FIFA World Cup
Participants
1930 - 2018
Annotations: 1930 without qualification and third place match.
1974-1982 second phase was played as a second group stage (in graph between round of 16 and Quarter-Finals).
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1930 Uruguay X X X
1934 Italy X X X X X X
1938 France X X X X X X
1950 Brazil X X X
1954 Switzerland X X X X X X
1958 Sweden X X X X X X
1962 Chile X X X X X X
1966 England X X X X X X
1970 Mexico X X X X X X
1974 Germany X X X X X
1978 Argentina X X X X X
1982 Spain X X X X X X
1986 Mexico X X X X X X X
1990 Italy X X X X X X X
1994 United States X X X X X X X
1998 France X X X X X X X
2002 Korea Japan X X X X X X X
2006 Germany X X X X X X X
2010 South Africa X X X X X X X
2014 Brazil X X X X X X X
2018 Russia X X X X X X X
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