England at the FIFA World Cup

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The England national football team did not enter the first three FIFA World Cup tournaments as they were not members of FIFA yet. They have failed to qualify for the tournament on three occasions – 1974 (West Germany), 1978 (Argentina) and 1994 (United States) – and have failed to advance from the group stage on three occasions: in 1950 (Brazil), 1958 (Sweden) and 2014 (Brazil). Their best performance is winning the cup as the host nation in 1966; they have also reached the semi-finals on another three occasions, most recently in the 2026 FIFA World Cup in North America where they achieved their second best historical performance to finish third, also resulting in their best ever World Cup finish on foreign soil. They previously finished in fourth place in 1990 in Italy, and in 2018 in Russia. The team has also reached the quarter-finals on seven other occasions.

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