China at the FIFA World Cup
International football delegation
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China first entered World Cup qualification in 1957 in an attempt to qualify for the 1958 FIFA World Cup and made its first appearance in 2002. Despite a respectable performance against Costa Rica, they lost all of their games without scoring a goal with a goal difference of 0-9.[1][2][3]
Overall record
| Qualification record | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Position | M | W | D | L | GF | GA | M | W | D | L | GF | GA | Link | ||
 1930 |
Not a FIFA member | Not a FIFA member | Link | ||||||||||||||
 1934 |
Did not enter | Declined participation | Link | ||||||||||||||
 1938 |
Link | ||||||||||||||||
 1950 |
Link | ||||||||||||||||
 1954 |
Link | ||||||||||||||||
 1958 |
Did not qualify | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | Link | |||||||||
 1962 |
Did not enter | Declined participation | Link | ||||||||||||||
 1966 |
Link | ||||||||||||||||
 1970 |
Link | ||||||||||||||||
 1974 |
Link | ||||||||||||||||
 1978 |
Link | ||||||||||||||||
 1982 |
Did not qualify | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 8 | Link | |||||||||
| 1986 |
6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 2 | Link | ||||||||||
| 1990 |
11 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 18 | 9 | Link | ||||||||||
 1994 |
8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 4 | Link | ||||||||||
 1998 |
14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 16 | Link | ||||||||||
  2002 |
Group stage | 31st | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 38 | 5 | Link | ||
| 2006 |
Did not qualify | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 1 | Link | |||||||||
 2010 |
8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 4 | Link | ||||||||||
| 2014 |
8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 23 | 9 | Link | ||||||||||
 2018 |
18 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 35 | 11 | Link | ||||||||||
 2022 |
18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 39 | 22 | Link | ||||||||||
 2026 |
16 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 29 | Link | ||||||||||
  2030 |
To be determined | ||||||||||||||||
 2034 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | Group stage | 1/23 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 142 | 78 | 22 | 42 | 285 | 125 | Link | ||
By Match
| Year | Round | Opponents | Score | Scorers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 2002 | Group C |  Costa Rica | 0–2 | |
| Brazil | 0–4 | |||
 Turkey | 0–3 | |||
FIFA World Cup squads and matches
2002 South Korea/Japan
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brazil |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | +8 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Turkey |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 4 | |
| 3 | Costa Rica |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 4 | |
| 4 |  China |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | −9 | 0 |
| China | 0–2 | Costa Rica |
|---|---|---|
| Report |
| Brazil | 4–0 | China |
|---|---|---|
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Report |
Squads
Record players
Eight players were fielded in all three of China PR's World Cup matches in 2002.
| Rank | Player | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hao Haidong | 3 |
| Jiang Jin | 3 | |
| Li Tie | 3 | |
| Li Weifeng | 3 | |
| Li Xiaopeng | 3 | |
| Qu Bo | 3 | |
| Wu Chengying | 3 | |
| Xu Yunlong | 3 | |
Head-to-head record
| Opponent | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | −4 | 0.00 |
| Costa Rica |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | −2 | 0.00 |
| Turkey |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | −3 | 0.00 |
| Total | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | −9 | 0.00 |