Nigeria 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.

Nigeria have appeared in the finals of the FIFA World Cup on five occasions, the first being in 1994 where they reached the second round.

They made their fifth appearance at the finals in the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.[1]

FIFA World Cup record

FIFA World Cup record
Year Host(s) Round Position Pld W D L GF GA
1930  URU Did not enter
1934  ITA Did not enter
1938  FRA Did not enter
1950  BRA Did not enter
1954   SWI Did not enter
1958  SWE Did not enter
1962  CHI Did not qualify
1966  ENG Withdrew[n 1][2]
1970  MEX Did not qualify
1974  FRG Did not qualify
1978  ARG Did not qualify
1982  ESP Did not qualify
1986  MEX Did not qualify
1990  ITA Did not qualify
1994  USA Round of 16 9th 4 2 0 2 7 4
1998  FRA Round of 16 12th 4 2 0 2 6 9
2002  KOR and  JPN Group Stage 27th 3 0 1 2 1 3
2006  GER Did not qualify
2010  RSA Group Stage 27th 3 0 1 2 3 5
2014  BRA Round of 16 16th 4 1 1 2 3 5
2018  RUS To be decided
2022  QAT To be decided
World Cup total 18 5 3 10 20 26
Notes
  1. ↑ All African nations withdrew due to a lack of qualifying berths.

By match

World Cup Round Opponent Score Result Venue Nigeria scorers
1994Group stage Bulgaria3–0WDallas Yekini, Amokachi, Amuneke
 Argentina1–2L FoxboroughSiasia
 Greece2–0W FoxboroughGeorge, Amokachi
Round of 16 Italy1–2 (aet)LFoxboroughAmuneke
1998Group stage Spain3–2WNantesAdepoju, Zubizarreta (og), Oliseh
 Bulgaria1–0W ParisIkpeba
 Paraguay1–3L ToulouseOruma
Round of 16 Denmark1–4LSaint-DenisBabangida
2002Group stage Argentina0–1LIbaraki&
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 Sweden1–2LKobeAghahowa
 England0–0D Osaka&
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2010Group stage Argentina0–1LJohannesburg&
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 Greece1–2LBloemfonteinUche
 South Korea2–2D DurbanUche, Yakubu
2014Group stage Iran0–0D Curitiba&
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Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia-Herzegovina1–0WCuiabáOdemwingie
 Argentina2–3LPorto AlegreMusa (2)
Round of 16 France0–2LBrasília&
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References

  1. ↑ "Nigeria beat Ethiopia to book berth in Brazil". BBC Sport. 16 November 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  2. ↑ "VIII WORLD CUP (ENGLAND 1966) QUALIFYING STAGE". Lingua Sport. Retrieved 2 January 2012.

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