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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 system used in the World Cup up to 1990 was 2 points for a win. In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win , 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.
FIFA U-20 World Cup; FIFA U-17 World Cup; FIFA Club World Cup; FIFA Confederations Cup; FIFA Women's World Cup; FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup; FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup; FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup; FIFA Futsal World Cup; CONIFA World Football Cup (non-FIFA nations football) Viva World Cup (non-FIFA nations football, defunct)
Ahead of the 2022 tournament in Qatar, heres a list of the nations with the most FIFA World Cup trophies.
A total of 471 players have been in the winning team in the World Cup. Brazil's Pelé is the only one to have won three times, while another 20 have won twice. Only players from Brazil and Italy, and one player from Argentina, have won the World Cup more than once. No player has won two World Cups both as captain.
The FIFA World Cup, often called the World Cup, is an international association football competition among the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body.
The system used in the World Cup up to 1990 was 2 points for a win. In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win , 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.
The World Cup Finals is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world, with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the 2006 tournament final. Colombia has appeared in the FIFA World Cup on six occasions in 1962 , 1990 , 1994 , 1998 , 2014 and 2018 .