Football World Cup Quiz

Brazil has won the FIFA World Cup five times (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, and 2002), the most by any country.

Uruguay hosted the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930. Uruguay hosted and won the first-ever FIFA World Cup in 1930, defeating Argentina 4-2 in the final.

Germany has reached the final match of the FIFA World Cup a total of eight times. They won the tournament four times in 1954, 1974, 1990, and 2014, and were runners-up four times in 1966, 1982, 1986, and 2002.

Brazil is the only country to have participated in all the World Cups since 1930 till 2022.

Miroslav Klose scored 16 goals for Germany in World Cup tournaments. His 16 goals came in 24 World Cup matches of 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014.

The first ball, which was dubbed as the official ball for a FIFA World Cup was the Telstar in the Mexico 1970 FIFA World Cup. Telstar was manufactured by ADIDAS.

The first African team to participate in the FIFA World Cup was Egypt. They made their debut in the tournament in 1934 Italy. They were eliminated in the first round.

The 2002 FIFA World Cup was the first to be hosted by more than one country, Japan and South Korea.

Mexico City's Estadio Azteca has hosted the most FIFA World Cup matches, with 19 matches in total: 10 matches in 1970, 9 matches in 1986

Two different balls were used in the final of 1930 at Montevideo, Uruguay. “Tiento” football supplied by Argentina was used in the first half while “T-Model” supplied by Uruguay was used in the second half. Argentina led 2-1 at the end of first half while Uruguay won the match with a final score of 4 – 2.