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The Spanish national football team represents Spain in international football and is controlled by the Royal Spanish Football Federation. The Spanish side are commonly referred to as La Furia Roja (The Red Fury). Spain are the current European champions, having won the European Championship in 2008. They also won the European Championship football in 1964 and reached the UEFA Euro 1984 final. Spain have qualified for the twelve times World Cup, reaching the fourth place in the tournament in 1950. In July 2008, Spain rose to the top of the World Cup standings for the first time in their history, becoming the sixth nation, and the first who has never won the World Cup, the top of this classification. Between November 2006 and June 2009, Spain remained undefeated for a record tying 35 straight games, a record shared with Brazil, including a sequence record 15-game winners.

Let's look at the short history of the World Cup national team football in Spain. In 1966, Spain was chosen as host of World Cup 1982 World Cup. This edition of the World Cup featured 24 teams for the first time. Expectations were high for Spain as the host country under the leadership of Josed Santamaria. In the group stage, Spain has been drawn in Group 5, in which they could not manage a 1-1 draw against Honduras in the opening match of the finals after a victory which they had 2 - 1 Yugoslavia, but were defeated 1-0 by Northern Ireland. These results were enough to ensure progress to the second round where they were drawn in Group B, but the defeat of West Germany and a goalless draw with England meant that Spain was eliminated and Santamara­a was fired. For the 1990 World Cup in Italy, Spain has a new coach, Luis Suarez. Having qualified from a group consisting of the Republic of Ireland, Hungary, Northern Ireland, and Malta, Spain participated in the competition on a good run of form, and after reaching the knock steps by a 0-0 draw with Uruguay and South Korea wins (3-1) and Belgium (2-1) fell to a 2-1 defeat to Yugoslavia in the second round.

The qualifying tournament for the 2002 World Cup has gone as planned for Spain, where they topped a group composed of Austria, Israel, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Liechtenstein. In the final phase of Spain won his three matches in Group B against Slovenia, Paraguay (both 3-1) and South Africa (3-2). Spain beat the Republic of Ireland on penalties in the second round and face co-hosts of the Republic of Korea in the quarterfinals. Spain twice thought they had scored, but the efforts were rejected, and Korea have managed to penalties after a 0-0 draw. Spain qualified for the World Cup in 2006 only after a play-off against Slovakia, as they finished behind Serbia and Montenegro in Group 7, which also includes Bosnia-Herzegovina, Belgium, Lithuania and San Marino.

On September 9, 2009, Spain secured their place at the 2010 World Cup after beating Estonia 3-0 in Merida. They went to record a perfect World Cup record with 10 wins out of 10 in group five, finishing with a 5-2 win against Bosnia-Herzegovina October 14, 2009.

Talking about the terrible history, we can not neglect the world record of being unbeaten Spain. Spain remained undefeated for a record 35 consecutive days of championship after a 1-0 defeat to Romania in friendly match Nov. 15, 2006. The file is also owned by Brazil (excluding losses after a penalty shoot-out). Spain has won 32 matches in 35, while the other three ended in draws (one of which was against Italy, a match which Spain eventually won on penalties). The Spanish side has scored 73 goals while conceding only 11, and never allowed more than one goal per game, except against Greece, a friendly match August 22, 2007, which ended 3-2. Spain has also held the world record for consecutive wins at 15, after their draw against Italy in the quarterfinals.