Guatemalan national soccer team

Guatemala
República de Guatemala

Nickname (s)

La Azul y Blanco
Los Chapines

Association

Federación Nacional
de Fútbol de Guatemala

confederacy

CONCACAF

Head coach

Amarini Villatoro (since 2019)

Record scorer

Carlos Ruiz (68)

Record player

Carlos Ruiz (133)

Home stadium

Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores

FIFA code

GUA

FIFA rank

130. (1104 points)
(as of July 16, 2020)

First jersey

Second jersey

statistics

First international match Guatemala 10: 1 Honduras ( Guatemala City , Guatemala ; September 14, 1921 )

Biggest win Guatemala 10-0 Anguilla ( Guatemala City , Guatemala ; September 5, 2019 )

Biggest defeat Costa Rica 9-1 Guatemala ( San José Costa Rica ; July 24, 1955 )

Successes in tournaments

North and Central American Championship

Participation in the finals

16 ( first : 1963 )

Best results

Winner 1967

(As of September 5, 2019)

The Guatemalan national soccer team is the national soccer team of the Central American state of Guatemala .

So far, the team has not yet managed to qualify for the soccer World Cup . At the 1996 CONCACAF Gold Cup , the national team achieved their best result to date. At the tournament in the USA she came fourth behind Mexico , Brazil and the hosts .

Tournaments

Olympic games

1900 to 1964	not participated
1968 in Mexico City	Quarter finals
1972 in Munich	not qualified
1976 in Montreal	Preliminary round
1980 in Moscow	not qualified
1984 in Los Angeles	not qualified
1988 in Seoul	Preliminary round (successor for Mexico)

After 1988 the senior national team stopped taking part in the Olympic Games and the qualifying games. An Olympic team has not yet qualified.

World Championship

1930 to 1954 - did not participate
1958 - In qualifying for the 1958 World Cup in Sweden , group 1 played Costa Rica and Curacao . After 3 sporting defeats and a game that was scored at the green table, you were eliminated from the bottom of the group without any points.
1962 - In qualifying for the 1962 World Cup in Chile , group 2 again met Costa Rica and Honduras . With a sporting defeat, 2 draws and again a game lost at the green table, you were eliminated from the bottom of the group.
1966 - did not take part
1970 - In qualifying for the 1970 World Cup in Mexico , after one win, two draws and one defeat behind Haiti and before Trinidad & Tobago, they had to give up the sails as second.
1974 - In qualifying for the 1974 World Cup in Germany , they beat El Salvador 1-0 twice in the first round . In the second and final round they were eliminated as group fifth behind Haiti , Trinidad & Tobago , Mexico and Honduras , but before the Netherlands Antilles with four draws and two defeats.
1978 - In qualifying for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina , El Salvador , Costa Rica and Panama played in the first round . After three wins, two draws and one defeat, you could qualify first for the second round. There they were eliminated with a win, a draw and three defeats, however, again in fifth place. This time behind Mexico , Haiti , El Salvador and Canada , but before Suriname .
1982 - In qualifying for the 1982 World Cup in Spain , they didn't even reach the final round, but were eliminated in the first round as third in the group against Honduras , El Salvador , Costa Rica and Panama .
1986 - In qualifying for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico , they received a bye in the 1st round, but then retired in the 2nd round after two wins, one draw and one defeat behind Canada and before Haiti .
1990 - In qualifying for the 1990 World Cup in Italy , they beat Cuba (1: 0/1: 1) in the first round and Canada (1: 0/2: 3) in the second . In the final round you played against Costa Rica , the USA , Trinidad & Tobago and El Salvador . With one win, one draw and four defeats they were eliminated in fourth place before El Salvador .
1994 - In qualifying for the 1994 World Cup in the USA you had to play against Honduras in the first round and were eliminated 0-0 and 0-2.
1998 - In qualifying for the 1998 World Cup in France , Nicaragua played in the preliminary round and prevailed 1-0 and 2-1. In Group 1 of the semi-finals, you faced the USA , Costa Rica and Trinidad & Tobago . After two wins, two draws and two defeats, however, they were eliminated as third party.
2002 - In qualifying for the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea , the draw was drawn in central zone 1 of the 1st round against El Salvador and Belize . As runners-up in the group you had to go to the interzone qualification, where you beat Haiti 4-0 and 3-1 . In the second round, the USA , Costa Rica and Barbados played in Group 3 . They finished this round with the same point and goal as Costa Rica in second and third respectively, but lost 2: 5 in a play-off game.
2006 - In qualifying for the 2006 World Cup in Germany , they met Suriname in the 2nd round and moved into the 3rd round 1: 1 and 3: 1. There you could qualify in a group with Costa Rica , Honduras and Canada as third in the group for the 4th round. In this one failed with 11 points by the USA , Mexico , Costa Rica and Trinidad & Tobago and left Panama clearly behind.
2010 - As part of qualifying for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa, the team met St. Lucia in the second round of the CONCACAF zone . The first leg on June 14, 2008 in Guatemala City ended 6-0, the second leg took place on June 21 in Los Angeles ( USA ). Guatemala won 3-1 here. In the third round of qualifying, the Central Americans faced the USA , Trinidad & Tobago and Cuba . In the end, they finished 3rd and did not qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

2014 - In the qualification for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil they met in the second round in Group E on Belize , St. Vincent and Grenada . After 6 wins from 6 games you qualified for the 3rd round. There they met in Group A against the USA , Jamaica and Antigua and Barbuda and were eliminated with 10 points only because of the goal difference to Jamaica .

2018 - In qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia , the team met Bermuda in the second round in June 2015 and prevailed 0-0 and 1-0. In the 3rd round they defeated Antigua and Barbuda with 0: 1 and 2: 0, which means they moved into the 4th round. There the team played in Group C against the USA , Trinidad & Tobago and St. Vincent . With 10 points, however, you were eliminated as a third party.

CONCACAF championship

CONCACAF Nations Cup

From 1973 the tournament also served as a World Cup qualifier.

1963 - preliminary round
1965 - 2nd place
1967 - winner
1969 - 2nd place
1971 - did not participate
1973 - 5th place
1977 - 5th place
1981 - did not qualify
1985 - did not qualify
1989 - 4th place

CONCACAF Gold Cup

1991 - preliminary round
1993 - did not participate
1996 - 4th place
1998 - preliminary round
2000 - preliminary round
2002 - preliminary round
2003 - preliminary round
2005 - preliminary round
2007 - quarter-finals
2009 - did not qualify
2011 - quarter-finals
2013 - did not qualify
2015 - preliminary round
2017 - did not participate
2019 - did not participate
2021 -

Central American Championship

Copa de Naciones de la UNCAF

1991 - 3rd place
1993 - did not participate
1995 - 2nd place
1997 - 2nd place
1999 - 2nd place
2001 - winner
2003 - 2nd place
2005 - 3rd place
2007 - 3rd place
2009 - 6th place

Copa Centroamericana

The Copa Centroamericana is the successor to the UNCAF Nations Cup.

2011 - 5th place
2013 - 6th place
2014 - 2nd place
2017 - did not participate

Record player

(As of March 4, 2020)

Record player
Games	player	position	Period	Gates
133 (132)	Carlos Ruiz	attack	1998-2016	68
106	Guillermo Ramírez *	midfield	1997-2012	16
104	Gustavo Cabrera *	Defense	2000-2012	2
96	Fredy Thompson	midfield	2001-2015	3
87	Juan Carlos Plata	attack	1996-2010	35
83	Gonzalo Romero	midfield	2000-2012	9
82	Julio Girón	midfield	1992-2006	0
80	Edgar Estrada	goal	1995-2003	0
79	Mario Rodríguez	Midfield / attack	2003-2013	10
77	José Manuel Contreras	midfield	2006–	5
73	Freddy García	midfield	1998-2011	23

Record shooters
Gates	player	Period	Games
68	Carlos Ruiz	1998-2016	133 (132)
35	Juan Carlos Plata	1996-2010	87
23	Freddy García	1998-2011	73
16	Dwight Pezzarossi	2000-2012	72
16	Guillermo Ramírez *	1997-2012	106
16	Edwin Westphal	1985-1998	47
15th	Juan Manuel Funes	1985-2000	66

Source: Guatemala - Record International Players
Note: * Banned for life due to match fixing

Trainer

Argentina Miguel Brindisi (1994–1997)
Argentina Carlos Bilardo (1997-1998)
Guatemala Marlon Iván León (2005-2006)
Colombia Hernán Darío Gómez (2006-2008)
Guatemala Iván Sopegno (2014-2015)
Guatemala Walter Claveri (2015-2016)
Guatemala Walter Claveri (2016-2019)
Guatemala Amarini Villatoro (2019–)

Individual evidence

↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 .

↑ fifa.com: “Fair Play Prize Guatemalan Football Association” ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / de.fifa.com
↑ Marlon Iván León - Profile on soccerway.com , accessed October 5, 2016
^ Iván Sopegno - Profile on soccerway.com , accessed October 5, 2016

Web links

[1] The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 .