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Football World CupThe Football World Cup (official name: FIFA World Cup) is the most important competition in international football (soccer). Organised by Fdration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's governing body, the World Cup finals tournament is the most widely-viewed and followed sporting event in the world, more so than even the Olympic Games. The finals tournament is held every four years, but the World Cup competition itself takes place over a two-year period. Over 160 national teams compete in regional qualifying tournaments for a place in the finals. The finals tournament now involves 32 national teams (increased from 24 in 1998) competing over a 4-week period in a previously nominated host nation. A recent innovation has allowed more than one country to act as joint hosts. The next football World Cup will be held in Germany in 2006. History The World Cup was not the first international football competition. Amateur football became a part of the official Olympic programme for the first time in 1908 (See: Football at the 1908 Summer Olympics). In Turin in 1909, in what is sometimes described as The First World Cup, Sir Thomas Lipton organised a football tournament to contest the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy. Italy, Germany and Switzerland sent their most prestigious professional club sides to the competition but The Football Association of England refused to be associated with it and declined the offer to send a team. Not wishing to have Britain unrepresented in the competition, Lipton invited West Auckland FC, an amateur side from the north-east of England and mostly made up of coal miners, to take part. West Auckland won the tournament and returned to Italy in 1911 to defend their title. In the second competition West Auckland beat Juventus 6-1 in the final and were awarded the trophy outright. In 1927 the 1932 Summer Olympic Games were awarded to Los Angeles in the United States; a nation where there was little interest in the game of association football. The lack of interest and a disagreement between FIFA and the IOC over the status of amateur players led to football being dropped from the offical Olympic programme for the 1932 games. As a consequence, Jules Rimet, who had become president of FIFA in 1921, set about organising the inaugural World Cup tournament, to take place in Uruguay in 1930. The national associations of selected nations were invited to send a team but the choice of Uruguay as a venue for the competition meant a long and costly trip across the Atlantic for European sides and up until two months before the start of the competition no team from that continent had promised to send a team. Rimet eventually persueded teams representing Belgium, France, Romania, and Yugoslavia to make the trip. In total, thirteen nations took part - seven from South America, four from Europe and two from North America. Uruguay beat Argentina 4-2 in front of crowd of 93,000 in Montevideo to become the first nation to win the World Cup trophy. In 1946 the World Cup trophy (Coupe du Monde) was renamed the Jules Rimet trophy in his honour. In 1970, Brazil's third victory in the tournament entitled them to keep the original trophy and a new trophy was then designed. Argentina, Germany (both times as West Germany), and Brazil have all won the second trophy twice. However, the current trophy will not be retired until the name plaque has been entirely filled with the names of winning nations. This will not happen until 2038. Brazil, by a clear margin, is the most successful World Cup team overall, having won the tournament five times in total and finished as runners-up twice. Germany, three-time winners (as West Germany) and four-time runners-up (three times as West Germany), are next, while Italy have also won three trophies and two-time runners-up. Argentina and Uruguay are both two-time World Champions, although Uruguay's two successes came rather a long time ago, in the early years of the tournament. The next World Cup finals will be held in Germany, in 2006. As indicated below, the 2010 finals will be held in South Africa. The 2014 finals, which FIFA has earmarked for South America, is expected to be held in Brazil http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/2858989.stm as CONMEBOL has already backed it as their choice. Football World Cup tournaments 1 There was no official World Cup Third Place match in 1930.
Final standings: '1st: Uruguay; 2nd: Argentina; 3rd: USA; 4th:' Yugoslavia. 2 There was no official World Cup final match in 1950. The tournament was decided in a final group contested by four teams. However, Uruguay's 2-1 defeat of Brazil was the decisive match which put them ahead on points and ensured that they finished top of the group as world champions.
Final group standings: '1st: Uruguay; 2nd: Brazil; 3rd: Sweden; 4th:' Spain. World Cup winners ranking - 25px Brazil - 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002 (5 titles)
- 25px Germany - 1954, 1974, 1990 (3 titles)
25px Italy - 1934, 1938, 1982 (3 titles) - 25px Argentina - 1978, 1986 (2 titles)
25px Uruguay - 1930, 1950 (2 titles) - 25px England - 1966 (1 title)
25px France - 1998 (1 title) World Cup Awards At the end of each World Cup final tournament, several awards are attributed to the players and teams which have distinguished from the rest, in different aspects of the game. There are currently five awards: - the adidas Golden Boot for top goalscorer;
- the adidas Golden Ball for best player;
- the Yashin Award for best goalkeeper;
- the FIFA Fair Play Award for the team with the best record of fair play;
- the Most Entertaining Team award.
adidas Golden Boot - Top Goalscorers The adidas Golden Shoe is awarded to the top goalscorer of the World Cup final tournament. The award was introduced at the 1982 World Cup for the first time. | orld Cup | Top Goalscorer | Goals | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1930" title="Football World Cup 1930">1930 Uruguay | Guillermo Stbile (Argentina) | align=center|8 | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1934" title="Football World Cup 1934">1934 Italy | Edmund Conen (Germany)
Oldřich Nejedl (Czechoslovakia)
Angelo Schiavio (Italy) | align=center|4 | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1938" title="Football World Cup 1938">1938 France | Lenidas (Brazil) | align=center|8 | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1950" title="Football World Cup 1950">1950 Brazil | Ademir (Brazil) | align=center|9 | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1954" title="Football World Cup 1954">1954 Switzerland | Sndor Kocsis (Hungary) | align=center|11 | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1958" title="Football World Cup 1958">1958 Sweden | Just Fontaine (France) | align=center|13 | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1962" title="Football World Cup 1962">1962 Chile | Garrincha (Brazil)
Vav (Brazil)
Leonel Snchez (Chile)
Drazen Jerkovic (Yugoslavia)
Valentin Ivanov (Soviet Union)
Florian Albert (Hungary) | align=center|4 | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1966" title="Football World Cup 1966">1966 England | Eusbio (Portugal) | align=center|9 | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1970" title="Football World Cup 1970">1970 Mexico | Gerd Mller (West Germany) | align=center|10 | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1974" title="Football World Cup 1974">1974 West Germany | Grzegorz Lato (Poland) | align=center|7 | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1978" title="Football World Cup 1978">1978 Argentina | Mario Kempes (Argentina) | align=center|6 | | olspan=3|adidas Golden Boot winners | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1982" title="Football World Cup 1982">1982 Spain | Paolo Rossi (Italy) | align=center|6 | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1986" title="Football World Cup 1986">1986 Mexico | Gary Lineker (England) | align=center|6 | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1990" title="Football World Cup 1990">1990 Italy | Salvatore Schillaci (Italy) | align=center|6 | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1994" title="Football World Cup 1994">1994 USA | Hristo Stoitchkov (Bulgaria)
Oleg Salenko (Russia) | align=center|6 | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1998" title="Football World Cup 1998">1998 France | Davor Šuker (Croatia) | align=center|6 | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-2002" title="Football World Cup 2002">2002 Korea/Japan | Ronaldo (Brazil) | align=center|8 | adidas Golden Ball The adidas Golden Ball is an award attributed to the most outstanding player of the World Cup final tournament. FIFA announces a shortlist of ten nominees which is then voted by media representatives. The most voted player is elected to win the adidas Golden Ball, the second most voted player wins the adidas Silver Ball and the third most voted player wins the adidas Bronze Ball. Its awarding is shrouded by allegations of being influenced by diplomacy: the three awards have always been won by players from three different nations. Yashin Award The Yashin Award is attributed to the best goalkeeper of the World Cup final tournament. The award is named in honour of the late and legendary Russian goalkeeper, Lev Yashin. | orld Cup | Yashin Award winner | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1994" title="Football World Cup 1994">1994 USA | align=center|Michel Preud'homme (Belgium) | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1998" title="Football World Cup 1998">1998 France | align=center|Fabien Barthez (France) | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-2002" title="Football World Cup 2002">2002 Korea/Japan | align=center|Oliver Kahn (Germany) | FIFA Fair Play Award The FIFA Fair Play Award is given to the team with the best record of fair play during the World Cup final tournament. Only teams that qualified for the second round are considered. | orld Cup | FIFA Fair Play Award winners | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1978" title="Football World Cup 1978">1978 Argentina | align=center|Argentina | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1982" title="Football World Cup 1982">1982 Spain | align=center|Brazil | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1986" title="Football World Cup 1986">1986 Mexico | align=center|Brazil | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1990" title="Football World Cup 1990">1990 Italy | align=center|England | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1994" title="Football World Cup 1994">1994 USA | align=center|Brazil | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1998" title="Football World Cup 1998">1998 France | align=center|England
France | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-2002" title="Football World Cup 2002">2002 Korea/Japan | align=center|Belgium | Most Entertaining Team The Most Entertaining Team award is attributed to the team that has entertained the public the most, during the World Cup final tournament. It is always decided through public participation in a poll. | orld Cup | Most Entertaining Team | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1994" title="Football World Cup 1994">1994 USA | align=center|Brazil | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-1998" title="Football World Cup 1998">1998 France | align=center|France | | a href="/encyclopedia/Football-World-Cup-2002" title="Football World Cup 2002">2002 Korea/Japan | align=center|South Korea | Overall Top Goalscorers 14 Goals 13 Goals 12 Goals 11 Goals 10 Goals 9 Goals 8 Goals (1) There was controversy regarding how many goals Brazilian Ademir Menezes scored in 1950, because of incomplete data concerning the Final Round game Brazil vs. Spain (6:1). The first goal had been credited as an own goal by Spanish defender Parra, and the 5:0 goal had been credited to Jair. However, recently FIFA credited Ademir with both these goals; thus he's the 1950 World Cup striker with 9 goals. Fastest Goals | layer | Country | Time | World Cup | | a href="/encyclopedia/Hakan-Skr" title="Hakan Skr">Hakan Şkr | align=center| | align=center|11" | 2002 Korea/Japan | | a href="/encyclopedia/Vaclav-Masek" title="Vaclav Masek">Vclav Maek | align=center| | align=center|15" | 1962 Chile | | a href="/encyclopedia/Bryan-Robson" title="Bryan Robson">Bryan Robson | align=center| | align=center|27" | 1982 Spain | | a href="/encyclopedia/Bernard-Lacombe" title="Bernard Lacombe">Bernard Lacombe | align=center| | align=center|37" | 1978 Argentina | See also External Links
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