Official history of the World Cup. Which teams won the World Cup?

03.03.202027.05.2017

In the entire history of the World Championships, only 8 countries have been awarded the title of champions. Brazil has the largest number of titles - they have won the championship 5 times. Italy and Germany have won the World Cup 4 times each; Argentina and Uruguay became champions twice, and France and Spain won the championship once.

The only person to become world champion three times as a player is Pele (in the championships of 1958, 1962 and 1970). Another 20 players were two-time champions (mostly Brazilians, as well as 4 players from the Italian national team and one -). Vittorio Pozzo is the only one head coach, who won the World Cup twice (in 1934 and 1938). Mario Zagallo and Franz Beckenbauer won the championship both as a player and as a head coach (Zagallo - twice as a player (in 1958 and 1962), once as a coach (in 1970), Beckenbauer - once each (in 1974 and 1990). The absolute record for the number of championship titles formally belongs to Mario Zagallo, who became the champion a total of 4 times (in 1994 as an assistant coach).

1930 - Uruguay

The first World Cup was timed to coincide with the centenary of Uruguay's independence.
The entire tournament took place in one city - Montevideo.
The Europeans did not want to sail across the Atlantic. The organizers covered the expenses, but only France, Yugoslavia, Romania and others reached the goal. Only the Balkans made it to the playoffs and fell to Uruguay - 1:6.
Before the final, the opponents could not agree whose ball to play - the Argentinean or the Uruguayan. We decided to use each one in half.
Uruguay forward Castro was missing one arm, which did not stop him from scoring a goal in the final.
The last participant in the final, Francisco Varaglio, died on August 30, 2010 at the age of 100.

Table final results teams

Final match: Uruguay - Argentina 4:2

1934 - Italy

Never before has the World Cup been so fleeting - the games lasted only 15 days. Fans did not have the opportunity to watch all the games they were interested in: all playoff matches started at the same time. Thus, the maximum that one fan could see at this World Cup was six games, including the Italy-Spain replay, subject to traveling between Italian cities or no more than 3 games in one city. At the same time, this World Cup holds a record - never before has a tournament of this level consisted of only 17 games.

The best scorer of this championship is considered to be Oldřich Nejedly from the Czechoslovak team, who scored 5 goals. However, according to official data, he did not score a hat-trick in the match with Germany: one of the goals was scored by Rudolf Krcil. Therefore the title top scorer Nejedly shares this four-goal championship with German Edmund Kohnen and Italian Angelo Schiavio.

Before the 1934 World Cup, the hosts of the tournament for the first and last time in history, qualifying games had to be held.

1938 - France

Football and world politics played a role in the third championship. FIFA gave preference to a European country, breaking its promise to hold the tournament alternately on different continents. Lack of grandees from South America, who boycotted the championship, reduced the number of participating countries.

483,000 fans attended the matches. The most attended match was the match between Italy and France: 60,000.

The championship was marked by several oddities:

In the match against Brazil, Meazzo was about to take a penalty, but then his sports shorts fell down. The spectators stood up, the referee almost swallowed his whistle. But Meazzo calmly corrected the ball and scored a penalty.
The Brazilians were so confident of victory that they bought plane tickets to Paris. Because of this, Italians could not get tickets there. And even after the loss, the Brazilians did not sell tickets to the Italians, and they had to go to the final match by train.

Some moments of the championship went down in the history of world football:

For the first time, the previous world champion and the host team of the tournament automatically qualified.
For the first time, the championship was not won by the hosts.
Pole Ernest Willimowski, a striker, scored four goals for the first time in the history of the World Cup (match Brazil - ). His record was only improved 56 years later.
For the first time, balls without lacing were used.
For the first time in FIFA competitions, in the Norway-Ireland match in Dublin, two teams played in uniforms with numbers.
For the first time in Brazil there was a radio broadcast of matches, hosted by famous commentator Galliano Neto.
For the only time in history, the united German team did not qualify for the final part of the tournament.
Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler were present in the stands.
The next World Cup took place only 12 years later, since World War II began 15 months later.

1950 - Brazil

Many said that the Brazilian players were unable to cope with the pressure coming at them from all sides. Those who did not mince words simply called them (the football players) cowards. There were rumors that Varela gave defender Bigode a heavy slap in the face so that he, out of fear, let Zhiggia through to the goal when the decisive goal was scored. Later, both Bigode and Varela himself categorically denied this fact, but the reputation of a coward haunted Bigode until the end of his life. However, no one got as much dirt as was poured on goalkeeper Barbosa. Many claimed that he was to blame for the defeat, although the Uruguayans never agreed with this. Barbosa played for many more years for Vasco da Gama, won many titles, but he never managed to get rid of the stigma of being the “culprit of the Maracana’s shame.” A short film was made that depicted what would have happened in the country if Barbosa had been able to save the team at the decisive moment. No story about this match is complete without mentioning the name of Barbosa, one of the best Brazilian goalkeepers of all time.
An interesting fact is that in 1950, for the first time at the World Cups, football players played in jerseys with numbers. However, these numbers were not constant, so the same player could play in different matches under different numbers (from one to eleven). Substitutions were not allowed in matches until the 1970 World Cup.
The final match itself at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro and that tragedy for all fans of the Brazilian national team then received the common name “Maracanaço”.

Final match Uruguay - Brazil, 2:1

1954 - Switzerland

The Soviet Union lost the 1952 Olympics and refused to go to the World Cup. The officials decided that our football was too raw and there was no need to embarrass ourselves.
The Hungarians were considered the main favorites. The team led by Puskás and Kocsis even knocked out Brazil, but went down in the final, torpedoed by the Germans. Although in group match Germany lost to Hungary - 3:8. Then coach Herberger did not field the main players, and defender Liebrich seriously injured Puskás.
FIFA issued a memorandum: “The German players deservedly won, but the best team Hungary became the championship.”
In 26 matches of the tournament, 140 goals were scored. 5.38 goals per game is a record in World Cup history.

Bernese massacre

On June 27, 1954, at the Wankdorf stadium in Bern, after the end of the quarter-final match between Hungary and Brazil, the most epic fight in the history of the football world championships took place, which went down in the annals as the “Battle of Berne.”

Brazilian Mauro Maurinho provoked his rivals and comrades by walking up to Hungarian striker Sandor Kocsis and hitting him in the face. The fight that started between the players continued in the tribune area. Since Gyula Lorant broke a lamp in the corridor, the fight took place in semi-darkness. Everyone took part, especially Puskás, who missed the game due to injury, who drove a siphon into the head of João Pinheira and drove the Brazilian into the locker room. The head coach of the Hungarian national team, Gustav Sebes, also received a blow to the head with a siphon. He had to have four stitches applied to his wounds.

The photograph of Brazil national team coach Zeze Moreira attacking the Hungarians with a boot in his hands went around all the newspapers and brought the author of the photograph a lot of money. Riots were also recorded at the stadium. On the cover of the Pari-Match magazine, published after the fight, there was a photograph of a young man kicking a policeman at the edge of the field.

1958 - Sweden

For the first time, FIFA decided to divide the qualifying groups on a territorial basis.
Participated in the selection record number national teams - 52. Five federations withdrew from the competition - Cyprus, Türkiye, Venezuela and Taiwan.
16 teams competed for the main trophy. was automatically included in the number of participants as the host country, Germany - as the champion.
The championship was the first for the national teams of the USSR, Northern Ireland and Wales.
For the first time in history, the World Cup was held in 12 cities at once.
For the first and only time, all 4 British teams took part in the final part of the championship - England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. According to the regulations, if the teams that took second and third place in the group scored the same number of points, then a replay was scheduled between them. As a result, replays had to be carried out in three groups out of four.
For the first time, the world was able to see the championship on television screens.
Brazil became world champion for the first time. Also, Brazil 1958 is the only non-European team to win a championship held in Europe.
Pele is still the youngest player to score at a World Cup (17 years and 239 days) and the youngest world champion (17 years and 249 days).

1962 - Chile

In 1960, a powerful earthquake occurred in Chile (magnitude 9.5). They wanted to take away the tournament, but the President of the Chilean Football Federation, Dittborn, exclaimed: “Leave the World Cup, we already have nothing left!” He died a month before the start, and the opening match Uruguay - Colombia (2:1) was held at the stadium named after Dittborn.
The USSR won the group (2:0 with Yugoslavia, 4:4 with Colombia, 2:1 with Uruguay), but lost to Chile in the quarterfinals (1:2).
In the match with the Uruguayans, the referee counted Chislenko's goal, but captain Netto pointed out to the referee the mistake: the ball flew into the hole in the net. This is considered an example of fair play.
The final took place at the National Stadium in Santiago, where 11 years later dictator Pinochet would hold 40 thousand opponents of the military regime.
The final was judged by our Latyshev - and did not give a penalty for the handball of the Brazilian Santos. In Czechoslovakia they were offended: “The judge showed a lack of understanding of the tasks of socialism!”

1966 - England

This was the first World Cup to be televised in live.
The Jules Rimet Cup, a trophy awarded to the winner, was stolen shortly before the start of the championship. A few days later, a police dog named Pickles discovered a golden figurine in a London park. Four years later, in Mexico, he will become the world champion for the third time and will receive the first version of the World Cup - the goddess Nike - for eternal storage. However, she will be kidnapped again. Forever already.
Yellow and red cards will only be used at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico. At the same World Cup, a rather curious incident occurred. In the match between the national teams of Argentina and England, the captain of the South Americans, Ubaldo Ratim, tried to appeal to the chief referee of the match with a complaint about the “dirty” play of the English. But, since the referee was German, Ratim turned to the translator for help. and was immediately removed from the field by the impetuous referee. As he left the field, the Argentine spat in the direction of the British flag.
The youngest player in the history of the team came to the 1966 World Cup as part of the Brazilian national team. Ed was not yet 17 years old when he and the team arrived in England. True, he did not manage to enter the field then. But four years later in Mexico, he still played a few minutes, replacing Rivelino.

1970 - Mexico

El Salvador defeated Honduras in the qualifying group, and a military conflict began between the countries. It was called La guerra del fútbol (The Football War). 6,000 people died.
The USSR took first place in the group, ahead of Mexico (0:0), Belgium (4:1) and El Salvador (2:0). But in the quarterfinals they ran into Uruguay (0:1). Esparrago scored a goal in the 116th minute, although before that the ball went out of bounds, our team stopped the game, but the referee did not blow the whistle.
The Brazilians became champions for the third time in a row and received the Jules Rimet Cup, the FIFA president who organized the first World Cup, forever. Trophy in the form of the goddess of victory Nike (30 cm, 1.8 kg of gold). And in 1983, the cup was stolen from the office of the Brazilian Football Federation, and it disappeared forever.
Pele became the only player to win the World Cup three times.

1974 - Germany

At the opening ceremony in Munich, the invited famous Polish singer Marylya Rodowicz performed her song “Futbol”, written specifically for this occasion.
In the Argentina-Haiti match, in the 15th minute, Yazalde scored the 900th goal in the history of the final tournaments.
Having scored 4 goals at the championship, Gerd Müller overtook the Frenchman Just Fontaine in the number of goals at the world championships. Muller scored 14 goals
Polish goalkeeper Jan Tomaszewski saved two penalties (from Tapper and U. Hönnes).
For the first time, doping control was carried out at the World Championships. The first victim of this was the Haitian national team striker Jean-Joseph, who was expelled in disgrace from the championship for using prohibited drugs (the result of the Italy-Haiti match 3:1, after which Jean-Joseph was caught, was upheld).
The German national team won the Fair Play prize
The championship matches were covered by 5 thousand journalists. More than a billion football fans from 100 countries watched the games on television.
The match between the national teams of Poland and Germany was delayed for 30 minutes due to heavy rain, which flooded the playing field: firefighters had to pump out all the water from the field.

1978 - Argentina

The USSR lost to the Hungarians in the qualifying round and again did not qualify for the World Cup.
After the Peru-Scotland match (3:1), ephedrine was found in the blood of Scottish forward Willie Johnston. The next morning the newspapers came out with the headlines “Shame on you, Willie!”
Argentina defeated Peru in the semi-final group with the required score (6:0) and reached the final, leaving Brazil behind. The world press cried out that the hosts played fixed match. And the Briton David Yallop even wrote the book “How the Game Was Stole.” They say that the head of the Argentine junta, Videla, handed over 50 million dollars and 35 thousand tons of grain to Peruvian officials. FIFA did not investigate, but simply banned Yallop's book.
Before the tournament, Argentina, to the surprise of many, released 17-year-old prodigy Maradona from the squad. But she still became a champion.

1982 - Spain

The tournament began to be called “mundi-al”, which means “world” in Spanish.
Most big victory In the history of the World Cup, Hungary won, defeating El Salvador 10:1.
In the France-Kuwait match, Soviet referee Stupar counted a dubious French goal. Kuwaiti Sheikh Fahd al-Sabah came onto the field, took the team to the locker room and began to demand that Stupar cancel the goal. He agreed and... was disqualified for life by FIFA: he did not stand up for the honor of the referee's uniform.
The USSR advanced from the group (1:2 with Brazil, 3:0 with New Zealand, 2:2 with Scotland), but stumbled in the second round against Poland (1:0 with Belgium, 0:0 with the Poles) - we played defensively when victory was needed.
The top scorer was the Italian Rossi (6 goals), who in 1979 was disqualified for two years and sent to prison for betting fraud.

1986 - Mexico

This was the championship of Diego Maradona, who was at the peak of his career and led the Argentina national team to their 2nd victory at the world championships. His most memorable match at the championship was in the quarter-finals against England, where he scored 2 goals and brought victory to his team. Diego scored the first goal with his hand, but the referee did not notice it. Maradona later admitted that he scored with his hand. His second goal of the match was recognized as one of best goals V final parts World Cup: Maradona showed fantastic dribbling, beat five players and scored a goal.

Argentina's victory in the tournament was deserved, albeit unexpected. Maradona was recognized as the best player of the tournament. About 30 million people celebrated the victory of the Argentina national team in their homeland.

At this championship she showed her class, beating the Italian national team, the current world champions, in the second stage with a score of 2-0. In the quarter finals, France buried the ambitions of the Brazilian national team at the Estadio Jalisco stadium in Guadelajara, beating them in a penalty shootout. Michel Platini shone in the French national team. Having passed the Brazilians, the French in the semi-finals, like 4 years ago in Spain, met the German team and lost to it again.

West Germany were playing their fifth World Cup final, having won only twice before. Just like 4 years ago, having lost to Italy 1-3, this time they lost to the Argentines 3-2. It is noteworthy that Germany won two semi-finals in a row against the French team, in 1982 and 1986, and also lost two World Cup finals in a row.

This was the first World Cup for Canada, Denmark and Iraq. Iraq and Canada were eliminated in the first stage, losing all 3 matches. Denmark, having won 3 matches and showed a beautiful game, took first place in the group, but in the 1/8 finals they “burned out” and lost to the Spaniards. She performed surprisingly well, drawing with the British and Poles and defeating the Portuguese team, entering the playoffs from first place, but in the 1/8 finals the Moroccans lost to the Germans with a score of 1:0.

Pepper Pique was the mascot of this World Cup. Many of the products featured Pique, an anthropomorphic chili pepper, wearing the colors of the Mexican soccer team. Pique's image was controversial because it symbolized negative stereotypes about Mexicans.

The African team advanced from the group for the first time (Team Morocco).

In the match - Paraguay, 80 penalty kicks were awarded, of which 46 were awarded to the championship hosts (referee J. Courtney, England).

1990 - Italy

The USSR, England and Greece applied to host the 1990 World Cup. But in 1984 this right was given to Italy.
The Union was falling apart, and the national team was dying. We didn't even make it out of the group (0:2 with Romania, 0:2 with Argentina, 4:0 with Cameroon).
Cameroon, under the leadership of our coach Nepomniachtchi, became a troublemaker, reaching the quarterfinals, where they foolishly failed to beat England.
In the 1/8 finals match, the Dutchman Rijkaard famously spit at the German Feller. Both were removed.
The Germans reached the final for the third time in a row. And yet they pulled Argentina! Maradona accused FIFA of deliberately killing them and Brehme's penalty was a fake.

1994 - USA

The championship matches were held in stadiums that could seat up to 91,000 spectators, which helped set absolute records for attendance at World Cup matches. Average attendance was almost 69,000 spectators per match, breaking the previous record of 51,000 spectators set at the 1966 World Cup. The total attendance of all matches exceeded 3.6 million people, which still remains a record, despite the increase in the number of participating teams from 24 to 32 in subsequent championships.
Having won the title of World Cup champions in 1994, the Brazilian national team unfurled a banner on the field dedicating the title to Ayrton Senna, the Brazilian Formula One racing driver who died at the San Marino Grand Prix shortly before the World Cup.
At this World Cup, a world record was set for the most goals scored in a World Cup final match by one player. It was established by Oleg Salenko, who scored 5 goals in the Russia-Cameroon match.
In the same match, Roger Milla set a record - he became the oldest player to score a goal in the final stage of the World Cup (he was 42 years old at that time).
Diego Maradona's doping test showed traces of ephedrine. All attempts by Maradona and his lawyers to prove that ephedrine was part of the medications he used to treat a runny nose were unsuccessful. Maradona was disqualified.
In the 1/8 final match between the national teams of Mexico and Bulgaria, a broken goal had to be replaced during the game, which is why the match was interrupted for more than thirty minutes.
On July 2, 1994, football player Andres Escobar was shot dead after returning home for scoring an own goal at the World Cup. The killer actually executed the football player by firing 12 bullets at him in a restaurant parking lot.

1998 - France

For the first time, 32 teams participated in the final part of the tournament. Even Iran and Jamaica.
After one match, the ChaiF group wrote the legendary hit: “What pain, what pain! Argentina - Jamaica - 5:0."
Beckham receives a red card for the go-ahead signal. England loses to Argentina in the round of 16. Since then, a catchphrase has emerged: “It wasn’t Beckham’s day.”
She made her debut at the World Championships and immediately took bronze.
On the eve of the final, Ronaldo was poisoned. He entered the field with difficulty, but Brazil lost in all respects to France and the magnificent Zidane.
Each time, for good luck, French defender Blanc kissed his goalkeeper Barthez on the bald head. And throughout the entire tournament, the world champions conceded only two goals!

2002 - Korea - Japan

For the first time, a competition of this scale was held in Asia and for the first time in two countries simultaneously. The decision to select the venue for the World Cup was made by the International Football Federation (FIFA) in Zurich in May 1996 (preliminarily, and finally in November of the same year). Initially, only two countries – Korea and Japan, separately – applied for the right to host the tournament. But on May 31, 1996, in order not to inflame the already tense relations between the two countries, the FIFA Congress made a truly Solomonic decision by combining the applications, although there were opponents to this choice, in particular, the then FIFA President Joao Havelange. Despite the high-quality organization of the 2002 World Cup, in the future FIFA intends not to practice joint holding of tournaments under its auspices.

For the first time we got to participate in semi-final matches and for the first time the teams of Turkey and South Korea played a match for 3rd place (3:2).
In the match between these teams, another achievement was established - Turkish national team player Hakan Sukur scored the most quick goal in the history of World Cup finals, in the 11th second of the match.
Failure already befell the strong teams of France, Italy, England and Portugal in the group tournament; the Spanish team was eliminated in the quarter finals.
The African teams showed a good game and reached the quarter finals.

2006 - Germany

Before the match between South Korea and Togo (2:1), the Korean anthem was played twice by mistake.
In the match Croatia - (2:2), British referee Poll got excited, showing Simunic three yellow cards at once. Although I should have sent the Croatian off after the second one.
The hero of the 1/8 finals Portugal - Holland (1:0) was the Russian referee Ivanov - he issued 16 yellow cards and sent off four players.
Zidane received the Golden Ball as the best player at the World Cup. Although he let the French down in the final, buying into Materazzi’s provocation. The Italian threw something offensive at him, Zizou hit Materazzi in the chest with his shiny bald head and received a red card. Soon, world champion Materazzi wrote the book “What I Really Told Zidane.”

2010 - South Africa

Ballon d'Or awarded best player championship, striker Diego Forlan. Dutchman Wesley Sneijder received the silver ball, and David Villa, player, received the bronze ball.
The Golden Ball was awarded to the best player of the championship, Uruguay national team striker Diego Forlan. Dutchman Wesley Sneijder received the silver ball, and David Villa, a player of the Spanish national team, received the bronze ball.
The Golden Glove, also known as the Golden Glove Award. Lev Yashin, awarded best goalkeeper championship - Spaniard Iker Casillas.
Best Prize young player, and the German Thomas Müller also received the Golden Boot. Silver and bronze awards David Villa and Wesley Sneijder were awarded respectively.
The first FIFA World Cup to be held on the African continent. In the fight for the right to host the championship, the South African application beat out the applications of Morocco and Egypt. 204 of the 208 FIFA member teams took part in the qualifying tournament, making it the world's largest championship sporting event in the number of participating countries, repeating the achievement of the Beijing Olympics.
Dejan Stankovic managed to play at three world championships for three different teams - Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and now just Serbia.
After the match Portugal - DPRK (7:0), which North Korea aired live, head coach Kim Jong Hoon was interrogated for six hours and sent to forced labor.

2014 - Brazil

For the first time in the history of the World Cup, an automatic goal detection system was used. It is called GoalControl-4D, developed by the German company GoalControl. The system is based on the use of high-speed cameras. It consists of 14 cameras, always aimed at the ball and transmitting information to a computer, which sends a signal about the ball crossing the goal line to the watch of the chief referee of the match. The system was installed at all stadiums of the 2014 World Cup and for the first time influenced the referee's decision in a controversial episode with the second goal in the France-Honduras match.

For the first time in the history of the World Cup, referees used cans of disappearing spray to mark the pitch of the ball and the wall when taking penalties and indirect free kicks.

For the first time in the history of the World Cup, breaks were introduced in matches to allow players to cool down and drink water. Breaks are assigned at the discretion of the referee after the thirtieth minute of each half if the heat exchange index WBGT exceeds the established level at the time of the match. Breaks last for three minutes, which the referee then adds at the end of each half. According to many sources, including the news section of the FIFA website, such breaks were first used in the 1/8 finals match between the Netherlands and Mexico, the match was stopped twice: in the first and second halves so that the athletes could freshen up, the referee added 4 minutes in the first half and 6 minutes in the second. Some sources claim that the first such break was called even earlier - in the 39th minute of the Group G match between the US and Portugal national teams, but the referee then added only 2 minutes in the first half (in the second - 5 minutes), so perhaps that stop had other reasons.

Claudia Leitte, Pitbull and Jennifer Lopez perform "We Are One (Ole Ola)" at the opening ceremony

The official tournament emblem was unveiled on 8 July 2010 at a ceremony in Johannesburg during the 2010 World Cup. The emblem was chosen by a commission that included architect Oscar Niemeyer, designer Hans Donner, model Gisele Bündchen, writer Paulo Coelho, singer Ivete Sangalu, chairman of the 2014 World Cup organizing committee Ricardo Teixeira and FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke. The winner was the “Inspiration” emblem (port. Inspiração), developed by the Brazilian agency Africa.

The official mascot of the tournament was the three-banded ball armadillo (Tolypeutes tricinctus) Fuleko.

On 23 January 2014, FIFA and Sony Music released the official song for the tournament. It was the song “We Are One (Ole Ola)”, performed by American singers Pitbull and Jennifer Lopez with Brazilian singer Claudia Leitte.

2018 - Russia

Tournament symbols

Emblem

The official logo of the 2018 FIFA World Cup was presented on October 28, 2014 on Channel One in the program “ Evening Urgant" The presentation of the tournament symbols was attended by FIFA President Joseph Blatter, Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko and the best football player in the world in 2006, Italian Fabio Cannavaro.

The 2018 World Cup emblem features the silhouette of the FIFA World Cup. Conquest of space, iconography and love of football are three components of the logo, according to a press release from the tournament’s organizing committee.

Mascot

The official mascot of the tournament was the wolf Zabivaka, who was chosen based on the results of voting on October 22, 2016 on Channel One in the “Evening Urgant” program. Participated in the presentation famous football players Ronaldo (Brazil) and Zvonimir Boban (Croatia).

Zabivaka is an anthropomorphic wolf with brown and white fur and blue eyes; dressed in a blue and white T-shirt with a black inscription “RUSSIA 2018” and red shorts; also has orange sports glasses on or pushed down on his forehead. The combination of white, blue and red in clothing symbolizes the colors of the Russian flag.

Hymn

"Live It Up" is a song by Puerto Rican singer Nicky Jam, performed together with American actor and rapper Will Smith and Kosovan singer Era Istrefi for the upcoming The Official Album of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The composition was chosen as the official song of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Diplo produced the track, which was released on May 25, 2018.

Official ball

Adidas Telstar 18 - official soccer ball World Cup 2018. Named after the legendary Adidas Telstar ball, one of the first balls in the shape of a truncated icosahedron and the first spotted ball - it looked better than a single-color one on black and white TVs.

The ball was developed by Adidas, a permanent supplier of balls for the FIFA and UEFA championships, and is produced by Adidas' old partner, Forward Sports (Sialkot, Pakistan).

The ball was presented to the people by Lionel Messi, winner of the 2014 World Cup Golden Ball, in Moscow on November 9, 2017. Subsequently the ball was used in club championship world 2017.

Russia spent over 660 billion rubles on the championship.
At the group stage of the 2018 World Cup, fans spent about 17 billion rubles, and 14 of them on transport.
Football fans call the Championship in Russia the most unexpected: the German team, having lost to Korea (0:2), for the first time in history could not overcome the first group tournament; the national teams of Spain, Portugal and Argentina, the clear favorites of the season, did not qualify for the quarter-finals.
The Russian team reached the quarter finals for the first time since 1970, beating the Spanish team.
No sex during the Championship! And we are not talking about the advice of the State Duma and Tamara Pletneva. It turns out that many coaches prohibit their players from having sex during the World Cup. The Brazilian national team is most fortunate - they are only prohibited from “acrobatic sex.” But calm and without frills - please.
For 120 minutes of playing time in the match with Spain Russian football players in total we ran 146 kilometers. But the Spaniards - 137.
During all the games of the Brazilian national team at the championship, Neymar lay on the field for more than 14 minutes!

The Brazilian government has changed the schedule for civil service workers so they can watch their team's matches. It's all about the difference in time zones. The working day will either start at 14:00 or end at 13:00. True, all the time off will then need to be worked out.
The World Cup is made of 18 carat gold and stands on a malachite base.
Ronaldo set a historic speed record. At the Spain-Portugal match, he reached 38.6 km/h during a counter-attack and became the fastest player in history.
FIFA recognized the Russian national team as the best defensive team with 259 clearances, tackles and saves. But the Brazilian team became the best in attack.
The World Cup final turned out to be surprisingly productive: France and Croatia scored 6 goals between them. So many goals have not been scored in a World Cup final since 1966, but then extra time was needed. In general, only once in the history of the championship were more goals scored in the final: in 1958, Brazil defeated Sweden with a score of 5:2. And one more thing - in the 2018 final alone, more goals were scored than in all previous final matches held in this century!
The world championship record for the number of games from the start without scoreless draws has been broken. Previously, it was equal to 26 matches, now it has grown to 36. In the last round of the group tournament, France and Denmark, by obvious mutual agreement, played 0:0 - and this result was not repeated until the very finish. Just one match without goals - this has not been seen in the history of the World Championships since 1954!
This championship turned out to be completely unique in terms of team performance. Never before has each of the tournament participants scored at least 2 goals. This happened at this year's World Cup. Before the end of the group stage, Panama was ahead with zero, but it was also in last game I managed to score twice against Tunisia.
The own goal scored in the final by Croatian Mario Mandzukic was the 12th since the start of the tournament. This is simply an incredible amount compared to what is usually observed. For example, in 2014, players from all teams scored only 5 goals into their own goal. And the previous record was set in 1998 - 6. At the 2018 World Cup it was doubled.
The record for the number of penalties also increased significantly. Before that they maximum quantity within one tournament was 18. In 2018, this figure was reached at the end of the group tournament. By the end of the championship, their number was 29. This radical jump is explained, first of all, by the introduction of the VAR video replay system.
The most action-packed match of the tournament was the 1/8 finals match between Belgium and Japan. The Europeans were not only able to come back from a 0-2 deficit - they scored the decisive goal in the final seconds of stoppage time, immediately after the Asians almost scored the winning goal themselves after a free kick.
The Spanish national team achieved a unique, but completely useless achievement. In the match against Russia, she made 1,114 passes (in regular and extra time), far exceeding the previous Argentine record in 2010 (703). Paradoxically, this could not bring her victory. Moreover, they didn’t even manage to score a goal from the game themselves. The only time that day the goal of the Russian national team was scored by its own player - Sergei Ignashevich.
The 2018 FIFA World Cup has become a testing ground for overthrowing favorites. The most resonant and most unique was the collapse of the German team, especially since the Korean team, as it seemed, was the underdog of outsiders, formalized it with its victory. This was the first time the Germans failed to advance from the group stage in the entire history of the competition.

“Death of the Gods” - that’s what journalists called the day of June 30, when both left the tournament within a few hours best football player planets: first Lionel Messi after Argentina's defeat to France (3:4), and then Cristiano Ronaldo after Portugal's failure in the match with Uruguay (1:2). There is no precedent in the history of the World Championships for 10 total Golden Balls to be awarded in one day.

France - FIFA World Cup 2018

The French team defeated Croatia in the final of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and became the winner of the tournament.

The match took place at the Luzhniki Stadium and ended with a score of 4:2. The French took the lead in the 18th minute thanks to an own goal from opposition striker Mario Mandzukic. In the 28th minute, Croatian midfielder Ivan Perisic equalized the score. In the 38th minute, a penalty was awarded against Croatia, which was converted by forward Antoine Griezmann.

In the second half, the advantage of the French national team was increased by midfielder Paul Pogba (59th minute) and striker Kylian Mbappe (65th minute). In the 69th minute, Mandzukic reduced the gap for the Croatian team.

The French team won the World Cup for the second time. Before this, the team won the 1998 tournament in France.

The FIFA World Cup is international sports tournament, held under the auspices of FIFA, in which the best national teams on the planet compete. , and since then the competition has been held every 4 years (in 1942 and 1946 the tournament was not held due to the events of World War II).

The winner of the first World Cup was Uruguay, who defeated final game at Estadio Centenario (Centenario) the Argentina national team with a score of 4:2. In total, 13 teams took part in the debut World Cup: 7 from South America, 4 from Europe and two from North and Central America. Since then, another 20 World Cups have taken place.

Table of all world football champions by year

Year	Tournament host	Winner	Check	Runners-up
1930	Uruguay	Uruguay	4-2	Argentina
1934	Italy	Italy	2-1 (extra time)	Czechoslovakia
1938	France	Italy	4-2	Hungary
1950	Brazil	Uruguay	2-1	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 (extra time)	West Germany
1970	Mexico	Brazil	4-1	Italy
1974	West Germany	West Germany	2-1	Netherlands
1978	Argentina	Argentina	3-1 (extra time)	Netherlands
1982	Spain	Italy	3-1	West Germany
1986	Mexico	Argentina	3-2	West Germany
1990	Italy	West Germany	1-0	Argentina
1994	USA	Brazil	0-0 (3-2 penalty shootout)	Italy
1998	France	France	3-0	Brazil
2002	Japan and South Korea	Brazil	2-0	Germany
2006	Germany	Italy	1-1 (5-3 penalty shootout)	France
2010	South Africa	Spain	1-0 (extra time)	Netherlands
2014	Brazil	Germany	1-0 (extra time)	Argentina
2018	Russia	France	4:2	Croatia

In the entire history, only 8 teams have won the World Cup. The most titled country in the World Cup is Brazil, which has won the world football championship 5 times (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002). The current world champion is the French team, which defeated the Croats with a score of 4:2 in the final match of the 2018 World Cup.

Below is a table of winners by country:

Note: Germany has been world champion three times as West Germany (1954, 1974 and 1990).

Some interesting data about the World Cup

According to the current format, 32 national teams are participating in the final part of the World Cup. As mentioned above, 13 teams competed at the first World Cup. From 1934 to 1978 - 16. In 1982, the number of participants was increased to 24 teams.

The current format consists of 32 teams. It was first introduced at the 1998 World Cup in France. In 2026, 48 teams will take part in the World Cup finals.

The best scorer in the history of the World Cup is Germany striker Miroslav Klose. He has 16 goals scored. Brazilian Ronaldo is in second place with 15 goals. Full list You can watch the best goalscorers of the World Cup.

The record holder for the number of matches played at the World Cup is the German national team midfielder Lothar Matthäus (25 games). Behind Matthäus is his compatriot Miroslav Klose (24 games). The top three is completed by Italian national team legend Paulo Maldini (23 games).

The history of the FIFA World Cup opened its pages in 1928, FIFA President Jules Rimet announced the holding of an international football tournament. The first championship took place in Uruguay in 1930, but was contested because only 13 teams took part. Since then, the FIFA World Cup has transformed into a final tournament of 32 teams, with preliminary two-year qualifying tournaments with the participation of about 200 teams from all over the world.

Football World Cup: stories of victories

World Cup - 1930

The first FIFA World Cup was held in the capital of Montevideo, where the Uruguay team won Olympic Games in 1926. All matches took place in three stadiums: Gran Parque Central, Pocitos and Centenario. Especially for the first World Cup, the Centenario stadium was built with an incredible number of spectator seats even for our time - 90,000!

It hosted ten of the eighteen tournaments, in which thirteen teams took part. The final match was attended by 68,546 fans, but in reality there were at least 80,000, and Uruguay won brilliantly against Argentina with a score of 4:2 and became the very first champion.

World Cup - 1934

The second, and no less grandiose, expected World Championship took place in Italy. Of all available large stadiums the largest and most suitable was Milan's San Siro Arena, which at that time could accommodate 55,000 fans.

And of course, the biggest audience was the final, where Italy beat Czechoslovakia with a score of 3:1.

World Cup - 1938

The game for the third World Cup took place in France. However, due to the occupation of Austria by Nazi Germany, the former was unable to take part in the world tournament, so only fifteen teams took part in the finals.

45 thousand people gathered to watch this hot game.

The most large number spectators gathered in the quarter finals of France and Italy, whose game ended with a score of 1:3 (58,465 people). In the final, Italy defeated Hungary with a score identical to the 1930 World Cup (i.e. 4:2).

World Cup - 1950

Since the Second World War began, the World Championship was not held for 12 years. The first post-war tournament was hosted by Brazil, which did not skimp and built an arena with two hundred thousand seats in Rio de Janeiro for such an occasion.

A total of 13 teams from several countries participated, but in the final the host country made a mistake and lost to Uruguay with a score of 2:1 (173,950 fans were present).

World Cup - 1954

The fifth Cup was held in wealthy Switzerland, which remained a neutral party during the war and, accordingly, did not spend its funds on post-war reconstruction. 6 stadiums hosted matches, but the largest was Wankdorf with 64 thousand seats.

26 matches were held by 16 participating teams. The total number of people who attended the matches was 768,179 people. The most grandiose in terms of the number of spectators was the final, in which Hungary lost to the Federal Republic of Germany with a score of 3:2 (62.5 thousand people)

World Cup - 1958

This World Cup was held in Sweden at the largest stadium available - Ullevi in Gothenburg with 53,000 seats.

The highest number of fans reached 50,939 people. In the final, Brazil beat Sweden 5:2.

World Cup - 1962

The host country, or as it is commonly called, the host country, this time was Chile. Spectator interest was at its peak during the semi-final match between Brazil and Chile, as an estimated 76,587 fans were on the field for that particular game.

Everything took place at the Estadio Nacional. In the end, Brazil defeated Czechoslovakia with a score of 3:1.

World Cup - 1966

The World Cup has finally reached the ancestor of football. Meet Her Majesty England!

A total of approximately 564,135 fans attended the 32 matches.

In the final game, England beat West Germany 4-2 at Wembley, where 96,835 spectators were present.

World Cup - 1970

This World Cup took place in Mexico. That year, five stadiums hosted the event with brilliance, with 100,000 Azteca in the capital (Jalisco).

Thus, Brazil became the champion for the third time in all time, having received permanent storage Golden goddess. (score 4:1).

World Cup - 1974

This time the World Championship was held in West Germany. It was that year that it was decided to change the format of the tournament, in which two group rounds were organized. Then the match was played at nine stadiums.

A total of 32 matches were played and almost 2 million people were able to see this, each cheering for their team.

In the final, Germany defeated the Netherlands, beating them by just one goal (2:1).

World Cup - 1978

As the history of the World Cup goes, in 1978 the championship was held in Argentina. For this purpose, a couple of new arenas were built, but the game between Italy and Argentina (1:0) attracted the most spectators, because 72,000 fans gathered on that momentous day. In the final game, Argentina beat the Netherlands 3:1.

World Cup - 1982

For this World Cup, Spain was chosen as the host, which made the local residents very happy, who built 17 stadiums.

But this was to everyone's advantage, since now 24 teams took part.

The match where Camp Nou lost to Belgium in front of 95 thousand fans attracted the greatest interest. In the final, Italy reached the Cup, beating Germany.

World Cup - 1986

Once again in the history of the World Cup, Mexico was among the hosts.

This tournament, which became epic for Diego Maradona, was held in 120 stadiums.

The most popular match was on the familiar Azteca.

In the final, the Argentine players won the title of the strongest on the entire planet, but the Germans lost for the second time (score 3:2).

World Cup - 1990

The history of the World Championship began to repeat itself again, as it was planned to be held again in Italy. The matches took place in twelve arenas, and the largest number of spectators was gathered at the match between Germany and the Netherlands (2:1). This time the Germans did not disappoint and won against Argentina with a score of 1:0.

World Cup - 1994

In order for football to become even more popular, it was decided to move the championship to America. 9 stadiums that were usually used for American football, were re-equipped for a while, but what is most remarkable is that the smallest stadiums accommodated up to 50,000 fans, thanks to which the total attendance reached 3,576,785 people.

World Cup - 1998

This was the first championship in the history of the World Cup in France, which was held among thirty-two teams. Since then, 64 matches have been played at the championships. Ten stadiums were used, and in the final game France were able to defeat the Brazilians and for the first time in a long period of time were able to establish themselves as the strongest team.

So, France - Brazil with a score of 3:0 fully received their Cup.

World Cup - 2002

This is the first time at the World Championship that we have received a joint bid to host twenty stadiums at once. South Korea and Japan. This match is remembered more not for the football itself, but for the refereeing scandals and the amazing eliminations of everyone's favorites. Final – Brazil-Germany (2:0, 69,086 spectators).

World Cup - 2006

The World Championships were held in Germany. Thanks to the excellent infrastructure, the tournament was held perfectly. In terms of organization, this is the most best tournament throughout the history of the World Cup. The matches were held at 12 stadiums.

The final was the final final in Zinedine Zidane's career. This year Italy celebrated its quadruple victory.

World Cup - 2010

The tournament was held in South Africa. 12 stadiums were chosen for the match. The largest attendance was at the opening and finals.

World Cup 2014

Once again, Brazil became the host country. According to the standard, 12 stadiums hosted the match 9, and some were never completed). There were a total of 3,429,758 fans in the stands, which gives us an average of 59,768 spectators for each match. The USA retained its leadership. But Germany and Argentina won the final (1:0).

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This article contains the whole history of the winners of the World Cup. Which country and in which year became world champions. How many titles does this or that team have? More on all this later.

General information on the World Championship

FIFA World Cup (WC) is the largest international sports tournament organized by FIFA, in which the best football countries from all over the world. This tournament is held every 4 years.

The very first World Cup was held back in 1930. And the winner of the first World Cup was the Uruguay team, which beat Argentina in the final (4:2). Only 13 teams took part in it. On at the moment 20 tournaments have already taken place.

The latest (current) world champion for 2019 is French team, which became the winner of the last World Cup 2018, held in Russia.

Former champions– the German team, which won the World Cup in 2014 in Brazil, did not even make it out of the group at this tournament.

Note: West Germany (Former Germany) 3-time world champion (1954, 1974 and 1990).

National teams that became world champions - which country has the most titles?

IN football world Top teams stand out, attracting their attention both by the quality of their play and the selection of players. And therefore, most often they are favorites in such tournaments. Many people are interested in who has become world champion how many times.

Winning countries by number of victories in the championship (table)

Team	How many wins	In what years did you become champions?
Brazil	5	1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002
Germany	4	1954, 1974, 1990, 2014
Italy	4	1934, 1938, 1982, 2006
Uruguay	2	1930, 1950
Argentina	2	1978, 1986
France	2	1998, 2018
England	1	1966
Spain	1	2010

USSR and the World Cup

Team Soviet Union never in its history has won the FIFA World Cup. The best result was 4th place in 1966, held in England. Then the USSR national team lost to the German national team in the semifinals with a score (2:1). And in the match for 3rd place they lost to Portugal with the same score.

Russia at the World Cup

The Russian team also did not win the title of world champion in football. Best result The Russian team showed at the home World Cup 2018, reaching the quarterfinals, where they lost to the Croatian team in a penalty shootout.

The Russian national team in the match with Croatia at the 2018 World Championship. Source: gazeta.ru

Full list of world champions by year in the table

Year	World Cup winner	Who was beaten in the final (Score)	Venue
1930	Uruguay	Argentina (4:2)	Uruguay
1934	Italy	Czechoslovakia (2:1 - extra time)	Italy
1938	Italy	Hungary (4:2)	France
1950	Uruguay	Brazil (2:1)	Brazil
1954	West Germany	Hungary (3:2)	Switzerland
1958	Brazil	Sweden (5:2)	Sweden
1962	Brazil	Czechoslovakia (3:1)	Chile
1966	England	West Germany (4:2 - extra time)	England
1970	Brazil	Italy (4:1)	Mexico
1974	West Germany	Netherlands (2:1)	West Germany
1978	Argentina	Netherlands (3:1 - extra time)	Argentina
1982	Italy	West Germany (3:1)	Spain
1986	Argentina	West Germany (3:2)	Mexico
1990	West Germany	Argentina (1:0)	Italy
1994	Brazil	Italy (0:0 - penalty shootout 3:2))	USA
1998	France	Brazil (3:0)	France
2002	Brazil	Germany (2:0)	Japan and South Korea
2006	Italy	France (1:1 - penalty shootout 5:3)	Germany
2010	Spain	Netherlands (1:0 - extra time)	South Africa
2014	Germany	Argentina (1:0 - extra time)	Brazil
2018	France	Croatia (4:2)	Russia

And finally, a video review of the final match of the last World Cup between the national teams of France and Croatia. Enjoy watching!