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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 ]
Eight nations have won the tournament. The inaugural winners in 1930 were Uruguay; the current champions are Argentina. The most successful nation is Brazil, which has won the cup on five occasions. [3] Five teams have appeared in FIFA World Cup finals without winning, [4] while twelve more have appeared in the semi-finals. [5]
Despite soccer's relative lack of popularity in the host nation, the tournament was the most financially successful [28] [29] in World Cup history; it broke tournament records with overall attendance of 3,587,538 and an average of 68,991 per match, [30] marks that stood unbroken as of 2018 [31] despite the expansion of the competition from 24 ...
Football tournament FIFA Women's World Cup final The 2023 final was played at Stadium Australia in Sydney, Australia. Organising body FIFA Founded 1991 ; 34 years ago (1991) Region International Current champions Spain (1st title) Most successful team(s) United States (4 titles) The FIFA Women's World Cup is the international association football championship for women's national teams who ...
Soccer icon Mário Zagallo, a four-time World Cup winner with Brazil as a player and coach, has died at age 92, a post on his official Instagram account announced on Saturday.. After playing in ...
Despite not winning the 1954 tournament, their fourth-place finish and their two previous World Cup titles made Uruguay the most successful World Cup nation for eight years, until Brazil won their second title in 1962. Hungary's 9–0 win against Korea during the group stages remains the biggest margin of victory in FIFA World Cup history ...
The 2014 World Cup in Brazil has begun. Check HuffPost's World Cup dashboard throughout the tournament for standings, schedules, and detailed summaries of each match.