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FIFA World Cup
This article is about the men's competition. For the women's competition, see FIFA Women's World Cup. For other
uses, see World Cup.
FIFA World Cup
Founded 1930
Region International (FIFA)
Number of teams 32 (finals)
204 (qualifiers for 2010)
Current champions
Spain (1st title)
Most successful team(s)
Brazil (5 titles)
Website
Official website
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2014 FIFA World Cup
Tournaments
1930
1934
1938
1950
1954
1958
1962
1966
1970
1974
1978
1982
1986
1990
1994
1998
2002
2006
2010
2014
2018
2022
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 Fdration 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
champions were Spain, who won the 2010 tournament in South Africa.
The current format of the tournament involves 32 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation(s)
over a period of about a month; this phase is often called the World Cup Finals. A qualification phase, which
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currently takes place over the preceding three years, is used to determine which teams qualify for the tournament
together with the host nation(s).
The 19 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight different national teams. Brazil have won five times, and
they are the only team to have played in every tournament (Brazil automatically qualified for the 2014 tournament,
as the host nation). The other World Cup winners are Italy, with four titles; West Germany, with three titles;
Argentina and inaugural winners Uruguay, with two titles each; and England, France, and Spain, with one title each.
The World Cup is the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic
Games; the cumulative audience of all matches of the 2006 FIFA 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.
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The 2014 FIFA World Cup is currently being contested in Brazil. The next two World Cups will be hosted by Russia
in 2018, and Qatar in 2022, which has been widely criticised by media, with allegations of vote-buying.
History
Main article: History of the FIFA World Cup
Map of FIFA World Cup final hosts, 19302022. Dark green: once; light green: twice
Previous international
competitions
The world's first international football
match was a challenge match played in
Glasgow in 1872 between Scotland
and England, which ended in a 00
draw. The first international
tournament, the inaugural edition of
the British Home Championship, took
place in 1884. As football grew in
popularity in other parts of the world at
the turn 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.
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.
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 in 1912 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, 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.
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In 1914, FIFA agreed to recognise the Olympic tournament as a "world football championship for amateurs", and
took responsibility for managing the event. This paved the way for the world's first intercontinental football
competition, at the 1920 Summer Olympics, contested by Egypt and thirteen European teams, and won by Belgium.
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
Estadio Centenario, the location of the first World
Cup final in 1930 in Montevideo, Uruguay
Due to the success of the Olympic football tournaments, FIFA, with
President Jules 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. 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 thirteen nations took part: seven from South America, four from
Europe and two from North America.
The first two World Cup matches took place simultaneously on 13 July 1930, and were won by France and USA,
who defeated Mexico 41 and Belgium 30 respectively. The first goal in World Cup history was scored by Lucien
Laurent of France. In the final, Uruguay defeated Argentina 42 in front of a crowd of 93,000 people in Montevideo,
and in doing so became the first nation to win the World Cup.
After the creation of the World Cup, the 1932 Summer Olympics, held in Los Angeles, did not plan to include
football as part of the schedule due to the low popularity of the sport in the United States, as American football had
been growing in popularity. FIFA and the IOC also disagreed over the status of amateur players, and so football was
dropped from the Games. Olympic football returned at the 1936 Summer Olympics, but was now overshadowed by
the more prestigious World Cup.
The issues facing the early World Cup tournaments were the difficulties of intercontinental travel, and war. Few
South American teams were willing to travel to Europe for the 1934 and 1938 tournaments, with Brazil the only
South American team to compete in both. The 1942 and 1946 competitions, which Nazi Germany and Brazil sought
to host, were cancelled due to World War II and its aftermath.
World Cups after World War II
The 1950 World Cup, held in Brazil, was the first to include British participants. British teams withdrew from FIFA
in 1920, partly out of unwillingness to play against the countries they had been at war with, and partly as a protest
against foreign influence on football, but rejoined in 1946 following FIFA's invitation.
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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:
Maracanao).
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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.
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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; Korea DPR, quarter-finalists in 1966; and Mexico, quarter-finalists in 1970.
Expansion to 32 teams
The tournament was expanded to 24 teams in 1982,
[7]
and then to 32 in 1998,
[8]
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;
Korea Republic, finishing in fourth place in 2002; Senegal, along with USA, both quarter-finalists in 2002; and
Ghana as quarter-finalists in 2010. Nevertheless, European and South American teams continue to dominate, e.g., the
quarter-finalists in 1994, 1998, and 2006 were all from Europe or South America.
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.
Possible expansion to 40 teams
In October 2013, Sepp Blatter spoke of guaranteeing the Caribbean Football Union's region a position in the World
Cup. In the 25 October 2013 edition 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" Those two remarks suggested to commentators that Blatter
could be putting himself forward for re-election to the FIFA Presidency. Following the magazine's publishment,
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 Asia Football Confederation and Confederation of African
Football, two shared between CONCACAF and CONMEBOL, and a guaranteed place for the Oceania Football
Confederation. Platini was clear about why he wanted to expand the World Cup. He said: "[The World Cup is] not
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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."
Other FIFA tournaments
An equivalent tournament for women's football, the FIFA Women's World Cup, was first held in 1991 in the
People's Republic of China. 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.
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. Women's football made its Olympic debut in 1996, and is contested
between full national sides with no age restrictions.
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.
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). Since
the 2010 edition, the U-20 Women's World Cup has played the same role in women's football as the Confederations
Cup plays in the men's game. When the U-20 Women's World Cup is held the year before the Women's World Cup,
both tournaments are awarded in a single bidding process, with the U-20 tournament serving as a dress rehearsal for
the larger competition.
Trophy
Main article: FIFA World Cup Trophy
FIFA World Cup Trophy on a German stamp
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.
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 36cm (14.2in) high, made of solid 18 carat (75%) gold and
weighs 6.175kg (13.6lb). 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. 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."
This new trophy is not awarded to the winning nation permanently. World Cup winners retain the trophy until the
next tournament and are awarded a gold-plated replica rather than the solid gold original.
Currently, all members (players, coaches, and managers) of the top three teams receive medals with an insignia of
the World Cup Trophy; winners' (gold), runner-ups' (silver), and third-place (bronze). In the 2002 edition,
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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.
Format
Qualification
Main article: FIFA World Cup qualification
Since the second World Cup in 1934, qualifying tournaments have been held to thin the field for the final
tournament. 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. 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.
Final tournament
For the various formats used in previous tournaments, see History of the FIFA World Cup#Format of each final
tournament.
The current final tournament features 32 national teams competing over a month in the host nation(s). There are two
stages: the group stage followed by the knockout stage.
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. 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.
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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.
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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 (= 3
6
) different
outcome combinations possible. However, a certain number (115) of these combinations lead to more than one team
occupying the second place in the group. In such case, the ranking among these teams is determined as follows:
1. 1. Greatest combined goal difference in all group matches
2. 2. Greatest combined number of goals scored in all group matches
3. 3. If more than one team remain level after applying the above criteria, their ranking will be determined as follows:
1. 1. Greatest number of points in head-to-head matches among those teams
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2. 2. Greatest goal difference in head-to-head matches among those teams
3. 3. Greatest number of goals scored in head-to-head matches among those teams
4. 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.
Hosts
Main article: FIFA World Cup hosts
Selection process
Early World Cups were given to countries at meetings of FIFA's congress. The locations were controversial because
South America and Europe were by far the two centres of strength in football and travel between them required three
weeks by boat. The decision to hold the first World Cup in Uruguay, for example, led to only four European nations
competing. 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.
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 only tournament with multiple
hosts. South Africa became the first African nation to host the World Cup in 2010. The 2014 FIFA World Cup is
hosted by Brazil, the first held in South America since 1978, and is the first occasion where consecutive World Cups
are held outside Europe.
The host country is now chosen in a vote by FIFA's Executive Committee. 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 respectively.
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. This is partly to avoid a similar scenario to the bidding process for the 2014 tournament, where
Brazil was the only official bidder.
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Performances
See also: Results of host nations in the FIFA World Cup
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 Spain, which reached
the second round on home soil in 1982. England (1966) and France (1998) won their only titles while playing as host
nations. Uruguay (1930), Italy (1934) and Argentina (1978) won their first titles as host nations but have gone on to
win again, while Germany (1974) won their second title on home soil.
Other nations have also been successful when hosting the tournament. Switzerland (quarter-finals 1954), Sweden
(runners-up in 1958), Chile (third place in 1962), Korea Republic (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) was the only host
nation to fail to advance beyond the first round.
Organisation and media coverage
See also: List of FIFA World Cup broadcasters
The World Cup was first televised in 1954 and is now the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the
world, exceeding even the Olympic Games. The cumulative audience of all matches of the 2006 World Cup is
estimated to be 26.29 billion. 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. The World Cup attracts many sponsors such as Coca-Cola, McDonalds and Adidas.
For these companies and many more, being a sponsor strongly impacts their global brands. Host countries typically
experience a multi-million dollar revenue increase from the month long event. It is predicted that Brazil will bring in
more than $11 billion in revenue for the 2014 World Cup.
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. Recent World Cups have also featured official match balls specially
designed for each World Cup.
Attendance
See also: List of sports attendance figures
Year & host Total attendance # matches Avg attendance
1930
590,549 18 32,808
1934
363,000 17 21,353
1938
375,700 18 20,872
1950
1,045,246 22 47,511
1954
768,607 26 29,562
1958
819,810 35 23,423
1962
893,172 32 27,912
1966 1,563,135 32 48,848
1970 1,603,975 32 50,124
1974 1,865,753 38 49,099
1978
1,545,791 38 40,679
1982
2,109,723 52 40,572
1986 2,394,031 52 46,039
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1990
2,516,215 52 48,389
1994 3,587,538 52 68,991
1998
2,785,100 64 43,517
2002
2,705,197 64 42,269
2006 3,359,439 64 52,491
2010
3,178,856 64 49,670
Source:
Results
See also: List of FIFA World Cup finals
Year Host Winner Score Runner-up Third
place
Score Fourth
place
Number of teams
1930
Details
Uruguay
Uruguay
42
Argentina
United
States
[11]
</ref>
Yugoslavia
13
1934
Details
Italy
Italy
21
(aet)
Czechoslovakia Germany
32
Austria
16
1938
Details
France
Italy
42
Hungary
Brazil
42
Sweden
16/15
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1950
Details
Brazil
Uruguay
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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 21 victory
over Brazil thus often
being considered as
the de facto final of
the 1950 World Cup.
Likewise, the game
between the lowest
ranked teams, played
at the same time as
Uruguay vs Brazil,
can be considered
equal to a Third Place
match, with Sweden's
31 victory over
Spain ensuring that
they finished
third.</ref>
Brazil
Sweden Spain
16/13
[14]
16 teams
entered the seeding
groups draw.
However, Turkey and
Scotland both
withdrew before the
draw; France
(eliminated in
qualifying) was
invited as a
replacement, leaving
the tournament to be
held with 15 teams.
After the draw, India
and France both
withdrew, so only 13
teams participated in
the tournament.</ref>
1954
Details
Switzerland
West
Germany
32
Hungary Austria
31
Uruguay
16
1958
Details
Sweden
Brazil
52
Sweden France
63
West
Germany
16
1962
Details
Chile
Brazil
31
Czechoslovakia Chile
10
Yugoslavia
16
1966
Details
England
England
42
(aet)
West Germany
Portugal
21
Soviet
Union
16
1970
Details
Mexico
Brazil
41
Italy
West
Germany
10
Uruguay
16
1974
Details
West
Germany
West
Germany
21
Netherlands Poland
10
Brazil
16
1978
Details
Argentina
Argentina
31
(aet)
Netherlands Brazil
21
Italy
16
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1982
Details
Spain
Italy
31
West Germany Poland
32
France
24
1986
Details
Mexico
Argentina
32
West Germany
France
42
(aet)
Belgium
24
1990
Details
Italy
West
Germany
10
Argentina Italy
21
England
24
1994
Details
United
States
Brazil
00
(32p)
Italy Sweden
40
Bulgaria
24
1998
Details
France
France
30
Brazil
Croatia
21
Netherlands
32
2002
Details
South
Korea
& Japan
Brazil
20
Germany
Turkey
32
South
Korea
32
2006
Details
Germany
Italy
11
(53p)
France
Germany
31
Portugal
32
2010
Details
South
Africa
Spain
10
(aet)
Netherlands
Germany
32
Uruguay
32
2014
Details
Brazil
32
aet: after extra time
p: after penalty shoot-out
Notes
[1] http:/ / www. fifa. com/ worldcup/ index. html
[2] Tom Dunmore, Historical Dictionary of Soccer (http:/ / books. google. co. uk/ books?id=9j1wbp2t1usC& pg=PA235#v=onepage& q&
f=false), page 235, quote "The World Cup is now the most-watched sporting event in the world on television, above even the Olympic
Games."
[3] Stephen Dobson and John Goddard, The Economics of Football (http:/ / books. google. co. uk/ books?id=GxyG0XXdvR4C&
pg=PA407#v=onepage& q& f=false), page 407, quote "The World Cup is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world: the estimated
cumulative television audience for the 2006 World Cup in Germany was 26.2 billion, an average of 409 million viewers per match."
[4] Glenn M. Wong, The Comprehensive Guide to Careers in Sports (http:/ / books. google. co. uk/ books?id=qEELS7T_Tm0C&
pg=PA144#v=onepage& q& f=false), page 144, quote "The World Cup is the most-watched sporting event in the world. In 2006, more than
30 billion viewers in 214 countries watched the World Cup on television, and more than 3.3 million spectators attended the 64 matches of the
tournament."
[5] [5] Glanville
[6] [6] Glanville, p45
[7] [7] Glanville, p238
[8] [8] Glanville, p359
[9] [9] Previously, due to there being fewer finals places and a bigger ratio of European finalists, there had been several occasions where three
European teams were in a single group, for example, 1986 (West Germany, Scotland, and Denmark), 1990 (Italy, Czechoslovakia, and
Austria), and 1994 (Italy, Republic of Ireland, and Norway). ()
[10] This practice has been installed since the 1986 FIFA World Cup. In some cases during previous tournaments, for example, Argentina 60
Peru in Argentina 1978 and West Germany 10 Austria in Spain 1982, teams that played the latter match were perceived to gain an unfair
advantage by knowing the score of the earlier match, and subsequently obtaining a result that ensured advancement to the next stage. (; )
[11] There was no official World Cup 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.<ref>
[12] Austria withdrew after the draw as a result of the Anschluss with Germany: some Austrian players subsequently joined the German squad,
leaving the tournament with 15 teams.
[13] There was no official World Cup final match in 1950.<ref>
[14] Only 13 teams played the 1950 FIFA World Cup.<ref>
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In all, 76 nations have played in at least one World Cup.
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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 (19) to date, and they will host the 20th in 2014. Italy (1934 and 1938) and Brazil (1958 and 1962) are
the only nations to have won consecutive titles. West Germany (19821990) and Brazil (19942002) are the only
nations to appear in three consecutive World Cup finals. Germany have made the most top-four finishes, with
twelve, while sharing the record of most top-two finishes with Brazil, with seven.
Teams reaching the top four
See also: FIFA World Cup comprehensive team results by tournament
Team Titles Runners-up Third place Fourth place Top 4
finishes
Brazil
5 (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994,
2002)
2 (1950*, 1998) 2 (1938, 1978) 1 (1974) 10
Italy
4 (1934*, 1938, 1982, 2006) 2 (1970, 1994) 1 (1990*) 1 (1978) 8
Germany^ 3 (1954, 1974*, 1990) 4 (1966, 1982, 1986,
2002)
4 (1934, 1970, 2006*,
2010)
1 (1958) 12
Argentina
2 (1978*, 1986) 2 (1930, 1990) &

&

4
Uruguay
2 (1930*, 1950) &

&

3 (1954, 1970,
2010)
5
France
1 (1998*) 1 (2006) 2 (1958, 1986) 1 (1982) 5
England 1 (1966*) &

&

1 (1990) 2
Spain
1 (2010) &

&

1 (1950) 2
Netherlands
&

3 (1974, 1978, 2010) &

1 (1998) 4
Czechoslovakia
#
&

2 (1934, 1962) &

&

2
Hungary &

2 (1938, 1954) &

&

2
Sweden
&

1 (1958*) 2 (1950, 1994) 1 (1938) 4


Poland
&

&

2 (1974, 1982) &

2
Austria
&

&

1 (1954) 1 (1934) 2
Portugal
&

&

1 (1966) 1 (2006) 2
United States &

&

1 (1930) &

1
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Chile
&

&

1 (1962*) &

1
Croatia &

&

1 (1998) &

1
Turkey
&

&

1 (2002) &

1
Yugoslavia
# &

&

&

2 (1930, 1962) 2
Soviet Union
# &

&

&

1 (1966) 1
Belgium
&

&

&

1 (1986) 1
Bulgaria &

&

&

1 (1994) 1
South Korea
&

&

&

1 (2002*) 1
* = hosts
^ = includes results representing West Germany between 1954 and 1990
#
= states that have since split into two or more independent nations
Ranking of teams by number of reaching the top eight
Team Appearances Record streak Active streak Debut Most recent Best result (* = hosts)
Germany 16 15 15 1934 2010 Champions (1954, 1974*, 1990)
Brazil
16 5 5 1930 2010 Champions (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002)
Italy
10 3 0 1934 2006 Champions (1934*, 1938, 1982, 2006)
England 10 3 0 1950 2006 Champions (1966*)
Argentina
9 2 2 1930 2010 Champions (1978*, 1986)
Serbia
7 4 0 1930 1990 Fourth place (1930, 1962)
France
7 2 0 1930 2006 Champions (1998*)
Sweden
6 3 0 1934 1994 Runners-up (1958*)
Uruguay
6 2 1 1930 2010 Champions (1930*, 1950)
Spain
6 1 1 1934 2010 Champions (2010)
Russia
5 4 0 1958 1982 Fourth place (1966)
Netherlands
5 2 1 1934 2010 Runners-up (1974, 1978, 2010)
Hungary 5 2 0 1934 1966 Runners-up (1938, 1954)
Switzerland
4 4 0 1934 1954 Quarterfinals (1934, 1938, 1954*)
Czech Republic
4 2 0 1934 1990 Runners-up (1934, 1962)
Austria
4 1 0 1934 1982 Third place (1954)
Poland
3 3 0 1974 1982 Third place (1974, 1982)
Chile
2 1 0 1930 1962 Third place (1962*)
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Romania
2 1 0 1930 1994 Quarterfinals (1994)
United States 2 1 0 1930 2002 Third place (1930)
Portugal
2 1 0 1966 2006 Third place (1966)
Peru
2 1 0 1970 1978 Quarterfinals (1970), Round 2 (top 8) (1978)
Mexico 2 1 0 1970 1986 Quarterfinals (1970*, 1986*)
Ghana
1 1 1 2010 2010 Quarterfinals (2010)
Paraguay 1 1 1 2010 2010 Quarterfinals (2010)
Cuba 1 1 0 1938 1938 Quarterfinals (1938)
Northern Ireland 1 1 0 1958 1958 Quarterfinals (1958)
Wales 1 1 0 1958 1958 Quarterfinals (1958)
North Korea 1 1 0 1966 1966 Quarterfinals (1966)
East Germany 1 1 0 1974 1974 Round 2 (top 8) (1974)
Belgium
1 1 0 1986 1986 Fourth place (1986)
Cameroon
1 1 0 1990 1990 Quarterfinals (1990)
Republic of Ireland 1 1 0 1990 1990 Quarterfinals (1990)
Bulgaria 1 1 0 1994 1994 Fourth place (1994)
Croatia 1 1 0 1998 1998 Third place (1998)
Denmark
1 1 0 1998 1998 Quarterfinals (1998)
Senegal
1 1 0 2002 2002 Quarterfinals (2002)
South Korea
1 1 0 2002 2002 Fourth place (2002*)
Turkey
1 1 0 2002 2002 Third place (2002)
Ukraine
1 1 0 2006 2006 Quarterfinals (2006)
Best performances by continental zones
See also: FIFA World Cup results by confederation
To date, the final of the World Cup has only been contested by European and South American teams. European
nations have won ten titles; South American teams have won nine. Only two teams from outside these two continents
have ever reached the semi-finals of the competition: USA (North, Central America and Caribbean) in 1930 and
South Korea (Asia) who reached the semis 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.
[2]
Brazil, Argentina, and Spain 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 North
American World Cup in 1986, while Spain won the only African World Cup in 2010. Only on three occasions have
consecutive World Cups been won by teams from the same continent Italy and Brazil successfully defended their
titles in 1938 and 1962 respectively, while Spain's 2010 triumph followed Italy's in 2006.
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Awards
Main article: FIFA World Cup 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:
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;
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;
The Golden Glove Award (formerly the Yashin Award) for the best goalkeeper, decided by the FIFA Technical
Study Group (first awarded in 1994);
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).
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);
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);
An All-Star Team consisting of the best players of the tournament has also been announced for each tournament
since 1998.
Records and statistics
Main article: FIFA World Cup records
Two players share the record for playing in the most World Cups; Mexico's Antonio Carbajal (19501966) and
Germany's Lothar Matthus (19821998) both played in five tournaments. Matthus has played the most World Cup
matches overall, with 25 appearances. West Germany's Franz Beckenbauer (19661974) is the only player to be
named to three Finals All-Star Teams.
Two players are tied for the most goals scored at the World Cup: Miroslav Klose of Germany (20022014) and
Ronaldo of Brazil (19982006), both with 15 goals. West Germany's Gerd Mller (19701974) is third, with 14
goals. 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.
In November 2007, FIFA announced that all members of World Cup-winning squads between 1930 and 1974 were
to be retroactively awarded winners' medals. This made Brazil's Pel 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), with 20 other
players who have won two winners' medals. Six 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 19661974 including
Franz Beckenbauer, and the most recent has been Italy's Franco Baresi (1982, 1990, 1994).
Brazil's Mrio Zagallo and West Germany's Franz Beckenbauer 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. Beckenbauer won
in 1974 as captain and in 1990 as head coach. Italy's Vittorio Pozzo is the only head coach to ever win two World
Cups (1934 and 1938). All World Cup winning head coaches were natives of the country they coached to victory.
Among the national teams, Germany has played the most World Cup matches (99) and appeared in the most
semi-finals (12) as well as quarter finals(16) Brazil has scored the most World Cup goals (210) and has appeared in
the most World Cups (20) The two teams have played each other only once in the World Cup, in the 2002 final.
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List of FIFA World Cup goalscorers
Note: Players in bold are playing in the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Rank Nation Player Goals scored
1 Miroslav Klose 15
Ronaldo 15
3 Gerd Mller 14
4 Just Fontaine 13
5 Pel 12
6 Jrgen Klinsmann 11
Sndor Kocsis 11
8 Gabriel Batistuta 10
Tefilo Cubillas 10
Grzegorz Lato 10
Gary Lineker 10
Helmut Rahn 10
See also: All-time table of the FIFA World Cup
Notes and references
[1] FIFA considers that the national team of Russia succeeds the USSR, the national team of Serbia succeeds the Yugoslavia/Serbia and
Montenegro, and the national team of Czech Republic succeeds the Czechoslovakia. (; ; ).
[2] Australia's qualification in 2006 was through the Oceanian zone as they were a member of the OFC member during qualifying. However, on
1 January 2006, they left the Oceania Football Confederation and joined the Asian Football Confederation.
Bibliography
Glanville, Brian (2005). The Story of the World Cup. Faber. p.44. ISBN0-571-22944-1.
External links
FIFA World Cup official site (http:/ / www. fifa. com/ worldcup/ index. html)
Previous FIFA World Cups (http:/ / www. fifa. com/ worldcup/ archive/ index. html)Wikipedia:Link rot
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