World Cup 2022: When did Spain last win the World Cup?

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·3 November 2022

World Cup 2022: When did Spain last win the World Cup?

When did Spain last win the World Cup? How many times have they won the competition? Here’s everything you need to know!

La Roja are an incredibly successful national team and have seen some of the greatest players of all time pull on their shirt.

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They go into the 2022 World Cup in Qatar as one of the big favourites, although they face a tricky group stage.

Germany, while they will also play Costa Rica and Japan.

But how many times have Spain won the World Cup and when did they last manage to lift the iconic trophy?

When did Spain last win the World Cup?

Spain last won the World Cup in 2010.

The national team went to South Africa and were able to win the whole thing.

It came as something of a surprise, given that they were knocked out in the Round of 16 in 2006 by France.

In 2010, though, they came through a group with Switzerland, Honduras and Chile, despite losing their opening game to the Swiss.

Portugal Germany and, in the final, the Netherlands.

The showpiece needed extra time, with Barcelona legend Andres Iniesta scoring the winner.

How many times have Spain won the World Cup?

Just once.

While they went into the 2014 World Cup as champions, they were knocked out in the group stages, being humiliated by the Dutch, who beat them 5-1, and also losing 2-0 to Chile. They did beat Australia but were already eliminated at that stage.

They also only won one group game in 2018, beating Iran Morocco. They were knocked out in the Round of 16 by hosts Russia on penalties.

Spain have only ever reached the World Cup final once, and that was in the tournament they won.

They did finish fourth in the 1950 tournament in Brazil, but they will be coming into this winter’s competition with a chip on their shoulder after their flops in both 2014 and 2018.