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FIFA World Cup tournaments
- 1950 FIFA World CupThe 1950 FIFA World Cup's decisive match was played at the Estádio do Maracanã on the 16th of July. The official attendance was 199,954.
- 2014 FIFA World CupFIFA president Sepp Blatter announced Brazil as the host nation on the 30th of October 2007. This decision came after Colombia withdrew its candidacy…
- 2022 FIFA World CupThe 2022 FIFA World Cup ended on the 18th of December, Qatar's National Day, with a final that many observers called the greatest match in the tournament's…
- 1974 FIFA World CupThe 1974 FIFA World Cup arrived carrying a secret no one was supposed to know. Before a ball was kicked at the Olympiastadion in Munich, a new trophy had…
- 1982 FIFA World CupThe 1982 FIFA World Cup opened on the 13th of June in Spain, and by the time it closed on the 11th of July, it had produced some of the most talked-about…
- 1998 FIFA World CupOn the 12th of July 1998, inside the Stade de France in the Parisian commune of Saint-Denis, a French team walked off the pitch as world champions for the…
- 2002 FIFA World CupThe 2002 FIFA World Cup ran from the 31st of May to the 30th of June 2002. Its final was staged at International Stadium in Yokohama, Japan.
- 1934 FIFA World CupThe 1934 FIFA World Cup played its final in Rome's Stadium of the National Fascist Party. The name of the venue told you everything about what was at stake.
- 1962 FIFA World CupThe 1962 FIFA World Cup nearly did not happen at all. Two years before the first whistle blew, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded tore through Chile…
- 1986 FIFA World CupThe 1986 FIFA World Cup delivered one of the most talked-about moments in football history, all in the space of four minutes on a June afternoon in Mexico…
- 1990 FIFA World CupThe 1990 FIFA World Cup produced just 2.21 goals per game. That number, still a record low in World Cup history, tells you almost everything about a…
- 1994 FIFA World CupThe 1994 FIFA World Cup arrived in the United States carrying a question nobody could quite answer: what happens when you give the world's most popular game…
- 2006 FIFA World CupThe 2006 FIFA World Cup opened on the 9th of June with a goal after just five minutes. Germany's left-back Philipp Lahm struck first against Costa Rica, and…
- 2010 FIFA World CupThe 2010 FIFA World Cup opened on the 11th of June at Soccer City in Johannesburg, and for the first time in the tournament's history, the host continent was…
- 2018 FIFA World CupThe 2018 FIFA World Cup opened on the 14th of June in Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium, where Russian president Vladimir Putin welcomed the world and called…
- 1930 FIFA World CupThe 1930 FIFA World Cup was the first world championship ever staged for men's national football teams. When Argentine supporters set out across the River…
- 1938 FIFA World CupThe 1938 FIFA World Cup brought football's global championship to France, opening on the 4th of June 1938. Eleven of the sixteen competing nations were…
- 1954 FIFA World CupOn the 4th of July 1954, inside the Wankdorf Stadion in Berne, sixty thousand people watched West Germany defeat Hungary 3-2 in a result so improbable that…
- 1978 FIFA World CupThe 1978 FIFA World Cup opened on the 1st of June in Argentina, a country where, less than two years earlier, a military coup had replaced a civilian…
- 1958 FIFA World CupThe 1958 FIFA World Cup opened in Sweden on the 8th of June with a question nobody could quite answer: was a 17-year-old from Brazil actually as good as…
- 1966 FIFA World CupThe Jules Rimet trophy went missing months before the 1966 FIFA World Cup began. A dog named Pickles found it, wrapped in newspaper beneath the bushes of a…
- 1970 FIFA World CupThe 1970 FIFA World Cup arrived in Mexico with a question no one could fully answer: could a team play football so beautifully, in such hostile heat and…
- 2030 FIFA World CupThe 2030 FIFA World Cup will be unlike any tournament that came before it. For the first time in the competition's history, matches will be played across the…
- 2026 FIFA World CupThe 2026 FIFA World Cup is the biggest expansion in the tournament's history. For the first time in the competition's existence, 48 national teams will…
- 2034 FIFA World CupThe 2034 FIFA World Cup will be the 25th edition of football's world championship. It will make Saudi Arabia the second nation from the Arabian Peninsula to…