Provenance before polish

Where every record begins.

World Cup Atlas is an independent historical reference. Data sources have different licenses, years and levels of detail; every source is named rather than blended into an anonymous database.

Not affiliated with FIFA. Official FIFA pages below are linked for factual verification only. The archive does not reproduce FIFA marks, tournament artwork, photographs, or article prose.

fjelstul

Historical World Cup database

The CSV snapshot's actual tournament rows determine edition coverage; repository README describes men's 1930–2022 and women's through 2019.

Modifications by World Cup Atlas: World Cup Atlas adapted the source CSVs by normalizing records, assigning stable page identities, and interlinking the data; adapted database content is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

https://github.com/jfjelstul/worldcup CC BY-SA 4.0 data-csv/matches.csv (pinned match data file) Commit 35a8667f518b

openfootball2026

2026 men's match and squad supplement

Men's 2026 full matches and squads from the published JSON files.

Modifications by World Cup Atlas: World Cup Atlas normalized the match and squad data and applied reviewed team/player spelling links for connected archive records.

https://github.com/openfootball/worldcup.json CC0 1.0 Universal 2026/worldcup-full.json (pinned match data file) Commit 516d3825c3bd

Name reconciliation: data/source/openfootball-2026/name-aliases.json; match spellings remain available on linked match records.

women2023Wikipedia

2023 women's squads and match supplement

Adapted by World Cup Atlas from Wikipedia contributors' linked pages: factual squad, match, lineup, and scorer tables were extracted, normalized, and interlinked with reviewed source-scoped name reconciliation; no article prose is reproduced. The adapted supplement is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Contributors: Wikipedia contributors.

Modifications by World Cup Atlas: World Cup Atlas reorganized factual tables into a normalized archive, assigned stable record identifiers, and added conservative team-scoped name crosswalks.

CC BY-SA 4.0

Name reconciliation: data/source/women-2023/name-aliases.json; official 2023 roster names are preserved alongside match-sheet spellings.

Source pages

fifaVerification

Official FIFA factual cross-checks

Factual cross-checks only; no FIFA artwork, match photography, or article prose are reproduced.

Verification links

Share-alike notice

Adapted historical data

Fjelstul historical database: © 2023 Joshua C. Fjelstul, Ph.D. World Cup Atlas normalized the source CSVs, assigned stable page identities, and interlinked the records. Adapted database content is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

2023 Women's supplement: credited to Wikipedia contributors and linked to the original pages. World Cup Atlas extracted and normalized factual tables, added reviewed source-scoped name matching, and interlinked the records; no article prose is reproduced. This adaptation is also shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

2026 OpenFootball supplement: the source data is dedicated under CC0 1.0; the archive records the pinned revision and describes its normalization and name reconciliation.

See coverage and methodology for the treatment of names, player appearances, and unavailable fields.

Source manifest last imported: 2026-10-02 · data generated: 2026-10-02.