Futsal World Championship / Participant overview

The overview of participants in the Futsal World Cup lists all national teams that have participated in the respective finals since the first Futsal World Cup in 1989, as well as their results in the individual tournaments. In addition, it is shown which qualifications for the finals the national teams participated in.

Including the 2016 World Cup finals , the list includes 47 teams.

Participant overview

The sorting order corresponds to the overall performance at all World Cup finals, analogous to the evaluation of a medal table . In the event of a tie, further criteria are firstly the number of finals and, secondly, the number of qualifications.

		1989	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	2016	partial measures		Results final
	Attendees	16	16	16	16	16	20th	24	24	total	Endr.	1	2	3	4th	Z / VF	AF	X
1	Brazil	1	1	1	2	3	1	1	AF	8th	8th	5	1	1	0	0	1	0
2	Spain	X	3	2	1	1	2	2	VF	8th	8th	2	3	1	0	1	0	1
3	Argentina	Z	Z	X	Z	4th	Z	VF	1	8th	8th	1	0	0	1	5	0	1
4th	Italy	Z	X	Z	•	2	3	3	AF	8th	7th	0	1	2	0	2	1	1
4th	Russia		X	3	4th	•	4th	VF	2	7th	6th	0	1	1	2	1	0	1
5	United States	3	2	X	•	Z	X	•	•	8th	5	0	1	1	0	1	0	2
6th	Netherlands	2	Z	Z	Z	•	•	•	•	8th	4th	0	1	0	0	3	0	0
7th	Portugal		•	•	3	Z	X	VF	4th	7th	5	0	0	1	1	2	0	1
8th	Iran		4th	X	X	X	Z	AF	3	7th	7th	0	0	1	1	1	1	3
9	Ukraine			4th	•	Z	Z	VF	AF	6th	5	0	0	0	1	3	1	0
10	Belgium	4th	Z	Z	•	•	•	•	•	8th	3	0	0	0	1	2	0	0
12	Colombia					•	•	4th	AF	4th	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
13	Paraguay	Z	X	•	•	X	Z	AF	VF	8th	6th	0	0	0	0	3	1	2
14th	Egypt			X	Z	X	X	AF	VF	6th	6th	0	0	0	0	2	1	3
15th	Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic		•	•	•	Z	X	AF	•	7th	3	0	0	0	0	1	1	1
16	Uruguay			Z	X	•	X	•	•	6th	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
17th	Hungary	Z	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	8th	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
18th	Poland		Z	•	•	•	•	•	•	7th	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
19th	Azerbaijan			•	•	•	•	•	VF	6th	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
=	Croatia			•	Z	•	•	•	•	6th	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
21st	Thailand		•		X	X	X	AF	AF	6th	5	0	0	0	0	0	2	3
22nd	Japan	X	•	•	•	X	X	AF	•	8th	4th	0	0	0	0	0	1	3
23	Costa Rica		X	•	X	•	•	X	AF	7th	4th	0	0	0	0	0	1	3
		1989	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	2016	Total	Endr.	1	2	3	4th	Z / VF	AF	X
24	Kazakhstan			•	X	•	•	•	AF	6th	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
25th	Panama					•	•	AF	X	4th	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
26th	Yugoslavia / Serbia		••	•	•	•	•	AF	•	7th	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
27	Vietnam						•	•	AF	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
28	Australia	X	X	X	X	X	•	X	X	8th	7th	0	0	0	0	0	0	7th
29	Cuba			X	X	X	X	•	X	6th	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
30th	Guatemala			•	X		X	X	X	5	4th	0	0	0	0	0	0	4th
31	People's Republic of China		X	X		•	X	•	•	6th	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
32	Solomon Islands					•	X	X	X	4th	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
33	Morocco				•	•	•	X	X	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
34	Libya				•		X	X	•	4th	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
35	Mexico			•	•	•	•	X	•	6th	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
36	Hong Kong		X	•		•		•	•	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
=	Malaysia			X		•	•	•	•	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
=	Uzbekistan				•	•	•	•	X	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
39	Canada	X				•		•	•	4th	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
=	Mozambique					•	•	•	X	4th	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
=	Taiwan					X	•	•	•	4th	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
42	Kuwait		•					X	•	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
=	Nigeria		X				•	•		3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
=	Saudi Arabia	X						•	•	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
=	Zimbabwe	X		•				•		3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
46	Denmark	X							•	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
47	Algeria	X								1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
	Attendees	1989	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	2016	Total	Endr.	1	2	3	4th	Z / VF	AF	X

Legend

Total	Number of participations including qualifying games
Endr.	Number of participations in the final round
1	World Champion
2	Vice world champion
3	third place
4th	fourth place
Z / VF	Intermediate round / quarter-finals
AF	Round of 16
X	Finalists
q	qualified for the finals
••	qualified but excluded from the final round
•	not qualified for the final round / withdrawn from qualification prematurely
	did not participate / did not start for qualification.
the best result is given

See also

• Futsal World Cup - Eternal Table

Web links

• Futsal on the official FIFA website