National Soccer Team of Trinidad and Tobago / World Championships

Trinidad and Tobago
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

World Cup record goalscorer:	none
World Cup record players:	9 players with 3 games
Rank :	68
Balance sheet
3 World Cup games 0 wins 1 draw 2 defeats 0: 4 goals
statistics
First World Cup game Trinidad and Tobago 0-0 Sweden Dortmund ( DEU ); June 10, 2006
Biggest World Cup defeats Trinidad and Tobago 0-2 England Nuremberg ( DEU ); June 15, 2006 Trinidad and Tobago 0-2 Paraguay Kaiserslautern ( DEU ); June 20, 2006
successes
World Championship
Participation in the finals	1 ( first : 2006 )
Best results	Preliminary round, 2006
Best placements in the countries that host the FIFA World Cup
(Status: after the 2018 World Cup )

The article contains a detailed description of the national soccer team of Trinidad and Tobago at soccer world championships. The national soccer team of Trinidad and Tobago has only participated once in a World Cup. In 2006, Trinidad and Tobago replaced Jamaica, which is more than twice as large as the smallest World Cup participant in terms of area.

overview

Trinidad and Tobago have taken part in qualifying for a World Cup 13 times since joining FIFA in 1964. In the all-time table of the World Cup finalists, Trinidad and Tobago is 67th.

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Trainer	Comments and special features
1930	Uruguay	not participated				Not an independent state
1934	Italy	not participated				Not an independent state
1938	France	not participated				Not an independent state
1950	Brazil	not participated				Not an independent state
1954	Switzerland	not participated				Not an independent state
1958	Sweden	not participated				Not an independent state
1962	Chile	not participated				Not a FIFA member
1966	England	not qualified				In the qualifiers in the first round of Costa Rica failed, which also failed to qualify.
1970	Mexico	not qualified				In the qualifiers in the group stage of Haiti failed, which also could not qualify.
1974	Germany	not qualified				Haiti failed again in the second round of qualification .
1978	Argentina	not qualified				In the qualification in the second round of the Caribbean zone after the playoff to Suriname , which could not qualify either.
1982	Spain	not qualified				In qualifying in Caribbean group B, Haiti failed again, which also failed to qualify.
1986	Mexico	not qualified				Failed in the qualification in the 2nd round to Costa Rica , which could not qualify either.
1990	Italy	not qualified				In the qualification in the finals again failed to Costa Rica and the USA .
1994	United States	not qualified				In the qualification in the 1st round of the group "Caribbean 2" failed to Jamaica , which could not qualify either.
1998	France	not qualified				In the qualification in the semi-finals again to Costa Rica , which also failed to qualify, and the USA failed.
2002	South Korea / Japan	not qualified				In the qualifying in the CONCACAF final round failed as a group last.
2006	Germany	Preliminary round	Sweden , England , Paraguay	27.	Leo Beenhakker	After a draw (against Sweden) and two defeats, eliminated as bottom of the group.
2010	South Africa	not qualified				Failed in the qualification in the 4th round as bottom of the group.
2014	Brazil	not qualified				Failed in the qualification in the 2nd round to Guyana .
2018	Russia	not qualified				In qualifying , the team only had to intervene in the fourth round and met the USA , St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Guatemala . As runners-up in the group, they reached the fifth round against Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Panama and again the USA, in which the team failed as the bottom of the group.
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World Championships 1930 to 1962

Trinidad was occupied by the British in 1797 and in the Peace of Paris in 1814, Tobago also became the property of Great Britain. It was not until 1958 that Trinidad and Tobago became independent from Great Britain and part of the West Indian Federation . The federation broke up in 1962 and on August 31, Trinidad and Tobago finally gained independence. The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association was founded in 1908, but was only accepted into FIFA after independence in 1964 . Therefore, Trinidad and Tobago could not take part in the first seven World Cup tournaments.

1966 World Cup in England

On the qualification for the World Cup in England Trinidad and Tobago took part for the first time then. On February 7, 1965, the team played their first World Cup qualifier against Suriname in Port of Spain and won 4-1. This was followed by two defeats against Costa Rica and one defeat against Suriname, leaving Trinidad and Tobago bottom of the group. Costa Rica then failed in the final round to Mexico .

1970 World Cup in Mexico

Since Mexico was automatically qualified for the World Cup in their own country , the CONCACAF teams were entitled to another starting place. 12 teams competed for this. Trinidad and Tobago failed in the first round to Haiti and Guatemala , but neither of them could qualify for the World Cup. The qualification was gambled away in the first three games, two 0: 4 and one 0: 0. The 4-2 win in Haiti was then meaningless.

World Cup 1974 in Germany

Trinidad and Tobago also failed to qualify for the first World Cup in Germany . The team was able to prevail in the first round of qualification against Suriname and Antigua and Barbuda and in the second round with a gymnast in Port-au-Prince ( Haiti ) took second place ahead of Mexico. Since the CONCACAF teams were only entitled to one starting place in the finals this time, this went to Haiti , which had used the home advantage and thus surprisingly qualified for the only time so far and surprised the Italians in Germany.

1978 World Cup in Argentina

Trinidad and Tobago could not qualify for the World Cup in Argentina either. In the first round of qualification , the team prevailed in three games (1: 2, 1: 0 and 3: 1) against Barbados . In the second they failed after 300 minutes of play (1: 1, 2: 2 and 2: 3 afterwards) to Suriname, which could not qualify.

1982 World Cup in Spain

In qualifying for the World Cup in Spain , for which the CONCACAF teams were again entitled to two starting places after increasing the field of participants, Trinidad and Tobago failed in the first round in Caribbean Group B to Haiti and the Netherlands Antilles , there in four Playing only one goal could be scored.

1986 World Cup in Mexico

The qualification for the second World Cup in Mexico , for which the CONCACAF teams were granted only one additional starting place in addition to hosts Mexico, did not go any better. Since Grenada did not start in the first round, Trinidad and Tobago reached the second round without a fight. In this the team could not prevail against Costa Rica and the USA . Group winners Costa Rica then failed in the last round to Canada , which qualified for the first and so far only time for the World Cup finals.

1990 World Cup in Italy

The qualification for the second World Cup in Italy was a bit more successful. In the qualifying round, the team prevailed 4-0 and 1-0 against Guyana . In the CONCACAF finals, which was held at the same time as the CONCACAF Nations Cup in 1989 , Costa Rica and the USA prevailed against Trinidad & Tobago as well as Guatemala and El Salvador . This was the first time that Costa Rica took part in the World Cup and the USA for the first time since 1950. Both of them also benefited from the fact that Mexico , which had fielded older players in a junior tournament, was suspended by FIFA.

1994 World Cup in the United States

In qualifying for the World Cup in the USA , Trinidad and Tobago beat Barbados 2-1 and 3-0 in the first round, but then failed to Jamaica , as the home game was lost 2-1 and in the away game only a 1: 1 succeeded. Jamaica then also failed in the second round.

1998 World Cup in France

In the qualification for the second World Cup in France , for which the CONCACAF teams have now been granted three starting places, Trinidad & Tobago could not qualify either. At first they benefit from the fact that Bermuda withdrew and also won twice (4: 1 and 8: 0) against the Dominican Republic , but in the semi-finals they only finished last behind the USA, Costa Rica and Guatemala, and they only came in Home game against Guatemala won a point. In addition to the USA and Mexico, Jamaica was surprisingly able to qualify for the World Cup finals for the first time.

World Championship 2002 in Japan and South Korea

The qualification for the first World Cup in Asia then proceeded as before. In the first round the Netherlands Antilles were eliminated with 5: 0 and 1: 1, then the Dominican Republic with 3: 0 and 1: 0, and Haiti with 3: 1 and 1: 1. In the CONCACAF intermediate round, Trinidad & Tobago even took first place ahead of Mexico, Canada and Panama . The CONCACAF final round was the final destination for Trinidad & Tobago. Costa Rica won 6 points ahead of Mexico and the USA, which also qualified. Honduras , Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago - last in the group - were left behind.

World Cup 2006 in Germany

Fans from Trinidad & Tobago and Sweden before the game in Dortmund

→ Main article : Football World Cup 2006 / Trinidad and Tobago

The qualification for the second World Cup in Germany finally succeeded . The Caribbean country went into qualification under Bertille St. Clair and started again with two wins (2-0 and 4-0) against the Dominican Republic in the second round. The team finished the third round in second place behind Mexico in front of St. Vincent and the Grenadines as well as St. Kitts and Nevis , with only the two games against Mexico being lost, all others being won. In the fourth round, the team started with two defeats and one draw. In May 2005 Leo Beenhakker took over the coaching post. Under him, the USA, Mexico and Costa Rica, which qualified directly, came fourth, ahead of Guatemala and Panama . This authorized Trinidad & Tobago to participate in the intercontinental playoff games. In these, the team met Bahrain in Port of Spain on November 12, 2005 , but only achieved a 1-1 draw. In the second leg four days later in Manama , however, a 1-0 victory was achieved and thus the first qualification for the World Cup finals.

In Germany, the team was drawn into a group with Sweden , England and Paraguay . The World Cup started unhappy. Goalkeeper Kelvin Jack , who had saved the qualification against Bahrain with an artistic parade shortly before the final whistle, was injured while warming up for the opening game against Sweden . Shaka Hislop replaced him, although he did not concede a goal, but his teammates did not score against the opponent's substitute goalkeeper - his regular goalkeeper had also been injured during the warm-up - neither. With that, Trinidad & Tobago had won their first World Cup point, even though they had to play 44 minutes short because of the yellow-red card for Avery John . In the second game against England they also kept the 0-0 for 82 minutes. Then Peter Crouch succeeded through an unfair effort by pulling Brent Sancho's hair, the 1-0 for the favorite. In stoppage time, Steven Gerrard then increased to 2-0 for the English. The game against Paraguay ended with the same result, with which the team from the Caribbean said goodbye to the World Cup for at least 12 years. With the preliminary round ended the tenure of Leo Beenhakker and he took over the Polish national football team , which he led to the first European Championship participation .

World Cup 2010 in South Africa

Trinidad & Tobago could not qualify for the first World Cup in Africa . The qualification started for Trinidad & Tobago in the second round with a 1: 2 home defeat against Bermuda. This could be compensated for by a 2-0 away win. The third round was successfully completed together with the USA against Guatemala and Cuba , with only the USA losing. In the fourth round, however, only 6th place was occupied behind the USA, Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica and El Salvador. The first three qualified again directly, Costa Rica failed in the intercontinental playoffs to Uruguay .

2014 World Cup in Brazil

Trinidad & Tobago could not qualify for the second World Cup in Brazil . In the second round , for which Trinidad & Tobago was automatically qualified, the team failed due to Guyana . Only Bermuda and Barbados could be relegated to the places. Guyana then failed in the third round.

World Cup 2018 in Russia

In qualifying for the World Cup in Russia , Trinidad & Tobago only had to intervene in the fourth round. From November 2015, opponents were the USA , St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Guatemala . With three wins, two draws and one defeat, the team reached the fifth round. Here the crew met Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Panama and again the USA. After nine of ten games, the team was in last place in the group and before the last game they were seven points behind fourth place, which entitles them to playoffs against the fifth in the AFC qualification. It was no longer possible to participate in the World Cup again. A win in the last game against the USA also blocked the way to Russia for the Americans.

Ranking of the players with the most stakes

01. Chris Birchall , Carlos Edwards , Cornell Glen , Stern John , Dennis Lawrence , Brent Sancho , Densill Theobald , Evans Wise and Dwight Yorke - 3 appearances in one tournament

Ranking of the players with the most World Cup goals

• So far none.

Players banned from World Championships

• 2006: Avery John received the yellow-red card in the first World Cup game and was suspended for the second game. Aurtis Whitley had received the second yellow card in the third group game , since the team was eliminated it had no effect.

Share of players playing abroad in the World Cup squad

In the only participation so far, except for David Atiba Charles (no use), Cyd Gray , Aurtis Whitley and Anthony Wolfe (no use), only players playing abroad were appointed. Most played in England (9, including three players born in England) and Scotland (6) - some of them in lower-class leagues, the others played in Australia (1), Germany (1) and the USA (2).

Games

• Trinidad & Tobago has played three World Cup games so far. Two of them were lost and one ended in a draw.
• Trinidad & Tobago did not take part in the opening game against the hosts, did not play against the eventual world champions or defending champions, and also not against newcomers to the World Cup. The loss to Paraguay is the highest against Paraguay.

All World Cup games
No.	date	opponent	Result	occasion	venue	comment
1	06/10/2006	Sweden	0-0	Preliminary round	Dortmund ( DEU )
2	06/15/2006	England	0: 2	Preliminary round	Nuremberg ( DEU )	First international match against England
3	06/20/2006	Paraguay	0: 2	Preliminary round	Kaiserslautern ( DEU )

Negative records

• Trinidad and Tobago are among the five of the 77 World Cup finalists who have not yet scored a goal. All of them have only taken part in a World Cup final tournament: the Netherlands Indies (1938), Zaire (1974), Canada (1986), China (2002) and Trinidad and Tobago (2006). Trinidad and Tobago was the only one of these teams to win a point.

See also

• Football World - Statistics - Trinidad and Tobago on fifa.com

References and footnotes

Commons : Trinidad and Tobago at the FIFA World Cup  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

1. ↑ The placements from 5th place onwards were determined by FIFA without any placement games. See: All-time FIFA World Cup Ranking 1930-2014 (PDF; 200 kB)
2. ↑ nytimes.com: "Mexico Given Ban in Soccer"