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FIFA
On May 21,1904 teams from the English Football Association and other european countries joined to form FIFA. FIFA's first president was Robert Guerin. Guerin planned to expand FIFA by having competitions between national selections. -
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soccer(1904-2012)
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FIFA Struggle
In 1906, fifa tried to have it's first international competition but it had no approval or success. This led to replacement of Robert Guerin with Daniel Burley Woolfall from England. -
1908 Olympics
In 1908, FIFA had more success in the 1908 Olympics. A total of eight teams entered the competition. It ended with Great Britain winning the gold medal, Denmark with the Silver. and Netherlands with the bronze. -
WWI Impact
In July 1914,FIFA started to fall apart due to many player's sent off to war and the possibility of travel for international matches were severly limited. -
CONMEBOL(Confederacion Sudamericana de Futbol)
In 1916, CONMEBOL was founded it is one of the six confederations of international soccer. CONMEBOL is the ten south american countries national squads such as, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Colombia. -
FIFA Presidents
In 1918, FIFA's second president Daniel Burley Woolfall died and was replaced by Alexander Bartholomew but he had no success because he died a year later in 1919. -
Post War Effect
In 1919, FIFA had yet another president and was saved from extinction but lost four internantional teams Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, and England who did not want to participate in international competitions with their recent world war enemies. -
First FIFA World Cup (1930)
In 1930, FIFA had it's first world cup competition in Uruguay who made to the final against Argentina and won 4-2, the USA got third place at the competition. -
WWII Impact
On September 1, 1939 WWII made it impossible for FIFA to have a world cup, FIFA ended up cancelling two planned world cups in 1942 and 1946. -
UK Teams Return
In 1946, the four british nations Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, and England returned to FIFA. -
Match Of The Century
On May 10, 1947 a match of the century between Great Britain and the rest of Europe XI was played at Hampden Park in Glasgow before 135,000 spectators. Great Britain won 6-1 the money gained from the match totaled to 35,000 euros which was given to FIFA to help relaunch it after WWII. -
1950 World Cup
In 1950, FIFA used the money gained from the Match Of The Century to have the fourth world cup tournament in Brazil. Uruguay reached the final against Brazil and beat them 2-1 to win the FIFA World Cup 1950. Sweden got third place. -
UEFA(Union of European Football Associations)
In 1954, The second confederation was founded UEFA. It is known as the most powerful confederation with 52 members including England, Germany, Portugal, and Spain. -
50th Anniversity
In 1954, FIFA had it's 50th Anniversity and took a count of how many members it had and the result was 84 members this showed that FIFA made progress and was still expanding. -
AFC(Asian Football Confederation)
In 1954, The AFC was founded a few months after UEFA. The AFC has 44 members and is rapidly growing teams like Japan, China, and Korea Republic are getting more attention every year. -
CAF(Confederation Africaine de Football)
CAF confederation was founded in 1957 it has 52 members same as UEFA. In 2001 Africa's best players left Africa to play somewhere else due to the lack of money. Still Africa has some dominate teams like Cameroon, Cote d' ivoire, and Egypt. -
CONCACAF(Confederation of North Central American, and Carribean Association Football)
CONCACAF was founded in 1961 it's strongest teams are the United States and Mexico who have hosted 3 world cup competitions. CONCACAF has two South American teams Guyana and Suriname. -
OFC(Oceania Football Confederation)
The OFC confederation was founded in 1966. OFC have not had any success in qualifying for a world cup. Australia the confederation's strongest team failed to qualify in 1998 and 2002. -
FIFA Women's World Cup
In 1991 FIFA had allowed for a women's world cup. The host country was China. 12 teams entered the competition in the final USA beat Norway 2-1 to win the first ever Women's World Cup. Third place was Sweden. -
1998 World Cup
The 1998 World Cup was the most successful world cup with more viewer's than any other world cup competition. The final of that year's world cup featured France vs Brazil in the final. Brazil ended up losing 3-0.
