Belgium national football team: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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Nickname
Rode Duivels (Dutch)/Diables Rouges (French) (Red Devils)
Association
Belgian Football Association
Current coach
Aimé Anthuenis, 2002-
Most capped player
Jan Ceulemans: 96
Highest goalscorer
Paul Van Himst, Bernard Voorhoof: 30
First International
Belgium 3 - 3 France (Brussels, Belgium; 1 May 1902)
Largest win
Belgium 9 - 0 Zambia (?, Belgium; 4 June 1994)
Belgium 10 - 1 San Marino (Brussels, Belgium; 28 February 2001)
Largest defeat
England amateur 11 - 2 Belgium (?, England; 17 April 1909)
World Cup
Finals appearances: 11 (First: 1930) Best result: Fourth place, 1986
European Championships
Finals appearances: 4 (First: 1972) Best result: Runners-up, 1980

The Belgium national football team's best World Cup performance came in 1986, when they beat Spain to reach the Semi-finals, losing 2-1 to Argentina.

Belgium has the longest current streak of qualifying for World Cups via the qualifying tournament, with six, tying Italy for the all-time record. Every other nation with an equal or longer string of appearances has had the aid of automatic qualification as the host or the defending champion. (The 2006 tournament will be the first for which the defending champion does not automatically qualify.)

World Cup record

• 1930 - Round 1
• 1934 - Round 1
• 1938 - Round 1
• 1950 - Did not enter
• 1954 - Round 1
• 1958 - Did not qualify
• 1962 - Did not qualify
• 1966 - Did not qualify
• 1970 - Round 1
• 1974 - Did not qualify
• 1978 - Did not qualify
• 1982 - Round 2
• 1986 - Fourth place
• 1990 - Round 2
• 1994 - Round 2
• 1998 - Round 1
• 2002 - Round 2

• 1960-1968 - Did not qualify
• 1972 - 3rd place
• 1976 - Did not qualify
• 1980 - Runners-up
• 1984 - Round 1
• 1988-1996 - Did not qualify
• 2000 - Round 1
• 2004 - Did not qualify

• Jan Ceulemans
• Franky van der Elst
• Jean-Marie Pfaff
• Enzo Scifo