The FIFA World Cup, sometimes known as the World Cup, is an international association football tournament contested by the senior men’s national teams of members of FIFA, the sport’s worldwide governing organization. Since the first tournament in 1930, the championship has been awarded every four years, with the exception of 1942 and 1946, when it was not conducted due to World War II. France is the current champion, having won the 2018 event in Russia for the second time.
The current structure includes a qualification process that lasts three years and determines which teams will compete in the tournament phase.
During the tournament phase, 32 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation(s), play for the championship over the course of roughly a month at sites throughout the host nation(s).
Eight national teams have won the 21 World Cup events. Brazil has won five tournaments and is the only team to have competed in all of them. Germany and Italy have four World Cup championships apiece; Argentina, France, and the first winner Uruguay have two titles each; while England and Spain have one title each.
The World Cup is the world’s most renowned association football competition, as well as the most extensively watched and followed single athletic event.
The total number of people that watched the 2006 World Cup matches was projected to be 26.29 billion, with 715.1 million individuals watching the final match, accounting for a tenth of the world’s population. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The World Cup has been hosted by 17 different countries. Uruguay, Switzerland, Sweden, Chile, England, Argentina, Spain, the United States, Japan and South Korea (jointly), South Africa, and Russia have all hosted once. Qatar will host the 2022 tournament, while Canada, the United States, and Mexico will jointly host the 2026 event, becoming Mexico the first country to host games in three World Cups.
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