  The Football World Cup as world's favorite sporting event is a source of both
entertainment and overwhelming amount of data about the games played. In this
paper we analyse the available data on football world championships since 1930
until today. Our goal is to rank the national teams based on all matches during
the championships. For this purpose, we apply the PageRank with restarts
algorithm to a graph built from the games played during the tournaments.
Several statistics such as matches won and goals scored are combined in
different metrics that assign weights to the links in the graph. Finally, our
results indicate that the Random walk approach with the use of right metrics
can indeed produce relevant rankings comparable to the FIFA official all-time
ranking board.
