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.
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 has qualified for a total of seven
FIFA World Cup tournaments, having played in
1994,
1998,
2002,
2006,
2018,
2022, and
2034 as hosts. Their best performance was in 1994, where they reached the round of 16.
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 twelve 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.
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.
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1930
1934
1938
1950
1954
1958
1962
1966
1970
1974
1978
1982
1990
1994
1998
2002
2010
2014
2018
2022
2034
2038
Netherlands
Belgium
Denmark
Cameroon
Republic of Ireland
Tunisia
Ukraine
Egypt
Poland