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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 ...
Spain celebrating victory in the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. The team is one of the most present at the World Cup, with 16 appearances out of the 22 tournaments. Prior to their win in 2010, Spain's best World Cup result was a fourth-place finish in 1950. [2]
The 2010 FIFA World Cup final was the final match of the 2010 World Cup, the 19th edition of FIFA's competition for national football teams. The match was played at Soccer City in Johannesburg , South Africa, on 11 July 2010, and was contested by the Netherlands and Spain .
In the 2010 World Cup, Spain advanced to the final for the first time ever by defeating Germany 1–0. In the decisive match against the Netherlands, Andrés Iniesta scored the match's only goal, coming in extra time. Spain became the third team to win a World Cup outside their own continent, and the first European team to do so.
The Spanish Civil War and World War II prevented Spain from playing any competitive matches between the 1934 World Cup and the 1950 World Cup qualifiers, where they overcame Iberian rivals Portugal, who later declined an invitation to take part, with a 5–1 win and 2–2 draw.
Spain's World Cup record; First match Spain 3–1 Brazil (27 May 1934; Genoa, Italy) Biggest win Spain 6–1 Bulgaria (24 June 1998; Lens, France) Biggest defeat Brazil 6–1 Spain (13 July 1950; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Best result Champions in 2010: Worst result Group stage in 1962, 1966, 1978, 1998, 2014
A total of 471 players have been in the winning team in the World Cup. Brazil's Pelé is the only one to have won three times, while another 20 have won twice. Only players from Brazil and Italy, and one player from Argentina, have won the World Cup more than once. No player has won two World Cups both as captain.
Brazil, Argentina, Spain and Germany are the only teams to win a World Cup hosted outside their continental confederation; Brazil came out victorious in Europe , North America (1970 and 1994) and Asia . Argentina won a World Cup in North America in 1986 and in Asia in 2022. Spain won in Africa in 2010.