United States men's national soccer team results (1970–1989)

This is a compilation of every international soccer game played by the United States men's national soccer team from 1970 through 1989. It includes the team's record for that year, each game and the date played. It also lists the U.S. goal scorers.

The format is: home team listed first, U.S. listed first at home or neutral site.

Records are in win–loss–tie format. Games decided in penalty kicks are counted as ties, as per the FIFA standard.

1970

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1971

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1972

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August 20 CONCACAF Championship Qualification Canada   3–2   United States St. John's, Canada
Parsons   5'
Twamley   41'
Johnson   63'
Roy   65'
Getzinger   88'
Stadium: King George V Park
Attendance: 7,600
Referee: David Parsons (Bermuda)
August 29 CONCACAF Championship Qualification United States   2–2   Canada Baltimore, Maryland
Roy   14'
Geimer   25'
Mackay   9'
Douglas   81'
Stadium: Memorial Stadium
Attendance: 3,273
Referee: Jose Roberto Henriquez (El Salvador)
September 3 CONCACAF Championship Qualification Mexico   3–1   United States Mexico City, Mexico
Victorino   12'
Bustos   47'
Borja   60'
Roy   78' Stadium: Estadio Azteca
Attendance: 29,891
Referee: Lloyd de Gourville (Trinidad and Tobago)
September 10 CONCACAF Championship Qualification United States   1–2   Mexico Los Angeles, California
Geimer   8' Ceballos   11'
Borbolla   48'
Stadium: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Attendance: 9,260
Referee: Juan Soto Paris (Costa Rica)

1973

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March 17 Friendly Bermuda   4–0   United States Hamilton, Bermuda
Stadium: National Stadium
Attendance: 861
March 20 Friendly Poland   4–0   United States Łódź, Poland
Lubanski   17', 24', 84'
Kasperczak   55'
Stadium: Stadion ŁKS
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Heinz Einbeck (East Germany)
August 3 Friendly United States   0–1   Poland Chicago, Illinois
Kasperczak   87' Stadium: Soldier Field
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: John Davies (Canada)
August 5 Friendly Canada   0–2   United States Windsor, Canada
Grgurev  
Liveric  
Stadium: Windsor Stadium
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Willian Gallacher (Canada)
August 10 Friendly United States   0–4   Poland San Francisco, California
Kmiecik   36', 47'
Szarmach   72'
Kasztelan   88'
Stadium: Candlestick Park
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Toros Kibritjian (United States)
August 12 Friendly United States   1–0   Poland New Britain, Connecticut
Trost   37' Stadium: Willow Brook Park Stadium
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Roger Schott (United States)
September 9 Friendly United States   1–0   Bermuda Hartford, Connecticut
Brewster   Stadium: Dillon Stadium
Attendance: 4,200
October 16 Friendly Mexico   2–0   United States Mexico City, Mexico
Victorino   31'
Bustos   46'
Stadium: Estadio Azteca
Attendance: 14,000
Referee: Marco Dorantes (Mexico)
November 3 Friendly Haiti   1–0   United States Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Stadium: Stade Sylvio Cator
Attendance: 22,000
November 5 Friendly Haiti   1–0   United States Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Stadium: Stade Sylvio Cator
Attendance: 18,000
November 13 Friendly Israel   3–1   United States Tel Aviv, Israel
Peretz   9'
Rozen   41'
Macmel   46'
Roy   13' Stadium: Bloomfield Stadium
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Menachem Ashkenazi (Israel)
November 15 Friendly Israel   2–0   United States Beersheba, Israel
Damti   12'
Peretz   15'
Stadium: Municipal Stadium
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Yosef Finkelstein (Israel)

1974

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September 5 Friendly Mexico   3–1   United States Monterrey, Mexico
González   66'
Salgado   79', 80'
Vaninger   48' Stadium: Estadío Universitario
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Werner Winsemann (Canada)
September 8 Friendly United States   0–1   Mexico Irving, Texas
Trujillo   36' Stadium: Texas Stadium
Attendance: 22,164

1975

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March 26 Friendly Poland   7–0   United States Poznań, Poland
Lato   12', 51'
Szarmach   19', 43'
Deyna   32', 67', 71'
Stadium: Warta Stadion
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Zdenek Jelinek (Czechoslovakia)
June 24 Friendly United States   0–4   Poland Seattle, Washington
Bula   13'
Lato   38'
Szarmach   70'
Wyrobek   89'
Stadium: Memorial Stadium
Attendance: 13,195
Referee: Dante Maglio (Canada)
August 19 Friendly United States   1–3   Costa Rica Mexico City, Mexico
McCully   Stadium: Estadio Azteca
Attendance: 1,000
August 21 Friendly United States   0–6   Argentina Mexico City, Mexico
Ardiles    
Cardenas  
Coscia    
Valencia  
Stadium: Estadio Azteca
Attendance: 1,500
August 24 Friendly Mexico   2–0   United States Mexico City, Mexico
Borja   44'
Delgado   66'
Stadium: Estadio Azteca
Referee: Arturo Yamasaki (Peru)

1976

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September 24 CONCACAF Championship Qualification Canada   1–1   United States Vancouver, Canada
Bolitho   77' Bandov   8' Stadium: Empire Stadium
Attendance: 15,543
Referee: Marco Dorantes (Mexico)
October 3 CONCACAF Championship Qualification United States   0–0   Mexico Los Angeles, California
Stadium: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Attendance: 31,171
Referee: Dante Maglio (Canada)
October 15 CONCACAF Championship Qualification Mexico   3–0   United States Puebla, Mexico
Solís   28'
Damián   40'
Dávila   83' (pen.)
Stadium: Estadio Cuauhtémoc
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Werner Winsemann (Canada)
October 20 CONCACAF Championship Qualification United States   2–0   Canada Seattle, Washington
Rys   55'
Veee   81'
Stadium: Kingdome
Attendance: 17,675
Referee: Rubío Vasquez (Mexico)
December 22 CONCACAF Championship Playoff United States   0–3   Canada Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Budd   21'
Lenarduzzi   80'
Bolitho   87'
Stadium: Stade Sylvio Cator
Attendance: 32,869
Referee: Guillermo Velasquez (Colombia)
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September 15 Friendly El Salvador   1–2   United States San Salvador, El Salvador
Davis  
Villa  
Stadium: Estadio Cuscatlán
Attendance: 55,000
September 27 Friendly Mexico   3–0   United States Monterrey, Mexico
Cuéllar   12'
Jiménez   57'
Ortega   79'
Stadium: Estadio Universitario
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Mauricio Regalado (Guatemala)
September 30 Friendly United States   0–0   El Salvador Monterey Park, California
Stadium: ELAC Stadium
Attendance: 15,000
October 6 Friendly United States   1–1   China Washington, D.C.
Villa   Stadium: RFK Stadium
Attendance: 8,366
October 10 Friendly United States   1–0   China Atlanta, Georgia
Pereira   Stadium: Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium
Attendance: 15,000
October 16 Friendly United States   2–1   China San Francisco, California
Nanchoff  
Villa  
Stadium: Kezar Stadium
Attendance: 15,000
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September 3 Friendly Iceland   0–0   United States Reykjavík, Iceland
Stadium: Laugardalsvöllur
Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Rolf Haugen (Norway)
September 6 Friendly Switzerland   2–0   United States Lucerne, Switzerland
Elsener  
Schnyder  
Stadium: Stadion Allmend
Attendance: 6,500
Referee: Jaromír Fausek (Czechoslovakia)
September 20 Friendly Portugal   1–0   United States Setúbal, Portugal
Costa   31' Stadium: Estádio do Bonfim
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Inacio de Almeida (Portugal)

1979

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February 3 Friendly United States   1–3   Soviet Union Seattle, Washington
Davis   Stadium: Kingdome
Attendance: 13,317
February 11 Friendly United States   1–4   Soviet Union San Francisco, California
Liveric   Stadium: Candlestick Park
Attendance: 7,213
May 7 Friendly United States   0–6   France East Rutherford, New Jersey
Report Lacombe   8', 14', 37'
Droege   42' (o.g.)
Amisse   61'
Six   73'
Stadium: Giants Stadium
Attendance: 20,591
Referee: Marco Dorantes (Mexico)
October 10 Friendly France   3–0   United States Paris, France
Platini   5'
Wagner   18'
Amisse   23'
Report Stadium: Parc des Princes
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Hendrik van Ettekoven (Netherlands)
October 26 Friendly Hungary   0–2   United States Budapest, Hungary
Nanchoff  
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Stadium: Népstadion
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Heinz Fahnler (Austria)
October 29 Friendly Republic of Ireland   3–2   United States Dublin, Ireland
Grealish   64'
Givens   66'
Anderson   68'
DiBernardo   11'
Villa   63'
Stadium: Dalymount Park
Attendance: 23,000
Referee: Éamonn Farrell (Republic of Ireland)

1980

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October 4 Friendly Luxembourg   0–2   United States Dudelange, Luxembourg
Hulcer  
Davis   (pen.)
Stadium: Stade Jos Nosbaum
Attendance: 1,600
Referee: Gerd Hennig (West Germany)
October 7 Friendly Portugal   1–1   United States Lisbon, Portugal
Manuel   65' Davis   67' Stadium: Estádio do Restelo
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: José Luis García (Spain)
October 25 CONCACAF Championship qualification United States   0–0   Canada Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Stadium: Lockhart Stadium
Attendance: 7,864
Referee: Tomas García (El Salvador)
November 1 CONCACAF Championship qualification Canada   2–1   United States Vancouver, Canada
Iarusci   21'
Segota   42' (pen.)
Villa   90' Stadium: Empire Stadium
Attendance: 13,598
Referee: Rómulo Méndez (Guatemala)
November 9 CONCACAF Championship qualification Mexico   5–1   United States Mexico City, Mexico
Sánchez   24'
Camacho   31', 55'
Mendizabal   37'
González   40'
Davis   76' (pen.) Stadium: Estadio Azteca
Attendance: 90,000
Referee: Jose Valverde (Costa Rica)
November 23 CONCACAF Championship qualification United States   2–1   Mexico Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Moyers   31', 65' Sánchez   40' Stadium: Lockhart Stadium
Attendance: 2,126
Referee: Marcio Gracias (Guatemala)

1981

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1982

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1983

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1984

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May 30 Friendly United States   0–0   Italy East Rutherford, New Jersey
Stadium: Giants Stadium
Attendance: 31,310
October 6 CONCACAF Championship Qualification United States   4–0   Netherlands Antilles St. Louis, Missouri
DiBernardo   50'
Coker   58', 67'
Kapp   85'
Stadium: Busch Stadium
Attendance: 10,718
Referee: Rolando Fusco (Canada)
October 11 Friendly United States   1–0   Colombia Los Angeles, California
Coker   Stadium: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Attendance: 26,000
October 14 Friendly Guatemala   4–0   United States Guatemala City, Guatemala
Stadium: Estadio Mateo Flores
Attendance: 26,000
Referee: JE Melendez Gonzalez (Guatemala)
December 2 Friendly United States   2–2   Ecuador Miami, Florida
Sharp  
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Cuvi  
Benítez  
Stadium: Orange Bowl
Attendance: 4,000

1985

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February 8 Friendly United States   1–1    Switzerland Tampa, Florida
20:00 EST (UTC−5) Van der Beck   52' Report Hermann   10' Stadium: Pepin-Rood Stadium
Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Marco Dorantes (Mexico)
April 2 Friendly Canada   2–0   United States Vancouver, Canada
Vrablic   68', 80' Stadium: BC Place
Attendance: 9,150
Referee: Robert Allen (Canada)
April 4 Friendly United States   1–1   Canada Portland, Oregon
Pérez   Pakos   Stadium: Civic Stadium
Attendance: 4,181
May 15 CONCACAF Championship United States   2–1   Trinidad and Tobago St. Louis, Missouri
Borja   24'
Peterson   89'
Fonrose   19' Stadium: Busch Stadium
Attendance: 15,183
Referee: Robert Allen (Canada)
May 19 CONCACAF Championship United States   1–0   Trinidad and Tobago Torrance, California
Caligiuri   15' Stadium: Murdock Stadium
Attendance: 6,115
Referee: Jorge Leanza (Mexico)
May 26 CONCACAF Championship Costa Rica   1–1   United States Alajuela, Costa Rica
Ramírez   42' Kerr, Jr.   44' Stadium: Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto
Attendance: 20,173
Referee: Joaquin Urrea (Mexico)
May 31 CONCACAF Championship United States   0–1   Costa Rica Torrance, California
Coronado   35' Stadium: Murdock Stadium
Attendance: 11,800
Referee: John Meachin (Canada)
June 16 Friendly United States   0–5   England Los Angeles, California
Report Lineker   13', 47'
Dixon   30', 73'
Steven   81'
Stadium: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Attendance: 10,145
Referee: Edgardo Codesal (Mexico)

1986

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February 5 Friendly United States   0–0   Canada Miami, Florida
Stadium: Orange Bowl
Attendance: 5,182
Referee: Marco Dorantes (Mexico)
February 7 Friendly United States   1–1   Uruguay Miami, Florida
Murray   Aguilera   Stadium: Orange Bowl
Attendance: 15,852
Referee: Marco Dorantes (Mexico)

1987

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June 12 President's Cup South Korea   1–0   United States Busan, South Korea
Choi Sang-kook   31' Stadium: Busan Gudeok Stadium
Referee: Masahiro Sokawa (Japan)

1988

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January 10 Friendly Guatemala   1–0   United States Guatemala City, Guatemala
Stadium: Estadio Mateo Flores
Referee: Mendizabal Euceda (Guatemala)
January 13 Friendly Guatemala   0–1   United States Guatemala City, Guatemala
Agoos   Stadium: Estadio Mateo Flores
Referee: Burgos Escobar (Guatemala)
May 14 Friendly United States   0–2   Colombia Miami, Florida
Iguarán     Stadium: Orange Bowl
Attendance: 15,371
Referee: Angelo Bratsis (United States)
June 7 Friendly United States   0–1   Ecuador Albuquerque, New Mexico
Stadium: University Stadium
Referee: Arturo Angeles (United States)
June 10 Friendly United States   0–2   Ecuador Houston, Texas
Stadium: Delmar Stadium
Referee: Julio Salas (United States)
June 12 Friendly United States   0–0   Ecuador Fort Worth, Texas
Stadium: Herman Clark Stadium
Attendance: 7,250
June 14 Friendly United States   1–0   Costa Rica San Antonio, Texas
Ryerson   Referee: Edward Bellion (United States)
July 13 Friendly United States   0–2   Poland New Britain, Connecticut
Kosecki   44', 53' Stadium: Veterans Stadium
Attendance: 10,213
Referee: Gordon Arrowsmith (Canada)
July 24 CONCACAF Championship qualification Jamaica   0–0   United States Kingston, Jamaica
Stadium: Independence Park
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Julio López (Honduras)
August 13 CONCACAF Championship qualification United States   5–1   Jamaica Fenton, Missouri
Bliss   18'
Pérez   69' (pen.)
Klopas   76', 85'
Krumpe   78'
Sterling   54' Stadium: St. Louis Soccer Park
Attendance: 6,100
Referee: David Brummitt (Canada)

1989

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April 16 CONCACAF Championship Costa Rica   1–0   United States San José, Costa Rica
Rhoden   14' Stadium: Estadio Nacional
Attendance: 26,271
Referee: José Antonio Garza (Mexico)
April 30 CONCACAF Championship United States   1–0   Costa Rica Fenton, Missouri
Ramos   72' Stadium: St. Louis Soccer Park
Attendance: 8,500
Referee: Rodolfo Méndez (Honduras)
June 4 Marlboro Cup United States   3–0   Peru East Rutherford, New Jersey
Bliss   14'
Ramos   19'
Murray   44'
Stadium: Giants Stadium
Attendance: 33,133
June 17 CONCACAF Championship United States   2–1   Guatemala New Britain, Connecticut
Murray   3'
Eichmann   67'
Chacón   22'
Funes   86'
Stadium: Veterans Stadium
Attendance: 10,516
Referee: Gordon Arrowsmith (Canada)
June 24 Friendly United States   0–1   Colombia Miami, Florida
Valderrama   Stadium: Orange Bowl
Attendance: 15,233
Referee: Angelo Bratsis (United States)
August 13 Marlboro Cup United States   1–2   South Korea Los Angeles, California
Harkes   63' Banks   17' (o.g.)
Hwang   21'
Stadium: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Attendance: 23,191
September 17 CONCACAF Championship El Salvador   0–1   United States Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Pérez   61' Stadium: Estadio Nacional
Attendance: 3,700
Referee: Edgardo Codesal (Mexico)
November 5 CONCACAF Championship United States   0–0   El Salvador Fenton, Missouri
Stadium: St. Louis Soccer Park
Attendance: 8,500
Referee: John Meachin (Canada)
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