Nigeria at the FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body.

The championship has been awarded every four years since the first tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946, due to World War II.

The current format of the Finals involves 32 teams competing for the title, at venues within the host nation (or nations) over a period of about a month.

The World Cup Finals is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world[1], with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the 2006 tournament final.

Their sixth and most recent appearance was the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.