Spain

Missing image Spain_national_football_team.png Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname	La Selección (The Selection)
Association	Royal Spanish Football Federation (Real Federación Española de Fútbol)
Coach	Luis Aragonés (2004-)
Most caps	Andoni Zubizarreta (126)
Top scorer	Raúl (40)
Home colours 　 Away colours
First International Spain 2 - 0 Belgium (Bilbao, Spain; 7 October, 1921)
Largest win Spain 13 - 0 Bulgaria (Madrid, Spain; 21 May, 1933)
Worst defeat Italy 7 - 1 Spain (Amsterdam, Netherlands; 4 June, 1928) England 7 - 1 Spain (London, England; 9 December, 1931)
World Cup
Appearances	11 (First in 1934)
Best result	Fourth place, 1950
European Championship
Appearances	7 (First in 1964)
Best result	Winners, 1964

The Spain national football team is controlled by the Royal Spanish Football Federation (Real Federación Española de Fútbol). They won the second European Championship ever held in 1964.

Spain has greatly underachived in the World Cup, never advancing beyond the quarterfinals (they did make the final group stage in 1950), although often being touted as pre-tournament favorites. They did win the gold medal when they hosted 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and the 1999 World Youth Championship in Nigeria.

Contents

1 World Cup record 2 European Championship record 3 Famous players 4 External links

World Cup record

• 1930 - Did not enter
• 1934 - Quarterfinals
• 1938 - Withdrew during qualifying due to civil war
• 1950 - Fourth place
• 1954 - Did not qualify
• 1958 - Did not qualify
• 1962 - Round 1
• 1966 - Round 1
• 1970 - Did not qualify
• 1974 - Did not qualify
• 1978 - Round 1
• 1982 - Round 2
• 1986 - Quarterfinals
• 1990 - Round 2
• 1994 - Quarterfinals
• 1998 - Round 1
• 2002 - Quarterfinals

European Championship record

• 1960 - Withdrew during qualifying
• 1964 - Champions
• 1968 to 1976 - Did not qualify
• 1980 - Round 1
• 1984 - Runners-up
• 1988 - Round 1
• 1992 - Did not qualify
• 1996 - Quarterfinals
• 2000 - Quarterfinals
• 2004 - Round 1

Famous players

• Butragueño
• Íker Casillas
• Joseba Etxebarría
• Raúl
• Fernando Hierro
• José Antonio Camacho
• Alfredo Di Stefano (also played for Argentina)
• Ferenc Puskas (also played for Hungary)

See also: list of Spanish footballers.

External links

• RSSSF archive of results 1920-  (http://www.rsssf.com/tabless/span-intres.html)

National football teams of Europe (UEFA)

Albania | Andorra | Armenia | Austria | Azerbaijan | Belarus | Belgium | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bulgaria | Croatia | Cyprus | Czech Republic | Denmark | England | Estonia | Faroe Islands | Finland | France | Georgia | Germany | Greece | Hungary | Iceland | Republic of Ireland | Israel | Italy | Kazakhstan | Latvia | Liechtenstein | Lithuania | Luxembourg | Republic of Macedonia | Malta | Moldova | Netherlands | Northern Ireland | Norway | Poland | Portugal | Romania | Russia | San Marino | Scotland | Serbia and Montenegro | Slovakia | Slovenia | Spain | Sweden | Switzerland | Turkey | Ukraine | Wales

International Football

FIFA - World Cup - Women's World Cup - World Rankings - Player of the Year Asia: AFC - Asian Cup | Africa: CAF - African Nations Cup South America: CONMEBOL - Copa América | North America: CONCACAF - Gold Cup Oceania: OFC - OFC Nations Cup | Europe: UEFA - European Championship

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