The Mexico national team of football (Spanish: Seleccion de futbol de Mexico) is the team that represents Mexico in international soccer and is managed by the Mexican Football Federation (Spanish: Federacion Mexicana de Futbol). It is an official member of CONCACAF.
Mexico has been able to participate in seventeen World Cups and has qualified repeatedly since 1994 which makes it one of the six countries to have done so. It is the Mexico national team as well as Brazil is the sole two countries that have made it through the group stage during the past seven World Cups. Mexico took on France in the opening game of the inaugural World Cup on 13 July 1930. Mexico's greatest success through World Cups has been reaching the quarterfinals of each of the 1990 and 1970 World Cups, both of which were played on Mexican territory.
Mexico is the longest-running and successful nation within the CONCACAF region, winning 11 confederation titles, which include the eight CONCACAF Gold Cups as well as three CONCACAF Championships (the precursor to the Gold Cup), as in addition to the two NAFC Championships, one North American Nations Cup as well as the CONCACAF Cup and two gold medals from two gold medals of Central American and Caribbean Games. It is one of the eight nations to be a winner of two of three biggest competitions in football (the World Cup, Confederations Cup and the Summer Olympics), having been the winner of in 1999 the FIFA Confederations Cup and the 2012 Summer Olympics. Mexico is the only member of CONCACAF to have been a winner of an official FIFA tournament by winning at the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup. While Mexico is subject to the jurisdiction of CONCACAF however, the national team was often invited to play during the Copa America from 1993 to 2016. They finished second two times in 1993 and 2001 as well as securing the third place medal three times.
