Saudi Arabia at the FIFA World Cup

This is a record of Saudi Arabia's results 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.[1]

Saudi Arabia have appeared in the finals of the FIFA World Cup on four occasions, in 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006.

FIFA World Cup record

FIFA World Cup record

FIFA World Cup record
Year Round Position Pld W D L GF GA
Uruguay 1930 to
West Germany 1974
Did Not Enter
Argentina 1978 to
Italy 1990
Did Not Qualify
United States 1994 Round of 16 12 4 2 0 2 5 6
France 1998 Group Stage 28 3 0 1 2 2 7
South Korea Japan 2002 Group Stage 32 3 0 0 3 0 12
Germany 2006 Group Stage 28 3 0 1 2 2 7
South Africa 2010 to
Brazil 2014
Did Not Qualify
Russia 2018 TBD
Qatar 2022
Total Round of 16 4/20 13 2 2 9 9 32

List of matches

World Cup Round Opponent Score Result Venue Scorers
1994Group stage Netherlands1–2LWashingtonAmin
 Morocco2–1WEast RutherfordAl-Jaber, Amin
 Belgium1–0WWashingtonAl-Owairan
Round of 16 Sweden1–3LDallasAl-Ghesheyan
1998Group stage Denmark0–1LLens&
 France0–4LSaint-Denis&
 South Africa2–2DBordeauxAl-Jaber, Al-Thunayan
2002Group stage Germany0–8LSapporo&
 Cameroon0–1LSaitama&
 Republic of Ireland0–3LYokohama&
2006Group stage Tunisia2–2DMunichAl-Qahtani, Al-Jaber
 Ukraine0–4LHamburg&
 Spain0–1LKaiserslautern&

Squads

References

  1. 2006 FIFA World Cup TV Coverage (PDF), FIFA.com. Retrieved on June 6, 2007.

External links

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