Meker World Cup

The Meker World Cup, sometimes refered as Meker World Cup or MWC, is an is an international association artian competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the 'Fédération Internationale de Mechér Association' (FIMA), the sport's global governing body. Due to the game's fast nature, the championship has been awarded every year since the inaugural tournament in 1979.
==Before the Cup==
Meker was invented in the early 1960s in Leeds, England, by Jonathan Meker, since then, the sport started gaining lots of attention from the local press, spreading to the entire country in just a couple of years, then, reaching the rest of europe and the united states by the late 1960s and achieving worldwide fame by the mid 1970s. Due to the simple nature of the game, the budget for a game is much lower, it requires small stadiums and teams of 4 people on each side. With that in mind, the concept of a Meker World Cup started being considered in 1975, and due to the fast nature of the game, lasting about 50 minutes per match, the then newly formed FIMA comitee decided to make the world cup every year, with the first edition being held in 1979 hosted in the country where the sport was created, England. 
==History==
===Editions===
Ed.	Year	Host(s)	Champion	Score 	Runner Up	3rd Place	Score	4th Place	No. ofTeams
1 	1979	 	 	3 - 2 	 	 	2 - 0	 	10
2 	1980	 	 	2 - 1 	 	 	4 - 2	 	12
3 	1981	 	 	3 - 1 	 	 	2 - 0	 	16
4 	1982	 	 	3 - 0 	 	 	4 - 3	 	16
5 	1983	 	 	3 - 2 	 	 	2 - 1	 	24
6 	1984	 	 	1 - 0 	 	 	2 - 1	 	24
7 	1985	 	 	2 - 0 	 	 	4 - 0	 	24
8 	1987	 	 	4 - 2 	 	 	2 - 0	 	32
9 	1989	 	 	4 - 1 	 	 	5 - 2	 	32
10 	1991	 	 	3 - 1 	 	 	3 - 0	 	32
11 	1993	 	 	2S - 2	 	 	4 - 2	 	32
12 	1995	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	32
13 	1997	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	32
14 	1999	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	32
15 	2001	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	32
16 	2003	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	32
17 	2005	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	48
Teams performance
Team	Champion 	Runner Up 	3rd Place 	4th Place
 	3 (79, 83, 85)	1 (81) 	2 (80, 91)	-
 	2 (82, 89) 	2 (80, 83)	2 (79, 93)	2 (84, 87)
 	2 (91, 93) 	1 (82) 	2 (84, 89)	1 (83)
 	1 (80) 	1 (87, 93)	- 	1 (82)
 	1 (87) 	1 (84) 	2 (81, 83)	-
 	1 (84) 	1 (85) 	1 (82) 	-
 	1 (81) 	- 	- 	1 (80)
 	- 	1 (91) 	- 	-
 	- 	1 (89) 	- 	-
 	- 	1 (79) 	- 	-
 	- 	- 	1 (87) 	1 (81, 93)
 	- 	- 	1 (85) 	-
 	- 	- 	- 	1 (85)
 	- 	- 	- 	1 (89)
 	- 	- 	- 	1 (91)
 	- 	- 	- 	1 (79)
===Newcomers===
Year	Newcomers 	Ratio (x/y)	Cuml.
1979	, , , , (!) ,,, , , (!)	10/10 	10
1980	, , , , 	5/12 	15
1981	, , , , , , 	7/16 	22
1982	, , , , , 	6/16 	28
1983	, , (!), , , ,, , 	9/24 	37
1984	, , , 	4/24 	41
1985	, , , 	4/24 	44
1987	, , , , ,(!), , 	8/32 	52
1989	, , , , , 	6/32 	58
1991	, 	2/32 	60
1993	, , , , 	5/32 	65
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(!) = From 1993 to 2005, is credited as , and since 2006, credited as .
(!) = Since 1995, is credited as .
(!) = Since 1993, is credited as .