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The FIFA Women's World Cup was inaugurated with the 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup, hosted in China, with 12 teams sent to represent their countries. Over 90,185 spectators attended the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup and nearly 1 billion viewers from 70 countries tuned in. By the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup, 16 teams competed in the championship ...
The World Cup has been held every four years since; [87] by 2019, it had expanded to 24 national teams, and 1.12 billion viewers watched the competition. [88] Four years later, FIFA targeted the 32-team 2023 Women's World Cup at an audience of 2 billion, [89] while about 1.4 million tickets were sold, setting a Women's World Cup record. [90]
The various codes of football share certain common elements and can be grouped into two main classes of football: carrying codes like American football, Canadian football, Australian football, rugby union and rugby league, where the ball is moved about the field while being held in the hands or thrown, and kicking codes such as association football and Gaelic football, where the ball is moved ...
Australia beats American Samoa 31–0 in 2002 World Cup qualification, the world record in an international match. 2002 in football Brazil sets up a record fifth title in World Cup competition, the first ever to be played in Asia (also the first outside Europe and the Americas), defeating Germany 2–0 in the 2002 FIFA World Cup final.
Usage of the various names of association football vary among the countries and territories which use English as an official or de facto official language. The brief survey of usage below addresses places which have some level of autonomy in the sport and their own separate federation but are not actually independent countries: for example the constituent countries of the United Kingdom and ...
The English word football may mean any one of several team sports (or the ball used in that respective sport), depending on the national or regional origin and location of the person using the word; the use of the word football usually refers to the most popular code of football in that region.
FIFA became a more commercial institution at this time. He increased the number of teams in the World Cup to 24 for the 1982 World Cup and then to 32 at the 1998 World Cup. He also brought Israel into the international game (affiliated to UEFA) and saw FIFA spread across the globe, with small nations such as Guam, Lesotho and Montserrat joining.
Five-a-side football – played throughout the world under various rules, including: Futsal (from Portuguese: futebol de salão and Spanish: fútbol de salón) – the FIFA-approved five-a-side indoor game. Beach soccer – played on sand, also known as sand football. Like futsal, it is governed by FIFA.