Cuba at the FIFA World Cup

This is a record of Cuba'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.

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 have appeared in the finals of the FIFA World Cup on one occasion in 1938.^[2]

FIFA World Cup record

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D*	L	GS	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
1966	Did Not Qualify
1970	Entry Not Accepted[3]
1974	Did Not Enter
1978	Did Not Qualify
1982
1986	Did Not Enter
1990	Did Not Qualify
1994	Withdrew
1998	Did Not Qualify
2002
2006
2010
2014
2018
2022	To Be Determined
Total	Quarter-Final	1/20	3	1	1	1	5	12

Cuba at 1938 FIFA World Cup

Head coach: José Tapia

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
-	FW	Juan Alonzo	1911		Fortuna Havana
-	MF	Joaquín Arias	12 November 1914 (aged 23)		Juventud Asturiana
-	GK	Juan Ayra	23 June 1911 (aged 26)		CD Centro Gallego
-	DF	Jacinto Barquín	3 September 1915 (aged 22)		CD Puentes Grandes
-	MF	Pedro Berges	1906		Iberia Havana
-	GK	Benito Carvajales	1913		Juventud Asturiana
-	DF	Manuel Chorens	22 January 1916 (aged 22)		CD Centro Gallego
-	FW	Tomás Fernández	1915		CD Centro Gallego
-	FW	Pedro Ferrer	1908		Iberia Havana
-	MF	Arturo Garcelan			Juventud Asturiana
-	FW	José Magriñá	14 December 1917 (aged 20)		CD Centro Gallego
*	FW	Carlos Oliveira			Hispano America
-	MF	José Antonio Rodríguez			CD Centro Gallego
-	FW	Héctor Socorro	26 June 1912 (aged 25)		CD Puentes Grandes
-	FW	Mario Sosa	1910		Iberia Havana
-	FW	Juan Tuñas	1 February 1917 (aged 21)		Juventud Asturiana

First Round

Cuba  v  Romania

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 Chapou, Toulouse Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Giuseppe Scarpi (Italy)

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First Round Replay

Cuba  v  Romania

9 June 1938 18:00 (WEST)

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

Stade Chapou, Toulouse Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Alfred Birlem (Germany)

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Quarter-Final

Sweden  v  Cuba

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)

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References

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.
3. "History of the FIFA World Cup Preliminary Competition (by year)" (PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 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.

External links

• Cuba at FIFA