The Smallest Countries Ever at the World Cup

[datt]

Iceland would hold that title, forever

[hrvosic]

When you think Croatia isn't far from fifth place with 3.9 million and look at what they are doing 😅

[stevenman]

Some of the games had 20'000 Icelandics in the stands watching the team. Think about what that meant in terms of population of the entire country...

[kaspercederlund]

iirc Iceland had an election during that world cup, but 10% of the population was away watching the world cup

[heater]

Bahrain as a tiny country was insanely close too and if they beat another country on the list (T&T) they would have made it

[you]

Kuwait should be there, we qualifed in 1982 where the population was 900, 000

[Rantasalmi]

the city i live in has 3x nearly 4 times Icelands population

[nw]

Better question: what's the largest country to never make a World Cup?

[NoName-rqbg]

Asian nations really struggle hard with concacaf nations😂

[neilmccullagh]

Northern Ireland qf against Brazil 58 and played Harry gregg shorty after Munich and won gk of the Tournament

[bklynzcoco]

Iceland played good in the euros when Portugal won

[Tubsidio]

Uruguai with 3.4 is an amazing contender for this list

[akshayherur]

Uruguay had a fairly small population in 1930 when they won, though. Like just under 2 million or something. I understand the video is about current population.

[noeonoohno]

You should specify the men’s World Cup since Jamaica was also in this years women’s World Cup.

[michaelfarrow]

Said this many times but Iceland is a very sensible model that should be copied by any number of bigger nations.

[betimhalili]

Coastal has 1.8 million people and they qualify for the World Cup two times

[jmd_anything]

Im from Bradford and we have a population of a round 53000 yet we dont have a top flight team but fuking iclend csn make a world cup... Strange world

[timno]

thx for mentioning slovenia...maybe we can get in there for a 3rd time in 2026

[ayushvispute]

As an indian, 1.5 million people live in only my city

[leosch]

You deleted Quatar, good job. Got you a like