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FIFA World Cup final. Founded. 1930; 94 years ago. ( 1930) Current champions. Argentina (3rd title) Most successful team (s) Brazil (5 titles) The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global ...
25 March 2021: Hampden Park, Glasgow (H) Austria: 2–2 World Cup qualification: Grant Hanley, John McGinn: 0 [2] 793 28 March 2021: Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv (A) Israel: 1–1 World Cup qualification: Ryan Fraser: 5,000 [2] [3] 794 31 March 2021: Hampden Park, Glasgow (H) Faroe Islands: 4–0 World Cup qualification: John McGinn (2), Ché ...
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. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The viewership of the 2018 World Cup was estimated to be 3.57 billion, close to half of the global population, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] while the engagement with the 2022 World Cup was estimated to be 5 billion, with about 1.5 ...
Following Jules Rimet's proposal in 1929 to initiate a professional World Championship of Football, the sport was dropped from the 1932 Los Angeles Games by FIFA in an attempt to promote the new tournament. Football returned to controversy at the 1936 Berlin Games. The German organisers were intent on the return of the game to the Olympic ...
2021–22 →. The 2020–21 season is the 122nd season of the English Football League (EFL) and the fifth season under that name after it was renamed from The Football League in 2016. For the eighth season running, the league was sponsored by Sky Betting & Gaming and therefore known as the Sky Bet EFL. The EFL is contested through three ...
The 2021 National League play-off final, known as the Vanarama National League Promotion Final for sponsorship reasons, was an association football match played on 20 June 2021 at the Ashton Gate Stadium in Bristol between Torquay United and Hartlepool United. It determined the second and final team to gain promotion from the National League ...
2021–22 →. The 2020–21 EFL Cup was the 61st season of the EFL Cup (known as the Carabao Cup for sponsorship reasons), the competition is open to all clubs participating in the Premier League and the English Football League . Manchester City were the three-time defending champions, having retained the trophy in 2020, defeating Aston Villa ...
As with the end to the previous season, the season was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in games being played behind closed doors.However, on 19 September 2020, two matches in the division, between Norwich City and Preston North End at Carrow Road, and between Middlesbrough and Bournemouth at The Riverside Stadium, were held in front of 1,000 spectators, as part of EFL pilots.