The World Cup kicks off six months from today, hosted by five-times winners Brazil. As a nation, Brazil’s knack of winning the tournament is well renowned and many supporters will have them as firm favourites to win a sixth trophy.
But what if the World Cup was a league? This chart imagines what an all-time league ranking might look like.
We’ve allocated three points for a win and a point for a draw for all group and knockout stages since 1930. You can search by team, total points and points per game. You might be surprised by some of the results.
*Early tournaments included replays for drawn matches. For the purposes of this chart the original match and the replay have been counted as a single match with three points awarded to the winner
**Includes West Germany
