The most famous and popular football tournament in the world is the FIFA World Cup. Every time this tournament is mentioned, football fans around the world are eager and look forward to classic, thrilling matches between countries with the best football. Along with that, World Cup betting odds are always an indispensable spice in every World Cup season. Let’s find out all the information about World Cup betting odds with 8K8 in the following article.
Overview of the FIFA World Cup tournament
Whether you are a football fan or not, you certainly know the World Cup – the biggest and most prestigious football tournament on the planet. Held every 4 years, the World Cup starts, and it seems like everyone in the world is on the edge of their seats and eager to watch the most prestigious matches take place.
According to statistics, the World Cup is the football tournament with the largest number of viewers. The name World Cup means the world football championship/cup and is organized by the International Football Federation, FIFA, which is a confrontation between the national football teams of countries that are members of FIFA.
World Cup history
Since the establishment of the International Football Federation FIFA, the Federation has been hoping to organize a tournament beyond the Olympic framework, between FIFA member countries, but this idea has not yet been realized. On May 28, 1928, the FIFA meeting held in Amsterdam decided to organize the World Cup.
In 1930, the reigning world champion, Uruguay (1924 and 1928) was chosen to host the first World Cup. Since then, the tournament has been held every 4 years. However, due to some objective reasons, there have been some years of interruption (for example, 1942 and 1946 due to the impact of World War II).
Regarding the name, the tournament was initially called the World Cup, then renamed the Jules Rimet Cup, and finally kept its current name, the FIFA World Cup. With the spread of the World Cup, every team wishes to participate once and have their name on the prestigious championship throne.
World Cup Competition Format
Each World Cup includes qualifying rounds and final rounds:
World Cup qualifying rounds: Each round will have a total of 32 best teams. To become one of the 32 strongest teams, each team must go through a challenging World Cup qualifying round.
The World Cup qualifying round is held over 03 years and will select 31 teams to win tickets to the final round. The 32nd team is the host team.
The qualifying round is organized by continent. Each country on the same continent will compete with each other to select the best teams to enter the final round.
Overcoming the World Cup qualifying round is extremely difficult; this is also the dream of any team, to be able to write their name in the top 32 teams to reach the final round.
World Cup finals: After selecting 32 teams from the qualifying round. The teams will continue to enter 02 stages: group stage and knockout stage
Group stage: the teams will be divided into 08 groups with 4 teams each, playing in a round-robin format.
Knockout stage: starting with the round of 16, accordingly, the first and second teams of each group will continue to the knockout stage (the first team of this group will play the second team of the other group). Next are the quarter-finals, semi-finals, third-place match, and the final.
