History of the FIFA World Cup
Year Host Winning Team Captain Head coach
1930 Uruguay Uruguay José Nasazzi Alberto Suppici
1934 Italy Italy Giampiero Combi Vittorio Pozzo
1938 France Italy Giuseppe Meazza Vittorio Pozzo
1950 Brazil Uruguay Obdulio Varela Juan López Fontana
1954 Switzerland West Germany Fritz Walter Sepp Herberger
1958 Sweden Brazil Hilderaldo Bellini Vicente Feola
1962 Chile Brazil Mauro Ramos Aymoré Moreira
1966 England England Bobby Moore Alf Ramsey
1970 Mexico Brazil Carlos Alberto Torres Mário Zagallo
1974 West Germany West Germany Franz Beckenbauer Helmut Schön
1978 Argentina Argentina Daniel Passarella César Luis Menotti
1982 Spain Italy Dino Zoff Enzo Bearzot
1986 Mexico Argentina Diego Maradona Carlos Bilardo
1990 Italy West Germany Lothar Matthäus Franz Beckenbauer
1994 United States Brazil Dunga Carlos Alberto Parreira
1998 France France Didier Deschamps Aimé Jacquet
2002 South Korea Japan Brazil Cafu Luiz Felipe Scolari
2006 Germany Italy Fabio Cannavaro Marcello Lippi
2010 South Africa Spain Iker Casillas Vicente del Bosque
2014 Brazil Germany Philipp Lahm Joachim Löw
World Cup–winning teams , captains , and managers
The FIFA World Cup was first held in 1930, when FIFA, the world's football governing body, decided to stage an international men's football tournament under the era of FIFA president Jules Rimet who put this idea into place. The inaugural edition, held in 1930, was contested as a final tournament of only thirteen teams invited by the organization. Since then, the World Cup has experienced successive expansions and format remodeling, with its current 32-team final tournament preceded by a two-year qualifying process, involving over 200 teams from around the world.