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
2014 FIFA World Cup statistics numbers indicate the maximum values in each column. The Netherlands was the only team that used all 23 players during the tournament, making it the first team in World Cup history to ever use all of its squad players. 2014 FIFA World Cup statistics The following article outlines the statistics for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, which took place in Brazil from 12 June to 13 July. Goals scored from penalty shoot-outs are not counted, and matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws. James Rodríguez was awarded the Golden Boot for scoring six goals, the first time that