This graph shows how many total goals have been scored in each World Cup. The colors indicate who won that World Cup, and the size indicates how many matches were played in that world cup. Here, we can see that there has been a pretty linear increase in total goals scored over time. We can see that this corresponds pretty closely with the number of matches played. The outliers in this data are the Switzerland World Cup in 1954, only 26 matches were played, but 140 goals were scored. This is particularly impressive because in the Brazil 2014 World Cup, 64 matches were played but 171 goals were scored. That is more than double the amount of games, but only 31 more goals scored. The other outlier is the Sweden World Cup in 1958 in which 126 goals were scored. The following year only 89 goals were scored. This goes to show that the FIFA World Cup is becoming a bigger event as the years go on.
This graph which World Cups have been the most well atteneded. From this graph, we learn that there has been a general trend upwards in attendance, spiking at 1994 at roughly 3.5 million viewers. Quickly after the World Cup started in 1930, attendance started going down. This is most likely because of the start of World War 2. There is a break between 1938 and 1950. There was a small spike in 1950, but has been going up pretty steadily since then.
This graph depicts what team has recieved the most support over the history of World Cups. Brazil has the highest attendance over the couse of World Cups. Nearly 6 million fans have seen Brazil play. This is probably due to the fact that Brazil has played in more World Cups than many of the other teams. There is a pretty steep drop off from the Brazil to Spain range to the rest of the graph. These are typically teh most successful teams.