Talk:List of FIFA World Cup finals

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Delete this page
This page is pretty useless. If people want to know about the final matches, they already have the FIFA World Cup to look at and they can also look at the individual World Cups themselves to find more information. All this is doing is reposting the same thing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SuperSonicx1986 (talk • contribs) 19:10, 7 March 2008 (UTC)


 * This page serves the purpose of showing the history of World Cup finals matches, their results, and the primary characteristics of each match, all in one easy to read list and page. Looking at multiple individual pages to compare games is unwarranted when a page like this can exist at no extra cost to users. Your "reason" for wanting this page deleted essentially boils down to "I think people are too lazy", which is not a reason to delete this page. ThsTorturedSoul (talk) 20:44, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Map of World Cup Winners
Has anyone else noticed that the country of French Guiana is highlighted as having won the World Cup one time? This needs to be corrected. AJC3fromS2K (talk) 02:46, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
 * There is no such country as French Guiana, it is part of France. That's why it's coloured the same as France. Because it's France. – PeeJay 16:22, 26 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Actually French Guiana are an individual FIFA member (part of CONCACAF), and as such, technically don't count as France in this footballing context. - ig1234 (talk) 18:11, 10 July 2014 (GMT)


 * The above statement is actually untrue. French Guiana is not an individual FIFA member. According to FIFA, French Guiana is represented as part of France. As such, French Guiana doesn't individually participate to World Cup qualifiers. For what it's worth, 2 French Guianese players actually participated to world cup finals: Bernard Lama in 1998 and Florent Malouda in 2006. Metropolitan (talk) 03:28, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Indeed so. There are several "nations" that are affiliated to CONCACAF that aren't part of FIFA: Bonaire, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Martin and Sint Maarten. That's because all those places are part of either France or the Netherlands. – PeeJay 21:41, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Germany listed as this year's champions
The final hasn't happened yet, although after today's thrashing it might seem inevitable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.239.86.64 (talk) 00:50, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Argentina and Germany both listed as runners-up for 2014 World cup
As the 2014 World Cup finals has not happened yet, I do not think it is correct to list any team as a runner-up for that match (just as no team is said to have won it yet). However, both Argentina and Germany are listed as runners-up.

2620:0:102F:1001:6E3B:E5FF:FE16:AC3C (talk) 00:55, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

✅ by another - Arjayay (talk) 08:08, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 10 July 2014
The winners (and runner ups) of the 2014 world cup are not yet determined: In the last row of the winners table change Argentina and Germany to TBD.

Markus.korbel (talk) 12:39, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

✅ - as you can see from the request above this has been reinserted again. - Arjayay (talk) 13:04, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 11 July 2014
Germany are now 8 time finalists. Despite the outcome on Sunday, you can change this information to reflect that they have reached the finals for a record 8 times.

2002:4880:D718:0:B170:7CBB:17D1:23DC (talk) 04:45, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: Yes we could, but its just as easy to do Sunday when we know if they are the winners. WP:TIND. Sam Sing! 06:03, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Results by Nation Is Totally Wrong
How can Italia be third and Germany 2nd when Italia have won more Cups? We know statistically that the Germans make up the largest block of Wikipedia users but that in itself should not mean they have the right to falsify the information to suit themselves.

The proper order is: 1.Brazil 2.Italy 3.Germany

Can an admin that isn't German correct this bias please.

Netherlands listed as 2014 runners-up
This is obviously wrong, since they aren't even in the finals match, and it should be changed. This will be moot in 30 min though, when we can add the correct winners and runners-up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.138.104.200 (talk) 21:06, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 14 July 2014
Shouldn't the PK score be shown in the "List of finals" table? It's kind of important because the PK score determines who wins the World Cup, but for some reason it is hidden from the table and can only be seen after clicking the superscript.

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Map of final venues
I don't think a map of the final venues is necessary. Their locations in relation to each other are irrelevant and have no bearing on the matches themselves. Furthermore, the venues are mostly in cities that are well known to most readers, which means we don't need to indicate their location. – PeeJay 22:07, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

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Uruguay in 1924 and 1928
Should there be some acknowledgement within this article of the fact that FIFA considers the Olympic games in 24 and 28 to be world championships? I don't know whether this should be an asterix or actually acknowledged in the table, but FIFA considers Uruguay to have won four world championships, thus their allowance of Uruguay's four stars on their uniform. It also means that Argentina and Switzerland should be acknowledged as the runner-ups (silver medalists) within those competitions.101.190.150.71 (talk) 03:35, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

An addendum: Perhaps it should be acknowledged in a separate table? I mean, you can't say that Uruguay has strictly speaking won four FIFA world cups (FIFA does say this, after all), but what they have done is win four FIFA world championships, and so I think that needs to be acknowledged in some way. So perhaps a separate table treating the 1924 and 1928 olympics as a precursor, different but related tournament. 101.190.150.71 (talk) 03:41, 14 September 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm agree with this. FIFA considers 1924 and 1928 Olympics as World Championship. This is very serious. This page must add something about these two final.
 * Stasm (talk) 06:32, 23 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Really, where on this list or this article ("Uruguay go in search of their third World Cup") do they count 1924 and 1928 as part of the World Cup? The title is literally "World Cup finals", and not "Olympics, world championships and world cup finals". Basically every single reliable source would say that Uruguay have two World Cup titles. Snowflake91  (talk) 10:28, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

We barely need to make this page and the FIFA World Cup one the most relevant possible. These two recognized world championships needs explication. That would be silly to make a separate page for two events. Stasm (talk) 11:11, 23 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Those world championships don't need explanation at all. This is a list of FIFA World Cup finals. The Olympics is not the FIFA World Cup, even if FIFA have just shrugged and said "yeah, you can consider them world titles if you want". There is a difference between saying "this is a world title" and "this is a World Cup". It's like the difference between the Intercontinental Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup. – PeeJay 17:28, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

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Regarding my reverted edits
Cross-posting here and at Talk:List of UEFA European Championship finals. Pinging, and.

1) The lead: proposed version, original version

Which version is more to the point, better captures the essence of things, and is more free from details not suitable or necessary for a lead section?

2) The table of results: proposed version, original version, even earlier version

Is it needed to highlight the results based on the manner of winning the match, as if this were a defining characteristic of a match? Also, does it need verbose keys that are already explained in the article and are sometimes wrong (the "a.e.t." is not used only for matches highlighted in pink and does not necessarily mean the match was won after extra time)? --Theurgist (talk) 14:31, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

(again cross-posting) I've restored the lead. The previous versions were a bit messy in style, didn't even properly describe the tiebreaking rules, and contained not-too-relevant details. You can't expect from a list of the finals of a tournament to teach you the basic rules of football (that's what links are for), nor is it crucial for you to know e.g. how many of them took place on Sundays.

I did not for now redo the edits to the lists of results, but would like to do that as well, as discussed. It actually had been me who had scrapped the footnotes and inserted the "a.e.t." (and the penalty shootout scores) into the cells, causing the problems mentioned – but I had to do it. Footnotes are for additional information, not for essential information. --Theurgist (talk) 21:56, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
 * The previous lead wasn't messy at all. It provides useful information for the reader whether they are knowledgeable about the subject or not. The tables are fine as they are. They meet MOS:DTT and WP:ACCESS, there's no need to change them just because WP:IDONTLIKEIT. The tables need to be accessible to everyone, including users with screen readers and disabilities. These articles are featured, and were subject to consensus in that process. There's a reason they look the way they do. Making sweeping changes because you don't agree with some aspects of the list, risks them being delisted. NapHit (talk) 12:37, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Speaking of clarity and accessibility, what's with this sentence in the UEFA Euro article: "The 16 finals to-date have produced seven drawn matches, the eventual winners of which have been determined variously by replay (1968), extra time (1960, 2016), penalty shoot-out (1976, 2020) or golden goal (1996, 2000)"? Not only does it give undue weight to drawn matches, but it also implies randomness, when in fact specific rules applied during each given period.
 * Also, why is there no mention in the lead of the finalists that never won? This is a list of finals, not a list of winners, after all.
 * And by the way, some of the details, such as the one about the finals held on Sundays in the World Cup article, were not in the version that passed the FL process. --Theurgist (talk) 15:31, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

The discussion is continuing in Talk:List of UEFA European Championship finals. --Theurgist (talk) 01:10, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Whatever you say, there is much room for improvement of this article, especially the lead. With another World Cup knocking at the door, this seems a good time to give it some copyediting. --Theurgist (talk) 21:16, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

To sum up, these are my points.


 * The lead
 * It should not omit pertinent details such as the finalists that never won or the rules that applied or would have applied in the past (replay, golden goal).
 * It should not plunge into explanations of things not directly pertaining to the topic, but should link to the articles that explain them. It should not introduce extra time and penalty shoot-outs as something new, as if only World Cup finals use them. For 1950, it should only say that a round-robin was used and the decisive match served as the effective final, with a link to the article.
 * Most of the trivia of the last paragraph is unneeded. A mention of the latest final is possible, but not a must; two separate mentions in the lead are completely unnecessary.


 * The list of results
 * The colouring of matches won after extra time or penalties is unnecessary. Knockout matches decided this way are neither uncommon nor particularly special. Colour "should never be used as the sole method to convey information", meaning that its presence or absence is treated as indifferent with regard to visually impaired readers – so its removal would not violate MOS:ACCESS, the information already being conveyed by other means.
 * The colouring also makes the legend problematic. The "a.e.t." stands for a result after extra time, not for a win after extra time; it is appended not only to the matches highlighted in pink, which were indeed won this way, but also to those in blue, which were not.

--Theurgist (talk) 09:06, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

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Wins
Most wins by a team. 103.199.180.135 (talk) 16:37, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

Map of Winners Still Needs Correction
French Guyana (above Brazil) is still incorrectly highlighted on the map of winners. ExPatSoccerNut (talk) 13:36, 17 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Nothing is wrongly highlighted, its a French territory and is therefore in yellow (two World Cup wins). Snowflake91  (talk) 18:38, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

Shouldn’t this page be semi-protected??
I just made seven corrections and copy edits to the Description & Intro. I’m just a copy editor, but a couple of the problems I found were very strange. I didn’t do the forensics to find the sources, but it feels like semi-protection may be warranted. This must be a high-traffic page right now. Could someone with authority please review and consider this? Thanks! Left Central (talk) 15:52, 17 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Another Anon edit just went in that is correct but without citation and totally in the wrong sentence. Left Central (talk) 20:25, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

People keep trying to vandalize this page. Can it be semi-protected?
I'm just a random IP editor who just got finished watching the world cup, and this is my first time editing, but I keep seeing vandalism on this page about world cup winners. Can someone with more permissions please protect this page? 172.251.90.135 (talk) 18:37, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 18 December 2022
Within the section "List of finals", i was preparing to add a 2nd column after the Year one, containing:
 * !scope="col"| Day
 * |30 Jul
 * |10 Jun
 * |19 Jun
 * |16 Jul
 * |4 Jul
 * |29 Jun
 * |17 Jun
 * |30 Jul
 * |21 Jun
 * |7 Jul
 * |25 Jun
 * |11 Jul
 * |29 Jun
 * |8 Jul
 * |Jul 17
 * |12 Jul
 * |30 Jun
 * |9 Jul
 * |11 Jul
 * |13 Jul
 * |15 Jul
 * |18 Dec
 * | TBA

but coincidentally the page was recently semi-protted.

Also, this diff should be reverted, since there's no justification either as a link in the edit subject or as more info in this talk page. 188.26.86.68 (talk) 19:39, 18 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Dates of the matches will not be added as this is overly detailed, for specific details (like date and hour of the match) you already have separate articles for each of the finals. Snowflake91  (talk) 20:40, 18 December 2022 (UTC)


 * except this is the LIST that is supposed to centralize that information, with the helpful feature of being able to sort by this information, thus allowing for determining the set of days on which at least one final has taken place. Opening 20+ articles and sifting through the whole lot of details in them for just the day is quite a lot of effort... Also, having this column would be a shortcut to those pages, since they are not directly linked from here, are they? ;-) 188.26.86.68 (talk) 06:42, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
 * PS That argument would preclude every bit of the table for being here, since it's "available in the separate articles" as well... :-|
 * Its just a common practice that has been used for like 15 years at every similar "List of finals" sports articles, full date of the match is never listed (UNLESS there would be two finals in the same year), just the year of the edition is listed. Snowflake91  (talk) 10:59, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
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Video URLs
Video URLs are acceptable per WP:Video. The source video is provided by FIFA itself from its official Youtube channel, and they are all short summaries of each final. For example, a video column is included in the List of world records in athletics. Granted, I understand how one article may have certain content may not imply for another to do the same. Nevertheless, video URLs may be useful here. KyuuA4 (Talk:キュウ) 16:14, 27 December 2022 (UTC)


 * WP:Video doesn't mention any URLs, this entire page is about uploading videos direclty to Wikipedia. That athletics article is not a FL standard like this one, and obviously the videos should be removed from that page as well, which was already mentioned at Talk:List of world records in athletics. Even if the videos are uploaded by FIFA on official channel and not by some random user, that still doesn't mean that those videos are not copyrighted. Snowflake91  (talk) 16:56, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Change "Los Angeles" to "Pasadena" and "Paris" to "Saint-Denis"?
Should we change "Los Angeles" to "Pasadena," and possibly also Paris to Saint-Denis (for 1998 in the graphic under List of FIFA World Cup finals#List of final matches)? I know that some readers won't know Pasadena, but readers also may not be familiar with Lusail, Qatar. The distance from Lusail to Doha's city center is about the same as Pasadena's distance from LA's city center. Solna (instead of Stockholm) presents another difficult choice. The following table correctly lists Pasadena and not Los Angeles. The map shows the location. Should we be consistent and use the actual city names, as we do in the table? Or should we list Doha instead of Lusail to match the convention of listing the nearby, more prominent city? Holy (talk) 18:27, 22 May 2023 (UTC)