FIFA World Cup qualification
First appearance in qualification by team
Note: Only teams that played at least one match are considered for the purposes of first appearance. Teams that withdrew prior to the qualification, or that qualified to the World Cup by walkover due to other teams' withdrawals, are not considered.

FIFA World Cup qualification

Section Title: First appearance in qualification by team
Table Section Text: Note: Only teams that played at least one match are considered for the purposes of first appearance. Teams that withdrew prior to the qualification, or that qualified to the World Cup by walkover due to other teams' withdrawals, are not considered.

World Cup	Europe	South America	North, Central America and Caribbean	Asia	Africa	Oceania	T	CT

Italy 1934	Austria Belgium Bulgaria Czechoslovakia Estonia France Germany Greece Hungary Irish Free State Italy Lithuania Luxembourg Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Spain Sweden Switzerland Yugoslavia	none	Cuba Haiti Mexico United States	Palestine, British Mandate	Egypt	none	27	27

France 1938	Finland Latvia Norway	none	none	none	none	none	3	30

Brazil 1950	England Ireland Scotland Turkey Wales	none	none	Syria	none	none	6	36

Switzerland 1954	Saar	Brazil Chile Paraguay	none	Japan South Korea	none	none	6	42

Sweden 1958	Denmark East Germany Iceland Soviet Union	Argentina Bolivia Colombia Peru Uruguay	Canada Costa Rica Guatemala Territory of Curaçao	China PR Indonesia	Sudan	none	16	58

Chile 1962	Cyprus	Ecuador	Dutch Guyana Honduras	none	Ethiopia Ghana Morocco Nigeria Tunisia	none	9	67

England 1966	Albania	Venezuela	Jamaica Trinidad and Tobago	North Korea	none	Australia	6	73

Mexico 1970	none	none	Bermuda El Salvador	none	Algeria Cameroon Libya Rhodesia Senegal Zambia	New Zealand	9	82

West Germany 1974	Malta	none	Antigua and Barbuda Puerto Rico	Hong Kong Iran Iraq Kuwait Malaysia South Vietnam Thailand	Congo Dahomey Guinea Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Mauritius Sierra Leone Tanzania Togo Zaire	none	21	103

Argentina 1978	none	none	Barbados Dominican Republic Guyana Panama	Bahrain Qatar Republic of China Saudi Arabia Singapore	Malawi Mauritania Niger Uganda Upper Volta	none	14	117

Spain 1982	none	none	Grenada	Macau	Gambia Liberia Madagascar Mozambique Somalia	Fiji	8	125

Mexico 1986	none	none	none	Bangladesh Brunei Jordan India Nepal North Yemen South Yemen United Arab Emirates	Angola	none	9	134

Italy 1990	none	none	none	Oman Pakistan	Gabon	none	3	137

United States 1994	Faroe Islands San Marino	none	Nicaragua Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Lebanon Sri Lanka	Botswana Burundi Namibia South Africa Swaziland	Solomon Islands Tahiti Vanuatu	15	152

France 1998	Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia Georgia Liechtenstein Macedonia Moldova Slovakia Slovenia Ukraine	none	Aruba Belize Cayman Islands Dominica Saint Kitts and Nevis	Cambodia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Maldives Philippines Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan	Guinea-Bissau Rwanda	Cook Islands Papua New Guinea Tonga Western Samoa	31	183

South KoreaJapan 2002	Andorra	none	Anguilla Bahamas British Virgin Islands Montserrat Turks and Caicos Islands U.S. Virgin Islands	Guam Laos Mongolia Palestine	Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Djibouti Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Mali São Tomé and Príncipe Seychelles	American Samoa	21	204

Germany 2006	none	none	none	Afghanistan	none	New Caledonia	2	206

South Africa 2010	Montenegro	none	none	Myanmar Timor-Leste	Comoros	Tuvalu	5	211

Brazil 2014	none	none	none	none	none	none	0	211

Russia 2018	Gibraltar Kosovo	none	none	Bhutan	South Sudan	none	4	215

Sentence(s)

Qualifying tournaments are held within the six FIFA continental zones-Africa, Asia, North Central America and Caribbean, South America, Oceania and Europe.

final_sentence: Qualifying tournaments are held within the six FIFA continental zones-Africa, Asia, North Central America and Caribbean, South America, Oceania and Europe.