Cuba national football team - Definition and Overview

Cuba

Cuba_FA.gif Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname	-
Association	Asociación de Fútbol de Cuba
Coach	Armelio Luis
Most caps	?
Top scorer	?
Home colours 　 Away colours
First International Cuba 3 - 1 Jamaica (Cuba; March 16, 1930)
Largest win Cuba 9 - 0 Puerto Rico (Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep.; May 27, 1995)
Worst defeat Sweden 8 - 0 Cuba (Antibes, France; June 12, 1938)
World Cup
Appearances	1 (First in 1938)
Best result	Quarterfinals, 1938
CONCACAF Gold Cup
Appearances	3 (First in 1998)
Best result	Quarterfinals, 2003

The Cuba national football team is the national team of Cuba and is controlled by the Asociación de Fútbol de Cuba. They were the first Caribbean team to make the World Cup, which they did in 1938. There, they beat Romania in a replay 2-1 after tying them 3-3. Sweden crushed the Cubans 8-0 in the quarterfinals. They haven't been back to the World Cup since.

Cuba finished second in the Caribbean Cup in 1996 and 1999. During the 2002 Gold Cup in Los Angeles, Cuban players Alberto Delgado and Rey Angel Martinez defected to the United States.

World Cup record

• 1930 - Did not enter
• 1934 - Did not qualify
• 1938 - Quarterfinals
• 1950 - Did not qualify
• 1954 to 1962 - Did not enter
• 1966 - Did not qualify
• 1970 - Did not enter
• 1974 to 1982 - Did not qualify
• 1986 - Did not enter
• 1990 - Did not qualify
• 1994 - Withdrew
• 1998 to 2006 - Did not qualify

Gold Cup record

• 1991 - Withdrew
• 1993 - Did not enter
• 1996 - Did not qualify
• 1998 - Round 1
• 2000 - Did not qualify
• 2002 - Round 1
• 2003 - Quarterfinals