It is the Spain soccer team (Spanish: Seleccion Espanola de Futbol) is the representative of Spain in international football matches since 1920. It is managed by the Royal Spanish Football Federation, the body that governs the sport of football within Spain. Spain is among the eight national teams that be named world champions. It has been a part of 16 of the 22 FIFA World Cup and qualifying continuously since 1978. Spain has also taken home three continental titles as they competed in eleven of the sixteen UEFA European Championship. Spain is currently in Division A in the UEFA Nations League alongside the other top team in Europe. Their most successful season was the 2020-21 season when they made it to the finals, but lost to France.
Spain has the distinction of being the sole nation team to have won three major titles in a row and was one of the only European team to be the winner of the FIFA World Cup outside of Europe in 2010 , as in addition to being the only team to have won back-to-back European Championship between 2008 and in 2012. Between 2008 and the year 2013, Spain was awarded in the FIFA Team of the Year which is the second highest award for any nation, only behind Brazil. Since the beginning of 2007 until the close of 2009, the Spanish national team won 35 straight games without losing the feat they were able to share with Brazil and was an international records at that time. Their accomplishments have led many experts and journalists to call the 2008-2012 Spanish team to be among the greatest teams to ever play in international football.
