2014 FIFA World Cup The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be the 20th FIFA World Cup,

an international football tournament that is expected 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 (the 2010 FIFA World Cup was held in South Africa). Host selection Main article: 2014 FIFA World Cup bid process Joseph Blatter and the Brazilian victory. On 7 March 2003, FIFA announced that the tournament would be held in South America for the first time since Argentina hosted the competition in 1978, in line with its policy of rotating the right to host the World Cup amongst different confederations. On 3 June 2003, CONMEBOL announced that Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia wanted to host the 2014 World Cup finals.[1] By 17 March 2004, the CONMEBOL associations had voted unanimously to adopt Brazil as their sole candidate.[2] 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 Caldern 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.[3] Brazil won the right to host the event on 30 October 2007 as the only country to enter a bid.[4] [edit]Qualification Main article: 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification The host nation, Brazil qualifies automatically. As with the 2006 and 2010 finals, the defending champions (Spain) will still need to qualify for the tournament. [edit]Qualified teams Consecutiv Order of Method of Date of Finals Last Team e qualificatio qualificatio qualificatio appearanc appearanc World n n n e e Cups Curren t FIFA Rankin g

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30 Oct 2007

20th

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2010

Winner (1958,1962, 1970,1994, 20 02)