Football - FIFA World Cup
The most famous sporting tournament of the lot, football's World Cup was the brainchild of a Frenchman - Jules Rimet. Rimet became the President of the world governing body, FIFA, in 1920 and at his first congress in charge the idea of an international competition outside the Olympic Games was developed. Eventually, during the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, FIFA grasped the nettle and resolved to organise the first World Cup two years later where teams would compete for the Jules Rimet Trophy. Brazil, on claiming the prize three times in 1970, were granted the honour of keeping the cup and the present FIFA World Cup was inaugurated in West Germany four years later.
| YEAR | WINNERS | RUNNERS-UP |
| 1930 | URUGUAY | Argentina |
| 1934 | ITALY | Czechoslovakia |
| 1938 | ITALY | Hungary |
| 1950 | URUGUAY | Brazil |
| 1954 | WEST GERMANY | Hungary |
| 1958 | BRAZIL | Sweden |
| 1962 | BRAZIL | Czechoslovakia |
| 1966 | ENGLAND | West Germany |
| 1970 | BRAZIL | Italy |
| 1974 | WEST GERMANY | Netherlands |
| 1978 | ARGENTINA | Netherlands |
| 1982 | ITALY | West Germany |
| 1986 | ARGENTINA | West Germany |
| 1990 | WEST GERMANY | Argentina |
| 1994 | BRAZIL | Italy |
| 1998 | FRANCE | Brazil |
| 2002 | BRAZIL | Germany |
| 2006 | ITALY | France |
| 2010 | SPAIN | Netherlands |
| 2014 | GERMANY | Argentina |
| 2018 | FRANCE | Croatia |
| 2022 | ARGENTINA | France |
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