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 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.^[1]

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

Record at the FIFA World Cup

FIFA World Cup record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA
1930	Did not enter
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

*Draws include knockout matches decided via penalty shoot-out

By match

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	—

Record by opponent

FIFA World Cup matches (by team)
Opponent	Wins	Draws	Losses	Total	Goals scored	Goals conceded
Romania	1	1	0	2	5	4
Sweden	0	0	1	1	0	8

Cuba at 1938 FIFA World Cup

Head coach: José Tapia

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

First round

5 June 1938

17:00 (WEST)

Cuba	3 – 3 (a.e.t.)	Romania
Socorro 44' Fernández 87' Tuñas 117'	Report	Bindea 35' Baratky 88' Dobay 105'

Stade du T.O.E.C., Toulouse

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: Giuseppe Scarpi (Italy)

First round replay

9 June 1938

18:00 (WEST)

Cuba	2–1	Romania
Socorro 51' Oliveira 57'	Report	Dobay 35'

Stade du T.O.E.C., Toulouse

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Alfred Birlem (Germany)

Quarter-final

12 June 1938

17:00 (WEST)

Sweden	8–0	Cuba
Keller 9', 80', 81'^[4]^[5]^[6] Wetterström 32', 37', 44'^[7] Nyberg 84' H. Andersson 90'^[8]	Report

Stade du Fort Carré, Antibes

Attendance: 6,846

Referee: Augustin Krist (Czechoslovakia)

Record players

Eight players were fielded in all three matches in 1938, making them record World Cup players for Cuba.

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

Top goalscorers

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

References

^ 2006 FIFA World Cup TV Coverage Archived June 14, 2007, at the Wayback Machine (PDF), FIFA.com. Retrieved on June 6, 2007.
^ "World Cup History 1938 World Cup". BBC Sport. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
^ ^a ^b "History of the FIFA World Cup Preliminary Competition (by year)" (PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 17, 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
^ RSSSF credits the goal in the 9th minute to Harry Andersson
^ RSSSF credits goal in the 80th minute as coming in the 60th minute.
^ RSSSF credits goal in the 81st minute to Harry Andersson in the 61st minute.
^ RSSSF credits the goal in the 32nd minute as coming in the 22nd minute.
^ RSSSF credits this goal as coming in the 89th minute.

External links

Cuba at FIFA

[2006coverage-1] 2006 FIFA World Cup TV Coverage Archived June 14, 2007, at the Wayback Machine (PDF), FIFA.com. Retrieved on June 6, 2007.

[2] "World Cup History 1938 World Cup". BBC Sport. Retrieved 16 October 2013.

[world_cup_prelim_history-3] "History of the FIFA World Cup Preliminary Competition (by year)" (PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 17, 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2011.

[4] RSSSF credits the goal in the 9th minute to Harry Andersson

[5] RSSSF credits goal in the 80th minute as coming in the 60th minute.

[6] RSSSF credits goal in the 81st minute to Harry Andersson in the 61st minute.

[7] RSSSF credits the goal in the 32nd minute as coming in the 22nd minute.

[8] RSSSF credits this goal as coming in the 89th minute.

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v t e Countries at the FIFA World Cup
Team appearances All-time table
AFC	Australia² China Indonesia¹ Iran Iraq Japan Kuwait North Korea Qatar Saudi Arabia South Korea United Arab Emirates
CAF	Algeria Angola Cameroon DR Congo¹ Egypt Ghana Ivory Coast Morocco Nigeria Senegal South Africa Togo Tunisia
CONCACAF	Canada Costa Rica Cuba 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 Republic¹ Denmark East Germany³ England France Germany¹ Greece Hungary Iceland Israel² Italy Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia¹ Scotland Serbia¹ Slovakia¹ Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
¹ Considered a successor team by FIFA, or have competed under another name(s). ² Have been member of multiple confederations. ³ Team and national federation no longer exist.