07 Mar 2018

FIFA World Cup Winners and Interesting Facts about the Final Rounds

Posted in Miscellaneous By attemptnwin On March 7, 2018

International Federation of Association Football FIFA has organized 20 editions of world cup during the period 1930-2014. The 21st edition of the FIFA World Cup finals will be hosted by Russia from 14 June 2018 to 15 July 2018. For arounf one month, the globe will revolve around Adidas Telstar 18. All eyes and ears will turn towards Russia in coming days and the trophy will be raised by a new champion on 15th July 2018.

Who will be the winner of the FIFA 2018. Calculations, predictions and bettings are happening across the world. But awareness of performances of partcipants in the past editions will help in better guesses.

The list below provides details of hosting country, winners and runners up during the last twenty editions of the FiFA World cup. The list also throws light into facts associated with final round matches.

Year	Host Country	Winner	Runner Up	Interesting facts about the FIFA World Cup Finals
1930	Uruguay	Uruguay	Argentina	No qualification round. Final round alone as only 13 teams participated. Lucien Laurent of France scored the first goal and Bert Petenaude of the US scored first hat-trick of FIFA World Cup.
1934	Italy	Italy	Czechoslovakia	Qualifier round introduced. 16 teams competed in final round.
1938	France	Italy	Hungary	Earnest Willimowski of Poland scored four goals in a world cup game. The record though equaled later, bettered only after 56 years in 1994.
1942				Cancelled due to world war
1946				Cancelled due to world war
1950	Brazil	Uruguay	Brazil	The only tournament without a final match. Knockout rounds were replaced by two group phases.
1954	Switzerland	West Germany	Hungary	First World Cup that was telecasted.
1958	Sweden	Brazil	Sweden	Saw the emergence of football legend Pele. He scored two goals in the final match.
1962	Chile	Brazil	Czechoslovakia	Marcos Coll of Columbia scored a goal direct from a corner kick. ( Called Olympic goal in Latin America)
1966	England	England	West Germany	Mascot and logo introduced for the first time. Geoff Hurst of England scored the first and only hat-trick in a world cup final.
1970	Mexico	Brazil	Italy	Brazil became first nation to win three world cups and the Jules Rimet Trophy was awarded permanently to them. Five goals were scored in extra-time during the semifinal match between Italy and west Germany.
1974	West Germany	West Germany	The Netherlands	New trophy created for the World Cup
1978	Argentina	Argentina	The Netherlands	Tunisia, the first time participant, became the first African country to ever register a win in World Cup finals.
1982	Spain	Italy	West Germany	Number of World Cup final round participants becomes 24. Hungary beat El Salvador 10-1, the only occasion that a team scored ten goals in a World Cup finals.
1986	Mexico	Argentina	West Germany	Diego Maradona scored two goals for Argentina in their quarter final match against England. The controversial hand ball goal “ Hand of God” and the goal considered as the “Goal of the Century”.
1990	Italy	West Germany	Argentina	Chilean goal keeper Roberto Rojas banned for 12 years for feigning injury and cutting face with blade hidden in his glove during the match between Brazil and Chile.
1994	The United States	Brazil	Italy	First world cup final decided on penalties Oleg Salenko of Russia scored five goals for the first time ever in a World Cup Final round match. He broke the record initially created in 1938.
1998	France	France	Brazil	Featured 32 teams for the first time in World Cup finals. Second round match between France and Paraguay witnessed the first Golden Goal of World Cup.
2002	Jointly by South Korea and Japan	Brazil	Germany	First world Cup to be hosted by Asia. During qualification phase, Australia beat American Samoa Maldives 31-0, the widest margin in World Cup history and highest scoring football match ever.
2006	Germany	Italy	France	French captain Zinedine Zidane sent out during the last ten minutes of the final match for his infamous head-butt into the chest of Italian defender Marco Matterazi. Italy won 5-3 in a penalty shootout.
2010	South Africa	Spain	The Netherland	First world Cup in African soil. Vuvuzela, the plastic horn became world famous.
2014	Brazil	Germany	Argentina	Cooling breaks for players were introduced for the first time because of the relatively high ambient temperature in Brazil, especially at the northern venues.