Hungary 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.

Hungary have appeared in the finals of the FIFA World Cup on nine occasions, the first being at the 1934 where they reached the quarter-final. They have been runners-up on two occasions, in 1938 and 1954.[1]

FIFA World Cup record

Year Round Position GP W D* L GF GA
Uruguay 1930 Did Not Enter
Italy 1934 Quarter-Final 6 2 1 0 1 5 4
France 1938 Runners Up 2nd 4 3 0 1 15 5
Brazil 1950 Did Not Enter
Switzerland 1954 Runners Up 2nd 5 4 0 1 27 10
Sweden 1958 Round 1 10 4 1 1 2 7 5
Chile 1962 Quarter-Final 5 4 2 1 1 8 3
England 1966 Quarter-Final 6 4 2 0 2 8 7
Mexico 1970Did not qualify-------
Germany 1974Did not qualify-------
Argentina 1978 Round 1 15 3 0 0 3 3 8
Spain 1982 Round 1 14 3 1 1 1 12 6
Mexico 1986 Round 1 18 3 1 0 2 2 9
Italy 1990Did not qualify-------
United States 1994Did not qualify-------
France 1998Did not qualify-------
South KoreaJapan 2002Did not qualify-------
Germany 2006Did not qualify-------
South Africa 2010Did not qualify-------
Brazil 2014Did not qualify-------
Russia 2018 To Be Determined
Qatar 2022 To Be Determined
Total9/202 Finals32153148757

References

  1. "World Cup Record". Planet World Cup. 15 April 2014. Retrieved 16 April 2014.

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