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Qualification
Since the second World Cup in 1934, qualifiers have been held to reduce the number of competitors in the championship game. The six FIFA continental zones (Africa, Asia, North and Central America and the Caribbean, South America, Oceania, and Europe) are where they are held, and each zone is governed by a different confederation. FIFA determines in advance how many spots will be given to each continental zone for each tournament, typically based on the relative strength of the confederations' teams.
The qualification process can begin up to almost three years prior to the main competition and last for two years. The qualification tournament formats vary between confederations. Intercontinental play-off winners typically receive one or two spots. For instance, a play-off for a place in the 2010 World Cup involved the winner of the Oceanian zone and the fifth-place team from the Asian zone. The host nation receives automatic qualification to the championship tournament starting with the 1938 World Cup. Between 1938 and 2002, the defending champions were also given this privilege, but starting with the FIFA World Cup in 2006, this privilege was removed and the defending champions had to qualify. The 2002 champions from Brazil were the first defending champions to compete in qualifying games.
Final tournament
History of the FIFA World Cup has information on the various formats used in prior competitions. each final tournament's format.
Since 1998, 32 national teams have competed in the final tournament, which takes place over the course of a month in the host countries. The group stage is the first stage, and the knockout stage is the second.
Teams compete in eight groups of four teams each during the group stage. Eight teams are seeded, including the host nation. The other seeded teams are chosen based on the FIFA World Rankings or their results in recent World Cups, and they are divided into separate groups. The eight groups are randomly chosen from among the teams in the other teams' "pots," which are typically based on geographic factors. In order to prevent any group from containing more than two European teams or more than one team from any other confederation, restrictions have been placed on the draw since 1998.
Each group competes in a round-robin tournament, where each team is required to play three times against other groups. This indicates that each group has six matches total. For the sake of maintaining fairness among the four teams, the final round of games for each group is scheduled at the same time. Each group's top two teams advance to the knockout round. A group's teams are ranked using points. Three points have been given since 1994 for a victory, one for a tie, and none for a defeat (before, winners received two points).
There are 729 (= 36) possible outcome combinations when taking into account all possible results (win, draw, loss) for each of the six matches in a group. 207 of these combinations, however, result in ties for second and third place. In this situation, the following criteria are used to rank these teams:
highest total goal differential across all group games
the highest total of goals scored across all group games
Following the application of the aforementioned criteria, if more than one team is still level, their ranking will be determined as follows:
the highest number of points among those teams in head-to-head contests
greatest goal difference between those teams' head-to-head contests
the highest number of goals scored by those teams in head-to-head contests
The number of yellow and red cards a player received during the group stage is used to calculate fair play points.
Yellow card: one point deducted
Negative three points for an indirect red card (resulting from a second yellow card).
Direct dismissal: four points deducted
Negative five points for a yellow and a direct red card.
If any of the aforementioned teams are still tied after applying the aforementioned criteria, their ranking will be decided by a random drawing.
Teams compete against each other in one-off matches during the knockout stage of a single-elimination tournament. If necessary, overtime and penalty shootouts are used to determine the winner. The round of 16 (or the second round) is where the top two finishers from each group compete against one another. The quarterfinals, semifinals, third-place match (in which the losing semifinal losers compete), and final follow. [68]
In order to accommodate more teams, FIFA approved a new format on January 10th, the 48-team World Cup, which will be implemented by 2026 and feature 16 groups of three teams each, with two teams qualifying from each group to form a round of 32 knockout stages.
Awards:
Awards are given to players and teams at the conclusion of each World Cup for accomplishments other than their final team standings in the competition. Currently, there are six awards:
the Silver Ball and the Bronze Ball are given to the players who place second and third in the voting, respectively; the Golden Ball is given to the best player, as decided by a vote of media members (first awarded in 1982);
The Golden Boot, also known as the Golden Shoe, is given to the player who scores the most goals. It was first given out in 1982, but tournaments dating back to 1930 were included. More recently, the Silver Boot and Bronze Boot have been given to the second and third-place finishers, respectively.
The FIFA Technical Study Group's Golden Glove Award, formerly the Yashin Award, given to the best goalkeeper (first given out in 1994); [107] The FIFA Technical Study Group's Best Young Player Award given to the best player under the age of 21 at the start of the calendar year (first given out in 2006);
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);[108] An All-Star Team consisting of the best players of the tournament has also been announced for each match. These awards include: [108] 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)
Records and Statistics:
Three players have participated in five World Cups, including Lothar Matthäus (1982–1998) of Germany, Antonio Carbajal (1950–1966) of Mexico, and Rafael Márquez (2002–2018). [109] With 25 appearances, Matthäus has participated in the most World Cup games overall. [110] Only three players have been selected to three World Cup All-Star Teams: Djalma Santos of Brazil (1954–1962), Franz Beckenbauer of West Germany (1966–1974), and Philipp Lahm of Germany (2006–2014).
With 16 goals, Germany's Miroslav Klose (2002-2014) holds the record for most World Cup goals scored. During the 2014 World Cup semi-final game against Brazil, he eclipsed Ronaldo's 15-goal (1998-2006) record for the country of Brazil. Gerd Müller (1970–1974) of West Germany comes in third with 14 goals. Just Fontaine of France, who finished with four goals, holds the record for the most goals scored in a single World Cup; all 13 of his goals came in the 1958 competition.
Only Pelé has won the World Cup three times.
FIFA announced in November 2007 that all members of World Cup-winning teams from 1930 to 1974 would receive winners' medals retroactively.
[61] With 20 other players having won two World Cup winners' medals, this made Brazil's Pelé the only player to have won three medals (1958, 1962, and 1970, though he missed the 1962 final due to injury). Seven players—Franz Beckenbauer, Jürgen Grabowski, Horst-Dieter Höttges, Sepp Maier, and Wolfgang Overath (1966–1974); Franco Baresi of Italy (1982, 1990, 1994); and most recently, Germany's Miroslav Klose (2002–2014), who won four straight medals.—have amassed all three types of World Cup medals (winners', runner-ups', and third-place).
Only three individuals—Mário Zagallo of Brazil, Franz Beckenbauer of West Germany, and Didier Deschamps of France—have won the World Cup as both a player and a head coach to date. As a player in 1958 and 1962 and as head coach in 1970, Zagallo enjoyed success. [116] The feat was repeated by Beckenbauer in 1974 as captain and in 1990 as head coach,[117] and by Deschamps in 2018, after he had previously accomplished it in 1998 as captain. [118] The only head coach to ever win two World Cups is Vittorio Pozzo of Italy (1934 and 1938). [119] All of the head coaches of World Cup-winning nations were citizens of the nation they led to victory.
German and Brazilian national teams have participated in the most World Cup games (109), finals (eight), semi-finals (13), and quarter-finals (16), respectively. Brazil has participated in the most World Cups (21), has the most victories (73) and has scored the most goals (229).
In the final of the 2002 World Cup and the semifinal of the 2014 World Cup, the two teams faced off against one another.