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After withdrawing from the 1950 FIFA World Cup, India didn't enter the qualifying rounds of the tournament between 1954 and 1982. [2] Since the 1986 qualifiers , with the exception of the 1990 edition of the tournament, the team started to participate in qualifiers but have yet to qualify for the tournament again.
FIFA Rankings Best Worst 533 193 112 228 36.21% 94 (1996) 173 (2015) Biggest win Sri Lanka 0–7 India. 7 December 1963. Biggest defeat Soviet Union 11–1 India 16 September 1955. Updated as of 18 November 2024 (vs Malaysia). [4] [5] [6] [7]
By March 2015, after not playing any matches, India reached their lowest FIFA ranking position of 173. [71] A couple months prior, Stephen Constantine was re-hired as the head coach after first leading India more than a decade before. [72] Constantine's first major assignment back as the India head coach were the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.
He is the only footballer in India's history who played 100 international matches for India and is the all-time highest goal-scorer of India. He has led the national team to many victories, most importantly qualifying for the AFC Asian Cup and under his leadership the team achieved its highest FIFA ranking of 96 after twenty years. His goal ...
The FIFA Men's World Ranking is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football, led by Argentina as of December 2024. [1] The men's teams of the member nations of FIFA, football's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest.
World Cup winners Spain top the Fifa women's world rankings for the first time as England remain fourth.
Summary Matches 487–533 Games played Won Draw Lost Win % FIFA Rankings Best Worst 47 16 16 15 34.04% 99 (2023) 126 (2024) Biggest win India 4–0 Hong Kong. 14 June 2022
Eight nations have won the tournament. The inaugural winners in 1930 were Uruguay; the current champions are Argentina. The most successful nation is Brazil, which has won the cup on five occasions. [3] Five teams have appeared in FIFA World Cup finals without winning, [4] while twelve more have appeared in the semi-finals. [5]