Curaçao at the FIFA World Cup
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Curaçao will appear in the finals of the FIFA World Cup for the first time in 2026. On 18 November 2025, they topped their qualifying group and qualified for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, becoming the smallest nation by both population and area to qualify for the tournament.[1]
| FIFA World Cup record | Qualification record | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | ||
as  Territory of Curaçao |
as Territory of Curaçao | |||||||||||||||
 1930 |
Not a FIFA member | Not a FIFA member | ||||||||||||||
 1934 |
Did not enter | Did not enter | ||||||||||||||
 1938 | ||||||||||||||||
 1950 | ||||||||||||||||
 1954 | ||||||||||||||||
 1958 | Did not qualify | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | |||||||||
as  Netherlands Antilles |
as Netherlands Antilles | |||||||||||||||
 1962 | Did not qualify | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 14 | |||||||||
 1966 |
4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||
 1970 |
4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | ||||||||||
 1974 |
5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 19 | ||||||||||
 1978 |
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9 | ||||||||||
 1982 |
4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 1986 |
2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | ||||||||||
 1990 |
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | ||||||||||
 1994 |
2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||
 1998 |
2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
  2002 |
2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 2006 |
4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | ||||||||||
 2010 |
4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
as  Curaçao |
as Curaçao | |||||||||||||||
 2014 | Did not qualify | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 15 | |||||||||
 2018 |
6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | ||||||||||
 2022 |
6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 3 | ||||||||||
 2026 |
Qualified | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 28 | 5 | |||||||||
  2030 |
To be determined | To be determined | ||||||||||||||
 2034 | ||||||||||||||||
| Total | - | 1/23 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 76 | 23 | 23 | 30 | 94 | 125 | ||
- *Draws include knockout matches decided via penalty shoot-out.
