Hello football lovers! After a succesful, full of discussion and catfights UEFA Euro 2012 Topic I've decide to create the next football official topic, which will be related to World Cup 2014. Here you are able to discuss, share opinions about bets and judge players, performances, matches and share photos & videos. I hope that we will have once again a great topic & discussion! Well, below you can find the details about the new tournament!
2014 FIFA World Cup - General
The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be the 20th FIFA World Cup, an international association football tournament that will take place in Brazil from 12 June to 13 July 2014. This will be the second time the country has hosted the competition, the first being the 1950 FIFA World Cup. Brazil will become the fifth country to have hosted the FIFA World Cup twice, after Mexico, Italy, France and Germany. It will be the first World Cup to be held in South America since the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina, the first time two consecutive World Cups are staged outside Europe and the first time two consecutive World Cups are staged in the Southern Hemisphere (the 2010 FIFA World Cup was held in South Africa).
2014 FIFA World Cup European Qualification
All 53 UEFA national teams entered qualification, and 13 teams will qualify for the 2014 World Cup. The draw for the qualification groups was held at the World Cup Preliminary Draw at the Marina da Glória in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 30 July 2011. The qualification format is the same as 2010. The teams were drawn into eight groups of six teams and one group of five, with the nine group winners qualifying directly into the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The eight best runners-up (determined by records against the first-, third-, fourth- and fifth-placed teams in their groups to ensure balance between different groups) are drawn in two-legged play-offs that will determine the other four qualifying nations.
Groups, Fixtures & Dates(First Round)
Second-placed teams (Second Round)
TBA
Play Offs - Fixtures
15/11/2013 - 19/11/2013
Qualified
Coming Soon
Seeding
This topic will be updated after each fixture.
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