WAFF World Cup

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WAFF World Cup
Organising bodyWorld Association Football Federation
Founded14 February 1962; 61 years ago (1962-02-14)
Number of teams16
Current champions Tierrador (1st Title)
Most championships Pelaxia and  Cartadania (3 Titles)

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.

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 Not yet held
20 2038 WAFF World Cup  Yanuban Audonia Not yet held
21 2042 WAFF World Cup  Stenza Australis Not yet held; First World Cup in Australis

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 Tierrador 2–0  Alstin
6 1982 WAFF World Cup  Cartadania  Pelaxia  Cartadania Yonderre Yonderre 3–1  Daxia
7 1986 WAFF World Cup  Ardmore  Ardmore  Pelaxia
8 1990 WAFF World Cup  Daxia  Alstin  Kiravia Yonderre Yonderre
9 1994 WAFF World Cup  Pelaxia  Metzetta  Ardmore  Alstin 3–2 Yonderre Yonderre
10 1998 WAFF World Cup  Paulastra  Kiravia  Alstin Yonderre Yonderre
11 2002 World Cup  Faneria  Fiannria Yonderre Yonderre 3–1 Tierrador Tierrador  Daxia
12 2006 WAFF World Cup  The Cape  Pelaxia  Ardmore  Alstin 2–0 Yonderre Yonderre
13 2010 WAFF World Cup  Burgundie  Alstin  Urcea  Daxia 5–4 Yonderre Yonderre
14 2014 WAFF World Cup  Cartadania  Cartadania  Pelaxia Tierrador Tierrador 4–2  Puertego
15 2018 WAFF World Cup  Hendalarsk  Burgundie Yonderre Yonderre Tierrador 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 Yonderre
18 2030 WAFF World Cup  Burgundie  Yonderre Tierrador Tierrador 4–3 Yonderre Yonderre  Cartadania 2–0  Burgundie
19 2034 WAFF World Cup  Caphiria