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Brazil at the FIFA World Cup

This article summarizes the results and overall performance of Brazil at the FIFA World Cup, including the qualification phase and the final phase, officially called the World Cup finals. The qualification phase, which currently takes place over the three years preceding the finals, is used to determine which teams qualify for the finals. The current format of the finals involves 48 teams competing for the title, at venues within the host country.

Brazil is the most successful national team in the history of the World Cup, having won five titles, earning second place, third place and fourth place finishes twice each. Brazil is one of four countries along with Argentina, Spain and Germany to win a FIFA World Cup away from its continent (Sweden 1958, Chile 1962, Mexico 1970, United States 1994 and South Korea/Japan 2002). Brazil is also the only national team to have played in all FIFA World Cup editions without any absence or need for play-offs. In 22 World Cup tournaments, Brazil has 76 victories out of 114 matches. Brazil also has the best overall performance in World Cup history in both proportional and absolute terms, with a record of 76 victories in 114 matches played, 129 goal difference, 247 points and only 19 losses.

Traditionally, Brazil's greatest rival is Argentina. The two countries have met each other four times in the history of the FIFA World Cup, with two wins for Brazil (West Germany 1974 and Spain 1982), one for Argentina (Italy 1990) and a draw (Argentina 1978). The country that played the most matches against Brazil at the World Cup is Sweden: seven times, with five wins for Brazil and two draws. Three other historical rivals are Italy, which lost two World Cup finals against Brazil and eliminated the Brazilians in two tournaments (France 1938 and Spain 1982), France, which has defeated Brazil on three occasions (Mexico 1986, France 1998 and Germany 2006), and the Netherlands, which has eliminated Brazil at two of their five meetings (West Germany 1974 and South Africa 2010), and won the match for third place in Brazil 2014.

Records

<small>*Draws include knockout matches decided via penalty shoot-out.</small>

World Cup titles

By match

Head-to-head record

Record players

Brazil's record World Cup player, Cafu is also the only player ever to have appeared in three consecutive World Cup finals: 1994, 1998 and 2002.

Most matches played

Most tournament appearances

Altogether eight players share the record of four participations. The goalkeeper Émerson Leão is the only one who has played four tournaments non-consecutively (not called at 1982).

Top goalscorers

Five Brazilians have won the World Cup Golden Boot Award over the years: Leônidas with 7 goals in 1938, Ademir with 9 goals in 1950, Garrincha and Vavá with 4 goals each in 1962 and Ronaldo with 8 goals in 2002.

Players provided by club

Below is the list of clubs that have provided more than 5 players throughout the FIFA World Cup editions:

Notes
  • 1930: Some sources claim that players Doca (São Cristóvão) and Benevenuto (Flamengo) were not officially entered at the 1930 squad. This count includes Benevenuto and Doca. Araken never played for Flamengo, but he was registered as a club athlete just as a matter of formality, since (São Paulo) was in a power struggle over command of Brazilian football with the CBD, situated in Rio de Janeiro. The player, in fact, had terminated with Santos and signed with São Paulo.
  • 1934: This count does not include players who didn't travel to Italy and stayed on stand-by in Brazil: Almeida (Bahia), Bilé (Ypiranga-SP), Jaguaré (Corinthians) and Pamplona (Botafogo). Neither includes Domingos da Guia, barred from participating in the competition by Nacional Montevideo, who had already ceded Patesko and demanded a high compensation fee.

Awards and records

Team awards

Individual awards

Golden Ball awards

Golden Boot awards

Other individual awards

Awards as coaches of other nations

Brazilian coaches have appeared on the sidelines of other nations with some regularity. Three of them have won team awards with their nations:

Team records

  • Most titles (5)
  • Most participations (22)
  • Most games played (114)
  • Most victories (76)
  • Most goals scored (237)
  • Biggest goal difference (+129)
  • Most sendings-off (11)
  • Most finishes in the Top 5 (15), top 8 (19), top 10 (20) and Top 16 (22)
  • Most consecutive wins (11) and matches without losing (13)
  • Most tournaments finishing undefeated (7)
  • Only national team to win all matches in 2 world cups (1970 and 2002)
  • One of two teams to have defended their title as champions (1962). The other being Italy (1938).
  • One of two teams to have progressed to three consecutive World Cup finals (1994-2002). The other being Germany (1982-1990).
  • Most wins in one tournament (7, 2002)
  • Biggest goal difference as champion (+14, 2002), shared with Germany (2014)

Individual records

  • Pelé holds a number of FIFA World Cup records:
  • Only player to win three FIFA World Cups (1958, 1962 and 1970)
  • Youngest tournament winner (1958, at 17y 249d)
  • Youngest goalscorer (1958 v Wales, at 17y 239d)
  • Youngest hat-trick scorer (1958 v France, at 17y 244d)
  • Youngest goalscorer in a final (1958 v Sweden, at 17y 249d)
  • Youngest Golden Ball winner: Ronaldo (1998, at 21y 9m 24d)
  • Most appearances in an All-Star Team: Djalma Santos (3, 1954–1962) (shared with Franz Beckenbauer and Philipp Lahm)
  • Most appearances as a substitute: Denílson (11, 1998–2002)
  • Most tournament wins as player and coach: Mário Zagallo (3, 1958 & 1962 as player, 1970 as coach)
  • Only player to appear in three consecutive FIFA World Cup finals: Cafu (1994, 1998 and 2002)
  • Most team awards won: Cafu (4, 1994–2006)
  • Most cautions: Cafu (6), shared with Zinedine Zidane and Rafael Márquez

See also

References

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