- Fédération Internationale de Football Association
- Founded: May 21, 1904
Fédération Internationale de Football Association WORLD CUP
| Founded | 1930 |
|---|---|
| Number of teams | 32 (finals) 204 (qualifiers for 2010) |
| Current champions Most Successful Team |  Spain (1st title) Brazil (5 titles) |
The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the seniormen's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War. The current champions are Spain, who won the 2010 tournament in South Africa.
The current format of the tournament involves 32 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month; this phase is often called the World Cup Finals. A qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, is used to determine which teams qualify for the tournament together with the host nation(s).
The 19 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight different national teams. Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. The other World Cup winners are Italy, with four titles; West Germany, with three titles;Argentina and inaugural winners Uruguay, with two titles each; and England, France, and Spain, with one title each.
The World Cup is the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games; the cumulative audience of all matches of the 2006 FIFA World Cup was estimated to be 26.29 billion with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the final match, a ninth of the entire population of the planet.
The 2014 FIFA World Cup is currently being contested in Brazil. The next two World Cups will be hosted by Russia in 2018, andQatar in 2022.
WINNERS TILL NOW:
Year Host Winner Score Runner-up Number of teams---- ------------------ ------------- --------- --------------- ---------------
1930 Uruguay Uruguay 4–2 Argentina 13
1934 Italy Italy 2–1(aet) Czechoslovakia 16
1938 France Italy 4–2 Hungary 16
1950 Brazil Uruguay 1-2 Brazil 16
1954 Switzerland West Germany 3–2 Hungary 16
1958 Sweden Brazil 5–2 Sweden 16
1962 Chile Brazil 3–1 Czechoslovakia 16
1966 England England 4–2(aet) West Germany 16
1970 Mexico Brazil 4–1 Italy 16
1974 West Germany West Germany 2–1 Netherlands 16
1978 Argentina Argentina 3–1(aet) Netherlands 16
1982 Spain Italy 3–1 West Germany 24
1986 Mexico Argentina 3–2 West Germany 24
1990 Italy West Germany 1–0 Argentina 24
1994 United States Brazil 0–0(3–2p) Italy 24
1998 France France 3–0 Brazil 32
2002 South Korea Brazil 2–0 Germany 32
& Japan
2006 Germany Italy 1–1(5–3p) France 32
2010 South Africa Spain 1–0(aet) Netherlands 32
2014 Brazil Germany 1-0(aet) Argentina 32
FootBalls In Which WORLD CUPs Played:
& NOW
People's Interest on Football & #WORLDCUP :
| Year & host | Total attendance | Matches | Avg attendance |
|---|---|---|---|
 1930 | 590,549 | 18 | 32,808 |
 1934 | 363,000 | 17 | 21,353 |
 1938 | 375,700 | 18 | 20,872 |
 1950 | 1,045,246 | 22 | 47,511 |
 1954 | 768,607 | 26 | 29,562 |
 1958 | 819,810 | 35 | 23,423 |
 1962 | 893,172 | 32 | 27,912 |
 1966 | 1,563,135 | 32 | 48,848 |
 1970 | 1,603,975 | 32 | 50,124 |
 1974 | 1,865,753 | 38 | 49,099 |
 1978 | 1,545,791 | 38 | 40,679 |
 1982 | 2,109,723 | 52 | 40,572 |
| 1986 | 2,394,031 | 52 | 46,039 |
 1990 | 2,516,215 | 52 | 48,389 |
 1994 | 3,587,538 | 52 | 68,991 |
| 1998 | 2,785,100 | 64 | 43,517 |
  2002 | 2,705,197 | 64 | 42,269 |
| 2006 | 3,359,439 | 64 | 52,491 |
 2010 | 3,178,856 | 64 | 49,670 |
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