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FIFA World Cup final. Founded. 1930; 94 years ago. ( 1930) Current champions. Argentina (3rd title) Most successful team (s) Brazil (5 titles) The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global ...
FIFA World Cup records and statistics. As of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, 80 national teams have competed at the finals of the FIFA World Cup. [ 1] Brazil is the only team to have appeared in all 22 tournaments to date, with Germany having participated in 20, Italy and Argentina in 18 and Mexico in 17. [ 2] Eight nations have won the tournament.
In November 2007, FIFA announced that all members of World Cup-winning squads between 1930 and 1974 were to be retroactively awarded winners' medals. [65] This made Brazil's Pelé the only player to have won three World Cup winners' medals (1958, 1962, and 1970, although he did not play in the 1962 final due to injury), [ 121 ] with 20 other players who have won two winners' medals .
Brazil's Pelé and Vavá are the only two players to score in two finals for winning teams. West Germany's Paul Breitner (1974, 1982) and France's Zinedine Zidane (1998, 2006) and Kylian Mbappé (2018, 2022) also scored in two finals, but only won on their first occasions. Geoff Hurst is the only player to score a hat-rick for a winning team in ...
The 2023 final, held at Narendra Modi Stadium, Australia won the match by 6 wickets with 42 balls left. Australia won the toss and chose to bowl first. India scored 240 runs in 50 overs and Australia scored 241 runs with 4 wickets, winning the Cricket World Cup for a record sixth time.
Leônidas scored a record eight World Cup goals for Brazil, coming at the 1934 and 1938 tournaments. Ademir scored a record nine World Cup goals for Brazil, all coming at the 1950 tournament. Sándor Kocsis was the first player to score ten or more goals in a single World Cup: he scored a record eleven goals in just five matches for Hungary during the 1954 tournament.
The French team celebrates their 2018 FIFA World Cup win in Russia after defeating Croatia 4–2 in the final. This is a record of France's results at the FIFA World Cup. France was one of the four European teams that participated at the inaugural World Cup in 1930 and have appeared in 16 FIFA World Cups, tied for the sixth most of any country. [1]
The first goal in World Cup history was scored by Lucien Laurent of France. Four days later, the first World Cup hat-trick was achieved by Bert Patenaude of the U.S. in the Americans' 3–0 win against Paraguay. In the final, Uruguay defeated Argentina 4–2 in front of a crowd of 93,000 people in Montevideo to become the first nation to win a ...