1996 FIFA Futsal World Championship

The 1996 edition of the FIFA Futsal World Championship was held in Spain. It was the third world championship held under the aegis of football's world governing body.

Venues

Draw

The 16 teams were divided in four groups, each group with four teams.

First Round

Group A

Spain v  Egypt

Ukraine v  Australia

Egypt v  Australia

Spain v  Ukraine

Ukraine v  Egypt

Spain v  Australia

Group B

Argentina v  China

Netherlands v  Russia

Argentina v  Russia

Netherlands v  China

Russia v  China

Netherlands v  Argentina

Group C

United States  v  Uruguay

Malaysia  v  Italy

Italy  v  United States

Uruguay  v  Malaysia

Uruguay  v  Italy

United States  v  Malaysia

Group D

Brazil  v  Belgium

Iran  v  Cuba

Belgium  v  Iran

Brazil  v  Cuba

Brazil  v  Iran

Belgium  v  Cuba

Second Round

Group E

Italy  v  Belgium

Spain  v  Russia

Italy  v  Russia

Belgium  v  Spain

Russia  v  Belgium

Spain  v  Italy

Group F

Netherlands  v  Ukraine

Brazil  v  Uruguay

Ukraine  v  Brazil

Uruguay  v  Netherlands

Brazil  v  Netherlands

2004 FIFA Futsal World Championship

The 2004 edition of the FIFA Futsal World Championship was held between November 21 and December 5 in Taiwan(officially "Chinese Taipei" for political reasons). It was the fifth World Championship held under the aegis of football's world governing body. The venues were National Taiwan University Sports Center in Taipei City and Linkou Gymnasium in Taipei County (now New Taipei City).

Spain won the tournament and their 2nd straight title, defeating Italy in the final.

Qualifying criteria

Qualified nations

Venues

First round

(21 November-26 November)

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Second round

(28 November-1 December)

Group E

Group F

Final round

Semi-Finals

Brazil  v  Spain

Argentina  v  Italy

Third Place Match

Brazil  v  Argentina

Final

Spain  v  Italy

Champions

Top goalscorers

The top 10 scorers from the 2004 FIFA Futsal World Cup are as follows:

References

External links

FIFA Futsal World Cup

The FIFA Futsal World Cup is the international championship for futsal, the indoor version of association football organized by FIFA.

The world championship tournament is held every four years, on the even year between two football World Cups. The first event was held in 1989, the year FIFA became the world governing body of futsal. It was held in the Netherlands to commemorate the popularity of the game there. Through the 2008 World Cup, only two countries have taken the Futsal World Cup: Brazil winning the first three, followed by Spain winning the next two. In 2008 Brazil became the first host country to win the Championship beating Spain in a penalty shootout. Brazil also won the 2012 competition, defeating Spain.

All events prior to the 2008 World Cup has been 16-team events. The first event featured 6 from Europe, 3 from South America, 2 from Africa, 2 from Asia, 2 from North and Central America, and 1 from Oceania.

The 2012 event included 24 teams, making it the largest group. This edition featured a six group round-robin tournament, with four teams in each group. The top two teams in each group, together with the 4 highest-ranked third-place finishers, advanced to a sixteen team knockout final series.

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1990 FIFA World Cup

The 1990 FIFA World Cup was the 14th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament. It was held from 8 June to 8 July 1990 in Italy, the second country to host the event twice (the first being Mexico in 1986). Teams representing 116 national football associations entered, and qualification began in April 1988. A total of 22 teams qualified from this process, along with host nation Italy and defending champion Argentina.

The tournament was won by West Germany, their third World Cup title. They beat Argentina 1–0 in the final, a rematch of the previous final four years earlier. Italy finished third, and England fourth, after both lost their semi-finals in penalty shootouts. This was the last tournament to feature a team from the divided Germany, with the country being reunified later in 1990. Costa Rica, Ireland and the UAE made their first appearances in the finals, and Egypt its first since 1934. The official match ball was the Adidas Etrusco Unico.

2005 World Cup

2005 World Cup can refer to:

See also