WAFF World Cup
The WAFF World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the World Association Football Federation (WAFF), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1962. The current champion is (TBD).
Organising body | World Association Football Federation |
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Founded | 14 February 1962 |
Number of teams | 16 |
Current champions | Cartadania (3rd Title) |
Most championships | Pelaxia and Cartadania (3 Titles) |
The current format involves a qualification phase, which takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase. In the tournament phase, 16 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation(s), compete for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over about a month.
The World Cup is the most prestigious association football tournament in the world, as well as the most widely viewed and followed single sporting event in the world. The cumulative viewership of all matches of the 2022 World Cup was estimated to be 26.29 billion with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the final match, a ninth of the entire population of the planet.
10 countries have hosted the World Cup.
Format
Host
Editions
Results
No. | Name | Host | Winners | Score | Runners-up | Notes | Third Place | Score | Fourth Place | Notes |
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1 | 1962 WAFF World Cup | Pelaxia | Pelaxia | Cartadania | ||||||
2 | 1966 WAFF World Cup | Urcea | Carna | Urcea | ||||||
3 | 1970 WAFF World Cup | Metzetta | Kiravia | Alstin | ||||||
4 | 1974 World Cup | Caphiria | Cartadania | Pelaxia | ||||||
5 | 1978 WAFF World Cup | Burgundie | Urcea | Kiravia | ||||||
6 | 1982 WAFF World Cup | Cartadania | Pelaxia | Cartadania | ||||||
7 | 1986 WAFF World Cup | Carna | Carna | Pelaxia | ||||||
8 | 1990 WAFF World Cup | Corumm | Alstin | Kiravia | ||||||
9 | 1994 WAFF World Cup | Pelaxia | Metzetta | Carna | ||||||
10 | 1998 WAFF World Cup | Paulastra | Kiravia | Alstin | ||||||
11 | 2002 World Cup | Faneria Fiannria | Yonderre | Eldmora | ||||||
12 | 2006 WAFF World Cup | The Cape | Pelaxia | Carna | ||||||
13 | 2010 WAFF World Cup | Burgundie | Alstin | Urcea | ||||||
14 | 2014 WAFF World Cup | Cartadania | Cartadania | Pelaxia | ||||||
15 | 2018 WAFF World Cup | Hendalarsk Eldmora | Burgundie | Yonderre | ||||||
16 | 2022 WAFF World Cup | Pelaxia | Cartadania | Carna | Pelaxia | Kiravia | ||||
17 | 2026 WAFF World Cup | Alstin | Caphiria | 2-1 | Aciria | Pelaxia | 1-0 | Yonderre | ||
18 | 2030 WAFF World Cup | Burgundie | ||||||||
19 | 2034 WAFF World Cup | Aciria |