FIFA Men's World Cup Winners List from 1930 to 2018
The FIFA World Cup held once in every four year. It's a quadrennial football event managed by the men's football team of the international associations. The first FIFA World Cup was happened in the year 1930 and Uruguay was the winner of the first edition of FIFA World Cup. Due to World War, in year 1942 and 1946 this event was cancelled.
Here is the list of FIFA World Cup Winners list, Runner Up, Number of Teams, and Host Nation from 1930 to 2018:
|
Host Nation
|
Year
|
Winner
|
Runner Ups
|
No. Of Teams
|
|
Uruguay
|
1930
|
Uruguay
|
Argentina
|
13
|
|
Italy
|
1934
|
Italy
|
Czechoslovakia
|
16
|
|
France
|
1938
|
Italy
|
Hungary
|
15
|
|
Brazil
|
1950
|
Uruguay
|
Brazil
|
13
|
|
Switzerland
|
1954
|
West Germany
|
Hungary
|
16
|
|
Sweden
|
1958
|
Brazil
|
Sweden
|
16
|
|
Chile
|
1962
|
Brazil
|
Czechoslovakia
|
16
|
|
England
|
1966
|
England
|
West Germany
|
16
|
|
Mexico
|
1970
|
Brazil
|
Italy
|
16
|
|
West Germany
|
1974
|
West Germany
|
Netherlands
|
16
|
|
Argentina
|
1978
|
Argentina
|
Netherlands
|
16
|
|
Spain
|
1982
|
Italy
|
West Germany
|
24
|
|
Mexico
|
1986
|
Argentina
|
West Germany
|
24
|
|
Italy
|
1990
|
West Germany
|
Argentina
|
24
|
|
USA
|
1994
|
Brazil
|
Italy
|
24
|
|
France
|
1998
|
France
|
Brazil
|
32
|
|
South Korea/Japan
|
2002
|
Brazil
|
Germany
|
32
|
|
Germany
|
2006
|
Italy
|
France
|
32
|
|
South Africa
|
2010
|
Spain
|
Netherlands
|
32
|
|
Brazil
|
2014
|
Germany
|
Argentina
|
32
|
|
Russia
|
2018
|
France
|
Croatia
|
32
|
FIFA World Cup History
FIFA World Cup is tournament where each nation gets an opportunity to showcase their best player. Here is the list where you can find about best player of the tournament and leading goal scorer of the season from year 1930 to 2018:
|
Player of the tournament
|
Leading goal scorer
|
Year
|
|
Luka Modric
|
Harry Kane
|
2018
|
|
Lionel Messi
|
James Rodriguez
|
2014
|
|
Diego Forlán
|
Thomas Müller
|
2010
|
|
Zinedine Zidane
|
Miroslav Klose
|
2006
|
|
Oliver Kahn
|
Ronaldo
|
2002
|
|
Ronaldo
|
Davor Šuker
|
1998
|
|
Romário
|
Oleg Salenko
|
1994
|
|
Salvatore Schillaci
|
Salvatore Schillaci
|
1990
|
|
Diego Maradona
|
Gary Lineker
|
1986
|
|
Paolo Rossi
|
Paolo Rossi
|
1982
|
|
Kempes
|
Mario Kempes
|
1978
|
|
Johan Cruyff
|
Grzegorz Lato
|
1974
|
|
Pelé
|
Gerd Müller
|
1970
|
|
Bobby Charlton
|
Eusébio
|
1966
|
|
Garrincha
|
Garrincha, Vavá, Leonel Sánchez, Flórián Albert, Valentin Ivanov, Dražan Jerkovic
|
1962
|
|
Didi
|
Just Fontaine
|
1958
|
|
Ferenc Puskás
|
Sándor Kocsis
|
1954
|
|
Zizinho
|
Ademir
|
1950
|
|
Leônidas
|
Leônidas
|
1938
|
|
Meazza
|
Oldrich Nejedlý
|
1934
|
|
Nasazzi
|
Guillermo Stábile
|
1930
|
Did you know that Brazil is the best in the world because Brazil's National Football team won the FIFA World Cup tournament five times and Germany is the second-best team in the world having a history of winning the FIFA World Cup four times?
France is the current champion in 2018 France won the FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane of team England won the golden boot, and Luka Modric player of Croatia won the golden ball.
The upcoming FIFA World Cup is going to happen in this year 2022 and the host country is Qatar.