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All-Time World Cup Ranking Table

Since the first World Cup in 1930, Brazil is the only country to play in all 17 final tournaments. The FIFA all-time table below ranks all nations that have ever qualified for a World Cup final tournament by points earned through 2002. Victories, which earned two points from 1930-90, were awarded three points starting in 1994. Note that Germany's appearances include 10 made by West Germany from 1954-90. Participants in the 2002 World Cup final are in bold type.

		App	Gm	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA
1	Brazil	17	87	60	13	14	141	191	82
2	Germany	15	85	50	17	18	123	176	106
3	Italy	15	70	39	14	17	96	110	67
4	Argentina	13	60	30	19	11	72	102	71
5	England	11	50	26	13	15	61	68	45
6	Spain	11	45	20	15	10	54	71	53
7	France	11	44	21	16	7	49	86	61
8	Sweden	10	42	15	16	10	42	71	65
9	Russia	9	37	17	14	6	41	64	44
10	Yugoslavia	9	37	16	13	8	40	60	46
	Uruguay	10	40	15	15	10	40	65	57
12	Netherlands	7	31	14	9	9	37	56	36
13	Poland	6	28	14	9	5	34	42	36
14	Hungary	9	32	15	14	3	33	87	57
	Mexico	12	41	10	20	11	33	43	80
16	Belgium	11	36	10	17	9	30	46	63
17	Austria	7	29	12	13	4	28	43	47
18	Czech Republic	8	30	11	14	5	27	44	45
19	Romania	7	21	8	8	5	21	30	32
20	Chile	7	25	7	12	6	20	31	40
21	Paraguay	6	19	5	8	6	18	25	34
	Denmark	3	13	7	4	2	18	24	18
23	South Korea	6	21	4	12	5	17	19	49
24	Cameroon	5	17	4	6	7	16	15	29
	USA	7	22	6	14	2	16	25	45
26	Portugal	3	12	7	5	0	15	25	16
	Scotland	8	23	4	12	7	15	25	41
	Switzerland	7	22	6	13	3	15	33	51
	Turkey	2	10	4	4	1	15	20	17
30	Bulgaria	7	26	3	15	8	14	22	53
31	Croatia	2	10	6	4	0	13	13	8
32	Ireland	3	13	2	4	7	12	10	10
33	Peru	4	15	4	8	3	11	19	31
	No. Ireland	3	13	3	5	5	11	13	23
35	Nigeria	3	11	4	6	1	9	14	16
36	Morocco	4	13	2	7	4	8	12	18
	Colombia	4	13	3	8	2	8	14	23
	Costa Rica	2	7	3	3	1	8	9	12
	Senegal	1	5	2	1	2	8	7	6
40	Norway	2	8	2	3	3	7	7	8
	Japan	2	7	2	4	1	7	6	7
42	East Germany	1	6	2	2	2	6	5	5
	South Africa	2	6	1	2	3	6	8	11
44	Saudi Arabia	3	10	2	7	1	5	7	25
	Algeria	2	6	2	3	1	5	6	10
	Wales	1	5	1	1	3	5	4	4
	Tunisia	3	9	1	5	3	5	5	11
48	Iran	2	6	1	4	1	3	4	12
	North Korea	1	4	1	2	1	3	5	9
	Cuba	1	3	1	1	1	3	5	12
	Jamaica	1	3	1	2	0	3	3	9
52	Ecuador	1	3	1	2	0	2	2	4
	Egypt	2	4	0	2	2	2	3	6
	Honduras	1	3	0	1	2	2	2	3
	Israel	1	3	0	1	2	2	1	3
56	Bolivia	3	6	0	5	1	1	1	20
	Australia	1	3	0	2	1	1	0	5
	Kuwait	1	3	0	2	1	1	2	6
59	El Salvador	2	6	0	6	0	0	1	22
	Canada	1	3	0	3	0	0	0	5
	East Indies	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	6
	Greece	1	3	0	3	0	0	0	10
	Haiti	1	3	0	3	0	0	2	14
	Iraq	1	3	0	3	0	0	1	4
	Slovenia	1	3	0	3	0	0	2	7
	New Zealand	1	3	0	3	0	0	2	12
	UAE	1	3	0	3	0	0	2	11
	China	1	3	0	3	0	0	0	9
	Zaire	1	3	0	3	0	0	0	14

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