# Mexico at the FIFA 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 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.

## 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 | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify |
| 1938 | Withdrew | Withdrew | Withdrew | Withdrew | Withdrew | Withdrew | Withdrew | Withdrew |
| 1950 | Group stage | 12th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| 1954 | Group stage | 14th | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| 1958 | Group stage | 16th | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 1962 | Group stage | 11th | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 1966 | Group stage | 12th | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 1970 | Quarter-finals | 6th | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 |
| 1974 | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify |
| 1978 | Group stage | 16th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 12 |
| 1982 | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify |
| 1986 | Quarter-finals | 6th | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
| 1990 | Banned | Banned | Banned | Banned | Banned | Banned | Banned | Banned |
| 1994 | Round of 16 | 13th | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| 1998 | Round of 16 | 13th | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 |
| 2002 | Round of 16 | 11th | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| 2006 | Round of 16 | 15th | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 |
| 2010 | Round of 16 | 14th | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 2014 | Round of 16 | 10th | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
| 2018 | Round of 16 | 12th | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 2022 | Group stage | 22nd | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2026 | Qualified as co-hosts | Qualified as co-hosts | Qualified as co-hosts | Qualified as co-hosts | Qualified as co-hosts | Qualified as co-hosts | Qualified as co-hosts | Qualified as co-hosts |
| 2030 | To be determined | To be determined | To be determined | To be determined | To be determined | To be determined | To be determined | To be determined |
| 2034 | To be determined | To be determined | To be determined | To be determined | To be determined | To be determined | To be determined | To be determined |
| 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 |
| 1930 | Group 1 | Chile | 0–3 | |
| 1930 | Group 1 | Argentina | 3–6 | Manuel Rosas (2), Gayón |
| 1950 | Group 1 | Brazil | 0–4 | |
| 1950 | Group 1 | Yugoslavia | 1–4 | Héctor Ortiz |
| 1950 | Group 1 | Switzerland | 1–2 | Casarín |
| 1954 | Group 1 | Brazil | 0–5 | |
| 1954 | Group 1 | France | 2–3 | Lamadrid, Balcázar |
| 1958 | Group 3 | Sweden | 0–3 | |
| 1958 | Group 3 | Wales | 1–1 | Belmonte |
| 1958 | Group 3 | Hungary | 0–4 | |
| 1962 | Group 3 | Brazil | 0–2 | |
| 1962 | Group 3 | Spain | 0–1 | |
| 1962 | Group 3 | Czechoslovakia | 3–1 | Díaz, del Águila, Hernández |
| 1966 | Group 1 | France | 1–1 | Borja |
| 1966 | Group 1 | England | 0–2 | |
| 1966 | Group 1 | Uruguay | 0–0 | |
| 1970 | Group 1 | Soviet Union | 0–0 | |
| 1970 | Group 1 | El Salvador | 4–0 | Valdivia (2), Fragoso, Basaguren |
| 1970 | Group 1 | Belgium | 1–0 | Peña |
| 1970 | Quarter-final | Italy | 1–4 | González |
| 1978 | Group 2 | Tunisia | 1–3 | Vázquez Ayala |
| 1978 | Group 2 | West Germany | 0–6 | |
| 1978 | Group 2 | Poland | 1–3 | Rangel |
| 1986 | Group B | Belgium | 2–1 | Quirarte, Hugo Sánchez |
| 1986 | Group B | Paraguay | 1–1 | Luis Flores |
| 1986 | Group B | Iraq | 1–0 | Quirarte |
| 1986 | Round of 16 | Bulgaria | 2–0 | Negrete, Servín |
| 1986 | Quarter-final | West Germany | 0–0 (a.e.t.) (1–4 p) | |
| 1994 | Group E | Norway | 0–1 | |
| 1994 | Group E | Republic of Ireland | 2–1 | García (2) |
| 1994 | Group E | Italy | 1–1 | Bernal |
| 1994 | Round of 16 | Bulgaria | 1–1 (a.e.t.) (1–3 p) | García Aspe |
| 1998 | Group E | South Korea | 3–1 | Peláez, Hernández (2) |
| 1998 | Group E | Belgium | 2–2 | García Aspe, Blanco |
| 1998 | Group E | Netherlands | 2–2 | Peláez, Hernández |
| 1998 | Round of 16 | Germany | 1–2 | Hernández |
| 2002 | Group G | Croatia | 1–0 | Blanco |
| 2002 | Group G | Ecuador | 2–1 | Borgetti, Torrado |
| 2002 | Group G | Italy | 1–1 | Borgetti |
| 2002 | Round of 16 | United States | 0–2 | |
| 2006 | Group D | Iran | 3–1 | Bravo (2), Zinha |
| 2006 | Group D | Angola | 0–0 | |
| 2006 | Group D | Portugal | 1–2 | Fonseca |
| 2006 | Round of 16 | Argentina | 1–2 (a.e.t.) | Márquez |
| 2010 | Group A | South Africa | 1–1 | Márquez |
| 2010 | Group A | France | 2–0 | Javier Hernández, Blanco |
| 2010 | Group A | Uruguay | 0–1 | |
| 2010 | Round of 16 | Argentina | 1–3 | Javier Hernández |
| 2014 | Group A | Cameroon | 1–0 | Peralta |
| 2014 | Group A | Brazil | 0–0 | |
| 2014 | Group A | Croatia | 3–1 | Márquez, Guardado, Javier Hernández |
| 2014 | Round of 16 | Netherlands | 1–2 | G. dos Santos |
| 2018 | Group F | Germany | 1–0 | Lozano |
| 2018 | Group F | South Korea | 2–1 | Vela, Javier Hernández |
| 2018 | Group F | Sweden | 0–3 | |
| 2018 | Round of 16 | Brazil | 0–2 | |
| 2022 | Group C | Poland | 0–0 | |
| 2022 | Group C | Argentina | 0–2 | |
| 2022 | Group C | Saudi Arabia | 2–1 | Martín, Chávez |

## Record players

| 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 |
| 3 | Héctor Moreno | 12 | 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022 |
| 5 | Antonio Carbajal | 11 | 1950, 1954, 1958, 1962 and 1966 |
| 5 | Cuauhtémoc Blanco | 11 | 1998, 2002 and 2010 |
| 5 | Gerardo Torrado | 11 | 2002, 2006 and 2010 |
| 5 | Guillermo Ochoa | 11 | 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022 |
| 9 | Carlos Salcido | 10 | 2006, 2010 and 2014 |
| 9 | Héctor Herrera | 10 | 2014, 2018 and 2022 |
| 11 | Chava Reyes | 9 | 1958, 1962 and 1966 |
| 11 | Giovani dos Santos | 9 | 2010, 2014 and 2018 |

## Top goalscorers

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