Vissoker (1944-09-18)18 September 1944 (aged 25) 17 Hapoel Petah Tikva 2 2DF Shraga Bar (1948-03-24)24 March 1948 (aged 22) 13 Maccabi Netanya 3 2DF Menachem Bello (1947-12-26)26 December 1947 (aged 22) 25 Maccabi Tel Aviv 4 3MF David Primo (1946-05-05)5 May 1946 (aged 24) 18 Hapoel Tel Aviv 5 2DF Zvi Rosen (1947-06-23)23 June 1947 (aged 22) 16 Maccabi Tel Aviv 6 2DF Shmuel Rosenthal (1947-04-22)22 April 1947 (aged 23) 23 Hapoel Petah Tikva 7 3MF Itzhak Shum (1948-09-01)1 September 1948 (aged 21) 8 Hapoel Kfar Saba 8 4FW Giora Spiegel (1947-07-27)27 July 1947 (aged 22) 19 Maccabi Tel Aviv 9 4FW Yehoshua Feigenbaum (1947-12-05)5 December 1947 (aged 22) 15 Hapoel Tel Aviv 10 4FW Mordechai Spiegler (1944-08-19)19 August 1944 (aged 25) 36 Maccabi Netanya 11 3MF George Borba (1944-07-12)12 July 1944 (aged 25) 10 Hapoel Tel Aviv 12 3MF Yisha'ayahu Schwager (1946-02-10)10 February 1946 (aged 24) 6 Maccabi Haifa 13 4FW Yechezekel Chazom (1947-01-01)1 January 1947 (aged 23) 4 Hapoel Tel Aviv 14 3MF Danny Shmulevich-Rom (1940-11-29)29 November 1940 (aged 29) 24 Maccabi Haifa 15 4FW Rachamim Talbi (1943-05-17)17 May 1943 (aged 27) 25 Maccabi Tel Aviv 16 2DF Yochanan Vollach (1945-05-14)14 May 1945 (aged 25) 4 Hapoel Haifa 17 4FW Eli Ben Rimoz (1947-01-01)1 January 1947 (aged 23) 2 Hapoel Jerusalem 18 3MF Moshe Romano (1946-05-06)6 May 1946 (aged 24) 6 Shimshon Tel Aviv 19 3MF Roni Shuruk (1946-02-24)24 February 1946 (aged 24) 8 Hakoah Maccabi Ramat Gan 20 2DF David Karako (1945-02-11)11 February 1945 (aged 25) 6 Maccabi Tel Aviv 21 1GK Yechiel Hameiri (1946-08-20)20 August 1946 (aged 23) 1 Hapoel Haifa 22 1GK Yair Nossovsky (1937-06-29)29 June 1937 (aged 32) 3 Hapoel Kfar Saba

1970 FIFA World Cup Group 2

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	3	1	2	0	1	0	+1	4
Uruguay	3	1	1	1	2	1	+1	3
Sweden	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	3
Israel	3	0	2	1	1	3	−2	2

Uruguay  v  Israel

2 June 1970 16:00 (CST)

Uruguay	2 – 0	Israel
Maneiro  23' Mujica  52'	Report

Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Bob Davidson (Scotland)

Israel  v  Sweden

7 June 1970 12:00 (CST)

Israel	1 – 1	Sweden
Spiegler  56'	Report	Turesson  53'

Estadio Luis Dosal, Toluca Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Seyoum Tarekegn (Ethiopia)

Italy  v  Israel

11 June 1970 16:00 (CST)

Italy	0 – 0	Israel
	Report

Estadio Luis Dosal, Toluca Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Antonio De Moraes (Brazil)

References

External links

• Israel at FIFA.com
• List of Israeli Matches at RSSSF