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In 2006, Germany had a plethora of football stadia that satisfied FIFA's minimum capacity of 40,000 seats for World Cup matches. The outdated and still-standing Olympiastadion in Munich (69,250), the venue for the 1974 final match was not used for the tournament, even though FIFA's regulations allow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.
Football tournament FIFA World Cup final Founded 1930 ; 95 years ago (1930) Current champions Argentina (3rd title) Most successful team(s) Brazil (5 titles) The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship ...
The 2006 FIFA World Cup final was the final match of the 2006 World Cup, the 18th edition of FIFA's competition for national football teams. The match was played at the Olympiastadion in Berlin , Germany, on 9 July 2006, and was contested between Italy and France .
As of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, 80 national teams have competed at the finals of the FIFA World Cup. [1] Brazil is the only team to have appeared in all 22 tournaments to date, with Germany having participated in 20, Italy and Argentina in 18 and Mexico in 17. [2] Eight nations have won the tournament.
Group E of the 2006 FIFA World Cup began on 12 June and completed on 22 June 2006. Eventual champions Italy won the group and advanced to the round of 16 along with second-placed Ghana. The Czech Republic and the United States failed to advance.
The knockout stage was the second and final stage of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, following the group stage. The top two teams from each group (16 in total) advance to the knockout stage to compete in a single-elimination style tournament. A match was played between the two losing teams of the semi-finals to determine which team finished in third ...
2006 FIFA World Cup Group stage Nakamura 26' June 18 Frankenstadion, Nuremberg (N) Croatia: 0–0 2006 FIFA World Cup Group stage June 22 Westfalenstadion, Dortmund (N) Brazil: 1–4 2006 FIFA World Cup Group stage Tamada 34' August 9 National Stadium, Tokyo (H) Trinidad and Tobago: 2–0 Friendly: Alessandro dos Santos 17' 22' August 16 ...
2006 FIFA World Cup qualification [36] 25 17 November 2004: Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, Istanbul, Turkey Turkey: 2–0: 3–0 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification [37] 26 3–0 27 4 June 2005: NSC Olympiyskiy, Kyiv, Ukraine Kazakhstan: 1–0: 2–0 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification [38] 28 8 October 2005: Stadium Meteor, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine ...