Portugal 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.

Portugal have appeared in the finals of the FIFA World Cup on six occasions, the first being in 1966 where they reached the second round.

They have made their sixth appearance at the finals in the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.^[1][2]

FIFA World Cup record

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1930	Did Not Enter
1934 to 1962	Did Not Qualify
1966	Third Place	3rd	6	5	0	1	17	8
1970 to 1982	Did Not Qualify
1986	Group Stage	17th	3	1	0	2	2	4
1990 to 1998	Did Not Qualify
2002	Group Stage	21st	3	1	0	2	6	4
2006	Fourth Place	4th	7	4	1	2	7	5
2010	Round of 16	11th	4	1	2	1	7	1
2014	Group Stage	18th	3	1	1	1	4	7
2018	To Be Determined
2022	To Be Determined
Total	6/20		26	13	4	9	43	29

Note: Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

FIFA World Cup matches

List of FIFA World Cup matches
Year	Round	Opponent	Score	Result
1966	Round 1	Hungary	3–1	Win
	Round 1	Bulgaria	3–0	Win
	Round 1	Brazil	3–1	Win
	Quarter-final	North Korea	5–3	Win
	Semi-final	England	1–2	Loss
	Third place match	Soviet Union	2–1	Win
1986	Round 1	England	1–0	Win
	Round 1	Poland	0–1	Loss
	Round 1	Morocco	1–3	Loss
2002	Round 1	United States	2–3	Loss
	Round 1	Poland	4–0	Win
	Round 1	South Korea	0–1	Loss
2006	Round 1	Angola	1–0	Win
	Round 1	Iran	2–0	Win
	Round 1	Mexico	2–1	Win
	Round 2	Netherlands	1–0	Win
	Quarter-final	England	0–0 3–1 (pen.)	Draw
	Semi-final	France	0–1	Loss
	Third place match	Germany	1–3	Loss
2010	Round 1	Ivory Coast	0–0	Draw
	Round 1	North Korea	7–0	Win
	Round 1	Brazil	0–0	Draw
	Round 2	Spain	0–1	Loss
2014	Round 1	Germany	0–4	Loss
	Round 1	United States	2–2	Draw
	Round 1	Ghana	2–1	Win

References

External Links

• Portugal at FIFA
• World Cup Finals Statistics