World Cup Winners

Past World Cup Winners

Past World Cup Winnners are listed below, with the country hosting the world cup and the runners up.

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Below the table we look at the trends of past world cup winners with a view to finding angles to predict the winner of the 2010 world cup finals, along with their lates world cup odds.

Year	Host	Winner	Runner Up
2006	Germany	Italy	France
2002	S Korea/Japan	Brazil	Germany
1998	France	France	Brazil
1994	USA	Brazil	Italy
1990	Italy	West Germany	Argentina
1986	Mexico	Argentina	West Germany
1982	Spain	Italy	West Germany
1978	Argentina	Argentina	Netherlands
1974	West Germany	West Germany	Netherlands
1970	Mexico	Brazil	Italy
1966	England	England	West Germany
1962	Chile	Brazil	Czechoslovakia
1958	Sweden	Brazil	Sweden
1954	Switzerland	West Germany	Hungary
1950	Brazil	Uruguay	Brazil
1938	France	Italy	Hungary
1934	Italy	Italy	Czechoslovakia
1930	Uruguay	Uruguay	Argentina

World Cup Winners - Key Stats

Six of the eighteen World Cup Winners were the host nation
In fifteen of the eighteen World Cups that have been contested the winner has been playing in their home continent
The three times the World Cup has been won by a team from outside of the host continent it has been won by Brazil
Only 7 different nations have won the world cup