HISTORY OF FIFA WORLD CUP
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FIFA World Cup
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Founded
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1930
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Number of teams
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32 (finals)
204 (qualifiers for 2010) |
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Most successful team(s)
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Tournaments
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The FIFA World Cup, often
simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition
contested by the senior men's national teams of the
members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded
every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942
and 1946 when it was not held because of 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 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation(s)
over a period of about a month; this phase is often called the World Cup
Finals. A qualification
phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, is used to
determine which teams qualify for the tournament together with the host
nation(s).
The 19 World Cup tournaments have
been won by eight different national teams. Brazil have won five
times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. The other
World Cup winners are Italy, with four
titles; West Germany, with three titles;Argentina and inaugural winners Uruguay, with two titles each; and England, France, and Spain, with one title
each.
The World Cup is among the world's
most widely viewed sporting events; an estimated 715.1 million people watched
the final
match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup held in Germany.[1]
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