List of the winning nations in major football tournaments

The list of the winning nations at major football tournaments shows all nations, separated by gender, whose national or national teams have won at least one of the four or, for women, three major international football tournaments: the football World Cup , the Olympic football tournament , the FIFA Confederations Cup (for men) or the respective continental championship. With the exception of the men's Olympic tournament, the selection teams are always the national senior team. Only at the Olympics this is no longer the case from 1956; instead, since then, amateur selections, now U-23 selections, have participated. The sorting in the list depends first of all on how many different ones of the four tournaments have been won. If this number is the same, the further ranking is based on the number of titles in the individual tournaments, starting with the most important tournament, the World Cup.

Winning nations in men's football

So far, national or national teams from 55 countries have won at least one of the four possible major tournaments.

of four possible tournaments won	National association	World Championship	Olympic football tournament	Confederations Cup	Continental Championship
4th	Brazil 2	5	11 1	4th	8th
	Argentina	2	12 1	1	14th
	France	2	11 1	2	2
3	Italy	4th	1		1
	Germany	4th		1	3
	Uruguay	2	2		15th
	Spain	1	11 1		3
	Mexico 2		11 1	1	10
2	Soviet Union		2		1
	Czechoslovakia		1		1
	Denmark			1	1
	Cameroon		11 1		4th
	Nigeria		11 1		3
1	England	1
	Hungary		3
	Great Britain		12 1
	Belgium		1
	Sweden		1
	Yugoslavia		1
	Poland		1
	GDR		1
	Egypt				7th
	USA 2				5
	Australia 3				5
	Ghana				4th
	Japan 4				4th
	New Zealand				4th
	Costa Rica 2				3
	Iran				3
	Saudi Arabia				3
	Chile				2
	DR Congo				2
	Ivory Coast				2
	Paraguay				2
	Peru 2				2
	South Korea 5				2
	Algeria				1
	Ethiopia				1
	Bolivia				1
	Greece				1
	Guatemala				1
	Haiti				1
	Honduras 2				1
	Iraq				1
	Israel				1
	Colombia 2				1
	Republic of the Congo				1
	Kuwait				1
	Morocco				1
	Netherlands				1
	Zambia				1
	South Africa 6				1
	Sudan				1
	Tahiti				1
	Tunisia				1

Remarks:

¹ The victories were not achieved by the senior national team.

² These teams took part in the South American and North / Central American championships, but could only win the championship of their own confederation.

³ This team took part in the Oceania Championships until 2004 and has been taking part in the Asia Championships since 2007 and has so far won the Oceania Championship four times and the Asia Championship once.

⁴ This team took part in the Asian and South American championships, but could only win the championship of their own confederation.

⁵ This team took part in the Asian and North / Central American championships, but could only win the championship of their own confederation.

⁶ This team took part in the African and North / Central American championships, but could only win the championship of its own confederation.

Winning nations in women's football

So far, national teams from 16 countries have won one of the three possible major tournaments at least once.

three kinds of tournaments won	National association	Olympic football tournament	World Championship	Continental Championship
3	United States	4th	3	7th
	Germany	1	2	8th
	Norway	1	1	2
2	Japan		1	1
1	China 1			8th
	Canada			2
	Sweden			1
	Nigeria			29 2
	Brazil 3			6th
	New Zealand 4			6th
	Taiwan or Chinese Taipei 5			5
	Australia 5			4th
	North Korea			3
	Equatorial Guinea			2
	Argentina			1
	Thailand			1

Remarks:

¹ This team participated in the continental championships of Asia and North / Central America.

² Including two unofficial championships.

³ This team participated in the continental championships of South and North / Central America.

⁴ This team took part in the continental championships of Oceania, Asia and North / Central America.

⁵ These teams participated in the continental championships of Asia and Oceania.

See also

List of the most successful nations in soccer junior championships

Individual evidence