Every penalty shoot-out in full internationals

This is a list of every penalty shoot-out in full, senior, male internationals in major competitions since this rule was introduced in the 1970s. The major competitions included (and their qualifying stages) are the World Cup (WC), the Confederations Cup (CC) and the regional tournaments for each football confederation: the European Championship (EC), the different confederations' Nations League (NL) the Africa Cup of Nations (AN), the Copa América (CA), the CONCACAF Gold Cup (GC), the Asian Cup (AC) and the Oceania Football Cup (OC). No Olympic teams or smaller regional competitions have been included. After the list and the summary, you can find a brief analysis of the results.

Competition - Stage - Date - Result after 120 minutes - Shoot-out result - Winner - Loser

EC Fn 1976-06-20 (2-2) 5-3 Czechoslovakia - West Germany
AN SF 1980-03-19 (2-2) 4-2 Algeria - Egypt
EC 3P 1980-06-21 (1-1) 9-8 Czechoslovakia - Italy
AN Fn 1982-03-19 (1-1) 7-6 Ghana - Libya
WC SF 1982-07-08 (3-3) 5-4 West Germany - France
AN SF 1984-03-14 (2-2) 8-7 Nigeria - Egypt
AN SF 1984-03-14 (0-0) 5-4 Cameroon - Algeria
EC SF 1984-06-24 (1-1) 5-4 Spain - Denmark
AC SF 1984-12-13 (1-1) 5-4 Saudi Arabia - Iran
AC 3P 1984-12-16 (1-1) 5-3 Kuwait - Iran
AN Fn 1986-03-21 (0-0) 5-4 Egypt - Cameroon
WC QF 1986-06-21 (1-1) 4-3 France - Brazil
WC QF 1986-06-21 (0-0) 4-1 West Germany - Mexico
WC QF 1986-06-22 (1-1) 5-4 Belgium - Spain
AN SF 1988-03-23 (1-1) 9-8 Nigeria - Algeria
AN 3P 1988-03-26 (1-1) 4-3 Algeria - Morocco
AC 3P 1988-12-17 (0-0) 3-0 Iran - China
AC Fn 1988-12-18 (0-0) 4-3 Saudi Arabia - South Korea
WC 8F 1990-06-25 (0-0) 5-4 Ireland - Romania
WC QF 1990-06-30 (0-0) 3-2 Argentina - Yugoslavia
WC SF 1990-07-03 (1-1) 4-3 Argentina - Italy
WC SF 1990-07-04 (1-1) 4-3 West Germany - England
GC Fn 1991-07-07 (0-0) 4-3 USA - Honduras
AN SF 1992-01-23 (0-0) 3-1 Ivory Coast - Cameroon
AN Fn 1992-01-26 (0-0)11-10Ivory Coast - Ghana
EC SF 1992-06-22 (2-2) 5-4 Denmark - Netherlands
AC 3P 1992-11-08 (1-1) 4-3 China - UA Emirates
CA QF 1993-06-26 (1-1) 5-3 Colombia - Uruguay
CA QF 1993-06-27 (1-1) 6-5 Argentina - Brazil
CA SF 1993-07-01 (0-0) 6-5 Argentina - Colombia
AN SF 1994-04-06 (2-2) 4-2 Nigeria - Ivory Coast
WC 8F 1994-07-05 (1-1) 3-1 Bulgaria - Mexico
WC QF 1994-07-10 (2-2) 5-4 Suecia - Romania
WC Fn 1994-07-17 (0-0) 3-2 Brazil - Italy
CC 3P 1995-01-13 (1-1) 5-4 Mexico - Nigeria
CA QF 1995-07-16 (1-1) 5-4 Colombia - Paraguay
CA QF 1995-07-17 (0-0) 4-1 USA - Mexico
CA QF 1995-07-17 (2-2) 4-2 Brazil - Argentina
CA Fn 1995-07-23 (1-1) 5-3 Uruguay - Brazil
AN QF 1996-01-28 (1-1) 4-1 Tunisia - Gabon
EC QF 1996-06-22 (0-0) 4-2 England - Spain
EC QF 1996-06-22 (0-0) 5-4 France - Netherlands
EC SF 1996-06-26 (0-0) 6-5 Czech Republic - France
EC SF 1996-06-26 (1-1) 6-5 Germany - England
AC SF 1996-12-18 (0-0) 4-3 Saudi Arabia - Iran
AC 3P 1996-12-21 (1-1) 3-2 Iran - Kuwait
AC Fn 1996-12-21 (0-0) 4-2 Saudi Arabia - UA Emirates
CA QF 1997-06-22 (1-1) 4-3 Mexico - Ecuador
AN QF 1998-02-21 (1-1) 8-7 Burkina Faso - Tunisia
AN QF 1998-02-21 (0-0) 5-4 Egypt - Ivory Coast
AN 3P 1998-02-27 (4-4) 4-1 DR Congo - Burkina Faso
WC 8F 1998-06-30 (2-2) 4-3 Argentina - England
WC QF 1998-07-03 (0-0) 4-3 France - Italy
WC SF 1998-07-07 (1-1) 4-2 Brazil - Netherlands
CA QF 1999-07-10 (3-3) 4-2 Mexico - Peru
CA QF 1999-07-10 (1-1) 5-3 Uruguay - Paraguay
CA SF 1999-07-13 (1-1) 5-3 Uruguay - Chile
AN 3P 2000-02-12 (2-2) 4-3 South Africa - Tunisia
AN Fn 2000-02-13 (2-2) 4-3 Cameroon - Nigeria
GC QF 2000-02-19 (2-2) 2-1 Colombia - USA
EC SF 2000-06-29 (0-0) 3-1 Italy - Netherlands
CA 3P 2001-07-28 (2-2) 5-4 Honduras - Uruguay
GC QF 2002-01-26 (1-1) 6-5 Canada - Martinique
GC QF 2002-01-27 (0-0) 4-2 South Korea - Mexico
GC SF 2002-01-30 (0-0) 4-2 USA - Canada
AN Fn 2002-02-10 (0-0) 3-2 Cameroon - Senegal
WC 8F 2002-06-16 (1-1) 3-2 Spain - Ireland
WC QF 2002-06-22 (0-0) 5-3 South Korea - Spain
AN SF 2004-02-11 (1-1) 5-3 Tunisia - Nigeria
EC QF 2004-06-24 (2-2) 6-5 Portugal - England
EC QF 2004-06-26 (0-0) 5-4 Netherlands - Sweden
CA SF 2004-07-21 (1-1) 5-3 Brazil - Uruguay
CA Fn 2004-07-25 (2-2) 4-2 Brazil - Argentina
AC QF 2004-07-30 (2-2) 4-3 Bahrain - Uzbekistan
AC QF 2004-07-31 (1-1) 4-3 Japan - Jordan
AC SF 2004-08-03 (1-1) 4-3 China - Iran
CC SF 2005-06-26 (1-1) 6-5 Argentina - Mexico
GC QF 2005-07-17 (1-1) 5-3 Panama - South Africa
GC Fn 2005-07-24 (0-0) 3-1 USA - Panama
AN QF 2006-02-04 (1-1)12-11Ivory Coast - Cameroon
AN QF 2006-02-04 (1-1) 6-5 Nigeria - Tunisia
AN Fn 2006-02-10 (0-0) 4-2 Egypt - Ivory Coast
WC 8F 2006-06-26 (0-0) 3-0 Ukraine - Switzerland
WC QF 2006-06-30 (1-1) 4-2 Germany - Argentina
WC QF 2006-07-01 (0-0) 3-1 Portugal - England
WC Fn 2006-07-09 (1-1) 5-3 Italy - France
CA SF 2007-07-10 (2-2) 5-4 Brazil - Uruguay
AC QF 2007-07-21 (1-1) 4-3 Japan - Australia
AC QF 2007-07-22 (0-0) 4-2 South Korea - Iran
AC SF 2007-07-25 (0-0) 4-3 Iraq - South Korea
AC 3P 2007-07-28 (0-0) 6-5 South Korea - Japan
EC QF 2008-06-20 (1-1) 3-1 Turkey - Croatia
EC QF 2008-06-22 (0-0) 4-2 Spain - Italy
GC SF 2009-07-23 (1-1) 5-3 Mexico - Costa Rica
AN QF 2010-01-25 (0-0) 5-4 Nigeria - Zambia
WC 8F 2010-06-29 (0-0) 5-3 Paraguay - Japan
WC QF 2010-07-02 (1-1) 4-2 Uruguay - Ghana
AC SF 2011-01-25 (2-2) 3-0 Japan - South Korea
GC QF 2011-06-18 (1-1) 4-2 Honduras - Costa Rica
GC QF 2011-06-19 (1-1) 5-3 Panama - El Salvador
CA QF 2011-07-16 (1-1) 5-4 Uruguay - Argentina
CA QF 2011-07-17 (0-0) 2-0 Paraguay - Brazil
CA SF 2011-07-20 (0-0) 5-3 Paraguay - Venezuela
AN QF 2012-02-05 (1-1) 5-4 Mali - Gabon
AN Fn 2012-02-12 (0-0) 8-7 Zambia - Ivory Coast
EC QF 2012-06-24 (0-0) 4-2 Italy - England
EC SF 2012-06-27 (0-0) 4-2 Spain - Portugal
AN QF 2013-02-02 (1-1) 3-1 Mali - South Africa
AN SF 2013-02-06 (1-1) 3-2 Burkina Faso - Ghana
CC SF 2013-06-27 (0-0) 7-6 Spain - Italy
CC 3P 2013-06-30 (2-2) 3-2 Italy - Uruguay
WC 8F 2014-06-28 (1-1) 3-2 Brazil - Chile
WC 8F 2014-06-29 (1-1) 5-3 Costa Rica - Greece
WC QF 2014-07-05 (0-0) 4-3 Netherlands - Costa Rica
WC SF 2014-07-09 (0-0) 4-2 Argentina - Netherlands
AC QF 2015-01-23 (3-3) 7-6 Iraq - Iran
AC QF 2015-01-23 (1-1) 5-4 UA Emirates - Japan
AN 3P 2015-02-07 (0-0) 4-2 DR Congo - Equatorial Guinea
AN Fn 2015-02-08 (0-0) 9-8 Ivory Coast - Ghana
CA QF 2015-06-26 (0-0) 5-4 Argentina - Colombia
CA QF 2015-06-27 (1-1) 4-3 Paraguay - Brazil
CA Fn 2015-07-04 (0-0) 4-1 Chile - Argentina
GC QF 2015-07-19 (1-1) 6-5 Panama - Trinidad and Tobago
GC 3P 2015-07-25 (1-1) 3-2 Panama - USA
OC Fn 2016-06-11 (0-0) 4-2 New Zealand - Papua New Guinea
CA QF 2016-06-17 (0-0) 4-2 Colombia - Peru
EC 8F 2016-06-25 (1-1) 5-4 Poland - Switzerland
CA Fn 2016-06-26 (0-0) 4-2 Chile - Argentina
EC QF 2016-06-30 (1-1) 5-3 Portugal - Poland
EC QF 2016-07-02 (1-1) 6-5 Germany - Italy
AN QF 2017-01-28 (0-0) 5-4 Cameroon - Senegal
AN QF 2017-02-01 (1-1) 4-3 Egypt - Burkina Faso
CC SF 2017-06-28 (0-0) 3-0 Chile - Portugal
WC 8F 2018-07-01 (1-1) 4-2 Russia - Spain
WC 8F 2018-07-01 (1-1) 3-2 Croatia - Denmark
WC 8F 2018-07-03 (1-1) 4-3 England - Colombia
WC QF 2018-07-07 (2-2) Croatia - Russia
AN 8F 2019-01-20 (1-1) 4-2 Vietnam - Jordan
AN 8F 2019-01-21 (0-0) 4-2 Australia - Uzbekistan
NL 3P 2019-06-09 (0-0) 6-5 England - Switzerland
CA QF 2019-06-27 (0-0) 4-3 Brazil - Paraguay
CA QF 2019-06-28 (0-0) 5-4 Chile - Colombia
CA QF 2019-06-29 (0-0) 5-4 Peru - Uruguay
GC QF 2019-06-29 (1-1) 5-4 Mexico - Costa Rica
AN 8F 2019-07-05 (1-1) 4-1 Benin - Morocco
AN 8F 2019-07-07 (2-2) 4-2 Madagascar - DR Congo
AN 8F 2019-07-08 (1-1) 5-4 Tunisia - Ghana
AN QF 2019-07-11 (1-1) 4-3 Algeria - Ivory Coast

EC PO 2020-10-08 (0-0) 4-2 Slovakia - Ireland

EC PO 2020-10-08 (0-0) 5-3 Scotland - Israel

EC PO 2020-10-08 (1-1) 4-3 Northern Ireland - Bosnia

EC PO 2020-11-12 (1-1) 5-4 Scotland - Serbia

EC 8F 2021-06-28 (3-3) 5-4 Switzerland - France

EC QF 2021-07-02 (1-1) 3-1 Spain - Switzerland

CA QF 2021-07-03 (0-0) 4-2 Colombia - Uruguay

EC SF 2021-07-06 (1-1) 4-2 Italy - Spain

EC SF 2021-07-06 (1-1) 3-2 Argentina - Colombia 

EC Fn 2021-07-11 (1-1) 3-2 Italy - England

AN 8F 2022-01-23 (1-1) 7-6 Burkina Faso - Gabon

AN 8F 2022-01-26 (0-0) 5-4 Egypt - Ivory Coast 

AN 8F 2022-01-26 (0-0) 6-5 Equatorial Guinea - Mali

AN SF 2022-02-05 (0-0) 3-1 Egypt - Cameroon

AN 3P 2022-02-05 (3-3) 5-3 Cameroon - Burkina Faso

AN Fn 2022-02-06 (0-0) 4-2 Senegal - Egypt

WC QP 2022-03-29 (1-1) 3-1 Senegal - Egypt

WC QP 2022-06-13 (0-0) 5-4 Australia - Peru

WC 8F 2022-12-05 (1-1) 3-1 Croatia - Japan

WC 8F 2022-12-06 (0-0) 2-0 Morocco - Spain

WC QF 2022-12-09 (1-1) 4-2 Croatia - Brazil

WC QF 2022-12-09 (2-2) 4-3 Argentina - Netherlands

WC Fn 2022-12-18 (3-3) 4-2 Argentina - France

GC qt 2023-06-16 (1-1) 3-2 Saint Kitts and Nevis - Curacao

GC qt 2023-06-17 (1-1) 5-3 Guyana - Grenada

GC qt 2023-06-17 (0-0) 4-3 Puerto Rico - Suriname

NL Fn 2023-06-18 (0-0) 5-4 Spain - Croatia

GC qt 2023-06-20 (1-1) 4-2 Saint Kitts and Nevis - French Guiana

GC QF 2023-07-10 (2-2) 3-2 USA - Canada

GC SF 2023-07-12 (1-1) 5-4 Panama - USA

AC 8F 2024-01-28 (1-1) 5-3 Tajikistan - United Arab Emirates

AN 8F 2024-01-28 (1-1) 8-7 DR Congo - Egypt

AN 8F 2024-01-29 (1-1) 5-4 Ivory Coast - Senegal

AC 8F 2024-01-30 (1-1) 4-2 South Korea - Saudi Arabia

AC 8F 2024-01-31 (1-1) 5-3 Iran - Syria

AC QF 2024-02-03 (1-1) 3-2 Qatar - Uzbekistan

AN QF 2024-02-03 (0-0) 2-1 South Africa - Cape Verde

AN SF 2024-02-07 (1-1) 4-2 Nigeria - South Africa

AN 3P 2024-02-10 (0-0) 6-5 South Africa - DR Congo

EC QF 2024-03-26 (0-0) 4-2 Georgia - Greece

GC QF 2024-03-26 (0-0) 4-2 British Virgin Islands - US Virgin Islands

EC QF 2024-03-26 (0-0) 5-4 Poland - Wales

GC QF 2024-03-26 (1-1) 4-3 Anguilla - Turks And Caicos

Results by country, in alphabetical order: won - lost - differential - country

3 2 +1 Algeria

1 0 +1 Anguilla
11 6 +5 Argentina (most played, most won)
2 1 +1 Australia
1 0 +1 Bahrain
1 0 +1 Belgium
1 0 +1 Benin

0 1 -1 Bosnia
8 6 +2 Brazil

1 0 +1 British Virgin Islands
1 0 +1 Bulgaria
3 3  0 Burkina Faso
5 4 +1 Cameroon
1 2 -1 Canada

0 1 -1 Cape Verde
4 2 +2 Chile
2 1 +1 China
5 5  0 Colombia
1 4 -3 Costa Rica
4 2 +2 Croatia

0 1 -1 Curacao
3 0 +3 Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic
3 2 +1 DR Congo
1 2 -1 Denmark
0 1 -1 Ecuador
6 5 +1 Egypt
0 1 -1 El Salvador
3 7 -4 England (joint most lost, joint worst balance)
1 1  0 Equatorial Guinea
3 5 -2 France

0 1 -1 French Guiana
0 3 -3 Gabon
1 5 -4 Ghana (joint worst balance)

1 0 +1 Georgia
6 1 +5 Germany / West Germany (best balance)
0 2 -2 Greece

0 1 -1 Grenada

1 0 +1 Guyana
2 1 +1 Honduras
3 6 -3 Iran
2 0 +2 Iraq
1 2 -1 Ireland

0 1 -1 Israel
6 7 -1 Italy (joint most lost)
5 6 -1 Ivory Coast
3 4 -1 Japan
0 2 -2 Jordan
1 1  0 Kuwait
0 1 -1 Libya
1 0 +1 Madagascar
2 1 +1 Mali
5 5  0 Mexico
1 2 -1 Morocco
0 1 -1 Martinique
2 6 -4 Netherlands (joint worst balance)
6 3 +3 Nigeria
1 0 +1 New Zealand

1 0 +1 Northern Ireland
5 1 +4 Panama
4 3 +1 Paraguay
1 3 -2 Peru
0 1 -1 Papua New Guinea
2 1 +1 Poland
3 2 +1 Portugal

1 0 +1 Puerto Rico

1 0 +1 Qatar
0 2 -2 Romania
1 1  0 Russia

2 0 +2 Saint Kitts and Nevis
4 1 +3 Saudi Arabia

2 0 +2 Scotland
2 3  -1 Senegal

0 1 -1 Serbia

1 0 +1 Slovakia
3 3  0 South Africa
5 3 +2 South Korea
7 6 +1 Spain

0 1 -1 Suriname

1 1  0 Sweden
1 4 -3 Switzerland

0 1 -1 Syria

1 0 +1 Tajikistan
0 1 -1 Trinidad and Tobago
3 3  0 Tunisia
1 0 +1 Turkey

0 1 -1 Turks And Caicos
1 3 -2 United Arab Emirates
1 0 +1 Ukraine
5 7 -2 Uruguay (joint most lost)
5 3 +2 USA

0 1 -1 US Virgin Islands
0 3 -3 Uzbekistan
0 1 -1 Venezuela
1 0 +1 Vietnam

0 1 -1 Wales
0 1 -1 Yugoslavia
1 1  0 Zambia

Penalty shoot-outs have sometimes been described as coin-flips, and these compiled results mostly bear that out, with a few outliers. The more times you flip a coin, the more likely it is that you'll get a 50-50 result between heads and tails, and the same seems to happen with penalty shoot-outs. For example, if you hear that Argentina has lost as many as six penalty shoot-outs in their history, that sounds bad, but on the other hand they have won eleven, which shows the other side of the story (or the coin).

Argentina are, in fact, the team that has played and has won the most penalty shoot-outs ever so far, and at the same time are third in the "most lost" category : their tally is P17 W11 L6. Uruguay have played 11 and their record is 5-7, and this result is as close to 50-50 as it can be without being exactly half and half after being involved twelve times. Mexico and Colombia have played 10, with a result of won 5 lost 5 for both of them. Spain are the European nation that has been involved in the most shoot-outs, 13, and they are 7-6. This shows that the more you take part in penalty shoot-outs, the more the outcomes balance themselves out. However, it is true that there are a few outliers, as you can see below.

In order to put this into context, the most useful indicator is how many more shoot-outs a team has won that they have lost or vice-versa, and that's reflected on the list with a +2, -1, 0, etc. Of the 85 national teams ever involved in a penalty shoot-out in major competitions (male, senior teams only), only 14 present a differential of +3, -3 or wider:

+5 Argentina, West Germany / Germany
+4 Panama
+3 Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia
-3 Costa Rica, Gabon, Iran, Switzerland, Uzbekistan
-4 England, Ghana, Netherlands

South America has got three of the top four nations most involved in penalty shoot-outs, and four of the top six. This is largely due to the frequency with which they play their regional tournament, the Copa América, every two years, and the evenness of the playing field in their confederation, which leads to a lot of drawn matches. Saudi Arabia boasted an impressive 4-0 until 2024, when they lost to South Korea, with the Czechs 3-0 up, including two of those by Czechoslovakia (Slovakia as independent country is 0-1 down). No-one has lost more penalty shoot-outs than Italy (7), including their first four, although once they won a World Cup final this way, in 2006 (and lost another one, in 1994), and the Euros in 2021. Uruguay and England joined them on 7 lost in 2021. The Netherlands were 0-4 down until 2004, while Switzerland were 0-3 until they beat France in 2021, but then they lost to Spain in their very next game to remain on -3. Germany lost their first ever shoot-out (and anyone's first ever), but then they have won the next six on the trot. Conversely, Ghana won their first ever, back in 1982, but have lost all five subsequent ones. Gabon and Uzbekistan have lost all three they have played. England propped the differential table on 1 won and 6 lost (-5, the worst differential ever reached by anyone) until they beat Colombia in 2018 and Switzerland in 2019. In 2022 Egypt went to four penalty shoot-outs in less than two months, three at the Africa Cup of Nations in February and one at a World Cup qualifier in March. They won the first two and lost the other two, both against Senegal, who, by winning them, became African champions and qualified for the Qatar World Cup. Then Senegal lost their next shoot-out while defending their African title in 2024. France have lost two World Cup finals on penalties, to Italy in 2006 and to Argentina in 2022.

Most played:
17 Argentina
13 Brazil, Italy, Spain

12 Uruguay

11 Egypt, Ivory Coast
10 Colombia, England, Mexico
9 Cameroon, Iran, Nigeria

8 France, South Korea, USA

Most won:
11 Argentina

8 Brazil

7 Spain
6 Egypt, West Germany / Germany, Nigeria, Italy
5 Cameroon, Colombia, Ivory Coast, Mexico, Panama, South Korea, Uruguay, USA
4 Paraguay, Saudi Arabia

Most lost:
7 England, Italy, Uruguay
6 Argentina, Iran, Ivory Coast, Spain
5 Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, Mexico, Netherlands
4 Cameroon, Costa Rica, Switzerland