Saudi Arabia at the FIFA World Cup


This is a record of Saudi Arabia's results at the FIFA World Cup. The FIFA World Cup, sometimes called the Football World Cup or the Soccer World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association, the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the first tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946, due to World War II.
The tournament consists of two parts, the qualification phase and the final phase. The qualification phase, which currently take place over the three years preceding the Finals, is used to determine which teams qualify for the Finals. The current format of the Finals involves 48 teams competing for the title, at venues within the host nation over a period of about a month. The World Cup final is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world, with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the 2006 tournament final.
Saudi Arabia has qualified for a total of eight FIFA World Cup tournaments, having played in 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2018, 2022, 2026, and 2034 as hosts. Their best performance was in 1994, where they reached the round of 16.

Record players

RankPlayerMatchesWorld Cups
1Mohamed Al-Deayea101994, 1998 and 2002
2Sami Al-Jaber91994, 1998, 2002 and 2006
2Abdullah Zubromawi91994, 1998 and 2002
2Hussein Abdulghani91998, 2002 and 2006
5Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi61994 and 1998
5Khaled Al-Muwallid61994 and 1998
5Saeed Al-Owairan61994 and 1998
5Fuad Anwar Amin61994 and 1998
5Hamzah Saleh61994 and 1998
5Ibrahim Al-Shahrani61998 and 2002
5Nawaf Al-Temyat61998, 2002 and 2006
5Redha Tukar62002 and 2006
5Salem Al-Dawsari62018 and 2022

Top goalscorers

Sami Al-Jaber is not only the most successful Saudi striker at the FIFA World Cup to date, he also managed to score in World Cups twelve years apart. He shares this record with eight other players, among them Pelé, Diego Maradona, Miroslav Klose, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
RankPlayerGoalsWorld Cups
1Sami Al-Jaber31994, 1998 and 2006
1Salem Al-Dawsari32018 and 2022
3Fuad Anwar Amin21994
4Saeed Al-Owairan11994
4Fahad Al-Ghesheyan11994
4Yousuf Al-Thunayan11998
4Yasser Al-Qahtani12006
4Salman Al-Faraj12018
4Saleh Al-Shehri12022