The United States men's national soccer team has played in several World Cup finals , with their best result occurring during their first appearance at the 1930 World Cup , when the United States finished in third place.[1] After the 1950 World Cup, in which the United States upset England in group play 1–0, the U.S. was absent from the finals until 1990. The United States has participated in every World Cup since 1990 until they failed to qualify for the 2018 competition after a loss to Trinidad and Tobago in 2017.
The World Cup is an international 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 current format of the World Cup 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 million people watching the 2006 tournament final .[2]
Record at the FIFA World Cup
Year Host Round Position GP W D* L GF GA
1930 Semi-finals 3rd 3 2 0 1 7 6
1934 Round of 16 16th 1 0 0 1 1 7
1938 Withdrew
1950 Group stage 10th 3 1 0 2 4 8
1954 Did not qualify
1958
1962
1966
1970
1974
1978
1982
1986
1990 Group stage 23rd 3 0 0 3 2 8
1994 Round of 16 14th 4 1 1 2 3 4
1998 Group stage 32nd 3 0 0 3 1 5
2002 Quarter-finals 8th 5 2 1 2 7 7
2006 Group stage 25th 3 0 1 2 2 6
2010 Round of 16 12th 4 1 2 1 5 5
2014 Round of 16 15th 4 1 1 2 5 6
2018 Did not qualify
2022 To be determined
2026 Qualified as one of the Host Nations
Total 10/21 - 33 8 6 19 37 62
*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks
By Match
World Cup
Round
Opponent
Score
Result
Venue
Scorers
1930 Group stage Belgium 3–0 W Montevideo B. McGhee , T. Florie , B. Patenaude
Paraguay 3–0 W Montevideo B. Patenaude (3)
Semi-finals Argentina 1–6 L Montevideo J. Brown
1934 Round of 16 Italy 1–7 L Rome A. Donelli
1950 Group stage Spain 1–3 L Curitiba G. Pariani
England 1–0 W Belo Horizonte J. Gaetjens
Chile 2–5 L Recife F. Wallace , J. Maca
1990 Group stage Czechoslovakia 1–5 L Florence P. Caligiuri
Italy 0–1 L Rome & —
Austria 1–2 L Florence B. Murray
1994 Group stage Switzerland 1–1 D Pontiac E. Wynalda
Colombia 2–1 W Pasadena A. Escobar (o.g. ), E. Stewart
Romania 0–1 L Pasadena & —
Round of 16 Brazil 0–1 L Stanford & —
1998 Group stage Germany 0–2 L Paris & —
Iran 1–2 L Lyon B. McBride
FR Yugoslavia 0–1 L Nantes & —
2002 Group stage Portugal 3–2 W Suwon J. O'Brien , J. Costa (o.g. ), B. McBride
South Korea 1–1 D Daegu C. Mathis
Poland 1–3 L Daejeon L. Donovan
Round of 16 Mexico 2–0 W Jeonju B. McBride , L. Donovan
Quarter-finals Germany 0–1 L Ulsan & —
2006 Group stage Czech Republic 0–3 L Gelsenkirchen & —
Italy 1–1 D Kaiserslautern C. Zaccardo (o.g. )
Ghana 1–2 L Nuremberg C. Dempsey
2010 Group stage England 1–1 D Rustenburg C. Dempsey
Slovenia 2–2 D Johannesburg L. Donovan , M. Bradley
Algeria 1–0 W Pretoria L. Donovan
Round of 16 Ghana 1–2 (a.e.t. )L Rustenburg L. Donovan
2014 Group stage Ghana 2–1 W Natal C. Dempsey , J. Brooks
Portugal 2–2 D Manaus J. Jones , C. Dempsey
Germany 0–1 L Recife & —
Round of 16 Belgium 1–2 (a.e.t. )L Salvador J. Green
Individual tournament results
Uruguay 1930 FIFA World Cup
Games
All times local (UYT )
July 13, 1930 3:00 p.m. Group 4
July 17, 1930 2:45 p.m. Group 4
July 26, 1930 2:45 p.m. Semifinal
Italy 1934 FIFA World Cup
Game
May 27, 1934 4:30 p.m. (CEST ) Round of 16
Brazil 1950 FIFA World Cup
Games
All times local BRT (UTC-03 )
June 25, 1950 3:00 p.m.
Attendance: 9,511
Referee: Mario Vianna (
Brazil )
June 29, 1950 3:00 p.m.
Attendance: 10,151
Referee: Generoso Dattilo (
Italy )
Italy 1990 FIFA World Cup
Games
All times local (CEST/UTC+2 )
June 10, 1990 5:00 p.m. Group A
June 14, 1990 9:00 p.m. Group A
June 19, 1990 9:00 p.m. Group A
United States 1994 FIFA World Cup
Group A final standings
Ranking of third-placed teams
Games
June 18, 1994 11:30 a.m. EDT Group A
June 22, 1994 7:30 p.m. PDT Group A
June 26, 1994 4:00 p.m. PDT Group A
July 4, 1994 12:30 p.m. PDT Round of 16
France 1998 FIFA World Cup
Games
All times local (CEST/UTC+2 )
June 15, 1998 9:00 p.m. Group F
June 21, 1998 9:00 p.m. Group F
June 25, 1998 9:00 p.m. Group F
South Korea-Japan 2002 FIFA World Cup
Games
All times local (UTC+9 )
June 5, 2002 6:00 p.m. Group D
June 10, 2002 3:30 p.m. Group D
June 14, 2002 8:30 p.m. Group D
June 17, 2002 3:30 p.m. Round of 16
Germany 2006 FIFA World Cup
Games
All times local (CEST/UTC+2 )
June 12, 2006 6:00 p.m. Group E
June 17, 2006 9:00 p.m. Group E
June 22, 2006 4:00 p.m. Group E
South Africa 2010 FIFA World Cup
Games
All times local (UTC+02 )
June 12, 2010 8:30 p.m. Group C
June 18, 2010 4:00 p.m. Group C
June 23, 2010 4:00 p.m. Group C
June 26, 2010 8:30 p.m. Round of 16
Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup
Games
June 16, 2014 7:00 p.m. UTC−3 Group G
June 22, 2014 6:00 p.m. UTC−4 Group G
June 26, 2014 1:00 p.m. UTC−3 Group G
July 1, 2014 5:00 p.m. UTC−3 Round of 16
Record players
No.
Name
Matches
World Cups
1 Landon Donovan 12 2002, 2006 and 2010
2
Cobi Jones 11 1994, 1998 and 2002
Earnie Stewart 11 1994, 1998 and 2002
DaMarcus Beasley 11 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014
5
Brian McBride 10 1998, 2002 and 2006
Claudio Reyna 10 1998, 2002 and 2006
Clint Dempsey 10 2006, 2010 and 2014
8
Tab Ramos 9 1990, 1994 and 1998
Eddie Pope 9 1998, 2002 and 2006
10
Marcelo Balboa 8 1990, 1994 and 1998
Eric Wynalda 8 1990, 1994 and 1998
Michael Bradley 8 2010 and 2014
Tim Howard 8 2010 and 2014
Top Goalscorers
Own goals scored for opponents
References
↑ Helms, Andrew (July 1, 2014). "USA 3, Belgium 0! Or, Looking for Hope in the 1930 World Cup" . The New Republic . Retrieved July 22, 2015 .
↑ 2006 FIFA World Cup TV Coverage Archived June 14, 2007, at the Wayback Machine . (PDF), FIFA.com. Retrieved on June 6, 2007.↑ "Referee designations for matches 1-16" (PDF) . FIFA.com . Fédération Internationale de Football Association . June 5, 2010. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 5, 2010. Retrieved June 5, 2010 .
↑ "Referee designations for matches 17-24" (PDF) . FIFA.com . Fédération Internationale de Football Association. June 14, 2010. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 4, 2010. Retrieved June 15, 2010 .
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