Indonesia at the FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. It has been contested every four years since the first tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946, due to World War II.

The tournament consists of two parts, the qualification phase and the final phase (officially called the World Cup Finals). The qualification phase, which currently takes place over the three years preceding the finals, is used to determine which teams qualify for the finals. The current format of the finals involves 32 teams competing for the title, at venues within the host nation (or nations) over a period of about a month. The World Cup finals is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world, with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the final of the 2006 tournament.[1]

The Indonesia national football team has only reached the FIFA World Cup finals once: the 1938 World Cup in France, where they competed under the name Dutch East Indies. The Dutch East Indies gained independence from the Netherlands and became known as Indonesia in 1945, and FIFA considers them to have inherited the record of the Dutch East Indies. The Dutch East Indies played their first World Cup finals match against Hungary in the round of 16 of the 1938 tournament, losing 6–0. The straight knockout format used at the time made it the only game the team played at the tournament. Thus, Indonesia is the sole record holder for the fewest matches played (1) at a World Cup, and one of several to have scored no goals.

The team tasted their first World Cup action as Indonesia in qualifying for the 1958 tournament. They got past China in the first round, but refused to play their next opponents Israel. The team did not take part in qualifying for the next three World Cups due to an unfavourable political situation – both internally and externally – before re-entering in 1974.

Overall record

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Final Qualification
Year Round Position Pld W D L GF GA Squad Pld W D L GF GA
as Dutch East Indies
Uruguay 1930 Did not enter Did not enter
Italy 1934
France 1938 Round of 16 15th 1 0 0 1 0 6 Squad Automatically qualified
as  Indonesia
Brazil 1950 Withdrew Withdrew
Switzerland 1954 Did not enter Did not enter
Sweden 1958 Withdrew during qualification 3 1 1 1 5 4
Chile 1962 Withdrew Withdrew
England 1966 Did not enter Did not enter
Mexico 1970
West Germany 1974 Did not qualify 6 1 2 3 6 13
Argentina 1978 4 1 1 2 7 7
Spain 1982 8 2 2 4 5 14
Mexico 1986 8 4 1 3 9 10
Italy 1990 6 1 3 2 5 10
United States 1994 8 1 0 7 6 19
France 1998 6 1 4 1 11 6
South Korea Japan 2002 6 4 0 2 16 7
Germany 2006 6 2 1 3 8 12
South Africa 2010 2 0 0 2 1 11
Brazil 2014 8 1 1 6 8 30
Russia 2018 Disqualified due to FIFA suspension Disqualified
Qatar 2022 Did not qualify 8 0 1 7 5 27
Canada Mexico United States 2026 To be determined To be determined
Morocco Portugal Spain 2030
Saudi Arabia 2034
Total Round of 16 15th 1 0 0 1 0 6 79 19 17 43 92 170

By match

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World Cup Round Opponent Score Result Venue Scorers
1938 Round of 16  Hungary 0–6 L Reims

Record by opponent

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FIFA World Cup matches (by team)
Opponent Wins Draws Losses Total Goals Scored Goals Conceded
 Hungary 0 0 1 1 0 6

Dutch East Indies at the 1938 FIFA World Cup

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Hungary v Dutch East Indies

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Hungary 6–0 Dutch East Indies
Kohut 14'
Toldi 16'
Sárosi 25', 88'
Zsengellér 30', 67'
Report
Attendance: ~8,000
Referee: Roger Conrié (France)
Hungary
Dutch East Indies
GK József Háda
DF Lajos Korányi
DF Sándor Bíró
MF József Turay
MF Gyula Lázár
MF István Balogh
FW Géza Toldi
FW György Sárosi (c)
FW Ferenc Sas
FW Gyula Zsengellér
FW Vilmos Kohut
Manager:
Hungary Károly Dietz and Alfréd Schaffer
GK Mo Heng Tan
DF Frans Hu Kon
DF Jack Samuels
MF Achmad Nawir (c)
MF Frans Meeng
MF Sutan Anwar
FW The Hong Djien
FW Isaak Pattiwael
FW Hans Taihuttu
FW Suvarte Soedarmadji
FW Henk Zomers
Manager:
Netherlands Johannes Mastenbroek

Man of the Match:

Assistant referees:
Charles de la Salle (France)
Karl Weingartner (Germany)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "2006 FIFA World Cup TV Coverage" (PDF). FIFA.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 June 2007. Retrieved 6 June 2007.