The world's first international football match was a challenge match played in Glasgow in 1872 between Scotland and England. Main article: History of the FIFA World Cup Previous international competitions The 2026 tournament will be jointly hosted by Canada, the United States and Mexico, which will give Mexico the distinction of being the first country to host games in three World Cups. Seventeen countries have hosted the World Cup, most recently Qatar, who hosted the 2022 event.
The viewership of the 2018 World Cup was estimated to be 3.57 billion, close to half of the global population, while the engagement with the 2022 World Cup was estimated to be 5 billion, with about 1.5 billion people watching the final match. The World Cup is the most prestigious association football tournament in the world, as well as the most widely viewed and followed single sporting event in the world. The other World Cup winners are Germany and Italy, with four titles each Argentina, with three titles France and inaugural winner Uruguay, each with two titles and England and Spain, with one title each. Brazil, with five wins, are the only team to have played in every tournament. The trophy has been won by eight national teams. The next FIFA World Cup is scheduled to expand to 48 teams for the 2026 tournament.Īs of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, 22 final tournaments have been held since the event's inception in 1930, and a total of 80 national teams have competed. The host nation(s) automatically qualify for the group stage of the tournament. In the tournament phase, 32 teams compete for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over the course of about a month.
The contest starts with the qualification phase, which takes place over the preceding three years to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase. The reigning champions are Argentina, who won their third title at the 2022 tournament. The tournament has been held every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, with the exception of 19 due to the Second World War. The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition between the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association ( FIFA), the sport's global governing body.
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