FIFA World Cup preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase, which is often called the "World Cup Finals". After this, 32 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation(s), compete in the tournament phase for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month. The 21 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight national teams. Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. The other World Cup winners are Germany and Italy, with four titles each; Argentina, France and inaugural winner Uruguay, with
1970 FIFA World Cup "All times listed local (UTC−6)" With ten goals, Gerd Müller is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 95 goals were scored by 55 players, with only one of them credited as own goal. In 1986, FIFA published a report that ranked all teams in each World Cup up to and including 1986, based on progress in the competition, overall results and quality of the opposition. The rankings for the 1970 tournament were as follows: <nowiki>*</nowiki> Listed as #13 in one of the sources <nowiki>**</nowiki> Listed as #12 in one of the sources 1970 FIFA World Cup The 1970