Algeria at the FIFA World Cup

Algeria has qualified to the FIFA World Cup on four occasions, in 1982, 1986, 2010 and 2014. They have once qualified for the knockout rounds, reaching the round of 16 in 2014 before losing to Germany. Algeria nearly qualified to the second round of the 1982 World Cup after beating both West Germany and Chile; however, a controversial match between West Germany and Austria wound up eliminating the Algerians. In 2014, Algeria qualified for the round of 16 for the first time.

Record by opponent
* Games of West Germany are counted towards Germany.

Algeria at Spain 1982

 * Group 2

Algeria at Mexico 1986

 * Group D

Algeria at South Africa 2010

 * Group C

Algeria vs Slovenia
{| width=50% style="font-size: 90%" Man of the Match:

Robert Koren (Slovenia)

Assistant referees:

Leonel Leal (Costa Rica)

Carlos Pastrana (Honduras)

Fourth official:

Peter O'Leary (New Zealand)

Fifth official:

Brent Best (New Zealand)

England vs Algeria

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{| width=50% style="font-size: 90%" Man of the Match:

Ashley Cole (England)

Assistant referees:

Rafael Ilyasov (Uzbekistan)

Bakhadyr Kochkarov (Kyrgyzstan)

Fourth official:

Michael Hester (New Zealand)

Fifth official:

Jan Hendrik Hintz (New Zealand)

United States vs Algeria

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Algeria at Brazil 2014

 * Group H

Historical performances
The Algeria team had many records and facts which had done during its participations in the world cup.


 * 1982: First African team to beat a European team (West Germany)
 * 1982: First African team to win two games
 * 1982: First team to win two games in the first round and not advance
 * 1982: FIFA revised the group system for future tournaments, so that the final two games in each group would be played simultaneously because the controversial game between West Germany & Austria that causes the elimination of Algeria
 * 1986: First African team to qualify consecutively for the second time
 * 2014: First African team to score four goals in one game against South Korea
 * 2014: First African team to reach the knockout stage simultaneously with another African team (Nigeria)