Mexico at the FIFA World Cup

For the women's team, see Mexico at the FIFA Women's World Cup.

This is a record of the results of the Mexico national football team at the FIFA World Cup. The World Cup is the premier competitive international football tournament, first played in 1930, and then every four years since, except 1942 and 1946, due to World War II.

Mexico national team at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia

Mexico has competed in the tournament since the inaugural 1930 World Cup, and has entered ever since, for a total of 16 tournaments, although it has failed to qualify for the finals proper on 3 occasions: 1934 (Italy), 1974 (West Germany), and 1982 (Spain). In addition, it withdrew from the finals in 1938 (France), and was banned by FIFA from entering the 1990 World Cup (Italy) after 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][2]

Overall record

FIFA World Cup record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1930	Group stage	13th	3	0	0	3	4	13
1934	Did not qualify
1938	Withdrew
1950	Group stage	12th	3	0	0	3	2	10
1954		14th	2	0	0	2	2	8
1958		16th	3	0	1	2	1	8
1962		11th	3	1	0	2	3	4
1966		12th	3	0	2	1	1	3
1970	Quarter-finals	6th	4	2	1	1	6	4
1974	Did not qualify
1978	Group stage	16th	3	0	0	3	2	12
1982	Did not qualify
1986	Quarter-finals	6th	5	3	2	0	6	2
1990	Banned
1994	Round of 16	13th	4	1	2	1	4	4
1998		13th	4	1	2	1	8	7
2002		11th	4	2	1	1	4	4
2006		15th	4	1	1	2	5	5
2010		14th	4	1	1	2	4	5
2014		10th	4	2	1	1	5	3
2018		12th	4	2	0	2	3	6
2022	Group stage	22nd	3	1	1	1	2	3
2026	Qualified as co-hosts
2030	To be determined
2034
Total	Quarter-finals	17/22	60	17	15	28	62	101

Mexico's World Cup record
First Match	Mexico 1–4 France  (13 July 1930; Montevideo, Uruguay)
Biggest Win	Mexico 4–0 El Salvador  (7 June 1970; Mexico City, Mexico)
Biggest Defeat	West Germany 6–0 Mexico  (6 June 1978; Cordoba, Argentina)
Best Result	Quarter-finals in 1970 and 1986
Worst Result	Group stage in 1930, 1950, 1954, 1958, 1962, 1966, 1978 and 2022

By match

World Cup	Round	Opponent	Score	Mexico scorers
1930	Group 1	France	1–4	Carreño
		Chile	0–3
		Argentina	3–6	Manuel Rosas (2), Gayón
1950	Group 1	Brazil	0–4
		Yugoslavia	1–4	Héctor Ortiz
		Switzerland	1–2	Casarín
1954	Group 1	Brazil	0–5
		France	2–3	Lamadrid, Balcázar
1958	Group 3	Sweden	0–3
		Wales	1–1	Belmonte
		Hungary	0–4
1962	Group 3	Brazil	0–2
		Spain	0–1
		Czechoslovakia	3–1	Díaz, del Águila, Hernández
1966	Group 1	France	1–1	Borja
		England	0–2
		Uruguay	0–0
1970	Group 1	Soviet Union	0–0
		El Salvador	4–0	Valdivia (2), Fragoso, Basaguren
		Belgium	1–0	Peña
	Quarter-final	Italy	1–4	González
1978	Group 2	Tunisia	1–3	Vázquez Ayala
		West Germany	0–6
		Poland	1–3	Rangel
1986	Group B	Belgium	2–1	Quirarte, Hugo Sánchez
		Paraguay	1–1	Luis Flores
		Iraq	1–0	Quirarte
	Round of 16	Bulgaria	2–0	Negrete, Servín
	Quarter-final	West Germany	0–0 (a.e.t.) (1–4 p)
1994	Group E	Norway	0–1
		Republic of Ireland	2–1	García (2)
		Italy	1–1	Bernal
	Round of 16	Bulgaria	1–1 (a.e.t.) (1–3 p)	García Aspe
1998	Group E	South Korea	3–1	Peláez, Hernández (2)
		Belgium	2–2	García Aspe, Blanco
		Netherlands	2–2	Peláez, Hernández
	Round of 16	Germany	1–2	Hernández
2002	Group G	Croatia	1–0	Blanco
		Ecuador	2–1	Borgetti, Torrado
		Italy	1–1	Borgetti
	Round of 16	United States	0–2
2006	Group D	Iran	3–1	Bravo (2), Zinha
		Angola	0–0
		Portugal	1–2	Fonseca
	Round of 16	Argentina	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Márquez
2010	Group A	South Africa	1–1	Márquez
		France	2–0	Javier Hernández, Blanco
		Uruguay	0–1
	Round of 16	Argentina	1–3	Javier Hernández
2014	Group A	Cameroon	1–0	Peralta
		Brazil	0–0
		Croatia	3–1	Márquez, Guardado, Javier Hernández
	Round of 16	Netherlands	1–2	G. dos Santos
2018	Group F	Germany	1–0	Lozano
		South Korea	2–1	Vela, Javier Hernández
		Sweden	0–3
	Round of 16	Brazil	0–2
2022	Group C	Poland	0–0
		Argentina	0–2
		Saudi Arabia	2–1	Martín, Chávez

Record players

Rafael Márquez is Mexico's record World Cup player and one of only three players with appearances in five tournaments.

Rank	Player	Matches	World Cups
1	Rafael Márquez	19	2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018
2	Andrés Guardado	13	2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022
3	Javier Hernández	12	2010, 2014 and 2018
	Héctor Moreno	12	2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022
5	Antonio Carbajal	11	1950, 1954, 1958, 1962 and 1966
	Cuauhtémoc Blanco	11	1998, 2002 and 2010
	Gerardo Torrado	11	2002, 2006 and 2010
	Guillermo Ochoa	11	2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022
9	Carlos Salcido	10	2006, 2010 and 2014
	Héctor Herrera	10	2014, 2018 and 2022
11	Chava Reyes	9	1958, 1962 and 1966
	Giovani dos Santos	9	2010, 2014 and 2018

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Goals	World Cups
1	Luis Hernández	4	1998
	Javier Hernández	4	2010 (2), 2014 (1), and 2018 (1)
3	Cuauhtémoc Blanco	3	1998, 2002 and 2010
	Rafael Márquez	3	2006, 2010 and 2014
5	Manuel Rosas	2	1930
	Javier Valdivia	2	1970
	Fernando Quirarte	2	1986
	Luis García	2	1994
	Alberto García Aspe	2	1994 and 1998
	Ricardo Peláez	2	1998
	Jared Borgetti	2	2002
	Omar Bravo	2	2006

See also

• Mexico at the CONCACAF Gold Cup
• Mexico at the CONCACAF Nations League
• Mexico at the Copa América
• North, Central American and Caribbean nations at the FIFA World Cup