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The FIFA World Cup, generally referred to as just the World Cup, is an international organization football league contested by the adult men's national teams of FIFA members, the sport's worldwide governing institution.
France is the current champion of the tournament, having won the 2018 game in Russia for the second time. The current model includes qualifying matches that last three years and determines which teams will compete in the tournament phase.
The current final event, which has been held in the host countries since 1998, has 32 national teams playing over a month. The tournament is split into two phases: a group phase and a knockout phase.
Teams participate in eight groups of four teams during the group stage. Eight nations, including the host, are chosen using a method based on prior World Cup records and placed in different groups.
The knockout stage is a single-elimination competition that begins with the round of 16, in which the winners of each group face the runner-up from another group.
The quarter-finals, semi-finals, third-place match, and final stage all take place after that.
Since the first tournament in 1930, the championship has indeed been presented every four years, except for 1942 and 1946, when it was not conducted due to World War II.
The FIFA World Cup is the world's most prominent football competition, along with being the most broadly watched and followed single-sport event.
Qatar will hold the 2022 FIFA World Cup, while Canada, the United States, and Mexico will jointly host the 2026 World Cup, making Mexico the first nation to organize gameplay in three World Cups.
The FIFA Women's World Cup, a comparable competition for women's football, was first contested in China in 1991.
Except for Brazil, six winners have won one of the championships while competing in their very own country.
The FIFA Confederations Cup was a one-year pre-World Cup event hosted in the World Cup host nation as a warm-up for the forthcoming World Cup.
In 1982, the game broadened its structure to 24 teams, allowing 32 nations in 1998, further authorizing teams from Africa, Asia, and North America to contest.
On January 10, 2017, FIFA announced that the 2026 World Cup will now have 48 teams in its final.
Continue reading to learn more about the World Cup and its history.
If you enjoyed reading this, you must also look at other fun fact articles about the Brazil World Cup and World Cup 2018 facts.
The competition's 2022 edition would be the Northern Hemisphere's first-ever winter world cup.
Here at Kidadl, we have carefully created lots of interesting family-friendly facts for everyone to enjoy! If you liked our suggestions for 75 World Cup history facts that are quite astonishing then why not take a look at world cup facts, or fun facts about Brazil?
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Kidadl provides inspiration to entertain and educate your children. We recognise that not all activities and ideas are appropriate and suitable for all children and families or in all circumstances. Our recommended activities are based on age but these are a guide. We recommend that these ideas are used as inspiration, that ideas are undertaken with appropriate adult supervision, and that each adult uses their own discretion and knowledge of their children to consider the safety and suitability.
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