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World Cup, formally FIFA World Cup, in football (soccer), quadrennial tournament that determines the sport’s world champion. It is likely the most popular sporting event in the world, drawing billions of television viewers every tournament.The first competition for the cup was organized in 1930 by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and was won byUruguay. Held every four years since that time, except during World War II, the competition consists of international sectional tournaments leading to a final elimination event made up of 32 national teams. Unlike Olympic football, World Cup teams are not limited to players of a certain age or amateur status, so the competition serves more nearly as a contest between the world’s best players. Referees are selected from lists that are submitted by all the national associations.The trophy cup awarded from 1930 to 1970 was the Jules Rimet Trophy, named for the Frenchman who proposed the tournament. This cup was permanently awarded in 1970 to then three-time winner Brazil (1958, 1962, and 1970), and a new trophy called the FIFA World Cup was put up for competition. Many other sports have organized “World Cup” competitions.
The World Cup is the supreme football competition. Practically every footballing nation in the world enters for it, and it is played every four years. The last finals were in Spain in 1982, when Italy beat West Germany 3-1.
The World Cup series of games was the idea of M. Jules Rimet, president of the French Football Federation who became president of FIFA (the Federation of International Football Associations — football’s highest governing body). Rimet’s plan was accepted in 1920 and the first competition was played in Uruguay in 1930.
Uruguay was chosen as the venue for several reasons — they had shown what magnificent players they were at the Olympics, they offered to pay every other team’s expenses and also because it was the year of the country’s centenary celebrations. They also won the game.
As air travel was relatively new at this time, only 13 teams took part, among them such unlikely footballing nations as the United States of America, Paraguay and Bolivia. The four British teams did not compete as they had withdrawn from FIFA before 1930. They did not play in their first World Cup until 1950.
The original World Cup trophy has been given permanently to Brazil following her third success in the World Cup series in Mexico in 1970. It has now been replaced with a new modernistic cup.