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Association Football Competitions
This is a list of the association football competitions past and present for international teams and for club football, in individual countries and internationally. Confirmed future competitions are also included. The competitions are grouped by organising authority: the FIFA (international association), the six confederations (continental associations), and the federations (national associations) ''For more information about each year, season, and other, see: Association football by year, Seasons in association football and Association football Intercontinental competitions This section lists the worldwide and intercontinental competitions ruled by the FIFA, by two or more confederations or by two or more federations member of different confederations. National teams Worldwide * FIFA World Cup: Final tournament determined by Qualifiers held within the six FIFA continental zones. *FIFA Women's World Cup: Women's * Olympic Football Tournament: defunct for male senior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aisha Buhari Cup
Aisha Buhari Invitational tournament is an association football tournament organized by the Nigeria Football Federation, Nigerian football federation for the Nigeria women's national football team, female national team. History The Inaugural edition was held in Lagos with both FIFA and CAF president honoring the event The South Africa women's national team came first in the Aisha Buhari cup's inaugural edition. The event was held at the Mobolaji Johnson Stadium, Lagos, Nigeria. Format The competition comprises six nations which includes, Ghana women's national football team, Ghana, South Africa women's national soccer team, South Africa and the hosts Nigeria Results See also *International competitions in women's association football *FIFA Women's World Cup *Football at the Summer Olympics#Women's tournament, Women's Olympic Football Tournament *Cyprus Women's Cup *SheBelieves Cup *Turkish Women's Cup References External links International women's association foot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 Corsica Football Cup
The 2010 Corsica Football Cup was a Non-FIFA football competition hosted by independent national team Corsica, the matches was played at AC Ajaccio's ground Stade François Coty and SC Bastia ground Stade Armand Cesari, four teams played, Gabon, Togo, Brittany and Corsica. On 21 May 2010, Corsica won the "Corsica Football Cup" at Penalty shoot-out against Gabon with the score of (1 – 1, pen. 5 – 4) Participants * Corsica * Brittany * Gabon * Togo Results Semifinals ---- ---- Third place match ---- Final ---- Statistics Goalscorers External links Corsica Football Cup 2010 on RSSSF Archive {{DEFAULTSORT:Corsica Non-FIFA football competitions 2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ... 2009–10 in French football 2010 in African fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Cup
The China Cup International Football Championship () is an annual association football tournament organized in China by Wanda Sports Holdings. The Championship was inaugurated in 2017 as a single-elimination tournament with four national teams, of which one is China, the host. It is planned to build up to eight teams. Tournaments Summary All-time top goalscorers See also * Four Nations Tournament (women's football) * Four Nations Tournament (China) * Yongchuan International Tournament The Yongchuan International Tournament () is an invitational women's football (soccer), women's football tournament, originated in another women's football tournament Four Nations Tournament (women's football), Four Nations Tournament. It is stage ... References External links * * {{Friendly association football tournaments in Asia Football cup competitions in China International men's association football invitational tournaments Chinese football friendly trophies Recurrin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada Cup (soccer)
The Canada Cup or Maple Cup was a men's invitational international association football tournament for national teams. Its first edition in 1995 was held at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta and was contested by three nations. The second and final tournament in 1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ... was also held in Edmonton and included four nations. Results References1995 {{reflist [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil Independence Cup
The Brazil Independence Cup was an international football tournament held in Brazil, from 11 June to 9 July 1972, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Brazilian Declaration of Independence. It was called the ''Minicopa'' by the Brazilians and the final was between Brazil and Portugal, in the Maracanã Stadium. Brazil won 1–0, with Jairzinho scoring in the 89th minute. Brazil no longer had Pelé but still had Tostão, Jairzinho and Rivelino, the later two also played in the 1974 FIFA World Cup, in West Germany. Despite Portugal's quality results and team, including Benfica players such as Eusébio, Jaime Graça, José Henrique, Humberto Coelho, Rui Jordão, and Toni, the team missed the World Cup 1974 and 1978 qualifying matches, so this tournament was their best result until the 1984 European Football Championship. Format Twenty teams competed; 18 national teams as well as two representative sides from Africa and CONCACAF (North and Central America and the Caribbean) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangabandhu Cup
The Bangabandhu Cup, also known as the Bangabandhu Gold Cup, is an international football tournament organised by the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) as a tribute to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who is the founding father of Bangladesh. It has been played sporadically since 1996, and was resurrected in 2015. Up to the 2016 edition, most of the participating countries in the tournament sent their youth national teams, their second teams or club sides. In the 2018 edition, all participating nations sent their first team except the Philippines. Palestine is the champion, after defeating Tajikistan in the 2018 tournament and defended its trophy against Burundi in 2020. Results Tournament summary Top goalscorers Top goalscorers by edition Venues * Bangabandhu National Stadium * Sylhet District Stadium * Bangladesh Army Stadium * M. A. Aziz Stadium * Cox's Bazar Stadium Cox's Bazar Stadium, also known as Bir Shrestha Ruhul Amin Stadium is a football stadium sit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balkan Cup
The Balkan Cup was an international association football competition contested on and off from 1929 to 1980 by countries from the Balkans region. The most successful team was Romania with four titles. Overview The first edition featured Romania, Greece, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria and was played over three years from 1929 to 1931. All teams played each other twice, home and away, and were awarded 2 points for a win and 1 point for a draw, with final ranking table determining the winner. Romania won the first title with a game in hand after beating Yugoslavia 4–2. In the following tournaments the system saw significant changes, with teams playing each other only once, and instead of taking three years to complete it was shortened to just a single week. From 1932 to 1936 the competition was played every year with the same four teams until the outbreak of World War II. After a seven-year hiatus due to World War II, the competition was revived in 1946. Greece dropped out of the tourna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balaton Cup
The Balaton Cup (Hungarian: Balaton Kupa) is an annual invitational cup competition for national women's association football, women's football teams. It is held in Balatonfüred, Hungary on the shore of Lake Balaton, where it gets its name from. It is an invitational contested by 4 women's national teams from eastern Europe and it consists of 4 games: two semifinals, a third place match, and the final. List of finals The list of finals: Participating nations References {{International women's football International women's association football invitational tournaments Women's football friendly trophies Women's football in Hungary Recurring sporting events established in 2013 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia Bicentenary Gold Cup
The 1988 Australian Bicentennial Gold Cup was a one-off association football tournament to celebrate the bincentennial of first settlement at Port Jackson by Captain Arthur Phillip in 1788. It was contested by 1988 AFC Asian Cup winners Saudi Arabia, 1986 FIFA World Cup winners Argentina, world number one-ranked side Brazil and host nation Australia. The tournament was particularly notable for Australian fans for a remarkable extreme-long range goal scored by Charlie Yankos in Australia's unexpected 4–1 win over then World Champions Argentina. Brazil were eventual winners, beating Australia 2–0 in the final. Argentina took out 3rd place beating Saudi Arabia 2–0 in the third place match. Participants * Argentina * Australia * Brazil * Saudi Arabia Format Teams played each other once in a round robin group stage. Each team was awarded 2 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. The top two teams from the group played in a final and the bottom two teams played i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Clark Cup
The Arnold Clark Cup is an invitational women's association football tournament hosted by The Football Association, starting in 2022. It is named after car retailer Arnold Clark, who signed a multi-year sponsorship deal. ITV acts as the competition's domestic broadcast partner. Played during the February/March international break, the Arnold Clark Cup takes place at the same time as other notable international women's invitational tournaments such as the SheBelieves Cup, the Algarve Cup, the Pinatar Cup, the Tournoi de France, and the Cyprus Cup. Format The four invited teams play each other once in a round-robin tournament. Points awarded in the group stage follow the formula of three points for a win, one point for a draw, and zero points for a loss. A tie in points would be decided by goal difference Goal difference, goal differential or points difference is a form of tiebreaker used to rank sport teams which finish on equal points in a league competition. Either "goal diffe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aphrodite Women Cup
The Aphrodite Women Cup is a global invitational tournament for national teams in women's association football. It has been held annually in Cyprus since 2015. As the competition takes place in Cyprus, the hosts have won the competition for the first time in 2019. It is played at the same time as the Algarve Cup, the Cyprus Women's Cup, the SheBelieves Cup and the Turkish Women's Cup The Turkish Women's Cup (Turkish: Türkiye Kadınlar Kupası) is the annual cup competition of women's football teams in Turkey. The tournament is also known as ''Alanya Gold City Cup'', as the tournament is held at the Gold City in Alanya, Turke .... Format The Aphrodite Women Cup uses the following two-phase format: The first phase is a group stage in which the twelve invited teams are divided into three groups of four teams. Similar to the Algarve Cup, the teams in Group A and Group B consist of higher-ranked teams and are the only teams actually in contention for the championship; Group C con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
