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Past World Cup Winners

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

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.

Map of FIFA World Cup winners
Nations that won the World Cup
TitlesTeamYear(s)
5Brazil1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002
4Italy1934, 1938, 1982, 2006
4Germany[n 1]1954, 1974, 1990, 2014
2Uruguay1930, 1950
2Argentina1978, 1986
2France1998, 2018
1England1966
1Spain2010

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]

Squads of teams that won the World Cup
YearTeamSquad[n 2]CoachRef
1930Uruguay
(detailed squad)
MFJ. AndradeFWP. AnselmoGKE. BallestreroFWJ. CalvoGKM. CapucciniFWH. CastroFWP. CeaFWP. DoradoDFL. FernándezMFÁ. GestidoFWS. IriarteDFE. MascheroniMFÁ. MelognoDFJ. NasazziFWP. PetroneMFC. PírizDFE. RecobaMFC. RiolfoFWZ. SaldombideFWH. ScaroneDFD. TejeraFWS. UrdinaránA. Suppici[fs 1]
1934Italy
(detailed squad)
DFL. AllemandiFWP. ArcariMFL. BertoliniFWF. BorelDFU. CaligarisMFA. CastellazziGKG. CavannaGKG. CombiFWA. DemaríaFWG. FerrariMFA. FerrarisFWE. GuaitaFWA. GuarisiGKG. MasettiFWG. MeazzaMFL. MontiDFE. MonzeglioFWR. OrsiMFM. PizzioloDFV. RosettaFWA. SchiavioMFM. VarglienV. Pozzo[fs 2]
1938Italy
(detailed squad)
MFM. AndreoloFWS. BertoniFWA. BiavatiGKC. CeresoliMFB. ChizzoFWG. ColaussiMFA. DonatiFWG. FerrariFWP. FerrarisDFA. FoniMFM. GentaMFU. LocatelliGKG. MasettiFWG. MeazzaDFE. MonzeglioGKA. OlivieriMFR. OlmiFWP. PasinatiMFM. PerazzoloFWS. PiolaDFP. RavaMFP. SerantoniV. Pozzo[fs 3]
1950Uruguay
(detailed squad)
FWJ. BritosFWJ. BurgueñoDFS. GambettaFWA. GhiggiaDFJ. GonzálezDFM. GonzálezDFW. MartínezGKR. MáspoliFWÓ. MíguezFWR. MoránMFW. OrtuñoGKA. PazFWJ. PérezMFR. PiniFWL. RijoMFV. Rodríguez AndradeFWC. RomeroFWJ. SchiaffinoDFE. TejeraMFO. VarelaFWE. VidalDFH. VilchesJ. López[fs 4]
1954West Germany
(detailed squad)
1T. Turek2F. Laband3W. Kohlmeyer4H. Bauer5H. Erhardt6H. Eckel7J. Posipal8K. Mai9P. Mebus10W. Liebrich11K.-H. Metzner12H. Rahn13M. Morlock14B. Klodt15O. Walter16F. Walter17R. Herrmann18U. Biesinger19A. Pfaff20H. Schäfer21H. Kubsch22H. KwiatkowskiS. Herberger[fs 5]
1958Brazil
(detailed squad)
1Castilho2Bellini3Gilmar4Djalma Santos5Dino Sani6Didi7M. Zagallo8Oreco9Zózimo10Pelé11Garrincha12Nílton Santos13Moacir14De Sordi15Orlando16Mauro17Joel18J. Altafini19Zito20Vavá21Dida22PepeV. Feola[fs 6]
1962Brazil
(detailed squad)
1Gilmar2Djalma Santos3Mauro4Zito5Zózimo6Nílton Santos7Garrincha8Didi9Coutinho10Pelé11Pepe12Jair Marinho13Bellini14Jurandir15Altair16Zequinha17Mengálvio18Jair19Vavá20Amarildo21M. Zagallo22CastilhoA. Moreira[fs 7]
1966England
(detailed squad)
1G. Banks2G. Cohen3R. Wilson4N. Stiles5J. Charlton6B. Moore7A. Ball8J. Greaves9B. Charlton10G. Hurst11J. Connelly12R. Springett13P. Bonetti14J. Armfield15G. Byrne16M. Peters17R. Flowers18N. Hunter19T. Paine20I. Callaghan21R. Hunt22G. EasthamA. Ramsey[fs 8]
1970Brazil
(detailed squad)
1Félix2Brito3Piazza4Carlos Alberto5Clodoaldo6Marco Antônio7Jairzinho8Gérson9Tostão10Pelé11Rivellino12Ado13Roberto14Baldocchi15Fontana16Everaldo17Joel18Paulo Cézar Caju19Edu20Dario21Zé Maria22LeãoM. Zagallo[fs 9]
1974West Germany
(detailed squad)
1S. Maier2B. Vogts3P. Breitner4H.-G. Schwarzenbeck5F. Beckenbauer6H.-D. Höttges7H. Wimmer8B. Cullmann9J. Grabowski10G. Netzer11J. Heynckes12W. Overath13G. Müller14U. Hoeneß15H. Flohe16R. Bonhof17B. Hölzenbein18D. Herzog19J. Kapellmann20H. Kremers21N. Nigbur22W. KleffH. Schön[fs 10]
1978Argentina
(detailed squad)
1N. Alonso2O. Ardiles3H. Baley4D. Bertoni5U. Fillol6A. Gallego7L. Galván8R. Galván9R. Houseman10M. Kempes11D. Killer12O. Larrosa13R. La Volpe14L. Luque15J. Olguín16O. Ortiz17M. Oviedo18R. Pagnanini19D. Passarella20A. Tarantini21J. Valencia22R. VillaC. Menotti[fs 11]
1982Italy
(detailed squad)
1D. Zoff2F. Baresi3G. Bergomi4A. Cabrini5F. Collovati6C. Gentile7G. Scirea8P. Vierchowod9G. Antognoni10G. Dossena11G. Marini12I. Bordon13G. Oriali14M. Tardelli15F. Causio16B. Conti17D. Massaro18A. Altobelli19F. Graziani20P. Rossi21F. Selvaggi22G. GalliE. Bearzot[fs 12]
1986Argentina
(detailed squad)
1S. Almirón2S. Batista3R. Bochini4C. Borghi5J. Brown6D. Passarella7J. Burruchaga8N. Clausen9J. Cuciuffo10D. Maradona11J. Valdano12H. Enrique13O. Garré14R. Giusti15L. Islas16J. Olarticoechea17P. Pasculli18N. Pumpido19O. Ruggeri20C. Tapia21M. Trobbiani22H. ZeladaC. Bilardo[fs 13]
1990West Germany
(detailed squad)
1B. Illgner2S. Reuter3A. Brehme4J. Kohler5K. Augenthaler6G. Buchwald7P. Littbarski8T. Häßler9R. Völler10L. Matthäus11F. Mill12R. Aumann13K.-H. Riedle14T. Berthold15U. Bein16P. Steiner17A. Möller18J. Klinsmann19H. Pflügler20O. Thon21G. Hermann22A. KöpkeF. Beckenbauer[fs 14]
1994Brazil
(detailed squad)
1Taffarel2Jorginho3Ricardo Rocha4Ronaldão5Mauro Silva6Branco7Bebeto8Dunga9Zinho10Raí11Romário12Zetti13Aldair14Cafu15Márcio Santos16Leonardo17Mazinho18Paulo Sérgio19Müller20Ronaldo21Viola22GilmarC. Parreira[fs 15]
1998France
(detailed squad)
1B. Lama2V. Candela3B. Lizarazu4P. Vieira5L. Blanc6Y. Djorkaeff7D. Deschamps8M. Desailly9S. Guivarc'h10Z. Zidane11R. Pires12T. Henry13B. Diomède14A. Boghossian15L. Thuram16F. Barthez17E. Petit18F. Leboeuf19C. Karembeu20D. Trezeguet21C. Dugarry22L. CharbonnierA. Jacquet[fs 16]
2002Brazil
(detailed squad)
1Marcos2Cafu3Lúcio4Roque Júnior5Edmílson6Roberto Carlos7Ricardinho8Gilberto Silva9Ronaldo10Rivaldo11Ronaldinho12Dida13Belletti14Ânderson Polga15Kléberson16Júnior17Denílson18Vampeta19Juninho Paulista20Edílson21Luizão22Rogério Ceni23KakáL. Scolari[fs 17]
2006Italy
(detailed squad)
1G. Buffon2C. Zaccardo3F. Grosso4D. De Rossi5F. Cannavaro6A. Barzagli7A. Del Piero8G. Gattuso9L. Toni10F. Totti11A. Gilardino12A. Peruzzi13A. Nesta14M. Amelia15V. Iaquinta16M. Camoranesi17S. Barone18F. Inzaghi19G. Zambrotta20S. Perrotta21A. Pirlo22M. Oddo23M. MaterazziM. Lippi[fs 18]
2010Spain
(detailed squad)
1I. Casillas2R. Albiol3G. Piqué4C. Marchena5C. Puyol6A. Iniesta7D. Villa8Xavi9F. Torres10C. Fàbregas11J. Capdevila12V. Valdés13J. Mata14X. Alonso15S. Ramos16S. Busquets17Á. Arbeloa18Pedro19F. Llorente20J. Martínez21D. Silva22J. Navas23P. ReinaV. del Bosque[fs 19]
2014Germany
(detailed squad)
1M. Neuer2K. Großkreutz3M. Ginter4B. Höwedes5M. Hummels6S. Khedira7B. Schweinsteiger8M. Özil9A. Schürrle10L. Podolski11M. Klose12R.-R. Zieler13T. Müller14J. Draxler15E. Durm16P. Lahm17P. Mertesacker18T. Kroos19M. Götze20J. Boateng21S. Mustafi22R. Weidenfeller23C. KramerJ. Löw[fs 20]
2018France
(detailed squad)
1H. Lloris2B. Pavard3P. Kimpembe4R. Varane5S. Umtiti6P. Pogba7A. Griezmann8T. Lemar9O. Giroud10K. Mbappé11O. Dembélé12C. Tolisso13N. Kanté14B. Matuidi15S. Nzonzi16S. Mandanda17A. Rami18N. Fekir19D. Sidibé20F. Thauvin21L. Hernandez22B. Mendy23A. AreolaD. Deschamps[fs 21]

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).
Players who have won the World Cup
TPlayerTeamYear(s) won[n 3]Other appearancesProfile
As player[n 4]As coach[n 5]
3PeléBrazil1958, 1962, 19701966[fp 1]
2Hilderaldo BelliniBrazil1958, 19621966[fp 2]
2CafuBrazil1994, 20021998, 2006[fp 3]
2CastilhoBrazil1958, 19621950, 1954[fp 4]
2DidiBrazil1958, 196219541970 PER[fp 5]
2Djalma SantosBrazil1958, 19621954, 1966[fp 6]
2Giovanni FerrariItaly1934, 19381962 ITA[fp 7]
2GarrinchaBrazil1958, 19621966[fp 8]
2GilmarBrazil1958, 19621966[fp 9]
2Guido MasettiItaly1934, 1938[fp 10]
2MauroBrazil1958, 19621954[fp 11]
2Giuseppe MeazzaItaly1934, 1938[fp 12]
2Eraldo MonzeglioItaly1934, 1938[fp 13]
2Nílton SantosBrazil1958, 19621950, 1954[fp 14]
2Daniel PassarellaArgentina1978, 198619821998 ARG[fp 15]
2PepeBrazil1958, 1962[fp 16]
2RonaldoBrazil1994, 20021998, 2006[fp 17]
2VaváBrazil1958, 1962[fp 18]
2Mário ZagalloBrazil1958, 19621970 BRA, 1974 BRA, 1998 BRA[fp 19]
2ZitoBrazil1958, 19621966[fp 20]
2ZózimoBrazil1958, 1962[fp 21]
AdoBrazil1970[fp 22]
Raúl AlbiolSpain20102014[fp 23]
AldairBrazil19941990, 1998[fp 24]
Luigi AllemandiItaly1934[fp 25]
Sergio AlmirónArgentina1986[fp 26]
Norberto AlonsoArgentina1978[fp 27]
Xabi AlonsoSpain20102006, 2014[fp 28]
José AltafiniBrazil19581962 ITA[n 6][fp 29]
AltairBrazil19621966[fp 30]
Alessandro AltobelliItaly19821986[fp 31]
AmarildoBrazil1962[fp 32]
Marco AmeliaItaly2006[fp 33]
Ânderson PolgaBrazil2002[fp 34]
José AndradeUruguay1930[fp 35]
Michele AndreoloItaly1938[fp 36]
Peregrino AnselmoUruguay1930[fp 37]
Giancarlo AntognoniItaly19821978[fp 38]
Álvaro ArbeloaSpain2010[fp 39]
Pietro ArcariItaly1934[fp 40]
Osvaldo ArdilesArgentina19781982[fp 41]
Alphonse AreolaFrance2018[fp 42]
Jimmy ArmfieldEngland19661962[fp 43]
Klaus AugenthalerWest Germany19901986[fp 44]
Raimond AumannWest Germany1990[fp 45]
BaldocchiBrazil1970[fp 46]
Héctor BaleyArgentina19781982[fp 47]
Alan BallEngland19661970[fp 48]
Enrique BallestreroUruguay1930[fp 49]
Gordon BanksEngland19661970[n 7][fp 50]
Franco BaresiItaly19821990, 1994[fp 51]
Simone BaroneItaly2006[fp 52]
Fabien BarthezFrance19982002, 2006[fp 53]
Andrea BarzagliItaly20062014[fp 54]
Sergio BatistaArgentina19861990[fp 55]
Hans BauerWest Germany1954[fp 56]
BebetoBrazil19941990, 1998[fp 57]
Franz BeckenbauerWest Germany19741966, 19701986 FRG, 1990 FRG[fp 58]
Uwe BeinWest Germany1990[fp 59]
Juliano BellettiBrazil2002[fp 60]
Giuseppe BergomiItaly19821986, 1990, 1998[fp 61]
Thomas BertholdWest Germany19901986, 1994[fp 62]
Luigi BertoliniItaly1934[fp 63]
Daniel BertoniArgentina19781982[fp 64]
Sergio BertoniItaly1938[fp 65]
Amedeo BiavatiItaly1938[fp 66]
Ulrich BiesingerWest Germany1954[fp 67]
Laurent BlancFrance1998[fp 68]
Jérôme BoatengGermany20142010, 2018[fp 69]
Ricardo BochiniArgentina1986[fp 70]
Alain BoghossianFrance19982002[fp 71]
Peter BonettiEngland19661970[fp 72]
Rainer BonhofWest Germany19741978[fp 73]
Ivano BordonItaly19821978[fp 74]
Felice BorelItaly1934[fp 75]
Claudio BorghiArgentina1986[fp 76]
BrancoBrazil19941986, 1990[fp 77]
Andreas BrehmeWest Germany19901986, 1994[fp 78]
Paul BreitnerWest Germany19741982[fp 79]
BritoBrazil19701966[fp 80]
Julio César BritosUruguay1950[fp 81]
José Luis BrownArgentina1986[fp 82]
Guido BuchwaldWest Germany19901994[fp 83]
Gianluigi BuffonItaly20061998, 2002, 2010, 2014[fp 84]
Juan BurgueñoUruguay1950[fp 85]
Jorge BurruchagaArgentina19861990[fp 86]
Sergio BusquetsSpain20102014, 2018[fp 87]
Gerry ByrneEngland1966[fp 88]
Antonio CabriniItaly19821978, 1986[fp 89]
Umberto CaligarisItaly1934[fp 90]
Ian CallaghanEngland1966[fp 91]
Juan Carlos CalvoUruguay1930[fp 92]
Mauro CamoranesiItaly20062010[fp 93]
Vincent CandelaFrance19982002[fp 94]
Fabio CannavaroItaly20061998, 2002, 2010[fp 95]
Joan CapdevilaSpain2010[fp 96]
Miguel CapucciniUruguay1930[fp 97]
Carlos AlbertoBrazil1970[fp 98]
Iker CasillasSpain20102002, 2006, 2014[fp 99]
Armando CastellazziItaly1934[fp 100]
Héctor CastroUruguay1930[fp 101]
Franco CausioItaly19821974, 1978[fp 102]
Giuseppe CavannaItaly1934[fp 103]
Pedro CeaUruguay1930[fp 104]
Carlo CeresoliItaly1938[fp 105]
Lionel CharbonnierFrance1998[fp 106]
Bobby CharltonEngland19661958, 1962, 1970[fp 107]
Jack CharltonEngland196619701990 IRL, 1994 IRL[fp 108]
Bruno ChizzoItaly1938[fp 109]
Néstor ClausenArgentina1986[fp 110]
ClodoaldoBrazil1970[fp 111]
George CohenEngland1966[fp 112]
Gino ColaussiItaly1938[fp 113]
Fulvio CollovatiItaly19821986[fp 114]
Gianpiero CombiItaly1934[fp 115]
John ConnellyEngland19661962[fp 116]
Bruno ContiItaly19821986[fp 117]
CoutinhoBrazil1962[fp 118]
José Luis CuciuffoArgentina1986[fp 119]
Bernhard CullmannWest Germany19741978[fp 120]
DarioBrazil1970[fp 121]
Daniele De RossiItaly20062010, 2014[fp 122]
De SordiBrazil1958[fp 123]
Alessandro Del PieroItaly20061998, 2002[fp 124]
Attilio DemaríaItaly19341930 ARG[n 6][fp 125]
Ousmane DembéléFrance2018[fp 126]
DenílsonBrazil20021998[fp 127]
Marcel DesaillyFrance19982002[fp 128]
Didier DeschampsFrance19982014 FRA, 2018 FRA[fp 129]
DidaBrazil1958[fp 130]
DidaBrazil20021998, 2006[fp 131]
Dino SaniBrazil1958[fp 132]
Bernard DiomèdeFrance1998[fp 133]
Youri DjorkaeffFrance19982002[fp 134]
Aldo DonatiItaly1938[fp 135]
Pablo DoradoUruguay1930[fp 136]
Giuseppe DossenaItaly1982[fp 137]
Julian DraxlerGermany20142018[fp 138]
Christophe DugarryFrance19982002[fp 139]
DungaBrazil19941990, 19982010 BRA[fp 140]
Erik DurmGermany2014[fp 141]
George EasthamEngland19661962[fp 142]
Horst EckelWest Germany19541958[fp 143]
EdílsonBrazil2002[fp 144]
EdmílsonBrazil2002[fp 145]
EduBrazil19701966, 1974[fp 146]
Héctor EnriqueArgentina1986[fp 147]
Herbert ErhardtWest Germany19541958, 1962[fp 148]
EveraldoBrazil1970[fp 149]
Cesc FàbregasSpain20102006, 2014[fp 150]
Nabil FekirFrance2018[fp 151]
FélixBrazil1970[fp 152]
Lorenzo FernándezUruguay1930[fp 153]
Attilio FerrarisItaly1934[fp 154]
Pietro FerrarisItaly1938[fp 155]
Ubaldo FillolArgentina19781974, 1982[fp 156]
Heinz FloheWest Germany19741978[fp 157]
Ron FlowersEngland19661962[fp 158]
Alfredo FoniItaly19381966 SUI[fp 159]
FontanaBrazil1970[fp 160]
Américo GallegoArgentina19781982[fp 161]
Giovanni GalliItaly19821986[fp 162]
Luis GalvánArgentina19781982[fp 163]
Rubén GalvánArgentina1978[fp 164]
Schubert GambettaUruguay1950[fp 165]
Oscar GarréArgentina1986[fp 166]
Gennaro GattusoItaly20062002, 2010[fp 167]
Mario GentaItaly1938[fp 168]
Claudio GentileItaly19821978[fp 169]
GérsonBrazil19701966[fp 170]
Álvaro GestidoUruguay1930[fp 171]
Alcides GhiggiaUruguay1950[fp 172]
Alberto GilardinoItaly20062010[fp 173]
Gilberto SilvaBrazil20022006, 2010[fp 174]
Gilmar RinaldiBrazil1994[fp 175]
Matthias GinterGermany20142018[fp 176]
Olivier GiroudFrance20182014[fp 177]
Ricardo GiustiArgentina19861990[fp 178]
Juan Carlos GonzálezUruguay1950[fp 179]
Matías GonzálezUruguay1950[fp 180]
Mario GötzeGermany2014[fp 181]
Jürgen GrabowskiWest Germany19741966, 1970[fp 182]
Francesco GrazianiItaly19821978[fp 183]
Jimmy GreavesEngland19661962[fp 184]
Antoine GriezmannFrance20182014[fp 185]
Kevin GroßkreutzGermany2014[fp 186]
Fabio GrossoItaly2006[fp 187]
Enrique GuaitaItaly1934[fp 188]
Anfilogino GuarisiItaly1934[fp 189]
Stéphane Guivarc'hFrance1998[fp 190]
Thomas HäßlerWest Germany19901994, 1998[fp 191]
Thierry HenryFrance19982002, 2006, 2010[fp 192]
Günter HermannWest Germany1990[fp 193]
Lucas HernandezFrance2018[fp 194]
Richard HerrmannWest Germany1954[fp 195]
Dieter HerzogWest Germany1974[fp 196]
Jupp HeynckesWest Germany1974[fp 197]
Uli HoeneßWest Germany1974[fp 198]
Bernd HölzenbeinWest Germany19741978[fp 199]
Horst-Dieter HöttgesWest Germany19741966, 1970[fp 200]
René HousemanArgentina19781974[fp 201]
Benedikt HöwedesGermany2014[fp 202]
Mats HummelsGermany20142018[fp 203]
Roger HuntEngland19661962[fp 204]
Norman HunterEngland19661970[fp 205]
Geoff HurstEngland19661970[fp 206]
Vincenzo IaquintaItaly20062010[fp 207]
Bodo IllgnerWest Germany19901994[fp 208]
Andrés IniestaSpain20102006, 2014, 2018[fp 209]
Filippo InzaghiItaly20061998, 2002[fp 210]
Santos IriarteUruguay1930[fp 211]
Luis IslasArgentina19861994[fp 212]
JairBrazil1962[fp 213]
Jair MarinhoBrazil1962[fp 214]
JairzinhoBrazil19701966, 1974[fp 215]
JoelBrazil1958[fp 216]
Joel CamargoBrazil1970[fp 217]
JorginhoBrazil19941990[fp 218]
Juninho PaulistaBrazil2002[fp 219]
JúniorBrazil2002[fp 220]
JurandirBrazil1962[fp 221]
KakáBrazil20022006, 2010[fp 222]
N'Golo KantéFrance2018[fp 223]
Jupp KapellmannWest Germany1974[fp 224]
Christian KarembeuFrance1998[fp 225]
Mario KempesArgentina19781974, 1982[fp 226]
Sami KhediraGermany20142010, 2018[fp 227]
Daniel KillerArgentina1978[fp 228]
Presnel KimpembeFrance2018[fp 229]
KlébersonBrazil20022010[fp 230]
Wolfgang KleffWest Germany1974[fp 231]
Jürgen KlinsmannWest Germany19901994, 19982006 GER, 2014 USA[fp 232]
Bernhard KlodtWest Germany19541958[fp 233]
Miroslav KloseGermany20142002, 2006, 2010[fp 234]
Jürgen KohlerWest Germany19901994, 1998[fp 235]
Werner KohlmeyerWest Germany1954[fp 236]
Andreas KöpkeWest Germany19901994, 1998[fp 237]
Christoph KramerGermany2014[fp 238]
Helmut KremersWest Germany1974[fp 239]
Toni KroosGermany20142010, 2018[fp 240]
Heinz KubschWest Germany1954[fp 241]
Heinz KwiatkowskiWest Germany19541958[fp 242]
Ricardo La VolpeArgentina19782006 MEX[fp 243]
Fritz LabandWest Germany1954[fp 244]
Philipp LahmGermany20142006, 2010[fp 245]
Bernard LamaFrance1998[fp 246]
Omar LarrosaArgentina1978[fp 247]
LeãoBrazil19701974, 1978, 1986[fp 248]
Frank LeboeufFrance19982002[fp 249]
Thomas LemarFrance2018[fp 250]
LeonardoBrazil19941998[fp 251]
Werner LiebrichWest Germany1954[fp 252]
Pierre LittbarskiWest Germany19901982, 1986[fp 253]
Bixente LizarazuFrance19982002[fp 254]
Fernando LlorenteSpain2010[fp 255]
Hugo LlorisFrance20182010, 2014[fp 256]
Ugo LocatelliItaly1938[fp 257]
LúcioBrazil20022006, 2010[fp 258]
LuizãoBrazil2002[fp 259]
Leopoldo LuqueArgentina1978[fp 260]
Karl MaiWest Germany1954[fp 261]
Sepp MaierWest Germany19741966, 1970, 1978[fp 262]
Steve MandandaFrance20182010[fp 263]
Diego MaradonaArgentina19861982, 1990, 19942010 ARG[fp 264]
Carlos MarchenaSpain20102006[fp 265]
Márcio SantosBrazil1994[fp 266]
Marco AntônioBrazil19701974[fp 267]
MarcosBrazil2002[fp 268]
Gianpiero MariniItaly1982[fp 269]
Javi MartínezSpain20102014[fp 270]
William MartínezUruguay19501954, 1962[fp 271]
Ernesto MascheroniUruguay1930[fp 272]
Roque MáspoliUruguay19501954[fp 273]
Daniele MassaroItaly19821994[fp 274]
Juan MataSpain20102014[fp 275]
Marco MaterazziItaly20062002[fp 276]
Lothar MatthäusWest Germany19901982, 1986, 1994, 1998[fp 277]
Blaise MatuidiFrance20182014[fp 278]
Mauro SilvaBrazil1994[fp 279]
MazinhoBrazil19941990[fp 280]
Kylian MbappéFrance2018[fp 281]
Paul MebusWest Germany1954[fp 282]
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Benjamin MendyFrance2018[fp 284]
MengálvioBrazil1962[fp 285]
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MoacirBrazil1958[fp 290]
Andreas MöllerWest Germany19901994, 1998[fp 291]
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Bobby MooreEngland19661962, 1970[fp 293]
Rubén MoránUruguay1950[fp 294]
Max MorlockWest Germany1954[fp 295]
MüllerBrazil19941986, 1990[fp 296]
Gerd MüllerWest Germany19741970[fp 297]
Thomas MüllerGermany20142010, 2018[fp 298]
Shkodran MustafiGermany2014[fp 299]
José NasazziUruguay1930[fp 300]
Jesús NavasSpain2010[fp 301]
Alessandro NestaItaly20061998, 2002[fp 302]
Günter NetzerWest Germany1974[fp 303]
Manuel NeuerGermany20142010, 2018[fp 304]
Norbert NigburWest Germany1974[fp 305]
Steven NzonziFrance2018[fp 306]
Massimo OddoItaly2006[fp 307]
Julio OlarticoecheaArgentina19861982, 1990[fp 308]
Jorge OlguínArgentina19781982[fp 309]
Aldo OlivieriItaly1938[fp 310]
Renato OlmiItaly1938[fp 311]
OrecoBrazil1958[fp 312]
Gabriele OrialiItaly1982[fp 313]
OrlandoBrazil19581966[fp 314]
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Oscar OrtizArgentina1978[fp 316]
Washington OrtuñoUruguay1950[fp 317]
Wolfgang OverathWest Germany19741966, 1970[fp 318]
Miguel OviedoArgentina1978[fp 319]
Mesut ÖzilGermany20142010, 2018[fp 320]
Rubén PagnaniniArgentina1978[fp 321]
Terry PaineEngland1966[fp 322]
Pedro PasculliArgentina1986[fp 323]
Pietro PasinatiItaly1938[fp 324]
Paulo Cézar CajuBrazil19701974[fp 325]
Paulo SérgioBrazil1994[fp 326]
Benjamin PavardFrance2018[fp 327]
Aníbal PazUruguay1950[fp 328]
PedroSpain20102014[fp 329]
Mario PerazzoloItaly1938[fp 330]
Julio PérezUruguay19501954[fp 331]
Simone PerrottaItaly2006[fp 332]
Angelo PeruzziItaly2006[fp 333]
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Emmanuel PetitFrance19982002[fp 335]
Pedro PetroneUruguay1930[fp 336]
Alfred PfaffWest Germany1954[fp 337]
Hans PflüglerWest Germany1990[fp 338]
Rodolfo PiniUruguay1950[fp 339]
Silvio PiolaItaly1938[fp 340]
Gerard PiquéSpain20102014, 2018[fp 341]
Robert PiresFrance1998[fp 342]
Conduelo PírizUruguay1930[fp 343]
Andrea PirloItaly20062010, 2014[fp 344]
Mario PizzioloItaly1934[fp 345]
Lukas PodolskiGermany20142006, 2010[fp 346]
Paul PogbaFrance20182014[fp 347]
Josef PosipalWest Germany1954[fp 348]
Nery PumpidoArgentina19861982, 1990[fp 349]
Carles PuyolSpain20102002, 2006[fp 350]
Helmut RahnWest Germany19541958[fp 351]
RaíBrazil1994[fp 352]
Adil RamiFrance2018[fp 353]
Sergio RamosSpain20102006, 2014, 2018[fp 354]
Pietro RavaItaly1938[fp 355]
Emilio RecobaUruguay1930[fp 356]
Pepe ReinaSpain20102006, 2014, 2018[fp 357]
Stefan ReuterWest Germany19901998[fp 358]
RicardinhoBrazil20022006[fp 359]
Ricardo RochaBrazil19941990[fp 360]
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RivaldoBrazil20021998[fp 364]
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RobertoBrazil1970[fp 366]
Roberto CarlosBrazil20021998, 2006[fp 367]
Víctor Rodríguez AndradeUruguay19501954[fp 368]
Rogério CeniBrazil20022006[fp 369]
RomárioBrazil19941990[fp 370]
Carlos RomeroUruguay1950[fp 371]
RonaldãoBrazil1994[fp 372]
RonaldinhoBrazil20022006[fp 373]
Roque JúniorBrazil2002[fp 374]
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Zoilo SaldombideUruguay1930[fp 378]
Héctor ScaroneUruguay1930[fp 379]
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Juan Alberto SchiaffinoUruguay19501954[fp 381]
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André SchürrleGermany2014[fp 383]
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Bastian SchweinsteigerGermany20142006, 2010[fp 385]
Gaetano ScireaItaly19821978, 1986[fp 386]
Franco SelvaggiItaly1982[fp 387]
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David SilvaSpain20102014, 2018[fp 390]
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Eusebio TejeraUruguay19501954[fp 399]
Florian ThauvinFrance2018[fp 400]
Olaf ThonWest Germany19901986, 1998[fp 401]
Lilian ThuramFrance19982002, 2006[fp 402]
Corentin TolissoFrance2018[fp 403]
Luca ToniItaly2006[fp 404]
Fernando TorresSpain20102006, 2014[fp 405]
TostãoBrazil19701966[fp 406]
Francesco TottiItaly20062002[fp 407]
David TrezeguetFrance19982002, 2006[fp 408]
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Toni TurekWest Germany1954[fp 410]
Samuel UmtitiFrance2018[fp 411]
Santos UrdinaránUruguay1930[fp 412]
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Rudi VöllerWest Germany19901986, 19942002 GER[fp 428]
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Ottmar WalterWest Germany1954[fp 430]
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Herbert WimmerWest Germany1974[fp 434]
XaviSpain20102002, 2006, 2014[fp 435]
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Gianluca ZambrottaItaly20062002, 2010[fp 437]
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ZequinhaBrazil1962[fp 440]
ZettiBrazil1994[fp 441]
Zinedine ZidaneFrance19982002, 2006[fp 442]
Ron-Robert ZielerGermany2014[fp 443]
ZinhoBrazil1994[fp 444]
Dino ZoffItaly19821970, 1974, 1978[fp 445]

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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Coaches who have won the World Cup
TCoachNationalityYear(s) wonOther appearances
As coachAs player[n 5]
2Vittorio PozzoItaly1934 ITA, 1938 ITA
Enzo BearzotItaly1982 ITA1978 ITA, 1986 ITA
Franz BeckenbauerWest Germany1990 FRG1986 FRG1966, 1970, 1974
Carlos BilardoArgentina1986 ARG1990 ARG
Vicente del BosqueSpain2010 ESP2014 ESP
Didier DeschampsFrance2018 FRA2014 FRA1998
Vicente FeolaBrazil1958 BRA1966 BRA
Sepp HerbergerWest Germany1954 FRG1938 GER, 1958 FRG, 1962 FRG
Aimé JacquetFrance1998 FRA
Marcello LippiItaly2006 ITA2010 ITA
Juan LópezUruguay1950 URU1954 URU
Joachim LöwGermany2014 GER2010 GER, 2018 GER
César Luis MenottiArgentina1978 ARG1982 ARG
Aymoré MoreiraBrazil1962 BRA
Carlos Alberto ParreiraBrazil1994 BRA1982 KUW, 1990 UAE, 1998 KSA, 2006 BRA, 2010 RSA
Alf RamseyEngland1966 ENG1970 ENG1950
Helmut SchönWest Germany1974 FRG1966 FRG, 1970 FRG, 1978 FRG
Luiz Felipe ScolariBrazil2002 BRA2006 POR, 2014 BRA
Alberto SuppiciUruguay1930 URU
Mário ZagalloBrazil1970 BRA1974 BRA, 1998 BRA1958, 1962

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
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_winners&oldid=892924876'
FIFA World Cup
Founded1930; 89 years ago
RegionInternational (FIFA)
Number of teams32 (finals)
211 (eligible to enter qualification)
Related competitionsFIFA Confederations Cup
Current championsFrance (2nd title)
Most successful team(s)Brazil (5 titles)
Television broadcastersList of broadcasters
Websitefifa.com/worldcup/
Tournaments

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

FIFA president Jules Rimet convinced the confederations to promote an international football tournament.

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.

Estadio Centenario, the location of the first World Cup final in 1930 in Montevideo, Uruguay

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.

Past world cup winners women

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 opening game of the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, shortly before the 1950 FIFA World Cup. From the National Archives of Brazil

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

Interior view of the Soccer City in Johannesburg, South Africa, during a match at the 2010 FIFA World Cup

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]

Past World Cup Winners

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

The BC Place in Vancouver hosting a 2015 Women's World Cup match

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

Queen Elizabeth II presenting the Jules Rimet trophy to 1966 World Cup winning England captain Bobby Moore

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]

The current trophy (held by France forward Ousmane Dembélé in 2018) has been presented since 1974

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

Map of FIFA World Cup final hosts, 1930–2022. Green: once; dark green: twice; light green: planned

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.

Russian delegates celebrate being chosen as the host of the 2018 FIFA World Cup

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

YearHostsVenues/
Cities
Total
attendance
MatchesAvg.
attendance
Highest attendances †
NumberVenueGame(s)
1930Uruguay3/1590,5491832,80893,000Estadio Centenario, MontevideoUruguay 6–1 Yugoslavia, Semi-final
1934Italy8/8363,0001721,35355,000Stadio Nazionale PNF, RomeItaly 2–1 Czechoslovakia, Final
1938France10/9375,7001820,87258,455Olympique de Colombes, ParisFrance 1–3 Italy, Quarter-final
1950Brazil6/61,045,2462247,511173,850[71]Maracanã Stadium, Rio de JaneiroBrazil 1–2 Uruguay, Deciding match
1954Switzerland6/6768,6072629,56263,000Wankdorf Stadium, BernWest Germany 3–2 Hungary, Final
1958Sweden12/12819,8103523,42350,928Ullevi Stadium, GothenburgBrazil 2–0 Soviet Union, Group stage
1962Chile4/4893,1723227,91268,679Estadio Nacional, SantiagoBrazil 4–2 Chile, Semi-final
1966England8/71,563,1353248,84898,270Wembley Stadium, LondonEngland 4–2 West Germany, Final
1970Mexico5/51,603,9753250,124108,192Estadio Azteca, Mexico CityMexico 1–0 Belgium, Group stage
1974West Germany9/91,865,7533849,09983,168Olympiastadion, West BerlinWest Germany 1–0 Chile, Group stage
1978Argentina6/51,545,7913840,67971,712River Plate Stadium, Buenos AiresItaly 1–0 Argentina, Group stage
1982Spain17/142,109,7235240,57295,500Camp Nou, BarcelonaArgentina 0–1 Belgium, Opening match
1986Mexico12/112,394,0315246,039114,600Estadio Azteca, Mexico CityMexico 1–1 Paraguay, Group stage
Argentina 3–2 West Germany, Final
1990Italy12/122,516,2155248,38974,765San Siro, MilanWest Germany 4–1 Yugoslavia, Group stage
1994United States9/93,587,5385268,99194,194Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CaliforniaBrazil 0(3)–(2)0 Italy, Final
1998France10/102,785,1006443,51780,000Stade de France, Saint-DenisBrazil 0–3 France, Final
2002Japan / South Korea20/202,705,1976442,26969,029International Stadium, Yokohama, JapanBrazil 2–0 Germany, Final
2006Germany12/123,359,4396452,49172,000Olympiastadion, BerlinGermany 1(4)–(2)1 Argentina, Quarter-final
2010South Africa10/93,178,8566449,67084,490Soccer City, JohannesburgSpain 1–0 Netherlands, Final
2014Brazil12/123,429,8736453,59274,738Maracanã Stadium, Rio de JaneiroGermany 1–0 Argentina, Final
2018Russia12/113,031,7686447,37178,011Luzhniki Stadium, MoscowFrance 4–2 Croatia, Final
Overall40,532,47890045,036171,772Maracanã Stadium, Rio (1950)

The best-attended single match, shown in the last three columns, has been the final in half of the 20 World Cups as of 2014. Another match or matches drew more attendance than the final in 1930, 1938, 1958, 1962, 1970–1982, 1990 and 2006.

  • Source: FIFA[72]

Broadcasting and promotion

A Coca-Cola bottle promoting the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan

The World Cup was first televised in 1954 and is now the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world. The cumulative viewership of all matches of the 2006 World Cup is estimated to be 26.29 billion.[1] 715.1 million individuals watched the final match of this tournament (a ninth of the entire population of the planet). The 2006 World Cup draw, which decided the distribution of teams into groups, was watched by 300 million viewers.[73] The World Cup attracts many sponsors such as Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Adidas. For these companies and many more, being a sponsor strongly impacts their global brands. Host countries typically experience a multimillion-dollar revenue increase from the month-long event.The governing body of the sport, FIFA, generated $4.8 billion in revenue from the 2014 tournament.[74]

Each FIFA World Cup since 1966 has its own mascot or logo. World Cup Willie, the mascot for the 1966 competition, was the first World Cup mascot.[75] World Cups feature official match balls specially designed for each tournament.[76] Each World Cup also has an official song, which have been performed by artists ranging from Shakira to Will Smith.[77][78] Other songs, such as “Nessun dorma”, performed by The Three Tenors at four World Cup concerts, have also become identified with the tournament.[79]

Forming a partnership with FIFA in 1970, Panini published its first sticker album for the 1970 World Cup.[80] Since then, collecting and trading stickers and cards has become part of the World Cup experience, especially for the younger generation.[81] FIFA has also licensed World Cup video games since 1986, with Electronic Arts the current license holder.[80]

The World Cup even has a statistically significant effect on birth rates, the male/female sex ratio of newborns, and heart attacks in nations whose national teams are competing.[82][83][84]

Results

#YearHostsChampionsScore and VenueRunners-upThird placeScore and VenueFourth placeNo. of Teams
11930
Details
Uruguay
Uruguay
4–2
Estadio Centenario, Montevideo

Argentina

United States
[note 1]
Yugoslavia
13
21934
Details
Italy
Italy
2–1 (a.e.t.)
Stadio Nazionale PNF, Rome

Czechoslovakia

Germany
3–2
Stadio Giorgio Ascarelli, Naples

Austria
16
31938
Details
France
Italy
4–2
Stade de Colombes, Paris

Hungary

Brazil
4–2
Parc Lescure, Bordeaux

Sweden
15
1942Editions not organized because of World War II.
1946
41950
Details
Brazil
Uruguay
[note 2]
2–1
Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro

Brazil

Sweden
[note 2]
3–1
Pacaembu, São Paulo

Spain
13
51954
Details
Switzerland
West Germany
3–2
Wankdorfstadion, Bern

Hungary

Austria
3–1
Hardturm, Zürich

Uruguay
16
61958
Details
Sweden
Brazil
5–2
Råsundastadion, Solna

Sweden

France
6–3
Ullevi, Gothenburg

West Germany
16
71962
Details
Chile
Brazil
3–1
Estadio Nacional, Santiago

Czechoslovakia

Chile
1–0
Estadio Nacional, Santiago

Yugoslavia
16
81966
Details
England
England
4–2 (a.e.t.)
Wembley Stadium, London

West Germany

Portugal
2–1
Wembley Stadium, London

Soviet Union
16
91970
Details
Mexico
Brazil
4–1
Estadio Azteca, Mexico City

Italy

West Germany
1–0
Estadio Azteca, Mexico City

Uruguay
16
101974
Details
West Germany
West Germany
2–1
Olympiastadion, Munich

Netherlands

Poland
1–0
Olympiastadion, Munich

Brazil
16
111978
Details
Argentina
Argentina
3–1 (a.e.t.)
Monumental de Núñez, Buenos Aires

Netherlands

Brazil
2–1
Monumental de Núñez, Buenos Aires

Italy
16
121982
Details
Spain
Italy
3–1
Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid

West Germany

Poland
3–2
Estadio José Rico Pérez, Alicante

France
24
131986
Details
Mexico
Argentina
3–2
Estadio Azteca, Mexico City

West Germany

France
4–2 (a.e.t.)
Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla

Belgium
24
141990
Details
Italy
West Germany
1–0
Stadio Olimpico, Rome

Argentina

Italy
2–1
Stadio San Nicola, Bari

England
24
151994
Details
United States
Brazil
0–0 (a.e.t.)
(3–2 pen.)
Rose Bowl, Pasadena

Italy

Sweden
4–0
Rose Bowl, Pasadena

Bulgaria
24
161998
Details
France
France
3–0
Stade de France, Saint-Denis

Brazil

Croatia
2–1
Parc des Princes, Paris

Netherlands
32
172002
Details
Japan
South Korea

Brazil
2–0
International Stadium, Yokohama

Germany

Turkey
3–2
Daegu Stadium, Daegu

South Korea
32
182006
Details
Germany
Italy
1–1 (a.e.t.)
(5–3 pen.)
Olympiastadion, Berlin

France

Germany
3–1
Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion, Stuttgart

Portugal
32
192010
Details
South Africa
Spain
1–0 (a.e.t.)
Soccer City, Johannesburg

Netherlands

Germany
3–2
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Port Elizabeth

Uruguay
32
202014
Details
Brazil
Germany
1–0 (a.e.t.)
Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro

Argentina

Netherlands
3–0
Estádio Nacional, Brasília

Brazil
32
212018
Details
Russia
France
4–2
Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow

Croatia

Belgium
2–0
Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg

England
32
222022
Details
QatarTBDTBD
Iconic Stadium, Lusail
TBDTBDTBD
TBD
TBD32
232026
Details
Canada
Mexico
United States
TBDTBD
TBD, United States
TBDTBDTBD
TBD
TBD48
  • a.e.t.: after extra time
  • pen.: after penalty shoot-out
  • TBD: to be determined
Notes
  1. ^There was no third place match in 1930; the United States and Yugoslavia lost in the semi-finals. FIFA now recognises the United States as the third-placed team and Yugoslavia as the fourth-placed team, using the overall records of the teams in the tournament.[85]
  2. ^ abThere was no official World Cup final match in 1950.[86] The tournament winner was decided by a final round-robin group contested by four teams (Uruguay, Brazil, Sweden, and Spain). Coincidentally, one of the last two matches of the tournament pitted the two top ranked teams against each other, with Uruguay's 2–1 victory over Brazil thus often being considered as the de facto final of the 1950 World Cup.[87] Likewise, the game between the lowest ranked teams, played at the same time as Uruguay vs Brazil, can be considered equal to a 3rd place match, with Sweden's 3–1 victory over Spain ensuring that they finished third.

In all, 79 nations have played in at least one World Cup.[88] Of these, eight national teams have won the World Cup, and they have added stars to their badges, with each star representing a World Cup victory. (Uruguay, however, choose to display four stars on their badge, representing their two gold medals at the 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympics and their two World Cup titles in 1930 and 1950).

With five titles, Brazil are the most successful World Cup team and also the only nation to have played in every World Cup (21) to date.[89] Brazil were also the first team to win the World Cup for the third (1970), fourth (1994) and fifth (2002) time. Italy (1934 and 1938) and Brazil (1958 and 1962) are the only nations to have won consecutive titles. West Germany (1982–1990) and Brazil (1994–2002) are the only nations to appear in three consecutive World Cup finals. Germany has made the most top-four finishes (13), medals (12), as well as the most finals (8).

Map of countries' best results

Teams reaching the top four

Teams reaching the top four
TeamTitlesRunners-upThird placeFourth placeTop 4
Finishes
Top 3
Finishes
Top 2
Finishes
Brazil5 (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002)2 (1950*, 1998)2 (1938, 1978)2 (1974, 2014*)1197
Germany^4 (1954, 1974*, 1990, 2014)4 (1966, 1982, 1986, 2002)4 (1934, 1970, 2006*, 2010)1 (1958)13128
Italy4 (1934*, 1938, 1982, 2006)2 (1970, 1994)1 (1990*)1 (1978)876
Argentina2 (1978*, 1986)3 (1930, 1990, 2014)555
France2 (1998*, 2018)1 (2006)2 (1958, 1986)1 (1982)653
Uruguay2 (1930*, 1950)3 (1954, 1970, 2010)522
England1 (1966*)2 (1990, 2018)311
Spain1 (2010)1 (1950)211
Netherlands3 (1974, 1978, 2010)1 (2014)1 (1998)543
Hungary2 (1938, 1954)222
Czechoslovakia#2 (1934, 1962)222
Sweden1 (1958*)2 (1950, 1994)1 (1938)431
Croatia1 (2018)1 (1998)221
Poland2 (1974, 1982)22
Austria1 (1954)1 (1934)21
Portugal1 (1966)1 (2006)21
Belgium1 (2018)1 (1986)21
United States1 (1930)11
Chile1 (1962*)11
Turkey1 (2002)11
Yugoslavia#2 (1930, 1962)2
Soviet Union#1 (1966)1
Bulgaria1 (1994)1
South Korea1 (2002*)1
* = hosts
^ = includes results representing West Germany between 1954 and 1990
# = states that have since split into two or more independent nations[88]

Best performances by continental zones

South Koreans watching their nation on the big screens in Seoul Plaza during the 2002 World Cup when they became the first Asian country to reach the semi-finals.

To date, the final of the World Cup has only been contested by teams from the UEFA (Europe) and CONMEBOL (South America) confederations. European nations have won twelve titles, while South American have won nine. Only two teams from outside these two continents have ever reached the semi-finals of the competition: United States (North, Central America and Caribbean) in 1930 and South Korea (Asia) in 2002. The best result of an African team is reaching the quarter-finals: Cameroon in 1990, Senegal in 2002 and Ghana in 2010. Only one Oceanian qualifier, Australia in 2006, has advanced to the second round.[90]

Brazil, Argentina, Spain and Germany are the only teams to win a World Cup outside their continental confederation; Brazil came out victorious in Europe (1958), North America (1970 and 1994) and Asia (2002). Argentina won a World Cup in North America in 1986, while Spain won in Africa in 2010. In 2014, Germany became the first European team to win in the Americas. Only on five occasions have consecutive World Cups been won by teams from the same continent, and currently it is the first time with four champions in a row from the same continental confederation. Italy and Brazil successfully defended their titles in 1938 and 1962 respectively, while Italy's triumph in 2006 has been followed by wins for Spain in 2010, Germany in 2014 and France in 2018. Currently, it is also the first time that one of the currently winning continents (Europe) is ahead of the other (South America) by more than one championship.

Total times teams qualified by confederation
ConfederationAFCCAFCONCACAFCONMEBOLOFCUEFATotal
Teams374442854245457
Top 16691435191156
Top 8235340100144
Top 41012206084
Top 20001402842
1st000901221
2nd000501621
3rd001301721
4th100501521

Awards

At the end of each World Cup, awards are presented to the players and teams for accomplishments other than their final team positions in the tournament. There are currently six awards:[91]

  • The Golden Ball for the best player, determined by a vote of media members (first awarded in 1982); the Silver Ball and the Bronze Ball are awarded to the players finishing second and third in the voting respectively;[92]
  • The Golden Boot (sometimes called the Golden Shoe) for the top goalscorer (first awarded in 1982, but retrospectively applied to all tournaments from 1930); most recently, the Silver Boot and the Bronze Boot have been awarded to the second and third top goalscorers respectively;[93]
  • The Golden Glove Award (formerly the Yashin Award) for the best goalkeeper, decided by the FIFA Technical Study Group (first awarded in 1994);[94]
  • The Best Young Player Award for the best player aged 21 or younger at the start of the calendar year, decided by the FIFA Technical Study Group (first awarded in 2006);[95]
  • The FIFA Fair Play Trophy for the team with the best record of fair play, according to the points system and criteria established by the FIFA Fair Play Committee (first awarded in 1978);[95]
  • The Most Entertaining Team for the team that has entertained the public the most during the World Cup, determined by a poll of the general public (first awarded in 1994);[95]

An All-Star Team consisting of the best players of the tournament has also been announced for each tournament since 1998.

Records and statistics

Lothar Matthäus played a record 25 World Cup matches across a joint record five tournaments.

Three players share the record for playing in the most World Cups; Mexico's Antonio Carbajal (1950–1966) and Rafael Márquez (2002–2018); and Germany's Lothar Matthäus (1982–1998) all played in five tournaments.[96] Matthäus has played the most World Cup matches overall, with 25 appearances.[97]Brazil's Djalma Santos (1954–1962), West Germany's Franz Beckenbauer (1966–1974) and Germany's Philipp Lahm (2006–2014) are the only players to be named to three Finals All-Star Teams.[98]

Miroslav Klose of Germany (2002–2014) is the all-time top scorer at the finals, with 16 goals. He broke Ronaldo of Brazil's record of 15 goals (1998–2006) during the 2014 semi-final match against Brazil. West Germany's Gerd Müller (1970–1974) is third, with 14 goals.[99] The fourth placed goalscorer, France's Just Fontaine, holds the record for the most goals scored in a single World Cup; all his 13 goals were scored in the 1958 tournament.[100]

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] This made Brazil's Pelé the only player to have won three World Cup winners' medals (1958, 1962, and 1970, although he did not play in the 1962 final due to injury),[101] with 20 other players who have won two winners' medals. Seven players have collected all three types of World Cup medals (winners', runner- ups', and third-place); five players were from West Germany's squad of 1966–1974 including Franz Beckenbauer, Jürgen Grabowski, Horst-Dieter Höttges, Sepp Maier and Wolfgang Overath (1966–1974), Italy's Franco Baresi (1982, 1990, 1994) and the most recent has been Miroslav Klose of Germany (2002–2014) with four consecutive medals.[102]

Brazil's Mário Zagallo, West Germany's Franz Beckenbauer and France's Didier Deschamps are the only people to date to win the World Cup as both player and head coach. Zagallo won in 1958 and 1962 as a player and in 1970 as head coach.[103] Beckenbauer won in 1974 as captain and in 1990 as head coach,[104] and Deschamps repeated the feat in 2018, after having won in 1998 as captain.[105]Italy's Vittorio Pozzo is the only head coach to ever win two World Cups (1934 and 1938).[106] All World Cup-winning head coaches were natives of the country they coached to victory.[107]

Among the national teams, Germany and Brazil have played the most World Cup matches (109), Germany appeared in the most finals (8), semi-finals (13), quarter-finals (16), while Brazil has appeared in the most World Cups (21), has the most wins (73) and has scored the most goals (229).[108][109] The two teams have played each other twice in the World Cup, in the 2002 final and in the 2014 semi-final.[110]

Top goalscorers

Past World Cup Winners Fifa

Miroslav Klose scored a record 16 goals across four World Cups.
Players with more than 10 goals at World Cup tournaments
RankNationPlayerGoals scored
1Miroslav Klose16
2Ronaldo15
3Gerd Müller14
4Just Fontaine13
5Pelé12
6Jürgen Klinsmann11
Sándor Kocsis11

All-time table for champions

PositionName of TeamParticipationsPldWDLGFGAGDPtsAvg
Pts
Trophies
1Brazil211097318182291051242372.175
2Germany[111]191096720222261251012212.034
3Italy188345211712877511561.884
4Argentina178143152313793441441.782
5France156634131912077431151.742
6England15692921199164271081.591
7Spain15633015189972271051.671
8Uruguay1356241220877413841.502

See also

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  • Glanville, Brian (2005). The Story of the World Cup. Faber. ISBN0-571-22944-1.

External links

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