The country hosting the FIFA World Cup Football Championship, 2014 is

The host nation of a FIFA World Cup is decided years ahead of the tournament by FIFA's Congress or Executive Committee through a formal bidding process, and hosting duties have historically rotated among different continents and confederations so that no single region hosts too often in a row.

FIFA awarded the hosting rights for the 2014 edition to Brazil in October 2007. Brazil staged the 20th FIFA World Cup from 12 June to 13 July 2014 across twelve host cities, and Germany won the title by defeating Argentina 1-0 in the final played at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.

• Italy organised the FIFA World Cup in 1934 and again in 1990, both editions well before 2014.

• Argentina organised the tournament in 1978 and was the losing finalist of the 2014 edition, but did not host that edition.

• Spain organised the FIFA World Cup in 1982, more than three decades before 2014.

Matching each country's own hosting record against the year named in the question leaves Brazil as the only one of the four whose hosting cycle falls in 2014.