FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup, often just called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the older men’s national groups of those members of the F??d??ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport’s international governing body. The championship was awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it wasn’t held due to the Second World War. The current champion is France, which won its second title at the 2018 tournament in Russia.
The current format of the competition involves a eligibility period, which currently takes place within the previous three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament period, which is often called the World Cup Finals. After this, 32 teams, including the automatically qualifying host country (s), compete at the championship phase for the name at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month.
The 21 World Cup tournaments are won by eight national teams. Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to have played every tournament. The other World Cup winners are Germany and Italy, with four names each; Argentina, France and inaugural winner Uruguay, together with two names each; and England and Spain with one title each.
The World Cup is the most prestigious institution football tournament in the world, in addition to the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games; the cumulative viewership of all matches of the 2006 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 Earth. [1][2][3][4]
17 states have hosted the World Cup. Brazil, France, Italy, Germany and Mexico have each hosted twice, while Uruguay, Switzerland, Sweden, Chile, England, Argentina, Spain, the USA, Japan and South Korea (jointly), South Africa and Russia have each hosted formerly. Qatar are intended as hosts of the 2022 finals, and 2026 will be jointly hosted by Canada, the USA and Mexico, which will give Mexico the distinction of being the first nation to have hosted matches in three finals.
The world’s first global football game was a challenge game played Glasgow in 1872 between Scotland and England,[5] which ended in a 0–0 draw. The very first global tournament, the inaugural British Home Championship, took place in 1884. [6] As football grew in popularity in different areas of earth at the onset of the 20th century, it was held as a demonstration game with no medals awarded at the 1900 and 1904 Summer Olympics (however, the International Olympic Committee has retroactively upgraded their standing to official occasions ), and in the 1906 Intercalated Games. [7]
Following FIFA was founded in 1904, it tried to organize an international soccer tournament involving nations outside the Olympic frame in Switzerland in 1906. These were very early days for international soccer, and also the official history of FIFA describes the rivalry as having been a failure. [8]
In the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, football became an official competition. Planned by The Football Association (FA), England’s soccer governing body, the event was for amateur players simply and was considered suspiciously as a series as opposed to a contest. Fantastic Britain (represented by the England national amateur soccer team) won the gold awards. They repeated the feat at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.
Together with the Olympic event continuing to be contested between amateur teams, Sir Thomas Lipton organised the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy tournament in Turin in 1909. The Lipton championship was a championship between individual clubs (not national teams) from various countries, each of which represented an entire nation. The competition may be described as The First World Cup,[9] and featured the most prestigious professional club sides from Italy, Germany and Switzerland, but the FA of England refused to be associated with the competition and declined the offer to send a team. Lipton invited West Auckland, an amateur side from County Durham, to represent England instead. West Auckland won the tournament and returned 1911 to successfully defend their title.
Back in 1914, FIFA agreed to recognise the Olympic tournament as a”world soccer championship for amateurs”, and took responsibility for handling the occasion. [10] This paved the way for the world’s first intercontinental football competition, in the 1920 Summer Olympics, contested by Egypt and 13 European groups, also won by Belgium. [11] Uruguay won the following two Olympic soccer tournaments in 1924 and 1928. Those were the first two available world championships, as 1924 was the start of FIFA’s professional age.

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