How many people participated in the first World Cup

13 countries and regions participated in the competition: Argentina, Paraguay, Belgium, Bolivia, Romania, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, United States, France, Yugoslavia, Mexico, Peru.

1930 (Uruguay): First World Cup, the host country won the first World Cup.

Country: Uruguay.

Participating countries: A total of 13 countries and regions participated in the competition: Argentina, Paraguay, Belgium, Bolivia, Romania, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, United States, France, Yugoslavia, Mexico, Peru.

Top scorer: Starbile (Argentina) 8 goals.

Winner: Uruguay.

At his suggestion, FIFA decided to officially host the first World Cup in Uruguay in 1930. Since then, FIFA has held three meetings to finalize the structure and timing of the match. A total of 13 countries participated in the inaugural World Cup, and there were no qualifiers on any continent, and all teams were invited by the host country to participate.

The inaugural World Cup featured 18 matches and a total of 70 goals were scored, with an average of one goal per game.

The World Cup team has 23 players.

Each team participating in the World Cup must have 23 players. Since 1998, the World Cup has stipulated that each team must report a 23-man squad before the start of the game, including 3 goalkeepers, and since the 2002 World Cup, 12 players except for the 11 players on the field can sit on the bench except for suspension.

The 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar is the 22nd FIFA World Cup, which will be held from November 20 (November 21, Beijing time) to December 18, 2022 local time in 8 stadiums in 5 cities in Qatar (the schedule has been reduced from 32 days to 29 days).

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This World Cup makes Qatar the third Asian country to host the World Cup after Japan and South Korea, the first Islamic country to host the tournament, and the first host country since World War II that has never qualified for the World Cup finals. On August 12, 2022, Beijing time, FIFA announced that the 2022 Qatar World Cup would start one day earlier and be held at 0:00 Beijing time on November 21.

The opening match was changed to the host Qatar vs Ecuador; The final will be played on December 18 at 11 p.m. Beijing time at the Lusail Stadium. On December 19, 2022, in the final of the 2022 Qatar World Cup, Argentina defeated France 7(3)-5(3) in a penalty shootout to win the championship.

The first World Cup was the 1930 FIFA World Cup in Uruguay (Spanish: Copa Mundial de la FIFA 1930), in which 13 teams from the three continental football confederations participated, with the exception of the host Uruguay, which automatically qualified for the tournament, and the remaining 12 teams qualified by invitation.

As many European teams felt that travelling to South America was too costly and time-consuming, only a handful of European teams were willing to participate in this tournament. The participating teams are divided into 4 groups, and the first place in each group advances to the semi-finals. Argentina, Uruguay, the United States and Yugoslavia topped the group and reached the semi-finals.

There are 26 players playing in this year's World Cup.

The 2022 World Cup is held in Qatar and FIFA announced that the World Cup squad has been expanded from 23 to 26 players.

The World Cup football team has 26 people per team, and each team can only play 11 people, and the players, coaches, assistant coaches, physical coaches, team doctors, substitutes, and several regular members of the volleyball team are composed of 15 people.

Originally, the World Cup began to stipulate that each team must report a 23-man squad before the start of the game, including 3 goalkeepers, and since the 2002 World Cup, 12 players except for the 11 players on the field can sit on the bench except for suspension.

World Cup Tournament Format:

The number of places in the final stage of the World Cup is currently 32, and the host country in the final stage can directly obtain the quota in the final stage, except for the host country, the other places are allocated by FIFA according to the football level of each qualifying region, and different qualifying regions will have different numbers of final stage places.

Note: FIFA stipulates that from the 2006 World Cup qualifiers, the defending champions will need to participate in World Cup qualifiers in their own region, so that only the host nation can qualify for the round of 32 of the finals.

The host country of the World Cup finals must be a FIFA member state (region), and the member state (region) needs to apply to FIFA (two members can jointly apply to host it), and then the vote of all FIFA member countries (region) will be selected.

The number of players in the World Cup is 11.

The maximum number of players allowed to play in a World Cup is 11. Soccer Rules: There should be two teams participating in a match, and each team must have no more than 11 players on the field, including one goalkeeper.

According to the rules in force set by the FIFA, each team is limited to three substitutes. In an unofficial match, the number of substitutes may be set by the organiser, but players who are sent off during the match cannot be substituted by other players.

The clothing of the players of the same team must be the same color and clearly different from the opposing team, and the players on the court must wear shin guards. The goalkeeper's costume must be clearly different from that of the other players and referees on both sides. Players are not allowed to wear clothing and accessories that are harmful to other players.

World Cup Introduction:

The FIFA World Cup, referred to as the World Cup, is a football event that symbolizes the highest honor in football and has the greatest popularity and influence. The World Cup has been televised to more than 3.5 billion viewers worldwide. The World Cup is held every four years, and any FIFA member state (region) can send a team to register for this event.

The Brazilian national team is the team that has won the most World Cups (5 times) and has permanently retained the previous World Cup winners' trophy, the Remet Cup, after winning 3 World Cups. The birthplace of modern football is England, whose team won the World Cup for the first time in 1966. The current World Cup trophy is the Hercules Cup, which was first lifted by four-time World Cup winners Germany in 1974 and has been used ever since.

In the 2002 South Korea-Japan World Cup, the Chinese national team advanced to the World Cup finals for the first time.

On December 18, 2022, in the final of the 2022 Qatar World Cup, Argentina and France drew 3-3 in regular time and extra time, and through a penalty shootout, Argentina won 7-5 on aggregate and won the championship.