Summary of history of world cup since 1930

The world cup was first held in 1930, when FIFA president and French Jules Rimet decided to stage an international football tournament. The inaugural edition, held in Uruguay in 1930, was contested as a final tournament of only 13 teams invited by the organization. Since then, the FIFA World Cup has experienced successive expansions and format remodeling to its current 32-team final tournament preceded by a two-year qualifying process, involving almost 200 teams from all over the world.

Year	Host		Winner	Score	Runner-up		Third place	Score	Fourth place		Number of teams
1930 Details	Uruguay		Uruguay	4–2	Argentina		United States	[note 1]	Yugoslavia		13
1934 Details	Italy		Italy	2–1 (aet)	Czechoslovakia		Germany	3–2	Austria		16
1938 Details	France		Italy	4–2	Hungary		Brazil	4–2	Sweden		16/15 [note 2]
1950 Details	Brazil		Uruguay	[note 3]	Brazil		Sweden	[note 3]	Spain		16/13 [note 4]
1954 Details	Switzerland		West Germany	3–2	Hungary		Austria	3–1	Uruguay		16
1958 Details	Sweden		Brazil	5–2	Sweden		France	6–3	West Germany		16
1962 Details	Chile		Brazil	3–1	Czechoslovakia		Chile	1–0	Yugoslavia		16
1966 Details	England		England	4–2 (aet)	West Germany		Portugal	2–1	Soviet Union		16
1970 Details	Mexico		Brazil	4–1	Italy		West Germany	1–0	Uruguay		16
1974 Details	West Germany		West Germany	2–1	Netherlands		Poland	1–0	Brazil		16
1978 Details	Argentina		Argentina	3–1 (aet)	Netherlands		Brazil	2–1	Italy		16
1982 Details	Spain		Italy	3–1	West Germany		Poland	3–2	France		24
1986 Details	Mexico		Argentina	3–2	West Germany		France	4–2 (aet)	Belgium		24
1990 Details	Italy		West Germany	1–0	Argentina		Italy	2–1	England		24
1994 Details	United States		Brazil	0–0 (3–2p)	Italy		Sweden	4–0	Bulgaria		24
1998 Details	France		France	3–0	Brazil		Croatia	2–1	Netherlands		32
2002 Details	South Korea &  Japan		Brazil	2–0	Germany		Turkey	3–2	South Korea		32
2006 Details	Germany		Italy	1–1 (5–3p)	France		Germany	3–1	Portugal		32
2010 Details	South Africa		Spain	1–0 (aet)	Netherlands		Germany	3–2	Uruguay		32

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