WAFF World Cup

WAFF World Cup

Organising body	World Association Football Federation
Founded	14 February 1962 (1962-02-14)
Number of teams	16
Current champions	TBD

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).

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.

Editions

List of World Cups

No.	Name	Host	Continent	Notes
1	1962 WAFF World Cup	Pelaxia	Sarpedon	First World Cup
2	1966 WAFF World Cup	Urcea	Levantia
3	1970 WAFF World Cup	Metzetta	Alshar
4	1974 World Cup	Caphiria	Sarpedon
5	1978 WAFF World Cup	Burgundie	Levantia
6	1982 WAFF World Cup	Cartadania	Sarpedon
7	1986 WAFF World Cup	Carna	Levantia
8	1990 WAFF World Cup	Corumm	Alshar
9	1994 WAFF World Cup	Pelaxia	Sarpedon
10	1998 WAFF World Cup	Paulastra	Crona
11	2002 World Cup	Faneria Fiannria	Levantia
12	2006 WAFF World Cup	The Cape	Crona
13	2010 WAFF World Cup	Burgundie	Levantia
14	2014 WAFF World Cup	Cartadania	Sarpedon
15	2018 WAFF World Cup	Hendalarsk Eldmora	Levantia