FIFA Men's World Cup Winners List and History

FIFA World Cup competition is the highest prestigious sporting tournament on the planet. The World Cup champion as a nation is called by the best team in the world.

You can see over 200 nations are playing soccer internationally and competing for the FIFA World Cup but only 32 teams are qualified for the tournament. But only Brazil, Germany, Italy, Argentina, Uruguay, France, Spain, and England are the only nation that has the World Cup of all countries.

Brazil’s national men’s football team wins five World Cup titles who mostly known as the most successful soccer team. Here we have listed past history of the World Cup winners since it begins.

Year	Teams	Host	Champion	Runner Up	Third Place	Matches
2018	32	Russia	France (4-2)	Croatia	Belgium	64
2014	32	Brazil	Germany (1-0) (a.e.t.)	Argentina	Netherlands	64
2010	32	South Africa	Spain (1-0) (a.e.t.)	Netherlands	Germany	64
2006	32	Germany	Italy (1-1) (a.e.t.) (5-3 pen.)	France	Germany	64
2002	32	South Korea, Japan	Brazil (2-0)	Germany	Turkey	64
1998	32	France	France (3-0)	Brazil	Croatia	64
1994	24	United States	Brazil (0-0 (a.e.t.) (3-2 pen.)	Italy	Sweden	52
1990	24	Italy	West Germany (1-0)	Argentina	Italy	52
1986	24	Mexico	Argentina (3-2)	West Germany	France	52
1982	24	Spain	Italy (3-1)	West Germany	Poland	52
1978	16	Argentina	Argentina (3-1) (a.e.t.)	Netherlands	Brazil	38
1974	16	West Germany	West Germany (2-1)	Netherlands	Poland	38
1970	16	Mexico	Brazil (4-1)	Italy	West Germany	32
1966	16	England	England (4-2) (a.e.t.)	West Germany	Portugal	32
1962	16	Chile	Brazil (3-1)	Czechoslovakia	Chile	32
1958	16	Sweden	Brazil (5-2)	Sweden	France	35
1954	16	Switzerland	West Germany (3-2)	Hungary	Austria	26
1950	13	Brazil	Uruguay (2-1) [n 3]	Brazil	Sweden	22
1938	15	France	Italy (4-2)	Hungary	Brazil	18
1934	16	Italy	Italy (2-1) (a.e.t.)	Czechoslovakia	Germany	17
1930	13	Uruguay	Uruguay (4-2)	Argentina	United States	16

*Match was won during the extra time (a.e.t.)
*Match was won on a penalty shoot-out (pen.)