Football : The World Cup

World Cup Hosts, Winners and Runners Up

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Year	Host Country	Times as Host	World Cup Winners	Number of Wins	Runners Up	Score
1930	Uruguay	1	Uruguay	1	Argentina	4 - 2
1934	Italy	1	Italy	1	Czechoslovakia	2 - 1 (aet)
1938	France	1	Italy	2	Hungary	4 - 2
1950	Brazil	1	Uruguay	2	Brazil	2 - 1
1954	Switzerland	1	West Germany	1	Hungary	3 - 2
1958	Sweden	1	Brazil	1	Sweden	5 - 2
1962	Chile	1	Brazil	2	Czechoslovakia	3 - 1
1966	England	1	England	1	West Germany	4 - 2 (aet)
1970	Mexico	1	Brazil	3	Italy	4 - 1
1974	West Germany	1	West Germany	2	Netherlands	2 - 1
1978	Argentina	1	Argentina	1	Netherlands	3 - 1 (aet)
1982	Spain	1	Italy	3	West Germany	3 - 1
1986	Mexico	2	Argentina	2	West Germany	3 - 2
1990	Italy	2	West Germany	3	Argentina	1 - 0
1994	USA	1	Brazil	4	Italy	0 - 0 (pens: 3 - 2)
1998	France	2	France	1	Brazil	3 - 0
2002	Japan / South Korea	1	Brazil	5	Germany	2 - 0
2006	Germany	2	Italy	4	France	1 - 1 (pens: 5 - 3)
2010	South Africa	1	Spain	1	Netherlands	1 - 0 (aet)
2014	Brazil	2	Germany	4	Argentina	1 - 0 (aet)
2018	Russia	1	France	2	Croatia	4 - 2
2022	Qatar	1	Argentina	3	France	3 - 3 (pens: 4 - 2)
2026	North America	2

Year	Notes
1930	First World Cup held in Uruguay. Only 13 countries entered, 9 from Latin America. No team from the United Kingdom entered.
1950	England qualified for their first World Cup.
1970	Brazil become the first country to win the World Cup three times.
1990	Germany become the first country to reach three successive World Cup finals.
1994	Brazil become the first country to win the World Cup four times.
2002	Brazil become the first country to win the World Cup five times and the second country to reach three successive finals.