Football in Brazil

Football is the most popular sport in Brazil and a prominent part of the country's national identity. Over 68% of the Brazilians are considered football fans. The Brazil national football team has won the FIFA World Cup five times, the most of any team, in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002. Brazil and Germany are the only teams to succeed in qualifying for all the World Cups for which they entered the qualifiers; Brazil is the only team to participate in every World Cup competition ever held. Brazil has also won an Olympic gold medal, at the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro and at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Brazil hosted the 1950 and 2014 FIFA World Cup. It also hosted the inaugural 2000 FIFA Club World Cup. Brazil is a country with the most comprehensively developed football in the world in both men and women as well as in both futsal and beach soccer.

Pelé has won three World Cups (he was injured during most of the 1962 World Cup), with some of the other most prominent players in football coming from Brazil, including Nílton Santos, Djalma Santos, Garrincha, Zico, Falcão, Romário, Taffarel, Rivaldo, Roberto Carlos, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Kaká, Neymar and Vinícius in the men's game and Marta in the women's game.

The governing body of football in Brazil is the Brazilian Football Confederation. The Brazilian Série A is one of the strongest and most-watched leagues in the world, with Palmeiras being its most successful club. The national cup competition, the Copa do Brasil, has a prestige comparable to the national league, with Cruzeiro having been its most successful club.