FIFA World Cup

The **FIFA World Cup** is the most watched tournament in football (soccer). The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) organises the World Cup every four years. More people watch the World Cup finals than any other sporting event in the world—even more people than the Olympic Games. Brazil is the most successful country in World Cup history, having won the tournament five times

The _finals tournament_ is held every four years. In the other years there are only qualifiers (qualifying tournaments) in the six FIFA world regions. These amazing games help to decide which teams will move on. Over 160 national teams play in the qualifying games. The best teams from the qualifying games win a place in the finals. The finals now include 32 teams. Before 1998, only 24 teams were in the finals; starting in 2026, there will be 48 teams in the finals. Many years before each World Cup, FIFA picks the host nation, the country where the finals will be held. Being the host nation means that their team has qualified for the finals tournament automatically and does not need to play any qualifying games. The 32 teams in the finals then play for four weeks, usually between June and July, to decide who the champion (tournament winner) will be.

## Results

|width=7%|Years|width=10%|Hosts|width=15%|Winners|width=9%|Score|width=15%|Runner's-up|width=15%|Third place|width=9%|Score|width=15%|Fourth place|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1930 _Details_|Uruguay|****|**4 - 2**|||||||||||||
|1934 _Details_|Italy|****|**2 - 1**|||**3 - 2**||||||||||
|1938 _Details_|France|****|**4 - 2**|||**4 - 2**||||||||||
|1950 _Details_|Brazil|****|**2 - 1**|||||||||||||
|1954 _Details_|Switzerland|****|**3 - 2**|||**3 - 1**||||||||||
|1958 _Details_|Sweden|****|**5 - 2**|||**6 - 3**||||||||||
|1962 _Details_|Chile|****|**3 - 1**|||**1 - 0**||||||||||
|1966 _Details_|England|****|**4 - 2**|||**2 - 1**||||||||||
|1970 _Details_|Mexico|****|**4 - 1**|||**1 - 0**||||||||||
|1974 _Details_|West Germany|****|**2 - 1**|||**1 - 0**||||||||||
|1978 _Details_|Argentina|****|**3 - 1**|||**2 - 1**||||||||||
|1982 _Details_|Spain|****|**3 - 1**|||**3 - 2**||||||||||
|1986 _Details_|Mexico|****|**3 - 2**|||**4 - 2**||||||||||
|1990 _Details_|Italy|****|**1 - 0**|||**2 - 1**||||||||||
|1994 _Details_|United States|****|**0 - 0** a.e.t. (3 - 2)|||**4 - 0**||||||||||
|1998 _Details_|France|****|**3 - 0**|||**2 - 1**||||||||||
|2002 _Details_|South Korea Japan|****|**2 - 0**|||**3 - 2**||||||||||
|2006 _Details_|Germany|****|**1 - 1** a.e.t. (5 - 3)|||**3 - 1**||||||||||
|2010 _Details_|South Africa|****|**1 - 0** a.e.t|||**3 - 2**||||||||||
|2014 _Details_|Brazil|****|**1 - 0** a.e.t|||**3 - 0**||||||||||
|2018 _Details_||****|**4 - 2**|||**2 - 0**||||||||||
|2022 _Details_||****|**3 - 3** a.e.t. (4 - 2)|||**2 - 1**||||||||||
|2026 _Details_||||||||||||||||
|2030 _Details_||||||||||||||||
|2034 _Details_||||||||||||||||

## Wins by team

|Team|Titles|Runners-up|3rd Place|4th Place|Top of Players||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background:#fff68f"|Brazil|style="background:#fff68f"|**5** (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002)|2 (1950, 1998)|2 (1938, 1978)|2 (1974, 2014)|11||
|style="background:#fff68f"|Germany|style="background:#fff68f"|**4** (1954, 1974, 1990, 2014)|4 (1966, 1982, 1986, 2002)|4 (1934, 1970, 2006, 2010)|(1) 1958|13||
|style="background:#fff68f"|Italy|style="background:#fff68f"|**4** (1934, 1938, 1982, 2006)|2 (1970, 1994)|(1) 1990|(1) 1978|8||
|style="background:#fff68f"|Argentina|style="background:#fff68f"|**3** (1978, 1986, 2022)|3 (1930, 1990, 2014)|0|0|5||
|style="background:#fff68f"|Uruguay|style="background:#fff68f"|**2** (1930, 1950)|align=center|0|0|3 (1954, 1970, 2010)|5|
|style="background:#fff68f"|France|style="background:#fff68f"|**2** (1998, 2018)|2 (2006, 2022)|2 (1958, 1986)|(1) 1982|6||
|style="background:#fff68f"|Spain|style="background:#fff68f"|**(1)** 2010|align="center"|0|0|(1) 1950|2|
|style="background:#fff68f"|England|style="background:#fff68f"|**(1)** 1966|align=center|0|0|2 (1990, 2018)|3|
|Netherlands|align="center"|0|3 (1974, 1978, 2010)|(1) 2014|(1) 1998|5|||
|Hungary|align="center"|0|2 (1938, 1954)|0|0|2|||
||align="center"|0|1 (2018)|2 (1998, 2022)|0|2|||
|Sweden|align="center"|0|1 (1958)|2 (1950, 1994)|(1) 1938|4|||

## Related pages

- Ranking of clubs for number of world champion players with national football teams
- National teams world champions (football)

## Infobox (football tournament)

- **logo**:
- **region**: International (FIFA)
- **number of teams**: 32 (finals)
211 (eligible to enter qualification)
- **related comps**: FIFA Confederations Cup
- **current**: 2022 FIFA World Cup