Mexican national soccer team

This article is about Mexico's men's national soccer team . For the women's team, see Mexico Women's National Soccer Team .

Mexico
México

Nickname (s)	El Tri
Association	FEMEXFUT
confederacy	CONCACAF
Technical sponsor	adidas
Head coach	Gerardo Martino (since 2019)
captain	Andrés Guardado
Record scorer	Chicharito (52)
Record player	Claudio Suárez (177)
Home stadium	Aztec Stadium
FIFA code	MEX
FIFA rank	11. (1621 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
Balance sheet
925 (864) games 480 (445) wins 215 (198) draws 230 (221) defeats
statistics
First international Guatemala 2-3 Mexico ( Guatemala City , Guatemala ; January 1, 1923)
Biggest win Mexico 13-0 Bahamas ( Toluca , Mexico ; April 28, 1987)
Biggest defeat England 8-0 Mexico ( London , England ; 10 May 1961)
Successes in tournaments
World Championship
Participation in the finals	16 ( first : 1930 )
Best results	Quarter-finals 1970 , 1986
North and Central American Championship
Participation in the finals	19 ( first : 1965 )
Best results	Winner 1965 , 1971 , 1977 , 1993 , 1996 , 1998 , 2003 , 2009 , 2011 , 2015 , 2019
Confederations Cup
Participation in the finals	7 ( first : 1995 )
Best results	Confederations Cup Winner: 1999
South American Championship
Participation in the finals	8 ( first: 1993 )
Best results	Second in 1993 , 2001
(As of November 19, 2019)

The Mexican national team before their first World Cup game on July 13, 1930, which was lost 4-1 to France.

The Mexican national soccer team during training in Göttingen during the 2006 World Cup .

The Mexican national soccer team is one of the strongest national teams in CONCACAF . She represents the Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación .

history

The first international game of the Mexicans took place on January 1, 1923 as part of a trip to Guatemala and was won 3-2 by Mexico against the hosts. The second settlement on January 4th was 3-1 to Guatemala and the third settlement on January 7th was 4-1 to Mexico. On this trip, there was no real Mexican national team. Rather, Mexico was represented solely by the team from Club America , which officially represented Mexico, but provided all the players on this first trip to a Mexican "national team".

Between December 9 and 16, 1923, the "return matches " occurred when Guatemala paid a return visit to the Mexican capital and also made three guest appearances. The first two games were won by Mexico (2-1 and 2-0), the third game ended 3: 3. In these comparisons, Club America again provided by far the most players, but no longer the complete formation. Roberto Jardón and Mauro Guadarrama (goalscorer in the first game) from Necaxa played in all three games and in the first two games also Cornelio "Coneja" Cuevas from Club México .

Seven Club América players played all six games: goalkeeper Ignacio de la Garza , defenders Rafael Garza Gutiérrez and Pedro Legarreta , midfielder Enrique Esquivel and strikers Carlos Garcés , Horacio Ortiz and Adeodato López ; the most successful striker in these encounters with six goals, who even managed a “double” twice.

The remaining four players on the January 1923 trip to Mexico were midfielders José Andrade and Pablo Sarré as well as strikers Humberto Garza Ramos and José Díaz Izquierdo, who in the first encounter on January 1, 1923 after 26 minutes, took the lead to make it 1-0 and thus the first hit in the history of the Mexican national team succeeded.

In the games in December 1923, the Americanistas Luis García Besné (striker) and Agustín Ojeda and Aurelio Yáñez (both midfielders) worked with, who were each used once or twice.

The first competitive games

Mexico did not play their next international matches until 1928 as part of the Olympic football tournament in Amsterdam , where they were clearly defeated. If the Mexican national team against Spain (1: 7) still consisted of eight players from Club America, in the second game against Chile (1: 3) there were "only" six.

There were no further international matches until the first World Cup tournament in 1930 , which was held at the invitation of the host Uruguay and for which no qualifying matches were required. Mexico lost in all games by three goals each; 1: 4 against France, 0: 3 against Chile and 3: 6 against Argentina.

It was not until the World Cup qualification in 1934 that there were three further comparisons between the national team, all of which were played against Cuba in March 1934 (3: 2, 5: 0 and 4: 1). The last and decisive qualifying game took place on May 24, 1934 in Rome against Mexico's arch-rivals USA and was lost 2: 4, which was synonymous with Mexico's non-participation in the 1934 World Cup .

The first title

Next up was Mexico in the spring of 1935 with the III. Central American championships in El Salvador in action, which they absolutely dominated - with five wins in five games and a convincing goal balance of 29: 5. It was the first title of a Mexican national team made up almost entirely of players from the Necaxa team known at the time as Once Hermanos . In the first four matches, nine Necaxistas played with and in the decisive final game against the strongest rivals Costa Rica (2-0), coach Alfred C. Crowle even offered ten players from the reigning Mexican champions .

The following 14 players played an active part in this success:

No.	Item	player	Calls	Gates	society
	TW	Raúl Estrada	3	0	Necaxa
	TW	Alfonso Riestra	2	0	Asturias
	FROM	Antonio Azpiri	5	0	Necaxa
	FROM	Lorenzo Camarena	5	0	Necaxa
	MF	Ignacio Avila	5	0	Necaxa
	MF	Felipe Rosas	5	1	Atlante
	MF	Guillermo Ortega	3	0	Necaxa
	MF	Miguel Pizano	2	0	Necaxa
	ST	Vicente García	5	3	Necaxa
	ST	Hilario López	5	9	Necaxa
	ST	Julio Lores	5	7th	Necaxa
	ST	Tomás Lozano	5	4th	Necaxa
	ST	Luis Perez	3	3	Necaxa
	ST	Luis García Cortina	2	2	España

Note: The sorting criterion within each part of the team is initially based on the number of assignments and, if the number of assignments is the same, according to the alphabet of the family name.

The pre-war years

It was another two and a half years before Mexico played more international matches. These were initially played as part of the 1938 World Cup qualification , but subsequently took on the character of friendly matches because Mexico decided not to take part in the 1938 World Cup due to the long journey to France . In the three games of September 1937, Mexico had impressively prevailed with 7: 2, 7: 3 and 5: 1 against the selection team of the USA.

In February 1938 Mexico was also successful at the IV Central American Championships held in Panama and defended the title it had won three years earlier. This title win and the nine and a half year international break, mainly caused by the Second World War, coincided with a decisive change in the structure of Mexican football, which in 1943 switched from amateur status to professional status, which also resulted in the creation of a national professional league . For the national team, this change in reality meant that from 1947 it was composed for the first time from players from all parts of the country. So far, the national team has been formed exclusively from players who were under contract with clubs based in Mexico City.

The post-war years

The next international matches in Mexico did not take place until July 1947 as part of the first NAFC championship and were won against the USA (5-0) and Cuba (3-1). Until 1938 the national team consisted exclusively of players from capital city clubs, but now several players from other parts of the country also played in these games. Goalkeeper Raúl Landeros was under contract with CD Tampico , team captain Alfonso Montemayor and star striker Adalberto “Dumbo” López came from Club León and a total of four of the players used in these two matches came from Guadalajara : Antonio Flores from Atlas Guadalajara and three ( Max Prieto , Rodrígo Ruiz and Javier de la Torre ) from Deportivo Guadalajara ; the club that now has the most nominations in World Cup tournaments (as of 2010) (see table below).

From the capital city clubs the following players were in action in July 1947: Salvador Arizméndi , Alberto Medina and Miguel Ángel Segura (all Atlante ) as well as Sergio Bravo , Julián Durán and Carlos Septién (all España ).

It is noteworthy that even after the introduction of professional football, friendlies for the national team initially remained a rare affair. The first were played in the run-up to the 1950 World Cup at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario in Mexico City against Spain (1: 3 and 0: 0). Mexico took part in the 1950 World Cup, but lost all three matches as it did in 1930.

The 1950s and 1960s

At the 1954 World Cup , the typical Mexican "fate" was repeated: an absolutely safe qualification (8-0 and 4-0 against Haiti, 4-0 and 3-1 against the USA) was followed by another preliminary round after two defeats against Brazil (0: 5) and France (2: 3).

Also at the 1958 World Cup , Mexico was eliminated after the preliminary round and was clearly defeated by Sweden (0: 3) and Hungary (0: 4), but was able to celebrate its first point win in World Cup history in the 1-1 win against Wales.

The 1962 World Cup saw the hitherto best Mexican national team at a World Cup. In the opening game they defied the Brazilians for a long time before they still won 2-0; but not as clearly as in 1950 and 1954, when Mexico lost to the same opponent with 0: 4 and 0: 5 respectively. The second group game against Spain was unfortunately lost 0: 1 by a last-minute goal , before "el Tri" won their first ever World Cup victory in the last group game, of all places against eventual runners-up Czechoslovakia. The 3-1 victory also meant the leap to third place in the table, so that Mexico did not finish bottom of the group for the first time at a World Cup, although this fact did not change anything about the renewed preliminary round.

The 1966 World Cup also ended the Mexican selection on the penultimate group position in the preliminary round and was so convincing in its three appearances that the Times was able to attest to its legitimate hopes for the 1970 World Cup in their own country: “The players from the land of the Aztecs have their skills proven and shown that they can play smart and snappy. It should be clear that this team will be one of the best teams at the World Cup in Mexico. "

The 1970s and 1980s

The 20 years between 1970 and 1990 saw a very eventful history of the Mexican national team, which had participated in every World Cup tournament in the 1950s and 1960s, but was always eliminated after the preliminary round. During the aforementioned period, Mexico hosted a soccer World Cup twice: the contract was won in time for 1970, and in 1986 they stepped in at short notice for the originally planned host Colombia, which had organizational problems. The Mexican national team was able to qualify for the quarter-finals in these two tournaments: in 1970 Mexico remained the longest without conceding a goal (294 minutes in total), and in 1986 "el Tri" only failed on penalties against Germany.

As positive as the two tournaments as hosts were, the other World Cup years in this period were just as negative: In 1974 Mexico failed (despite a 1-0 win in direct comparison) against Haiti because “el Tri” did not win against Guatemala and Honduras a 0: 0 or 1: 1 came out and was lost to Trinidad & Tobago with 0: 4. Also in 1982 the qualification was missed, from five games in the CONCACAF final group only one won! At the 1990 World Cup Mexico was not allowed to participate because the team from the FIFA was suspended in 1988 for two years, after which Mexican federation had not in the qualification for the Olympic Games in Seoul held at the prescribed age limit of players. Outside of the two tournaments in your own country, for which you were automatically qualified as a host, Mexico was only able to qualify for a World Cup tournament once in the described period of 20 years; but at the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, “el Tri” achieved the worst result in its World Cup history: after defeats against Tunisia (1: 3), Germany (0: 6) and Poland (1: 3), they came in last in the preliminary group with 2:12 goals and 0 points.

The latest development

At all world championships since 1994 Mexico reached the round of 16. The national team's greatest achievement was winning the FIFA Confederations Cup in 1999 .

At the end of September 2010 there was a player revolt within the national team. After a friendly against Colombia, players were publicly reprimanded by football director De La Torre and two were even banned for six months. Captain Rafael Márquez and twelve other players then publish a letter of protest to draw attention to the "hostile and arrogant" treatment. They initially stated that they no longer wanted to play for Mexico.

Others

At the CONCACAF Nations Cup / Gold Cup, Mexico won the title ten times (1965, 1971, 1977, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2009, 2011 and 2015). Except for the championships in 1985 and 1989, the team participated every time.

Participation of Mexico in the Olympic Games

1900 to 1924	not participated
1928 in Amsterdam	1 round
1936 in Berlin	not participated
1948 in London	Round of 16

After 1948 the senior national team stopped taking part, the Olympic team took part in 1964 , 1968 , 1972 , 1976 , 1992 , 1996 , 2004 and 2012 . At the Games in 2012, the Mexican Olympic team won the gold medal with a 2-1 victory over Brazil. The best result so far was reaching 4th place in 1968. The game in the Aztec Stadium between hosts Mexico and Japan saw 105,000 spectators, which is the highest number of spectators in the history of Olympic football tournaments.

In 1988, the qualified team was disqualified because Mexico had used four older players in the CONCACAF U-20 championship.

See also: Mexican National Football Team / Olympic Games

Participation of Mexico in the soccer world championship

→ Main article : Mexican national soccer team / World Cups

Mexico has participated in world championships sixteen times and holds some records :

• Mexico have played the most qualifying matches: 175 (as of October 10, 2017)
• Longest losing streak: 9 lost games in a row from 1930 to 1958.
• Most losses: 27 losses in 57 games
• Mexico played most often (5 times) in the opening game or first game of a World Cup (first in 1930, last in 2010)
• Mexico were eliminated most often in the round of 16: 7 times in uninterrupted order (1994 to 2018)
• The Mexican goalkeeper Antonio Carbajal belongs like the defender Rafael Márquez next to Lothar Matthäus (1982-1998) and Gianluigi Buffon (1998-2014) to the players who participated in five World Cup tournaments. He is also the goalkeeper with the most goals conceded: 25 in 11 games between 1950 and 1966, only one of which was clean.

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Trainer	Comments and special features
1930	Uruguay	Preliminary round	France , Argentina , Chile	13.	Juan Luque de Serrallonga	Eliminated after three defeats as bottom of the group. The game against France is considered the first World Cup game, even if the game between the USA and Belgium took place at the same time. In the game against Argentina, Manuel Rosas converted the first penalty at a World Cup.
1934	Italy	not qualified				Eliminated in the qualifying game against the USA that took place in Rome immediately before the World Cup .
1938	France	not participated
1950	Brazil	Preliminary round	Brazil , Yugoslavia , Switzerland	12.	Octavio Vial	Eliminated after three defeats as bottom of the group.
1954	Switzerland	Preliminary round	Brazil , France	13.	Antonio López Herranz	After defeats against vice world champions Brazil and France, eliminated as bottom group.
1958	Sweden	Preliminary round	Sweden , Wales , Hungary	16.	Antonio López Herranz	After defeats against the hosts and vice world champions Hungary and a draw against Wales, they were eliminated as bottom group.
1962	Chile	Preliminary round	Brazil , Spain , CSSR	11.	Ignacio Trelles	After defeats against world champions Brazil and Spain and a victory against the later vice world champions Czechoslovakia, they were eliminated as third in the group.
1966	England	Preliminary round	France , England , Uruguay	12.	Ignacio Trelles	After two draws against France and Uruguay and a loss to the hosts and eventual world champions, they were eliminated as third in the group.
1970	Mexico	Quarter finals	Italy	6th	Raúl Cárdenas	For the first time Mexico survived the group stage of a World Cup. The 4-0 win against El Salvador is still Mexico's biggest World Cup victory and the highest victory at the 1970 World Cup.
1974	Germany	not qualified				In the qualification in the second round of Haiti failed, which was qualified in 1974 so far only time.
1978	Argentina	Preliminary round	Tunisia , Germany , Poland	16.	José Antonio Roca	Eliminated as last group without winning points. The 6-0 defeat against Germany is Mexico's biggest defeat at the World Cup, the biggest defeat at the 1978 World Cup and Germany's only victory at the World Cup in Argentina.
1982	Spain	not qualified				In the qualification in the final tournament of Honduras and El Salvador failed.
1986	Mexico	Quarter finals	Germany	6th	Bora Milutinović	Loss on penalties against the eventual runner-up.
1990	Italy	not participated				Suspended by FIFA for two years in 1988 after the Mexican Federation failed to adhere to player age limits in qualifying for the Olympic Games in Seoul.
1994	United States	Round of 16	Bulgaria	13.	Miguel Mejía Barón	Defeat on penalties, with which Bulgaria was able to retaliate for the 1986 defeat in the round of 16.
1998	France	Round of 16	Germany	13.	Manuel Lapuente	1: 2 defeat with two goals from Klinsmann and Bierhoff in the final quarter of an hour
2002	South Korea / Japan	Round of 16	United States	11.	Javier Aguirre	Two successful counterattacks by the Americans and the weakness of the Mexicans in the end ensured that the underdogs reached the quarter-finals in the end.
2006	Germany	Round of 16	Argentina	15th	Ricardo La Volpe	After Márquez had given the Mexicans an early lead, which was soon equalized by Crespo , Maxi Rodríguez's goal in extra time ensured the favorites advance
2010	South Africa	Round of 16	Argentina	14th	Javier Aguirre	Mexico played in the opening game for the fifth time, setting a new record for participation in the opening game. In addition, Mexico set a new record for elimination in the round of 16: Mexico ended there for the fifth time.
2014	Brazil	Round of 16	Netherlands	10.	Miguel Herrera	In the qualification , Mexico only finished 4th in the 4th round and had to compete against New Zealand in the intercontinental comparisons. There the team was able to qualify for the World Cup with two victories. In the group stage of the finals, Mexico faced Cameroon in the first game, then Brazil, as in 1950 and 1962, and at the end of the group stage, as in 2002, Croatia.
2018	Russia	Round of 16	Brazil		Juan Carlos Osorio	In the CONCACAF qualification , Mexico qualified early for the World Cup finals on the fourth from last matchday of the fifth round, in which they had to face Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama, Trinidad & Tobago and the USA. In Russia, the team survived the group stage - including a win against defending champions Germany . This was followed by a 2-0 defeat against Brazil , which Mexico eliminated in the World Cup round of 16 for the seventh time in a row.

Clubs with World Cup players

The following overview lists all Mexican clubs, of which at least one player has been nominated for a World Cup tournament. The numbers under the respective World Cup year show how many players from the respective club were in the respective World Cup squad. The total column shows the number of all World Cup nominations of the respective club, but this cannot be equated with the number of players, because some players have been nominated several times ( Antonio Carbajal, with five World Cup appearances alone, makes almost a third of the 16 nominations of the Club León) and some of them also for various clubs ( e.g. Isidoro Díaz 1962 and 1966 for Guadalajara and 1970 for León). The club membership during the World Cup tournament is always decisive for the assignment.

The clubs are named according to the number of nominations and, in the event of a tie, according to the alphabetical sorting criterion. The front runner is the Mexican record champions América with 50 nominations (only in 1958 there was no player from him), followed by his arch-rival CD Guadalajara with a total of 47 nominations (only at the very first World Cup in 1930 and at the last two World Cups in 2014 and 2018 no player was this Club nominated).

While all players were under contract with Mexican clubs up to and including 1978 , Hugo Sánchez , who was under contract with Real Madrid in 1986, was Mexico's first World Cup legionnaire. If the number of Mexican football legionaries nominated for a World Cup tournament was still low at the next tournaments (there were two players in 1994 and one player in 1998), these grew to nine (over four each in 2002 and 2006) ( 2010) and eight (2014) players, which already makes up around 40 percent of the total squad. For the first time, more legionaries (15) were used for the 2018 World Cup than players (8) under contract with local clubs.

society	1930	1950	1954	1958	1962	1966	1970	1978	1986	1994	1998	2002	2006	2010	2014	2018	total
America	5	3	1	-	2	1	5	5	7th	2	7th	2	3	1	4th	2	50
CD Guadalajara	-	3	2	6th	7th	5	2	2	1	2	4th	2	6th	5	-	-	47
UNAM	-	-	-	-	-	5	4th	4th	6th	3	1	1	-	3	-	1	28
Toluca	-	-	1	4th	2	-	1	3	-	2	2	2	1	-	3	1	22nd
Atlante	7th	1	3	1	1	-	2	1	1	3	1	-	-	-	-	-	21st
Cruz Azul	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	2	1	1	2	2	3	1	2	1	20th
Necaxa / AE 1	2	2	3	2	3	-	1	1	-	2	2	1	-	-	-	-	19th
Atlas Guadalajara	-	2	2	2	2	4th	-	-	-	1	1	1	2	-	-	1	18th
Leon	-	2	2	3	1	1	1	1	-	1	-	-	-	-	3	-	15th
Oro de Guadalajara	-	1	3	-	2	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	09
UANL Tigres	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	3	-	-	-	-	1	2	2	09
CD Marte	3	2	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	07th
CF Monterrey	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	-	1	1	3	-	-	-	07th
Zacatepec	-	-	1	2	1	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	06th
Pachuca	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4th	-	1	-	-	05
Puebla	-	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	04th
Santos Laguna	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	2	-	-	1	-	04th
Veracruz	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	04th
Tecos de la UAG	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	03
Real Club España	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	02
Asturias	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	01
Cuautla	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	01
Irapuato	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	01
Jaguares	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	01
CF Laguna	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	01
San Sebastian de León	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	01
CD Tampico	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	01
U. de Guadalajara	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	01

¹ Necaxa traded as Atlético Español in 1978

Participation of Mexico in the Confederations Cup

Mexico is the second most frequent participant after Brazil with six appearances and has won the FIFA Confederations Cup once.

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Trainer	Comments and special features
1992	Saudi Arabia	not qualified
1995	Saudi Arabia	3rd place match	Nigeria	Third	Miguel Mejía Barón	Victory on penalties
1997	Saudi Arabia	Preliminary round	Australia , Brazil , Saudi Arabia	5.	Manuel Lapuente
1999	Mexico	final	Brazil	winner	Manuel Lapuente
2001	South Korea / Japan	Preliminary round	Australia , France , South Korea	8th.	Enrique Meza	Participation as defending champion
2003	France	not qualified
2005	Germany	3rd place match	Germany	Fourth	Ricardo La Volpe
2009	South Africa	not qualified
2013	Brazil	Preliminary round	Brazil , Italy , Japan	6th	José Manuel de la Torre	Qualified as winner of the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2011 , eliminated after two defeats against Italy and Brazil. A win against Japan in the last group game did not prevent them from being eliminated.
2017	Russia	3rd place match	Portugal	Fourth	Juan Carlos Osorio	Qualified as the winner of the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2015 and the resulting playoff against the Gold Cup winner 2013 ( USA ).
↑ According to the All-time Ranking 1992-2013 resources.fifa.com (PDF; 4.4 MB)

Participation of Mexico in the Copa America

Mexico first took part as a visiting team in the Copa America in 1993 , where they immediately finished second, and since then in all other Copas. Until 2007 they always reached at least the quarter-finals. In 2011 Mexico dropped out for the first time in the preliminary round. In the squad for the 2011 Copa there were only three players from the squad that won the CONCACAF Gold Cup on June 25th .

• Copa América 1993 : runner-up
• Copa América 1995 : quarter-finals (loss to USA - also visiting team - on penalties)
• Copa América 1997 : third
• Copa América 1999 : third
• Copa América 2001 : runner-up
• Copa America 2004 : quarter-finals
• Copa América 2007 : third
• Copa America 2011 : preliminary round
• Copa America 2015 : preliminary round
• Copa América Centenario 2016 : quarter-finals

title

• CONCACAF Championship (3) until 1989 - 1965, 1971, 1977
• CONCACAF Gold Cup (8) since 1991 - 1993, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2019
• Confederations Cup (1) - 1999
• NAFC Championship (3) - 1947, 1949, 1991

Current squad

The table names the players who were in the squad for the 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup .

• Performance data as of July 2, 2019 (after meeting Haiti)

No.	Surname	society	International matches	Länderspiel- gates	birthday	debut
goalkeeper
1	Jonathan Orozco	Santos Laguna	8th	0	May 12, 1986	2010
12	Hugo González	Club Necaxa	2	0	Aug 1, 1990	2018
13	Guillermo Ochoa	Standard Liege	106	0	July 13, 1985	2005
Defender
2	Néstor Araujo	Celta Vigo	34	3	Aug 29, 1991	2011
3	Carlos Salcedo	UANL Tigres	31	0	29 Sep 1993	2015
5	Diego Reyes	Fenerbahçe Istanbul	63	2	19 Sep 1992	2011
15th	Héctor Moreno	Real Sociedad	100	4th	Jan. 17, 1988	2007
17th	César Montes	CF Monterrey	9	0	Feb. 24, 1997	2017
19th	Fernando Navarro	Club León	2	1	April 18, 1989	2019
21st	Luis Rodríguez	UANL Tigres	16	1	Jan. 21, 1991	2015
23	Jesús Gallardo	CF Monterrey	40	0	Aug 15, 1994	2016
midfield player
4th	Edson Álvarez	Club America	27	1	Oct 24, 1997	2017
6th	Jonathan dos Santos	LA Galaxy	45	2	Apr. 26, 1990	2009
7th	Orbelín Pineda	CD Cruz Azul	18th	1	24 Mar 1996	2016
8th	Carlos Rodríguez	CF Monterrey	7th	0	Jan. 3, 1997	2019
10	Luis Montes	Club León	25th	5	May 15, 1986	2013
11	Roberto Alvarado	CD Cruz Azul	13	2	Sept 7, 1998	2018
16	Erick Gutiérrez	PSV Eindhoven	17th	0	June 15, 1995	2016
18th	Andrés Guardado	Betis Seville	158	28	28 Sep 1986	2005
22nd	Uriel Antuna	LA Galaxy	7th	4th	Aug 21, 1997	2019
striker
9	Raúl Jiménez	Wolverhampton Wanderers	77	22nd	0May 5, 1991	2013
20th	Rodolfo Pizarro	CF Monterrey	21st	4th	Feb 15, 1994	2014
14th	Alexis Vega	Deportivo Guadalajara	5	1	Nov 25, 1997	2019
Coaching staff
	Gerardo Martino	Trainer	0	0 0	Nov 20, 1962	2019

1. ↑ Numbers according to the FIFA squad list  ( 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. .  

Record player

Mexico has the third most players with 100 international matches , although some matches are not taken into account by FIFA as they may have a. took place at the Gold Cup against Guadeloupe, which is not a member of FIFA (number of games considered by FIFA in brackets). The record-breaking Mexican national player is Claudio Suárez , who replaced Gustavo Peña with his 83rd game on April 13, 1997 and was also the world record holder with 166 to 170 games from November 11, 2001 to May 29, 2004 .

rank	Surname	Calls	Gates	position	Period	World Cup games	Gold Cup Games	Copa America games
01.	Claudio Suarez	177	6th	Defense	1992-2006	8th	15th	22nd
02.	Andrés Guardado	162 (160)	28	Defense	2005–	12	25th	7th
03.	Rafael Marquez	147 (148)	17th	Defense	1997–	19th	12	18th
04th	Pavel Pardo	146 (145)	10	midfield	1996-2009	7th	13	11
0	Gerardo Torrado	146 (143)	6th	midfield	1999-2013	11	20th	18th
06th	Jorge Campos	130 (129)	0	goal	1991-2003	8th	9	15th
07th	Carlos Salcido	124 (123)	10	Defense	2001-2014	10	16	0
08th.	Ramón Ramírez	121 (119)	15th	midfield	1991-2000	5	16	13
09.	Cuauhtémoc Blanco	120 (119)	39	attack	1995-2010	11	12	15th
10.	Alberto García Aspe	109 (108)	21st	attack	1988-2002	8th	3	18th
	Chicharito	109	52	attack	2009–	12	7th	4th
	Guillermo Ochoa	109 (108)	0	goal	2004–	8th	19th	5
13.	Francisco Rodríguez	108 (107)	1	Defense	2004-2015	9	16	2
14th	Giovani dos Santos	107 (106)	19th	attack	2007–	9	15th	3
15th	Héctor Moreno	104	4th	Defense	2007-	9	10	4th
↑ According to RSSSF census, (Numbers in brackets according to FIFA census (PDF; 57 kB), as of December 4, 2019)

Sources: rsssf.com: Mexico - Record International Players (as of November 19, 2019, last updated on December 30, 2019)

Record goal scorers

rank	Surname	Gates	Calls	Quota	Period	World Cup goals	Gold Cup Gates	Copa America goals
01.	Chicharito	52	109	0.48	2009–	4th	8th	1
02.	Jared Borgetti	46	89 (88)	0.52	1997-2008	2	7th	2
03.	Cuauhtémoc Blanco	39	120 (119)	0.33	1995-2010	3	5	5
04th	Carlos Hermosillo	35	90	0.39	1984-1997		3
	Luis Hernández	35	85	0.41	1995-2002	4th	5	9
06th	Enrique Borja	31	65	0.48	1966-1975	1	1
07th	Luis Roberto Alves	30th	84	0.36	1988-2002		12	2
08th.	Luis Flores	29	60	0.48	1983-1993	1
	Luis García	29	77	0.37	1991-1999	2	3	4th
10.	Benjamin Galindo	28	65	0.43	1983-1997	0	4th	1
	Andrés Guardado	28	162 (160)	0.17	2005–	1	12	1
12.	Hugo Sánchez	27	55	0.49	1977-1998	1	8th	1

Other well-known players

• Francisco Palencia
• Manuel Negrete
• Antonio Carbajal
• Braulio Luna
• Ricardo Osorio
• Jesús Arellano
• Omar Bravo
• Francisco Fonseca
• Guillermo Ochoa
• Giovani Dos Santos

Overview of national coaches

The following overview contains all previous coaches of the Mexican national team. The numerical consideration is based on their respective debut. Coaches who have coached the national team several times are only listed once. On October 19, 2010, José Manuel de la Torre was hired as the 38th coach of the "Tri". After almost three years in office, he was dismissed on September 7, 2013. Víctor Manuel Vucetich was named as his successor on September 12th, but he was released on October 17th after Mexico could not qualify directly for the World Cup.

No.	Surname	debut	Period	Games
1	Adolfo Frías Beltrán	01/01/1923	1923	6th
2	Alfonso Roja de la Vega	05/30/1928	1928	2
3	Juan Luque de Serrallonga	07/13/1930	1930	3
4th	Rafael Garza Gutiérrez	03/04/1934	1934 1937-1938 1949	4 8 4
5	Alfred C. Crowle	March 27, 1935	1935	5
6th	Jorge Orth	07/13/1947	1947	2
7th	Abdel Ramírez Herrera	08/02/1948	1948	1
8th	Octavio Vial	05/26/1950	1950	5
9	Antonio López Herranz 1	03/23/1952	1952-1958	22nd
10	Horacio Casarín	07/19/1953	1953	1
11	Ignacio Trelles	10/20/1957	1957 1960–1962 1965–1969 1975–1976 1990–1991	2 27 56 13 8
12	Fernando Marcos	03/01/1959	1959	3
13	Árpád Fekete	March 24, 1963	1963	3
14th	Raúl Cárdenas	10/16/1968	1968-1970 1979-1981	31 28
15th	Diego Mercado	11/27/1969	1969	5
16	Javier de la Torre	09/30/1970	1970-1973	38
17th	Ignacio Jáuregui	March 31, 1974	1974	3
18th	José Antonio Roca	02/01/1977	1977-1988	20th
19th	José Moncebáez	01/06/1979	1979	3
20th	Gustavo Peña	06/10/1979	1979	1
21st	Bora Milutinović	03/15/1983	1983-1986 1995-1997	57 47
22nd	Mario Velarde	01/17/1987	1987-1989	15th
23	Alberto Guerra	02/14/1989	1989	3
24	Manuel Lapuente	12/12/1990	1990-1991 1997-2000	11 56
25th	César Luis Menotti	11/20/1991	1991-1992	19th
26th	Cayetano Rodríguez	07.10.1992	1992	1
27	Miguel Mejía Barón	01/20/1993	1993-1995	54
28	Ricardo Ferretti	06/29/1993	1993	1
29	Gustavo Vargas	02/16/1999	1999	2
30th	Mario Carrillo	04/14/1999	1999	1
31	Hugo Sánchez	06/04/2000	2000 2007-2008	3 25
32	Enrique Meza	09/20/2000	2000-2001 2010	19 1
33	Javier Aguirre	07/01/2001	2001-2002 2009-2010	27 32
34	Ricardo La Volpe	02/04/2003	2003-2006	71
35	José de Jesús Ramírez Ruvalcaba	04/16/2008	2008	5
36	Sven-Göran Eriksson	08/20/2008	2008-2009	13
37	Efraín Flores	04.09.2010	2010	3
38	José Manuel de la Torre	02/09/2011	2010-2013	49
39	Luis Fernando Tena (as interim coach)	09/10/2013	2013	1
40	Víctor Manuel Vucetich	10/11/2013	2013	2
41	Miguel Herrera	11/13/2013	2013-2015	36
42	Ricardo Ferretti	04.09.2015	2015	4th
43	Juan Carlos Osorio	14/10/2015	2015-2018	53
44	Ricardo Ferretti (Interim)	09/08/2018	2018	6th
45	Gerardo Martino	March 22, 2019	2019

Explanations

1: During López Herranz's tenure, Horacio Casarín (once) and Ignacio Trelles (twice), named under numbers 10 and 11, were briefly on duty as substitutes.

International match records

See: List of international matches for the Mexican national football team

International matches against German-speaking national soccer teams

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team	occasion
1.	2nd July 1950	Porto Alegre ( )	Mexico	1: 2	Switzerland	World Cup preliminary round
2.	June 19, 1966	Lausanne	Switzerland	1: 1	Mexico
3.	5th January 1967	Mexico city	Mexico	3-0	Switzerland
4th	January 8, 1967	Guadalajara	Mexico	0: 2	Switzerland
5.	22nd December 1968	Mexico city	Mexico	0-0	FRG
6th	16th August 1971	Guadalajara	Mexico	0: 1	GDR
7th	September 8, 1971	Hanover	FRG	5-0	Mexico
8th.	18th September 1971	Leipzig	GDR	1: 1	Mexico
9.	June 14, 1977	Mexico city	Mexico	2: 2	FRG
10.	June 6, 1978	Cordoba ( )	FRG	6-0	Mexico	World Cup preliminary round
11.	August 11, 1984	East Berlin	GDR	1: 1	Mexico
12.	February 6, 1985	Santiago de Querétaro	Mexico	1: 2	Switzerland
13.	June 15, 1985	Mexico city	Mexico	2-0	FRG	Azteca 2000 Cup
14th	February 15, 1986	San Jose ( )	Mexico	1: 2	GDR
15th	June 21, 1986	Monterrey	Mexico	0: 0 n.V., 1: 4 i. E.	FRG	World Cup quarter-finals
16.	October 14, 1992	Dresden	Germany	1: 1	Mexico
17th	December 22, 1993	Mexico city	Mexico	0-0	Germany
18th	January 26, 1994	Oakland ( )	Mexico	1: 5	Switzerland
19th	June 29, 1998	Montpellier ( )	Germany	2: 1	Mexico	World Cup round of 16
20th	June 29, 2005	Leipzig	Germany	4: 3 a.d.	Mexico	Confederation Cup game for 3rd place
21st	June 29, 2017	Sochi ( )	Germany	4: 1	Mexico	Confed Cup semi-finals
22nd	17th June 2018	Moscow ( )	Germany	0: 1	Mexico	World Cup group game

So far there have been no games against Austria and Liechtenstein.

See also

• List of international matches for the Mexican national football team
• Mexican-Salvadoran soccer rivalry

Web links

Commons : Mexico national association football team  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mexican Federation website (Spanish)
• All international matches in Mexico

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} FIFA census
3. ^ Mexico - International Results Details 1920–1939 at RSSSF
4. ^ Mexico - International Results Details 1940–1959 at RSSSF.
5. ↑ Players have taken issue with the FMF and have all asked to be left off the squad for all games, friendly or otherwise. goal.com, September 28, 2010, accessed September 4, 2016 . 
6. ↑ rsssf.com: Games of the XXIV. Olympiad Football Qualifying Tournament
7. ↑ Eternal World Cup table. In: fussball-wm-total.de. FUSSBALL-WM-total, accessed on July 2, 2018 . 
8. ↑ The placements from 5th place onwards were determined by FIFA without any placement games. See: All-time FIFA World Cup Ranking 1930–2010 (PDF; 200 kB)
9. ↑ Mexico out again in the round of 16 - Brazil won 2-0. In: fussball-wm-total.de. FUSSBALL-WM-total, July 2, 2018, accessed on July 2, 2018 . 
10. ↑ weltfussball.de: Mexico - Copa America 2011 squad in Argentina
11. ↑ ^{a b} Status after the World Cup round of 16 against Brazil on July 2, 2018. In the player profiles for the tournament, FIFA sometimes mentions different numbers, as it does not include games against CONCACAF members Guadeloupe and Martinique.
12. ↑ In 2 games Campos was used as an attacker, in 7 games he was used both as a goalkeeper and as an attacker.
13. ^ Roberto Mamrud: Mexico - Record International Players ( English ) rsssf.com. December 30, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
14. ↑ Incl. Goals at the CONCACAF Nations Cup
15. ^ Enrico Barz: Dismissed coach in Mexico. In: fussball-wm-total.de. FOOTBALL WORLD CUP total, September 8, 2013, accessed on September 8, 2013 . 
16. ↑ fifa.com: "National coach Vucetich dismissed"