WAFF World Cup

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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).

WAFF World Cup
Organising bodyWorld Association Football Federation
Founded14 February 1962; 62 years ago (1962-02-14)
Number of teams16
Current championsAlstin Alstin (3rd Title)
Most championships Pelaxia,  Cartadania and Alstin Alstin(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

List of World Cups
No. Name Host Continent Notes
1 1962 WAFF World Cup   Pelaxia Sarpedon First World Cup, first World Cup in Sarpedon, first World Cup to be won by the host nation
2 1966 WAFF World Cup   Urcea Levantia First World Cup in Levantia
3 1970 WAFF World Cup   Metzetta Alshar First World Cup in Alshar
4 1974 WAFF World Cup   Caphiria Sarpedon Boycotted by Urcea
5 1978 WAFF World Cup   Burgundie Levantia
6 1982 WAFF World Cup   Cartadania Sarpedon First time a previous winner (Pelaxia) wins the trophy again
7 1986 WAFF World Cup   Ardmore Levantia
8 1990 WAFF World Cup   Daxia Alshar Most recent World Cup in Alshar
9 1994 WAFF World Cup   Pelaxia Sarpedon
10 1998 WAFF World Cup   Paulastra Crona First World Cup in Crona
11 2002 WAFF World Cup   Faneria and   Fiannria Levantia First World Cup with shared hosting duties
12 2006 WAFF World Cup   The Cape Crona
13 2010 WAFF World Cup   Burgundie Levantia
14 2014 WAFF World Cup   Cartadania Sarpedon Most recent World Cup to be won by the host nation
15 2018 WAFF World Cup   Hendalarsk Levantia
16 2022 WAFF World Cup   Pelaxia Sarpedon Most recent World Cup in Sarpedon
17 2026 WAFF World Cup   Alstin Crona Most recent World Cup in Crona
18 2030 WAFF World Cup   Burgundie and   Yonderre Levantia Most recent World Cup in Levantia; Most recent World Cup with shared hosting duties
19 2034 WAFF World Cup   Caphiria Sarpedon Most recent World Cup in Sarpedon
20 2038 WAFF World Cup   Yanuban Audonia Not yet held
21 2042 WAFF World Cup   Tierrador Crona Not yet held

Results

List of World Cups
No. Name Host Winners Score Runners-up Notes Third Place Score Fourth Place Notes
1 1962 WAFF World Cup   Pelaxia   Pelaxia   Cartadania   Alstin
2 1966 WAFF World Cup   Urcea   Ardmore   Urcea
3 1970 WAFF World Cup   Metzetta   Kiravia   Alstin   Daxia
4 1974 World Cup   Caphiria   Cartadania   Pelaxia
5 1978 WAFF World Cup   Burgundie   Urcea   Kiravia   Tierrador 2–0   Alstin
6 1982 WAFF World Cup   Cartadania   Pelaxia   Cartadania   Yonderre 3–1   Daxia
7 1986 WAFF World Cup   Ardmore   Ardmore   Pelaxia
8 1990 WAFF World Cup   Daxia   Alstin   Kiravia   Yonderre
9 1994 WAFF World Cup   Pelaxia   Metzetta   Ardmore   Alstin 3–2   Yonderre
10 1998 WAFF World Cup   Paulastra   Kiravia   Alstin   Yonderre   Ceylonia
11 2002 World Cup   Faneria   Fiannria   Yonderre 3–1   Tierrador   Porlos   Daxia
12 2006 WAFF World Cup   The Cape   Pelaxia   Ardmore   Alstin 2–0   Yonderre
13 2010 WAFF World Cup   Burgundie   Alstin   Urcea   Daxia 5–4   Yonderre
14 2014 WAFF World Cup   Cartadania   Cartadania   Pelaxia   Tierrador 4–2   Puertego
15 2018 WAFF World Cup   Hendalarsk   Burgundie   Yonderre   Tierrador 2–1   Paulastra
16 2022 WAFF World Cup   Pelaxia   Cartadania   Ardmore   Pelaxia   Kiravia
17 2026 WAFF World Cup   Alstin   Caphiria 2–1   Aciria   Pelaxia 1–0   Yonderre
18 2030 WAFF World Cup   Burgundie   Yonderre   Tierrador 4–3   Yonderre   Cartadania 2–0   Burgundie
19 2034 WAFF World Cup   Caphiria   Alstin 2-1   Yonderre   Caphiria 3-1   Castadilla