World Cup Winners

Year	Winner	2nd place	Result	3rd place	4th place	Host	TN
1930	Uruguay	Argentina	4-2	United States	Yugo slavia	Uruguay	13
1934	Italy	Czechoslovakia	2-1 (a.e.t.)	Germany	Austria	Italy	16
1938	Italy	Hungary	4-2	Brazil	Sweden	France	16
1950	Uruguay	Brazil	2-1	Sweden	Spain	Brazil	13
1954	West Germany	Hungary	3-2	Austria	Uruguay	Switzer land	16
1958	Brazil	Sweden	5-2	France	West Germany	Sweden	16
1962	Brazil	Czechoslovakia	3-1	Chile	Yugo slavia	Chile	16
1966	England	West Germany	4-2 (a.e.t.)	Portugal	Soviet Union	England	16
1970	Brazil	Italy	4-1	West Germany	Uruguay	Mexico	16
1974	West Germany	Netherlands	2-1	Poland	Brazil	West Germany	16
1978	Argentina	Netherlands	3-1 (a.e.t)	Brazil	Italy	Argentina	16
1982	Italy	West Germany	3-1	Poland	France	Spain	24
1986	Argentina	West Germany	3-2	France	Belgium	Mexico	24
1990	West Germany	Argentina	1-0	Italy	England	Italy	24
1994	Brazil	Italy	0-0 5-3 pen.	Sweden	Bulgaria	United States	24
1998	France	Brazil	3-0	Croatia	Nether lands	France	32
2002	Brazil	Germany	2-0	Turkey	South Korea	South Korea/ Japan	32
2006	Italy	France	1-1 5-3 pen.	Germany	Portugal	Germany	32
2010	Spain	Netherlands	1-0 (a.e.t.)	Germany	Uruguay	South Africa	32

a.e.t. – after extra time

pen. -  penalty shootout

TN – team number

Important notes:

1) There was no official World Cup Third Place match in 1930; The United States and Yugoslavia lost in the semi-finals. FIFA now recognises the United States as the third-placed team and Yugoslavia as the fourth-placed team, using the overall records of the teams in the tournament.

2) There was no official World Cup final match in 1950. The tournament winner was decided by a final round-robin group contested by four teams (Uruguay, Brazil, Sweden, and Spain). Coincidentally, one of the last two matches of the tournament pitted the two top ranked teams against each other, with Uruguay's 2–1 victory over Brazil thus often being considered as the de facto final of the 1950 World Cup. Likewise, the game between the lowest ranked teams, played at the same time as Uruguay vs Brazil, can be considered equal to a Third Place match, with Sweden's 3–1 victory over Spain ensuring that they finished third.

3) Only 13 teams played the 1950 FIFA World Cup. 16 teams entered the seeding groups draw. However, Turkey withdrew before the draw, leaving the tournament to be held with 15 teams only. India and France withdrew the competition after the draw and the World Cup was held with 13 teams only.

“Soccer - history, methodics, tactics”, Veljko Aleksic&Aleksandar Jankovic