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The Ivory Coast finished third in the group and North Korea finished bottom. The North Koreans had a goal difference of −11, the worst of any team at the tournament, largely due to the 7–0 defeat they suffered against Portugal; that match was Portugal's biggest-ever World Cup win and North Korea's heaviest-ever defeat. It was also the first ...
The record for the most goals scored in an international game by a Portuguese player is four, which has been achieved on five occasions: by Eusébio against North Korea at the 1966 World Cup, by Nuno Gomes against Andorra in 2002, by Pauleta against Kuwait in 2003, and the other two by Cristiano Ronaldo, the first against Andorra in 2016 and ...
Portugal's World Cup record First Match Portugal 3–1 Hungary (13 July 1966; Manchester, England) Biggest Win Portugal 7–0 North Korea (21 June 2010; Cape Town, South Africa) Biggest Defeat Germany 4–0 Portugal (16 June 2014; Salvador, Brazil) Best Result Third place in 1966: Worst Result Group stage in 1986, 2002 and 2014
With a final pre-tournament FIFA ranking of 105th in the world, North Korea was the lowest-ranked team to qualify for the World Cup since the rankings began in 1993. 2010 was North Korea's first appearance at the World Cup since 1966. The draw placed North Korea in Group G. They played their first match against five-time winners Brazil on 15 June.
The summarizing tables below show North Korea's official matches per period. More extensive reports (with dates, scores, goal scorers and match circumstances) can be found on the main articles per period.
The match was shown live in North Korea - an exceptionally rare occurrence for a foreign broadcast - but the broadcast was interrupted after Portugal's fourth goal. [12] North Korea went on to lose their final match against Côte d'Ivoire 3-0 to record the worst performance of any team at that year's World Cup.
Their first international match was played on 18 December 1921 in Madrid against Spain, losing 3–1. [13] The team they have faced the most often is also Spain, with a total of 40 matches played. Their biggest win was by a nine-goal margin, in a 9–0 Euro qualifying victory against Luxembourg on 11 September 2023.
Belgium became the first team to come from two or more goals down to win a World Cup knockout stage match within 90 minutes since Portugal beat North Korea in the 1966 quarter-final (3–0 down, 5–3 win). Japan scored six goals at Russia 2018, their highest ever tally in a single World Cup tournament.