Cuba at the FIFA World Cup

This is a record of Cuba's results at the FIFA World Cup. The FIFA 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 48 teams competing for the title, at venues within the host nation (or nations) over a period of about a month. The World Cup final is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world, with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the 2006 tournament final.^[1]

Cuba has appeared in the quarter-finals of the FIFA World Cup on one occasion, in 1938.^[2]

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FIFA World Cup record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA
1930	Not a FIFA member
1934	Did not qualify
1938	Quarter-finals	8th	3	1	1	1	5	12
1950	Did not qualify
1954	Entry not accepted^[3]
1958	Did not enter
1962	Did not enter
1966	Did not qualify
1970	Entry not accepted^[3]
1974	Did not enter
1978	Did not qualify
1982	Did not qualify
1986	Did not enter
1990	Did not qualify
1994	Withdrew
1998	Did not qualify
2002
2006
2010
2014
2018
2022
2026	To be determined
2030
2034
Total	Quarter-finals	1/22	3	1	1	1	5	12

World Cup	Round	Opponent	Score	Result	Venue	Cuba scorers
1938	Round of 16	Romania	3–3 (a.e.t.)	D	Toulouse	H. Socorro (2), J. Magriñá
	Round of 16	Romania	2–1	W	Toulouse	H. Socorro, T. Fernández
	Quarter-finals	Sweden	0–8	L	Antibes	—

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
-	4FW	Juan Alonzo	1911	Fortuna Havana
-	3MF	Joaquín Arias	(1914-11-12)12 November 1914 (aged 23)	Juventud Asturiana
-	1GK	Juan Ayra	(1911-06-23)23 June 1911 (aged 26)	CD Centro Gallego
-	2DF	Jacinto Barquín	(1915-09-03)3 September 1915 (aged 22)	CD Puentes Grandes
-	3MF	Pedro Berges	1906	Iberia Havana
-	1GK	Benito Carvajales	1913	Juventud Asturiana
-	2DF	Manuel Chorens	(1916-01-22)22 January 1916 (aged 22)	CD Centro Gallego
-	4FW	Tomás Fernández	1915	CD Centro Gallego
-	4FW	Pedro Ferrer	1908	Iberia Havana
-	3MF	Arturo Garcelan		Juventud Asturiana
-	4FW	José Magriñá	(1917-12-14)14 December 1917 (aged 20)	CD Centro Gallego
*	4FW	Carlos Oliveira		Hispano America
-	3MF	José Antonio Rodríguez		CD Centro Gallego
-	4FW	Héctor Socorro	(1912-06-26)26 June 1912 (aged 25)	CD Puentes Grandes
-	4FW	Mario Sosa	1910	Iberia Havana
-	4FW	Juan Tuñas	(1917-02-01)1 February 1917 (aged 21)	Juventud Asturiana

Rank	Player	Matches
1	Joaquín Arias	3
	Jacinto Barquín	3
	Pedro Berges	3
	Manuel Chorens	3
	Tomás Fernández	3
	José Rodríguez	3
	Héctor Socorro	3
	Juan Tuñas	3

Rank	Player	Goals
1	Héctor Socorro	2
2	Tomás Fernández	1
	Carlos Oliveira	1
	Juan Tuñas	1

Cuba at the FIFA World Cup

By match

Cuba at 1938 FIFA World Cup

First round

First round replay

Quarter-final

Record players

Top goalscorers

See also

References

External links

Head-to-head record

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v t e Countries at the FIFA World Cup
Team appearances All-time table
AFC	Australia¹ China Indonesia² Iran Iraq Japan Jordan Kuwait North Korea Qatar Saudi Arabia South Korea United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan²
CAF	Algeria Angola Cameroon Cape Verde DR Congo² Egypt Ghana Ivory Coast Morocco Nigeria Senegal South Africa Togo Tunisia
CONCACAF	Canada Costa Rica Cuba Curaçao El Salvador Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Panama Trinidad and Tobago United States
CONMEBOL	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Paraguay Peru Uruguay
OFC	New Zealand
UEFA	Austria Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic² Denmark East Germany³ England France Germany² Greece Hungary Iceland Israel¹ Italy Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia² Scotland Serbia² Slovakia² Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine² Wales
¹ Have been member of multiple confederations. ² Considered a successor team by FIFA, or have competed under another name(s). ³ Team and national federation no longer exist.

Opponent	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Romania	2	1	1	0	5	4	+1	050.00
Sweden	1	0	0	1	0	8	−8	000.00
Total	3	1	1	1	5	12	−7	033.33