The Argentina national football team (), nicknamed ''La Albiceleste'' (), represents

Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...

in men's international

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and is administered by the

Asociación del Fútbol Argentino The Argentine Football Association (, ; AFA) is the governing body of football in Argentina based in Buenos Aires. It organises the main divisions of Argentine league system (from Primera División to Torneo Regional Federal and Torneo Promoc ...

(), the governing body of

football in Argentina Association football is the most popular sport in Argentina and part of the culture of Argentina, culture in the country. It is the one with the most players (2,658,811 total, 331,811 of which are registered and 2,327,000 unregistered; with 3,37 ...

. It has been a member of

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since 1912 and a founding member of

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since 1916. It was also a member of PFC, the unified confederation of the Americas from 1946 to 1961. They are the reigning world champions, having won the most recent FIFA World Cup in 2022, earning their third star shown by the team's crest. Overall, Argentina has appeared in a

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six times, a record equaled by

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and surpassed only by

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and

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, they also appeared in the 1928 Olympic final against

Uruguay Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast, while bordering the Río de la Plata to the south and the A ...

, which was recognised as the FIFA world championship prior to the World Cup. Argentina played in the inagural World Cup final in 1930, which they lost 4–2 to Uruguay. The following final appearance came 48 years later, in

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, when the team captained by

Daniel Passarella Daniel Alberto Passarella (born 25 May 1953) is an Argentine former Association football, footballer and Manager (association football), manager, who is considered one of the greatest Defender (association football), defenders of all time. As a ...

defeated the

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3–1 in extra time, becoming world champions for the first time. Captained by

Diego Maradona Diego Armando Maradona Franco (30 October 196025 November 2020) was an Argentine professional association football, football player and manager. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, he was one of the two ...

, Argentina won their second World Cup eight years later, in

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, with a 3–2 final victory over West Germany. They reached the final once more under the guidance of Maradona, in

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, but were ultimately beaten 1–0 by West Germany. A few decades later, Argentina, captained by

Lionel Messi Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi (; born 24 June 1987) is an Argentine professional Association football, footballer who plays as a forward (association football), forward for and Captain (association football), captains both Major League Soccer ...

made their fifth final appearance in

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, losing to Germany 1–0 after extra time. In

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

, again captained by Messi, they were crowned world champions for the third time, the fourth-most of any country, beating

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4–2 on penalties, following a 3–3 draw after extra time. The team's World Cupwinning managers are

César Luis Menotti César Luis Menotti (; 22 October 1938 – 5 May 2024), known as ''El Flaco'' ("Slim"), was an Argentine association football, football player and Manager (association football), manager who won the 1978 FIFA World Cup as the head coach of the ...

Carlos Bilardo Dr. Carlos Salvador Bilardo (born 16 March 1938) is an Argentine former physician, football player, and manager. Bilardo achieved worldwide renown as a player with Estudiantes de La Plata in the 1960s, and as the manager of the Argentina side t ...

and

Lionel Scaloni Lionel Sebastián Scaloni (, ; born 16 May 1978) is an Argentine professional football manager and former player who is the current manager of the Argentina national team. Under his leadership, Argentina achieved the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Scalon ...

in 2022. In addition, Argentina has also been very successful in the

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, with a record 16 titles, most recently winning the 2024 edition. They are also the only nation to have won the Copa América three consecutive times: they did it in

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and

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. Furthermore, Argentina won the inaugural FIFA Confederations Cup in 1992 and is the most successful team in the

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, having won it twice, in

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and

. The national team also won the

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1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Janu ...

. In total, with 23 official titles won as of 2025, Argentina holds the record in senior official titles won. Argentines

Guillermo Stábile Guillermo Stábile (17 January 1905 – 26 December 1966) was an Argentine professional football player and manager who played as a centre forward. At club level, Stábile won two national championships with Huracán and played in Italy and Fran ...

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and

Mario Kempes Mario Alberto Kempes Chiodi (, ; born 15 July 1954) is an Argentine former professional Association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football)#Striker, striker or Attacking Midfielder, attacking midfielder. A prolific g ...

in 1978 were the top-scoring players at their respective World Cups. Since the Golden Ball for the tournament's best player was officially awarded by

in 1982, Argentina players have won it three times: Maradona in 1986 and Messi in

and 2022. Individually for Argentina, Lionel Messi is the all-time most-capped player with 193 matches and the highest goalscorer with 112 goals. , Argentina ranks 1st in the

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. Argentina is known for having rivalries with Brazil,

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, Germany, the Netherlands, Uruguay, and France.

History

The first ever match Argentina played was against

on 20 June 1902, the first international for both sides, held in

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, with Argentina winning 6–0.Argentina-Uruguay: el clásico con más partidos del mundo
by Oscar Barnade on ''Clarín'', 18 November 2019 During the first years of its existence, Argentina only played

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against other South American teams. The reasons for this varied, including long travel times between countries and the interruption due to

World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

. ''La Albiceleste'' has appeared in

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six times, including the first ever final on 30 July 1930, which they lost 4–2 to Uruguay. Argentina won their next final on 25 June

, beating the

3–1. Eight years later, in

, Argentina led by

won their second title with a 3–2 victory over

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. Four years later, in

, Maradona led Argentina to the final, but lost 1–0 to West Germany, by a much-disputed penalty. With

as captain, Argentina reached the final in

, where they were beaten 1–0 by

in extra time. Argentina would eventually win their third FIFA World Cup in 2022 by defeating

on penalties, after a 3–3 draw after extra time. The team's World Cupwinning managers are

in 1978,

in 1986 and

in 2022. Argentina has also been very successful in the South American Football Championship, the

, winning it 16 times; they were crowned champions most recently in

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. The team also won the inaugural FIFA Confederations Cup in 1992 and the

and

. In March 2007, Argentina reached the top of the

for the first time.

Home stadium

Argentina plays most of its home matches at River Plate's stadium, Estadio Monumental, in

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, although the team also uses various other venues frequently, such as

Estadio Único Madre de Ciudades The Estadio Único Madre de Ciudades is a association football, football stadium located in the city of Santiago del Estero in the Santiago del Estero Province, homonymous province of Argentina. The stadium was inaugurated on 4 March 2021, before ...

En marzo la Selección Argentina será local en Santiago del Estero por Eliminatorias
on TyC Sports, 28 October 2020 and

Boca Juniors Club Atlético Boca Juniors () is an Argentine professional sports club based in La Boca, a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. The club is best known for its men's professional Association football, football team which, since its promotion in 1913 ...

' stadium,

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. Those venues, along with

Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes The Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes, formerly known as Estadio Córdoba, is a stadium in the Chateau Carreras neighborhood of Córdoba, Argentina. Owned by the Córdoba Province, the venue is used mostly for association football and rugby union ma ...

and

Estadio San Juan del Bicentenario Estadio San Juan del Bicentenario is a football stadium located in the Pocito Department of San Juan Province, Argentina. Owned by the Government of San Juan Province, it currently hosts the home matches of local clubs San Martín, Sportivo Des ...

, were used for the 2022 World Cup qualification. Additionally, Argentina played some matches at

Rosario Central Club Atlético Rosario Central (), more commonly referred to as Rosario Central, or simply Central, is a sports club based in Rosario, Argentina, that plays in the Argentine Primera División. The club was officially founded on 24 December 1889, ...

's stadium,

Estadio Gigante de Arroyito The Estadio Gigante de Arroyito () is a stadium in the city of Rosario, Santa Fe, Rosario, Argentina. It is owned by club Rosario Central, serving as home venue for association football, football matches. The Argentina national football team has p ...

, during their 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign. GEBA Stadium was the first stadium Argentina used for its home matches; that includes the

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by Héctor Pelayes on RSSSF.com which has a historic significance for being the first time Argentina wore the light blue and white-striped jersey in an official match, which has since then been the defining uniform up to the present day. GEBA was also used for the

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, the first competition held between South American national teams, considered the predecessor of

, organised by the

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(AFA) in 1910. Most recently, Argentina played at GEBA on 19 October 1919, winning the

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after a 6–1 victory over Uruguay. Furthermore,

Estadio Sportivo Barracas Estadio Sportivo Barracas was a football stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, property of Club Sportivo Barracas. The stadium was one of the most important venues in Argentina, used for football and rugby union matches. It held 37,000 spectators. ...

is also considered a memorable venue for Argentina; the stadium was commonly used by Argentina from 1920 to 1932. Playing at the stadium for ''La Albiceleste'' on 2 October 1924, forward

Cesáreo Onzari Cesáreo Onzari (February 1, 1903 – January 7, 1964) was an Argentine footballer who played as a left winger. He made his entire career in Huracán, playing from 1921 until his retirement in 1933. He was the first footballer known to have scor ...

scored directly from a

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, the first such incident in football, when Argentina beat Uruguay 2–1; such goals are now often referred as '' Olympic goals'' due to the fact that Uruguay had just won the 1924 Olympic title. Sportivo Barracas was later demolished after 1936.

Team image

Kit

Argentina equipo v combinadopaulista 1908

The first kit ever worn by Argentina, in their official debut against Uruguay in 1902, included a light blue shirt. On 2 July 1908, Argentina debuted a shirt with light blue vertical stripes on a white jersey, which they used when they played a side formed of

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players at

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; they used the jersey in an official match against Uruguay on 13 September 1908, and the striped jersey has remained as the definitive kit for Argentina ever since then. The team's away kits have been in dark blue shades, with the colours of shorts and socks varying from time to time. Argentina has also sported other kits; on 3 June 1919 in

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, playing against

, Argentina wore a light blue kit, similar to that of Uruguay, out of respect for Roberto Chery, a substitute goalkeeper for Uruguay, who had collapsed and died during a match against

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at the

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; the match between Argentina and Brazil was organised by the

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for the benefit of Chery's relatives. At the

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, Argentina wore the yellow jersey of Swedish club

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against West Germany, as the team had arrived in Sweden without an away kit. Maradona vs england

At the

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in Mexico, the then manager,

, asked the team's kit supplier,

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, for lighter blue shirts for their quarter-final against

in three days, but they could not be provided. Then, a member of the coaching staff scoured the shops of

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for 38 plain shirts, which were transformed with an improvised version of the AFA emblem embroidered on the shirts and silvery

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numbers ironed to the backs. Sporting the makeshift jerseys, Argentina beat England on 22 June, with Diego Maradona scoring his famous "

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". Afterwards, the shirt became a symbol of the occasion and an important collector's item. At the

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in Russia, Argentina debuted a black away kit; and at the

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in Qatar, they wore a purple away kit in a competitive match for the first time.

Kit suppliers

Argentina historic football jerseys edited

Crest

Argentina has used the logo of the Argentine Football Association as its emblem since it was first worn at the

in Sweden; the logo was added to the team's jackets, but not the shirts. The emblem was not used on jerseys until 16 November 1976, when Argentina played the

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at Estadio Monumental. At the beginning, the crest used did not include a

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,El escudo de la camiseta de la Selección argentina cumple 41 años
by Daniela Aguinsky, ''Clarín'', 16 November 2017 which was first added for the

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. As a respected and common practice, two stars were added above the crest in 2004, symbolising Argentina's World Cup titles in 1978 and 1986. In 2022, a third star was added after Argentina were crowned world champions for the third time.

Results and fixtures

The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

2024

2025

2026

Coaching staff

Players

Current squad

The following players were named in the squad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches against

and

Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...

on 5 and 10 June 2025, respectively. ''Caps and goals are correct as of 10 June 2025, after the match against

.''

Recent call-ups

The following players have also been called up for the team in the last twelve months. ;Notes *^RET = Retired from the national team. *^INJ = Withdrew due to injury.

Individual records and achievements

:''Players in bold are still active with Argentina.''

Most-capped players

Top goalscorers

World Cup-winning captains

Competitive record

Head-to-head record

Rivalries

Brazil

Argentina and Brazil have a fierce rivalry which is one of the oldest in South America. Matches between the two teams, even those that are only

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es, are often marked by notable and controversial incidents. The rivalry has also been referred to as the "Battle of the Americas."

has described it as the "essence of football rivalry". The rivalry has extended to comparisons between

Pelé Edson Arantes do Nascimento (; 23 October 1940 – 29 December 2022), better known by his nickname Pelé (), was a Brazilian professional Association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football), forward. Widely reg ...

and

.Diego y Pelé, los mejores de siempre
on ''Página/12'', 2000¿Pelé o Maradona? ¿Quién logró más goles y títulos en mundiales y competiciones internacionales?
at CNN, 24 September 2022 Some of their countrymen also feature regularly in such debates. The next most notable pair are perhaps

Garrincha Manuel Francisco dos Santos (28 October 1933 – 20 January 1983), nicknamed Mané Garrincha, best known as simply Garrincha (, "little bird"), was a Brazilian professional association football, footballer who played as a Midfielder#Winger, righ ...

(Brazil) and

Alfredo Di Stéfano Alfredo Stéfano Di Stéfano Laulhé (; 4 July 1926 – 7 July 2014) was an Argentine professional footballer and coach who played as a forward, widely regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time. Nicknamed "Saeta Rubia" ("Blond A ...

(Argentina). The most dominant figures from the two countries in the modern game are

Neymar Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior (; born 5 February 1992), also known as Neymar Júnior or simply Neymar, is a Brazilian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a left winger, attacking midfielder or Forward (association foo ...

(Brazil) and

(Argentina). Both Pelé and Maradona have declared Neymar and Messi their respective "successors".

England

With a rivalry stemming from the

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and intensified by the

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of 1982, Argentina and

have had numerous confrontations in World Cup tournaments. Among them was the quarter-final match in

, where Diego Maradona scored two goals against England. The first was a handball, but was ruled legal by the referee. The second, scored minutes later, saw Maradona passing five England outfield players before scoring, and is often described as one of, if not the greatest goal in football history. The nations were paired together in the round of 16 at the

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, won by Argentina on penalties, and again at the group stage in

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, with England winning 1–0 through a penalty by

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who had been sent off in the tie four years earlier.

Germany

Argentina has played

in seven

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matches including three World Cup finals. In

Argentina won 3–2, but in

and

it was the Germans who were the victors by a 1–0 scoreline both times. In

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they met for the first time in the group stage, where Argentina suffered a 1–3 loss to defending champions West Germany. In

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both again faced each other in the group stage which ended in a scoreless draw. In 2006, they met in the

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; Argentina lost on penalties after a 1–1 draw, which was followed by a brawl on the pitch involving several players. They met again at the same stage in 2010, this time ending with a 4–0 victory for Germany. They played each other for the third consecutive World Cup in Brazil 2014's final, where Argentina was defeated in extra time by a score of 1–0.

Uruguay

Argentina has a long-standing rivalry with its neighbour, that came into existence from the early

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, the

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and the first World Cup final, held in 1930. Argentina and Uruguay hold the record for most international matches played between two countries. The two teams have faced each other 197 times since 1902. The first match between Argentina and Uruguay was also the first official international match to be played outside the United Kingdom.

Netherlands

Considered by sports media to be two historically great teams, the Argentines and Dutch have developed an intense rivalry. They have met ten times in total, including six times during the World Cup. The two teams first met on 26 May 1974 in an international friendly, won by the Netherlands 4–1. Their most high-profile matchup occurred in the 1978 World Cup final which was won by Argentina. One of the most recent and intense meetings happened in the

, a 2–2 draw where Argentina advanced on penalties, in what is known as the

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Mexico

Argentina has a minor rivalry with Mexico, which developed in the 1990s. The rivalry is considered one-sided as Argentines do not consider Mexico as rivals. Although the first official match between both nations came in the

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where Argentina beat Mexico 6–3 in the

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, the rivalry emerged during the late twentieth century, especially after the

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, where Argentina beat Mexico 2–1. That was the first time a non-

nation played in a Copa América final, and the first final played between both sides. The rivalry has continued in club competitions, where Argentina and Mexico first met in

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. The rivalry between both nations at club level increased during the late 1990s, when Mexican clubs were invited to participate in the

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, where they played memorable matches against

. During the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, some Mexican and Argentine fans had a fight in

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prior to the match between both sides, among great animosity. Both supporters fought again inside

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after the match that Argentina won 2–0, giving Argentina a chance to qualify and forcing Mexico to win against

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to qualify, which ended with Argentina and

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qualifying and Mexico being eliminated alongside Saudi Arabia. This sense of rivalry is more keenly felt by Mexican supporters and media, since Argentines do not consider Mexico rivals like Brazil, Germany, Uruguay or England.

Nigeria

A recurrent rivalry developed from the 1990s between Argentina and

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, based not on geographical proximity, long-term battles for honours or factors outside football, but due to the frequency of significant matches between them. This has included five World Cup group matches, all won by Argentina by a single goal margin: 2–1 in 1994, 1–0 in 2002, 1–0 in 2010, 3–2 in 2014 and 2–1 in 2018. The fixture is the most common in the competition's history involving an African nation, and has occurred in five of the six tournaments for which Nigeria has qualified. The sides also met in the

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(the predecessor to the Confederations Cup) as champions of their respective continents, drawing 0–0. Below full international level, their Olympic teams also faced off in the gold medal match in 1996 (3–2 to Nigeria), and 2008 (1–0 to Argentina). The final of the

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was also played between them; both Argentina goals in their 2–1 win were penalty kicks scored by

, who would go on to find the net for the senior team in the 2014 and 2018 World Cup fixtures. However, at the

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, Nigeria defeated the hosts Argentina 2−0 in the Round of 16. The sense of rivalry is more keenly felt on the Nigerian side, as Argentina has won almost all of their encounters, so they do not consider Nigeria a rival like Brazil, England, Uruguay or Germany, in contrast to the West Africans who remain keen to finally overcome a more illustrious foe.

Honours

Worldwide

** Champions (3):

** Runners-up (3):

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** Silver medal (1):

1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly demonstrating that DNA is the genetic material. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris B ...

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** Champions (1):

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

** Runners-up (2):

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

Intercontinental

** Champions (2):

(record)

Continental

* South American Football Championship/CONMEBOL Copa América ** Champions (16):

1921 Events January * January 2 ** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in First Brazilian Republic, Brazil. ** The Spanish lin ...

1925 Events January * January 1 – The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria (1925–1930), State of Syria. * January 3 – Benito Mussolini m ...

1927 Events January * January 1 – The British Broadcasting ''Company'' becomes the BBC, British Broadcasting ''Corporation'', when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, John Reith becomes the first ...

1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...

1937 Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Feb ...

1941 The Correlates of War project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 3.49 million. However, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program estimates that the subsequent year, 1942, wa ...

1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...

1957 Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricke ...

1959 Events January * January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the ...

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

(record) ** Runners-up (14):

1916 Events Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 1 – The British Empire, British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that has been stored ...

1917 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's ...

1920 Events January * January 1 ** Polish–Soviet War: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20. ** Kauniainen in Finland, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its ow ...

1923 In Greece, this year contained only 352 days as 13 days was skipped to achieve the calendrical switch from Julian to Gregorian Calendar. It happened there that Wednesday, 15 February ''(Julian Calendar)'' was followed by Thursday, 1 March ' ...

1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20–January 30, 30 – Kuomintang in Ch ...

1926 In Turkey, the year technically contained only 352 days. As Friday, December 18, 1926 ''(Julian Calendar)'' was followed by Saturday, January 1, 1927 '' (Gregorian Calendar)''. 13 days were dropped to make the switch. Turkey thus became the ...

1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart ...

1942 The Uppsala Conflict Data Program project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 4.62 million. However, the Correlates of War estimates that the prior year, 1941, was th ...

1967 Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and Army of ...

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

** Third place (5):

1919 Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (later Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off th ...

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...

1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove ...

1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

¹ ** Champions (1):

** Runners-up (1):

Friendly

* Newton Cup (17): 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1916, 1918, 1924, 1927, 1928, 1937, 1942, 1945, 1957, 1973, 1975, 1976 (record) * Lipton Cup (18): 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1913, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1928, 1937, 1942, 1945, 1957, 1962, 1968, 1976, 1992 (record) *

(7): 1909, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1918, 1919, 1920 (record) *

(1): 1910 *

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(5): 1915, 1916, 1917, 1923, 1924 *

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(4): 1923, 1939, 1940, 1971 (shared) *

Copa Juan Mignaburu The Copa Juan Mignaburu was a association football, football friendly competition contested between Argentina national football team, Argentina and Uruguay national football team, Uruguay national teams between 1935 and 1943. Similar to Copa Premie ...

(5): 1935, 1936, 1938, 1940, 1943 (record) *

Copa Héctor Rivadavia Gómez The Copa Héctor Rivadavia Gómez was a football friendly competition contested between Argentina and Uruguay national teams. There were five editions of this competitions, held between 1935 and 1943, with all of them won by Argentina.

(3): 1935, 1936, 1943 (record) * Nations' Cup (1):

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...

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(2):

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

* Copa Times of India (1): 2011 *

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(2):

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

* San Juan Cup (1): 2019

Awards

* FIFA Team of the Year (4): 2007, 2016, 2023, 2024 *

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(1): 2023 * World Soccer World Team of the Year (2): 1986, 2022 * Gazzetta Sports World Team of the Year (2): 1978, 1986 * Guerin Sportivo Team of the Year (1): 1986 * FIFA World Cup Fair Play Trophy (1):

* Copa America Fair Play Award (1):

* AIPS Team of the Year (2): 2022, 2023

Chronology of titles

Summary

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Notes and references

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