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The defending World Cup champions were formerly granted an automatic spot in the Cup finals field. As of the 2006 tournament, this berth is no longer guaranteed. [13] However, no defending World Cup champion has yet failed to qualify. Automatic berths have never been given for defending World Cup runners-up.
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 ...
Russia's World Cup record First Match Soviet Union 2–2 England (8 June 1958; Gothenburg, Sweden) Biggest Win Soviet Union 6–0 Hungary (2 June 1986; Irapuato, Mexico) Biggest Defeat Uruguay 3–0 Russia (25 June 2018; Samara, Russia) Best Result Fourth place in 1966: Worst Result Group stage in 1990, 1994, 2002 and 2014
November 2021 sports events in Russia (3 P) 2021 in Russian women's sport (2 P) 0–9. February 2021 sports events in Russia (1 P) ... Women's Chess World Cup 2021;
Russia has advanced into the northwestern side of Ukraine’s assault as well as to the southeast of Sudzha, the main city held by Kyiv’s troops in Kursk, located on the other side of the attack.
The Caucasus campaign comprised armed conflicts between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, later including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus, the German Empire, the Central Caspian Dictatorship, and the British Empire, as part of the Middle Eastern theatre during World War I.
Germany's and Japan's soccer federations were not readmitted by FIFA in time for the 1950 World Cup, the first after World War II. South Africa was barred from qualifying for two decades during ...
On the eve of the Great War, [1] Russia was the most populous state in Europe: with 175 million inhabitants, it had almost 3 times the population of Germany, an army of 1.3 million men, and almost 5 million reservists. Its industrial growth, on the order of 5% per year between 1860 and 1913, and the vastness of its territory and natural ...