<Ul> <Li> 1930 </Li> <Li> 1934 </Li> <Li> 1938 </Li> <Li> 1950 </Li> <Li> 1954 </Li> <Li> 1958 </Li> <Li> 1962 </Li> <Li> 1966 </Li> <Li> 1970 </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> 1978 </Li> <Li> 1982 </Li> <Li> 1986 </Li> <Li> 1990 </Li> <Li> 1994 </Li> <Li> 1998 </Li> <Li> 2002 </Li> <Li> 2006 </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> 2014 </Li> <Li> 2018 </Li> <Li> 2022 </Li> <Li> 2026 </Li> <Li> 2030 </Li> <Li> 2034 </Li> </Ul> <P> The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body . The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War . The current champion is France, which won its second title at the 2018 tournament in Russia . </P> <P> The current format of the competition involves a qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase, which is often called the World Cup Finals . After this, 32 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation (s), compete in the tournament phase for the title at venues within the host nation (s) over a period of about a month . </P> <P> The 21 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight national teams . Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament . The other World Cup winners are Germany and Italy, with four titles each; Argentina, France and inaugural winner Uruguay, with two titles each; and England and Spain with one title each . </P>

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