2014 FIFA World Cup final

The **2014 FIFA World Cup final** was a football match that took place on 13 July 2014 at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to determine the 2014 FIFA World Cup champion. Germany defeated Argentina 1–0 in extra time, with the only goal being scored by Mario Götze. The match was the third final between the two countries, a World Cup record, after their 1986 and 1990 matches.

|colspan=2 style="width:1*"|Germany|Round|colspan=2 style="width:1*"|Argentina|||||||||||
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|Opponent|Result||Group stage|Opponent|Result||||||||||
||0–4|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Match 1||2–1||||||||||
||2–2|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Match 2||1–0||||||||||
||1–0|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Match 3||3–2||||||||||
|colspan="2" style="text-align:center"|**Group G winner** {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"||||||||||||||
|align="left"||3|1|1|1|4|4|0|**4**||||||
|align=left|****|3|2|1|0|7|2|+5|**7**||||||
|align=left||3|1|1|1|4|7|−3|**4**||||||
|align=left||3|0|1|2|4|6|−2|**1**|}|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Final standings|colspan="2" style="text-align:center"|**Group F winner** {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"|
|align=left|****|3|3|0|0|6|3|+3|**9**||||||
|align=left||3|1|1|1|3|3|0|**4**||||||
|align=left||3|1|0|2|4|4|0|**3**||||||
|align=left||3|0|1|2|1|4|−3|**1**|}|||||
|Opponent|Result||Knockout stage|Opponent|Result||||||||||
||2–1 (aet)|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Round of 16||1–0 (aet)||||||||||
||1–0|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Quarter-finals||1–0||||||||||
||7–1|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Semi-finals||0–0 (aet) (4–2 pen.)||||||||||

### Details

<section begin=Final /><section end=Final />
<section begin=Lineups />

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|valign="top" width="40%"|{| style="font-size:90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"||||||
|GK|**1**|Manuel Neuer|||||
|RB|**16**|Philipp Lahm (c)|||||
|CB|**20**|Jérôme Boateng|||||
|CB|**5**|Mats Hummels|||||
|LB|**4**|Benedikt Höwedes|||||
|CM|**23**|Christoph Kramer|||||
|CM|**7**|Bastian Schweinsteiger|||||
|RW|**13**|Thomas Müller|||||
|AM|**18**|Toni Kroos|||||
|LW|**8**|Mesut Özil|||||
|CF|**11**|Miroslav Klose|||||
|colspan=3|**Substitutions:**||||||
|FW|**9**|André Schürrle|||||
|MF|**19**|Mario Götze|||||
|DF|**17**|Per Mertesacker|||||
|colspan=3|**Manager:**||||||
|colspan=3|Joachim Löw|}|valign="top"||valign="top" width="50%"|{| style="font-size:90%;margin:auto" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"|
|GK|**1**|Sergio Romero|||||
|RB|**4**|Pablo Zabaleta|||||
|CB|**15**|Martín Demichelis|||||
|CB|**2**|Ezequiel Garay|||||
|LB|**16**|Marcos Rojo|||||
|CM|**14**|Javier Mascherano|||||
|CM|**6**|Lucas Biglia|||||
|RW|**8**|Enzo Pérez|||||
|LW|**22**|Ezequiel Lavezzi|||||
|SS|**10**|Lionel Messi (c)|||||
|CF|**9**|Gonzalo Higuaín|||||
|colspan=3|**Substitutions:**||||||
|FW|**20**|Sergio Agüero|||||
|FW|**18**|Rodrigo Palacio|||||
|MF|**5**|Fernando Gago|||||
|colspan=3|**Manager:**||||||
|colspan=3|Alejandro Sabella|}|||||

## Infobox (football match)

- **title**: 2014 FIFA World Cup final
- **image**:
- **caption**: Germany players celebrate with the trophy.
- **event**: 2014 FIFA World Cup
- **team1**: Germany national football team, Germany
- **team1score**: 1
- **team2**: Argentina national football team, Argentina
- **team2score**: 0
- **details**: After Overtime (sports)#Association football, extra time
- **stadium**: Maracanã Stadium
- **city**: Rio de Janeiro
- **man of the match1a**: Mario Götze (Germany)
- **referee**: Nicola Rizzoli (Italian Football Federation, Italy)
- **attendance**: 74,738
- **weather**: Partly cloudy

65% humidity
- **previous**: 2010 FIFA World Cup final, 2010
- **next**: 2018 FIFA World Cup final, 2018