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Most World Cup titles

Brazil lead the way — five titles. Just eight nations have won it across 23 completed editions.

5
Record titles
8
Winning nations
23
Completed editions

World Cup titles by nation, counted from each completed edition's deciding result — the final, or the final round-robin where no final was played — never from memory. Successor-state continuity follows the app's editorial map (e.g. West Germany's titles count for Germany).

NationTitlesEditions
Brazil51958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002
Germany41954, 1974, 1990, 2014
Italy41934, 1938, 1982, 2006
Argentina31978, 1986, 2022
France21998, 2018
Spain22010, 2026
Uruguay21930, 1950
England11966

Source: 2002 World Cup match record, via openfootball (public-domain data) — source

Every fact computed from public match records — openfootball (public-domain data). Not written by anyone.

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