page_title: Peru national football team
section_title: FIFA World Cup
hierarchical_section_title: Peru national football team / Competitive records / FIFA World Cup
caption_attribution_description: Español: Lapusneanu, arquero rumano, frente al delantero peruano Lores, durante el encuentro entre ambas selecciones en la Copa Mundial de fútbol de 1930.
context_page_description: The Peru national football team represents Peru in men's international football. The national team has been organised, since 1927, by the Peruvian Football Federation. The FPF constitutes one of the 10 members of FIFA's South American Football Confederation. Peru has won the Copa América twice and qualified for FIFA World Cup finals five times; it also participated in the 1936 Olympic football competition and has reached the semi-finals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup. The team plays most of its home matches at the Estadio Nacional in Lima, the country's capital.
  The team is well known for its white shirts adorned with a diagonal red stripe, which combine Peru's national colours. This basic design has been used continuously since 1936, and gives rise to the team's common Spanish nickname, la Blanquirroja. Peruvian football fans are known for their distinctive cheer ¡Arriba Perú!. Peru has longstanding rivalries with Chile and Ecuador.
  The Peru national team enjoyed its most successful periods in the 1930s and the 1970s.
context_section_description: Peru has taken part in the World Cup finals five times. The Peruvian team competed at the first World Cup in 1930 by invitation, and has entered each tournament at the qualifying stage since 1958, qualifying for the finals four times: in 1970, 1978, 1982 and 2018. Its all-time record in World Cup qualifying matches, as of 2017, stands at 43 wins, 37 draws and 69 losses. In the finals, the team has won five matches, drawn three and lost ten, with 21 goals in favour and 33 against. Peru won the inaugural FIFA Fair Play Trophy, awarded at the 1970 World Cup, having been the only team not to receive any yellow or red cards during the competition. Peru has the peculiar distinction of facing the future FIFA World Cup champions during the tournament's finals phase.
  Luis de Souza Ferreira scored Peru's first World Cup goal on 14 July 1930, in a match against Romania. José Velásquez scored Peru's fastest World Cup finals goal—that is, that scored soonest after kick-off—two minutes into the match against Iran on 11 June 1978. Jefferson Farfán is Peru's top scorer and fifth-overall top scorer in CONMEBOL World Cup qualification, with 16 goals. Teófilo Cubillas is the team's top scorer in the World Cup finals, with 10 goals in 13 games. During the 1930 competition, a Peruvian became the first player sent off in a World Cup—his identity is disputed between sources. Peru's Ramón Quiroga holds the unusual record of being the only goalkeeper to commit a foul in the opponent's side of the pitch in a match at the World Cup finals.
caption: Peru's match against Romania at the 1930 World Cup.
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