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Founded 1930

Number of

teams

32 (finals)

204 (qualifiers for 2010)

Current

champions

Spain (1st title)

Most

successful

team(s)

Brazil (5 titles)

Website Official website

(http://www.fifa.com

/worldcup/index.html)

2014 FIFA World Cup

FIFA World Cup

Tournaments

1930 · 1934 · 1938 · 1950 · 1954 · 1958

· 1962 · 1966 · 1970 · 1974 · 1978 ·

1982 · 1986 · 1990 · 1994 · 1998 · 2002

· 2006 · 2010 · 2014 · 2018 · 2022

FIFA World CupFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is aninternational association football competition contested bythe senior men's national teams of the members ofFédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), thesport's global governing body. The championship has beenawarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held becauseof the Second World War. The current champions are Spain,who won the 2010 tournament in South Africa.

The current format of the tournament involves 32 teamscompeting for the title at venues within the host nation(s)over a period of about a month; this phase is often called theWorld Cup Finals. A qualification phase, which currentlytakes place over the preceding three years, is used todetermine which teams qualify for the tournament togetherwith the host nation(s).

The 19 World Cup tournaments have been won by eightdifferent national teams. Brazil have won five times, and theyare the only team to have played in every tournament. Theother World Cup winners are Italy, with four titles; WestGermany, with three titles; Argentina and inaugural winnersUruguay, with two titles each; and England, France, andSpain, with one title each.

The World Cup is the most widely viewed and followedsporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games; the cumulative audience of allmatches of the 2006 FIFA World Cup was estimated to be 26.29 billion with an estimated 715.1

million people watching the final match, a ninth of the entire population of the planet.[1][2][3][4]

The 2014 FIFA World Cup is currently being contested in Brazil. The next two World Cups will behosted by Russia in 2018, and Qatar in 2022.

Contents

1 History

1.1 Previous international competitions

1.2 World Cups before World War II

1.3 World Cups after World War II

1.4 Expansion to 32 teams

1.5 Possible expansion to 40 teams

1.6 Other FIFA tournaments

2 Trophy

3 Format

3.1 Qualification

3.2 Final tournament

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Map of FIFA World Cup final hosts, 1930-2022. Dark green: once;light green: twice

4 Hosts

4.1 Selection process

4.2 Performances

5 Organisation and media coverage

5.1 Attendance

6 Results

6.1 Teams reaching the top four

6.2 Best performances by continental zones

7 Awards

8 Records and statistics

9 See also

10 Notes and references

11 Bibliography

12 External links

History

Previous internationalcompetitions

The world's first internationalfootball match was a challengematch played in Glasgow in 1872

between Scotland and England,[5]

which ended in a 0–0 draw. Thefirst international tournament, theinaugural edition of the BritishHome Championship, took place in

1884.[6] As football grew inpopularity in other parts of theworld at the turn of the 20thcentury, it was held as ademonstration sport with no medals awarded at the 1900 and 1904 Summer Olympics (however, theIOC has retroactively upgraded their status to official events), and at the 1906 Intercalated

Games.[7]

After FIFA was founded in 1904, it tried to arrange an international football tournament betweennations outside the Olympic framework in Switzerland in 1906. These were very early days forinternational football, and the official history of FIFA describes the competition as having been a

failure.[8]

At the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, football became an official competition. Planned by TheFootball Association (FA), England's football governing body, the event was for amateur players onlyand was regarded suspiciously as a show rather than a competition. Great Britain (represented bythe England national amateur football team) won the gold medals. They repeated the feat in 1912 inStockholm.

With the Olympic event continuing to be contested only between amateur teams, Sir Thomas Lipton

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Estadio Centenario, thelocation of the first WorldCup final in 1930 inMontevideo, Uruguay

organised the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy tournament in Turin in 1909. The Lipton tournament was achampionship between individual clubs (not national teams) from different nations, each one ofwhich represented an entire nation. The competition is sometimes described as The First World

Cup,[9] and featured the most prestigious professional club sides from Italy, Germany andSwitzerland, but the FA of England refused to be associated with the competition and declined theoffer to send a professional team. Lipton invited West Auckland, an amateur side from CountyDurham, to represent England instead. West Auckland won the tournament and returned in 1911 tosuccessfully defend their title.

In 1914, FIFA agreed to recognise the Olympic tournament as a "world football championship for

amateurs", and took responsibility for managing the event.[10] This paved the way for the world'sfirst intercontinental football competition, at the 1920 Summer Olympics, contested by Egypt and

thirteen European teams, and won by Belgium.[11] Uruguay won the next two Olympic footballtournaments in 1924 and 1928. Those were also the first two open world championships, as 1924was the start of FIFA's professional era.

World Cups before World War II

Due to the success of the Olympic football tournaments, FIFA, withPresident Jules Rimet as the driving force, again started looking atstaging its own international tournament outside of the Olympics. On28 May 1928, the FIFA Congress in Amsterdam decided to stage a

world championship itself.[12] With Uruguay now two-time officialfootball world champions and to celebrate their centenary ofindependence in 1930, FIFA named Uruguay as the host country ofthe inaugural World Cup tournament.

The national associations of selected nations were invited to send ateam, but the choice of Uruguay as a venue for the competitionmeant a long and costly trip across the Atlantic Ocean for Europeansides. Indeed, no European country pledged to send a team until twomonths before the start of the competition. Rimet eventuallypersuaded teams from Belgium, France, Romania, and Yugoslavia to make the trip. In total thirteennations took part: seven from South America, four from Europe and two from North America.

The first two World Cup matches took place simultaneously on 13 July 1930, and were won byFrance and USA, who defeated Mexico 4–1 and Belgium 3–0 respectively. The first goal in World Cup

history was scored by Lucien Laurent of France.[13] In the final, Uruguay defeated Argentina 4–2 infront of a crowd of 93,000 people in Montevideo, and in doing so became the first nation to win the

World Cup.[14]

After the creation of the World Cup, the 1932 Summer Olympics, held in Los Angeles, did not plan toinclude football as part of the schedule due to the low popularity of the sport in the United States, asAmerican football had been growing in popularity. FIFA and the IOC also disagreed over the status

of amateur players, and so football was dropped from the Games.[15] Olympic football returned atthe 1936 Summer Olympics, but was now overshadowed by the more prestigious World Cup.

The issues facing the early World Cup tournaments were the difficulties of intercontinental travel,and war. Few South American teams were willing to travel to Europe for the 1934 and 1938tournaments, with Brazil the only South American team to compete in both. The 1942 and 1946

competitions, which Nazi Germany and Brazil sought to host,[16] were cancelled due to World War IIand its aftermath.

World Cups after World War II

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The 1950 World Cup, held in Brazil, was the first to include British participants. British teamswithdrew from FIFA in 1920, partly out of unwillingness to play against the countries they had been

at war with, and partly as a protest against foreign influence on football,[17] but rejoined in 1946

following FIFA's invitation.[18] The tournament also saw the return of 1930 champions Uruguay, whohad boycotted the previous two World Cups. Uruguay won the tournament again after defeating thehost nation Brazil, in the match called "Maracanazo" (Portuguese: Maracanaço).

In the tournaments between 1934 and 1978, 16 teams competed in each tournament, except in1938, when Austria was absorbed into Germany after qualifying, leaving the tournament with 15teams, and in 1950, when India, Scotland, and Turkey withdrew, leaving the tournament with 13

teams.[19] Most of the participating nations were from Europe and South America, with a smallminority from North America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. These teams were usually defeated easilyby the European and South American teams. Until 1982, the only teams from outside Europe andSouth America to advance out of the first round were: USA, semi-finalists in 1930; Cuba, quarter-finalists in 1938; Korea DPR, quarter-finalists in 1966; and Mexico, quarter-finalists in 1970.

Expansion to 32 teams

The tournament was expanded to 24 teams in 1982,[20] and then to 32 in 1998,[21] also allowingmore teams from Africa, Asia and North America to take part. Since then, teams from these regionshave enjoyed more success, with several having reached the quarter-finals: Mexico, quarter-finalistsin 1986; Cameroon, quarter-finalists in 1990; Korea Republic, finishing in fourth place in 2002;Senegal, along with USA, both quarter-finalists in 2002; and Ghana as quarter-finalists in 2010.Nevertheless, European and South American teams continue to dominate, e.g., the quarter-finalistsin 1994, 1998, and 2006 were all from Europe or South America.

Two hundred teams entered the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds; 198 nations attempted toqualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, while a record 204 countries entered qualification for the 2010

FIFA World Cup.[22]

Possible expansion to 40 teams

In October 2013, Sepp Blatter spoke of guaranteeing the Caribbean Football Union's region a

position in the World Cup.[23] In the 25 October 2013 edition of the FIFA Weekly Blatter wrote that:"From a purely sporting perspective, I would like to see globalisation finally taken seriously, and theAfrican and Asian national associations accorded the status they deserve at the FIFA World Cup. Itcannot be that the European and South American confederations lay claim to the majority of the

berths at the World Cup" [24] Those two remarks suggested to commentators that Blatter could be

putting himself forward for re-election to the FIFA Presidency.[25] Following the magazine's

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FIFA World Cup Trophy on aGerman stamp

publishment, Blatter's would-be opponent for the FIFA Presidency, UEFA President Michel Platiniresponded that he intended to extend the World Cup to 40 national associations, increasing thenumber of participants by eight. Platini said that he would allocate an additional berth to UEFA, twoto Asia Football Confederation and Confederation of African Football, two shared between

CONCACAF and CONMEBOL, and a guaranteed place for the Oceania Football Confederation.[26]

Platini was clear about why he wanted to expand the World Cup. He said: "[The World Cup is] notbased on the quality of the teams because you don't have the best 32 at the World Cup ... but it's agood compromise. ... It's a political matter so why not have more Africans? The competition is tobring all the people of all the world. If you don't give the possibility to participate, they don't

improve." [26]

Other FIFA tournaments

An equivalent tournament for women's football, the FIFA Women's World Cup, was first held in 1991

in the People's Republic of China.[27] The women's tournament is smaller in scale and profile thanthe men's, but is growing; the number of entrants for the 2007 tournament was 120, more thandouble that of 1991.

Football has been included in every Summer Olympic Games except 1896 and 1932. Unlike manyother sports, the men's football tournament at the Olympics is not a top-level tournament, and since

1992, an under-23 tournament with each team allowed three over-age players.[28] Women's footballmade its Olympic debut in 1996, and is contested between full national sides with no agerestrictions.

The FIFA Confederations Cup is a tournament held one year before the World Cup at the World Cuphost nation(s) as a dress rehearsal for the upcoming World Cup. It is contested by the winners ofeach of the six FIFA confederation championships, along with the FIFA World Cup champion and the

host country.[29]

FIFA also organises international tournaments for youth football (FIFA U-20 World Cup, FIFA U-17World Cup, FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup), club football (FIFA ClubWorld Cup), and football variants such as futsal (FIFA Futsal World Cup) and beach soccer (FIFABeach Soccer World Cup). Since the 2010 edition, the U-20 Women's World Cup has played the samerole in women's football as the Confederations Cup plays in the men's game. When the U-20Women's World Cup is held the year before the Women's World Cup, both tournaments are awardedin a single bidding process, with the U-20 tournament serving as a dress rehearsal for the largercompetition.

Trophy

From 1930 to 1970, the Jules Rimet Trophy was awarded to the WorldCup winning team. It was originally simply known as the World Cupor Coupe du Monde, but in 1946 it was renamed after the FIFApresident Jules Rimet who set up the first tournament. In 1970,Brazil's third victory in the tournament entitled them to keep thetrophy permanently. However, the trophy was stolen in 1983 and has

never been recovered, apparently melted down by the thieves.[30]

After 1970, a new trophy, known as the FIFA World Cup Trophy, wasdesigned. The experts of FIFA, coming from seven countries,evaluated the 53 presented models, finally opting for the work of theItalian designer Silvio Gazzaniga. The new trophy is 36 cm (14.2 in)high, made of solid 18 carat (75%) gold and weighs 6.175 kg (13.6 lb). The base contains two layersof semi-precious malachite while the bottom side of the trophy bears the engraved year and name of

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The Spanish national team wonin the year 2010, their very firstFIFA World Cup, held in SouthAfrica.

each FIFA World Cup winner since 1974. The description of the trophy by Gazzaniga was: "The linesspring out from the base, rising in spirals, stretching out to receive the world. From the remarkabledynamic tensions of the compact body of the sculpture rise the figures of two athletes at the stirring

moment of victory."[31]

This new trophy is not awarded to the winning nation permanently. World Cup winners retain thetrophy until the next tournament and are awarded a gold-plated replica rather than the solid gold

original.[32]

Currently, all members (players, coaches, and managers) of the top three teams receive medals withan insignia of the World Cup Trophy; winners' (gold), runner-ups' (silver), and third-place (bronze).In the 2002 edition, fourth-place medals were awarded to hosts South Korea. Before the 1978tournament, medals were only awarded to the eleven players on the pitch at the end of the final andthe third-place match. In November 2007, FIFA announced that all members of World Cup-winning

squads between 1930 and 1974 were to be retroactively awarded winners' medals.[33][34][35]

Format

Qualification

Since the second World Cup in 1934, qualifying tournaments have been held to thin the field for the

final tournament.[36] They are held within the six FIFA continental zones (Africa, Asia, North andCentral America and Caribbean, South America, Oceania, and Europe), overseen by their respectiveconfederations. For each tournament, FIFA decides the number of places awarded to each of thecontinental 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 andlast over a two-year period. The formats of the qualification tournaments differ betweenconfederations. Usually, one or two places are awarded to winners of intercontinental play-offs. Forexample, the winner of the Oceanian zone and the fifth-placed team from the Asian zone entered a

play-off for a spot in the 2010 World Cup.[37] From the 1938 World Cup onwards, host nationsreceive automatic qualification to the final tournament. This right was also granted to the defendingchampions between 1938 and 2002, but was withdrawn from the 2006 FIFA World Cup onward,requiring the champions to qualify. Brazil, winners in 2002, were the first defending champions to

play qualifying matches.[38]

Final tournament

The current final tournament features 32 national teams competingover a month in the host nation(s). There are two stages: the group

stage followed by the knockout stage.[39]

In the group stage, teams compete within eight groups of fourteams each. Eight teams are seeded, including the hosts, with theother seeded teams selected using a formula based on the FIFAWorld Rankings and/or performances in recent World Cups, and

drawn to separate groups.[40] The other teams are assigned todifferent "pots", usually based on geographical criteria, and teamsin each pot are drawn at random to the eight groups. Since 1998,constraints have been applied to the draw to ensure that no groupcontains more than two European teams or more than one team

from any other confederation.[41]

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Each group plays a round-robin tournament, in which each team is scheduled for three matchesagainst other teams in the same group. This means that a total of six matches are played within agroup. The last round of matches of each group is scheduled at the same time to preserve fairness

among all four teams.[42] The top two teams from each group advance to the knockout stage. Pointsare used to rank the teams within a group. Since 1994, 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 729(= 3^6) different outcome combinations possible. However, a certain number (115) of thesecombinations lead to more than one team occupying the second place in the group. In such case, the

ranking among these teams is determined as follows:[43]

Greatest combined goal difference in all group matches1.

Greatest combined number of goals scored in all group matches2.

If more than one team remain level after applying the above criteria, their ranking will be

determined as follows:

Greatest number of points in head-to-head matches among those teams1.

Greatest goal difference in head-to-head matches among those teams2.

Greatest number of goals scored in head-to-head matches among those teams3.

3.

If any of the teams above remain level after applying the above criteria, their ranking will be

determined by the drawing of lots

4.

The knockout stage is a single-elimination tournament in which teams play each other in one-offmatches, with extra time and penalty shootouts used to decide the winner if necessary. It beginswith the round of 16 (or the second round) in which the winner of each group plays against therunner-up of another group. This is followed by the quarter-finals, the semi-finals, the third-place

match (contested by the losing semi-finalists), and the final.[39]

Hosts

Selection process

Early World Cups were given to countries at meetings of FIFA's congress. The locations werecontroversial because South America and Europe were by far the two centres of strength in footballand 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.[44] The next two World Cupswere both held in Europe. The decision to hold the second of these in France was disputed, as theSouth American countries understood that the location would alternate between the two continents.

Both Argentina and Uruguay thus boycotted the 1938 FIFA World Cup.[45]

Since the 1958 FIFA World Cup, to avoid future boycotts or controversy, FIFA began a pattern ofalternating the hosts between the Americas and Europe, which continued until the 1998 FIFA WorldCup. The 2002 FIFA World Cup, hosted jointly by South Korea and Japan, was the first one held in

Asia, and the only tournament with multiple hosts.[46] South Africa became the first African nation tohost the World Cup in 2010. The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be hosted by Brazil, the first held in

South America since 1978,[47] and will be the first occasion where consecutive World Cups are heldoutside Europe.

The host country is now chosen in a vote by FIFA's Executive Committee. This is done under anexhaustive ballot system. The national football association of a country desiring to host the eventreceives a "Hosting Agreement" from FIFA, which explains the steps and requirements that are

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expected from a strong bid. The bidding association also receives a form, the submission of whichrepresents the official confirmation of the candidacy. After this, a FIFA designated group ofinspectors visit the country to identify that the country meets the requirements needed to host theevent and a report on the country is produced. The decision on who will host the World Cup isusually made six or seven years in advance of the tournament. However, there have been occasionswhere the hosts of multiple future tournaments were announced at the same time, as was the casefor the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, which were awarded to Russia and Qatar respectively.

For the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, the final tournament is rotated between confederations,allowing only countries from the chosen confederation (Africa in 2010, South America in 2014) tobid to host the tournament. The rotation policy was introduced after the controversy surroundingGermany's victory over South Africa in the vote to host the 2006 tournament. However, the policy ofcontinental rotation will not continue beyond 2014, so any country, except those belonging toconfederations that hosted the two preceding tournaments, can apply as hosts for World Cups

starting from 2018.[48] This is partly to avoid a similar scenario to the bidding process for the 2014tournament, where Brazil was the only official bidder.

Performances

Six of the eight champions have won one of their titles while playing in their own homeland, theexceptions being Brazil, who finished as runners-up after losing the deciding match on home soil in1950, and Spain, which reached the second round on home soil in 1982. England (1966) and France(1998) won their only titles while playing as host nations. Uruguay (1930), Italy (1934) andArgentina (1978) won their first titles as host nations but have gone on to win again, while Germany(1974) won their second title on home soil.

Other nations have also been successful when hosting the tournament. Sweden (runners-up in1958), Chile (third place in 1962), Korea Republic (fourth place in 2002), and Mexico (quarter-finalsin 1970 and 1986) all have their best results when serving as hosts. So far, South Africa (2010) wasthe only host nation to fail to advance beyond the first round.

Organisation and media coverage

The World Cup was first televised in 1954 and is now the most widely viewed and followed sportingevent in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games. The cumulative audience of all matches of

the 2006 World Cup is estimated to be 26.29 billion.[1] 715.1 million individuals watched the finalmatch of this tournament (a ninth of the entire population of the planet). The 2006 World Cup draw,

which decided the distribution of teams into groups, was watched by 300 million viewers.[49] TheWorld Cup attracts many sponsors such as Coca-Cola, McDonalds and Adidas. For these companiesand many more, spending the money to be a sport sponsorship at the World Cup strongly impactstheir global brands. As a host country, they can foresee a multi-million dollar revenue increase withjust this month long event. It is predicted that Brazil is expecting to bring in more than $11 billion inrevenue for the 2014 World Cup.

Each FIFA World Cup since 1966 has its own mascot or logo. World Cup Willie, the mascot for the

1966 competition, was the first World Cup mascot.[50] Recent World Cups have also featured officialmatch balls specially designed for each World Cup.

Attendance

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Year & host Total attendance # matches Avg attendance

1930 590,549 18 32,808

1934 363,000 17 21,353

1938 375,700 18 20,872

1950 1,045,246 22 47,511

1954 768,607 26 29,562

1958 819,810 35 23,423

1962 893,172 32 27,912

1966 1,563,135 32 48,848

1970 1,603,975 32 50,124

1974 1,865,753 38 49,099

1978 1,545,791 38 40,679

1982 2,109,723 52 40,572

1986 2,394,031 52 46,039

1990 2,516,215 52 48,389

1994 3,587,538 52 68,991

1998 2,785,100 64 43,517

2002 2,705,197 64 42,269

2006 3,359,439 64 52,491

2010 3,178,856 64 49,670

Source:[51]

Results

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Year Host Winner Score Runner-upThirdplace

ScoreFourthplace

Numberof

teams

1930Details

UruguayUruguay

4–2Argentina

UnitedStates

[note 1]Yugoslavia

13

1934Details

ItalyItaly

2–1(aet) Czechoslovakia Germany

3–2Austria

16

1938Details

FranceItaly

4–2Hungary Brazil

4–2Sweden

16/15

[note 2]

1950Details

BrazilUruguay

[note 3]Brazil Sweden

[note 3]Spain

16/13

[note 4]

1954Details Switzerland

WestGermany

3–2Hungary Austria

3–1Uruguay

16

1958Details

SwedenBrazil

5–2Sweden France

6–3 WestGermany

16

1962Details

ChileBrazil

3–1Czechoslovakia Chile

1–0Yugoslavia

16

1966Details

EnglandEngland

4–2(aet) West Germany Portugal

2–1 SovietUnion

16

1970Details

MexicoBrazil

4–1Italy

WestGermany

1–0Uruguay

16

1974Details

WestGermany West

Germany2–1

Netherlands Poland1–0

Brazil16

1978Details Argentina Argentina

3–1(aet) Netherlands Brazil

2–1Italy

16

1982Details

SpainItaly

3–1West Germany Poland

3–2France

24

1986Details

MexicoArgentina

3–2West Germany France

4–2(aet) Belgium

24

1990Details

Italy WestGermany

1–0Argentina Italy

2–1England

24

1994Details

UnitedStates Brazil

0–0(3–2p) Italy Sweden

4–0Bulgaria

24

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1998Details

FranceFrance

3–0Brazil Croatia

2–1Netherlands

32

2002Details

SouthKorea

& Japan Brazil2–0

Germany Turkey3–2

South Korea32

2006Details

GermanyItaly

1–1(5–3p) France Germany

3–1Portugal

32

2010Details

SouthAfrica Spain

1–0(aet) Netherlands Germany

3–2Uruguay

32

aet: after extra time

p: after penalty shoot-out

Notes

^ There was no official World Cup Third Place match in 1930; The United States and Yugoslavia lost in the

semi-finals. FIFA now recognises the United States as the third-placed team and Yugoslavia as the fourth-

placed team, using the overall records of the teams in the tournament.[52]

1.

^ Austria withdrew after the draw as a result of the Anschluss with Germany: some Austrian players

subsequently joined the German squad, leaving the tournament with 15 teams.

2.

^ a b There was no official World Cup final match in 1950.[53] The tournament winner was decided by a

final round-robin group contested by four teams (Uruguay, Brazil, Sweden, and Spain). Coincidentally, one

of the last two matches of the tournament pitted the two top ranked teams against each other, with

Uruguay's 2–1 victory over Brazil thus often being considered as the de facto final of the 1950 World

Cup.[54] Likewise, the game between the lowest ranked teams, played at the same time as Uruguay vs

Brazil, can be considered equal to a Third Place match, with Sweden's 3–1 victory over Spain ensuring

that they finished third.

3.

^ Only 13 teams played the 1950 FIFA World Cup.[55] 16 teams entered the seeding groups draw.

However, Turkey and Scotland both withdrew before the draw; France (eliminated in qualifying) was

invited as a replacement, leaving the tournament to be held with 15 teams. After the draw, India and

France both withdrew, so only 13 teams participated in the tournament.

4.

In all, 76 nations have played in at least one World Cup.[56] Of these, eight national teams have wonthe World Cup, and they have added stars to their badges, with each star representing a World Cupvictory. (Uruguay, however, choose to display four stars on their badge, representing their two goldmedals at the 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympics and their two World Cup titles in 1930 and 1950.)

With five titles, Brazil are the most successful World Cup team and also the only nation to have

played in every World Cup (19) to date,[57] and they will host the 20th in 2014. Italy (1934 and 1938)and Brazil (1958 and 1962) are the only nations to have won consecutive titles. West Germany(1982–1990) and Brazil (1994–2002) are the only nations to appear in three consecutive World Cupfinals. Germany have made the most top-four finishes, with twelve, while sharing the record of mosttop-two finishes with Brazil, with seven.

Teams reaching the top four

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Team Titles Runners-up Third placeFourthplace

Top 4finishes

Brazil5 (1958, 1962,1970, 1994, 2002)

2 (1950*, 1998) 2 (1938, 1978) 1 (1974) 10

Italy4 (1934*, 1938,1982, 2006)

2 (1970, 1994) 1 (1990*) 1 (1978) 8

Germany^3 (1954, 1974*,1990)

4 (1966, 1982,1986, 2002)

4 (1934, 1970,2006*, 2010)

1 (1958) 12

Argentina 2 (1978*, 1986) 2 (1930, 1990) — — 4

Uruguay 2 (1930*, 1950) — —3 (1954,1970, 2010)

5

France 1 (1998*) 1 (2006) 2 (1958, 1986) 1 (1982) 5

England 1 (1966*) — — 1 (1990) 2

Spain 1 (2010) — — 1 (1950) 2

Netherlands —3 (1974, 1978,2010)

— 1 (1998) 4

Czechoslovakia# — 2 (1934, 1962) — — 2

Hungary — 2 (1938, 1954) — — 2

Sweden — 1 (1958*) 2 (1950, 1994) 1 (1938) 4

Poland — — 2 (1974, 1982) — 2

Austria — — 1 (1954) 1 (1934) 2

Portugal — — 1 (1966) 1 (2006) 2

United States — — 1 (1930) — 1

Chile — — 1 (1962*) — 1

Croatia — — 1 (1998) — 1

Turkey — — 1 (2002) — 1

Yugoslavia# — — —2 (1930,1962)

2

Soviet Union# — — — 1 (1966) 1

Belgium — — — 1 (1986) 1

Bulgaria — — — 1 (1994) 1

South Korea — — — 1 (2002*) 1

* = hosts

^ = includes results representing West Germany between 1954 and 1990# = states that have since split into two or more independent nations[56]

Best performances by continental zones

To date, the final of the World Cup has only been contested by European and South American teams.European nations have won ten titles; South American teams have won nine. Only two teams fromoutside these two continents have ever reached the semi-finals of the competition: USA (North,Central America and Caribbean) in 1930 and South Korea (Asia) who reached the semis in 2002. The

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best result of an African team is reaching the quarter-finals: Cameroon in 1990, Senegal in 2002 and

Ghana in 2010. Only one Oceanian qualifier, Australia in 2006, has advanced to the second round.[58]

Brazil, Argentina, and Spain are the only teams to win a World Cup outside their continentalconfederation; Brazil came out victorious in Europe (1958), North America (1970 and 1994) and Asia(2002), Argentina won a North American World Cup in 1986, while Spain won the only African WorldCup in 2010. Only on three occasions have consecutive World Cups been won by teams from thesame continent – Italy and Brazil successfully defended their titles in 1938 and 1962 respectively,while Spain's 2010 triumph followed Italy's in 2006.

Awards

At the end of each World Cup, awards are presented to the players and teams for accomplishments

other than their final team positions in the tournament. There are currently six awards:[59]

The Golden Ball for the best player, determined by a vote of media members (first awarded in

1982); the Silver Ball and the Bronze Ball are awarded to the players finishing second and third

in the voting respectively;[60]

The Golden Boot (sometimes called the Golden Shoe) for the top goalscorer (first awarded in

1982, but retrospectively applied to all tournaments from 1930); most recently, the Silver Boot

and the Bronze Boot have been awarded to the second and third top goalscorers

respectively;[61]

The Golden Glove Award (formerly the Yashin Award) for the best goalkeeper, decided by the

FIFA Technical Study Group (first awarded in 1994);[62]

The Best Young Player Award for the best player aged 21 or younger at the start of the calendar

year, decided by the FIFA Technical Study Group (first awarded in 2006).[63]

The FIFA Fair Play Trophy for the team with the best record of fair play, according to the points

system and criteria established by the FIFA Fair Play Committee (first awarded in 1978);[63]

The Most Entertaining Team for the team that has entertained the public the most during the

World Cup, determined by a poll of the general public (first awarded in 1994);[63]

An All-Star Team consisting of the best players of the tournament has also been announced for eachtournament since 1998.

Records and statistics

Two players share the record for playing in the most World Cups; Mexico's Antonio Carbajal

(1950–1966) and Germany's Lothar Matthäus (1982–1998) both played in five tournaments.[64]

Matthäus has played the most World Cup matches overall, with 25 appearances.[65] West Germany'sFranz Beckenbauer (1966–1974) is the only player to be named to three Finals All-Star Teams.

In November 2007, FIFA announced that all members of World Cup-winning squads between 1930

and 1974 were to be retroactively awarded winners' medals.[33] This made Brazil's Pelé the onlyplayer to have won three World Cup winners' medals (1958, 1962, and 1970, although he did not

play in the 1962 final due to injury),[66] with 20 other players who have won two winners' medals.Six players have collected all three types of World Cup medals (winners', runner- ups', and third-place); five players were from West Germany's squad of 1966–1974 including Franz Beckenbauer,and the most recent has been Italy's Franco Baresi (1982, 1990, 1994).

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The overall top goalscorer in World Cups is Brazil's Ronaldo, scorer of 15 goals (1998–2006).Germany's Miroslav Klose (2002–2010) and West Germany's Gerd Müller (1970–1974) are second,

with 14 goals.[67] The fourth placed goalscorer, France's Just Fontaine, holds the record for the most

goals scored in a single World Cup; all his 13 goals were scored in the 1958 tournament.[68]

Brazil's Mário Zagallo and West Germany's Franz Beckenbauer are the only people to date to winthe World Cup as both player and head coach. Zagallo won in 1958 and 1962 as a player and in 1970

as head coach.[69] Beckenbauer won in 1974 as captain and in 1990 as head coach.[70] Italy's

Vittorio Pozzo is the only head coach to ever win two World Cups (1934 and 1938).[71] All World Cupwinning head coaches were natives of the country they coached to victory.

Among the national teams, Germany have played the most World Cup matches, with 99,[72] while

Brazil have scored the most World Cup goals, with 210.[73] The two teams have played each otheronly once in the World Cup, in the 2002 final.

See also

FIFA U-20 World Cup

FIFA U-17 World Cup

FIFA Club World Cup

FIFA Women's World Cup

FIFA World Cup All-Time Team

FIFA World Cup Dream Team

FIFA World Cup official songs

List of world cups and world championships

National team appearances in the FIFA World Cup

1980 Mundialito, a tournament held in Uruguay to celebrate the 50-year anniversary of the

World Cup

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^ Stephen Dobson and John Goddard, The Economics of Football (http://books.google.co.uk

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most widely viewed sporting event in the world: the estimated cumulative television audience for the 2006

World Cup in Germany was 26.2 billion, an average of 409 million viewers per match."

3.

^ Glenn M. Wong, The Comprehensive Guide to Careers in Sports (http://books.google.co.uk

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most-watched sporting event in the world. In 2006, more than 30 billion viewers in 214 countries watched

the World Cup on television, and more than 3.3 million spectators attended the 64 matches of the

tournament."

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Bibliography

Glanville, Brian (2005). The Story of the World Cup. Faber. p. 44. ISBN 0-571-22944-1.

External links

FIFA World Cup official site (http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/index.html)

Previous FIFA World Cups (http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/index.html)

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