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FIFA World Cup Top 4 Positions

Name the countries who came 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th in the men's FIFA World Cup.
Some of these countries no longer exist
For the Summer and Winter Olympics versions.
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Last updated: December 18, 2022
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First submittedSeptember 4, 2012
Times taken459,749
Average score76.9%
Rating4.96
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Year
Winner
Second
Third
Fourth
2022
Argentina
France
Croatia
Morocco
2018
France
Croatia
Belgium
England
2014
Germany
Argentina
Netherlands
Brazil
2010
Spain
Netherlands
Germany
Uruguay
2006
Italy
France
Germany
Portugal
2002
Brazil
Germany
Turkey
South Korea
1998
France
Brazil
Croatia
Netherlands
1994
Brazil
Italy
Sweden
Bulgaria
1990
West Germany
Argentina
Italy
England
1986
Argentina
West Germany
France
Belgium
1982
Italy
West Germany
Poland
France
1978
Argentina
Netherlands
Brazil
Italy
1974
West Germany
Netherlands
Poland
Brazil
1970
Brazil
Italy
West Germany
Uruguay
1966
England
West Germany
Portugal
Soviet Union
1962
Brazil
Czechoslovakia
Chile
Yugoslavia
1958
Brazil
Sweden
France
West Germany
1954
West Germany
Hungary
Austria
Uruguay
1950
Uruguay
Brazil
Sweden
Spain
1938
Italy
Hungary
Brazil
Sweden
1934
Italy
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Austria
1930
Uruguay
Argentina
United States
Yugoslavia
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101 Recent Comments
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Level 16
Apr 12, 2015
I guess most people don't know czechchoslovakia and yugoslavia. Makes sense, both cause serbia, montenegro, bosnia & herzegovina, macedonia, kosovo (Not even in fifa) czech rep. and slovakia don't do that well, and cause they separated into those countries a long time ago.
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Level 41
Mar 7, 2026
long time ago = 30 years
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Level 34
Jul 17, 2015
South Korea 4th

I guess miracles do happen

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Level 86
Oct 23, 2016
If blatant gifts from the referees count as miracles... both Italy and Spain lost to South Korea after some awful refereeing against them.
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Level 67
Mar 9, 2025
The most shameless referee corruption I have seen in recent times in a World Cup, although there are many.
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Level 61
May 4, 2026
South Korea literally paid the refs, and got away with hurting opposing players and even then they couldn't win.
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Level 61
May 4, 2026
South Korea literally paid the refs, and got away with hurting opposing players and even then they couldn't win.
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Level 71
Oct 29, 2015
Mexico has never won or placed. Wow.
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Level 67
Mar 9, 2025
Mexico has never been a football powerhouse. I bet that the US will either win the finals or reach it before Mexico. And to make matters worse, it may be with Mexico-born or with descent on its ranks.
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Level 56
Aug 13, 2025
And we will never be on top 4.
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Level 21
Mar 13, 2016
my inability to spell czechoslovakia and stupidly just typing 'korea' instead of south korea stopped me from getting 100%
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Level 15
Sep 26, 2016
finished in last 10 seconds!!!!!!!!!! could not remember usa but I thought of my lucky countries
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Level 36
Oct 23, 2016
I typed in Czech Republic and Slovakia, I wouldn't have thought to type in Czechoslovakia even though it might have been obvious.
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Level 66
Nov 3, 2016
I missed Spain...my dad is from Spain =/
+7
Level 48
Dec 20, 2022
I missed Brazil..Brazil won 5 world cups
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Level 3
Dec 28, 2016
100% 3:43 left
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Level 14
Jan 27, 2017
As far as I know, I see two arguments here. 1. Did the USA finish 3rd or 4th in the 1930 WC? 2. Is England a country?

1. Officially, FIFA states that the USA finished 3rd in that cup.

2. England is not a country. It is part of the UK. But they still have a separate soccer team, just like Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

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Level 73
Jul 17, 2018
I'm an American who doesn't closely follow soccer/futbol and I'm thoroughly confused by the whole thing. Apparently, being a sovereign state is not a requirement to have a FIFA team. I looked up the list of associations and confederations, and after seeing British Virgin Islands, US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, Cook Islands, etc. on the list, I gave up trying to figure the whole thing out. I'm curious, though, - what are the requirements to become an accepted team? Perhaps we should stop referring to the teams that play as "countries" and call them associations or something, because obviously not all of them are separate nations. Or am I missing something?
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Level 67
Aug 8, 2020
It's pretty much just countries, UK countries and Overseas Territories
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Level 72
Nov 18, 2020
We could just use "teams".
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Level 62
Feb 5, 2017
Yugoslavia you dog! You almost got me, but not today! 2:06 remaining on the clock. Got 'em all baby yeah!
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Level 49
Feb 5, 2017
86% of people knew USA was third / fourth in 1930 and only 63% of people knew Hungary? :)
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Level 48
Dec 20, 2022
Probably some people made a blind guess for U.S
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Level 39
Sep 7, 2017
Ghana should be there :////
+10
Level 39
Sep 7, 2017
I don't mean literally, I mean as an allusion to their 2010 World Cup performance when they just lost out to Uruguay after Suarez handballed the ball out of the net, and then Gyan missed that penalty. I was so sad.
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Level 68
Oct 12, 2017
Stink.
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Level 65
May 27, 2024
skill issue
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Level 45
Aug 7, 2025
?
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Level 57
Mar 17, 2026
It never should have been a penalty, there is a blatant off-side in this action, Uruguay were robbed of having Suarez for the semi-final, maybe they would have gone further
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Level 67
Oct 12, 2017
I would like to put in what I can about the under-fire "countryhood" of England vs the UK. The United Kingdom is rather complex when it comes to administrative divisions on account of hundreds and hundreds of years of monarchy and feudal history. But in a nutshell, the UK's official name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Great Britain is the island the includes what is referred to as the 3 "constituent countries" of the UK: England, Scotland, and Wales. It's not the same as the Bundeslander in Germany or the 50 states of the USA because these two are federal republics, which give a certain level of autonomous power to their regional districts. The UK, however, is a parliamentary democracy operating under a constitutional monarchy. It's more like if the US and Canada banded together as one super country. The two would definitely get their own international teams, whereas Texas, California, Alaska, and other regions of the countries' states/provinces don't.
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Level 72
Nov 18, 2020
I don't think your comparison is fair. The UK might not officially be a federal state (whether or not it's a republic or a monarchy is irrelevant), but it looks pretty federal to me. I mean, three of the countries have their own parliament, with laws that can diverge from the ones made in Westminster! The difference, being that in a federal state the power theoretically is bottom up and not top down is rather theoretical, especially in today's day and age where federal states tend to centralize more power whereas historically central states try to delegate more. I really do think that UK countries are comparable to US States or Bundesländer, with the difference that there are fewer, so the power dynamics is a bit different. I mean, many Bundesländer, since you're talking about them, have been independent for most of their history, right up until the end of the 19th century - far longer than any UK "country"!
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Level 80
Dec 1, 2020
"It's more like if the US and Canada banded together as one super country" - and how do you think the German unification (which was more recent than the Acts of Union) came about?
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Level 68
Oct 12, 2017
Easy! Thanks for the quiz.
+2
Level 44
Jul 10, 2018
Just missed Bulgaria and Turkey :/
+6
Level 76
Jul 17, 2018
One of these days, I will learn how to spell Czechoslovakia correctly during a quiz.
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Level 70
Jul 17, 2018
Dang it! Missed Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia...
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Level 44
Jul 17, 2018
great 100%
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Level 62
Jul 17, 2018
100%!!! YES!
+3
Level 37
Jul 18, 2018
Nice quiz! If you type in Russia, Soviet Union comes up, but if you type in Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia doesn't come up. Wouldn't it be better if either, both Czech Rep. and Russia Count or neither?
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Level ∞
Jul 18, 2018
Czech Republic will work now.
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Level 63
Aug 17, 2023
I would suggest not accepting Czech Republic / Czechia or Russia. Would be more challenging that way.
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Level 91
Jul 18, 2018
Can't believe I missed Argentina. As for Czechoslovakia & Yugoslavia, the only reason I did not guess these was because Russia caused Soviet Union to show up and Germany caused West Germany to show up. I'm probably not alone in this since they are the least answered.
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Level 40
Jul 18, 2018
2018 is the first time since 1930 that neither Brazil nor Germany got to the semi-finals
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Level 52
Jul 19, 2018
Well spotted! Surprising how bad both of them did- especially Germany
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Level 69
Feb 13, 2020
Brazil did not play that badly, they were just beaten by a very good Belgium side. The big surprise was that Netherlands and Italy did not even qualify. Likewise, Chile and the USA, both reigning regional champions at the time, did not even qualify for the finals.
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Level 48
Dec 20, 2022
Hehe, Italy didn’t qualify again for 2022 World Cup
+2
Level 48
Jan 27, 2023
It's the Zidane curse from 2006 :o
+4
Level 80
Feb 20, 2020
It also took 17 tournaments for the two to finally face off each other in 2002, and it only happened twice in the whole World Cup history.
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Level 48
Dec 20, 2022
Happened again in 2022 World Cup, Germany knocked out in the group stage in group E which was grouped by Japan and Spain and Brazil only made it to the quarter finals which Brazil was beaten by Croatia through penalties 1(4)-1(2)
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Level 24
Jul 21, 2018
For "Czechoslovakia" why does Czech republic work and not Slovakia ?

Both should be accepted or none at all. Czechoslovakia (like the name suggests it already) is the 2 countries together.

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Level 62
Dec 2, 2018
Super easy
+1
Level 36
Feb 15, 2019
forgot england
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Level 17
Feb 17, 2019
There is a mistake in 1966! The ball wasnt behind the line!

accept it england!

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Level 88
Apr 23, 2019
Ha :) Well, not that it matters as it was 4-2 anyway, but yes it was!
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Level 72
Nov 18, 2020
World cups won at home shouldn't really count anyway. Winning one abroad, that's the real test! But, hey, if it makes England happy. I mean, we have four more of those things. At this point, one more or one fewer...
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Level 40
May 7, 2019
How did I get everything except Portugal?
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Level 28
May 22, 2019
easy: 2:56
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Level 21
May 20, 2020
Got them all with 2:48 left! (though I guessed the likes of Sweden and Austria)
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Level 79
Aug 6, 2020
ROK doesn't work for South Korea. I missed it because of that. :(
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Level ∞
Aug 6, 2020
Standard type-ins have now been applied.
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Level 34
Sep 3, 2020
all done took a while to get turkey
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Level 76
Jul 20, 2024
Only one I missed :/ somehow it often eludes me. (japan sometimes does to, somehow I skip them when I scan the map in my mind)
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Level 45
Oct 10, 2020
Bulgaria! dafuq, how do I not remember that?
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Level 55
Dec 3, 2020
There was no 3rd place match in 1930. USA and Yugoslavia were joint 3rd, there was no 4th place.
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Level 60
Aug 25, 2021
ok boomer
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Level 60
Jan 5, 2021
I missed only Turkey and South Korea
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Level 86
Feb 1, 2021
Yay, a maximum.
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Level 34
Mar 3, 2021
missed Yugoslavia. Which will be the first ever African country to reach the semi finals of the FIFA world cup?
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Level 55
Oct 19, 2021
IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN GHANA
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Level 57
Mar 17, 2026
Why ? There was a blatant off-side in this action, if a country was robbed, it's Uruguay because Suarez never should have been sent off, and maybe with him they could have beaten the Netherlands
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Level 34
Dec 10, 2022
Morocco
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Level 55
May 19, 2021
howdidimissfranceandswedenandpolandomg.
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Level 62
May 31, 2021
so sad when u type UK and think ok they didnt win and you dont remember that its actually england
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Level 39
Mar 12, 2022
I'm surprised that Sweden won more that Chile, Hungary, Turkey, and Russia (Soviet Union).
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Level 75
Dec 26, 2022
More THAN!
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Level 43
Sep 7, 2022
I have never watched a soccer game in my life, and still got that ez hundo
+4
Level 34
Dec 10, 2022
Soon you will have to update and there will be one new team to guess (Morocco).
+2
Level 43
Dec 13, 2022
You'll be able to add Morocco in that quiz soon :)
+3
Level 54
Dec 18, 2022
Very quick update! Well done Argentina!
+1
Level 26
Dec 18, 2022
Yeah true👌👏... Also well done Argentina!
+3
Level 65
Dec 18, 2022
¡Vamos Argentina!
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Level 53
Dec 20, 2022
Alwas forget the h of czechoslovakia
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Level 99
Dec 22, 2022
Why are Russia and Czech Republic accepted for Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia respectively, but not Serbia for Yugoslavia?
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Level 56
Jan 8, 2023
Agree. Either all respective successor states of former countries should be accepted or none.
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Level 40
Apr 10, 2023
I tried USSR for Soviet Union because it’s the other name for it, and it wasn’t accepted. Why is this?
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Level 40
Jul 17, 2024
“USSR” means “Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.” That’s literally the exact same thing as the Soviet Union.
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Level 56
Jan 8, 2023
Would it be possible to accept CSSR for Czechoslovakia, please? :)
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Level 28
Mar 8, 2023
Done with 2:21 maybe a little less time?
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Level 63
Aug 17, 2023
I just guessed my way to 25/26 with 2:30 left.
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Level 33
Jul 14, 2023
i did chile but not brazil smh
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Level 70
Nov 9, 2023
how do you do this style of quiz
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Level 20
Nov 14, 2023
Cant believe i missed Brazil. Couldnt shrink the screen on mobile and missed all those spots
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Level 18
Dec 16, 2023
Let’s go 100%
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Level 18
Dec 16, 2023
also south Korea is just 🤨🙁🫥
+1
Level 40
Jul 15, 2024
How did you get multiple answer columns?
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Level 49
Jul 23, 2024
HOW! DID I MISS PORTUGAL?!!!
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Level 58
Sep 4, 2024
forgot england was separate from the UK in the world cup so I was wondering why the UK didn't work
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Level 55
Nov 8, 2024
i missed morocco, which i would never of thought of anyway
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Level 88
Feb 19, 2025
Kind of like capital letters.
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Level 64
Feb 18, 2025
I got 14 by naming random countries. And I thought it happened every year, so this quiz also taught me that it's every four years like the Olympics.
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Level 48
Dec 22, 2025
Forgot about Bulgaria.