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Football tournament FIFA World Cup final Founded 1930 ; 94 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 ...
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]
In November 2007, FIFA announced that all members of World Cup-winning squads between 1930 and 1974 were to be retroactively awarded winners' medals. [65] This made Brazil's Pelé 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), [ 123 ] with 20 other ...
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Uruguay at the 1930 FIFA World Cup (5 P) ... France at the 2018 FIFA World Cup ... Pages in category "FIFA World Cup–winning countries"
This page is a list of all players who have won the men's FIFA World Cup tournament since its inception in 1930. Participating teams have to register squads for each edition of the World Cup, which consisted of 22 players until 1998, of 23 players from 2002 to 2018, and of 26 players in 2022.
The inaugural winners in 1930 were Uruguay; the current champions are Argentina. The most successful nation in the competition are currently Brazil, who have won the cup on five occasions. [ 3 ] Five teams have appeared in FIFA World Cup finals without winning, [ 4 ] while eleven more have appeared in semi-finals.
Lionel Messi is the player with the most games played at the FIFA World Cup, and one of only six along with German Lothar Matthäus, Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo and Mexicans Antonio Carbajal, Andrés Guardado, and Rafael Márquez to have entered the field in five different tournaments.