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FIFA World Cup

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Established
1930 (93 years old)

First Recorded Event
1930-07-13

Current Season
2026

API Football ID
4265

Sport
Soccer

Location
Worldwide

Gender
Male

Alternate Names
World Cup

TV Rights
US - Fox Sports [2018-2026]

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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 involves a qualification phase, which takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase. In the tournament phase, 32 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation(s), compete for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over 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 single sporting event in the world. 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.

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 will host the 2022 tournament, 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 host games in three World Cups.


Seasons

1930		1934		1938		1950		1954		1958		1962
1966		1970		1974		1978		1982		1986		1990
1994		1998		2002		2006		2010		2014		2015-2016
2016		2016-2017		2017		2017-2018		2018		2018-2019		2019-2020
2020-2021		2021-2022		2022

Teams

Afghanistan		Albania		Algeria		American Samoa
Andorra		Angola		Anguilla		Antigua and Bar
Argentina		Armenia		Aruba		Australia
Austria		Azerbaijan		Bahamas		Bahrain
Bangladesh		Barbados		Belarus		Belgium
Belize		Benin		Bermuda		Bhutan
Bolivia		Bosnia-Herzegov		Botswana		Brazil
British Virgin		Brunei		Bulgaria		Burkina Faso
Burundi		Cambodia		Cameroon		Canada
Cape Verde		Cayman Islands		Central African		Chad
Chile		China		Chinese Taipei		Colombia
Commonwealth of		Comoros		Congo		Cook Islands
Costa Rica		Croatia		Cuba		Curaçao
Cyprus		Czech Republic		Czechoslovakia		Denmark
Djibouti		Dominica		Dominican Repub		DR Congo
East Germany		Ecuador		Egypt		El Salvador
England		Equatorial Guin		Eritrea		Estonia
Eswatini		Ethiopia		Faroe Islands		Fiji
Finland		FR Yugoslavia		France		FYR Macedonia
Gabon		Gambia		Georgia		Germany
Ghana		Gibraltar		Greece		Grenada
Guam		Guatemala		Guinea		Guinea-Bissau
Guyana		Haiti		Honduras		Hong Kong
Hungary		Iceland		India		Indonesia
Iran		Iraq		Ireland		Israel
Italy		Ivory Coast		Jamaica		Japan
Jordan		Kazakhstan		Kenya		Kosovo
Kuwait		Kyrgyzstan		Laos		Latvia
Lebanon		Lesotho		Liberia		Libya
Liechtenstein		Lithuania		Luxembourg		Macau
Madagascar		Malawi		Malaysia		Maldives
Mali		Malta		Mauritania		Mauritius
Mexico		Moldova		Mongolia		Montenegro
Montserrat		Morocco		Mozambique		Myanmar
N.Ireland		Namibia		Nepal		Netherlands
New Caledonia		New Zealand		Nicaragua		Niger
Nigeria		North Korea		Norway		Oman
Pakistan		Palestine		Panama		Papua New Guine
Paraguay		Peru		Philippines		Poland
Portugal		Puerto Rico		Qatar		Romania
Russia		Rwanda		Samoa		San Marino
São Tomé and		Saudi Arabia		Scotland		Senegal
Serbia		Serbia and Mont		Seychelles		Sierra Leone
Singapore		Slovakia		Slovenia		Solomon Islands
Somalia		South Africa		South Korea		South Sudan
Spain		Sri Lanka		St Kitts and Ne		St Lucia
St Vincent and		Sudan		Suriname		Sweden
Switzerland		Syria		Tahiti		Tajikistan
Tanzania		Thailand		Timor-Leste		Togo
Tonga		Trinidad and To		Tunisia		Turkey
Turkmenistan		Turks and Caico		Tuvalu		Uganda
Ukraine		United Arab Emi		Uruguay		US Virgin Islan
USA		Uzbekistan		Vanuatu		Venezuela
Vietnam		Wales		Yemen		Zambia
Zimbabwe

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