FIFA World Cup/import

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| Founded
| 1930
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| Region
| International (FIFA)
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| Number of Teams
| 32
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| Current Champions
| (1st title)
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| Most Successful
| (5 titles)
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The FIFA World Cup (also called the Football World Cup, the Soccer World Cup, or simply the World Cup) is an international football competition contested by members of the International Federation of Association Football, better known as FIFA. It has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was canceled due to the Second World War.
==Format==
The current format of the tournament involves 32 teams competing for the title. A qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, is used to determine which teams qualify for the tournament. The hosts of the tournament qualify automatically.
For the final tournament the qualified 32 teams are split into eight groups, this is known as the Group Stage. Points are used to rank the teams within a group. Since 1994, three points have been awarded for a win, one for a draw and none for a loss. Each group plays a round-robin tournament, in which each team is scheduled for three matches against other teams in the same group. The last round of matches of each group is scheduled at the same time to preserve fairness among all four teams. The top two teams from each group advance to the knockout stage. The knockout stage is a single-elimination tournament in which teams play each other in one-off matches, with extra time and penalty shootouts used to decide the winner if necessary. The table below shows how the knockout stage works.
==Trophy==
The World Cup is a gold trophy that is awarded to the winners of the FIFA World Cup. Since the advent of the World Cup in 1930, two trophies have represented victory. The Jules Rimet Trophy from 1930 to 1970, and the FIFA World Cup Trophy from 1974 to the present day.
Below is a table containing all eight winners of the World Cup and awarded trophies.
Country 	Jules Rimet Trophy	FIFA World Cup	Total
Brazil 	3 	2 	5
Italy 	2 	2 	4
Germany 	1 	2 	3
Uruguay 	2 	0 	2
Argentina	0 	2 	2
England 	1 	0 	1
Spain 	0 	1 	1
France 	0 	1 	1
Total 	9 	10 	19
==Results==
Year	Host	Winners 	Runners-up
1930	 	(1st title)	
1934	 	(1st title)	
1938	 	(2nd title)	
1950	 	(2nd title)	
1954	 	(1st title)	
1958	 	(1st title)	
1962	 	(2nd title)	
1966	 	(1st title)	
1970	 	(3rd title)	
1974	 	(2nd title)	
1978	 	(1st title)	
1982	 	(3rd title)	
1986	 	(2nd title)	
1990	 	(3rd title)	
1994	 	(4th title)	
1998	 	(1st title)	
2002	SK &	(5th title)	
2006	 	(4th title)	
2010	 	(1st title)	
2014	 	TBD 	TBD
2018	 	TBD 	TBD
2022	 	TBD 	TBD
==Golden Ball==
The Golden Ball award is presented to the best player of each World Cup. Those who finish as runners-up in the vote receive the Silver Ball and Bronze Ball awards as the second and third most outstanding players in the tournament respectively.
World Cup 	Golden Ball 	Silver Ball 	Bronze Ball
1930 Uruguay 	José Nasazzi 	Guillermo Stábile	José Andrade
1934 Italy 	Giuseppe Meazza 	Matthias Sindelar	Oldřich Nejedlý
1938 France 	Leônidas 	Silvio Piola 	György Sárosi
1950 Brazil 	Zizinho 	Juan Schiaffino 	Ademir
1954 Switzerland 	Ferenc Puskás 	Sándor Kocsis 	Fritz Walter
1958 Sweden 	Didi 	Pelé 	Just Fontaine
1962 Chile 	Garrincha 	Josef Masopust 	Leonel Sánchez
1966 England 	Bobby Charlton 	Bobby Moore 	Eusébio
1970 Mexico 	Pelé 	Gérson 	Gerd Muller
1974 West Germany 	Johan Cruijff 	Franz Beckenbauer	Kazimierz Deyna
1978 Argentina 	Mario Kempes 	Paolo Rossi 	Dirceu
1982 Spain 	Paolo Rossi 	Falcão 	Karl Rummenigge
1986 Mexico 	Diego Maradona 	Harald Schumacher	Preben Elkjær
1990 Italy 	Salvatore Schillaci	Lothar Matthäus 	Diego Maradona
1994 United States	Romário 	Roberto Baggio 	Hristo Stoichkov
1998 France 	Ronaldo 	Davor Šuker 	Lilian Thuram
2002 Korea/Japan 	Oliver Kahn 	Ronaldo 	Hong Myung-Bo
2006 Germany 	Zinedine Zidane 	Fabio Cannavaro 	Andrea Pirlo
2010 South Africa 	Diego Forlán 	Wesley Sneijder 	David Villa
2014 Brazil 	TBD 	TBD 	TBD
2018 Russia 	TBD 	TBD 	TBD
2022 Qatar 	TBD 	TBD 	TBD
==Future World Cups==
===2018 FIFA World Cup===
The 2018 World Cup will be hosted by Russia and will be the first World Cup to take place in Eastern Europe.
===2022 FIFA World Cup===
The 2022 World Cup will be hosted by Qatar and will be the first World Cup to take place in the Middle East.
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