<P> Mexico has qualified to sixteen World Cups and has qualified consecutively since 1994, making it one of six countries to do so . The Mexico national team, along with Brazil and Germany, are the only nations to make it out of the group stage over the last six World Cups . </P> <P> Mexico played France in the very first match of the first World Cup on 13 July 1930 . Mexico's best progression in World Cups has been reaching the quarter - finals in both the 1970 and 1986 World Cups, both of which were staged on Mexican soil . </P> <P> Mexico is historically the most successful national team in the CONCACAF region, having won ten confederation titles, including seven CONCACAF Gold Cups and three CONCACAF Championships (the precursor to the Gold Cup), as well as three NAFC Championships, one North American Nations Cup, and one CONCACAF Cup . Mexico is the only team from CONCACAF to have won an official FIFA competition, winning the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup . Although Mexico is under the jurisdiction of CONCACAF, the national team has been regularly invited to compete in the Copa América since 1993, finishing runner - up twice--in 1993 and 2001--and obtaining the third - place medal on three occasions . </P> <P> Football in Mexico was first organized in the early 20th century by European immigrant groups, notably miners from Cornwall, England, and in later years Spanish exiles fleeing the Spanish Civil War . </P>

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