FIFA World Cup final winners list: past champions, runners-up, history since 1930..

The 21st edition of FIFA World Cup was held in Russia, in final France defeat Croatia 4-2 to crown the World Champions for the second time in 28 years after the historical winning over Brazil in 1998 World Cup.

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FIFA World Cup: brief history, stats, most wins, top scorers, facts.

The Inaugural edition of FIFA World Cup was held in 1930 at Uruguay & winners team too, to beat Argentina.

The 21 World Cup tournaments have just record won by Eight nation teams, in which South American Brazil has won the World Cup title five times & the only team has played in every tournament.

The Germany & Itlay are also in multiple World Cup Winners List, Four times each.

With the First World Cup champions Uruguay, Argentina & the Current champions of 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia 2018 is France, each have won the WC title Two times.

England in 1966 & Spain in 2010 has crowned the FIFA World Cup champions title.

Only Thirteen teams are in Runners-up list from 1930-2018 & currently, Croatia is the first team in the World cup Finalist history.

The Seventeen countries have hosted the World Cup at least one time, Brazil, France, Italy, Germany, and Mexico hosted the tournament two times each, while Uruguay, Switzerland, Sweden, Chile, England, Argentina, Spain, the United States, Japan and South Korea (jointly), South Africa and Russia each have hosted the WC once.

2022 World Cup will be host by Qatar, 2026 World Cup will jointly host by USA, Mexico & Canada, while Canada will be the first one to host the World Cup.

Only European & South American nations are World Cup Champions, Here are Winners by Continent:

Europe (UEFA): 28 appearances; 12 championships; 16 runners-up.

South America (CONMEBOL): 14 appearances; 9 championships; 5 runners-up.

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FIFA World Cup winners List, past champions, Runners-up teams, top scorers from 1930-2022.

Here you will find the Inaugural World Cup Final champions in 1930 to the End of Brazilian Pele era to winners of 1970 WC, & historic victory of Argentinean Maradona in 1988 stunning wins, to the worst WC final losers of Brazil def. by France in 1998 to now the second time, Current World Cup champions France. It is year by year complete list of World Cup Final results, scores by each country...

FIFA World Cup 1930 Uruguay

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Winners: Uruguay -4
Runner-Up: Argentina - 2
3rd Place: USA
4th Place: Yugoslavia
Teams Played: 13
Top Scorer | Goal: Guillermo Stábile -8

FIFA World Cup 1934 Italy

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Winners Team: Italy - 2
Runner-Up Team: Czech-Slovakia -1
3rd Place Team: Germany
4th Place Team: Austria
Teams Played: 16
Top Scorer | Goal: Oldřich Nejedlý -5

FIFA World Cup 1938 France

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Winner Team : Italy - 4
Runner-Up Team: Hungry - 2
3rd Place Team : Brazil
4th Place Team : Sweden
Teams Played : 15
Top Scorer | Goal : Leônidas -7

FIFA World Cup 1950 Brazil

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Winner Team : Uruguay - 2
Runner-Up Team: Brazil - 1
3rd Place Team : Sweden
4th Place Team : Spain
Teams Played : 13
Top Scorer | Goal : Ademir- 8

FIFA World Cup 1954 Switzerland

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Winner Team : West Germany - 3
Runner-Up Team: Hungry - 2
3rd Place Team  : Austria
4th Place Team  : Uruguay
Teams Played : 16
Top Scorer | Goal : Sándor Kocsis -11

FIFA World Cup 1958 Sweden

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Winner Team : Brazil -5
Runner-Up Team: Sweden - 2
3rd Place Team  : France
4th Place Team  : West Germany
Teams Played : 16
Top Scorer | Goal :  Just Fontaine -13

FIFA World Cup 1962 Chile

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Winner Team : Brazil - 3
Runner-Up Team: Czech-Slovakia - 1
3rd Place Team : Chile
4th Place Team : Yugoslavia
Teams Played : 16
Top Scorer | Goal : Garrincha,Vava,Sanchez,Albert, Valentin,D.Jerkovic- 4)

FIFA World Cup 1966 England

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Winner Team : England - 4
Runner-Up Team: West Germany - 2
3rd Place Team : Portugal
4th Place Team : Soviet Union
Teams Played : 16
Top Scorer | Goal : Eusébio -9

FIFA World Cup 1970 Mexico

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Winner Team : Brazil - 4
Runner-Up Team: Italy - 1
3rd Place Team : West Germany
4th Place Team : Uruguay
Teams Played : 16
Top Scorer | Goal : Gerd Müller -10

FIFA World Cup 1974 West Germany

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Winner Team : West Germany - 2
Runner-Up Team: Netherlands - 1
3rd Place Team : Poland
4th Place Team : Brazil
Teams Played : 16
Top Scorer | Goal : Grzegorz Lato -7

FIFA World Cup 1978 Argentina

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Winner Team : Argentina - 3
Runner-Up Team: Netherlands - 1
3rd Place Team : Brazil
4th Place Team : Italy
Teams Played : 16
Top Scorer | Goal : Mario Kempes -6

FIFA World Cup 1982 Spain

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Winner Team : Italy - 3
Runner-Up Team : West Germany - 1
3rd Place Team  : Poland
4th Place Team  : France
Teams Played : 24
Top Scorer | Goal :  Paolo Rossi -6

FIFA World Cup 1986 Mexico

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Winner Team : Argentina - 3
Runner-Up Team : West Germany - 2
3rd Place Team  : France
4th Place Team  : Belgium
Teams Played : 24
Top Scorer | Goal :  Gary Lineker -6

FIFA World Cup 1990 Italy

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Winner Team : West Germany - 1
Runner-Up Team : Argentina - 0
3rd Place Team : Italy
4th Place Team : England
Teams Played : 24
Top Scorer | Goal : Salvatore Schillaci -6

FIFA World Cup 1994 USA

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Winner Team : Brazil
Runner-Up Team: Italy
3rd Place Team  : Sweden
4th Place Team  : Bulgaria
Teams Played : 24
Top Scorer | Goal :  H. Stoichkov, O.Salenko -6

FIFA World Cup 1998 France

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Winner Team : France
Runner-Up Team: Brazil
3rd Place Team : Croatia
4th Place Team : Netherlands
Teams Played : 32
Top Scorer | Goal : Davor Šuker -6

FIFA World Cup 2002 Japan

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Winner Team : Brazil - 2
Runner-Up Team : Germany - 0
3rd Place Team : Turkey
4th Place Team : South-Korea
Teams Played : 32
Top Scorer | Goal : Ronaldo - 8

FIFA World Cup 2006 Germany

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Winner Team : Italy - 1 ( 5 )
Runner-Up Team: France - 1 ( 3 )
3rd Place Team : Germany
4th Place Team : Portugal
Teams Played : 32
Top Scorer | Goal : Miroslav Klose -5

FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa

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Winner Team : Spain - 1
Runner-Up Team:  Netherlands - 0
3rd Place Team  :   Germany
4th Place Team  : Uruguay
Teams Played : 32
Top Scorer | Goal : T.Muller, W.Snejider, D.Villa, D.Forlan - 5

FIFA World Cup 2014 Brazil

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Winner Team : Germany - 1
Runner-Up Team : Argentina - 0
3rd Place Team  :    Netherlands
4th Place Team  : Brazil
Teams Played : 32
Top Scorer | Goal : James Rodríguez - 6

FIFA World Cup 2014 Russia

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Winners Team: France - 4
Runner-Up Team: Croatia - 2
3rd Place: Belgium
4th Place: England
Teams Played: 32
Top Scorer: Harry Kane (6)

2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar.

The 22nd edition of FIFA World Cup will take place in first time in Qatar, for the first time in Golf countries, Arab countries & Muslim Majority country & as well second time in Asian Continent since the 2002 World Cup jointly held by Japan & South Korea.