Fifa world cup 1930 winner

The tournament has been held every four years since the inaugural tournament in , with the exception of and due to the Second World War. The reigning champions are Argentina , who won their third title at the tournament by defeating France. The contest starts with the qualification phase , which takes place over the preceding three years to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase.

In the tournament phase, 32 teams compete for the title at venues within the host nation s over the course of about a month. The host nation s automatically qualify for the group stage of the tournament. The competition is scheduled to expand to 48 teams, starting with the tournament. As of the FIFA World Cup, 22 final tournaments have been held since the event's inception in , and a total of 80 national teams have competed.

The trophy has been won by eight national teams.

Fifa world cup winners list from 1930 to 2022

With five wins, Brazil is the only team to have played in every tournament. The other World Cup winners are Germany and Italy , with four titles each; Argentina, with three titles; France and inaugural winner Uruguay , each with two titles; and England and Spain , with one title each. The World Cup is globally regarded as the most prestigious association football competition, as well as the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world.

Seventeen countries have hosted the World Cup, most recently Qatar , who hosted the event. The tournament will be jointly hosted by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, which will give Mexico the distinction of being the first country to host games in three World Cups. The world's first international football match was a challenge match played in Glasgow in between Scotland and England.

After FIFA was founded in , it tried to arrange an international football tournament between nations outside the Olympic framework in Switzerland in These were very early days for international football, and the official history of FIFA describes the competition as having been unsuccessful.