Five smallest nations to have qualified for the FIFA World Cup

4. Kuwait

With a population of little of over 2 million, the Arab nation had their day in the sun when they qualified for the World Cup in 1982. They weren’t expected to get anything from a group which contained three European power houses in England, France and Czechoslovakia, but they managed to salvage a 1-1 draw against Czechoslovakia.

They were however soundly defeated in their other two games against England and France, the latter will go down in history as the game in which a France goal, which was initially allowed, was then disallowed after the intervention from a Sheikh. Ever since then, they haven’t had any sort of intervention, which has resulted in them not qualifying for the World Cup in the three decades since then.