- Mexico at the FIFA World Cup
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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 
1930Group Stage 13th 3 0 0 3 4 13 
1934Did Not Qualify 
1938Withdrew 
1950Group Stage 12th 3 0 0 3 2 10 
1954Group Stage 14th 2 0 0 2 2 8 
1958Group Stage 16th 3 0 1 2 1 8 
1962Group Stage 11th 3 1 0 2 3 4 
1966Group Stage 12th 3 0 2 1 1 3 
1970Quarter-Final 6th 4 2 1 1 6 4 
1974Did Not Qualify 
1978Group stage 16th 3 0 0 3 2 12 
1982Did Not Qualify 1986Quarter-Final 6th 5 3 2 0 6 2 
1990Banned 
1994Round of 16 13th 4 1 2 1 4 4 1998Round of 16 13th 4 1 2 1 8 7 
2002Round of 16 11th 4 2 1 1 4 4 2006Round of 16 15th 4 1 1 2 5 5 
2010Round of 16 14th 4 1 1 2 4 5 
2014To Be Determined 
2018
2022Total Quarter-Final 14/19 49 12 13 24 52 89 References
- ^ 2006 FIFA World Cup TV Coverage (PDF), FIFA.com, Retrieved on 6 June 2007
External links
- FIFA Official Ranking of all Participants at Finals 1930–2002. FIFA Match Results for all Stages 1930–2002
- FIFA official site
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- History of the Mexico national football team
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