Cuba national football team
| Nickname(s) | Los Leones del Caribe (The Lions of the Caribbean) Los Diablos Rojos (The Red Devils) | ||
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| Association | Asociación de Fútbol de Cuba (AFC) | ||
| Confederation | CONCACAF (North America) | ||
| Sub-confederation | CFU (Caribbean) | ||
| Head coach | Pedro Pablo Pereira | ||
| Captain | Karel Espino | ||
| Most caps | Yénier Márquez (126) | ||
| Top scorer | Lester Moré (30) | ||
| Home stadium | Estadio Pedro Marrero | ||
| FIFA code | CUB | ||
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| FIFA ranking | |||
| Current | 166 (19 January 2026) | ||
| Highest | 46 (November – December 2006) | ||
| Lowest | 182 (August 2017, March–May 2018) | ||
| First international | |||
| Cuba 3–1 Jamaica (Havana, Cuba; 16 March 1930) | |||
| Biggest win | |||
| Cuba 11–0 Turks and Caicos Islands (Havana, Cuba; 8 September 2018) | |||
| Biggest defeat | |||
| Sweden 8–0 Cuba (Antibes, France; 12 June 1938) Soviet Union 8–0 Cuba (Moscow, Soviet Union; 24 July 1980) Russia 8–0 Cuba (Volgograd, Russia; 20 November 2023) | |||
| World Cup | |||
| Appearances | 1 (first in 1938) | ||
| Best result | Quarter-finals (1938) | ||
| CONCACAF Championship / Gold Cup | |||
| Appearances | 12 (first in 1971) | ||
| Best result | Fourth place (1971) | ||
| NAFC Championship | |||
| Appearances | 2 (first in 1947) | ||
| Best result | Runners-up (1947) | ||
| CCCF Championship | |||
| Appearances | 4 (first in 1955) | ||
| Best result | Fifth place (1957, 1960, 1961) | ||
| Caribbean Cup | |||
| Appearances | 11 (first in 1992) | ||
| Best result | Champions (2012) | ||
Medal record | |||
The Cuba national football team (Spanish: Selección de fútbol de Cuba) represents Cuba in men's international football, which is governed by the Asociación de Fútbol de Cuba (English: Football Association of Cuba) founded in 1924. It has been an affiliate member of FIFA since 1932 and a founding affiliate member of CONCACAF since 1961. Regionally, it is an affiliate a member of CFU in the Caribbean Zone. It was a member of NAFC (1946–1955) and later a member of CCCF (1955–1961), the two predecessor confederations of CONCACAF. It was also a member of PFC, the former unified confederation of the Americas.
Cuba has participated once in the FIFA World Cup in 1938, becoming the first Caribbean team to play in the competition. It is one of twelve CONCACAF teams that have participated and also one of four CONCACAF teams to advanced to the knockout stage, reaching the quarter-finals. In the round of 16, Cuba defeated Romania in a replay, 2–1, after drawing against them 3–3. They were then eliminated in the quarter-finals by Sweden, 8–0. Cuba has not returned to the World Cup since.
Cuba has participated twelve times in CONCACAF's premier continental competition, finishing fourth place in the 1971 CONCACAF Championship. The team's best performance under the CONCACAF Gold Cup format was reaching the quarter-finals three times (2003, 2013 and 2015). It has participated three times in League A and once in League B of the CONCACAF Nations League. Regionally, the team finished as runners-up in the NAFC Championship as hosts in 1947 (organized by NAFC, the former North American confederation), it won the Caribbean Cup in 2012 (organized by CFU, the regional body for the Caribbean Zone), and one gold medal at the Central American and Caribbean Games in 1930.