The FIFA World Cup, often called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 because of the Second World War. The current champion is France, which won its second title at the 2018 tournament in Russia.

As of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, twenty-one final tournaments have been held, and 79 national teams have competed. Eight national teams won the trophy. Brazil has won five times and is the only team to have played in every tournament. The other World Cup winners are Germany and Italy, with four titles each; Argentina, France, and Uruguay, with two titles each; and England and Spain, with one title each.

Seventeen countries have hosted the World Cup. Brazil, France, Italy, Germany, and Mexico have each hosted twice. In contrast, Uruguay, Switzerland, Sweden, Chile, England, Argentina, Spain, the United States, Japan, South Korea (jointly), South Africa, and Russia have each hosted once. Qatar will host the 2022 tournament, and 2026 will be jointly hosted by Canada, the United States, and Mexico, making Mexico the first country to host games in three World Cups.

In this, you will find information about this historical information. The visualizations are interactive with tooltips that display additional information when hovering the mouse cursor over a visualization.

If you’re interested in digging into the datasets, you find the relevant source files One and Two on github.