Country Info

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• San Marino

• Federazione Sammarinese Giuoco Calcio

• Founded: 1931

• Federation: UEFA

• The enclave state of the Republic of San Marino first played international football in a European Championship qualifier against Switzerland in 1990. They have the worst record of any European national team having only ever drawn three matches and won one; against Liechenstein in a friendly in 2004. Not all the records they hold are negative. They scored the fastest ever goal in a World Cup match when Davide Gualtieri latched on to Stuart Pearce's awful back pass and scored past a bewildered David Seaman during a qualifier in 1994. The time was just 8 seconds! England finally won the match 7-1 with 4 goals from Ian Wright but results elsewhere meant England were not going to the World Cup 1994 in America and Graham Taylor resigned 6 days later.
  The two teams most recently met in qualifying for the World Cup 2014. England won both matches; 5-0 at home and 8-0 in San Marino.