World Cup Winners by Year (1930–2022) — Rules & What Counts
Twenty-two tournaments, one question each: who won? Every FIFA World Cup from Uruguay 1930 to Qatar 2022 appears as a year card, and you type the champion for each.
It sounds easy until the decades blur. Sure, Brazil won five — but which five? The mid-century editions and the Italy–West Germany tangle of the 1980s trip up even devoted fans.
Solving a card reveals the winner's flag plus the team they beat in the final, so a completed board doubles as a compact history of the tournament.
How to play
This quiz uses a targeted flow: your guess applies only to the highlighted year card, and a correct answer auto-advances the highlight to the next unsolved year. Repeat champions are legal — Brazil is the correct answer five separate times — which is exactly why guesses can't float freely across the board.
Click any year card to retarget it; you never have to go in order.
Answer the right country on the wrong year and the target card shakes and clears your input — right team, wrong tournament.
"Germany" is accepted for all three West Germany titles, "Brasil" works for Brazil, and capitalization, accents, and hyphens are ignored.
The timer counts up from your first keystroke; Give Up fills in every winner you missed.
What counts in this quiz
All 22 editions of the men's FIFA World Cup, 1930 through 2022 — one card per tournament.
Only eight different nations fill all 22 cards, so repetition is the whole game: knowing who won is easy, pinning the year is the sport.
The 1954, 1974, and 1990 titles belong to West Germany — the card says so, but plain "Germany" counts, since it's the same football association before and after reunification.
England's 1966 card reveals the St George's cross rather than the Union Jack, because England competes as its own footballing nation.
What's not included — and why
1942 and 1946 — both tournaments were canceled because of World War II, so those years have no winner to name.
Runners-up are never answers: the beaten finalist appears on the solved card as context, but you only ever type champions.
The 2026 World Cup isn't a card — this quiz covers completed editions through 2022.
Women's World Cup champions belong to a different tournament and aren't part of this set.
Good to know
Uruguay won the first World Cup at home in 1930 — and the government declared a national holiday the next day.
Only two nations have ever defended the title: Italy in 1934–1938 and Brazil in 1958–1962.
The original Jules Rimet trophy was stolen in London in 1966 and sniffed out a week later by a dog named Pickles; stolen again in Brazil in 1983, it was never seen again.
Brazil is the only country to have appeared at every single World Cup.