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Fifa World Cup Past Winners & Runner-ups (1930-2018)


Fifa World Cup 2018 is coming ahead before we talk about the upcoming tournament here we share with you about the previous tournament winners. Brazil is most successful team in the world cup for many years they reached the final 7 times and won the title 5 times while finished runner-up two times. The other teams who dominate the world cup in past are (Germany, Italy, Argentina and Spain).

Past Winners of Fifa World CupĀ 1930-2018
Team Champions Runner-ups Winning Year Losing Years
Brazil 5 2 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002 1950, 1998
Germany 4 4 1954, 1974, 1990, 2014 1982, 1986, 2002
Italy 4 2 1934, 1938, 1982, 2006 1970, 1994
Argentina 2 3 1978, 1986 1930, 1990, 2014
Uruguay 2 0 1930, 1950 N/A
France 1 1 1998 2006
England 1 0 1966 N/A
Spain 1 0 2010 N/A
Netherlands 0 3 N/A 1974, 1978, 2010
Czech Republic 0 2 N/A 1934, 1962
Hungary 0 2 N/A 1938, 1954
Sweden 0 1 N/A 1958

#1: Brazil: Fifa World Cup Champions (5 Times): Runner-ups (2 Times):

Brazil is one of the most prominent team in the world cup from (CONMEBOL) confederation. They have qualified for 7 finals of Fifa World Cup and 5 times the finished final match with winning results. The last world cup the team of Brazil have in 2002 which is hosted by (Korea and Japan). Ronaldo finished top scorer in the tournament by scoring 8 goals in overall tournament. Brazil stay undefeated in 2002 world cup but its now 15 years they have not won a world cup. Hopefully they have set a better squad for 2018 world cup.

#2: Germany: Fifa World Cup Champions (4 Times): Runner-ups (4 Times):

Germany becomes second most successful national side in the World cup from Europe, they have won Fifa world cup 4 times while suffer defeated in the final 4 times ended as runner-ups in the tournament of (1966, 1982, 1986, 2002). But if we compared their performance with other teams of Europe and CONMEBOL they were most toughest team in world cup. They are the current defending champions of world cup, in 2014 final they have defeated Argentina with 1-0 goals difference to win the world cup after after 23 years. Well lets see will they retain the title or we have our new world champions in 2018. Germany has reached fifa world cup finals 8 times.

#3: Italy: Fifa World Cup Champions (4 Times): Runner-ups (2 Times):

Italy have reached the world cup final 6 times and they become champions 4 times with their outstanding performance in the finals. They suffer defeat in the final from Brazil twice during the world cup (1970, 1994). Its 11 years they have not won the world cup, in 2010 world cup they knockout from the group stages earlier. In 2014, world cup Italy only win a single match in group stage and knocked out from the world cup. Now they have made couple of changes to the starting line-up and team management before the world cup 2018, lets see what results would produced by them in 2018 world cup.

#4: Argentina: Fifa World Cup Champions (2 Times): Runner-ups (3 Times):

Argentina one of the best attacking side in the Fifa world cup after Netherlands, they have made to the 5 world cup finals from which Argentina won two world cups in year (1978, 1986). In 1986 they have defeated Germany in the finals to become the world cup champions and In 1978 they win against (Netherlands) to become first world champions of football. They finished runner-ups in world cup 2014, after losing their match from Germany.