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Football tournament FIFA World Cup final Founded 1930 ; 95 years ago (1930) Current champions Argentina (3rd title) Most successful team(s) Brazil (5 titles) The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship ...
The FIFA Confederations Cup was 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. [ 57 ]
As of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, 80 national teams have competed at the finals of the FIFA World Cup. [1] Brazil is the only team to have appeared in all 22 tournaments to date, with Germany having participated in 20, Italy and Argentina in 18 and Mexico in 17. [2] Eight nations have won the tournament.
The defending World Cup champions were formerly granted an automatic spot in the Cup finals field. As of the 2006 tournament, this berth is no longer guaranteed. [13] However, no defending World Cup champion has yet failed to qualify. Automatic berths have never been given for defending World Cup runners-up.
2022 FIFA World Cup qualification [68] 70 115 14 October 2021: Arena da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil Uruguay: 1–0: 4–1: 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification [69] 71 117 24 March 2022: Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Chile: 1–0‡ 4–0: 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification [70] 72 118 2 June 2022: Seoul World Cup Stadium, Seoul ...
The FIFA Men's World Ranking is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football, led by Argentina as of December 2024. [1] The men's teams of the member nations of FIFA, football's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest.
An expansion to 24 teams in the 2015 edition was followed by the adoption of the current 32-team format for the 2023 edition, the first with multiple host countries. [10] A total of ten teams have played in the nine finals held since 1991; five have won a title. [12] The United States is the most successful team in Women's World Cup history ...
This is a list of all penalty shoot-outs that have taken place in the final tournaments of the Men's FIFA World Cup. [1]For knockout matches tied after regulation and extra time, the first editions of the Men's World Cup up until 1958 used the rule of replaying the game.