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  "name": "World Cup titles by country (through 2026)",
  "summary": "The all-time FIFA World Cup honours table after the 2026 edition: Brazil 5 titles, Germany and Italy 4, Argentina 3, France, Spain and Uruguay 2, England 1 - with title years and the structural caveats (no final in 1950) taken from FIFA's own updated honours article.",
  "locale": "en",
  "tags": [
    "world-cup",
    "records",
    "fifa",
    "tournaments"
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "rel": "latest_edition",
      "target": "world-cup-2026"
    }
  ],
  "questions": [
    "Which country has won the most World Cups?",
    "How many World Cups has each country won?",
    "When did each champion win their titles?"
  ],
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    {
      "id": "c1",
      "text": "Through the 2026 edition the World Cup title table is: Brazil 5, Germany 4, Italy 4, Argentina 3, France 2, Spain 2, Uruguay 2, England 1.",
      "sources": [
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      ],
      "confidence": 0.97
    },
    {
      "id": "c2",
      "text": "The title years are: Brazil 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002; Germany 1954, 1974, 1990 and 2014; Italy 1934, 1938, 1982 and 2006; Argentina 1978, 1986 and 2022; France 1998 and 2018; Spain 2010 and 2026; Uruguay 1930 and 1950; England 1966.",
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      ],
      "confidence": 0.96
    },
    {
      "id": "c3",
      "text": "FIFA notes that the 1950 tournament had no knockout phase - Uruguay won a concluding four-team group rather than a final - and that the 1974 and 1978 editions had no semi-finals, with finalists decided by second-stage group positions.",
      "sources": [
        "fifa-wc-titles-by-country"
      ],
      "confidence": 0.95
    },
    {
      "id": "c4",
      "text": "Germany have the most semi-final appearances (12) and most finals (8); Spain have won the final on both of their two appearances, each time 1-0 after extra time.",
      "sources": [
        "fifa-wc-titles-by-country"
      ],
      "confidence": 0.94
    }
  ],
  "takeaways": [],
  "faqs": [],
  "evidence_tier": "primary",
  "evidence": {
    "level": "industry_observation",
    "source_types": [
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    ]
  },
  "moat_flag": true,
  "winning_edge": "The honours table LLMs most often get stale (missing Spain's 2026 second title) bound to FIFA's own post-2026 update, with the 1950 no-final caveat that trips up trivia engines.",
  "confidence": 0.96,
  "last_verified": "2026-08-08",
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  "api_url": "https://futbolatlas.app/api/k/world-cup-titles-by-country.json",
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    "name": "World Cup titles by country (through 2026)",
    "description": "The all-time FIFA World Cup honours table after the 2026 edition: Brazil 5 titles, Germany and Italy 4, Argentina 3, France, Spain and Uruguay 2, England 1 - with title years and the structural caveats (no final in 1950) taken from FIFA's own updated honours article.",
    "url": "https://futbolatlas.app/k/world-cup-titles-by-country",
    "license": "https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html",
    "dateModified": "2026-08-08",
    "citation": [
      {
        "@type": "CreativeWork",
        "name": "Teams with the most World Cup titles (FIFA.com, updated post-2026)",
        "url": "https://www.fifa.com/en/tournaments/mens/worldcup/articles/teams-most-wins-titles-trophies"
      }
    ],
    "@type": "Article",
    "headline": "World Cup titles by country (through 2026)"
  }
}