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Year Host Winner Score Runner-up
1930 Uruguay Uruguay 4--2 Argentina
1934 Italy Italy 2--1 Czechoslovakia
1938 France Italy 4--2 Hungary
1950 Brazil Uruguay Brazil
1954 Switzerland West Germany 3--2 Hungary
1958 Sweden Brazil 5--2 Sweden
1962 Chile Brazil 3--1 Czechoslovakia
1966 England England 4--2 West Germany
1970 Mexico Brazil 4--1 Italy
1974 West Germany West Germany 2--1 Netherlands
1978 Argentina Argentina 3--1 Netherlands
1982 Spain Italy 3--1 West Germany
1986 Mexico Argentina 3--2 West Germany
1990 Italy West Germany 1--0 Argentina
1994 United States Brazil 0--0(3--2p) Italy
1998 France France 3--0 Brazil
2002 South Korea
&Japan Brazil 2--0 Germany
2006 Germany Italy 1--1(5--3p) France
2010 South Africa Spain 1--0 Netherlands
The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War. The current champions are Spain, who won the 2010 tournament in South Africa.
The current format of the tournament involves 32 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month; this phase is often called the World Cup Finals. A qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, is used to determine which teams qualify for the tournament together with the host nation(s).
The 19 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight different national teams. Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. The other World Cup winners are Italy, with four titles; West Germany, with three titles; Argentina and inaugural winners Uruguay, with two titles each; and England, France, and Spain, with one title each.
The World Cup is among the world's most widely viewed sporting events; an estimated 715.1 million people watched the final match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup held in Germany.
The next three World Cups will be hosted by Brazil in 2014, Russia in 2018, and Qatar in 2022.
The world's first international football match was a challenge match played in Glasgow in 1872 between Scotland and England,[2] which ended in a 0--0 draw. The first international tournament, the inaugural edition of the British Home Championship, took place in 1884.[3] As football grew in popularity in other parts of the world at the turn of the 20th century, it was held as a demonstration sport with no medals awarded at the 1900 and 1904 Summer Olympics (however, the IOC has retroactively upgraded their status to official events), and at the 1906 Intercalated Games.
After FIFA was founded in 1904, it tried to arrange an international football tournament between nations outside the Olympic framework in Switzerland in 1906. These were very early days for international football, and the official history of FIFA describes the competition as having been a failure.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup
