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It has been 80 years since the first edition began in Uruguay.
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The World Cup is held every four years, and in 1930 Uruguay hosted the first World Cup, and in the end the host Uruguay won the World Cup, becoming the first country to win the World Cup.
The 2010 World Cup in South Africa was the 19th World Cup and the first time the World Cup was held on the African continent.
The host country and the champion, runner-up and runner-up of the previous World Cups:
Session Year Host Country Number of Teams Champion Runner-up Third Runner-up 1 1930 Uruguay 13 Uruguay Argentina -2 1934 Italy 16 Italy Czech Republic Germany Austria3 1938 France 15 Italy Hungary Brazil Sweden 4 1950 Brazil 13 Uruguay Brazil Sweden Spain5 1954 Switzerland 16 West Germany Hungary Austria Uruguay6 1958 Sweden 16 Brazil Sweden France West Germany7 1962 Chile 16 Brazil Czech Republic Chile Yugoslavia8 1966 United Kingdom 16 England West Germany Portugal Soviet Union9 1970 Mexico 16 Brazil Italy West Germany Uruguay10 1974 West Germany 16 West Germany Netherlands Poland Brazil11 1978 Argentina 16 Argentina Netherlands Brazil Italy12 1982 Spain 24 Italy West Germany Poland France13 1986 Mexico 24 Argentina West Germany France Belgium14 1990 Italy 24 West Germany Argentina Italy England15 1994 United States 24 Brazil Italy Sweden, Bulgaria, 16, 1998, France, 32, France, Brazil, Croatia, Netherlands, 17, 2002, Korea-Japan, 32, Brazil, Germany, Turkey, South Korea, 18, 2006, Germany, 32, Italy, France, Germany, Portugal.
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The first World Cup generally refers to the 1930 World Cup in Uruguay.
It's been about 92 years. The first World Cup was held on July 13, 1930, and ended on July 30, 1930, and the whole competition took 17 days, unlike now, when only 13 teams entered the World Cup, and the Uruguayan national men's football team won the championship.
Once every 4 years. The World Cup qualifying stage is divided into six major regions, namely Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, North America and Oceania, each region needs to formulate qualifying rules according to the actual situation of the region, and each FIFA member country (region) team that has registered for the World Cup needs to qualify in its own region to compete for a place in the World Cup finals. 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. >>>More
In addition to the $30 million prize money for the champion team, the prize money for the runner-up team is 24 million euros, the prize money for the semi-final team is 20 million US dollars, the team that reaches the top 8 will receive 18 million euros, and the top 16 and group stage teams will receive 9 million and 8 million US dollars respectively.
It has been held for 18 sessions, and this is the 19th session.
A total of 32 teams from 32 countries are as follows:
Asia (4 teams): Australia, Japan, South Korea, North Korea. >>>More