Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific

Research

College of Physical Education

FIFA World Cup

Prepare
d by:
Dyar Aziz
Ahmed

Supervised by :

Saman
Nasradin Salh
 2023-2024

Contents

 Introduction

 Qualification

 Final tournament

 Selection process

 world cup winners list

 Results

 Resources
Introduction
World Cup, in football (soccer), quadrennial tournament of men’s national teams that
determines the sport’s world champion. It is likely the most popular sporting event in
the world, drawing billions of television viewers every tournament.
Countries worldwide compete vigorously, many years in advance, to host the lucrative
event, and accusations of bribery connected to the awarding of hosting rights have long
shadowed the tournament. In fact, the 2015 FIFA corruption scandal implicated more
than two dozen FIFA officials and their associates in a 24-year self-enrichment scheme
that reached the highest levels of FIFA management. The equivalent tournament for
women’s national football teams is the Women’s World Cup.

The first competition for the cup was organized in 1930 by the Fédération
Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and was won by Uruguay. Held every
four years since that time, except during World War II, the competition consists of
international sectional tournaments leading to a final elimination event made up of 32
national teams. Unlike Olympic football, World Cup teams are not limited to players of
a certain age or amateur status, so the competition serves more nearly as a contest
between the world’s best players. Referees are selected from lists that are submitted by
all the national associations.
The trophy cup awarded from 1930 to 1970 was the Jules Rimet Trophy, named for the
Frenchman who proposed the tournament. This cup was permanently awarded in 1970
to then three-time winner Brazil (1958, 1962, and 1970), and a new trophy called
the FIFA World Cup was put up for competition. Many other sports have organized
“World Cup” competitions.
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Qualification

Since the second World Cup in 1934, qualifying tournaments have been held to thin the
field for the final tournament. They are held within the six FIFA continental zones
(Africa, Asia, North and Central America and Caribbean, South America, Oceania,
and Europe), overseen by their respective confederations. For each tournament, FIFA
decides the number of places awarded to each of the continental zones beforehand,
generally based on the relative strength of the confederations' teams.

The qualification process can start as early as almost three years before the final
tournament and last over a two-year period. The formats of the qualification
tournaments differ between confederations. Usually, one or two places are awarded to
winners of intercontinental play-offs. For example, the winner of the Oceanian zone and
the fifth-placed team from the Asian zone entered a play-off for a spot in the 2010
World Cup. From the 1938 World Cup onwards, host nations receive automatic
qualification to the final tournament. This right was also granted to the defending
champions between 1938 and 2002, but was withdrawn from the 2006 FIFA World
Cup onward, requiring the champions to qualify. Brazil, winners in 2002, were the first
defending champions to play qualifying matches.

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Final tournament
For the various formats used in previous tournaments, see History of the FIFA World
Cup § Evolution of the format.
The final tournament format since 1998 has had 32 national teams competing over the
course of a month in the host nations. There are two stages: the group stage, followed
by the knockout stage.

In the group stage, teams compete within eight groups of four teams each. Eight teams
are seeded, including the hosts, with the other seeded teams selected using a formula
based on the FIFA World Rankings or performances in recent World Cups, and drawn to
separate groups. The other teams are assigned to different "pots", usually based on
geographical criteria, and teams in each pot are drawn at random to the eight groups.
Since 1998, constraints have been applied to the draw to ensure that no group contains
more than two European teams or more than one team from any other confederation.
Each group plays a round-robin tournament in which each team is scheduled for three
matches against other teams in the same group. This means that a total of six matches
are played within a 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. 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 (before, winners received two points).
Considering six matches in a group each with three possible outcomes (win, draw, loss),
there are 729 (= 36) possible final table outcomes for the 40 possible combinations of
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the four teams' points. However, 14 of the 40 points combinations (or 207 of the 729
possible outcomes) lead to ties between the second and third places. In such case, the
ranking among these teams is determined by:
1. Greatest combined goal difference in all group matches
2. Greatest combined number of goals scored in all group matches
3. If more than one team remain level after applying the above criteria, their ranking
will be determined as follows:
A. Greatest number of points in head-to-head matches among those teams
B. Greatest goal difference in head-to-head matches among those teams
C. Greatest number of goals scored in head-to-head matches among those
teams
D. Fair play points, defined by the number of yellow and red cards
received in the group stage:
I. Yellow card: minus 1 point
II. Indirect red card (as a result of a second yellow card): minus 3
points
III. Direct red card: minus 4 points
IV. Yellow card and direct red card: minus 5 points
4. If any of the teams above remain level after applying the above criteria, their
ranking will be determined by the drawing of lots
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. It begins with the round of 16 (or the second round) in which the winner of
each group plays against the runner-up of another group. This is followed by the
quarter-finals, the semi-finals, the third-place match (contested by the losing semi-
finalists), and the final.
On 10 January 2017, FIFA approved a new format, the 48-team World Cup (to
accommodate more teams), which was to consist of 16 groups of three teams each, with
two teams qualifying from each group, to form a round of 32 knockout stage, to be
implemented by 2026. On 14 March 2023, FIFA approved a revised format of the 2026
tournament, which features 12 groups of four teams each, with the top 8 third-placed
teams joining the group winners and runners-up in a new round of 32.

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Selection process

Early World Cups were given to countries at meetings of FIFA's congress. The locations
were controversial because South America and Europe were by far the two centres of
strength in football and travel between them required three weeks by boat. The decision
to hold the first World Cup in Uruguay, for example, led to only four European nations
competing. The next two World Cups were both held in Europe. The decision to hold
the second of these in France was disputed, as the South American countries understood
that the location would alternate between the two continents. Both Argentina and
Uruguay thus boycotted the 1938 FIFA World Cup.

Since the 1958 FIFA World Cup, to avoid future boycotts or controversy, FIFA began a
pattern of alternating the hosts between the Americas and Europe, which continued until
the 1998 FIFA World Cup. The 2002 FIFA World Cup, hosted jointly by South Korea
and Japan, was the first one held in Asia, and the first tournament with multiple hosts.
South Africa became the first African nation to host the World Cup in 2010. The 2014
FIFA World Cup was hosted by Brazil, the first held in South America since Argentina
1978, and was the first occasion where consecutive World Cups were held outside
Europe.
The host country is now chosen in a vote by FIFA's Council. This is done under
an exhaustive ballot system. The national football association of a country desiring to
host the event receives a "Hosting Agreement" from FIFA, which explains the steps and
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requirements that are expected from a strong bid. The bidding association also receives
a form, the submission of which represents the official confirmation of the candidacy.
After this, a FIFA designated group of inspectors visit the country to identify that the
country meets the requirements needed to host the event and a report on the country is
produced. The decision on who will host the World Cup is usually made six or seven
years in advance of the tournament. There have been occasions where the hosts of
multiple future tournaments were announced at the same time, as was the case for
the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, which were awarded to Russia and Qatar, with Qatar
becoming the first Middle Eastern country to host the tournament.
For the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, the final tournament was rotated between
confederations, allowing only countries from the chosen confederation (Africa in 2010,
South America in 2014) to bid to host the tournament. The rotation policy was
introduced after the controversy surrounding Germany's victory over South Africa in
the vote to host the 2006 tournament. However, the policy of continental rotation did
not continue beyond 2014, so any country, except those belonging to confederations
that hosted the two preceding tournaments, can apply as hosts for World Cups starting
from 2018. This is partly to avoid a similar scenario to the bidding process for the 2014
tournament, where Brazil was the only official bidder.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup was chosen to be held in the United States, Canada and
Mexico, marking the first time a World Cup has been shared by three host nations. The
2026 tournament will be the biggest World Cup ever held, with 48 teams playing 104
matches. Sixty matches will take place in the US, including all matches from the
quarter-finals onward, while Canada and Mexico will host 10 games each.

world cup winners list

Hosts Winner Score

2026 Nth America

2022 Qatar Argentin 3-3, then Argentina defeated France 4-2 in

2018 Russia France France 4-2 Croatia

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2014 Brazil Germany Germany 1-0 Argentina

2010 South Africa Spain Spain 1-0 Netherlands

2006 Germany Italy 1-1, then Italy beat France 5-3 in penalties

2002 Korea & Japan Brazil Brazil 2-0 Germany

1998 France France France 3-0 Brazil

1994 USA Brazil 0-0, then Brazil defeated Italy 3-2 in penalties

1990 Italy Germany Germany 1-0 Argentina

1986 Mexico Argentin Argentina 3-2 Germany

1982 Spain Italy Italy 3-1 Germany

1978 Argentina Argentin Argentina 3-1 Holland

1974 Germany Germany Germany 2-1 Holland

1970 Mexico Brazil Brazil 4-1 Italy

1966 England England England 4-2 Germany

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1962 Chile Brazil Brazil 3-1 Czechoslovakia

1958 Sweden Brazil Brazil 5-2 Sweden

1954 Switzerland Germany Germany 3-2 Hungary

1950 Brazil Uruguay Uruguay 2-1 Brazil

1946 not held

1942 not held

1938 France Italy Italy 4-2 Hungary

1934 Italy Italy Italy 2-1 Czechoslovakia

1930 Uruguay Uruguay Uruguay 4-2 Argentina

Results

1- FIFA World Cup is the biggest soccer event for national teams.

2- Sport is also one of the things that world war affected it.

3- FIFA World Cup is more that a sport, because it causes seeing millions of people
around the world in one place together.

4- FIFA World Cup is intercontinental.

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Resources

1. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ronaldo

2. https://www.topendsports.com/events/worldcupsoccer/winners.htm

3. https://www.living2022.com/news/qualifiers-how-it-works/

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=eiM_9Tu9w0c

5. https://me.mashable.com/entertainment/22176/how-to-watch-the-2022-world-

cup-opening-ceremony