When was the FIFA World Cup founded?
1930World Cup / Founded
Who is FIFA owned by?
EA Sports FC (formerly known as FIFA Football or FIFA) is a series of association football video games developed and released annually by Electronic Arts under the EA Sports label. As of 2011, the FIFA franchise has been localised into 18 languages and available in 51 countries.
Who are the founding members of FIFA?
The founding members were the national associations of Belgium, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Spain (represented by then-Madrid Football Club; the Royal Spanish Football Federation was not created until 1913), Sweden and Switzerland.
Who is the CEO of FIFA?
Giovanni Vincenzo Infantino (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni vinˈtʃɛntso iɱfanˈtiːno]; born 23 March 1970) is a Swiss-Italian football administrator and the current president of FIFA. He was elected President of FIFA during the 2016 FIFA Extraordinary Congress in February 2016.
Who is FIFA president?
Gianni InfantinoFIFA / President
What FIFA logo means?
The FIFA logo is the FIFA wordmark written in huge bold capital letters topped with two hemispheres to symbolize the organization's round-the-world presence. The hemispheres depict the continents and feature a white pentagonal soccer ball pattern.
Who invented soccer?
That would mean the origins of the sport of soccer was invented by the Han Dynasty during the imperial dynasty of China over 2,200 years ago. Historians have claimed that the sport was played even before then as far back as 5,000 years ago. But based on historical evidence, it is the Han Dynasty.
What is the motto of FIFA?
For the Game. For the WorldFIFAFédération Internationale de Football AssociationMap of the members of FIFA according to their confederationAbbreviationFIFAMottoFor the Game. For the World.Founded21 May 190414 more rows
What is the World Cup?
The World Cup in football (soccer) is a quadrennial tournament of 32 national teams that is organized by the Fédération Internationale de Football...
Why is the World Cup every four years?
The World Cup happens every four years in order to have enough time for the qualification tournaments and playoffs among national teams to take pla...
How does qualifying for the World Cup work?
Qualifying for the World Cup is a long process during the years between each quadrennial tournament; each of the Fédération Internationale de Footb...
Where does World Cup prize money come from?
World Cup prize money comes from the earnings of the nonprofit Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). FIFA’s revenue is generate...
Who is the World Cup’s top scorer?
The World Cup all-time top scorer as of 2018 is Miroslav Klose of the German national football (soccer) team. He scored a total of 16 goals across...
Overview
International football before 1930
The first official international football match was played in 1872 in Glasgow between Scotland and England, although at this stage the sport was rarely played outside Great Britain.
At the end of the 19th century, games that were considered the "football world championship" were meetings between leading English and Scottish clubs, lik…
The beginnings of the World Cup
In 1930, FIFA made the decision to stage their own international tournament. The 1932 Summer Olympics, held in Los Angeles, did not plan to include football as part of the programme because the sport was not popular in the United States. FIFA and the IOC also disagreed over the status of amateur players, and so football was dropped from the Games. FIFA president Jules Rimet thus set abo…
1942 FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup was planned to take place in 1942. Germany officially applied to host the 1942 FIFA World Cup at the 23rd FIFA Congress on 13 August 1936 in Berlin. In June 1939, Brazil also applied to host the tournament. The beginning of European hostilities in September 1939 prompted further plans for the 1942 World Cup to be cancelled, before a host country was selected. The FIFA tournament did not take place.
Post-war years
Competitions resumed with the 1950 World Cup in Brazil, which was the first to include British participants. British teams withdrew 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 a foreign influence to football, but rejoined in 1946 following FIFA's invitation. England's involvement, however, was not to be a su…
Late 20th century
Spain hosted an expanded 1982 World Cup which featured 24 teams, the first expansion since 1934. The teams were divided into six groups of four, with the top two teams in each group advancing to the second round, where they split into four groups of three. The winners of each group advanced to the semi-finals. Cameroon, Algeria, Honduras, New Zealand and Kuwait were the debutant…
21st century
The 2002 World Cup was the first to be held in Asia, and was hosted jointly by South Korea and Japan. Togolese Souleymane Mamam became the youngest player ever to take to a World Cup preliminary game field at 13 years, 310 days in Lomé in May 2001. Australia defeated American Samoa 31–0 in a preliminary match – a new record for the margin of victory, and the highest-scoring match …
Evolution of the format
The number of teams and the format of each final tournament have varied considerably over the years. In most tournaments, the tournament consists of a round-robin group stage followed by a single-elimination knockout stage.
1. ^ Up to 1958, ranking ties in groups were to be broken via a playoff; this only happened in 1954 and 1958. Since 1962, all ties are broken by goal average or goal difference.