FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) is the main governing body of the International Football. At present it has 209 countries listed in their membership list. It was started in the year 1904 and has its headquaters at Zurich, Switzerland. FIFA started World Cup competition in the year 1930. Since then, there has been 19 World Cups and with 8 victorious countries. As we all know that this world cup takes places once in every 4 years, there was an exception in the year 1942 and 1946 as there was World War II. Here is a list of World Cups with year, teams which made it to final and the Winner.
| Sl. No. | YEAR | TEAMS IN FINAL | WINNER |
| 1. | 1930 | Uruguay vs Argentina | Uruguay |
| 2. | 1934 | Italy vs Czechoslovakia | Italy |
| 3. | 1938 | Italy vs Hungary | Italy |
| 4. | 1950 | Uruguay vs Brazil | Uruguay |
| 5. | 1954 | West Germany vs Hungary | West Germany |
| 6. | 1958 | Brazil vs Sweden | Brazil |
| 7. | 1962 | Brazil vs Czechoslovakia | Brazil |
| 8. | 1966 | England vs West Germany | England |
| 9. | 1970 | Brazil vs Italy | Brazil |
| 10. | 1974 | Wesy Germany vs Netherlands | West Germany |
| 11. | 1978 | Argentina vs Netherlands | Argentina |
| 12. | 1982 | Italy vs West Germany | Italy |
| 13. | 1986 | Argentina vs West Germany | Argentina |
| 14. | 1990 | West Germany vs Argertina | Wesy Germany |
| 15. | 1994 | Brazil vs Italy | Brazil |
| 16. | 1998 | France vs Brazil | France |
| 17. | 2002 | Brazil vs Germany | Brazil |
| 18. | 2006 | Italy vs France | Italy |
| 19. | 2010 | Spain vs Netherlands | Spain |
| 20. | 2014 | Germany vs Argentina | Germany |
Among there 19 World Cups, Brazil is the most successful team by winning record 6 times and appearing in final for 7 times. Trailing them is Italy by winning 4 out of their 6 appearances in final. Germany (West Germany then) has made 8 appearances in finals equalizing the record of Brazil and managing to win 5 of them. Argentina has appeared in 4 finals by winning half of them. Uruguay has a 100% record in World Cup final by winning both of which they appeared along with England and Spain both of who have a Cup to their name. Amongst 209 countries of World which are the members of FIFA, 76 countries have participated in World Cup and only 12 teams have made it to finals. Unitl today, 8 countries share World Cup. The 20th World Cup is played in Brazil in 2014 in the month of June-July.