Chile at the FIFA World Cup

For the women's team, see Chile at the FIFA Women's World Cup.

This is a record of the results of the Chile national team 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.

The Football Federation of Chile is the second oldest South American federation, with 127 years of existence. Its foundation dates back to June 19, 1895, at the port city of Valparaiso. Its first President was David Scott. Chile is one of four founding member nations of CONMEBOL together with Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. They established the South American footballing organization on July 9, 1916. The four original associations enacted and participated in the first ever South American Championship which would later be named the Copa América.

Chile have appeared in nine FIFA World Cup finals to date, which were in 1930, 1950, 1962 (which they hosted), 1966, 1974, 1982, 1998, 2010 and 2014. Their best performance was in 1962, where they finished in third place.

Overall record

FIFA World Cup record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA
1930	Group stage	5th	3	2	0	1	5	3
1934	Withdrew
1938
1950	Group stage	9th	3	1	0	2	5	6
1954	Did not qualify
1958
1962	Third place	3rd	6	4	0	2	10	8
1966	Group stage	13th	3	0	1	2	2	5
1970	Did not qualify
1974	Group stage	11th	3	0	2	1	1	2
1978	Did not qualify
1982	Group stage	22nd	3	0	0	3	3	8
1986	Did not qualify
1990	Disqualified
1994	Banned
1998	Round of 16	16th	4	0	3	1	5	8
2002	Did not qualify
2006
2010	Round of 16	10th	4	2	0	2	3	5
2014		9th	4	2	1	1	6	4
2018	Did not qualify
2022
2026	To be determined
Total	Third place	9/22	33	11	7	15	40	49

*Denotes draws including knockout matches decided via penalty shoot-out.

**Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.

By match

World Cup	Round	Opponent	Score	Result	Venue	Scorers
1930	Group stage	Mexico	3–0	W	Montevideo	Vidal  3', 65', Rosas  52' (o.g.)
		France	1–0	W	Montevideo	Subiabre  67'
		Argentina	1–3	L	Montevideo	Subiabre  15'
1950	Group stage	England	0–2	L	Rio de Janeiro	& —
		Spain	0–2	L	Rio de Janeiro	& —
		United States	5–2	W	Recife	Robledo  16', Riera  32', Cremaschi  54', 82', Prieto  60'
1962	Group stage	Switzerland	3–1	W	Santiago de Chile	L. Sánchez  44', 55', Ramírez  51'
		Italy	2–0	W	Santiago de Chile	Ramírez  73', Toro  87'
		West Germany	0–2	L	Santiago de Chile	& —
	Quarter-finals	Soviet Union	2–1	W	Arica	L. Sánchez  11', Rojas  29'
	Semi-finals	Brazil	2–4	L	Santiago de Chile	Toro  42', L. Sánchez  61' (pen.)
	Third place match	Yugoslavia	1–0	W	Santiago de Chile	Rojas  90'
1966	Group stage	Italy	0–2	L	Sunderland	& —
		North Korea	1–1	D	Middlesbrough	Marcos  26' (pen.)
		Soviet Union	1–2	L	Sunderland	Marcos  32'
1974	Group stage	West Germany	0–1	L	Berlin	& —
		East Germany	1–1	D	Berlin	Ahumada  69'
		Australia	0–0	D	Berlin	& —
1982	Group stage	Austria	0–1	L	Oviedo	& —
		West Germany	1–4	L	Gijón	Moscoso  90'
		Algeria	2–3	L	Oviedo	Neira  59' (pen.), Letelier  73'
1998	Group stage	Italy	2–2	D	Bordeaux	Salas  45', 49'
		Austria	1–1	D	Saint-Étienne	Salas  70'
		Cameroon	1–1	D	Nantes	Sierra  20'
	Round of 16	Brazil	1–4	L	París	Salas  68'
2010	Group stage	Honduras	1–0	W	Nelspruit	Beausejour  34'
		Switzerland	1–0	W	Port Elizabeth	Gonzalez  75'
		Spain	1–2	L	Pretoria	Millar  47'
	Round of 16	Brazil	0–3	L	Johannesburg	& —
2014	Group stage	Australia	3–1	W	Cuiabá	A. Sánchez  12', Valdivia  14', Beausejour  92+'
		Spain	2–0	W	Río de Janeiro	Vargas  20', Aránguiz  43'
		Netherlands	2–0	L	Sao Paulo	& —
	Round of 16	Brazil	1–1 (a.e.t.) (2–3 pen.)	D	Belo Horizonte	A. Sánchez  32'

Record by opponent

FIFA World Cup matches (by team)
Opponent	Wins	Draws	Losses	Total	Goals Scored	Goals Conceded
Algeria	0	0	1	1	2	3
Argentina	0	0	1	1	1	3
Australia	1	1	0	2	3	1
Austria	0	1	1	2	1	2
Brazil	0	1	3	4	4	12
Cameroon	0	1	0	1	1	1
East Germany	0	1	0	1	1	1
England	0	0	1	1	0	2
France	1	0	0	1	1	0
Germany	0	0	3	3	1	7
Honduras	1	0	0	1	1	0
Italy	1	1	1	3	4	4
Mexico	1	0	0	1	3	0
Netherlands	0	0	1	1	0	2
North Korea	0	1	0	1	1	1
Soviet Union	1	0	1	2	3	3
Spain	1	0	2	3	3	4
Switzerland	2	0	0	2	4	1
United States	1	0	0	1	5	2
Yugoslavia	1	0	0	1	1	0

Goalscorers

See also: List of FIFA World Cup goalscorers

Player	Goals	1930	1950	1962	1966	1974	1982	1998	2010	2014
Leonel Sánchez	4			4
Marcelo Salas	4							4
Jean Beausejour	2								1	1
Atilio Cremaschi	2		2
Rubén Marcos	2				2
Jaime Ramírez	2			2
Eladio Rojas	2			2
Alexis Sánchez	2									2
Guillermo Subiabre	2	2
Jorge Toro	2			2
Carlos Vidal	2	2
Sergio Ahumada	1					1
Charles Aránguiz	1									1
Mark González	1								1
Juan Carlos Letelier	1						1
Rodrigo Millar	1								1
Gustavo Moscoso	1						1
Miguel Ángel Neira	1						1
Andrés Prieto	1		1
Fernando Riera	1		1
George Robledo	1		1
José Luis Sierra	1							1
Jorge Valdivia	1									1
Eduardo Vargas	1									1
Own goals scored by Chile’s opponents	1	1
Total	40	5	5	10	2	1	3	5	3	6

Most appearances

Rank	Player	Appearances	World Cups
1	Elías Figueroa	9	1966, 1974, 1982
	Leonel Sánchez	9	1962, 1966
3	Claudio Bravo	8	2010, 2014
	Mauricio Isla	8	2010, 2014
	Gonzalo Jara	8	2010, 2014
	Alexis Sánchez	8	2010, 2014
7	Luis Eyzaguirre	7	1962, 1966
	Honorino Landa	7	1962, 1966
	Gary Medel	7	2010, 2014
	Jorge Valdivia	7	2010, 2014
	Arturo Vidal	7	2010, 2014
12	Jean Beausejour	6	2010, 2014
	Jaime Ramírez	6	1962, 1966
	Eladio Rojas	6	1962
	Raúl Sánchez	6	1962

Awards

Team awards

• Third Place 1962

Individual awards

• Golden Boot 1962: Leonel Sánchez (shared)
• Bronze Ball 1962: Leonel Sánchez

See also

• Chile at the Copa América
• South American nations at the FIFA World Cup

External links

• FIFA Official Ranking of all Participants at Finals 1930–2002. FIFA Match Results for all Stages 1930–2002
• FIFA official site