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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 win was Spain's first World Cup title, and it lifted them to first place in the FIFA World Rankings with the Netherlands moving into second. [64] Spain also became the first European nation to win a World Cup outside of Europe. [65] At the conclusion of the match, the Spanish team changed into their red-shirted home kit for the presentation.
They are also the first national team since 1978 to win a World Cup after losing a game in the group stage. As a result of their win, Spain represented the World in the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup. Host nation South Africa were eliminated in the group stage, as were both 2006 World Cup finalists, Italy and France. It was the first time that ...
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
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.