FIFA World Cup History

Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup

Year: 2014

Participants: 32

The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be the 20th FIFA World Cup, an international football tournament that is scheduled to take place between June and July 2014 in Brazil.

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, and the first time two consecutive World Cups are staged outside Europe

Brazil formally declared its candidacy in December 2006 and Colombia did so as well a few days later. The Argentina bid never materialized. On 11 April 2007, Colombia officially withdrew its bid, Francisco Santos Calderón the vice president of Colombia announced that instead Colombia would be hosting the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup. With this Brazil was the only official candidate to host the event in 2014. Brazil won the right to host the event on 30 October 2007 as the only country to enter a bid.

2014 FIFA soccer World Cup qualification

The qualification draw for the 2014 World Cup will be held at a yet-to-be-determined location on 31 July 2011. As the host nation, Brazil qualify automatically for the tournament.

Initially, FIFA had wanted to stage the tournament in only 10 cities as they believed that having fewer venues would make for easier logistics. However, after having a meeting with Sao Paulo state governer Jose Serra, Blatter announced they have increased the number of cities to 12.

The current list of cadidates are: Porto Alegre, Florianopolis, Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Goiania, Campo Grande, Cuiaba, Rio Branco, Manaus, Belem, Salvador, Recife, Natal, Fortaleza and Sao Paulo.

Host cities and Stadiums