Twenty-two finals · eight winners · ninety-six years

The Champions.Brazil · Germany · Italy · Argentina · France · Uruguay · England · Spain

Only eight nations have lifted the trophy. Some won when planes were a luxury. Others won when a single player's salary could buy a city block.

22
Editions played
8
Unique winners
5
Brazil's titles
17
Years per new winner
● The eight · every champion · click to watch

The eight

Eight cards, ranked by titles. Hover any card to see archive footage. Click to open the highlights of every final they won.

5
Titles
Brazil
19581962197019942002
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4
Titles
Germany
1954197419902014
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4
Titles
Italy
1934193819822006
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3
Titles
Argentina
197819862022
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2
Titles
France
19982018
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2
Titles
Uruguay
19301950
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1
Title
England
1966
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1
Title
Spain
2010
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★ The legends · the faces of the cup

The legends

Beyond the trophies, the players who defined the World Cup across its eras. Hover any card for archive footage.

Pelé
Brazil195819621970
Maradona
Argentina1986
Cruyff
NetherlandsTotal Football
Zidane
France1998
Messi
Argentina2022
Mbappé
France2018
Fontaine
France13 goals1958
▦ The beam · 22 trophies, one per cup

One trophy per cup

Twenty-two trophies on a horizontal beam, color-coded by winner. Hover any trophy for the year and host. Click to open the final's highlights.

Hover any trophy to see the final's story. Click to watch the highlights.
✦ Storylines · across decades

Six storylines

Patterns across the 22 finals. Each tells a different truth about which nations were on top and when.

1958 → 1970
Brazil's golden age
1958 1962 1970
Three titles in twelve years. Pelé and Garrincha. The 1970 side considered the greatest team to ever take the field.
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1982 · Spain
Italy beats the greatest Brazil never to win
3 – 2 ITALY BRAZIL
Paolo Rossi's hat-trick ended a Brazil side many consider better than the 1970 team. The 3-2 quarter-final still hurts.
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1990 → 2014
Germany's two cups, 24 years apart
■ = TITLE · 8 SEMIS IN 9 CUPS
Brehme's penalty in 1990. Götze's volley in 2014. In between: heartbreaks, but always close. Eight semi-finals in nine cups.
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1998 · 2018
France: two titles, two generations
98ZIDANE 18MBAPPÉ 20 YEARS APART
Zidane's two headers at home in 1998. Mbappé's four goals — including a hat-trick in the final — in Russia 2018.
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2010 · South Africa
Spain's only one
90' 116' INIESTA · LATEST FINAL WINNER EVER
After 80 years and zero finals reached, Iniesta's 116th-minute strike. La Roja's tiki-taka peaked, and never repeated.
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2022 · Qatar
Messi's closure
ARGENTINA FRANCE 4–2 PENALTIES · MESSI'S CLOSURE
Argentina's third title, 36 years after Maradona's second. Mbappé scored a hat-trick. Messi scored twice. Penalties decided it.
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