National Teams with the Most Finals Lost in the World Cup
Full list of national soccer teams that played finals in the World Cup, ordered from those who lost the most to those who didn't lost any finals.
* Note: in 1950 the champion was not defined with a final match. That year is not included in the statistics shown on this page.
Which national team has lost the most finals?
Germany is the national team with the most finals lost in the history of the World Cup, having been the loser 4 times in definitions with final game format. That means that it has been the team that lost in the 19.0% of a total of 21 finals.
On the bright side, other than its 4 finals lost, Germany has 4 finals won.
Most Finals Lost
4 finals
Germany
A total of 13 national teams at least once played the final of of the World Cup in one of the 21 editions that were decided with this format. Most of them (10), lost at least once and 7 of them lost 2 finals or more in this type of definition. Here you can see the full list of these national teams ordered by finals lost.
National Teams with the Most Finals Lost - Full List
| National Team | Finals Lost | Years | % of Total Finals | Finals Played | Finals Won | % of Finals Won | ||
| 1. | | Germany | 4 | 1966, 1982, 1986, 2002 | 19.0% | 8 | 4 | 50.0% |
| 2. |  | Netherlands | 3 | 1974, 1978, 2010 | 14.3% | 3 | - | 0.0% |
 | Argentina | 3 | 1930, 1990, 2014 | 14.3% | 6 | 3 | 50.0% | |
| 4. |  | Czech Republic | 2 | 1934, 1962 | 9.5% | 2 | - | 0.0% |
 | Hungary | 2 | 1938, 1954 | 9.5% | 2 | - | 0.0% | |
 | France | 2 | 2006, 2022 | 9.5% | 4 | 2 | 50.0% | |
 | Italy | 2 | 1970, 1994 | 9.5% | 6 | 4 | 66.7% | |
| 8. |  | Croatia | 1 | 2018 | 4.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% |
 | Sweden | 1 | 1958 | 4.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
 | Brazil | 1 | 1998 | 4.8% | 6 | 5 | 83.3% | |
