The senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the world's governing organization of association football, compete in the FIFA World Cup, commonly referred to as the World Cup. Since the first competition in 1930, the championship has been given out every four years, with the exception of 1942 and 1946, when it was postponed due to the Second World War. The current champions are France, who won their second title at the 2018 tournament in Russia.
The qualification phase of the present structure determines which teams advance to the tournament phase, and it occurs over the previous three years. 32 teams, including the host nation(s), which automatically qualify, compete for the championship over the course of around a month at sites within the host nation(s).
Twenty-one championship competitions, with a total of 79 national teams, have taken place as of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Eight different national teams have claimed the prize. Only one team has participated in every event, and that squad is Brazil, which has triumphed five times. Germany and Italy are the only other nations to have won the World Cup more than once. They each have won four of the tournaments, while Argentina, France, and Uruguay, who won the tournament in its first year, have each won two.
The World Cup is not only the most renowned association football competition ever, but it's also the most watched and followed sporting event ever. A ninth of the world's population, or 715.1 million, watched the World Cup final, bringing the total number of viewers for all matches to an estimated 26.29 billion. [1][2][3][4]
The World Cup has been hosted by 17 nations. While Uruguay, Switzerland, Sweden, Chile, England, Argentina, Spain, the United States, Japan and South Korea (jointly), South Africa, and Russia have each hosted once, Brazil, France, Italy, Germany, and Mexico have each hosted twice. The 2022 World Cup will be held in Qatar, and the 2026 World Cup will be co-hosted by Canada, the United States, and Mexico, making Mexico the first nation to host matches in three World Cups.
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