The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which won the right to host the event in July 2000. Teams representing 198 national football associations from all six populated continents participated in the qualification process which began in September 2003. Thirty-one teams qualified from this process, along with the host nation, Germany, for the finals tournament. It was the second time that Germany staged the competition (the first was in 1974 as West Germany), and the tenth time that it was held in Europe.
FIFA FuÃball-Weltmeisterschaft Deutschland 2006 |
|
---|---|
2006 FIFA World Cup official logo
Eine Zeit, um Freunde zu finden (A time to make friends) |
|
Tournament details | |
Host country | Germany |
Dates | 9 June â 9 July |
Teams | 32 (from 6 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 12 (in 12 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Italy (4th title) |
Runners-up | France |
Third place | Germany |
Fourth place | Portugal |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 64 |
Goals scored | 147 (2.3 per match) |
Attendance | 3,359,439 (52,491 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Miroslav Klose (5 goals) |
Best player(s) | Zinedine Zidane |
Best young player | Lukas Podolski |
Best goalkeeper | Gianluigi Buffon |
Fair play award | Brazil Spain |
2010 â
|
Italy won the tournament, claiming their fourth World Cup title. They defeated France 5â3 in a penalty shoot-out in the final, after extra time had finished in a 1â1 draw. Germany defeated Portugal 3â1 to finish in third place. Angola, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Trinidad and Tobago, and Togo made their first appearances in the finals. It was also the first appearance of Serbia and Montenegro under that name; they had previously appeared in 1998 as Yugoslavia.
The 2006 World Cup stands as one of the most watched events in television history, garnering an estimated 26.29 billion times viewed, compiled over the course of the tournament. The final attracted an estimated audience of 715.1 million people.[1]
- 1Host selection
- 2Qualification
- 3Venues
-
6Groups
- 6.2Group system
- 7Finals tournament
-
8Results
- 8.1Group stage
- 8.2Knockout stage
- 9Statistics
Host selection
The vote to choose the hosts of the 2006 tournament was held in July 2000 in Zürich, Switzerland. It involved four bidding nations after Brazil had withdrawn three days earlier: Germany, South Africa, England and Morocco.[2] Three rounds of voting were required, each round eliminating the nation with the fewest votes. The first two rounds were held on 6 July 2000, and the final round was held on 7 July 2000, which Germany won over South Africa.
Voting results[3] | |||
---|---|---|---|
Country | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 |
Germany | 10 | 11 | 12 |
South Africa | 6 | 11 | 11 |
England | 5 | 2 | â |
Morocco | 3 | â | â |
Bribery and corruption allegations
Accusations of bribery and corruption had marred the success of Germany's bid from the very beginning. On the very day of the vote, a hoax bribery affair was made public, leading to calls for a re-vote.[4] On the night before the vote, German satirical magazine Titanic sent letters to FIFA representatives, offering joke gifts like cuckoo clocks and Black Forest ham in exchange for their vote for Germany. Oceania delegate Charlie Dempsey, who had initially backed England, had then been instructed to support South Africa following England's elimination. He abstained, citing 'intolerable pressure' on the eve of the vote.[5] Had Dempsey voted as originally instructed, the vote would have resulted with a 12â12 tie, and FIFA president Sepp Blatter, who favoured the South African bid,[6] would have had to cast the deciding vote.[7]
More irregularities surfaced soon after, including, in the months leading up to the decision, the sudden interest of German politicians and major businesses in the four Asian countries whose delegates were decisive for the vote.[8] Just a week before the vote, the German government under ChancellorGerhard Schröder lifted their arms embargo on Saudi Arabia and agreed to send grenade launchers to the country. DaimlerChrysler invested several hundred million Euro in Hyundai, while one of the sons of the company's founders was a member of FIFA's executive committee. Both Volkswagen and Bayer announced investments in Thailand and South Korea, whose respective delegates Worawi Makudi and Chung Jong-Moon were possible votes for Germany.[8][9] Makudi additionally received a payment by a company of German media mogul Leo Kirch, who also paid millions for usually worthless TV rights for friendly matches of the German team and FC Bayern Munich.[8][9]
On 16 October 2015, the German news magazine Der Spiegel alleged that a slush fund with money from then-Adidas CEO Robert Louis-Dreyfus was used to influence the vote of four Asian members of the FIFA executive committee.[10] The sum of 6.7 million Euro was later demanded back by Dreyfus. In order to retrieve the money, the Organizing Committee paid an equivalent sum to the FIFA, allegedly as a German share for the cost of a closing ceremony, which never materialized.[8]Wolfgang Niersbach, president of the German Football Association (DFB), denied the allegations on 17 October 2015, saying that 'the World Cup was not bought' and that he could 'absolutely and categorically rule out the existence of a slush fund'. The DFB announced they would consider seeking legal action against Der Spiegel.[11] During a press conference on 22 October 2015, Nierbach repeated his stance, emphasizing that the 6,7 million were used in 2002 to secure a subsidy by FIFA.[12] According to Niersbach, the payment had been agreed upon during a meeting between Franz Beckenbauer and FIFA president Blatter, with the money being provided by Dreyfus. On the same day, FIFA contradicted Niersbach's statement, saying: 'By our current state of knowledge, no such payment of 10 million Franks was registered by FIFA in 2002.'[13] The following day, former DFB president Theo Zwanziger publicly accused Niersbach of lying, saying: 'It is evident that there was a slush fund for the German World Cup application'. According to Zwanziger, the 6.7 million Euros went to Mohamed Bin Hammam, who at the time was supporting Blatter's campaign for president against Issa Hayatou.[14]
On 22 March 2016 it was announced that the FIFA Ethics Committee was opening proceedings into the bid.[15][16][17]
Qualification
198 teams attempted to qualify for the 2006 World Cup.[18] Germany, the host nation, was granted automatic qualification, with the remaining 31 finals places divided among the continental confederations. Thirteen places were contested by UEFA teams (Europe), five by CAF teams (Africa), four by CONMEBOL teams (South America), four by AFC teams (Asia), and three by CONCACAF teams (North and Central America and Caribbean). The remaining two places were decided by playoffs between AFC and CONCACAF and between CONMEBOL and OFC (Oceania).
Eight nations qualified for the finals for the first time: Angola, Czech Republic, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Ukraine, and Serbia and Montenegro. Czech Republic and Ukraine were making their first appearance as independent nations, but had previously been represented as part of Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union respectively; Serbia and Montenegro had competed as Yugoslavia in 1998, as well as making up part of Yugoslav teams from 1930 to 1990. As of 2018, this was the last time Togo, Angola, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Trinidad and Tobago qualified for a FIFA World Cup finals, and the last time Uruguay and Nigeria failed to qualify.
Australia qualified for the first time since 1974. Among the teams who failed to qualify were 2002 third-placed team Turkey, quarter-finalists Senegal, Euro 2004 winners Greece and 2006 Africa Cup of Nations winners Egypt. Additionally, Belgium failed to qualify for the first time since 1978 and Cameroon failed to qualify for the first time since 1986. The other notable qualifying streaks broken were for Nigeria, who had made the previous three tournaments, and Denmark and South Africa, who had both qualified for the previous two. France had their first successful qualifying campaign since 1986, as they did not qualify for the 1990 and 1994 World Cups, in 1998 they were automatically qualified as hosts and in 2002 as defending champions.
For the first time since the 1982 World Cup, all six confederations were represented at the finals tournament.
We knew it would be hard. Fifa games schedule 2018 russia. âThe expectations on us in our own country were almost inhumanly high and Germany were an excellent opponent. Unfortunately, it went as it did. Now we finally have the opportunity to forget about the last World Cup.
The State Union of Serbia and Montenegro dissolved prior to the start of the World Cup, on 3 June 2006, with Serbia and Montenegro becoming independent countries; their team competed at the World Cup unaffected. Their involvement in the competition became the first time since the Commonwealth of Independent States appeared at UEFA Euro 1992, a team formed to take the Soviet Union's place following dissolution, that multiple sovereign states had been represented in the finals of a major footballing tournament by a single team and the only occurrence in the World Cup finals to date. The highest ranked team not to qualify was Denmark (ranked 11th), while the lowest ranked team that did qualify was Togo (ranked 61st).
List of qualified teams
The following 32 teams, shown with final pre-tournament rankings,[19] qualified for the final tournament:
|
|
|
Countries qualified for World Cup
Countries that did not enter World Cup
|
Teams listed by FIFA ranking as of May 2006[20] | |||
---|---|---|---|
Country | Confederation | Rank | |
1 | Brazil | CONMEBOL | 1 |
2 | Czech Republic | UEFA | 2 |
3 | Netherlands | UEFA | 3 |
4 | Mexico | CONCACAF | 4 |
5 | United States | CONCACAF | 5 |
Spain | UEFA | 5 | |
7 | Portugal | UEFA | 7 |
8 | France | UEFA | 8 |
9 | Argentina | CONMEBOL | 9 |
10 | England | UEFA | 10 |
11 | Italy | UEFA | 13 |
12 | Sweden | UEFA | 16 |
13 | Japan | AFC | 18 |
14 | Germany | UEFA | 19 |
15 | Tunisia | CAF | 21 |
16 | Iran | AFC | 23 |
Croatia | UEFA | 23 | |
18 | Costa Rica | CONCACAF | 25 |
19 | South Korea | AFC | 29 |
Poland | UEFA | 29 | |
21 | Ivory Coast | CAF | 32 |
22 | Paraguay | CONMEBOL | 33 |
23 | Saudi Arabia | AFC | 34 |
24 | Switzerland | UEFA | 35 |
25 | Ecuador | CONMEBOL | 39 |
26 | Australia | OFC | 42 |
27 | Serbia and Montenegro | UEFA | 44 |
28 | Ukraine | UEFA | 45 |
29 | Trinidad and Tobago | CONCACAF | 47 |
30 | Ghana | CAF | 48 |
31 | Angola | CAF | 57 |
32 | Togo | CAF | 61 |
Venues
In 2006, Germany had a plethora of football stadia that satisfied FIFA's minimum capacity of 40,000 seats for World Cup matches. The still-standing Olympiastadion in Munich (69,250), the venue for the 1974 final match was not used for the tournament, even though FIFA's regulations allow one city to use two stadia. Düsseldorf's LTU Arena (51,500), Bremen's Weserstadion (43,000) and Mönchengladbach's Borussia-Park (46,249) were also not used.
Twelve stadia were selected to host the World Cup matches. During the tournament, many of them were known by different names, as FIFA prohibits sponsorship of stadia unless the stadium sponsors are also official FIFA sponsors.[21] For example, the Allianz Arena in Munich was known during the competition as FIFA World Cup Stadium, Munich (German: FIFA WM-Stadion München), and even the letters of the company Allianz were removed or covered.[21] Some of the stadia also had a lower capacity for the World Cup, as FIFA regulations ban standing room; nonetheless, this was accommodated as several stadia had a UEFA five-star ranking. The stadia in Berlin, Munich, Dortmund and Stuttgart hosted six matches each, while the other eight stadia hosted five matches each.
- A cross denotes an indoor stadium.
Berlin | Munich | Dortmund | Stuttgart |
---|---|---|---|
Olympiastadion | Allianz Arena (FIFA World Cup Stadium, Munich) |
Westfalenstadion (FIFA World Cup Stadium, Dortmund) |
Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion |
52°30â²53â³N13°14â²22â³E / 52.51472°N 13.23944°E | 48°13â²7.59â³N11°37â²29.11â³E / 48.2187750°N 11.6247528°E | 51°29â²33.25â³N7°27â²6.63â³E / 51.4925694°N 7.4518417°E | 48°47â²32.17â³N9°13â²55.31â³E / 48.7922694°N 9.2320306°E |
Capacity: 72,000[22] | Capacity: 66,000[23] | Capacity: 65,000[24] | Capacity: 52,000[25] |
Gelsenkirchen |
2006 FIFA World Cup (Germany)
|
Hamburg | |
Arena AufSchalke (FIFA World Cup Stadium, Gelsenkirchen) |
AOL Arena (FIFA World Cup Stadium, Hamburg) |
||
51°33â²16.21â³N7°4â²3.32â³E / 51.5545028°N 7.0675889°E | 53°35â²13.77â³N9°53â²55.02â³E / 53.5871583°N 9.8986167°E | ||
Capacity: 52,000[26] | Capacity: 50,000[27] | ||
Frankfurt | Kaiserslautern | ||
Commerzbank-Arena (FIFA World Cup Stadium, Frankfurt) |
Fritz-Walter-Stadion | ||
50°4â²6.86â³N8°38â²43.65â³E / 50.0685722°N 8.6454583°E | 49°26â²4.96â³N7°46â²35.24â³E / 49.4347111°N 7.7764556°E | ||
Capacity: 48,000[28] | Capacity: 46,000[29] | ||
Cologne | Hanover | Leipzig | Nuremberg |
RheinEnergieStadion (FIFA World Cup Stadium, Cologne) |
AWD-Arena (FIFA World Cup Stadium, Hanover) |
Zentralstadion | easyCredit-Stadion (Frankenstadion) |
50°56â²0.59â³N6°52â²29.99â³E / 50.9334972°N 6.8749972°E | 52°21â²36.24â³N9°43â²52.31â³E / 52.3600667°N 9.7311972°E | 51°20â²44.86â³N12°20â²53.59â³E / 51.3457944°N 12.3482194°E | 49°25â²34â³N11°7â²33â³E / 49.42611°N 11.12583°E |
Capacity: 45,000[30] | Capacity: 43,000[31] | Capacity: 43,000[32] | Capacity: 41,000[33] |
Team base camps
Base camps were used by the 32 national squads to stay and train before and during the World Cup tournament. FIFA announced the base camps for each participating team.[34]
National squads' base camps | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Match officials
Confederation | Referee | Assistants |
---|---|---|
AFC | Toru Kamikawa (Japan) | Yoshikazu Hiroshima (Japan) Kim Dae-Young (South Korea) |
Shamsul Maidin (Singapore) | Prachya Permpanich (Thailand) Eisa Ghoulom (United Arab Emirates) |
|
CAF | Coffi Codjia (Benin) | Aboudou Aderodjou (Benin) Célestin Ntagungira (Rwanda) |
Essam Abd El Fatah (Egypt) | Dramane Dante (Mali) Mamadou N'Doye (Senegal) |
|
CONCACAF | Benito Archundia (Mexico) | José RamÃrez (Mexico) Héctor Vergara (Canada) |
Marco RodrÃguez (Mexico) | José Luis Camargo (Mexico) Leonel Leal (Costa Rica) |
|
CONMEBOL | Horacio Elizondo (Argentina) | DarÃo GarcÃa (Argentina) Rodolfo Otero (Argentina) |
Carlos Simon (Brazil) | Aristeu Tavares (Brazil) EdnÃlson Corona (Brazil) |
|
Ãscar Ruiz (Colombia) | José Navia (Colombia) Fernando Tamayo (Ecuador) |
|
Carlos Amarilla (Paraguay) | Amelio Andino (Paraguay) Manuel Bernal (Paraguay) |
|
Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay) | Wálter Rial (Uruguay) Pablo Fandiño (Uruguay) |
|
OFC | Mark Shield (Australia) | Nathan Gibson (Australia) Ben Wilson (Australia) |
UEFA | Frank De Bleeckere (Belgium) | Peter Hermans (Belgium) Walter Vromans (Belgium) |
Graham Poll (England) | Philip Sharp (England) Glenn Turner (England) |
|
Ãric Poulat (France) | Lionel Dagorne (France) Vincent Texier (France) |
|
Markus Merk (Germany) | Jan-Hendrik Salver (Germany) Christian Schraer (Germany) |
|
Roberto Rosetti (Italy) | Alessandro Stagnelli (Italy) Cristiano Copelli (Italy) |
|
Valentin Ivanov (Russia) | Nikolay Golubev (Russia) Evgueni Volnin (Russia) |
|
Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia) | Roman Slyško (Slovakia) Martin Balko (Slovakia) |
|
Luis Medina Cantalejo (Spain) | Victoriano Giraldez Carrasco (Spain) Pedro Medina Hernández (Spain) |
|
Massimo Busacca (Switzerland) | Francesco Buragina (Switzerland) Matthias Arnet (Switzerland) |
Squads
Squads for the 2006 World Cup consisted of 23 players, as in the previous tournament in 2002. Each participating national association had to confirm its 23-player squad by 15 May 2006.[35]
Groups
Seeds
The eight seeded teams for the 2006 tournament were announced on 6 December 2005. The seeds comprised Pot A in the draw. Pot B contained the unseeded qualifiers from South America, Africa and Oceania; Pot C contained eight of the nine remaining European teams, excluding Serbia and Montenegro. Pot D contained unseeded teams from the CONCACAF region and Asia. A special pot contained Serbia and Montenegro: this was done to ensure that no group contained three European teams.[36] In the special pot, Serbia and Montenegro was drawn first, then their group was drawn from the three seeded non-European nations, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico.
It had been predetermined that, as the host, Germany would be placed in Group A, thus being assured of the venues of their group matches in advance of the draw. FIFA had also announced in advance that Brazil (the defending champion) would be allocated to Group F.
Pot A | Pot B | Pot C | Pot D | Special Pot |
---|---|---|---|---|
Argentina
Brazil England France Germany Italy Mexico Spain |
Angola
Australia Ecuador Ghana Ivory Coast Paraguay Togo Tunisia |
Croatia
Czech Republic Netherlands Poland Portugal Sweden Switzerland Ukraine |
Costa Rica
Iran Japan Saudi Arabia South Korea Trinidad and Tobago United States |
Serbia and Montenegro
|
On 9 December 2005 the draw was held, and the group assignments and order of matches were determined. After the draw was completed, commentators remarked that Group C appeared to be the group of death, while others suggested Group E.[37][38] Argentina and the Netherlands both qualified with a game to spare with wins over Ivory Coast and Serbia and Montenegro respectively.
Group system
The first round, or group stage, saw the thirty-two teams divided into eight groups of four teams. Each group was a round-robin of three games, where each team played one match against each of the other teams in the same group. Teams were awarded three points for a win, one point for a draw and none for a defeat. The teams coming first and second in each group qualified for the Round of 16.
Fifa World Cup Germany 2006 (official Song) - Celebrate The Day
Ranking criteria
If teams were level on points, they were ranked on the following criteria in order:
- Greatest total goal difference in the three group matches
- Greatest number of goals scored in the three group matches
- If teams remained level after those criteria, a mini-group would be formed from those teams, who would be ranked on:
- Most points earned in matches against other teams in the tie
- Greatest goal difference in matches against other teams in the tie
- Greatest number of goals scored in matches against other teams in the tie
- If teams remained level after all these criteria, FIFA would hold a drawing of lots
In the original version of the rules for the final tournament, the ranking criteria were in a different order, with head-to-head results taking precedence over total goal difference. The rules were changed to the above in advance of the tournament, but older versions were still available on the FIFA and UEFA websites, causing some confusion among those trying to identify the correct criteria.[39]In any event, the final tournament saw only two pairs of teams level on points: Argentina and the Netherlands at 7 points in Group C; Tunisia and Saudi Arabia at 1 point in Group H. Both of these ties were resolved on total goal difference. Also, in both cases the teams had tied their match, so the order of ranking criteria made no difference.
Finals tournament
2006 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony in Munich
The finals tournament of the 2006 World Cup began on 9 June. The 32 teams were divided into eight groups of four teams each, within which the teams competed in a round-robin tournament to determine which two of those four teams would advance to the sixteen-team knock-out stage, which started on 24 June. In total, 64 games were played.
Hum tum song video. Track listing [ ] All music arranged, composed and produced. The compilation album titled 'Hum Hain Pakistani - Mega Remix' released in 1997 was basically a re-release of 'Hum Tum' with an addition of two new songs namely, 'Khelon Sey Zindagi' and 'Hum Hain Pakistani - remixed'.
Hosting
Although Germany failed to win the Cup, the tournament was considered a great success for Germany in general. Germany also experienced a sudden increase in patriotic spirit with flag waving, traditionally frowned upon by German society since World War II, whenever the German team played.[40] For the closing ceremonies, Matthias Keller composed a work performed simultaneously by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bavarian State Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Orchestra with conductors Christian Thielemann, Zubin Mehta, and Mariss Jansons, and soloists Diana Damrau, Plácido Domingo and Lang Lang.
Traditional powers dominate
Despite early success by Australia, Ecuador and Ghana, the tournament marked a return to dominance of the traditional football powers. Four years after a 2002 tournament in which teams from North America (United States), Africa (Senegal), and Asia (South Korea) made it deep into the knockout stages and Turkey finished third, all eight seeded teams progressed to the knockout stages, and none of the quarter-finalists were from outside Europe or South America. Six former champions took part in the quarter-final round, with Ukraine and Euro 2004 runners-up Portugal as the only relative outsiders.[41] Argentina and Brazil were eliminated in the quarter-finals, leaving an all-European final four for only the fourth time (after the 1934, 1966 and 1982 tournaments).
Scoring
Despite the early goals that flooded the group stages, the knock-out phase had a much lower goals per match ratio. A prime example of the dearth of goals was Portugal, which only scored in the 23rd minute of the Round of 16, and did not score again until the 88th minute of the third place play-off. No player managed to score a hat-trick in this tournament. Italy, Germany, Argentina, Brazil and France were the only teams to score more than one goal in a knockout match. Germany was one of the exceptions, tending to play an attacking style of football throughout the knock-out stage, which was reflected by the fact that they scored the most goals (14), with players from all three outfield positions (defence, midfield and forward) making the scoresheet.
Germany's Miroslav Klose scored five goals to claim the Golden Boot, the lowest total to win the prize since 1962. No other player scored more than three goals. No player from the winning Italian squad scored more than two goals, though ten players had scored for the team, tying France's record in 1982 for the most goalscorers from any one team.
For the first time ever in the FIFA World Cup, the first and last goals of the tournament were scored by defenders. Philipp Lahm, the German left wingback, scored the opener against Costa Rica after only 5 minutes of the opening match. In the final, Marco Materazzi, the Italian centre back, out-jumped Patrick Vieira and headed in the last goal of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Unprecedented number of cards
The tournament had a record number of yellow and red cards, breaking the previous record set by the 1998 World Cup. Players received a record-breaking 345 yellow cards and 28 red cards, with Russian referee Valentin Ivanov handing out 16 yellow and 4 red cards in the round of 16 match between Portugal and the Netherlands, in a match known as the Battle of Nuremberg. Portugal had two players suspended for each of the quarter-final and semi-final matches, respectively. FIFA President Sepp Blatter hinted that he may allow some rule changes for future tournaments so that earlier accumulated bookings will not force players to miss the final, should their teams make it that far. The tournament also saw English referee Graham Poll mistakenly hand out three yellow cards to Croatia's Josip Å imuniÄ in their match against Australia.
The high number of yellow and red cards shown also prompted discussion about the referees. FIFA Officials and President Sepp Blatter received criticism for allegedly making rules too rigid and taking discretion away from referees.[42]
Results
Group stage
Runner-up
Fourth place
Round of 16
All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2).
In the following tables:
- Pld = total games played
- W = total games won
- D = total games drawn (tied)
- L = total games lost
- GF = total goals scored (goals for)
- GA = total goals conceded (goals against)
- GD = goal difference (GFâGA)
- Pts = total points accumulated
Group A
In the opening match of the tournament, Germany and Costa Rica played a game which ended 4â2 for the host in the highest scoring opening match in the tournament's history. Germany went on to win the Group A after edging Poland and breezing past Ecuador 3â0. Despite the defeat, Ecuador had already joined the host in the Round of 16 having beaten Poland and Costa Rica 2â0 and 3â0, respectively.
Pos |
Team
[ ]
|
Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Germany(H) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Ecuador | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 6 | |
3 | Poland | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | â2 | 3 | |
4 | Costa Rica | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | â6 | 0 |
Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Tie-breaking criteria
(H) Host.
Rules for classification: Tie-breaking criteria
(H) Host.
9 June 2006 | |||
Germany | 4â2 | Costa Rica | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Munich |
Poland | 0â2 | Ecuador | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Gelsenkirchen |
14 June 2006 | |||
Germany | 1â0 | Poland | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Dortmund |
15 June 2006 | |||
Ecuador | 3â0 | Costa Rica | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Hamburg |
20 June 2006 | |||
Ecuador | 0â3 | Germany | Olympiastadion, Berlin |
Costa Rica | 1â2 | Poland | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Hanover |
Group B
In Group B, England and Sweden pushed Paraguay into third place after narrow victories over the South Americans. Trinidad and Tobago earned some international respect after a draw with Sweden in their opening game and managing to hold England scoreless for 83 minutes, until goals from Peter Crouch and Steven Gerrard sealed a 2â0 win for the Three Lions. Sweden qualified for the knockout rounds after drawing 2â2 with England to maintain their 38-year unbeaten record against them.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | England | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Sweden | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 5 | |
3 | Paraguay | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
4 | Trinidad and Tobago | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | â4 | 1 |
Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Tie-breaking criteria
Rules for classification: Tie-breaking criteria
10 June 2006 | |||
England | 1â0 | Paraguay | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Frankfurt |
Trinidad and Tobago | 0â0 | Sweden | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Dortmund |
15 June 2006 | |||
England | 2â0 | Trinidad and Tobago | Frankenstadion, Nuremberg |
Sweden | 1â0 | Paraguay | Olympiastadion, Berlin |
20 June 2006 | |||
Sweden | 2â2 | England | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Cologne |
Paraguay | 2â0 | Trinidad and Tobago | Fritz-Walter-Stadion, Kaiserslautern |
Group C
Both Argentina and Netherlands qualified from Group C with a game remaining, Argentina topping the group on goal difference having hammered Serbia and Montenegro 6â0 and beating Ivory Coast 2â1. The Dutch picked up 1â0 and 2â1 victories over Serbia and Montenegro and Ivory Coast, respectively. Ivory Coast defeated Serbia and Montenegro 3â2 in their final game, in Serbia and Montenegro's last ever international as the country had dissolved 18 days earlier.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Argentina | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | +7 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Netherlands | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 7 | |
3 | Ivory Coast | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | â1 | 3 | |
4 | Serbia and Montenegro | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 10 | â8 | 0 |
Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Tie-breaking criteria
Rules for classification: Tie-breaking criteria
10 June 2006 | |||
Argentina | 2â1 | Ivory Coast | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Hamburg |
11 June 2006 | |||
Serbia and Montenegro | 0â1 | Netherlands | Zentralstadion, Leipzig |
16 June 2006 | |||
Argentina | 6â0 | Serbia and Montenegro | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Gelsenkirchen |
Netherlands | 2â1 | Ivory Coast | Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion, Stuttgart |
21 June 2006 | |||
Netherlands | 0â0 | Argentina | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Frankfurt |
Ivory Coast | 3â2 | Serbia and Montenegro | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Munich |
Group D
Portugal coasted through in Group D, picking up the maximum number of points, with Mexico qualifying in second. Iran missed chances against Mexico in their opening 1â3 defeat and were eliminated in their match against Portugal. They fought hard against the Portuguese, but went down 2â0. Their last game against Angola ended in 1â1 draw. The Africans had a respectable first World Cup tournament after earning draws with Mexico (0â0) and Iran.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Portugal | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Mexico | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 4 | |
3 | Angola | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | â1 | 2 | |
4 | Iran | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | â4 | 1 |
Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Tie-breaking criteria
Rules for classification: Tie-breaking criteria
11 June 2006 | |||
Mexico | 3â1 | Iran | Frankenstadion, Nuremberg |
Angola | 0â1 | Portugal | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Cologne |
16 June 2006 | |||
Mexico | 0â0 | Angola | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Hanover |
17 June 2006 | |||
Portugal | 2â0 | Iran | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Frankfurt |
21 June 2006 | |||
Portugal | 2â1 | Mexico | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Gelsenkirchen |
Iran | 1â1 | Angola | Zentralstadion, Leipzig |
Group E
In Group E, Italy went through to the Round of 16 conceding just one goal (an own goal) in the group phase against the United States. The US bowed out of the tournament after disappointing results against the Czech Republic and Ghana, 0â3 and 1â2, respectively, despite a 1â1 draw (finishing with 9 vs 10 men) against Italy. Tournament debutant Ghana joined Italy in the round of 16, following victories over the Czech Republic and the United States. Daniele De Rossi was suspended for 4 games following his sending-off against the United States.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Italy | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Ghana | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 6 | |
3 | Czech Republic | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | â1 | 3 | |
4 | United States | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | â4 | 1 |
Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Tie-breaking criteria
Rules for classification: Tie-breaking criteria
12 June 2006 | |||
United States | 0â3 | Czech Republic | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Gelsenkirchen |
Italy | 2â0 | Ghana | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Hanover |
17 June 2006 | |||
Czech Republic | 0â2 | Ghana | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Cologne |
Italy | 1â1 | United States | Fritz-Walter-Stadion, Kaiserslautern |
22 June 2006 | |||
Czech Republic | 0â2 | Italy | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Hamburg |
Ghana | 2â1 | United States | Frankenstadion, Nuremberg |
Group F
Group F included the reigning World ChampionsBrazil, Croatia, Japan, and Australia. Playing in their first World Cup for 32 years, Australia came from behind to defeat Japan 3â1, and, despite losing 0â2 to Brazil, a 2â2 draw with Croatia was enough to give the Australians a place in the Round of 16 in a game where two players were sent-off for second bookings and one, erroneously, for a third booking by English referee Graham Poll. The Brazilians won all three games to qualify first in the group. Their 1â0 win against Croatia was through a goal late in the first-half by Kaká. Croatia and Japan went out of the tournament without a single win.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Brazil | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | +6 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Australia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | |
3 | Croatia | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | â1 | 2 | |
4 | Japan | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | â5 | 1 |
Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Tie-breaking criteria
Rules for classification: Tie-breaking criteria
12 June 2006 | |||
Australia | 3â1 | Japan | Fritz-Walter-Stadion, Kaiserslautern |
13 June 2006 | |||
Brazil | 1â0 | Croatia | Olympiastadion, Berlin |
18 June 2006 | |||
Japan | 0â0 | Croatia | Frankenstadion, Nuremberg |
Brazil | 2â0 | Australia | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Munich |
22 June 2006 | |||
Japan | 1â4 | Brazil | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Dortmund |
Croatia | 2â2 | Australia | Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion, Stuttgart |
Group G
France only managed a scoreless draw against Switzerland and a 1â1 draw against South Korea. With captain Zinedine Zidane suspended, their 2â0 win against Togo was enough for them to advance to the knockout round. They were joined by the group winners, Switzerland, who defeated South Korea 2â0, and did not concede a goal in the tournament. South Korea won their first World Cup finals match outside their own country in defeating Togo, but four points were not enough to see them through to the round of 16 (the only team for which this was the case), while Togo exited without a point.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Switzerland | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | +4 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | France | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 5 | |
3 | South Korea | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | â1 | 4 | |
4 | Togo | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | â5 | 0 |
Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Tie-breaking criteria
Rules for classification: Tie-breaking criteria
13 June 2006 | |||
South Korea | 2â1 | Togo | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Frankfurt |
France | 0â0 | Switzerland | Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion, Stuttgart |
18 June 2006 | |||
France | 1â1 | South Korea | Zentralstadion, Leipzig |
19 June 2006 | |||
Togo | 0â2 | Switzerland | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Dortmund |
23 June 2006 | |||
Togo | 0â2 | France | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Cologne |
Switzerland | 2â0 | South Korea | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Hanover |
Group H
Spain dominated Group H, picking up the maximum number of points, scoring 8 goals, and conceding only 1. Ukraine, despite being beaten 4â0 by Spain in their first World Cup game, took advantage of the weaker opponents to beat Saudi Arabia 4â0 and scrape past Tunisia 1â0 thanks to a 70th-minute penalty by Andriy Shevchenko, to reach the Round of 16. Saudi Arabia and Tunisia went out of the tournament having 1 point each, thanks to a 2â2 draw against each other.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Spain | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | +7 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Ukraine | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 6 | |
3 | Tunisia | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | â3 | 1 | |
4 | Saudi Arabia | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | â5 | 1 |
Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Tie-breaking criteria
Rules for classification: Tie-breaking criteria
14 June 2006 | |||
Spain | 4â0 | Ukraine | Zentralstadion, Leipzig |
Tunisia | 2â2 | Saudi Arabia | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Munich |
19 June 2006 | |||
Saudi Arabia | 0â4 | Ukraine | FIFA World Cup Stadium, Hamburg |
Spain | 3â1 | Tunisia | Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion, Stuttgart |
23 June 2006 | |||
Saudi Arabia | 0â1 | Spain | Fritz-Walter-Stadion, Kaiserslautern |
Ukraine | 1â0 | Tunisia | Olympiastadion, Berlin |
Knockout stage
The knockout stage involved the sixteen teams that qualified from the group stage of the tournament. There were four rounds of matches, with each round eliminating half of the teams entering that round. The successive rounds were: round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals, and final. There was also a play-off to decide third/fourth place. For each game in the knockout stage, a draw was followed by thirty minutes of extra time (two 15-minute halves); if scores were still level there would be a penalty shoot-out (at least five penalties each, and more if necessary) to determine who progressed to the next round. Scores after extra time are indicated by (aet), and penalty shoot-outs are indicated by (pen.).
Round of 16 | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||
24 June â Munich | |||||||
Germany | 2 | ||||||
30 June â Berlin | |||||||
Sweden | 0 | ||||||
Germany (pen.) | 1 (4) | ||||||
24 June â Leipzig | |||||||
Argentina | 1 (2) | ||||||
Argentina (a.e.t.) | 2 | ||||||
4 July â Dortmund | |||||||
Mexico | 1 | ||||||
Germany | 0 | ||||||
26 June â Kaiserslautern | |||||||
Italy (a.e.t.) | 2 | ||||||
Italy | 1 | ||||||
30 June â Hamburg | |||||||
Australia | 0 | ||||||
Italy | 3 | ||||||
26 June â Cologne | |||||||
Ukraine | 0 | ||||||
Switzerland | 0 (0) | ||||||
9 July â Berlin | |||||||
Ukraine (pen.) | 0 (3) | ||||||
Italy (pen.) | 1 (5) | ||||||
25 June â Stuttgart | |||||||
France | 1 (3) | ||||||
England | 1 | ||||||
1 July â Gelsenkirchen | |||||||
Ecuador | 0 | ||||||
England | 0 (1) | ||||||
25 June â Nuremberg | |||||||
Portugal (pen.) | 0 (3) | ||||||
Portugal | 1 | ||||||
5 July â Munich | |||||||
Netherlands | 0 | ||||||
Portugal | 0 | ||||||
27 June â Dortmund | |||||||
France | 1 | Third place | |||||
Brazil | 3 | ||||||
1 July â Frankfurt | 8 July â Stuttgart | ||||||
Ghana | 0 | ||||||
Brazil | 0 | Germany | 3 | ||||
27 June â Hanover | |||||||
France | 1 | Portugal | 1 | ||||
Spain | 1 | ||||||
France | 3 |
Round of 16
In the second round, conceding two early goals in the first twelve minutes to Germany effectively ended the Swedes' hopes of progressing to the quarter-finals. Argentina struggled to get past Mexico until a Maxi RodrÃguez goal in extra time put the Albiceleste in the quarter-finals. Australia's journey ended when Italians were awarded a controversial penalty, scored by Francesco Totti, deep into the remaining seconds of the match. The Italians had spent much of the game with only ten men on the field, following an equally controversial red card shown to centre backMarco Materazzi. In a 0â0 match, Switzerland failed to convert any of their three penalties in the penalty shoot-out against Ukraine to see them exit the competition with an unwanted new record in becoming the first team in a World Cup to fail to convert any penalties in a shootout. Their elimination also meant that they became the first nation to be eliminated from the World Cup without conceding any goals (and indeed the only nation ever to participate in a World Cup finals tournament without conceding a goal).
England struggled against Ecuador but won 1â0 thanks to a David Beckham free kick. Brazil won 3â0 against Ghana, in a game which included Ronaldo's record 15th World Cup goal. Der Spiegel reported that the match may have been influenced by an Asian betting syndicate.[43] Portugal defeated the Netherlands 1â0. The only goal came courtesy of a Maniche strike in an acrimonious match, which marked a new World Cup record with 16 yellow cards (Portugal: 9, the Netherlands: 7) and 4 players being sent off for a second bookable offence. France came from behind to defeat Spain 3â1 thanks to goals from Franck Ribéry, Patrick Vieira, and Zinedine Zidane.
Germany | 2â0 | Sweden |
---|---|---|
|
Report |
Attendance: 66,000
Argentina | 2â1 (a.e.t.) | Mexico |
---|---|---|
|
Report |
Attendance: 43,000
England | 1â0 | Ecuador |
---|---|---|
|
Report |
Attendance: 52,000
Portugal | 1â0 | Netherlands |
---|---|---|
|
Report |
Attendance: 41,000
Italy | 1â0 | Australia |
---|---|---|
|
Report |
Attendance: 46,000
Switzerland | 0â0 (a.e.t.) | Ukraine |
---|---|---|
Report | ||
Penalties | ||
0â3 |
Attendance: 45,000
Brazil | 3â0 | Ghana |
---|---|---|
|
Report |
Attendance: 65,000
Spain | 1â3 | France |
---|---|---|
|
Report |
Attendance: 43,000
Quarter-finals
Germany and Argentina ended 1â1 after extra time; the hosts edged out the Argentinians 4â2 on penalties to go through to the semifinals (this was the first time Argentina had lost a World Cup penalty shootout: up until this match, both Argentina and Germany had participated in three penalty shootouts, winning all of them). In Gelsenkirchen, when England faced Portugal, Wayne Rooney was sent off, and Portugal won the penalty shoot-out 3â1 after a 0â0 draw to reach their first World Cup semi-final since the days of Eusébio 40 years earlier, and ensure manager Luiz Felipe Scolari's third consecutive tournament quarter-final win over Sven-Göran Eriksson's England.[citation needed]
Italy defeated quarter-final debutants Ukraine 3â0. France eliminated Brazil 1â0 to advance into the semi-finals. Brazil only managed one shot on goal, while Zinedine Zidane's dribbling earned him Man of the Match and his free-kick to Thierry Henry resulted in the winning goal.
Germany | 1â1 (a.e.t.) | Argentina |
---|---|---|
|
Report | |
Penalties | ||
4â2 |
Attendance: 72,000
Italy | 3â0 | Ukraine |
---|---|---|
|
Report |
Attendance: 50,000
England | 0â0 (a.e.t.) | Portugal |
---|---|---|
Report | ||
Penalties | ||
1â3 |
Attendance: 52,000
Brazil | 0â1 | France |
---|---|---|
Report |
|
Attendance: 48,000
Semi-finals
With Argentina and Brazil eliminated in the quarter-finals, an all-European semi-final line up was completed for only the fourth time (after the 1934, 1966 and 1982 tournaments).
The semi-final between Germany and Italy produced an extra time period that went scoreless until the 118th minute, when Italy scored twice through Fabio Grosso and Alessandro Del Piero, putting an end to Germany's undefeated record in Dortmund.
In the second semi-final, Portugal lost to France 1â0 in Munich. In a repeat of the Euro 1984 and Euro 2000 semi-finals, Portugal were defeated by France, with the decisive goal being a penalty scored by France captain Zinedine Zidane.
Germany | 0â2 (a.e.t.) | Italy |
---|---|---|
Report |
|
Attendance: 65,000
Portugal | 0â1 | France |
---|---|---|
Report |
|
Attendance: 66,000
Third place play-off
The hosts got three goals in 20 minutes in the second half with the help of 21-year-old left midfielderBastian Schweinsteiger. His first goal beat the Portuguese goalkeeper Ricardo with pace over his head. Only 4 minutes later, Schweinsteiger's free kick 30 metres from the left of the penalty box, driven low across goal, was connected with Petit's knee to become an own goal for Portugal. The German did not stop, and netted his second goal, which swerved away to the keeper's left, in the 78th minute.
Portugal were strong in possession but lacked punch in attack; unable to convert 57% possession into goals. Pauleta had two clear chances from 15 metres, but both times hit tame shots that did not trouble keeper Oliver Kahn, who was playing in his last match for the German national team. Portugal got a consolation goal with the help of substitute LuÃs Figo (also playing the final international game of his career), who almost immediately provided the precise distribution needed to unlock the German defence. A cross from the right wing on 88 minutes found fellow substitute Nuno Gomes at the far post, who dived in for the goal. The game ended 3â1, a result which gave the tournament hosts the bronze medals and left Portugal in fourth place.
Germany | 3â1 | Portugal |
---|---|---|
|
Report |
Attendance: 52,000
Final
The final started with each side scoring within the first 20 minutes. Zinedine Zidane opened the scoring by converting a controversial seventh-minute penalty kick,[44] which glanced off the underside of the crossbar and bounced beyond the goal line before it spun back up, hit the crossbar again and rebounded out of the goal.[45] Marco Materazzi then levelled the scores in the 19th minute following an Andrea Pirlo corner. Both teams had chances to score the winning goal in normal time: Luca Toni hit the crossbar in the 35th minute for Italy (he later had a header disallowed for offside), while France were not awarded a possible second penalty in the 53rd minute when Florent Malouda went down in the box after a tackle from Gianluca Zambrotta.
At the end of the regulation 90 minutes, the score was still level at 1â1, and the match was forced into extra time. Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon made a potentially game-saving save in extra time when he tipped a Zidane header over the crossbar. Further controversy ensued near the end of extra time, when Zidane head-butted Materazzi in the chest in an off-the-ball incident and was sent off. Extra time produced no further goals and a penalty shootout followed, which Italy won 5â3. France's David Trezeguet, the man who scored the golden goal against Italy in Euro 2000, was the only player not to score his penalty; his spot kick hit the crossbar, landed on the goal line and went out. It was the first all-European final since Italy's triumph over West Germany in the 1982 World Cup, and the second final, after 1994, to be decided on penalties. It was also Italy's first world title in 24 years, and their fourth overall, making them the second most successful World Cup team ever. The victory also helped Italy top the FIFA World Rankings in February 2007 for the first time since November 1993.
Italy | 1â1 (a.e.t.) | France |
---|---|---|
|
Report | |
Penalties | ||
5â3 |
Attendance: 69,000
Statistics
Goalscorers
Miroslav Klose received the Golden Boot for scoring five goals in the World Cup. In total, 147 goals were scored by 110 players, with four of them credited as own goals.
- 5 goals
- Miroslav Klose
- 3 goals
- Hernán Crespo
- Maxi RodrÃguez
- Ronaldo
- Thierry Henry
- Zinedine Zidane
- Lukas Podolski
- Fernando Torres
- David Villa
- 2 goals
- Tim Cahill
- Adriano
- Paulo Wanchope
- Tomáš Rosický
- AgustÃn Delgado
- Carlos Tenorio
- Steven Gerrard
- Patrick Vieira
- Bastian Schweinsteiger
- Marco Materazzi
- Luca Toni
- Aruna Dindane
- Omar Bravo
- Bartosz Bosacki
- Maniche
- Alexander Frei
- Andriy Shevchenko
- 1 goal
- Flávio
- Roberto Ayala
- Esteban Cambiasso
- Lionel Messi
- Javier Saviola
- Carlos Tevez
- John Aloisi
- Harry Kewell
- Craig Moore
- Fred
- Gilberto
- Juninho
- Kaká
- Zé Roberto
- Rónald Gómez
- Niko KovaÄ
- Darijo Srna
- Jan Koller
- Iván Kaviedes
- David Beckham
- Joe Cole
- Peter Crouch
- Franck Ribéry
- Torsten Frings
- Philipp Lahm
- Oliver Neuville
- Stephen Appiah
- Haminu Draman
- Asamoah Gyan
- Sulley Muntari
- Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh
- Yahya Golmohammadi
- Alessandro Del Piero
- Alberto Gilardino
- Fabio Grosso
- Vincenzo Iaquinta
- Filippo Inzaghi
- Andrea Pirlo
- Francesco Totti
- Gianluca Zambrotta
- Didier Drogba
- Bonaventure Kalou
- Bakari Koné
- Shunsuke Nakamura
- Keiji Tamada
- Francisco Fonseca
- Rafael Márquez
- Sinha
- Ruud van Nistelrooy
- Robin van Persie
- Arjen Robben
- Nelson Cuevas
- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Deco
- Nuno Gomes
- Pauleta
- Simão
- Sami Al-Jaber
- Yasser Al-Qahtani
- SaÅ¡a IliÄ
- Nikola ŽigiÄ
- Ahn Jung-hwan
- Lee Chun-soo
- Park Ji-sung
- Xabi Alonso
- Juanito
- Raúl
- Marcus Allbäck
- Henrik Larsson
- Freddie Ljungberg
- Tranquillo Barnetta
- Philippe Senderos
- Mohamed Kader
- Radhi Jaïdi
- Ziad Jaziri
- Jawhar Mnari
- Maksym Kalynychenko
- Serhiy Rebrov
- Andriy Rusol
- Clint Dempsey
- Own goals
- Cristian Zaccardo (against the United States)
- Carlos Gamarra (against England)
- Petit (against Germany)
- Brent Sancho (against Paraguay)
Awards
Golden Boot Winner | Golden Ball Winner | Yashin Award | Best Young Player | FIFA Fair Play Trophy | Most Entertaining Team |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Miroslav Klose | Zinedine Zidane | Gianluigi Buffon | Lukas Podolski | Brazil Spain |
Portugal |
FIFA's Technical Study Group (TSG) also granted a Man of the Match award to one player in each match. Italy's Andrea Pirlo won the most Man of the Match awards, with three in total. Miroslav Klose, Agustin Delgado, Arjen Robben, Zé Roberto, Alexander Frei, Michael Ballack, and Patrick Vieira each received two awards.
All-star team
The All-star team is a squad consisting of the 23 most impressive players at the 2006 World Cup, as selected by FIFA's Technical Study Group. The team was chosen from a shortlist of over 50 players, and was selected based on performances from the second round onwards.[46][47]
Goalkeepers | Defenders | Midfielders | Forwards |
---|---|---|---|
Gianluigi Buffon
Jens Lehmann Ricardo |
Roberto Ayala
John Terry Lilian Thuram Philipp Lahm Fabio Cannavaro Gianluca Zambrotta Ricardo Carvalho |
Zé Roberto
Patrick Vieira Zinedine Zidane Michael Ballack Andrea Pirlo Gennaro Gattuso Francesco Totti LuÃs Figo Maniche |
Hernán Crespo
Thierry Henry Miroslav Klose Luca Toni |
Prize money
A total of CHF332 million was awarded to the 32 teams participating in the tournament. Each team who entered the competition received CHF2 million, with the biggest prize being CHF24.5 million, awarded to the winner of the tournament.[48] Below is a complete list of the prize money allocated:[48][49]
- CHF7 million â To each team eliminated in the group stage (16 teams)
- CHF8.5 million â To each team eliminated in the round of 16 (8 teams)
- CHF11.5 million â To each team eliminated in the quarter-finals (4 teams)
- CHF21.5 million â Fourth placed team and Third placed team
- CHF22.5 million â Runners-up
- CHF24.5 million â Winner
Final standings
All 32 teams are ranked based on criteria which have been used by FIFA.[50] A penalty shoot-out counts as a draw for both teams.
R | Team | G | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Italy | E | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 2 | +10 | 17 |
2 | France | G | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 15 |
3 | Germany | A | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 6 | +8 | 16 |
4 | Portugal | D | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 13 |
Eliminated in the quarter-finals | ||||||||||
5 | Brazil | F | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 2 | +8 | 12 |
6 | Argentina | C | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 3 | +8 | 11 |
7 | England | B | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | +4 | 11 |
8 | Ukraine | H | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | â2 | 7 |
Eliminated in the round of 16 | ||||||||||
9 | Spain | H | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 9 |
10 | Switzerland | G | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | +4 | 8 |
11 | Netherlands | C | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 7 |
12 | Ecuador | A | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 6 |
13 | Ghana | E | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | â2 | 6 |
14 | Sweden | B | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | â1 | 5 |
15 | Mexico | D | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 |
16 | Australia | F | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | â1 | 4 |
Eliminated in the group stage | ||||||||||
17 | South Korea | G | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | â1 | 4 |
18 | Paraguay | B | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
19 | Ivory Coast | C | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | â1 | 3 |
20 | Czech Republic | E | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | â1 | 3 |
21 | Poland | A | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | â2 | 3 |
22 | Croatia | F | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | â1 | 2 |
23 | Angola | D | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | â1 | 2 |
24 | Tunisia | H | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | â3 | 1 |
25 | Iran | D | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | â4 | 1 |
United States | E | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | â4 | 1 | |
27 | Trinidad and Tobago | B | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | â4 | 1 |
28 | Japan | F | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | â5 | 1 |
Saudi Arabia | H | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | â5 | 1 | |
30 | Togo | G | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | â5 | 0 |
31 | Costa Rica | A | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | â6 | 0 |
32 | Serbia and Montenegro | C | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 10 | â8 | 0 |
Sponsorship
The sponsors of the 2006 World Cup consisted of 15 FIFA Partners.[51]
FIFA partners | FIFA partners | FIFA partners | |
---|---|---|---|
|
|
|
See also
2006 FIFA World Cup Belgian Coin
- 2006 FIFA World Cup:
- Leeuwenhosen controversy
- Strangers, a 2007 film which takes place during the 2006 World Cup
- Deutschland. Ein Sommermärchen, a 2006 documentary film recording Germany national football team from boot camp in Sardegna to third place playoff against Portugal
- Several countries celebrated this major event with the minting of specially high value commemorative coins. Among them is the Belgian 20 euro Germany 2006 FIFA World Cup Coin. The obverse of the coin shows a footballer with a ball, right above them '2006 FIFA World Cup Germany' can be clearly seen.
- 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, also held in Germany
References and footnotes
- ^'World Cup and Television'(PDF). FIFA. 2006. Archived from the original(PDF) on 14 June 2007. Retrieved 6 June 2007.
- ^'FIFA acknowledges Brazil's withdrawal from 2006 World Cup race'. FIFA. 4 July 2000. Archived from the original on 23 April 2008. Retrieved 29 March 2008.
- ^'FIFA World Cup 2006 : Results of First Two Rounds of Voting'. FIFA. 6 July 2000. Archived from the original on 23 April 2008. Retrieved 29 March 2008.
- ^'Call for World Cup re-vote'. BBC Sport. 7 July 2000. Archived from the original on 16 January 2010. Retrieved 25 June 2007.
- ^'Legal threat over World Cup prank'. BBC News. 8 July 2000. Archived from the original on 16 January 2010. Retrieved 25 June 2007.
- ^'S. Africa Confident of Blatter's Support to Host 2006 World Cup'. People's Daily Online. 19 January 2000. Archived from the original on 16 January 2010. Retrieved 25 June 2007.
- ^'Voting procedure for 2006 FIFA World Cup decision'. FIFA. 5 July 2000. Archived from the original on 23 April 2008. Retrieved 29 March 2008.
- ^ abcdAumüller, Johannes; Kistner, Thomas (17 October 2015). 'Geplatzte Gala'. Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). p. 41.
- ^ abFritsch, Oliver (4 June 2015). 'Die verkauften WM-Turniere' (in German). Die Zeit. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^'World Cup Scandal: Germany Appears to Have Bought Right to Host 2006 Tournament'. Der Spiegel. 16 October 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^'Niersbach: 'Die WM war nicht gekauft'' (in German). kicker. 17 October 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^'WM-Vergabe 2006: Niersbachs Erklärung zur 6,7-Millionen-Euro-Zahlung' (in German). Spiegel Online. 22 October 2015. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
- ^'FIFA widerspricht DFB-Präsident Niersbach' (in German). Tagesschau. 22 October 2015. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
- ^'Ex-DFB-Chef Zwanziger: 'Es gab eine schwarze Kasse'' (in German). Tagesschau. 23 October 2015. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
- ^'Fifa opens investigation into Franz Beckenbauer and Germany's 2006 World Cup bid'. The Guardian. 22 March 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
- ^'Fifa investigates 2006 World Cup award'. 22 March 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
- ^'FIFA watchdog opens formal proceedings over 2006 German World Cup'. 22 March 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
- ^'Record number of 204 teams enter preliminary competition'. FIFA. 3 March 2007. Archived from the original on 17 November 2007. Retrieved 29 March 2008.
- ^'FIFA/Coca Cola World Ranking (17 May 2006)'. FIFA.com. FIFA. 17 May 2006. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^'FIFA/Coca Cola World Ranking (17 May 2006)'. FIFA.com. FIFA. 17 May 2006. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ ab'Stadiums renamed for Fifa sponsors'. BBC. 6 June 2006. Retrieved 29 March 2008.
- ^'Berlin'. FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association). Archived from the original on 16 June 2006. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ^'Munich'. FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association). Archived from the original on 16 June 2006. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ^'Dortmund'. FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association). Archived from the original on 16 June 2006. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ^'Stuttgart'. FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association). Archived from the original on 16 June 2006. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ^'Gelsenkirchen'. FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association). Archived from the original on 16 June 2006. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ^'Hamburg'. FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association). Archived from the original on 16 June 2006. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ^'Frankfurt'. FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association). Archived from the original on 16 June 2006. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ^'Kaiserslautern'. FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association). Archived from the original on 16 June 2006. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ^'Cologne'. FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association). Archived from the original on 16 June 2006. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ^'Hanover'. FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association). Archived from the original on 16 June 2006. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ^'Leipzig'. FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association). Archived from the original on 16 June 2006. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ^'Nuremberg'. FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association). Archived from the original on 16 June 2006. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ^'Media Guide: Team Headquarters and Training Facilities'. FIFA.com (Fédération Internationale de Football Association). 12 April 2006.
- ^'Deadline for submitting list of 23 players remains 15 May 2006'. FIFA.com. 16 March 2006. Archived from the original on 23 April 2008. Retrieved 28 March 2008.
- ^'FIFA Organising Committee approves team classifications and final draw procedure'. FIFA. 6 December 2005. Archived from the original on 23 April 2008. Retrieved 29 March 2008.
- ^Wilson, Paul (11 December 2005). 'An easy group? Draw your own conclusions'. The Observer. UK. Archived from the original on 30 June 2006. Retrieved 26 June 2006.
- ^Palmer, Kevin (24 May 2006). 'Group C Tactics Board'. ESPNsoccernet. Archived from the original on 20 June 2006. Retrieved 26 June 2006.
- ^O'Dea, Joseph (18 May 2006). 'FIFA changes World Cup tie-breaking rules'. Retrieved 29 June 2006.[dead link]
- ^'South African to learn lessons from Germany'. The 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany. 9 July 2006. Archived from the original on 19 July 2006. Retrieved 27 July 2006.
- ^Zeigler, Mark (30 June 2006). 'World Cup quarterfinals'. Union Tribune. Archived from the original on 24 May 2008. Retrieved 31 March 2008.
- ^'Who's to blame for Cup card frenzy?'. BBC Sport. 26 June 2006. Retrieved 23 July 2006.
- ^'Interview with Match-Fixing Investigator Declan Hill: 'I Am Sure the Game Was Manipulated''. Der Spiegel. 1 September 2008. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
- ^'Italy wins World Cup'. CBC Sports. 9 July 2006. Archived from the original on 15 July 2006. Retrieved 5 October 2006.
- ^'Zinedine Zidane Penalty Kick France V Italy FIFA World Cup Final 2006 HD HQ'. Youtube.com. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
- ^'Azzurri prominent in All Star Team'. FIFA. 7 July 2006. Archived from the original on 14 June 2010. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
- ^'France, Italy dominate World Cup all-star squad'. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Associated Press. 7 July 2006. Retrieved 11 August 2006.
- ^ ab'CHF 24.5 million for the 2006 world champions'. FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association). 6 December 2005. Archived from the original on 12 December 2006. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ^'2006 World Cup prize money increased'. USA Today. 26 April 2005. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ^Based on the methodology of Germany 2006: The final ranking (FIFA.com) 9 July 2006
- ^'Factsheet'(PDF). resources.fifa.com.
- ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
- ^Avaya (22 February 2002). 'Avaya launches FIFA World Cup branding campaign with BusinessPartners'.
- ^'Budweiser raises glass as World Cup official sponsor until 2014'.
- ^FIFA.com. '2018 FIFA World Cup Russia⢠- News - Anheuser-Busch toasts official beer sponsorship of 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany - FIFA.com'.
- ^'Coca-Cola 'wins sponsor World Cup''. 14 September 2006 â via news.bbc.co.uk.
- ^'Coca-Cola renews Fifa football sponsorship until 2022'.
- ^FIFA.com (21 January 2003). 'Continental AG - Official Partner of the 2006 FIFA World Cup TM'.
- ^FIFA.com (18 January 2018). 'Deutsche Telekom becomes Official Partner of 2006 FIFA World Cup Germanyâ¢'.
- ^spi. 'Telekom partner Fifa voor WK 2006'.
- ^FIFA.com (27 January 2003). 'Emirates - Official Partner of the 2006 FIFA World Cup TM'.
- ^Reporter, A Sports (29 January 2003). 'Emirates a key sponsor of FIFA World Cup in Germany'. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^FIFA.com (18 January 2018). 'Fujifilm Official Partner of the 2006 FIFA World Cupâ¢'.
- ^'Fujifilm Signs as Official Partner of the 2006 Fifa World Cup - News - Sportcal'. www.sportcal.com.
- ^'Gillette amps up sponsorships'.
- ^'FIFA'. HYUNDAI MOTORS.
- ^FIFA.com (18 January 2018). 'MasterCard â Official Partner of the 2006 FIFA World Cupâ¢'.
- ^'MasterCard tops Visa for World Cup soccer sponsorship - Business - International Herald Tribune'.
- ^FIFA.com. '2018 FIFA World Cup Russia⢠- News - McDonald's renews as FIFA World Cup Sponsor until 2014 - FIFA.com'.
- ^FIFA.com (14 November 2002). 'Philips becomes Official Partner of the 2006 FIFA World Cupâ¢'.
- ^'Toshiba : Press Releases 7 Jun, 2001'. www.toshiba.co.jp.
- ^'TOSHIBA SPONSORS SOCCER WORLD CUP'.
- ^'Yahoo! to sponsor Fifa'.
- ^'Yahoo! scores! World! Cup! site! rights!'.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to FIFA World Cup Germany 2006. |
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for 2006 FIFA World Cup. |
Wikinews has news related to: |
- 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany â¢, FIFA.com
- FIFA Technical Report (Part 1) and (Part 2)
- 'FIFAworldcup.com â The Official Site of FIFA World Cup'. Archived from the original on 13 March 2007. Retrieved 23 February 2006.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2006_FIFA_World_Cup&oldid=898529365'
Founded | 1930; 89 years ago |
---|---|
Region | International (FIFA) |
Number of teams | 32 (finals) 211 (eligible to enter qualification) |
Related competitions | FIFA Confederations Cup |
Current champions | France (2nd title) |
Most successful team(s) | Brazil (5 titles) |
Television broadcasters | List of broadcasters |
Website | fifa.com/worldcup/ |
Tournaments |
---|
The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War. The current champion is France, which won its second title at the 2018 tournament in Russia.
The current format of the competition involves a qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase, which is often called the World Cup Finals. After this, 32 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation(s), compete in the tournament phase for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month.
The 21 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight national teams. Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. The other World Cup winners are Germany and Italy, with four titles each; Argentina, France and inaugural winner Uruguay, with two titles each; and England and Spain with one title each.
The World Cup is the most prestigious association football tournament in the world, as well as the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games; the cumulative viewership of all matches of the 2006 World Cup was estimated to be 26.29 billion with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the final match, a ninth of the entire population of the planet.[1][2][3][4]
17 countries have hosted the World Cup. Brazil, France, Italy, Germany and Mexico have each hosted twice, while Uruguay, Switzerland, Sweden, Chile, England, Argentina, Spain, the United States, Japan and South Korea (jointly), South Africa and Russia have each hosted once. Qatar are planned as hosts of the 2022 finals, and 2026 will be jointly hosted by Canada, the United States and Mexico, which will give Mexico the distinction of being the first country to have hosted games in three finals.
- 1History
- 3Format
- 4Hosts
- 7Results
- 9Records and statistics
History
Previous international competitions
The world's first international football match was a challenge match played in Glasgow in 1872 between Scotland and England,[5] which ended in a 0â0 draw. The first international tournament, the inaugural British Home Championship, took place in 1884.[6] As football grew in popularity in other parts of the world at the start of the 20th century, it was held as a demonstration sport with no medals awarded at the 1900 and 1904 Summer Olympics (however, the IOC has retroactively upgraded their status to official events), and at the 1906 Intercalated Games.[7]
After FIFA was founded in 1904, it tried to arrange an international football tournament between nations outside the Olympic framework in Switzerland in 1906. These were very early days for international football, and the official history of FIFA describes the competition as having been a failure.[8]
At the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, football became an official competition. Planned by The Football Association (FA), England's football governing body, the event was for amateur players only and was regarded suspiciously as a show rather than a competition. Great Britain (represented by the England national amateur football team) won the gold medals. They repeated the feat at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.
With the Olympic event continuing to be contested only between amateur teams, Sir Thomas Lipton organised the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy tournament in Turin in 1909. The Lipton tournament was a championship between individual clubs (not national teams) from different nations, each one of which represented an entire nation. The competition is sometimes described as The First World Cup,[9] and featured the most prestigious professional club sides from Italy, Germany and Switzerland, but the FA of England refused to be associated with the competition and declined the offer to send a professional team. Lipton invited West Auckland, an amateur side from County Durham, to represent England instead. West Auckland won the tournament and returned in 1911 to successfully defend their title.
In 1914, FIFA agreed to recognise the Olympic tournament as a 'world football championship for amateurs', and took responsibility for managing the event.[10] This paved the way for the world's first intercontinental football competition, at the 1920 Summer Olympics, contested by Egypt and 13 European teams, and won by Belgium.[11]Uruguay won the next two Olympic football tournaments in 1924 and 1928. Those were also the first two open world championships, as 1924 was the start of FIFA's professional era.
World Cups before World War II
FIFA president Jules Rimet convinced the confederations to promote an international football tournament.
Due to the success of the Olympic football tournaments, FIFA, with PresidentJules Rimet as the driving force, again started looking at staging its own international tournament outside of the Olympics. On 28 May 1928, the FIFA Congress in Amsterdam decided to stage a world championship itself.[12] With Uruguay now two-time official football world champions and to celebrate their centenary of independence in 1930, FIFA named Uruguay as the host country of the inaugural World Cup tournament.
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 Ocean for European sides. Indeed, no European country pledged to send a team until two months before the start of the competition. Rimet eventually persuaded teams from Belgium, France, Romania, and Yugoslavia to make the trip. In total, 13 nations took part: seven from South America, four from Europe and two from North America.
Estadio Centenario, the location of the first World Cup final in 1930 in Montevideo, Uruguay
The first two World Cup matches took place simultaneously on 13 July 1930, and were won by France and the USA, who defeated Mexico 4â1 and Belgium 3â0 respectively. The first goal in World Cup history was scored by Lucien Laurent of France.[13] In the final, Uruguay defeated Argentina 4â2 in front of 93,000 people in Montevideo, and became the first nation to win the World Cup.[14] After the creation of the World Cup, FIFA and the IOC disagreed over the status of amateur players, and so football was dropped from the 1932 Summer Olympics.[15] Olympic football returned at the 1936 Summer Olympics, but was now overshadowed by the more prestigious World Cup.
The issues facing the early World Cup tournaments were the difficulties of intercontinental travel, and war. Few South American teams were willing to travel to Europe for the 1934 World Cup and all North and South American nations except Brazil and Cuba boycotted the 1938 tournament. Brazil was the only South American team to compete in both. The 1942 and 1946 competitions, which Germany and Brazil sought to host,[16] were cancelled due to World War II and its aftermath.
World Cups after World War II
The opening game of the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, shortly before the 1950 FIFA World Cup. From the National Archives of Brazil
The 1950 World Cup, held in Brazil, was the first to include British participants. British teams withdrew from FIFA in 1920, partly out of unwillingness to play against the countries they had been at war with, and partly as a protest against foreign influence on football,[17] but rejoined in 1946 following FIFA's invitation.[18] The tournament also saw the return of 1930 champions Uruguay, who had boycotted the previous two World Cups. Uruguay won the tournament again after defeating the host nation Brazil, in the match called 'Maracanazo' (Portuguese: Maracanaço).
In the tournaments between 1934 and 1978, 16 teams competed in each tournament, except in 1938, when Austria was absorbed into Germany after qualifying, leaving the tournament with 15 teams, and in 1950, when India, Scotland, and Turkey withdrew, leaving the tournament with 13 teams.[19] Most of the participating nations were from Europe and South America, with a small minority from North America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. These teams were usually defeated easily by the European and South American teams. Until 1982, the only teams from outside Europe and South America to advance out of the first round were: USA, semi-finalists in 1930; Cuba, quarter-finalists in 1938; North Korea, quarter-finalists in 1966; and Mexico, quarter-finalists in 1970.
Expansion to 32 teams
Interior view of the Soccer City in Johannesburg, South Africa, during a match at the 2010 FIFA World Cup
The tournament was expanded to 24 teams in 1982,[20] and then to 32 in 1998,[21] also allowing more teams from Africa, Asia and North America to take part. Since then, teams from these regions have enjoyed more success, with several having reached the quarter-finals: Mexico, quarter-finalists in 1986; Cameroon, quarter-finalists in 1990; South Korea, finishing in fourth place in 2002; Senegal, along with USA, both quarter-finalists in 2002; Ghana, quarter-finalists in 2010; and Costa Rica, quarter-finalists in 2014. Nevertheless, European and South American teams continue to dominate, e.g., the quarter-finalists in 1994, 1998, 2006 and 2018 were all from Europe or South America and so were the finalists of all tournaments so far.
Two hundred teams entered the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds; 198 nations attempted to qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, while a record 204 countries entered qualification for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.[22]
Expansion to 48 teams
In October 2013, Sepp Blatter spoke of guaranteeing the Caribbean Football Union's region a position in the World Cup.[23] In the edition of 25 October 2013 of the FIFA Weekly Blatter wrote that: 'From a purely sporting perspective, I would like to see globalisation finally taken seriously, and the African and Asian national associations accorded the status they deserve at the FIFA World Cup. It cannot be that the European and South American confederations lay claim to the majority of the berths at the World Cup.'[24] Those two remarks suggested to commentators that Blatter could be putting himself forward for re-election to the FIFA Presidency.[25]
Following the magazine's publication, Blatter's would-be opponent for the FIFA Presidency, UEFA President Michel Platini, responded that he intended to extend the World Cup to 40 national associations, increasing the number of participants by eight. Platini said that he would allocate an additional berth to UEFA, two to the Asian Football Confederation and the Confederation of African Football, two shared between CONCACAF and CONMEBOL, and a guaranteed place for the Oceania Football Confederation.[26] Platini was clear about why he wanted to expand the World Cup. He said: '[The World Cup is] not based on the quality of the teams because you don't have the best 32 at the World Cup .. but it's a good compromise. .. It's a political matter so why not have more Africans? The competition is to bring all the people of all the world. If you don't give the possibility to participate, they don't improve.'[26]
In October 2016, FIFA president Gianni Infantino stated his support for a 48-team World Cup in 2026.[27] On 10 January 2017, FIFA confirmed the 2026 World Cup will have 48 finalist teams.[28]
2015 FIFA corruption case
By May 2015, the games were under a particularly dark cloud because of the 2015 FIFA corruption case, allegations and criminal charges of bribery, fraud and money laundering to corrupt the issuing of media and marketing rights (rigged bids) for FIFA games,[29] with FIFA officials accused of taking bribes totaling more than $150 million over 24 years. In late May, the U.S. Justice Department announced a 47-count indictment with charges of racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy against 14 people. Arrests of over a dozen FIFA officials were made since that time, particularly on 29 May and 3 December.[30] By the end of May 2015, a total of nine FIFA officials and five executives of sports and broadcasting markets had already been charged on corruption. At the time, FIFA president Sepp Blatter announced he would relinquish his position in February 2016.[31]
On 4 June 2015 Chuck Blazer while co-operating with the FBI and the Swiss authorities admitted that he and the other members of FIFA's then-executive committee were bribed in order to promote the 1998 and 2010 World Cups.[32] On 10 June 2015 Swiss authorities seized computer data from the offices of Sepp Blatter.[33] The same day, FIFA postponed the bidding process for the 2026 FIFA World Cup in light of the allegations surrounding bribery in the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 tournaments. Then-secretary general Jérôme Valcke stated, 'Due to the situation, I think it's nonsense to start any bidding process for the time being.'[34] On 28 October 2015, Blatter and FIFA VP Michel Platini, a potential candidate for presidency, were suspended for 90 days; both maintained their innocence in statements made to the news media.[35]
On 3 December 2015 two FIFA vice-presidents were arrested on suspicion of bribery in the same Zurich hotel where seven FIFA officials had been arrested in May.[36] An additional 16 indictments by the U.S. Department of Justice were announced on the same day.[37]
Other FIFA tournaments
The BC Place in Vancouver hosting a 2015 Women's World Cup match
An equivalent tournament for women's football, the FIFA Women's World Cup, was first held in 1991 in China.[38] The women's tournament is smaller in scale and profile than the men's, but is growing; the number of entrants for the 2007 tournament was 120, more than double that of 1991.[39]
Men's football has been included in every Summer Olympic Games except 1896 and 1932. Unlike many other sports, the men's football tournament at the Olympics is not a top-level tournament, and since 1992, an under-23 tournament with each team allowed three over-age players.[40] Women's football made its Olympic debut in 1996.
The FIFA Confederations Cup is a tournament held one year before the World Cup at the World Cup host nation(s) as a dress rehearsal for the upcoming World Cup. It is contested by the winners of each of the six FIFA confederation championships, along with the FIFA World Cup champion and the host country.[41]
FIFA also organises international tournaments for youth football (FIFA U-20 World Cup, FIFA U-17 World Cup, FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup), club football (FIFA Club World Cup), and football variants such as futsal (FIFA Futsal World Cup) and beach soccer (FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup). The latter three do not have a women's version, although a FIFA Women's Club World Cup has been proposed.[42]
The FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup is held the year before each Women's World Cup and both tournaments are awarded in a single bidding process. The U-20 tournament serves as a dress rehearsal for the larger competition.[43]
Trophy
Queen Elizabeth II presenting the Jules Rimet trophy to 1966 World Cup winning England captain Bobby Moore
From 1930 to 1970, the Jules Rimet Trophy was awarded to the World Cup winning team. It was originally simply known as the World Cup or Coupe du Monde, but in 1946 it was renamed after the FIFA president Jules Rimet who set up the first tournament. In 1970, Brazil's third victory in the tournament entitled them to keep the trophy permanently. However, the trophy was stolen in 1983 and has never been recovered, apparently melted down by the thieves.[44]
The current trophy (held by France forward Ousmane Dembélé in 2018) has been presented since 1974
After 1970, a new trophy, known as the FIFA World Cup Trophy, was designed. The experts of FIFA, coming from seven countries, evaluated the 53 presented models, finally opting for the work of the Italian designer Silvio Gazzaniga. The new trophy is 36 cm (14.2 in) high, made of solid 18 carat (75%) gold and weighs 6.175 kg (13.6 lb).[45] The base contains two layers of semi-precious malachite while the bottom side of the trophy bears the engraved year and name of each FIFA World Cup winner since 1974.[45] The description of the trophy by Gazzaniga was: 'The lines spring out from the base, rising in spirals, stretching out to receive the world. From the remarkable dynamic tensions of the compact body of the sculpture rise the figures of two athletes at the stirring moment of victory.'[46]
This new trophy is not awarded to the winning nation permanently. World Cup winners retain the trophy only until the post-match celebration is finished. They are awarded a gold-plated replica rather than the solid gold original immediately afterwards.[47]
Currently, all members (players, coaches, and managers) of the top three teams receive medals with an insignia of the World Cup Trophy; winners' (gold), runners-up' (silver), and third-place (bronze). In the 2002 edition, fourth-place medals were awarded to hosts South Korea. Before the 1978 tournament, medals were only awarded to the eleven players on the pitch at the end of the final and the third-place match. In November 2007, FIFA announced that all members of World Cup-winning squads between 1930 and 1974 were to be retroactively awarded winners' medals.[48][49][50]
Format
Qualification
Since the second World Cup in 1934, qualifying tournaments have been held to thin the field for the final tournament.[51] 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.[52] 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.[53]
Final tournament
The current final tournament has been used since 1998 and features 32 national teams competing over the course of a month in the host nation(s). There are two stages: the group stage followed by the knockout stage.[54]
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 and/or performances in recent World Cups, and drawn to separate groups.[55] 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.[56]
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.[57] 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).
If one considers all possible outcomes (win, draw, loss) for all six matches in a group, there are 729 (= 36) outcome combinations possible. However, 207 of these combinations lead to ties between the second and third places. In such case, the ranking among these teams is determined as follows:[58]
- Greatest combined goal difference in all group matches
- Greatest combined number of goals scored in all group matches
- If more than one team remain level after applying the above criteria, their ranking will be determined as follows:
- Greatest number of points in head-to-head matches among those teams
- Greatest goal difference in head-to-head matches among those teams
- Greatest number of goals scored in head-to-head matches among those teams
- Fair play points, defined by the number of yellow and red cards received in the group stage:
- Yellow card: minus 1 point
- Indirect red card (as a result of a second yellow card): minus 3 points
- Direct red card: minus 4 points
- Yellow card and direct red card: minus 5 points
- 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. Busy software for windows 10. 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.[54]
On 10 January 2017, FIFA approved a new format, the 48-team World Cup (to accommodate more teams), which consists 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.[59]
Hosts
Map of FIFA World Cup final hosts, 1930â2022. Green: once; dark green: twice; light green: planned
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.[60] 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.[61]
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.[62] 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,[63] and was the first occasion where consecutive World Cups were held outside Europe.
Russian delegates celebrate being chosen as the host of the 2018 FIFA World Cup
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 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. However, 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.[64][65]
For the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, the final tournament is 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 will 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.[66] This is partly to avoid a similar scenario to the bidding process for the 2014 tournament, where Brazil was the only official bidder.[67]
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.[68] The 2026 tournament will be the biggest World Cup ever held, with 48 teams playing 80 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.[68]
Performances
Six of the eight champions have won one of their titles while playing in their own homeland, the exceptions being Brazil, who finished as runners-up after losing the deciding match on home soil in 1950 and lost their semi-final against Germany in 2014, and Spain, which reached the second round on home soil in 1982. England (1966) won its only title while playing as a host nation. Uruguay (1930), Italy (1934), Argentina (1978) and France (1998) won their first titles as host nations but have gone on to win again, while Germany (1974) won their second title on home soil.[69]
Other nations have also been successful when hosting the tournament. Switzerland (quarter-finals 1954), Sweden (runners-up in 1958), Chile (third place in 1962), South Korea (fourth place in 2002), and Mexico (quarter-finals in 1970 and 1986) all have their best results when serving as hosts. So far, South Africa (2010) has been the only host nation to fail to advance beyond the first round.[70]
Attendance
Year | Hosts | Venues/ Cities |
Total attendance |
Matches | Avg. attendance |
Highest attendances â | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number | Venue | Game(s) | ||||||
1930 | Uruguay | 3/1 | 590,549 | 18 | 32,808 | 93,000 | Estadio Centenario, Montevideo | Uruguay 6â1 Yugoslavia, Semi-final |
1934 | Italy | 8/8 | 363,000 | 17 | 21,353 | 55,000 | Stadio Nazionale PNF, Rome | Italy 2â1 Czechoslovakia, Final |
1938 | France | 10/9 | 375,700 | 18 | 20,872 | 58,455 | Olympique de Colombes, Paris | France 1â3 Italy, Quarter-final |
1950 | Brazil | 6/6 | 1,045,246 | 22 | 47,511 | 173,850[71] | Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro | Brazil 1â2 Uruguay, Deciding match |
1954 | Switzerland | 6/6 | 768,607 | 26 | 29,562 | 63,000 | Wankdorf Stadium, Bern | West Germany 3â2 Hungary, Final |
1958 | Sweden | 12/12 | 819,810 | 35 | 23,423 | 50,928 | Ullevi Stadium, Gothenburg | Brazil 2â0 Soviet Union, Group stage |
1962 | Chile | 4/4 | 893,172 | 32 | 27,912 | 68,679 | Estadio Nacional, Santiago | Brazil 4â2 Chile, Semi-final |
1966 | England | 8/7 | 1,563,135 | 32 | 48,848 | 98,270 | Wembley Stadium, London | England 4â2 West Germany, Final |
1970 | Mexico | 5/5 | 1,603,975 | 32 | 50,124 | 108,192 | Estadio Azteca, Mexico City | Mexico 1â0 Belgium, Group stage |
1974 | West Germany | 9/9 | 1,865,753 | 38 | 49,099 | 83,168 | Olympiastadion, West Berlin | West Germany 1â0 Chile, Group stage |
1978 | Argentina | 6/5 | 1,545,791 | 38 | 40,679 | 71,712 | River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires | Italy 1â0 Argentina, Group stage |
1982 | Spain | 17/14 | 2,109,723 | 52 | 40,572 | 95,500 | Camp Nou, Barcelona | Argentina 0â1 Belgium, Opening match |
1986 | Mexico | 12/11 | 2,394,031 | 52 | 46,039 | 114,600 | Estadio Azteca, Mexico City | Mexico 1â1 Paraguay, Group stage Argentina 3â2 West Germany, Final |
1990 | Italy | 12/12 | 2,516,215 | 52 | 48,389 | 74,765 | San Siro, Milan | West Germany 4â1 Yugoslavia, Group stage |
1994 | United States | 9/9 | 3,587,538 | 52 | 68,991 | 94,194 | Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California | Brazil 0(3)â(2)0 Italy, Final |
1998 | France | 10/10 | 2,785,100 | 64 | 43,517 | 80,000 | Stade de France, Saint-Denis | Brazil 0â3 France, Final |
2002 | Japan / South Korea | 20/20 | 2,705,197 | 64 | 42,269 | 69,029 | International Stadium, Yokohama, Japan | Brazil 2â0 Germany, Final |
2006 | Germany | 12/12 | 3,359,439 | 64 | 52,491 | 72,000 | Olympiastadion, Berlin | Germany 1(4)â(2)1 Argentina, Quarter-final |
2010 | South Africa | 10/9 | 3,178,856 | 64 | 49,670 | 84,490 | Soccer City, Johannesburg | Spain 1â0 Netherlands, Final |
2014 | Brazil | 12/12 | 3,429,873 | 64 | 53,592 | 74,738 | Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro | Germany 1â0 Argentina, Final |
2018 | Russia | 12/11 | 3,031,768 | 64 | 47,371 | 78,011 | Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow | France 4â2 Croatia, Final |
Overall | 40,532,478 | 900 | 45,036 | 171,772 | Maracanã Stadium, Rio (1950) |
The best-attended single match, shown in the last three columns, has been the final in half of the 20 World Cups as of 2014. Another match or matches drew more attendance than the final in 1930, 1938, 1958, 1962, 1970â1982, 1990 and 2006.
- Source: FIFA[72]
Broadcasting and promotion
A Coca-Cola bottle promoting the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan
The World Cup was first televised in 1954 and is now the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world. The cumulative viewership of all matches of the 2006 World Cup is estimated to be 26.29 billion.[1] 715.1 million individuals watched the final match of this tournament (a ninth of the entire population of the planet). The 2006 World Cup draw, which decided the distribution of teams into groups, was watched by 300 million viewers.[73] The World Cup attracts many sponsors such as Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Adidas. For these companies and many more, being a sponsor strongly impacts their global brands. Host countries typically experience a multimillion-dollar revenue increase from the month-long event.The governing body of the sport, FIFA, generated $4.8 billion in revenue from the 2014 tournament.[74]
Each FIFA World Cup since 1966 has its own mascot or logo. World Cup Willie, the mascot for the 1966 competition, was the first World Cup mascot.[75] World Cups feature official match balls specially designed for each tournament.[76] Each World Cup also has an official song, which have been performed by artists ranging from Shakira to Will Smith.[77][78] Other songs, such as âNessun dormaâ, performed by The Three Tenors at four World Cup concerts, have also become identified with the tournament.[79]
Forming a partnership with FIFA in 1970, Panini published its first sticker album for the 1970 World Cup.[80] Since then, collecting and trading stickers and cards has become part of the World Cup experience, especially for the younger generation.[81] FIFA has also licensed World Cup video games since 1986, with Electronic Arts the current license holder.[80]
The World Cup even has a statistically significant effect on birth rates, the male/female sex ratio of newborns, and heart attacks in nations whose national teams are competing.[82][83][84]
Results
# | Year | Hosts | Champions | Score and Venue | Runners-up | Third place | Score and Venue | Fourth place | No. of Teams | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1930 Details |
Uruguay | Uruguay |
4â2 Estadio Centenario, Montevideo |
Argentina |
United States |
[note 1] | Yugoslavia |
13 | |||
2 | 1934 Details |
Italy | Italy |
2â1 (a.e.t.) Stadio Nazionale PNF, Rome |
Czechoslovakia |
Germany |
3â2 Stadio Giorgio Ascarelli, Naples |
Austria |
16 | |||
3 | 1938 Details |
France | Italy |
4â2 Stade de Colombes, Paris |
Hungary |
Brazil |
4â2 Parc Lescure, Bordeaux |
Sweden |
15 | |||
1942 | Editions not organized because of World War II. | |||||||||||
1946 | ||||||||||||
4 | 1950 Details |
Brazil | Uruguay |
[note 2] 2â1 Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro |
Brazil |
Sweden |
[note 2] 3â1 Pacaembu, São Paulo |
Spain |
13 | |||
5 | 1954 Details |
Switzerland | West Germany |
3â2 Wankdorfstadion, Bern |
Hungary |
Austria |
3â1 Hardturm, Zürich |
Uruguay |
16 | |||
6 | 1958 Details |
Sweden | Brazil |
5â2 RÃ¥sundastadion, Solna |
Sweden |
France |
6â3 Ullevi, Gothenburg |
West Germany |
16 | |||
7 | 1962 Details |
Chile | Brazil |
3â1 Estadio Nacional, Santiago |
Czechoslovakia |
Chile |
1â0 Estadio Nacional, Santiago |
Yugoslavia |
16 | |||
8 | 1966 Details |
England | England |
4â2 (a.e.t.) Wembley Stadium, London |
West Germany |
Portugal |
2â1 Wembley Stadium, London |
Soviet Union |
16 | |||
9 | 1970 Details |
Mexico | Brazil |
4â1 Estadio Azteca, Mexico City |
Italy |
West Germany |
1â0 Estadio Azteca, Mexico City |
Uruguay |
16 | |||
10 | 1974 Details |
West Germany | West Germany |
2â1 Olympiastadion, Munich |
Netherlands |
Poland |
1â0 Olympiastadion, Munich |
Brazil |
16 | |||
11 | 1978 Details |
Argentina | Argentina |
3â1 (a.e.t.) Monumental de Núñez, Buenos Aires |
Netherlands |
Brazil |
2â1 Monumental de Núñez, Buenos Aires |
Italy |
16 | |||
12 | 1982 Details |
Spain | Italy |
3â1 Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid |
West Germany |
Poland |
3â2 Estadio José Rico Pérez, Alicante |
France |
24 | |||
13 | 1986 Details |
Mexico | Argentina |
3â2 Estadio Azteca, Mexico City |
West Germany |
France |
4â2 (a.e.t.) Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla |
Belgium |
24 | |||
14 | 1990 Details |
Italy | West Germany |
1â0 Stadio Olimpico, Rome |
Argentina |
Italy |
2â1 Stadio San Nicola, Bari |
England |
24 | |||
15 | 1994 Details |
United States | Brazil |
0â0 (a.e.t.) (3â2 pen.) Rose Bowl, Pasadena |
Italy |
Sweden |
4â0 Rose Bowl, Pasadena |
Bulgaria |
24 | |||
16 | 1998 Details |
France | France |
3â0 Stade de France, Saint-Denis |
Brazil |
Croatia |
2â1 Parc des Princes, Paris |
Netherlands |
32 | |||
17 | 2002 Details |
Japan South Korea |
Brazil |
2â0 International Stadium, Yokohama |
Germany |
Turkey |
3â2 Daegu Stadium, Daegu |
South Korea |
32 | |||
18 | 2006 Details |
Germany | Italy |
1â1 (a.e.t.) (5â3 pen.) Olympiastadion, Berlin |
France |
Germany |
3â1 Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion, Stuttgart |
Portugal |
32 | |||
19 | 2010 Details |
South Africa | Spain |
1â0 (a.e.t.) Soccer City, Johannesburg |
Netherlands |
Germany |
3â2 Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Port Elizabeth |
Uruguay |
32 | |||
20 | 2014 Details |
Brazil | Germany |
1â0 (a.e.t.) Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro |
Argentina |
Netherlands |
3â0 Estádio Nacional, BrasÃlia |
Brazil |
32 | |||
21 | 2018 Details |
Russia | France |
4â2 Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow |
Croatia |
Belgium |
2â0 Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg |
England |
32 | |||
22 | 2022 Details |
Qatar | TBD | TBD Iconic Stadium, Lusail |
TBD | TBD | TBD TBD |
TBD | 32 | |||
23 | 2026 Details |
Canada Mexico United States |
TBD | TBD TBD, United States |
TBD | TBD | TBD TBD |
TBD | 48 |
- a.e.t.: after extra time
- pen.: after penalty shoot-out
- TBD: to be determined
- Notes
- ^There was no third place match in 1930; the United States and Yugoslavia lost in the semi-finals. FIFA now recognises the United States as the third-placed team and Yugoslavia as the fourth-placed team, using the overall records of the teams in the tournament.[85]
- ^ abThere was no official World Cup final match in 1950.[86] The tournament winner was decided by a final round-robin group contested by four teams (Uruguay, Brazil, Sweden, and Spain). Coincidentally, one of the last two matches of the tournament pitted the two top ranked teams against each other, with Uruguay's 2â1 victory over Brazil thus often being considered as the de facto final of the 1950 World Cup.[87] Likewise, the game between the lowest ranked teams, played at the same time as Uruguay vs Brazil, can be considered equal to a 3rd place match, with Sweden's 3â1 victory over Spain ensuring that they finished third.
In all, 79 nations have played in at least one World Cup.[88] Of these, eight national teams have won the World Cup, and they have added stars to their badges, with each star representing a World Cup victory. (Uruguay, however, choose to display four stars on their badge, representing their two gold medals at the 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympics and their two World Cup titles in 1930 and 1950).
With five titles, Brazil are the most successful World Cup team and also the only nation to have played in every World Cup (21) to date.[89] Brazil were also the first team to win the World Cup for the third (1970), fourth (1994) and fifth (2002) time. Italy (1934 and 1938) and Brazil (1958 and 1962) are the only nations to have won consecutive titles. West Germany (1982â1990) and Brazil (1994â2002) are the only nations to appear in three consecutive World Cup finals. Germany has made the most top-four finishes (13), medals (12), as well as the most finals (8).
Map of countries' best results
Teams reaching the top four
Team | Titles | Runners-up | Third place | Fourth place | Top 4 Finishes |
Top 3 Finishes |
Top 2 Finishes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Brazil | 5 (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002) | 2 (1950*, 1998) | 2 (1938, 1978) | 2 (1974, 2014*) | 11 | 9 | 7 |
Germany^ | 4 (1954, 1974*, 1990, 2014) | 4 (1966, 1982, 1986, 2002) | 4 (1934, 1970, 2006*, 2010) | 1 (1958) | 13 | 12 | 8 |
Italy | 4 (1934*, 1938, 1982, 2006) | 2 (1970, 1994) | 1 (1990*) | 1 (1978) | 8 | 7 | 6 |
Argentina | 2 (1978*, 1986) | 3 (1930, 1990, 2014) | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||
France | 2 (1998*, 2018) | 1 (2006) | 2 (1958, 1986) | 1 (1982) | 6 | 5 | 3 |
Uruguay | 2 (1930*, 1950) | 3 (1954, 1970, 2010) | 5 | 2 | 2 | ||
England | 1 (1966*) | 2 (1990, 2018) | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||
Spain | 1 (2010) | 1 (1950) | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
Netherlands | 3 (1974, 1978, 2010) | 1 (2014) | 1 (1998) | 5 | 4 | 3 | |
Hungary | 2 (1938, 1954) | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||
Czechoslovakia# | 2 (1934, 1962) | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||
Sweden | 1 (1958*) | 2 (1950, 1994) | 1 (1938) | 4 | 3 | 1 | |
Croatia | 1 (2018) | 1 (1998) | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||
Poland | 2 (1974, 1982) | 2 | 2 | ||||
Austria | 1 (1954) | 1 (1934) | 2 | 1 | |||
Portugal | 1 (1966) | 1 (2006) | 2 | 1 | |||
Belgium | 1 (2018) | 1 (1986) | 2 | 1 | |||
United States | 1 (1930) | 1 | 1 | ||||
Chile | 1 (1962*) | 1 | 1 | ||||
Turkey | 1 (2002) | 1 | 1 | ||||
Yugoslavia# | 2 (1930, 1962) | 2 | |||||
Soviet Union# | 1 (1966) | 1 | |||||
Bulgaria | 1 (1994) | 1 | |||||
South Korea | 1 (2002*) | 1 |
* = hosts
^ = includes results representing West Germany between 1954 and 1990
# = states that have since split into two or more independent nations[88]
Best performances by continental zones
South Koreans watching their nation on the big screens in Seoul Plaza during the 2002 World Cup when they became the first Asian country to reach the semi-finals.
To date, the final of the World Cup has only been contested by teams from the UEFA (Europe) and CONMEBOL (South America) confederations. European nations have won twelve titles, while South American have won nine. Only two teams from outside these two continents have ever reached the semi-finals of the competition: United States (North, Central America and Caribbean) in 1930 and South Korea (Asia) in 2002. The best result of an African team is reaching the quarter-finals: Cameroon in 1990, Senegal in 2002 and Ghana in 2010. Only one Oceanian qualifier, Australia in 2006, has advanced to the second round.[90]
Brazil, Argentina, Spain and Germany are the only teams to win a World Cup outside their continental confederation; Brazil came out victorious in Europe (1958), North America (1970 and 1994) and Asia (2002). Argentina won a World Cup in North America in 1986, while Spain won in Africa in 2010. In 2014, Germany became the first European team to win in the Americas. Only on five occasions have consecutive World Cups been won by teams from the same continent, and currently it is the first time with four champions in a row from the same continental confederation. Italy and Brazil successfully defended their titles in 1938 and 1962 respectively, while Italy's triumph in 2006 has been followed by wins for Spain in 2010, Germany in 2014 and France in 2018. Currently, it is also the first time that one of the currently winning continents (Europe) is ahead of the other (South America) by more than one championship.
Confederation | AFC | CAF | CONCACAF | CONMEBOL | OFC | UEFA | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Teams | 37 | 44 | 42 | 85 | 4 | 245 | 457 |
Top 16 | 6 | 9 | 14 | 35 | 1 | 91 | 156 |
Top 8 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 34 | 0 | 100 | 144 |
Top 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 0 | 60 | 84 |
Top 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 28 | 42 |
1st | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 12 | 21 |
2nd | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 16 | 21 |
3rd | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 21 |
4th | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 21 |
Awards
At the end of each World Cup, awards are presented to the players and teams for accomplishments other than their final team positions in the tournament. There are currently six awards:[91]
- The Golden Ball for the best player, determined by a vote of media members (first awarded in 1982); the Silver Ball and the Bronze Ball are awarded to the players finishing second and third in the voting respectively;[92]
- The Golden Boot (sometimes called the Golden Shoe) for the top goalscorer (first awarded in 1982, but retrospectively applied to all tournaments from 1930); most recently, the Silver Boot and the Bronze Boot have been awarded to the second and third top goalscorers respectively;[93]
- The Golden Glove Award (formerly the Yashin Award) for the best goalkeeper, decided by the FIFA Technical Study Group (first awarded in 1994);[94]
- The Best Young Player Award for the best player aged 21 or younger at the start of the calendar year, decided by the FIFA Technical Study Group (first awarded in 2006);[95]
- The FIFA Fair Play Trophy for the team with the best record of fair play, according to the points system and criteria established by the FIFA Fair Play Committee (first awarded in 1978);[95]
- The Most Entertaining Team for the team that has entertained the public the most during the World Cup, determined by a poll of the general public (first awarded in 1994);[95]
An All-Star Team consisting of the best players of the tournament has also been announced for each tournament since 1998.
Records and statistics
Lothar Matthäus played a record 25 World Cup matches across a joint record five tournaments.
Three players share the record for playing in the most World Cups; Mexico's Antonio Carbajal (1950â1966) and Rafael Márquez (2002â2018); and Germany's Lothar Matthäus (1982â1998) all played in five tournaments.[96] Matthäus has played the most World Cup matches overall, with 25 appearances.[97]Brazil's Djalma Santos (1954â1962), West Germany's Franz Beckenbauer (1966â1974) and Germany's Philipp Lahm (2006â2014) are the only players to be named to three Finals All-Star Teams.[98]
Miroslav Klose of Germany (2002â2014) is the all-time top scorer at the finals, with 16 goals. He broke Ronaldo of Brazil's record of 15 goals (1998â2006) during the 2014 semi-final match against Brazil. West Germany's Gerd Müller (1970â1974) is third, with 14 goals.[99] The fourth placed goalscorer, France's Just Fontaine, holds the record for the most goals scored in a single World Cup; all his 13 goals were scored in the 1958 tournament.[100]
In November 2007, FIFA announced that all members of World Cup-winning squads between 1930 and 1974 were to be retroactively awarded winners' medals.[48] This made Brazil's Pelé the only player to have won three World Cup winners' medals (1958, 1962, and 1970, although he did not play in the 1962 final due to injury),[101] with 20 other players who have won two winners' medals. Seven players have collected all three types of World Cup medals (winners', runner- ups', and third-place); five players were from West Germany's squad of 1966â1974 including Franz Beckenbauer, Jürgen Grabowski, Horst-Dieter Höttges, Sepp Maier and Wolfgang Overath (1966â1974), Italy's Franco Baresi (1982, 1990, 1994) and the most recent has been Miroslav Klose of Germany (2002â2014) with four consecutive medals.[102]
Brazil's Mário Zagallo, West Germany's Franz Beckenbauer and France's Didier Deschamps are the only people to date to win the World Cup as both player and head coach. Zagallo won in 1958 and 1962 as a player and in 1970 as head coach.[103] Beckenbauer won in 1974 as captain and in 1990 as head coach,[104] and Deschamps repeated the feat in 2018, after having won in 1998 as captain.[105]Italy's Vittorio Pozzo is the only head coach to ever win two World Cups (1934 and 1938).[106] All World Cup-winning head coaches were natives of the country they coached to victory.[107]
Among the national teams, Germany and Brazil have played the most World Cup matches (109), Germany appeared in the most finals (8), semi-finals (13), quarter-finals (16), while Brazil has appeared in the most World Cups (21), has the most wins (73) and has scored the most goals (229).[108][109] The two teams have played each other twice in the World Cup, in the 2002 final and in the 2014 semi-final.[110]
Top goalscorers
Miroslav Klose scored a record 16 goals across four World Cups.
Rank | Nation | Player | Goals scored |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Miroslav Klose | 16 | |
2 | Ronaldo | 15 | |
3 | Gerd Müller | 14 | |
4 | Just Fontaine | 13 | |
5 | Pelé | 12 | |
6 | Jürgen Klinsmann | 11 | |
Sándor Kocsis | 11 |
All-time table for champions
Position | Name of Team | Participations | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Avg Pts |
Trophies |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Brazil | 21 | 109 | 73 | 18 | 18 | 229 | 105 | 124 | 237 | 2.17 | 5 |
2 | Germany[111] | 19 | 109 | 67 | 20 | 22 | 226 | 125 | 101 | 221 | 2.03 | 4 |
3 | Italy | 18 | 83 | 45 | 21 | 17 | 128 | 77 | 51 | 156 | 1.88 | 4 |
4 | Argentina | 17 | 81 | 43 | 15 | 23 | 137 | 93 | 44 | 144 | 1.78 | 2 |
5 | France | 15 | 66 | 34 | 13 | 19 | 120 | 77 | 43 | 115 | 1.74 | 2 |
6 | England | 15 | 69 | 29 | 21 | 19 | 91 | 64 | 27 | 108 | 1.59 | 1 |
7 | Spain | 15 | 63 | 30 | 15 | 18 | 99 | 72 | 27 | 105 | 1.67 | 1 |
8 | Uruguay | 13 | 56 | 24 | 12 | 20 | 87 | 74 | 13 | 84 | 1.50 | 2 |
See also
Wikinews has related news: FIFA receives eleven bids for 2018 and 2022 World Cups |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to FIFA World Cup. |
Notes and references
- ^ ab'2006 FIFA World Cup broadcast wider, longer and farther than ever before'. FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 6 February 2007. Retrieved 11 October 2009.
- ^Tom Dunmore, Historical Dictionary of Soccer, page 235, quote 'The World Cup is now the most-watched sporting event in the world on television, above even the Olympic Games.'
- ^Stephen Dobson and John Goddard, The Economics of Football, page 407, quote 'The World Cup is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world: the estimated cumulative television audience for the 2006 World Cup in Germany was 26.2 billion, an average of 409 million viewers per match.â
- ^Glenn M. Wong, The Comprehensive Guide to Careers in Sports, page 144, quote 'The World Cup is the most-watched sporting event in the world. In 2006, more than 30 billion viewers in 214 countries watched the World Cup on television, and more than 3.3 million spectators attended the 64 matches of the tournament.'
- ^'England National Football Team Match No. 1'. England Football Online. Retrieved 19 November 2007.
- ^'British PM backs return of Home Nations championship'. Agence France-Presse. Retrieved 16 December 2007.
- ^Elbech, Søren; Stokkermans, Karel (26 June 2008). 'Intermediate Games of the IV. Olympiad'. rec.sport.soccer Statistics Foundation.
- ^'History of FIFA â FIFA takes shape'. FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
- ^''The First World Cup'. The Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy'. Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council. 10 October 2003. Archived from the original on 29 November 2003. Retrieved 11 April 2006.
- ^'History of FIFA â More associations follow'. FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
- ^Reyes, Macario (18 October 1999). 'VII. Olympiad Antwerp 1920 Football Tournament'. rec.sport.soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 10 June 2006.
- ^'History of FIFA â The first FIFA World Cup'. FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
- ^Molinaro, John F. 'The World Cup's 1st goal scorer'. CBC. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
- ^'FIFA World Cup Origin'(PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Archived from the original(PDF) on 14 June 2010. Retrieved 19 November 2007.
- ^'The Olympic Odyssey so far .. (Part 1: 1908â1964)'. FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 9 June 2004. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
- ^'Los datos más curiosos de la Fiesta del Fútbol - Brasil 1950'. Archived from the original on 1 July 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
- ^'Scotland and the 1950 World Cup'. BBC. Retrieved 13 May 2007.
- ^Glanville
- ^Glanville, p45
- ^Glanville, p238
- ^Glanville, p359
- ^'Record number of 204 teams enter preliminary competition'. FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
- ^Whittaker, James (23 October 2013). 'Caribbean pro league can work'. Cayman Islands: CompassCayman.com. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- ^Blatter, Sepp (25 October 2013). 'A level playing field for Africa!'(PDF). FIFA Weekly. p. 29. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- ^Morley, Gary (25 October 2013). 'Sepp Blatter calls for more African nations at World Cup finals'. CNN. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- ^ abDickinson, Matt (28 October 2013). 'Michel Platini sets out his plan for the new world order'. The Times. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- ^World Cup could expand to 48 teams, Fifaâs Gianni Infantino suggests - The Guardian, 3 October 2016
- ^'Ab 2026: 48 Teams - Fifa vergröÃert die WM'. SPIEGEL ONLINE.
- ^No byline (3 December 2015). 'The FIFA Investigation, Explained'. New York Times. New York, NY, USA. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
- ^McLaughlin, Eliott C.; Botelho, Greg (28 May 2015). 'FIFA corruption probe targets 'World Cup of fraud,' IRS chief says'. CNN. Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
- ^'Fifa crisis: US charges 16 more officials after earlier Zurich arrests'. BBC News. 4 December 2015.
- ^'Blazer: Bribes accepted for 1998 and 2010 World Cups - Telegraph'. Telegraph.co.uk. 3 June 2015.
- ^'Swiss police seize IT data from Fifa headquarters', The BBC, 10 June 2015. Retrieved 10 June 2015
- ^'Fifa World Cup 2026 bidding process delayed'. BBC Sport. 10 June 2015. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
- ^Associated Press (8 October 2015). 'Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini handed 90-day FIFA suspensions'. CBC Sports. CBC/Radio Canada. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
- ^Ruiz, Rebecca (3 December 2015). 'FIFA Corruption: Top Officials Arrested at Zurich Hotel'. New York Times. New York, USA. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
- ^no byline (3 December 2015). 'Fifa crisis: US charges 16 more officials after earlier Zurich arrests'. BBC Sport. BBC. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
- ^'FIFA Women's World Cup'. FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 22 December 2007.
- ^'We Are the World .. Cup'Archived 9 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine. China Post. Retrieved 8 September 2017
- ^'Regulations Men's Olympic Football Tournament 2008'(PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Archived from the original(PDF) on 27 February 2008. Retrieved 22 December 2007.
- ^'FIFA Confederations Cup'. FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 22 December 2007.
- ^'FIFA Task Force for Women's Football proposes a FIFA Women's Club World Cup'. fifa.com. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
- ^'FIFA Women's World Cup next up for Canada in 2015'. CBC Sports. Retrieved 8 September 2017
- ^'Jules Rimet Cup'. FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
- ^ ab'FIFA World Cup⢠Trophy'. FIFA.com. 24 June 2018.
- ^'FIFA World Cup Trophy'. FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
- ^'FIFA Assets â Trophy'. FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Archived from the original on 4 November 2007. Retrieved 19 November 2007.
- ^ ab'122 forgotten heroes get World Cup medals'. ESPNSoccernet.com. ESPN. 25 November 2007.
- ^'World Cup 1966 winners honoured'. BBC Sport. 10 June 2009.
- ^'Jimmy Greaves finally gets his 1966 World Cup medal'. Mirror.co.uk. MGN.
- ^'FIFA World Cup qualifying: Treasure-trove of the weird and wonderful'. FIFA. Retrieved 23 December 2007.
- ^'2010 World Cup Qualifying'. ESPNSoccernet.com. ESPN. 26 November 2009. Archived from the original on 16 December 2008. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
- ^'History of the FIFA World Cup Preliminary Competition (by year)'(PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Archived from the original(PDF) on 14 June 2010.
- ^ ab'Formats of the FIFA World Cup final competitions 1930â2010'(PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 1 January 2008.
- ^'FIFA World Cup: seeded teams 1930â2010'(PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
- ^Previously, due to there being fewer finals places and a bigger ratio of European finalists, there had been several occasions where three European teams were in a single group, for example, 1986 (West Germany, Scotland, and Denmark), 1990 (Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Austria), and 1994 (Italy, Republic of Ireland, and Norway). ('History of the World Cup Final Draw'(PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 12 May 2014.)
- ^This practice has been installed since the 1986 FIFA World Cup. In some cases during previous tournaments, for example, Argentina 6â0 Peru in Argentina 1978 and West Germany 1â0 Austria in Spain 1982, teams that played the latter match were perceived to gain an unfair advantage by knowing the score of the earlier match, and subsequently obtaining a result that ensured advancement to the next stage. ('1978 Argentina'. CBC.; '1982 Spain'. CBC.)
- ^'Regulations - 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia'(PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. p. 43. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
- ^Turner, Stephen (10 January 2017). 'FIFA approves 48-team World Cup'. Sky Sports News. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
- ^'Uruguay 1930'. BBC Sport. 11 April 2002. Retrieved 13 May 2006.
- ^'France 1938'. BBC Sport. 17 April 2002. Retrieved 13 May 2006.
- ^'Asia takes World Cup center stage'. CNN. 3 June 2002. Retrieved 1 January 2008.
- ^'Brazil will stage 2014 World Cup'. BBC Sport. 10 October 2007. Retrieved 1 January 2008.
- ^Gibson, Owen (2 December 2010). 'England beaten as Russia win 2018 World Cup bid'. The Guardian. London. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
- ^Jackson, Jamie (2 December 2010). 'Qatar win 2022 World Cup bid'. The Guardian. London. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
- ^'Rotation ends in 2018'. FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 29 October 2007. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
- ^Collett, Mike (30 October 2007), âBrazil officially named 2014 World Cup hostsâ. Reuters. Retrieved 6 July 2018
- ^ ab'World Cup 2026: Canada, US & Mexico joint bid wins right to host tournament'. BBC Sport. 13 June 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
- ^'World Cup 1974 - West Germany win on home soil'. BBC. Retrieved 2 December 2017
- ^Bevan, Chris. 'France 1-2 South Africa'. BBC. Retrieved 2 December 2017
- ^'World Cup Rewind: Largest attendance at a match in the 1950 Brazil final'. Guinness World Records. 12 June 2018. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
Officially, 173,850 paid spectators crammed into Rio de Janeiroâs Maracanã Stadium on July 16(..) Some estimates have even pegged the attendance as high as 199,000 or 210,000 unofficially
- ^'FIFA World Cup competition records'(PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. p. 2. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
- ^'Socceroos face major challenge: Hiddink'. ABC Sport. 10 December 2005. Archived from the original on 30 April 2006. Retrieved 13 May 2006.
- ^'FIFA Financial Report 2014: Frequently Asked Questions'. FIFA.com. 9 December 2017.
- ^'FIFA Assets â Mascots'. FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Archived from the original on 4 November 2007. Retrieved 19 November 2007.
- ^'The Footballs during the FIFA World Cup'. Football Facts. FIFA. Archived from the original on 28 November 2013. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
- ^Anderson, Sara D (27 April 2010). 'Shakira Records Official Song for 2010 FIFA World Cup'. Aolradioblog. Archived from the original on 29 April 2010. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
- ^'2018 FIFA World Cup Russia Official Song 'Live It Up' to be performed by all-star line-up'. FIFA. 23 May 2018. Archived from the original on 29 May 2018.
- ^'A riot of colour, emotion and memories: the World Cup stands alone in the field of sport'. The Independent. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
- ^ ab'Brand collaborations'. FIFA.com. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- ^'Panini World Cup sticker book'. The Guardian. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- ^Brachfeld, Aaron (2 December 2015). 'World Cup affects sex ratio in newborns'. the Loka Review (November 2015). Loka Hatha Yoga. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
- ^Masukume, Gwinyai. 'Possible Effect of the World Cup on Births'. Improbable Research. Harvard University. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
- ^Masukume, Gwinyai. 'The sex ratio at birth in South Africa increased 9 months after the 2010 FIFA World Cup'. Early Human Development. Journal of Early Human Development. Retrieved 2 December 2015.[permanent dead link]
- ^'1930 FIFA World Cup Uruguay'. FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- ^'1950 FIFA World Cup'. FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
- ^'FIFA World Cup Finals since 1930'(PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
- ^ abFIFA considers that the national team of Russia succeeds the Soviet Union, the national team of Serbia succeeds the Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro, and the national team of Czech Republic succeeds the Czechoslovakia. ('Russia'. FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association.; 'Serbia'. FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association.; 'Czech Republic'. FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 12 May 2014.).
- ^'Brazil'. FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
- ^Australia's qualification in 2006 was through the Oceanian zone as they were a member of the OFC member during qualifying. However, on 1 January 2006, they left the Oceania Football Confederation and joined the Asian Football Confederation.
- ^'FIFA World Cup awards'(PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Archived from the original(PDF) on 30 June 2016. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
- ^'Golden Ball for Zinedine Zidane'. Soccerway. 10 July 2006. Retrieved 31 December 2007.
- ^'adidas Golden Shoe â FIFA World Cup Final'. FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
- ^'Kahn named top keeper'. BBC Sport. 30 June 2002. Retrieved 31 December 2007.
- ^ abcPierrend, José Luis (18 May 2007). 'FIFA Awards'. rec.sport.soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 12 January 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2008.
- ^Yannis, Alex (10 November 1999). 'Matthaus Is the Latest MetroStars Savior'. New York Times. Retrieved 23 December 2007.
- ^'World Cup Hall of Fame: Lothar Matthaeus'. CNN. Archived from the original on 27 December 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2007.
- ^Downie, Andrew (24 July 2013). 'Brazil's twice World Cup winner Djalma Santos dies at 84'. Reuters. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
- ^Chowdhury, Saj (27 June 2006). 'Ronaldo's riposte'. BBC Sport. Retrieved 23 December 2007.
- ^'Goal machine was Just superb'. BBC Sport. 4 April 2002. Retrieved 23 December 2007.
- ^Kirby, Gentry (5 July 2006). 'Pele, King of Futbol'. ESPN. Archived from the original on 16 December 2008. Retrieved 23 December 2007.
- ^'Brazil, Germany & Every World Cup Winner from 1930 to 2014'. Goal. 13 May 2018.
- ^Hughes, Rob (11 March 1998). 'No Alternative to Victory for National Coach : 150 Million Brazilians Keep Heat on Zagalo'. International Herald Tribune. Archived from the original on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 31 December 2007.
- ^Brewin, John (21 December 2001). 'World Cup Legends â Franz Beckenbauer'. ESPNSoccernet.com. ESPN. Archived from the original on 19 November 2009. Retrieved 31 December 2007.
- ^Cross, Jeremy (15 July 2018). 'France boss Didier Deschamps makes history with World Cup final victory over Croatia'. Daily Star. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
- ^'1938 World Cup: Italy repeats as champions'. CBC. 21 November 2009. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
- ^'The Curse of the Foreign-Born Coach'. Wall Street Journal. 13 May 2018.
- ^'World Football â All time table'. World Football. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
- ^'Brazil pass Germany as all-time top scorers at the World Cup'. ESPN. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
- ^'Five Aside: Germany - Brazil preview'. ESPN. 7 July 2014. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
- ^includes results of West Germany from 1954 to 1990
Bibliography
- Glanville, Brian (2005). The Story of the World Cup. Faber. ISBN0-571-22944-1.
External links
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FIFA_World_Cup&oldid=898716763'
- Summary:2006 FIFA World Cup features 12 official stadiums used at 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany and stadiums from each qualifying region. Gamers can play as their favorite team from qualification right through to a virtual reproduction of the tournament in Germany. With enhanced player animations, EA2006 FIFA World Cup features 12 official stadiums used at 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany and stadiums from each qualifying region. Gamers can play as their favorite team from qualification right through to a virtual reproduction of the tournament in Germany. With enhanced player animations, EA SPORTS has emulated close to 100 of the world's superstars, capturing their playing styles and individual likenesses. In addition to enabling gamers to participate in the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany by taking control of one of 127 national teams, the game features new compelling modes of play, including the groundbreaking Global Challenge that tests even the most hardcore soccer fan by recreating classic moments in FIFA World Cup history. Furthermore, the game supports up to eight-way multiplayer matches and features a plethora of in-game unlockable content such as legendary players and exclusive apparel. [Electronic Arts]â¦Expand
-
2006 FIFA World Cup Final Event 2006 FIFA World Cup Italy France 1 1 After extra time
Italy won 5â3 on penaltiesDate 9 July 2006 Venue Olympiastadion, Berlin Man of the Match Andrea Pirlo (Italy)[1] Referee Horacio Elizondo (Argentina) Attendance 69,000 Weather Clear
25 °C (77 °F)[2]â 2002The 2006 FIFA World Cup Final was a football match that took place on 9 July 2006 at the Olympiastadion, Berlin, Germany, to determine the winner of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Italy beat France 5â3 on penalties after the match finished 1â1 after extra time. France's Zinedine Zidane was sent off in his last-ever match, for headbutting Italy's Marco Materazzi's chest in retaliation to Materazzi's verbal provocation.It was the first final since 1978 in which neither Germany nor Brazil competed (and the second since 1938); it was also the first all-European final since Italy won the 1982 FIFA World Cup, and the second final to be decided on penalties (1994 was the first, with Italy losing on that occasion). It was also Italy's first world title in 24 years, and their fourth overall, putting them one ahead of Germany and only one behind Brazil. The penalty shoot-out victory for Italy was that country's first in the World Cup Finals: Italy's three previous penalty shoot-out competitions (including the 1994 final) had all been lost. The victory also led to Italy topping the FIFA World Rankings in February 2007 for the first time since November 1993.- 3Match
- 5Aftermath
Route to the final[edit]
Italy Round France Opponent Result Group stage Opponent Result Ghana 2â0 Match 1 Switzerland 0â0 United States 1â1 Match 2 South Korea 1â1 Czech Republic 2â0 Match 3 Togo 2â0 Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Italy 3 2 1 0 5 1 +4 7 Ghana 3 2 0 1 4 3 +1 6 Czech Republic 3 1 0 2 3 4 â1 3 United States 3 0 1 2 2 6 â4 1 Final standings Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Switzerland 3 2 1 0 4 0 +4 7 France 3 1 2 0 3 1 +2 5 South Korea 3 1 1 1 3 4 â1 4 Togo 3 0 0 3 1 6 â5 0 Opponent Result Knockout stage Opponent Result Australia 1â0 Round of 16 Spain 3â1 Ukraine 3â0 Quarter-finals Brazil 1â0 Germany 2â0 (aet) Semi-finals Portugal 1â0 Pre-match[edit]
The opening performance was by singers Shakira and Wyclef Jean, who performed a special version of 'Hips Don't Lie' called The Bamboo Version.Match[edit]
Summary[edit]
Zidane during the 2006 World Cup FinalThe final started with each side scoring within the first 20 minutes. Zinedine Zidane opened the scoring by converting a seventh-minute penalty kick,[3] conceded by Marco Materazzi, which glanced off the underside of the crossbar and into the goal. Materazzi then levelled the scores in the 19th minute, a header from six yards following an Andrea Pirlo corner from the right. Both teams had chances to score the winning goal in normal time: Luca Toni hit the crossbar in the 35th minute for Italy, later having a header disallowed for offside, while France were not granted a possible second penalty in the 53rd minute when Florent Malouda went down in the box after a cover tackle from Gianluca Zambrotta. France appeared to be the side with better chances to win because of the higher number of shots on goal. They were unable to capitalise, however, and the score remained at one goal each.At the end of the regulation 90 minutes, the score was still level at 1â1, and the match was forced into extra time. Italian keeper Gianluigi Buffon made a potentially game-saving save in extra time when he tipped a Zidane header over the crossbar.As Zidane and Materazzi were jogging up the pitch close to each other, they briefly exchanged words after Materazzi was seen tugging at Zidane's jersey before Zidane began to walk away from him. Moments later, Zidane suddenly stopped, turned around and head-butted Materazzi's chest, knocking him to the ground. Although play was halted, referee Horacio Elizondo did not appear to have seen the confrontation. According to match officials' reports, fourth officialLuis Medina Cantalejo informed Elizondo of the incident through his headset.[4] After consulting his assistants, Elizondo issued Zidane a red card in the 110th minute.[5] It marked the 14th overall expulsion of Zidane's career, and joined him with Cameroon's Rigobert Song as the only players ever to be sent off during two separate World Cup tournaments.[6] He also became the fourth player red-carded in a World Cup final, in addition to being the first sent off in extra time.[7]Extra time produced no further goals and a penalty shoot-out followed, which Italy won 5â3. France's David Trezeguet, the man who scored the golden goal against Italy in the Euro 2000 final, was the only player not to score his penalty; his spot kick hit the crossbar, leaving Fabio Grosso â who scored Italy's first goal in the semi-final against Germany â to score the winning penalty.[8]Details[edit]
Italy 1â1 (a.e.t.) France - Materazzi19'
Report Penalties 5â3 Attendance: 69,000[9]GK 1 Gianluigi Buffon RB 19 Gianluca Zambrotta 5' CB 5 Fabio Cannavaro (c) CB 23 Marco Materazzi LB 3 Fabio Grosso RM 16 Mauro Camoranesi 86' CM 8 Gennaro Gattuso CM 21 Andrea Pirlo LM 20 Simone Perrotta 61' SS 10 Francesco Totti 61' CF 9 Luca Toni Substitutions: MF 4 Daniele De Rossi 61' FW 15 Vincenzo Iaquinta 61' FW 7 Alessandro Del Piero 86' Manager: Marcello Lippi GK 16 Fabien Barthez RB 19 Willy Sagnol 12' CB 15 Lilian Thuram CB 5 William Gallas LB 3 Eric Abidal CM 4 Patrick Vieira 56' CM 6 Claude Makelele 76' RW 22 Franck Ribéry 100' AM 10 Zinedine Zidane (c) 110' LW 7 Florent Malouda 111' CF 12 Thierry Henry 107' Substitutions: MF 18 Alou Diarra 56' FW 20 David Trezeguet 100' FW 11 Sylvain Wiltord 107' Manager: Raymond Domenech Man of the Match:
Andrea Pirlo (Italy)[1]Assistant referees:
Dario GarcÃa (Argentina)
Rodolfo Otero (Argentina)
Fourth official:
Luis Medina Cantalejo (Spain)
Fifth official:
Victoriano Giraldez Carrasco (Spain)Match rules:- 90 minutes
- 30 minutes of extra time if scores level
- Penalty shoot-out if scores still level
- 12 substitutes named, of which three may be used
Statistics[edit]
Overall[9] Italy France Goals scored 1 1 Total shots 5 13 Shots on target 3 6 Ball possession 55% 45% Corner kicks 5 7 Fouls committed 17 24 Offsides 4 2 Yellow cards 1 3 Red cards 0 1 Post-match[edit]
German PresidentHorst Köhler, UEFA presidentLennart Johansson, and the local organizing committee president Franz Beckenbauer were among those present on the pitch stage during the awards ceremony. President Köhler handed the trophy to Italian captain Fabio Cannavaro without FIFA presidentSepp Blatter's presence.[10] As Cannavaro raised the trophy, a short version of Patrizio Buanne's 'Stand Up (Champions Theme)' was played.[10]Aftermath[edit]
Provocation of Zidane[edit]
After video evidence suggested that Materazzi had verbally provoked Zidane, three British media newspapers claimed to have hired lip readers to determine what Materazzi had said, with The Times, The Sun and Daily Star claiming that Materazzi called Zidane 'the son of a terrorist whore'. Materazzi disputed this claim, eventually winning public apologies from The Sun and Daily Star in 2008,[11][12] as well as libel damages from all three British newspapers.[13]Zidane only partly explained that repeated harsh insults about his mother had caused him to react.[14] Materazzi admitted talking trash to Zidane, but argued that Zidane's behaviour had been very arrogant and that the remarks were trivial.[15] Materazzi also insisted that he did not insult Zidane's mother (who was ill at the time), claiming, 'I didn't talk about his mother, either. I lost my mother when I was fifteen, and even now I still get emotional talking about it'.[16][17]Zidane later apologised but added that he did not regret his offence because he felt that this would condone Materazzi's actions.[18] Two months later, Materazzi offered his version of events, claiming that after he had grabbed Zidane's jersey, Zidane remarked, 'If you want my shirt, I will give it to you afterwards', and he replied to Zidane that he would prefer his sister, but claimed during the interview that he was unaware Zidane even had a sister.[19] Over a year after the incident, Materazzi confirmed that his precise words to Zidane were: 'I prefer the whore that is your sister'.[20]Reactions[edit]
After the final, then-President of FranceJacques Chirac hailed Zidane as a 'man of heart and conviction'.[21] Chirac later added that he found the offence to be unacceptable, but he understood that Zidane had been provoked.[22] However, French newspaper Le Figaro called the headbutt 'odious' and 'unacceptable'.[23]Time magazine regarded the incident as a symbol for Europe's 'grappling with multi-culturalism'.[24] Despite the ongoing furore, Zidane's sponsors announced that they would stick with him.[25]The incident was extensively lampooned on the Internet and in popular culture. Family Guy parodied it in the episode 'Saving Private Brian', in which Zidane headbutts an old lady while delivering her a birthday cake. The Simpsons parodied it in the episode 'Marge Gamer', in which Homer Simpson shouts 'Zidane!', when headbutting the linesman. In addition to becoming a staple of parody via numerous online videos and GIFs, a novelty song titled Coup de Boule ('Headbutt') reached the top of the French charts. A statue of the incident was made in 2014.In light of Zidane's statements, FIFA opened disciplinary proceedings to investigate the incident. FIFA also affirmed the legality of Elizondo's decision to send Zidane off, rejecting claims that Cantalejo had illegally relied on video transmission to make a decision about handling Zidane's misconduct.[26] FIFA issued a CHF 5,000 fine and a two-match ban against Materazzi, while Zidane received a three-match ban and a CHF 7,500 fine. Since Zidane had already retired, he voluntarily served three days of community service on FIFA's behalf as a substitute for the match ban.[27]The Hidden Face of Zidane, written by journalist Besma Lahouri and published in September 2008, claimed that Zidane had expressed his regret for the incident during a conversation with his cousin.[28]In October 2009, in an interview conducted on French radio station RTL, Zidane stated: 'Let's not forget that provocation is a terrible thing. I have never been one to provoke; I have never done it. It's terrible, and it is best not to react'.[29]Viewer figures[edit]
According to FIFA, 715.1 million individuals globally watched the final match of this tournament.[30]IPG's independent media agency Initiative Worldwide estimated a 260 million people viewership.[31] The independent firm Initiative Futures Sport + Entertainment estimates it at 322 million viewers.[32]See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ ab'Andrea PIRLO'. FIFA.com. Archived from the original on 12 July 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ^http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/EDDB/2006/7/9/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA
- ^Stevenson, Jonathan (9 July 2006). 'Italy 1â1 France (aet)'. BBC Sport. British Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 9 April 2010.
- ^'Fourth Official: I saw Zidane's Headbutt'. ESPNsoccernet. 11 July 2006. Archived from the original on 18 July 2006. Retrieved 11 July 2006.
- ^Williams, Richard (10 July 2006). 'Zidane exits the stage with a walk of shame'. The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 29 September 2006. Retrieved 10 July 2006.
- ^Buckingham, Mark. '1998 World Cup â France'. Sky Sports. Archived from the original on 3 July 2006. Retrieved 11 July 2006.
- ^'Zidane sent off in extra time for head butt'. ESPNsoccernet. 9 July 2006. Archived from the original on 11 August 2006. Retrieved 11 July 2006.
- ^Stevenson, Jonathan (9 July 2006). 'Italy 1â1 France (aet)'. BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 August 2009.
- ^ abcd'Italy â France'. FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^ abMatchday Live - 2006 Italy vs. France on YouTube
- ^'Apology to Marco Materazzi'. London: The Sun. 26 May 2008. Retrieved 28 June 2009.
- ^'Materazzi wins Daily Star apology'. BBC News. 16 March 2008. Archived from the original on 12 January 2009.
- ^Materazzi wins British libel damages over Sun's claims about Zidane head-butt. The Guardian (6 February 2009). Retrieved 9 February 2009.
- ^Hughes, Matt (11 July 2006). 'Read my lips: the taunt that made Zidane snap'. The Times. London. Retrieved 11 July 2006.
- ^'Materazzi admits to insulting Zidane'. ESPNsoccernet. 11 July 2006. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
- ^'Zidane: Materazzi insulted my family'. ESPNsoccernet. 12 July 2006. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
- ^'World Cup: 25 stunning moments .. No5: Zinedine Zidane's head-butt'. Guardian. 11 March 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
- ^'Zidane explains'. BBC Sport. 13 July 2006. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
- ^'Materazzi reveals details of Zidane World Cup slur'. Reuters. 5 September 2006. Archived from the original on 5 April 2009. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
- ^'And Materazzi's exact words to Zidane were..'The Guardian. London. 18 August 2007. Archived from the original on 21 August 2007. Retrieved 18 March 2008.
- ^Boyle, Jon (9 July 2006). 'French fans praise Zidane despite red card'. The Washington Post. Retrieved 11 July 2006.[dead link]
- ^'Chirac calls Zidane head-butt 'unacceptable''. MSNBC. 14 July 2006. Retrieved 18 March 2008.
- ^'French media condemns Zidane'. UTV. 11 July 2006. Archived from the original on 25 February 2008. Retrieved 18 March 2008.
- ^Karon, Tony (13 July 2006). 'The Head Butt Furore: A Window on Europe's Identity Crisis'. Time. Retrieved 18 March 2008.
- ^'Sponsors stick with Zidane despite head-butt'. USA Today. 11 July 2006. Retrieved 18 March 2008.
- ^'FIFA to review dramatic World Cup final' (Press release). FIFA. 11 July 2006. Archived from the original on 14 June 2010. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
- ^Bose, Mihir (21 July 2006). 'Zidane case sets disciplinary precedent'. Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
- ^Zidane Sorry For Materazzi HeadbuttArchived 29 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine, PeopleStar.co.uk.. Retrieved 20 September 2008.
- ^'Zidane : 'C'était trop fort''. L'Ãquipe.fr. 12 October 2009. Archived from the original on 13 October 2009. Retrieved 12 October 2009.
- ^'TV Data'. FIFA.com â About FIFA â Organisation â Marketing â Facts and Figures. FIFA. Archived from the original on 24 November 2009. Retrieved 24 November 2009.
The final Italy â France [had] a global cumulative audience of 715.1 million viewers.
- ^Bloomberg.com: International
- ^World Cup final âwill vie for record of second most-watched event in human historyâ « Sporting Intelligence
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2006_FIFA_World_Cup_Final&oldid=898528884' - Summary:2006 FIFA World Cup features 12 official stadiums used at 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany and stadiums from each qualifying region. Gamers can play as their favorite team from qualification right through to a virtual reproduction of the tournament in Germany. With enhanced player animations, EA2006 FIFA World Cup features 12 official stadiums used at 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany and stadiums from each qualifying region. Gamers can play as their favorite team from qualification right through to a virtual reproduction of the tournament in Germany. With enhanced player animations, EA SPORTS has emulated close to 100 of the world's superstars, capturing their playing styles and individual likenesses. In addition to enabling gamers to participate in the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany by taking control of one of 127 national teams, the game features new compelling modes of play, including the groundbreaking Global Challenge that tests even the most hardcore soccer fan by recreating classic moments in FIFA World Cup history. Furthermore, the game supports up to eight-way multiplayer matches and features a plethora of in-game unlockable content such as legendary players and exclusive apparel.â¦Expand