the last time uruguay won world cup was 1950.
the last time uruguay won world cup was 1950.
when was the last time uruguay won world cup?
1950
uruguay have won four fifa-organized world football championships. they won the first world championship organized by fifa under the olympic committee umbrella with true representation from all continents; before then, football in the olympics comprised only european teams). uruguay then won the next two world championships (jules rimet trophy) in which they participated; these tournaments, the 1930 and 1950 fifa world cups, were fully independent from the olympics and employed clear rules distinguishing professional and amateur football players. since 1924 marked the beginning of true international football competition, organized by fifa, fifa recognizes uruguay as four-time world champions and allows the team to wear four stars on their uniforms during official international football competitions. (before 1974, the fifa world cup was referred to as the football world championship, and the nine champions from 1930 to 1970 received replicas of the jules rimet trophy. uruguay hosted and won the first fifa world cup in 1930, beating argentina 4–2 in the final. they won their fourth and last title in 1950, upsetting host brazil 2–1 in the final match. the team have qualified for twelve world cups, reaching the second round in all but three, the semifinals five times, and the finals twice. they also won the gold medal in olympic football twice, in 1924 and 1928, before the creation of the world cup. uruguay won the 1980 mundialito, a tournament comprising former world cup champions hosted in uruguay to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first world championship. uruguay is one of the most successful teams in the world, having won 19 fifa official titles: 2 world championships, 2 olympic games, and 15 copa américa championships.
uruguay at the fifa world cup
eight nations qualified for the finals for the first time: angola, czech republic, ghana, ivory coast, togo, trinidad and tobago, ukraine, and serbia and montenegro. czech republic and ukraine were making their first appearance as independent nations, but had previously been represented as part of czechoslovakia and the soviet union respectively; serbia and montenegro had competed as yugoslavia in 1998, as well as making up part of yugoslav teams from 1930 to 1990. as of 2018, this was the last time togo, angola, czech republic, ukraine and trinidad and tobago qualified for a fifa world cup finals, and the last time uruguay and nigeria failed to qualify.
2006 fifa world cup