Men's World Cup · 23 editions
The men game, year by year.
An edition-by-edition atlas of national teams, squads, players and available match records. Each page links its facts back to source coverage.
1930to 2026 · the men's game
23Editions in this archive
89Teams with squad records
9,398Rostered player records
1,068Match records
The edition spine
1930 — 2026
- 2026
Canada, Mexico and the United States · 48 teams · 104 match records
- 2022
Qatar · 32 teams · 64 match records
- 2018
Russia · 32 teams · 64 match records
- 2014
Brazil · 32 teams · 64 match records
- 2010
South Africa · 32 teams · 64 match records
- 2006
Germany · 32 teams · 64 match records
- 2002
Korea, Japan · 32 teams · 64 match records
- 1998
France · 32 teams · 64 match records
- 1994
United States · 24 teams · 52 match records
- 1990
Italy · 24 teams · 52 match records
- 1986
Mexico · 24 teams · 52 match records
- 1982
Spain · 24 teams · 52 match records
- 1978
Argentina · 16 teams · 38 match records
- 1974
West Germany · 16 teams · 38 match records
- 1970
Mexico · 16 teams · 32 match records
- 1966
England · 16 teams · 32 match records
- 1962
Chile · 16 teams · 32 match records
- 1958
Sweden · 16 teams · 35 match records
- 1954
Switzerland · 16 teams · 26 match records
- 1950
Brazil · 13 teams · 22 match records
- 1938
France · 15 teams · 18 match records
- 1934
Italy · 16 teams · 17 match records
- 1930
Uruguay · 13 teams · 18 match records
Recent champions
A short trail of winners
Winner labels are shown where the selected tournament data records them.
