This is a list of all teams, players and coaches who have won the FIFA World Cup tournament since its inception in 1930.

• All World Cup Winners
• Past World Cup Winners
• Past World Cup Winners Fifa

By team[edit]

* In 1950, there was no final match for the World Cup. The tournament winner was decided by a round robin format, where all four teams would play each other and the team with the most points would be crowned the winner. The final results, first through fourth, were determined by points. * In 1930, there was no 3rd place match played.

The 21 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight different nations. Brazil has won the most titles, five. The current champion is France, who won the title in 2018.

By year[edit]

Participating teams have to register squads for the World Cup, which consisted of 22 players until 1998 and of 23 players from 2002 onwards.

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Since 1978, winners' medals are given to all members of the winning squads. Prior to that, only players who were on the pitch during the final matches received medals. FIFA decided in 2007 to retroactively award winners' medals to all members of the winning squads between 1930 and 1974.^{[citation needed]}

By player[edit]

A total of 445 players have been in the winning team in the World Cup. Brazil's Pelé is the only one to have won three times, while another 20 have won twice.

• No player has won two World Cups both as captain. Italy's Giuseppe Meazza (1938), Brazil's Hilderaldo Bellini (1958), Mauro (1962) and Cafu (2002), and Argentina's Daniel Passarella (1978) lifted the trophy once as captain, but were not captain for the other tournament they won. Argentina's Diego Maradona (1986, 1990) and Brazil's Dunga (1994, 1998) captained their sides in two final matches, but only won on their first occasions, while West Germany's Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (1982, 1986) lost both final matches as captain.
• Brazil's Pelé and Vavá are the only two players to score in two final matches for winning teams. West Germany's Paul Breitner (1974, 1982) and France's Zinedine Zidane (1998, 2006) also scored in two final matches, but only won on their first occasions.
• Cafu is the only player to play in three final matches, 1994 (as a substitute), 1998 and 2002.
• Luis Monti is the only player to play in two final matches for different national teams. He appeared in the 1930 final for Argentina, who lost, and the 1934 final for Italy, who won. Attilio Demaría was also in Argentina's 1930 squad and Italy's 1934 squad, but appeared in neither final.
• Brazil's Mário Zagallo, having won in 1958 and 1962 as player, went on to win in 1970 as the head coach, becoming the first to win both as player and coach. West Germany's Franz Beckenbauer is the second, winning as both captain (1974) and coach (1990). Didier Deschamps is the third. He led the France team to win in 1998 as captain, and in 2018 as coach.
• Germany's Miroslav Klose is the only player to have won four World Cup medals: 2002 (silver), 2006, 2010 (both bronze) and 2014 (gold).

By coach[edit]

20 different coaches have won the World Cup, Italy's Vittorio Pozzo being the only one to win twice.

Four other coaches finished as winners once and runners-up once: West Germany's Helmut Schön (winner in 1974, runner-up in 1966) and Franz Beckenbauer (winner in 1990, runner-up in 1986), Argentina's Carlos Bilardo (winner in 1986, runner-up in 1990), and Brazil's Mário Zagallo (winner in 1970, runner-up in 1998).

Zagallo (twice), Beckenbauer and France's Didier Deschamps also won the title as players.

All winning head coaches have been natives of the country they coached. Only two foreign coaches have reached the final match: George Raynor of England, with Sweden in 1958, and Ernst Happel of Austria, with the Netherlands in 1978.

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Notes[edit]

1. ^Germany is considered the inheritor of the records of the former West Germany team, which won the 1954, 1974 and 1990 titles.
2. ^Players in bold appeared in the tournament's final match (or, in the case of 1950, in the decisive match of the final stage), while players in italics did not play in the tournament.
3. ^Years in bold indicate that the player appeared in the final match (or, in the case of 1950, in the decisive match of the final stage), while years in italics indicate that the player did not play in the tournament.
4. ^Years in italics indicate that the player did not play in the tournament.
5. ^ ^abA golden background indicates that the player won the tournament.
6. ^ ^abcAttilio Demaría and Luis Monti were in the title-winning Italian squad in 1934 and also in the Argentinian one in 1930, while José Altafini was in the title-winning Brazilian squad in 1958 and also in the Italian one in 1962. They are among the few players to have represented different nations in the World Cup.
7. ^FIFA's website indicates that Banks also was part of the 1962 English squad, while another source states that he was not part of the squad, having been omitted from it after initially being meant to be a stay-at-home reserve.^[1]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'England in the World Cup – 1962 Final Squad'. England Football Online. 13 October 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2018.

Squad lists

1. ^'1930 FIFA World Cup Uruguay – Teams – Uruguay'.
2. ^'1934 FIFA World Cup Italy – Teams – Italy'.
3. ^'1938 FIFA World Cup France – Teams – Italy'.
4. ^'1950 FIFA World Cup Brazil – Teams – Uruguay'.
5. ^'1954 FIFA World Cup Switzerland – Teams – Germany FR'.
6. ^'1958 FIFA World Cup Sweden – Teams – Brazil'.
7. ^'1962 FIFA World Cup Chile – Teams – Brazil'.
8. ^'1966 FIFA World Cup England – Teams – England'.
9. ^'1970 FIFA World Cup Mexico – Teams – Brazil'.
10. ^'1974 FIFA World Cup Germany – Teams – Germany FR'.
11. ^'1978 FIFA World Cup Argentina – Teams – Argentina'.
12. ^'1982 FIFA World Cup Spain – Teams – Italy'.
13. ^'1986 FIFA World Cup Mexico – Teams – Argentina'.
14. ^'1990 FIFA World Cup Italy – Teams – Germany FR'.
15. ^'1994 FIFA World Cup USA – Teams – Brazil'.
16. ^'1998 FIFA World Cup France – Teams – France'.
17. ^'2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan – Teams – Brazil'.
18. ^'2006 FIFA World Cup Germany – Teams – Italy'.
19. ^'2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa – Teams – Spain'.
20. ^'2014 FIFA World Cup – Teams – Germany'.
21. ^'2018 FIFA World Cup – Teams – France'.

Player profiles

1. ^PELÉ (Edson Arantes do Nascimento) – FIFA competition record
2. ^BELLINI – FIFA competition record
3. ^CAFU – FIFA competition record
4. ^CASTILHO – FIFA competition record
5. ^DIDI – FIFA competition record
6. ^DJALMA SANTOS – FIFA competition record
7. ^Giovanni FERRARI – FIFA competition record
8. ^GARRINCHA – FIFA competition record
9. ^GILMAR (Gilmar Dos Santos Neves) – FIFA competition record
10. ^Guido MASETTI – FIFA competition record
11. ^MAURO RAMOS – FIFA competition record
12. ^Giuseppe MEAZZA – FIFA competition record
13. ^Eraldo MONZEGLIO – FIFA competition record
14. ^NILTON SANTOS – FIFA competition record
15. ^Daniel PASSARELLA – FIFA competition record
16. ^PEPE – FIFA competition record
17. ^RONALDO – FIFA competition record
18. ^VAVA – FIFA competition record
19. ^Mario ZAGALLO – FIFA competition record
20. ^ZITO – FIFA competition record
21. ^ZOZIMO – FIFA competition record
22. ^ADO – FIFA competition record
23. ^Raul ALBIOL – FIFA competition record
24. ^ALDAIR – FIFA competition record
25. ^Luigi ALLEMANDI – FIFA competition record
26. ^Sergio ALMIRON – FIFA competition record
27. ^Norberto ALONSO – FIFA competition record
28. ^Xabi Alonso – FIFA competition record
29. ^Jose ALTAFINI – FIFA competition record
30. ^ALTAIR – FIFA competition record
31. ^Alessandro ALTOBELLI – FIFA competition record
32. ^AMARILDO – FIFA competition record
33. ^Marco AMELIA – FIFA competition record
34. ^ANDERSON POLGA – FIFA competition record
35. ^Jose ANDRADE – FIFA competition record
36. ^Michele ANDREOLO – FIFA competition record
37. ^Juan ANSELMO – FIFA competition record
38. ^Giancarlo ANTOGNONI – FIFA competition record
39. ^Álvaro Arbeloa – FIFA competition record
40. ^Pietro ARCARI – FIFA competition record
41. ^Osvaldo ARDILES – FIFA competition record
42. ^Alphonse AREOLA – FIFA competition record
43. ^Jimmy ARMFIELD – FIFA competition record
44. ^Klaus AUGENTHALER – FIFA competition record
45. ^Raimond AUMANN – FIFA competition record
46. ^BALDOCHI – FIFA competition record
47. ^Hector BALEY – FIFA competition record
48. ^Alan BALL – FIFA competition record
49. ^Enrique BALLESTRERO – FIFA competition record
50. ^Gordon BANKS – FIFA competition record
51. ^Franco BARESI – FIFA competition record
52. ^Simone BARONE – FIFA competition record
53. ^Fabien BARTHEZ – FIFA competition record
54. ^Andrea BARZAGLI – FIFA competition record
55. ^Sergio BATISTA – FIFA competition record
56. ^Hans BAUER – FIFA competition record
57. ^BEBETO – FIFA competition record
58. ^Franz BECKENBAUER – FIFA competition record
59. ^Uwe BEIN – FIFA competition record
60. ^BELLETTI – FIFA competition record
61. ^Giuseppe BERGOMI – FIFA competition record
62. ^Thomas BERTHOLD – FIFA competition record
63. ^Luigi BERTOLINI – FIFA competition record
64. ^Daniel BERTONI – FIFA competition record
65. ^Sergio BERTONI – FIFA competition record
66. ^Amedeo BIAVATI – FIFA competition record
67. ^Uli BIESINGER – FIFA competition record
68. ^Laurent BLANC – FIFA competition record
69. ^Jerome BOATENG – FIFA competition record
70. ^Ricardo BOCHINI – FIFA competition record
71. ^Alain BOGHOSSIAN – FIFA competition record
72. ^Peter BONETTI – FIFA competition record
73. ^Rainer BONHOF – FIFA competition record
74. ^Ivano BORDON – FIFA competition record
75. ^Felice BOREL – FIFA competition record
76. ^Claudio BORGHI – FIFA competition record
77. ^BRANCO – FIFA competition record
78. ^Andreas BREHME – FIFA competition record
79. ^Paul BREITNER – FIFA competition record
80. ^BRITO – FIFA competition record
81. ^Julio Cesar BRITOS – FIFA competition record
82. ^Jose BROWN – FIFA competition record
83. ^Guido BUCHWALD – FIFA competition record
84. ^Gianluigi BUFFON – FIFA competition record
85. ^Juan BURGUENO – FIFA competition record
86. ^Jorge BURRUCHAGA – FIFA competition record
87. ^Sergio BUSQUETS – FIFA competition record
88. ^Gerry BYRNE – FIFA competition record
89. ^Antonio CABRINI – FIFA competition record
90. ^Umberto CALIGARIS – FIFA competition record
91. ^Ian CALLAGHAN – FIFA competition record
92. ^Juan Carlos CALVO – FIFA competition record
93. ^Mauro CAMORANESI – FIFA competition record
94. ^Vincent CANDELA – FIFA competition record
95. ^Fabio CANNAVARO – FIFA competition record
96. ^Joan CAPDEVILA – FIFA competition record
97. ^Miguel CAPPUCCINI – FIFA competition record
98. ^CARLOS ALBERTO – FIFA competition record
99. ^Iker CASILLAS – FIFA competition record
100. ^Armando CASTELLAZZI – FIFA competition record
101. ^Hector CASTRO – FIFA competition record
102. ^Franco CAUSIO – FIFA competition record
103. ^Giuseppe CAVANNA – FIFA competition record
104. ^Pedro CEA – FIFA competition record
105. ^Carlo CERESOLI – FIFA competition record
106. ^Lionel CHARBONNIER – FIFA competition record
107. ^Bobby CHARLTON – FIFA competition record
108. ^Jack CHARLTON – FIFA competition record
109. ^Bruno CHIZZO – FIFA competition record
110. ^Nestor CLAUSEN – FIFA competition record
111. ^CLODOALDO – FIFA competition record
112. ^George COHEN – FIFA competition record
113. ^Gino COLAUSSI – FIFA competition record
114. ^Fulvio COLLOVATI – FIFA competition record
115. ^Giampiero COMBI – FIFA competition record
116. ^John CONNELLY – FIFA competition record
117. ^Bruno CONTI – FIFA competition record
118. ^COUTINHO – FIFA competition record
119. ^Jose CUCIUFFO – FIFA competition record
120. ^Bernd CULLMANN – FIFA competition record
121. ^DARIO – FIFA competition record
122. ^Daniele DE ROSSI – FIFA competition record
123. ^DE SORDI – FIFA competition record
124. ^Alessandro DEL PIERO – FIFA competition record
125. ^Atilio DEMARIA – FIFA competition record
126. ^Ousmane DEMBELE – FIFA competition record
127. ^DENILSON – FIFA competition record
128. ^Marcel DESAILLY – FIFA competition record
129. ^Didier DESCHAMPS – FIFA competition record
130. ^DIDA – FIFA competition record
131. ^DIDA – FIFA competition record
132. ^DINO SANI – FIFA competition record
133. ^Bernard DIOMEDE – FIFA competition record
134. ^Youri DJORKAEFF – FIFA competition record
135. ^Aldo DONATI – FIFA competition record
136. ^Pablo DORADO – FIFA competition record
137. ^Giuseppe DOSSENA – FIFA competition record
138. ^Julian DRAXLER – FIFA competition record
139. ^Christophe DUGARRY – FIFA competition record
140. ^DUNGA – FIFA competition record
141. ^Erik DURM – FIFA competition record
142. ^George EASTHAM – FIFA competition record
143. ^Horst ECKEL – FIFA competition record
144. ^EDILSON – FIFA competition record
145. ^EDMILSON – FIFA competition record
146. ^EDU – FIFA competition record
147. ^Hector ENRIQUE – FIFA competition record
148. ^Herbert ERHARDT – FIFA competition record
149. ^EVERALDO – FIFA competition record
150. ^Cesc FABREGAS – FIFA competition record
151. ^Nabil FEKIR – FIFA competition record
152. ^FELIX – FIFA competition record
153. ^Lorenzo FERNANDEZ – FIFA competition record
154. ^Attilio FERRARIS – FIFA competition record
155. ^Pietro FERRARIS – FIFA competition record
156. ^Ubaldo FILLOL – FIFA competition record
157. ^Heinz FLOHE – FIFA competition record
158. ^Ron FLOWERS – FIFA competition record
159. ^Alfredo FONI – FIFA competition record
160. ^FONTANA – FIFA competition record
161. ^Americo GALLEGO – FIFA competition record
162. ^Giovanni GALLI – FIFA competition record
163. ^Luis GALVAN – FIFA competition record
164. ^Ruben GALVAN – FIFA competition record
165. ^Schubert GAMBETTA – FIFA competition record
166. ^Oscar GARRE – FIFA competition record
167. ^Gennaro GATTUSO – FIFA competition record
168. ^Mario GENTA – FIFA competition record
169. ^Claudio GENTILE – FIFA competition record
170. ^GERSON – FIFA competition record
171. ^Alvaro GESTIDO – FIFA competition record
172. ^Alcides GHIGGIA – FIFA competition record
173. ^Alberto GILARDINO – FIFA competition record
174. ^GILBERTO SILVA – FIFA competition record
175. ^GILMAR RINALDI – FIFA competition record
176. ^Matthias GINTER – FIFA competition record
177. ^Olivier GIROUD – FIFA competition record
178. ^Ricardo GIUSTI – FIFA competition record
179. ^Juan Carlos GONZALEZ – FIFA competition record
180. ^Matias GONZALEZ – FIFA competition record
181. ^Mario GOETZE – FIFA competition record
182. ^Juergen GRABOWSKI – FIFA competition record
183. ^Francesco GRAZIANI – FIFA competition record
184. ^Jimmy GREAVES – FIFA competition record
185. ^Antoine GRIEZMANN – FIFA competition record
186. ^Kevin GROßKREUTZ – FIFA competition record
187. ^Fabio GROSSO – FIFA competition record
188. ^Enrique GUAITA – FIFA competition record
189. ^Anfilogino GUARISI – FIFA competition record
190. ^Stephane GUIVARCH – FIFA competition record
191. ^Thomas HAESSLER – FIFA competition record
192. ^Thierry HENRY – FIFA competition record
193. ^Guenther HERMANN – FIFA competition record
194. ^Lucas HERNANDEZ – FIFA competition record
195. ^Richard HERRMANN – FIFA competition record
196. ^Dieter HERZOG – FIFA competition record
197. ^Jupp HEYNCKES – FIFA competition record
198. ^Uli HOENESS – FIFA competition record
199. ^Bernd HOELZENBEIN – FIFA competition record
200. ^Horst-Dieter HOETTGES – FIFA competition record
201. ^Rene HOUSEMAN – FIFA competition record
202. ^Benedikt HOEWEDES – FIFA competition record
203. ^Mats HUMMELS – FIFA competition record
204. ^Roger HUNT – FIFA competition record
205. ^Norman HUNTER – FIFA competition record
206. ^Geoff HURST – FIFA competition record
207. ^Vincenzo IAQUINTA – FIFA competition record
208. ^Bodo ILLGNER – FIFA competition record
209. ^Andres INIESTA – FIFA competition record
210. ^Filippo INZAGHI – FIFA competition record
211. ^Victoriano IRIARTE – FIFA competition record
212. ^Luis ISLAS – FIFA competition record
213. ^JAIR DA COSTA – FIFA competition record
214. ^JAIR MARINHO – FIFA competition record
215. ^JAIRZINHO – FIFA competition record
216. ^JOEL – FIFA competition record
217. ^JOEL CAMARGO – FIFA competition record
218. ^JORGINHO – FIFA competition record
219. ^JUNINHO PAULISTA – FIFA competition record
220. ^JUNIOR – FIFA competition record
221. ^JURANDIR – FIFA competition record
222. ^KAKA – FIFA competition record
223. ^Ngolo KANTE – FIFA competition record
224. ^Jupp KAPPELLMANN – FIFA competition record
225. ^Christian KAREMBEU – FIFA competition record
226. ^Mario KEMPES – FIFA competition record
227. ^Sami KHEDIRA – FIFA competition record
228. ^Daniel KILLER – FIFA competition record
229. ^Presnel KIMPEMBE – FIFA competition record
230. ^KLEBERSON – FIFA competition record
231. ^Wolfgang KLEFF – FIFA competition record
232. ^Juergen KLINSMANN – FIFA competition record
233. ^Berni KLODT – FIFA competition record
234. ^Miroslav KLOSE – FIFA competition record
235. ^Juergen KOHLER – FIFA competition record
236. ^Werner KOHLMEYER – FIFA competition record
237. ^Andreas KOEPKE – FIFA competition record
238. ^Christoph KRAMER – FIFA competition record
239. ^Helmut KREMERS – FIFA competition record
240. ^Toni KROOS – FIFA competition record
241. ^Heinz KUBSCH – FIFA competition record
242. ^Heinz KWIATKOWSKI – FIFA competition record
243. ^Ricardo LA VOLPE – FIFA competition record
244. ^Fritz LABAND – FIFA competition record
245. ^Philipp LAHM – FIFA competition record
246. ^Bernard LAMA – FIFA competition record
247. ^Omar LARROSA – FIFA competition record
248. ^LEAO – FIFA competition record
249. ^Frank LEBOEUF – FIFA competition record
250. ^Thomas LEMAR – FIFA competition record
251. ^LEONARDO – FIFA competition record
252. ^Werner LIEBRICH – FIFA competition record
253. ^Pierre LITTBARSKI – FIFA competition record
254. ^Bixente LIZARAZU – FIFA competition record
255. ^Fernando LLORENTE – FIFA competition record
256. ^Hugo LLORIS – FIFA competition record
257. ^Ugo LOCATELLI – FIFA competition record
258. ^LUCIO – FIFA competition record
259. ^LUIZAO – FIFA competition record
260. ^Leopoldo LUQUE – FIFA competition record
261. ^Karl MAI – FIFA competition record
262. ^Sepp MAIER – FIFA competition record
263. ^Steve MANDANDA – FIFA competition record
264. ^Diego MARADONA – FIFA competition record
265. ^Carlos MARCHENA – FIFA competition record
266. ^MARCIO SANTOS – FIFA competition record
267. ^MARCO ANTONIO – FIFA competition record
268. ^MARCOS – FIFA competition record
269. ^Giampiero MARINI – FIFA competition record
270. ^Javi MARTINEZ – FIFA competition record
271. ^William MARTINEZ – FIFA competition record
272. ^Ernesto MASCHERONI – FIFA competition record
273. ^Roque MASPOLI – FIFA competition record
274. ^Daniele MASSARO – FIFA competition record
275. ^Juan MATA – FIFA competition record
276. ^Marco MATERAZZI – FIFA competition record
277. ^Lothar MATTHAEUS – FIFA competition record
278. ^Blaise MATUIDI – FIFA competition record
279. ^MAURO SILVA – FIFA competition record
280. ^MAZINHO – FIFA competition record
281. ^Kylian MBAPPE – FIFA competition record
282. ^Paul MEBUS – FIFA competition record
283. ^Angel MELOGNO – FIFA competition record
284. ^Benjamin MENDY – FIFA competition record
285. ^MENGALVIO – FIFA competition record
286. ^Per MERTESACKER – FIFA competition record
287. ^Karl-Heinz METZNER – FIFA competition record
288. ^Oscar MIGUEZ – FIFA competition record
289. ^Frank MILL – FIFA competition record
290. ^MOACIR – FIFA competition record
291. ^Andreas MOELLER – FIFA competition record
292. ^Luis MONTI – FIFA competition record
293. ^Bobby MOORE – FIFA competition record
294. ^Ruben MORAN – FIFA competition record
295. ^Max MORLOCK – FIFA competition record
296. ^MULLER – FIFA competition record
297. ^Gerd MUELLER – FIFA competition record
298. ^Thomas MUELLER – FIFA competition record
299. ^Shkodran MUSTAFI – FIFA competition record
300. ^Jose NASAZZI – FIFA competition record
301. ^Jesús NAVAS – FIFA competition record
302. ^Alessandro NESTA – FIFA competition record
303. ^Guenter NETZER – FIFA competition record
304. ^Manuel NEUER – FIFA competition record
305. ^Norbert NIGBUR – FIFA competition record
306. ^Steven NZONZI – FIFA competition record
307. ^Massimo ODDO – FIFA competition record
308. ^Julio OLARTICOECHEA – FIFA competition record
309. ^Jorge OLGUIN – FIFA competition record
310. ^Aldo OLIVIERI – FIFA competition record
311. ^Renato OLMI – FIFA competition record
312. ^ORECO – FIFA competition record
313. ^Gabriele ORIALI – FIFA competition record
314. ^ORLANDO – FIFA competition record
315. ^Raimundo ORSI – FIFA competition record
316. ^Oscar ORTIZ – FIFA competition record
317. ^Washington ORTUNO – FIFA competition record
318. ^Wolfgang OVERATH – FIFA competition record
319. ^Miguel OVIEDO – FIFA competition record
320. ^Mesut OEZIL – FIFA competition record
321. ^Ruben PAGNANINI – FIFA competition record
322. ^Terry PAINE – FIFA competition record
323. ^Pedro PASCULLI – FIFA competition record
324. ^Piero PASINATI – FIFA competition record
325. ^PAULO CESAR – FIFA competition record
326. ^PAULO SERGIO – FIFA competition record
327. ^Benjamin PAVARD – FIFA competition record
328. ^Anibal PAZ – FIFA competition record
329. ^PEDRO – FIFA competition record
330. ^Mario PERAZZOLO – FIFA competition record
331. ^Julio PEREZ – FIFA competition record
332. ^Simone PERROTTA – FIFA competition record
333. ^Angelo PERUZZI – FIFA competition record
334. ^Martin PETERS – FIFA competition record
335. ^Emmanuel PETIT – FIFA competition record
336. ^Pedro PETRONE – FIFA competition record
337. ^Alfred PFAFF – FIFA competition record
338. ^Hans PFLUEGLER – FIFA competition record
339. ^Rodolfo PINI – FIFA competition record
340. ^Silvio PIOLA – FIFA competition record
341. ^Gerard PIQUE – FIFA competition record
342. ^Robert PIRES – FIFA competition record
343. ^Conduelo PIRIZ – FIFA competition record
344. ^Andrea PIRLO – FIFA competition record
345. ^Mario PIZZIOLO – FIFA competition record
346. ^Lukas PODOLSKI – FIFA competition record
347. ^Paul POGBA – FIFA competition record
348. ^Jupp POSIPAL – FIFA competition record
349. ^Nery PUMPIDO – FIFA competition record
350. ^Carles PUYOL – FIFA competition record
351. ^Helmut RAHN – FIFA competition record
352. ^RAI – FIFA competition record
353. ^Adil RAMI – FIFA competition record
354. ^Sergio RAMOS – FIFA competition record
355. ^Pietro RAVA – FIFA competition record
356. ^Emilio RECOBA – FIFA competition record
357. ^Pepe REINA – FIFA competition record
358. ^Stefan REUTER – FIFA competition record
359. ^RICARDINHO – FIFA competition record
360. ^RICARDO ROCHA – FIFA competition record
361. ^Karlheinz RIEDLE – FIFA competition record
362. ^Luis RIJO – FIFA competition record
363. ^Carlos RIOLFO – FIFA competition record
364. ^RIVALDO – FIFA competition record
365. ^RIVELINO – FIFA competition record
366. ^ROBERTO – FIFA competition record
367. ^ROBERTO CARLOS – FIFA competition record
368. ^Victor RODRIGUEZ ANDRADE – FIFA competition record
369. ^ROGERIO CENI – FIFA competition record
370. ^ROMÁRIO (Romário de Souza Faria) – FIFA competition record
371. ^Carlos ROMERO – FIFA competition record
372. ^RONALDAO – FIFA competition record
373. ^RONALDINHO – FIFA competition record
374. ^ROQUE JUNIOR – FIFA competition record
375. ^Virginio ROSETTA – FIFA competition record
376. ^Paolo ROSSI – FIFA competition record
377. ^Oscar RUGGERI – FIFA competition record
378. ^Zoilo SALDOMBIDE – FIFA competition record
379. ^Hector SCARONE – FIFA competition record
380. ^Hans SCHAEFER – FIFA competition record
381. ^Juan SCHIAFFINO – FIFA competition record
382. ^Angelo SCHIAVIO – FIFA competition record
383. ^Andre SCHUERRLE – FIFA competition record
384. ^Hans Georg SCHWARZENBECK – FIFA competition record
385. ^Bastian SCHWEINSTEIGER – FIFA competition record
386. ^Gaetano SCIREA – FIFA competition record
387. ^Franco SELVAGGI – FIFA competition record
388. ^Pietro SERANTONI – FIFA competition record
389. ^Djibril SIDIBE – FIFA competition record
390. ^David SILVA – FIFA competition record
391. ^Ron SPRINGETT – FIFA competition record
392. ^Paul STEINER – FIFA competition record
393. ^Nobby STILES – FIFA competition record
394. ^TAFFAREL – FIFA competition record
395. ^Carlos TAPIA – FIFA competition record
396. ^Alberto TARANTINI – FIFA competition record
397. ^Marco TARDELLI – FIFA competition record
398. ^Domingo TEJERA – FIFA competition record
399. ^Eusebio TEJERA – FIFA competition record
400. ^Florian THAUVIN – FIFA competition record
401. ^Olaf THON – FIFA competition record
402. ^Lilian THURAM – FIFA competition record
403. ^Corentin TOLISSO – FIFA competition record
404. ^Luca Toni – FIFA competition record
405. ^Fernando TORRES – FIFA competition record
406. ^TOSTAO – FIFA competition record
407. ^Francesco TOTTI – FIFA competition record
408. ^David TREZEGUET – FIFA competition record
409. ^Marcelo TROBBIANI – FIFA competition record
410. ^Toni TUREK – FIFA competition record
411. ^Samuel UMTITI – FIFA competition record
412. ^Santos URDINARAN – FIFA competition record
413. ^Jorge VALDANO – FIFA competition record
414. ^Víctor VALDÉS – FIFA competition record
415. ^Jose VALENCIA – FIFA competition record
416. ^VAMPETA – FIFA competition record
417. ^Raphael VARANE – FIFA competition record
418. ^Obdulio VARELA – FIFA competition record
419. ^Mario VARGLIEN – FIFA competition record
420. ^Ernesto VIDAL – FIFA competition record
421. ^Patrick VIEIRA – FIFA competition record
422. ^Pietro VIERCHOWOD – FIFA competition record
423. ^Hector VILCHES – FIFA competition record
424. ^David Villa – FIFA competition record
425. ^Ricardo VILLA – FIFA competition record
426. ^VIOLA – FIFA competition record
427. ^Berti VOGTS – FIFA competition record
428. ^Rudi VOELLER – FIFA competition record
429. ^Fritz WALTER – FIFA competition record
430. ^Ottmar WALTER – FIFA competition record
431. ^Roman WEIDENFELLER – FIFA competition record
432. ^WILSON PIAZZA – FIFA competition record
433. ^Ray WILSON – FIFA competition record
434. ^Herbert WIMMER – FIFA competition record
435. ^Xavi HERNANDEZ – FIFA competition record
436. ^Cristian Zaccardo – FIFA competition record
437. ^Gianluca ZAMBROTTA – FIFA competition record
438. ^ZE MARIA – FIFA competition record
439. ^Hector ZELADA – FIFA competition record
440. ^ZEQUINHA – FIFA competition record
441. ^ZETTI – FIFA competition record
442. ^Zinedine ZIDANE – FIFA competition record
443. ^Ron-Robert ZIELER – FIFA competition record
444. ^ZINHO – FIFA competition record
445. ^Dino ZOFF – FIFA competition record

External links[edit]

• World Cup Champions Squads 1930–2014, RSSSF.com

The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War. The current champion is France, which won its second title at the 2018 tournament in Russia.

The current format of the competition involves a qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase, which is often called the World Cup Finals. After this, 32 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation(s), compete in the tournament phase for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month.

The 21 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight national teams. Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. The other World Cup winners are Germany and Italy, with four titles each; Argentina, France and inaugural winner Uruguay, with two titles each; and England and Spain with one title each.

The World Cup is the most prestigious association football tournament in the world, as well as the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games; the cumulative viewership of all matches of the 2006 World Cup was estimated to be 26.29 billion with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the final match, a ninth of the entire population of the planet.^[1][2][3][4]

17 countries have hosted the World Cup. Brazil, France, Italy, Germany and Mexico have each hosted twice, while Uruguay, Switzerland, Sweden, Chile, England, Argentina, Spain, the United States, Japan and South Korea (jointly), South Africa and Russia have each hosted once. Qatar are planned as hosts of the 2022 finals, and 2026 will be jointly hosted by Canada, the United States and Mexico, which will give Mexico the distinction of being the first country to have hosted games in three finals.

• 1History
• 3Format
• 4Hosts
• 7Results
• 9Records and statistics

History

Previous international competitions

The world's first international football match was a challenge match played in Glasgow in 1872 between Scotland and England,^[5] which ended in a 0–0 draw. The first international tournament, the inaugural British Home Championship, took place in 1884.^[6] As football grew in popularity in other parts of the world at the start of the 20th century, it was held as a demonstration sport with no medals awarded at the 1900 and 1904 Summer Olympics (however, the IOC has retroactively upgraded their status to official events), and at the 1906 Intercalated Games.^[7]

After FIFA was founded in 1904, it tried to arrange an international football tournament between nations outside the Olympic framework in Switzerland in 1906. These were very early days for international football, and the official history of FIFA describes the competition as having been a failure.^[8]

At the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, football became an official competition. Planned by The Football Association (FA), England's football governing body, the event was for amateur players only and was regarded suspiciously as a show rather than a competition. Great Britain (represented by the England national amateur football team) won the gold medals. They repeated the feat at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.

With the Olympic event continuing to be contested only between amateur teams, Sir Thomas Lipton organised the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy tournament in Turin in 1909. The Lipton tournament was a championship between individual clubs (not national teams) from different nations, each one of which represented an entire nation. The competition is sometimes described as The First World Cup,^[9] and featured the most prestigious professional club sides from Italy, Germany and Switzerland, but the FA of England refused to be associated with the competition and declined the offer to send a professional team. Lipton invited West Auckland, an amateur side from County Durham, to represent England instead. West Auckland won the tournament and returned in 1911 to successfully defend their title.

In 1914, FIFA agreed to recognise the Olympic tournament as a 'world football championship for amateurs', and took responsibility for managing the event.^[10] This paved the way for the world's first intercontinental football competition, at the 1920 Summer Olympics, contested by Egypt and 13 European teams, and won by Belgium.^[11]Uruguay won the next two Olympic football tournaments in 1924 and 1928. Those were also the first two open world championships, as 1924 was the start of FIFA's professional era.

World Cups before World War II

Due to the success of the Olympic football tournaments, FIFA, with PresidentJules Rimet as the driving force, again started looking at staging its own international tournament outside of the Olympics. On 28 May 1928, the FIFA Congress in Amsterdam decided to stage a world championship itself.^[12] With Uruguay now two-time official football world champions and to celebrate their centenary of independence in 1930, FIFA named Uruguay as the host country of the inaugural World Cup tournament.

The national associations of selected nations were invited to send a team, but the choice of Uruguay as a venue for the competition meant a long and costly trip across the Atlantic Ocean for European sides. Indeed, no European country pledged to send a team until two months before the start of the competition. Rimet eventually persuaded teams from Belgium, France, Romania, and Yugoslavia to make the trip. In total, 13 nations took part: seven from South America, four from Europe and two from North America.

The first two World Cup matches took place simultaneously on 13 July 1930, and were won by France and the USA, who defeated Mexico 4–1 and Belgium 3–0 respectively. The first goal in World Cup history was scored by Lucien Laurent of France.^[13] In the final, Uruguay defeated Argentina 4–2 in front of 93,000 people in Montevideo, and became the first nation to win the World Cup.^[14] After the creation of the World Cup, FIFA and the IOC disagreed over the status of amateur players, and so football was dropped from the 1932 Summer Olympics.^[15] Olympic football returned at the 1936 Summer Olympics, but was now overshadowed by the more prestigious World Cup.

The issues facing the early World Cup tournaments were the difficulties of intercontinental travel, and war. Few South American teams were willing to travel to Europe for the 1934 World Cup and all North and South American nations except Brazil and Cuba boycotted the 1938 tournament. Brazil was the only South American team to compete in both. The 1942 and 1946 competitions, which Germany and Brazil sought to host,^[16] were cancelled due to World War II and its aftermath.

World Cups after World War II

The 1950 World Cup, held in Brazil, was the first to include British participants. British teams withdrew from FIFA in 1920, partly out of unwillingness to play against the countries they had been at war with, and partly as a protest against foreign influence on football,^[17] but rejoined in 1946 following FIFA's invitation.^[18] The tournament also saw the return of 1930 champions Uruguay, who had boycotted the previous two World Cups. Uruguay won the tournament again after defeating the host nation Brazil, in the match called 'Maracanazo' (Portuguese: Maracanaço).

In the tournaments between 1934 and 1978, 16 teams competed in each tournament, except in 1938, when Austria was absorbed into Germany after qualifying, leaving the tournament with 15 teams, and in 1950, when India, Scotland, and Turkey withdrew, leaving the tournament with 13 teams.^[19] Most of the participating nations were from Europe and South America, with a small minority from North America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. These teams were usually defeated easily by the European and South American teams. Until 1982, the only teams from outside Europe and South America to advance out of the first round were: USA, semi-finalists in 1930; Cuba, quarter-finalists in 1938; North Korea, quarter-finalists in 1966; and Mexico, quarter-finalists in 1970.

Expansion to 32 teams

The tournament was expanded to 24 teams in 1982,^[20] and then to 32 in 1998,^[21] also allowing more teams from Africa, Asia and North America to take part. Since then, teams from these regions have enjoyed more success, with several having reached the quarter-finals: Mexico, quarter-finalists in 1986; Cameroon, quarter-finalists in 1990; South Korea, finishing in fourth place in 2002; Senegal, along with USA, both quarter-finalists in 2002; Ghana, quarter-finalists in 2010; and Costa Rica, quarter-finalists in 2014. Nevertheless, European and South American teams continue to dominate, e.g., the quarter-finalists in 1994, 1998, 2006 and 2018 were all from Europe or South America and so were the finalists of all tournaments so far.

Two hundred teams entered the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds; 198 nations attempted to qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, while a record 204 countries entered qualification for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.^[22]

Expansion to 48 teams

In October 2013, Sepp Blatter spoke of guaranteeing the Caribbean Football Union's region a position in the World Cup.^[23] In the edition of 25 October 2013 of the FIFA Weekly Blatter wrote that: 'From a purely sporting perspective, I would like to see globalisation finally taken seriously, and the African and Asian national associations accorded the status they deserve at the FIFA World Cup. It cannot be that the European and South American confederations lay claim to the majority of the berths at the World Cup.'^[24] Those two remarks suggested to commentators that Blatter could be putting himself forward for re-election to the FIFA Presidency.^[25]

Following the magazine's publication, Blatter's would-be opponent for the FIFA Presidency, UEFA President Michel Platini, responded that he intended to extend the World Cup to 40 national associations, increasing the number of participants by eight. Platini said that he would allocate an additional berth to UEFA, two to the Asian Football Confederation and the Confederation of African Football, two shared between CONCACAF and CONMEBOL, and a guaranteed place for the Oceania Football Confederation.^[26] Platini was clear about why he wanted to expand the World Cup. He said: '[The World Cup is] not based on the quality of the teams because you don't have the best 32 at the World Cup .. but it's a good compromise. .. It's a political matter so why not have more Africans? The competition is to bring all the people of all the world. If you don't give the possibility to participate, they don't improve.'^[26]

In October 2016, FIFA president Gianni Infantino stated his support for a 48-team World Cup in 2026.^[27] On 10 January 2017, FIFA confirmed the 2026 World Cup will have 48 finalist teams.^[28]

2015 FIFA corruption case

By May 2015, the games were under a particularly dark cloud because of the 2015 FIFA corruption case, allegations and criminal charges of bribery, fraud and money laundering to corrupt the issuing of media and marketing rights (rigged bids) for FIFA games,^[29] with FIFA officials accused of taking bribes totaling more than $150 million over 24 years. In late May, the U.S. Justice Department announced a 47-count indictment with charges of racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy against 14 people. Arrests of over a dozen FIFA officials were made since that time, particularly on 29 May and 3 December.^[30] By the end of May 2015, a total of nine FIFA officials and five executives of sports and broadcasting markets had already been charged on corruption. At the time, FIFA president Sepp Blatter announced he would relinquish his position in February 2016.^[31]

On 4 June 2015 Chuck Blazer while co-operating with the FBI and the Swiss authorities admitted that he and the other members of FIFA's then-executive committee were bribed in order to promote the 1998 and 2010 World Cups.^[32] On 10 June 2015 Swiss authorities seized computer data from the offices of Sepp Blatter.^[33] The same day, FIFA postponed the bidding process for the 2026 FIFA World Cup in light of the allegations surrounding bribery in the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 tournaments. Then-secretary general Jérôme Valcke stated, 'Due to the situation, I think it's nonsense to start any bidding process for the time being.'^[34] On 28 October 2015, Blatter and FIFA VP Michel Platini, a potential candidate for presidency, were suspended for 90 days; both maintained their innocence in statements made to the news media.^[35]

On 3 December 2015 two FIFA vice-presidents were arrested on suspicion of bribery in the same Zurich hotel where seven FIFA officials had been arrested in May.^[36] An additional 16 indictments by the U.S. Department of Justice were announced on the same day.^[37]

Other FIFA tournaments

An equivalent tournament for women's football, the FIFA Women's World Cup, was first held in 1991 in China.^[38] The women's tournament is smaller in scale and profile than the men's, but is growing; the number of entrants for the 2007 tournament was 120, more than double that of 1991.^[39]

Men's football has been included in every Summer Olympic Games except 1896 and 1932. Unlike many other sports, the men's football tournament at the Olympics is not a top-level tournament, and since 1992, an under-23 tournament with each team allowed three over-age players.^[40] Women's football made its Olympic debut in 1996.

The FIFA Confederations Cup is a tournament held one year before the World Cup at the World Cup host nation(s) as a dress rehearsal for the upcoming World Cup. It is contested by the winners of each of the six FIFA confederation championships, along with the FIFA World Cup champion and the host country.^[41]

FIFA also organises international tournaments for youth football (FIFA U-20 World Cup, FIFA U-17 World Cup, FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup), club football (FIFA Club World Cup), and football variants such as futsal (FIFA Futsal World Cup) and beach soccer (FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup). The latter three do not have a women's version, although a FIFA Women's Club World Cup has been proposed.^[42]

The FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup is held the year before each Women's World Cup and both tournaments are awarded in a single bidding process. The U-20 tournament serves as a dress rehearsal for the larger competition.^[43]

Trophy

From 1930 to 1970, the Jules Rimet Trophy was awarded to the World Cup winning team. It was originally simply known as the World Cup or Coupe du Monde, but in 1946 it was renamed after the FIFA president Jules Rimet who set up the first tournament. In 1970, Brazil's third victory in the tournament entitled them to keep the trophy permanently. However, the trophy was stolen in 1983 and has never been recovered, apparently melted down by the thieves.^[44]

After 1970, a new trophy, known as the FIFA World Cup Trophy, was designed. The experts of FIFA, coming from seven countries, evaluated the 53 presented models, finally opting for the work of the Italian designer Silvio Gazzaniga. The new trophy is 36 cm (14.2 in) high, made of solid 18 carat (75%) gold and weighs 6.175 kg (13.6 lb).^[45] The base contains two layers of semi-precious malachite while the bottom side of the trophy bears the engraved year and name of each FIFA World Cup winner since 1974.^[45] The description of the trophy by Gazzaniga was: 'The lines spring out from the base, rising in spirals, stretching out to receive the world. From the remarkable dynamic tensions of the compact body of the sculpture rise the figures of two athletes at the stirring moment of victory.'^[46]

This new trophy is not awarded to the winning nation permanently. World Cup winners retain the trophy only until the post-match celebration is finished. They are awarded a gold-plated replica rather than the solid gold original immediately afterwards.^[47]

Currently, all members (players, coaches, and managers) of the top three teams receive medals with an insignia of the World Cup Trophy; winners' (gold), runners-up' (silver), and third-place (bronze). In the 2002 edition, fourth-place medals were awarded to hosts South Korea. Before the 1978 tournament, medals were only awarded to the eleven players on the pitch at the end of the final and the third-place match. In November 2007, FIFA announced that all members of World Cup-winning squads between 1930 and 1974 were to be retroactively awarded winners' medals.^[48][49][50]

Format

Qualification

Since the second World Cup in 1934, qualifying tournaments have been held to thin the field for the final tournament.^[51] They are held within the six FIFA continental zones (Africa, Asia, North and Central America and Caribbean, South America, Oceania, and Europe), overseen by their respective confederations. For each tournament, FIFA decides the number of places awarded to each of the continental zones beforehand, generally based on the relative strength of the confederations' teams.

The qualification process can start as early as almost three years before the final tournament and last over a two-year period. The formats of the qualification tournaments differ between confederations. Usually, one or two places are awarded to winners of intercontinental play-offs. For example, the winner of the Oceanian zone and the fifth-placed team from the Asian zone entered a play-off for a spot in the 2010 World Cup.^[52] From the 1938 World Cup onwards, host nations receive automatic qualification to the final tournament. This right was also granted to the defending champions between 1938 and 2002, but was withdrawn from the 2006 FIFA World Cup onward, requiring the champions to qualify. Brazil, winners in 2002, were the first defending champions to play qualifying matches.^[53]

Final tournament

The current final tournament has been used since 1998 and features 32 national teams competing over the course of a month in the host nation(s). There are two stages: the group stage followed by the knockout stage.^[54]

In the group stage, teams compete within eight groups of four teams each. Eight teams are seeded, including the hosts, with the other seeded teams selected using a formula based on the FIFA World Rankings and/or performances in recent World Cups, and drawn to separate groups.^[55] The other teams are assigned to different 'pots', usually based on geographical criteria, and teams in each pot are drawn at random to the eight groups. Since 1998, constraints have been applied to the draw to ensure that no group contains more than two European teams or more than one team from any other confederation.^[56]

Each group plays a round-robin tournament, in which each team is scheduled for three matches against other teams in the same group. This means that a total of six matches are played within a group. The last round of matches of each group is scheduled at the same time to preserve fairness among all four teams.^[57] The top two teams from each group advance to the knockout stage. Points are used to rank the teams within a group. Since 1994, three points have been awarded for a win, one for a draw and none for a loss (before, winners received two points).

If one considers all possible outcomes (win, draw, loss) for all six matches in a group, there are 729 (= 3⁶) outcome combinations possible. However, 207 of these combinations lead to ties between the second and third places. In such case, the ranking among these teams is determined as follows:^[58]

1. Greatest combined goal difference in all group matches
2. Greatest combined number of goals scored in all group matches
3. If more than one team remain level after applying the above criteria, their ranking will be determined as follows:
   1. Greatest number of points in head-to-head matches among those teams
   2. Greatest goal difference in head-to-head matches among those teams
   3. Greatest number of goals scored in head-to-head matches among those teams
   4. Fair play points, defined by the number of yellow and red cards received in the group stage:
      1. Yellow card: minus 1 point
      2. Indirect red card (as a result of a second yellow card): minus 3 points
      3. Direct red card: minus 4 points
      4. Yellow card and direct red card: minus 5 points
4. If any of the teams above remain level after applying the above criteria, their ranking will be determined by the drawing of lots

The knockout stage is a single-elimination tournament in which teams play each other in one-off matches, with extra time and penalty shootouts used to decide the winner if necessary. It begins with the round of 16 (or the second round) in which the winner of each group plays against the runner-up of another group. This is followed by the quarter-finals, the semi-finals, the third-place match (contested by the losing semi-finalists), and the final.^[54]

On 10 January 2017, FIFA approved a new format, the 48-team World Cup (to accommodate more teams), which consists of 16 groups of three teams each, with two teams qualifying from each group, to form a round of 32 knockout stage, to be implemented by 2026.^[59]

Hosts

Selection process

Early World Cups were given to countries at meetings of FIFA's congress. The locations were controversial because South America and Europe were by far the two centres of strength in football and travel between them required three weeks by boat. The decision to hold the first World Cup in Uruguay, for example, led to only four European nations competing.^[60] The next two World Cups were both held in Europe. The decision to hold the second of these in France was disputed, as the South American countries understood that the location would alternate between the two continents. Both Argentina and Uruguay thus boycotted the 1938 FIFA World Cup.^[61]

Since the 1958 FIFA World Cup, to avoid future boycotts or controversy, FIFA began a pattern of alternating the hosts between the Americas and Europe, which continued until the 1998 FIFA World Cup. The 2002 FIFA World Cup, hosted jointly by South Korea and Japan, was the first one held in Asia, and the first tournament with multiple hosts.^[62] South Africa became the first African nation to host the World Cup in 2010. The 2014 FIFA World Cup was hosted by Brazil, the first held in South America since Argentina 1978,^[63] and was the first occasion where consecutive World Cups were held outside Europe.

The host country is now chosen in a vote by FIFA's Council. This is done under an exhaustive ballot system. The national football association of a country desiring to host the event receives a 'Hosting Agreement' from FIFA, which explains the steps and requirements that are expected from a strong bid. The bidding association also receives a form, the submission of which represents the official confirmation of the candidacy. After this, a FIFA designated group of inspectors visit the country to identify that the country meets the requirements needed to host the event and a report on the country is produced. The decision on who will host the World Cup is usually made six or seven years in advance of the tournament. However, there have been occasions where the hosts of multiple future tournaments were announced at the same time, as was the case for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, which were awarded to Russia and Qatar, with Qatar becoming the first Middle Eastern country to host the tournament.^[64][65]

All World Cup Winners

For the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, the final tournament is rotated between confederations, allowing only countries from the chosen confederation (Africa in 2010, South America in 2014) to bid to host the tournament. The rotation policy was introduced after the controversy surrounding Germany's victory over South Africa in the vote to host the 2006 tournament. However, the policy of continental rotation will not continue beyond 2014, so any country, except those belonging to confederations that hosted the two preceding tournaments, can apply as hosts for World Cups starting from 2018.^[66] This is partly to avoid a similar scenario to the bidding process for the 2014 tournament, where Brazil was the only official bidder.^[67]

Past World Cup Winners

The 2026 FIFA World Cup was chosen to be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico, marking the first time a World Cup has been shared by three host nations.^[68] The 2026 tournament will be the biggest World Cup ever held, with 48 teams playing 80 matches. Sixty matches will take place in the US, including all matches from the quarter-finals onward, while Canada and Mexico will host 10 games each.^[68]

Performances

Six of the eight champions have won one of their titles while playing in their own homeland, the exceptions being Brazil, who finished as runners-up after losing the deciding match on home soil in 1950 and lost their semi-final against Germany in 2014, and Spain, which reached the second round on home soil in 1982. England (1966) won its only title while playing as a host nation. Uruguay (1930), Italy (1934), Argentina (1978) and France (1998) won their first titles as host nations but have gone on to win again, while Germany (1974) won their second title on home soil.^[69]

Other nations have also been successful when hosting the tournament. Switzerland (quarter-finals 1954), Sweden (runners-up in 1958), Chile (third place in 1962), South Korea (fourth place in 2002), and Mexico (quarter-finals in 1970 and 1986) all have their best results when serving as hosts. So far, South Africa (2010) has been the only host nation to fail to advance beyond the first round.^[70]

Attendance