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Football tournament FIFA World Cup final Founded 1930 ; 95 years ago (1930) Current champions Argentina (3rd title) Most successful team(s) Brazil (5 titles) The FIFA 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 ...
The team won the ODI Cricket World Cup in 1983 and 2011. [2] In other major International victories, Team India won the Twenty20 World Cup in 2007,2024 [3] and ICC Champions Trophy in 2002 and 2013. [4] Cricket was introduced to the Indian subcontinent by European merchant sailors in the 18th century, and the first cricket club was established ...
Sri Lanka, as a co-host of the 1996 World Cup, was the first host to win the tournament, though the final was held in Pakistan. [18] India won in 2011 as host and was the first team to win a final played in their own country. [99] Australia and England repeated the feat in 2015 and 2019 respectively. [49]
Lord's has hosted the final five times. The inaugural ICC Cricket World Cup final was held on 21 June 1975 at Lord's, contested by Australia and the West Indies.A man of the match performance, [11] including a century, from West Indian captain Clive Lloyd, coming in to bat at number five with his team at 50/3, [12] formed the basis of a 149-run fourth-wicket partnership with Rohan Kanhai. [13]
Kapil Dev led the India team in the third edition of the World Cup in 1983. India registered its first ever World Cup victories over West Indies, Australia and England cricket teams en route to the final. It won the World Cup for the first time after defeating the West Indies, who had won the inaugural two editions of the World Cup.
As of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, 22 final tournaments have been held since the event's inception in 1930, and a total of 80 national teams have competed. The trophy has been won by eight national teams. With five wins, Brazil is the only team to have played in every tournament.
The hosts for both World Cups were announced by the FIFA Executive Committee on 2 December 2010. Russia was selected to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup, making it the first time that the World Cup was hosted in Eastern Europe and making it the biggest country geographically to host the World Cup.
As of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, 80 national teams have competed at the finals of the FIFA World Cup. [1] Brazil is the only team to have appeared in all 22 tournaments to date, with Germany having participated in 20, Italy and Argentina in 18 and Mexico in 17. [2] Eight nations have won the tournament.