Portugal at the FIFA World Cup

Portugal vs Morocco match at the 2018 World Cup in Russia

The FIFA World Cup, sometimes called the Football 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 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 seven occasions, the first being in 1966 where they came third.^[1][2]

Record[]

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA
1930	Did not enter
1934	Did not qualify
1938
1950
1954
1958
1962
1966	Third Place	3rd	6	5	0	1	17	8
1970	Did not qualify
1974
1978
1982
1986	Group stage	17th	3	1	0	2	2	4
1990	Did not qualify
1994
1998
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	Round of 16	13th	4	1	2	1	6	6
2022	To Be Determined
2026
Total	7/21	-	30	14	6	10	49	35

Note: Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Portugal's World Cup record
First Match	Portugal 3–1 Hungary  (13 July 1966; Manchester, England)
Biggest Win	Portugal 7–0 North Korea  (21 June 2010; Cape Town, South Africa)
Biggest Defeat	Germany 4–0 Portugal  (16 June 2014; Salvador, Brazil)
Best Result	Third place in 1966
Worst Result	Group stage in 1986, 2002 and 2014

Matches[]

Year	Round	Opponent	Score	Scorers
1966	Round 1	Hungary	3–1	José Augusto (2), José Torres
	Round 1	Bulgaria	3–0	Eusébio, José Torres, Own goal
	Round 1	Brazil	3–1	Simões , Eusébio (2)
	Quarter-final	North Korea	5–3	Eusébio (4), José Augusto
	Semi-final	England	1–2	Eusébio
	Third place match	Soviet Union	2–1	Eusébio, José Torres
1986	Round 1	England	1–0	Carlos Manuel
	Round 1	Poland	0–1
	Round 1	Morocco	1–3	Diamantino
2002	Round 1	United States	2–3	Beto, Own goal
	Round 1	Poland	4–0	Pauleta (3), Rui Costa
	Round 1	South Korea	0–1
2006	Round 1	Angola	1–0	Pauleta
	Round 1	Iran	2–0	Deco, Ronaldo
	Round 1	Mexico	2–1	Maniche, Simão
	Round of 16	Netherlands	1–0	Maniche
	Quarter-final	England	0–0 3–1 (pen.)
	Semi-final	France	0–1
	Third place match	Germany	1–3	Nuno Gomes
2010	Round 1	Ivory Coast	0–0
	Round 1	North Korea	7–0	Raul Meireles, Simão, Hugo Almeida, Tiago (2), Liédson, Ronaldo
	Round 1	Brazil	0–0
	Round of 16	Spain	0–1
2014	Round 1	Germany	0–4
	Round 1	United States	2–2	Nani, Varela
	Round 1	Ghana	2–1	Ronaldo, Own goal
2018	Round 1	Spain	3–3	Ronaldo (3)
	Round 1	Morocco	1–0	Ronaldo
	Round 1	Iran	1–1	Quaresma
	Round of 16	Uruguay	1–2	Pepe

Record players[]

Cristiano Ronaldo in 2016

Top goalscorers[]

Eusébio as Portugal's captain against Argentina

Eusebio's nine goals at the 1966 FIFA World Cup made him that tournament's top goalscorer, which also won him the Bronze Ball.

See also[]

• Portugal at the UEFA European Championship

References[]

External links[]

• Portugal at FIFA
• World Cup Finals Statistics