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2018
First appearance
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Red / White / Navy Blue
Panama national football team
26 players called up for World Cup 2026.
Luis Mejia
Cesar Samudio
Orlando Mosquera
Cesar Blackman
Jose Cordoba
Fidel Escobar
Edgardo Farina
Jiovany Ramos
Carlos Harvey
Eric Davis
Andres Andrade
Amir Murillo
Roderick Miller
Jorge Gutierrez
Cristian Martinez
Jose Luis Rodriguez
Adalberto Carrasquilla
Ismael Diaz
Edgar Yoel Barcenas
Alberto Quintero
Anibal Godoy
Cesar Yanis
Tomas Rodriguez
Jose Fajardo
Cecilio Waterman
Azarias Londono
Announced: 2026-06-22
Sources: FIFA
Panama arrive at World Cup 2026 in Group L, representing CONCACAF.
Thomas Christiansen leads the tactical plan, with the group phase defining whether PAN can build momentum into the knockout rounds.
Group rivals include Ghana, Croatia, England. Every result can shift the path to the round of 32.
Panama national football team
The Panama national football team represents Panama in men's international football, which is governed by the Federación Panameña de Fútbol founded in 1937. It has been an affiliate member of FIFA since 1938 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. Panama has qualified for the FIFA World Cup twice, it scored their first goal against England. Panama has participated thirteen times in CONCACAF's premier continental competition, the team's best performance was finishing as runners-up three times in the CONCACAF Gold Cup, and also finishing as runners-up in the CONCACAF Nations League in the 2025 finals. It participated twice in the Copa América. Regionally, it won the CCCF Championship as hosts in 1951, and the Copa Centroamericana in 2009.
See Panama fixtures and simulate their possible path to the final.
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