FIFA World Cup - Wikipedia. The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of F. The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1. Second World War. The current champion is Germany, which won its fourth title at the 2. Brazil. The current format of the competition involves a qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase, which is often called the World Cup Finals. The 2. 0 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight different national teams.
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Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. The other World Cup winners are Germany and Italy, with four titles each; Argentina and inaugural winner Uruguay, with two titles each; and England, France and Spain, with one title each.
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The World Cup is the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games; the cumulative audience of all matches of the 2. FIFA World Cup was estimated to be 2.
Green: once; dark green: twice; light green: planned. Previous international competitions. The world's first international football match was a challenge match played in Glasgow in 1.
Scotland and England. The first international tournament, the inaugural edition of the British Home Championship, took place in 1. These were very early days for international football, and the official history of FIFA describes the competition as having been a failure. Planned by The Football Association (FA), England's football governing body, the event was for amateur players only and was regarded suspiciously as a show rather than a competition. Great Britain (represented by the England national amateur football team) won the gold medals. They repeated the feat in 1.
Stockholm. With the Olympic event continuing to be contested only between amateur teams, Sir Thomas Lipton organised the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy tournament in Turin in 1. The Lipton tournament was a championship between individual clubs (not national teams) from different nations, each one of which represented an entire nation.
The competition is sometimes described as The First World Cup. Lipton invited West Auckland, an amateur side from County Durham, to represent England instead. West Auckland won the tournament and returned in 1. In 1. 91. 4, FIFA agreed to recognise the Olympic tournament as a . Those were also the first two open world championships, as 1.
FIFA's professional era. World Cups before World War IIDue to the success of the Olympic football tournaments, FIFA, with President. Jules Rimet as the driving force, again started looking at staging its own international tournament outside of the Olympics. On 2. 8 May 1. 92.
FIFA Congress in Amsterdam decided to stage a world championship itself. Indeed, no European country pledged to send a team until two months before the start of the competition. Rimet eventually persuaded teams from Belgium, France, Romania, and Yugoslavia to make the trip.
In total, 1. 3 nations took part: seven from South America, four from Europe and two from North America. The first two World Cup matches took place simultaneously on 1. July 1. 93. 0, and were won by France and the USA, who defeated Mexico 4. The first goal in World Cup history was scored by Lucien Laurent of France. FIFA and the IOC also disagreed over the status of amateur players, and so football was dropped from the Games. Few South American teams were willing to travel to Europe for the 1. Brazil the only South American team to compete in both.
The 1. 94. 2 and 1. Nazi Germany and Brazil sought to host. British teams withdrew from FIFA in 1.
Uruguay won the tournament again after defeating the host nation Brazil, in the match called . These teams were usually defeated easily by the European and South American teams. Until 1. 98. 2, the only teams from outside Europe and South America to advance out of the first round were: USA, semi- finalists in 1. Cuba, quarter- finalists in 1. North Korea, quarter- finalists in 1. Mexico, quarter- finalists in 1. Expansion to 3. 2 teams.
The tournament was expanded to 2. Since then, teams from these regions have enjoyed more success, with several having reached the quarter- finals: Mexico, quarter- finalists in 1. Cameroon, quarter- finalists in 1.
South Korea, finishing in fourth place in 2. Senegal, along with USA, both quarter- finalists in 2. Ghana, quarter- finalists in 2. Costa Rica, quarter- finalists in 2. Nevertheless, European and South American teams continue to dominate, e. Europe or South America and so were the finalists of all tournaments so far. Two hundred teams entered the 2.
FIFA World Cup qualification rounds; 1. FIFA World Cup, while a record 2. FIFA World Cup. It cannot be that the European and South American confederations lay claim to the majority of the berths at the World Cup. Platini said that he would allocate an additional berth to UEFA, two to Asia Football Confederation and Confederation of African Football, two shared between CONCACAF and CONMEBOL, and a guaranteed place for the Oceania Football Confederation. It's a political matter so why not have more Africans? The competition is to bring all the people of all the world.
If you don't give the possibility to participate, they don't improve. Justice Department announced a 4. Arrests of over a dozen FIFA officials were made since that time, particularly on May 2. December 3. At the time, FIFA president Sepp Blatter announced he would relinquish his position in February 2. Then- secretary general J. Department of Justice were announced on the same day.
Unlike many other sports, the men's football tournament at the Olympics is not a top- level tournament, and since 1. It is contested by the winners of each of the six FIFA confederation championships, along with the FIFA World Cup champion and the host country. The latter three do not have a women's version, although a FIFA Women's Club World Cup is planned for 2. When the U- 2. 0 Women's World Cup is held the year before the Women's World Cup, both tournaments are awarded in a single bidding process.
The U- 2. 0 tournament serves as a dress rehearsal for the larger competition, the same role as the Confederations Cup plays in the men's game. Trophy. From 1. 93. Jules Rimet Trophy was awarded to the World Cup winning team. It was originally simply known as the World Cup or Coupe du Monde, but in 1. FIFA president Jules Rimet who set up the first tournament. In 1. 97. 0, Brazil's third victory in the tournament entitled them to keep the trophy permanently. However, the trophy was stolen in 1.
The experts of FIFA, coming from seven countries, evaluated the 5. Italian designer Silvio Gazzaniga. The new trophy is 3.
The base contains two layers of semi- precious malachite while the bottom side of the trophy bears the engraved year and name of each FIFA World Cup winner since 1. The description of the trophy by Gazzaniga was: . From the remarkable dynamic tensions of the compact body of the sculpture rise the figures of two athletes at the stirring moment of victory.
World Cup winners retain the trophy only until the post- match celebration is finished. They are awarded a gold- plated replica rather than the solid gold original immediately afterwards. In the 2. 00. 2 edition, fourth- place medals were awarded to hosts South Korea. Before the 1. 97.
In November 2. 00. FIFA announced that all members of World Cup- winning squads between 1. For each tournament, FIFA decides the number of places awarded to each of the continental zones beforehand, generally based on the relative strength of the confederations' teams. The qualification process can start as early as almost three years before the final tournament and last over a two- year period.
The formats of the qualification tournaments differ between confederations. Usually, one or two places are awarded to winners of intercontinental play- offs. For example, the winner of the Oceanian zone and the fifth- placed team from the Asian zone entered a play- off for a spot in the 2.
World Cup. This right was also granted to the defending champions between 1. FIFA World Cup onward, requiring the champions to qualify.
Brazil, winners in 2. There are two stages: the group stage followed by the knockout stage. Eight teams are seeded, including the hosts, with the other seeded teams selected using a formula based on the FIFA World Rankings and/or performances in recent World Cups, and drawn to separate groups. Since 1. 99. 8, constraints have been applied to the draw to ensure that no group contains more than two European teams or more than one team from any other confederation.
This means that a total of six matches are played within a group. The last round of matches of each group is scheduled at the same time to preserve fairness among all four teams. Points are used to rank the teams within a group. Since 1. 99. 4, three points have been awarded for a win, one for a draw and none for a loss (before, winners received two points). If one considers all possible outcomes (win, draw, loss) for all six matches in a group, there are 7.
However a certain number (2. In such case, the ranking among these teams is determined as follows. It begins with the round of 1.
This is followed by the quarter- finals, the semi- finals, the third- place match (contested by the losing semi- finalists), and the final. The locations were controversial because South America and Europe were by far the two centres of strength in football and travel between them required three weeks by boat. The decision to hold the first World Cup in Uruguay, for example, led to only four European nations competing. The decision to hold the second of these in France was disputed, as the South American countries understood that the location would alternate between the two continents. Both Argentina and Uruguay thus boycotted the 1.
FIFA World Cup. The 2.