History Made Of

Winning teams, captains, and managers Year Host Winning Team Captain Head coach 1930   Uruguay   Uruguay José Nasazzi Alberto Suppici 1934   Italy   Italy Giampiero Combi Vittorio Pozzo 1938   France   Italy Giuseppe Meazza Vittorio Pozzo 1950   Brazil   Uruguay Obdulio Varela Juan López 1954    Switzerland   West Germany Fritz Walter Sepp Herberger 1958   Sweden   Brazil Hilderaldo Bellini Vicente Feola 1962   Chile   Brazil Mauro Ramos Aymoré Moreira 1966   England   England Bobby Moore Alf Ramsey 1970   Mexico   Brazil Carlos Alberto Torres Mário Zagallo 1974   West Germany   West Germany Franz Beckenbauer Helmut Schön 1978   Argentina   Argentina Daniel Passarella César Luis Menotti 1982   Spain   Italy Dino Zoff Enzo Bearzot 1986   Mexico   Argentina Diego Maradona Carlos Bilardo 1990   Italy   West Germany Lothar Matthäu...

Group Stage Advancement Format Match Points FIFA World Cup 1930–1990 [ citation needed ] 2 points for a win 1-point for a draw 5 points for automatic advancement to knockout phase 1-point minimum required for possible advancement to knockout phase [ citation needed ] FIFA World Cup 1994–present 3 points for a win 1-point for a draw 7 points for automatic advancement to knockout phase 2 points minimum required for possible advancement to knockout phase Match Schedule Each group of 4 teams plays a round-robin schedule. As of the 1986 World Cup, all final group games must be held simultaneously, a rule instituted by  FIFA  to diminish collusion amongst teams requiring a certain result to advance.  FIFA  instituted a policy to award 3 points for a win in the 1994 World Cup. Although goals for was already a tiebreaker,  FIFA  hoped to create an additional incentive for teams to pursue victory. The first team affected by the rule w...

Format of each final tournament [ edit ] The number of teams and the format of each final tournament have varied considerably over the years. In most tournaments, the tournament consists of a  round-robin  group stage followed by a  single-elimination  knockout stage. [17] 1930: A group stage, followed by a knockout stage with 4 teams (group winners; note that no third-place match was played) 1934–1938: Single-elimination tournament; these are the only tournaments without a group stage 1950: A first group stage, followed by a final group stage with 4 teams (group winners); this is the only tournament without an official final match 1954–1970: A group stage, followed by a knockout stage with 8 teams (group winners and runners-up) 1974–1978: A first group stage, followed by a second group stage with 8 teams (first round group winners and runners-up), followed by the final (second round group winners; second round group runners-up played in the third-place mat...