The official history of the World Cup. Which teams have won the FIFA World Cup

03.03.202027.05.2017

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

The only person who has become world champion three times as a player is Pele (at the championships in 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 Main coach, who twice won the World Cup (in 1934 and 1938). Mario Zagallo and Franz Beckenbauer won the championship both as a player and as 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 4 times in total (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 was held in one city - Montevideo.
The Europeans did not want to sail across the Atlantic. The organizers took over the expenses, but only France, Yugoslavia, Romania and reached the goal. Only the Balkans made it to the playoffs and fell under Uruguay - 1:6.
Before the final, the opponents could not agree on whose ball to play - Argentinean or Uruguayan. We decided to use each one at a time.
The Uruguayan striker Castro did not have one hand, which did not prevent him from scoring a goal in the final.
The last finalist, Francisco Varaglio, died on August 30, 2010 at the age of 100.

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Final match: Uruguay 4-2 Argentina

1934 - Italy

Never before has the World Cup been so fleeting - the games lasted only 15 days. The 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 moving between Italian cities or no more than 3 games in one city. At the same time, this world championship holds a record - never 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 do a hat-trick in the match with Germany: one of the goals was scored by Rudolf Krcil. Therefore the title top scorer This four-ball championship is shared by Nejedly with German Edmund Konen and Italian Angelo Schiavio.

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

1938 - France

Football and world politics played a role in the third championship. FIFA gave preference to a European country, breaking the 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.

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

The championship was marked by several curiosities:

In the match with Brazil, Meazzo was about to shoot a penalty, but then his sports shorts fell off. The audience stood up, the referee almost swallowed the 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, the Italians could not get tickets there. And even after the loss, the Brazilians did not sell tickets to the Italians, and they had to travel to the final match by train.

Some moments of the championship entered the history of world football:

For the first time, the previous world champion and the host team automatically qualified.
For the first time the championship was not won by the hosts.
Pole Ernest Willimowski, striker, scored four goals for the first time in the history of the World Cup (match Brazil - ). His record was only improved after 56 years.
For the first time, balls without lacing were used.
For the first time in a FIFA competition, 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, which was led by famous commentator Galliano Neto.
For the only time in history, the unified German team did not qualify for the finals of the tournament.
The stands were attended by Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.
The next World Cup took place only 12 years later, because 15 months later the Second World War began.

1950 - Brazil

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

Final match Uruguay - Brazil, 2:1

1954 - Switzerland

The Soviet Union lost the 1952 Olympics and refused to go to the World Cup. Officials considered 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 Puskas and Kocis even knocked out Brazil, but sank in the final, torpedoed by the Germans. Although in group match Germany lost to Hungary - 3:8. Then the coach Herberger did not field the main players, and the defender Liebrich inflicted a serious injury on Puskas.
FIFA issued a memorandum: “The German football players deservedly won, but the best team Hungary became the leader.
140 goals were scored in 26 matches of the tournament. 5.38 goals per game - a record in the history of the World Cup.

Massacre of Bern

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 brawl in the history of the world football championships took place, which went down in the annals as the “Bern Massacre”.

The Brazilian Mauro Maurinho provoked rivals and comrades, who approached the attacking Hungarians Shandor Kochis and hit him in the face. The fight that began after that between the players continued in the sub-tribune room. Since Lorant had broken a lamp in the corridor of Gyula, the fight took place in semi-darkness. Everyone participated, especially Puskas, who missed the game due to an injury, who drove a siphon into the head of Juan Pinheira and drove the Brazilian into the locker room. The head coach of the Hungarian national team Gustav Shebesh also received a blow with a siphon on the head. He had to put four stitches on his wounds.

A snapshot of Brazilian national team coach Zeze Moreira attacking the Hungarians with a boot in his hands went around all the newspapers and brought a lot of money to the author of the photo. Riots were also recorded at the stadium. On the cover of Parimatch magazine, which came out after the fight, there was a photograph in which a young man at the edge of the field kicks a policeman.

1958 Sweden

For the first time, FIFA has 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, Turkey, Venezuela and Taiwan.
16 teams competed for the main trophy. automatically entered the number of participants as a host country, Germany - as a 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 so far the only time in the final part of the championship, all 4 British teams took part - England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. According to the regulations, if the teams that took the second and third places 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. Brazil 1958 is also the only non-European team to win a championship held in Europe.
Pele is still the youngest player to score at the World Cup (17 years and 239 days) and the youngest world champion (17 years and 249 days).

1962 - Chile

In 1960, a strong earthquake (9.5 points) occurred in Chile. They wanted to take the tournament away, but the president of the Chilean Football Federation, Dittborn, exclaimed: “Leave the World Cup, we have nothing left anyway!” 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 an error: the ball flew into the net hole. This is considered an example of fair play - fair play.
The final was held at the National Stadium in Santiago, where in 11 years dictator Pinochet will hold 40,000 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

It was the first World Cup to be televised in live.
The Jules Rimet Cup, the 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 park in London. 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 is kidnapped again. Already forever.
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 arbiter of the match with a complaint about the "dirty" game of the British. But, since the arbitrator was German, Ratim turned to the interpreter for help. and was immediately removed from the field by an expulsive referee. Leaving the field, the Argentinean spat in the direction of the British flag.
As part of the Brazilian national team for the 1966 World Cup, the youngest player in the history of the national team arrived. Ed was not even 17 years old when he arrived in England with the team. True, then he did not manage to enter the field. But after four years 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 (Football War). 6000 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 he 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 his whistle.
The Brazilians became champions for the third time in a row and received forever the Jules Rimet Cup, the president of FIFA, who organized the first World Cup. 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 well-known Polish singer Maryla Rodowicz, who was invited, performed her song "Futbol", written especially for the occasion.
In the match Argentina - Haiti in the 15th minute, Yazalde scored 900 goals in the history of the final tournaments.
Having scored 4 goals in the championship, Gerd Muller overtook the Frenchman Just Fontaine in the number of goals in the world championships. Muller scored 14 goals
Polish goalkeeper Jan Tomaszewski saved two penalties (from Tupper and W. Hönnes).
For the first time, a doping control was carried out at the World Cup. The first victim of this was the striker of the Haiti national team Jean-Joseph, who was expelled in disgrace from the championship for the use of illegal drugs (the very result of the match Italy - Haiti 3:1, after which Jean-Joseph was caught, was upheld).
The German national team won the Fair Play award
Championship matches were covered by 5,000 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 that flooded the field of play: firefighters had to pump out all the water from the field.

1978 - Argentina

The USSR lost to the Hungarians in the selection and again did not get to the World Cup.
After the Peru-Scotland match (3:1), ephedrine was found in the blood of Scottish striker Willie Johnston. The next morning the newspapers came out with the headlines "Shame on you, Willy!".
Argentina defeated Peru in the semi-final group with the correct score (6:0) and advanced to the final, leaving Brazil behind. The world press cried out that the hosts played fixed match. And Briton David Yallop even wrote the book "How the game was stolen." Like, the head of the Argentine junta, Videla, handed over $50 million and 35,000 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, unhooked the 17-year-old prodigy Maradona from the squad. But still became a champion.

1982 - Spain

The tournament began to be called "Mundi Al", which is Spanish for "worldwide".
most big win In the history of the World Cup, Hungary won, defeating El Salvador 10: 1.
In the match France - Kuwait, the Soviet referee Stupar counted the dubious ball of the French. Kuwaiti Sheikh Fahd al-Sabah entered the field, took the team to the locker room and demanded that Stupar cancel the goal. He agreed and ... was banned for life by FIFA: he did not stand up for the honor of the referee's uniform.
The USSR left the group (1:2 with Brazil, 3:0 with New Zealand, 2:2 with Scotland), but in the second round stumbled in Poland (1:0 with Belgium, 0:0 with the Poles) - we played on defense when you need to win.
The top scorer was the Italian Rossi (6 goals), who in 1979 was disqualified for two years and imprisoned for betting fraud.

1986 - Mexico

It was the championship of Diego Maradona, who was at the peak of his career and led the Argentina national team to the 2nd victory at the world championships. His most memorable league match was in the quarter-finals against England, where he scored 2 goals to win his team. Diego scored the first goal with his hand, but the referee did not notice this. Maradona later admitted that he scored with a handball. 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 well-deserved, albeit unexpected. Maradona was named 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 team, the reigning world champions, in the second stage with a score of 2-0. In the ¼ finals, France at the Estadio Jalisco in Guadelajara buried Brazil's ambitions by beating them on penalties. Michel Platini shone in the French national team. Having passed the Brazilians, the French in the semi-finals, like 4 years ago in Spain, fell on the German team and again lost to it.

West Germany were playing their fifth World Cup final, having only won twice before. Like 4 years ago, having lost then 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, also losing two World Cups in a row in the final.

For Canada, Denmark and Iraq, this World Cup was the first. Iraq and Canada were eliminated in the first round, 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 beating the Portuguese team, reaching the playoffs from the first place, but in the 1/8 finals, the Moroccans lost to the Germans with a score of 1:0.

Piqué pepper was the mascot of this World Cup. Many of the merchandise featured Piqué, an anthropomorphic chili pepper, dressed in the colors of the Mexican football team. Piqué's image was controversial as it symbolized negative stereotypes about Mexicans.

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

In the match - Paraguay, 80 free kicks were awarded, of which 46 were directed towards the hosts of the championship (Judge J. Courtney, England).

1990 - Italy

The USSR, England and Greece claimed to host the 1990 World Cup. But in 1984, this right was given to Italy.
The Union was disintegrating, and the national team was breathing its last. 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 guidance of our coach Nepomniachtchi, became a troublemaker, reaching the quarter-finals, where, foolishly, they did not beat England.
In the 1/8 final match, the Dutchman Rijkaard made the famous spit on the German Feller. Removed both.
The Germans reached the final for the third time in a row. And yet pulled Argentina! Maradona accused FIFA of deliberately killing them, and Brehme's penalty was fake.

1994 - USA

Championship matches were played in stadiums with a capacity of up to 91,000 spectators, which helped to set absolute attendance records for World Cup matches. The 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.
After winning the World Cup title in 1994, the Brazilian national team unfurled a poster on the field dedicating this title to Ayrton Senna, the Brazilian Formula 1 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 number of goals scored in a match of the final stage of the World Cup by one player. It was installed 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 drugs with which he was treated for a cold were unsuccessful. Maradona was disqualified.
in the 1/8 final match between the national teams of Mexico and Bulgaria during the game, a broken goal had to be replaced, because of which the match was interrupted for more than thirty minutes.
On July 2, 1994, footballer Andres Escobar was shot dead after returning home for scoring an own goal at the World Cup. The killer actually executed the footballer by firing 12 bullets at him in the restaurant's 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 a legendary hit: “What pain, what pain! Argentina - Jamaica - 5:0.
Beckham gets a red card for the go-ahead. England loses in the 1/8 finals to Argentina. Since then, the catchphrase has appeared: "It was not Beckham's day."
She made her debut at the World Championships, which immediately took bronze.
On the eve of the final, Ronaldo was poisoned. He barely entered the field, but Brazil lost in all respects to France and the magnificent Zidane.
Each time, for good luck, the French defender Blanc kissed his goalkeeper Barthez on the bald head. And for the entire tournament, the world champions conceded only two goals!

2002 - Korea - Japan

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

For the first time we got to participate in semi-final matches and for the first time held a match for 3rd place between Turkey and South Korea (3:2).
In the match between these teams, another achievement was set - Turkish national team player Hakan Shukur scored the most quick goal in the history of the final games of the world championships, at the 11th second of the match.
Such strong teams of France, Italy, England and Portugal have already failed in the group stage, the Spanish team flew out to the ¼ finals.
African teams showed a good game, and reached the ¼ finals.

2006 - Germany

Before the match South Korea - Togo (2:1), the Korean anthem was played twice by mistake.
In the match Croatia - (2:2), the British referee Poll got excited, showing Shimunich three yellow cards at once. Although he had to remove the Croat after the second.
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.
As the best player in the World Cup, Zidane received the Golden Ball. Although he let the French down in the final, buying into Materazzi's provocation. The Italian threw something offensive in his face, Zizu hit Materazzi in the chest with a shiny bald head and received a red card. Soon the world champion Materazzi wrote the book "What I really said to Zidane."

2010 - South Africa

Ballon d'Or awarded best player championship, striker Diego Forlan. The silver ball was received by the Dutchman Wesley Sneijder, the bronze - David Villa, player.
The Golden Ball was awarded to the best player of the championship, Uruguay striker Diego Forlan. The silver ball was received by the Dutchman Wesley Sneijder, the bronze - by David Villa, player of the Spanish national team.
Golden Glove, also known as the prize. Lev Yashin, awarded the best goalkeeper championship - the Spaniard Iker Casillas.
Best Prize young player, as well as the "Golden Boot" was received by the German Thomas Müller. Silver and bronze awards were awarded to David Villa and Wesley Sneijder, 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 bypassed the applications of Morocco and Egypt. 204 out of 208 FIFA teams took part in the qualifying tournament, making this championship the largest sporting event by the number of participating countries, repeating the achievement of the Beijing Olympics.
Dejan Stankovic managed to play in three world championships for three different teams - Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and now just Serbia.
After the match Portugal - North Korea (7:0), which in North Korea broadcast live, head coach Kim Jong-hun 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, all the time aimed at the ball and transmitting information to the computer, which sends a signal when the ball crosses the goal line to the clock of the chief referee of the match. The system was installed in all stadiums of the 2014 World Cup and for the first time influenced the decision of the referee in the controversial episode with the second goal in the France-Honduras match.

For the first time in the history of the World Cup, referees used vanishing spray cans to mark the field where the ball and the wall were located on free kicks and free kicks.

For the first time in World Cup history, match breaks were introduced to allow players to cool off and drink water. Breaks are scheduled at the discretion of the referee after the thirtieth minute of each half, if the heat transfer index WBGT exceeds the set 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, for the first time such breaks were applied in the 1/8 final match of the Netherlands - 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 appointed even earlier - in the 39th minute of the Group G match between the US and Portugal, however, 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 emblem of the tournament was unveiled on July 8, 2010 at a ceremony in Johannesburg during the 2010 World Cup. The emblem was chosen by a committee that included architect Oscar Niemeyer, designer Hans Donner (port.), model Gisele Bündchen, writer Paulo Coelho, singer Yvete 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), designed by the Brazilian agency Africa.

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

On January 23, 2014, FIFA and Sony Music released the official song of the tournament. She became the composition "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". FIFA President Joseph Blatter, Russian Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko and the best football player in the world in 2006 Italian Fabio Cannavaro took part in the presentation of the tournament symbols.

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

Mascot

The official mascot of the tournament was Zabivak's wolf, which was chosen by voting results 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 worn or shifted to the forehead. The combination of white, blue and red in clothes symbolizes the colors of the Russian flag.

Hymn

"Live It Up" is a song by Puerto Rican singer Nicky Jam featuring American actor and rapper Will Smith and Kosovo singer Era Istrefi for the forthcoming 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 2018 World Cup. Named after the legendary Adidas Telstar ball, one of the first truncated icosahedron balls and the first spotted ball - it looked better than a single color on black and white TVs.

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

The ball was presented to the people by Lionel Messi, winner of the Golden Ball of the 2014 World Cup, 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, the fans spent about 17 billion rubles, and 14 of them spent 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; teams of Spain, Portugal and Argentina, the clear favorites of the season, did not reach the ¼.
For the first time since 1970, the Russian team reached the ¼ finals, 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 forbid their wards to have sex during the World Cup. The Brazilian team was the luckiest - they are only banned from "acrobatic sex". But calm and without frills - please.
For 120 minutes of playing time in the match with Spain Russian football players a total of 146 kilometers were run. But the Spaniards - 137.
For all the games of the Brazilian national team in the championship, Neymar lay on the field for more than 14 minutes!

The Brazilian government has changed the schedule for civil servants so that 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 historical speed record. At the Spain-Portugal match, he accelerated to 38.6 km / h during the counterattack and became the fastest player in history.
FIFA recognized the Russian team as the best defensive team with 259 clearances, tackles and saves. But the Brazilian team became the best in the attack.
The World Cup final turned out to be surprisingly productive: France and Croatia scored 6 goals for two. So many goals in the World Cup finals have not been scored since 1966, but then it took extra time. In general, only once in the history of the championship in the final was scored more: 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 that took place in this century!
The World Championship record for the number of games from the start without goalless draws has been broken. Previously, it was equal to 26 matches, now it has grown to 36. In the last round of the group stage, France and Denmark, by explicit mutual agreement, played 0-0 - and this result was not repeated until the very finish. Only one match without goals - the history of the world championships has not known such a thing since 1954!
This championship turned out to be absolutely unique in terms of team performance. Never before has each of the participants in the tournament scored at least 2 goals. This happened at this year's World Cup. Before the end of the group stage, Panama went with zero, but it also last game with Tunisia managed to distinguish himself twice.
Croatian Mario Mandzukic's own goal in the final was the 12th since the start of the tournament. This is just an incredible amount compared to what is usually observed. Let's say that in 2014, the players of all teams sent only 5 goals into their own net. 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 rose significantly. Before that they maximum amount within one tournament was 18. In 2018, this figure was reached at the end of the group stage. By the end of the championship, their number was 29. Such a 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 final match between Belgium and Japan. The Europeans were able not only to win back from a score of 0: 2 - they scored the decisive goal in the last seconds of stoppage time, right after the Asians themselves almost managed to score the winning goal after a free kick.
A unique, but completely useless achievement was set by the Spanish team. In the match with Russia, she made 1114 passes (in regular and extra time), far exceeding the previous record of the Argentines in 2010 (703). Paradoxically, this could not bring her victory. Moreover, even a goal from the game itself failed to score. The only time that day the gates of the Russian national team were struck by their own player - Sergei Ignashevich.
The 2018 FIFA World Cup has become a testing ground for overthrowing the favorites. The most resonant and most unique was the collapse of the German national team, especially since the Korean national team designed it with their victory - as it seemed, an outsider of outsiders. This was the first time the Germans did not leave the group stage in the history of the competition.

"The death of the gods" - this is how the journalists called the day on June 30, when both players left the tournament within a few hours the best football player planets: first Lionel Messi after the defeat of Argentina from France (3:4), and then Cristiano Ronaldo after the failure of Portugal in the match with Uruguay (1:2). There is no precedent in the history of the world championships for 10 total Golden Balls to take off in one day.

France - FIFA World Cup 2018

The French team defeated the Croatians 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 opposing striker Mario Mandzukic. Croatian midfielder Ivan Perisic equalized in the 28th minute. At the 38th minute, a penalty kick was awarded to Croatia, which forward Antoine Griezmann converted.

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

The French team won the World Cup for the second time. Prior to that, the team won the 1998 tournament in France.

The FIFA World Cup is an international sports tournament, held under the auspices of FIFA, in which the best national teams of 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).

Uruguay won the first World Cup, defeating final game at the "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, 20 more 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 of the World Cup is Brazil, which won the world football championship 5 times (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002). The current world champion is the French team, which in the final match of the 2018 World Cup defeated the Croats with a score of 4: 2.

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 facts about the World Cup

According to the current format, 32 national teams are participants 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 current format consists of 32 teams. It was first presented at the 1998 World Cup in France. In 2026, 48 teams will take part in the final part of the World Cup.

Germany's Miroslav Klose is the top scorer in World Cup history. He has 16 goals scored. In second place is the Brazilian Ronaldo with 15 goals. Full list you can see the best goalscorers of the World Cup.

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

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

World Cup: victory stories

World Cup - 1930

The first FIFA World Cup was held in the capital of Montevideo, where the Uruguayan team won the Olympic Games in 1926. All matches were played in three stadiums such as Gran Parc Central, Positos 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 fact there were at least 80,000, and Uruguay beat Argentina 4-2 with brilliance and became the very first champion.

World Cup - 1934

The second, and no less grandiose expected World Championship was held in Italy. Of all available big 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 3:1.

World Cup - 1938

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

45 thousand people gathered to watch this hot game.

The largest number of 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 (ie 4:2).

World Cup - 1950

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

In total, 13 teams from several countries participated, but in the final, the host country blundered 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 side during the war, and, accordingly, did not spend its money on post-war reconstruction. 6 stadiums hosted matches, but the largest was Wankdorf with 64,000 seats.

26 fights were held by 16 participating teams. The total number of those 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 FIFA World Cup was held in Sweden at the largest stadium available, Gothenburg's Ullevi, with 53,000 seats.

The largest indicator of the number of fans reached 50,939 people. Brazil beat Sweden 5-2 in the final.

World Cup - 1962

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

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

World Cup - 1966

Finally, the World Cup has reached the progenitor of football. Meet Her Majesty England!

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

In the final game, England beat West Germany 4-2 at Wembley, attended by 96,835 spectators.

World Cup - 1970

This World Cup was held in Mexico. That year, five stadiums hosted the event with brilliance, with an Azteca of 100,000 in the capital (Jalisco).

So, Brazil became the champion for the third time ever, having received permanent storage golden goddess. (score 4:1).

World Cup - 1974

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

In total, 32 matches were played and almost 2 million people who supported each of their teams could see it.

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

World Cup - 1978

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

World Cup - 1982

For this World Cup, Spain was chosen as the hostess, which made the locals very happy, who built 17 stadiums.

But it was in the hands of everyone, since now 24 teams took part.

The most interesting was the match where the Camp Nou lost to Belgium with 95,000 fans. In the final, Italy reached the Cup, beating Germany.

World Cup - 1986

And 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 was the match at the familiar Azteca.

In the final, the title of the strongest on the entire planet was won by the players of Argentina, 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 the holding was scheduled again in Italy. The matches were held at twelve arenas, and the largest number of spectators managed to gather at the match Germany - the Netherlands (2:1). This time the Germans did not disappoint and beat Argentina 1:0.

World Cup - 1994

In order to make football even more popular, it was decided to move the championship to America. 9 stadiums commonly used for American football, were temporarily refurbished, but what is most remarkable, the smallest stadiums could accommodate up to 50,000 fans, thanks to which the total attendance reached 3,576,785 people.

World Cup - 1998

It 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 in 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 rightfully received their Cup.

World Cup - 2002

This is the first time the World Cup has received a joint application to host twenty stadiums at once in South Korea and Japan. This match was more remembered not for the football itself, but for the refereeing scandals and striking departures from the game of everyone's favorites. Final - Brazil-Germany (2:0, 69,086 spectators).

World Cup - 2006

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

The final was the final in the career of Zinedine Zidane. This year Italy celebrated its fourfold 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 final.

World Cup - 2014

Once again, Brazil became the host country. According to the standard, 12 stadiums accepted the match 9, and some did not sit down to complete the construction). There were a total of 3,429,758 fans in the stands, which gives us an average of 59,768 spectators per match. The United States held the lead. But in the final Germany and Argentina won (1:0).

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General information on the World Cup

Football World Cup (WCH) 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 in the final beat the Argentina team (4:2). Only 13 teams took part in it. On this moment 20 tournaments have already taken place.

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

Former champions - the German national team, who won the "mundial" in 2014 in Brazil, did not even leave the group at this tournament.

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

Teams that have become world champions - which country has the most titles?

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

Winning countries by number of championship wins (table)

national team	How many wins	In what years did they 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 World Cup

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

Russia at the World Cup

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

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

Full list of world champions by year in the table

Year	World Cup Winner	Who was beaten in the final (Score)	Location
1930	Uruguay	Argentina (4:2)	Uruguay
1934	Italy	Czechoslovakia (2:1 - additional 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 - additional time)	England
1970	Brazil	Italy (4:1)	Mexico
1974	West Germany	Netherlands (2:1)	West Germany
1978	Argentina	Netherlands (3:1 - additional 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 - additional time)	South Africa
2014	Germany	Argentina (1:0 - extra time)	Brazil
2018	France	Croatia (4:2)	Russia

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