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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 ...
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 The outdated and still-standing Olympiastadion in Munich (69,250), the venue for the 1974 final match was not used for the tournament, even though FIFA's regulations allow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.
The cumulative viewership of all matches of the 2006 World Cup was estimated to be 26.29 billion. [2] 715.1 million individuals watched the final match of the tournament, almost a ninth of the entire population of the planet. The 2006 World Cup draw, which decided the distribution of teams into groups, was watched by 300 million viewers. [96]
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 .
This is a list of the England national football team results from 2000 to 2019 (Matches 765 – 1,001). 2000s ... 15 June 2006 FIFA World Cup Group B: England : 2–0
The best result for the United States in a World Cup tournament came in 1930 when the team reached the semifinals. The team was composed of six naturalized internationals, five of them from Scotland and one from England. [3] The best result in the modern era is the 2002 World Cup, when the U.S. reached the quarterfinals.
Score Result Competition Ref 1 2: 8 June 2005: Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland Finland: 4–0: 4–0: 2006 FIFA World Cup Qualifier [1] 2 12: 16 June 2006: Neckarstadion, Stuttgart, Germany Ivory Coast: 1–0: 2–1: 2006 FIFA World Cup [4] 3 15: 16 August 2006: Lansdowne Road, Dublin, Ireland: Ireland: 4–0: 4–0: Friendly [5] 4 17: 6 ...
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.