Guatemala national football team
| Nickname(s) | Los Chapines (The Chapines) La Azul y Blanco (The Blue and White) La Bicolor (The Bicolor) Los Mayas (The Mayans) Los Hombres de Maíz (The Men of Maize) | |||
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| Association | Federación Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala (FEDEFUT) | |||
| Confederation | CONCACAF (North America) | |||
| Sub-confederation | UNCAF (Central America) | |||
| Head coach | Luis Fernando Tena | |||
| Captain | José Carlos Pinto | |||
| Most caps | Carlos Ruiz (133) | |||
| Top scorer | Carlos Ruiz (68) | |||
| Home stadium | Various | |||
| FIFA code | GUA | |||
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| FIFA ranking | ||||
| Current | 94 (19 January 2026) | |||
| Highest | 50 (August 2006) | |||
| Lowest | 163 (November 1995) | |||
| First international | ||||
| Guatemala 9–0 Honduras (Guatemala City, Guatemala; 14 September 1921) | ||||
| Biggest win | ||||
| Guatemala 10–0 Anguilla (Guatemala City, Guatemala; 5 September 2019) Guatemala 10–0 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Guatemala City, Guatemala; 4 June 2021) | ||||
| Biggest defeat | ||||
| Costa Rica 9–1 Guatemala (San José, Costa Rica; 24 July 1955) | ||||
| Olympic Games | ||||
| Appearances | 3 (first in 1968) | |||
| Best result | Quarter-finals (1968) | |||
| CONCACAF Championship / Gold Cup | ||||
| Appearances | 21 (first in 1963) | |||
| Best result | Champions (1967) | |||
| CONCACAF Nations League | ||||
| Appearances | 4 (first in 2019–20) | |||
| Best result | Group stage (2023–24, 2024–25) | |||
| CCCF Championship | ||||
| Appearances | 6 (first in 1943) | |||
| Best result | Runners-up (1943, 1946, 1948) | |||
The Guatemala national football team (Spanish: Selección de fútbol de Guatemala) represents Guatemala in men's international football, which is governed by the Federación Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala (English: National Football Federation of Guatemala) founded in 1919. It has been an affiliate member of FIFA since 1946 and a founding affiliate member of CONCACAF since 1961. Regionally, it is an affiliate member of UNCAF in the Central American Zone. From 1938 to 1961, it was a member of CCCF, the former governing body of football in Central America and Caribbean and a predecessor confederation of CONCACAF, and also a member of PFC, the former unified confederation of the Americas, from 1946 to 1961.
Guatemala has never qualified for the FIFA World Cup, but has participated three times in the Olympic football tournament (1968, 1976, and 1988).
Guatemala has participated twenty-one times in CONCACAF's premier continental competition, it is one of three Central American teams to have won a title, winning the CONCACAF Championship in 1967. The team's best performance under the CONCACAF Gold Cup format was finishing fourth place in 1996 and reaching the semifinals in 2025. It has participated twice in League A, once in League B and once in League C of the CONCACAF Nations League.
Regionally, the team won the Copa Centroamericana in 2001, and finished as runners-up three times in the CCCF Championship.