Algeria is the 26th country to have qualified for the World Cup Brazil after having qualified on the 19th of November 2013. Algeria was 1 of the 10 CAF countries to play the continental play-offs. Their opponent was Burkina Faso which has never participated before in a World Cup. It was a close call for the World Cup 2014 Algeria national team to qualify. In their first match of the play-off Algeria lost with 2-3. Sofiane Feghouli and Carl Medjani scored for Algeria. However since the 2nd match was won with 1-0 which was scored by Madjid Bougherra, Algeria qualified. The first match was an away match and away goals count double. This meant Algeria has scored in total a value of 5 goals and Burkina Faso only 3 goals. Algeria can now prepare themselves in peace for the upcoming World Cup.

Did You Know Algeria:

Has the following nicknames: Fennec Foxes, the Greens, and the Desert Warriors
Caused 1 of the greatest World cup upsets by beating West Germany with 2-1 in a 1982 World Cup group match
Won 2 1982 World Cup group matches, but still didn't advance to the next round
Didn't advance in the 1982 World Cup since West Germany won with only 1-0 against Austria, however both teams seemed to agree very easy on this result early in the match
Became outraged due to above match where it seemed the players did not have the intention to change the 1-0 score, resulting in speculation of a mutual agreement between both West Germany and Austria
Took 24 years to qualify for their 3rd World Cup

Best Performance

1982 -- Group stage: Algeria almost made it to the 2nd round. 2 matches have won against West Germany and Chile, but was eliminated due to goal difference. Algeria had 4 points together with West Germany and Austria, but Algeria had the smallest goal difference (0).

Worst Performance

1986 -- Group stage: Algeria lost 2 matches, against Brazil and Spain. Algeria had a goal difference of -4, which means they scored 1 goal in the group phase and 5 goals were scored against them.

Algeria World Cup History

How Many World Cups Played: 3

1982 -- Spain (Group stage)
1986 -- Mexico (Group stage)
2010 -- South Africa (Group stage)

Algeria will face Belgium, Russia and South Korea in Group H of the 2014 World Cup football

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