Saudi Arabia at the FIFA World Cup

This is a record of Saudi Arabia's results at the FIFA World Cup. The FIFA World Cup, sometimes called the Football World Cup or the Soccer World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the 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.

Russia vs Saudi Arabia match at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia

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]

Saudi Arabia have played in five FIFA World Cup tournaments, which were in 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2018, Their best performance was in 1994, where they reached the round of 16.

FIFA World Cup record
FIFA World Cup Finals record
Year Round Position Pld W D* L GF GA
1930Did not enter
1934
1938
1950
1954
1958
1962
1966
1970
1974
1978Did not qualify
1982
1986
1990
1994 Round of 16 12th 4 2 0 2 5 6
1998 Group stage 28th 3 0 1 2 2 7
2002 32nd 3 0 0 3 0 12
2006 28th 3 0 1 2 2 7
2010Did not qualify
2014
2018 Group stage 26th 3 1 0 2 2 7
2022 To be determined
2026
Total Round of 16 5/21 16 3 2 11 11 39

List of matches
World Cup Round Opponent Score Result Venue Scorers
1994Group stage Netherlands1–2LWashingtonAmin
 Morocco2–1WEast RutherfordAl-Jaber, Amin
 Belgium1–0WWashingtonAl-Owairan
Round of 16 Sweden1–3LDallasAl-Ghesheyan
1998Group stage Denmark0–1LLens—
 France0–4LSaint-Denis—
 South Africa2–2DBordeauxAl-Jaber, Al-Thunayan
2002Group stage Germany8–0LSapporo—
 Cameroon0–1LSaitama—
 Republic of Ireland0–3LYokohama—
2006Group stage Tunisia2–2DMunichAl-Qahtani, Al-Jaber
 Ukraine0–4LHamburg—
 Spain0–1LKaiserslautern—
2018Group stage Russia5–0LMoscow—
 Uruguay1–0LRostov-on-Don—
 Egypt2–1WVolgogradAl-Dawsari, Al-Faraj

Record Players
No. Name Matches World Cups
1Mohamed Al-Deayea101994, 1998 and 2002
2 Sami Al-Jaber91994, 1998, 2002 and 2006
Abdullah Zubromawi91994, 1998 and 2002
Hussein Abdulghani91998, 2002 and 2006
5 Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi61994 and 1998
Khaled Al-Muwallid61994 and 1998
Saeed Al-Owairan61994 and 1998
Fuad Anwar Amin61994 and 1998
Hamzah Saleh61994 and 1998
Ibrahim Al-Shahrani61998 and 2002
Nawaf Al-Temyat61998, 2002 and 2006
Redha Tukar62002 and 2006

Top Goalscorers

Sami Al-Jaber is not only the most successful Saudi striker at the FIFA World Cup to date, he also managed to score in World Cups 12 years apart (1994 and 2006). He shares this record with eight other players, among them Pelé, Diego Maradona, Miroslav Klose, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

No. Name Goals World Cups
1Sami Al-Jaber31994, 1998 and 2006
2Fuad Anwar Amin21994
3 Saeed Al-Owairan11994
Fahad Al-Ghesheyan11994
Yousuf Al-Thunayan11998
Yasser Al-Qahtani12006
Salem Al-Dawsari12018
Salman Al-Faraj12018

==Squads== Mohammad Salahuddin Ahmad

References
  1. 2006 FIFA World Cup TV Coverage (PDF), FIFA.com. Retrieved on June 6, 2007.
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