On 31 January 2014, FIFA announced the base camps for each participating team, having earlier circulated a brochure of 84 prospective locations. Rio de Janeiro City, Rio de Janeiroīase camps were used by the 32 national squads to stay and train before and during the World Cup tournament. The least-used venues were in Cuiabá, Manaus, Natal, and Curitiba, which hosted four matches each as the four smallest stadiums in use at the tournament, they did not host any knockout round matches. The most used stadiums were the Maracana and Brasilia, which hosted seven matches each. During the World Cup, Brazilian cities were also home to the participating teams at 32 separate base camps, as well as staging official fan fests where supporters could view the games. Consequently, the tournament required long-distance travel for teams. The venues covered all the main regions of Brazil and created more evenly distributed hosting than the 1950 finals in Brazil. Svein Oddvar Moen ( Norway) / Kim Haglund ( Norway)ġ2 venues (seven new and five renovated) in twelve cities were selected for the tournament. Norbert Hauata ( Tahiti) / Aden Marwa ( Kenya) Víctor Hugo Carrillo ( Peru) / Rodney Aquino ( Paraguay) Walter López ( Guatemala) / Leonel Leal ( Costa Rica) Roberto Moreno ( Panama) / Eric Boria ( United States) Néant Alioum ( Cameroon) / Djibril Camara ( Senegal) List of officialsĪlireza Faghani ( Iran) / Hassan Kamranifar ( Iran) Yuichi Nishimura from Japan acted as referee in the opening match whereas Nicola Rizzoli from Italy acted as referee in the final. On 14 January 2014, the FIFA Referees Committee appointed 25 referee trios and eight support duos representing 43 countries for the tournament. In March 2013, FIFA published a list of 52 prospective referees, each paired, on the basis of nationality, with two assistant referees, from all six football confederations for the tournament. Main article: 2014 FIFA World Cup officials This was also the most recent World Cup finals to feature every prior winning team. Teams listed by FIFA ranking as of June 2014 Īs of 2022, this was the last time Chile, Ivory Coast, Greece, Italy, Honduras, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Algeria qualified for the World Cup finals, and the last time Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal, Denmark, Poland, and Serbia failed to qualify. Germany became the first European team to win a World Cup staged in the Americas, and this result marked the third consecutive title won by a European team, after Italy in 2006 and Spain in 2010. In the final, Germany defeated Argentina 1–0 after extra time to win the tournament and secure the country's fourth world title, the first after German reunification in 1990, when as West Germany they also beat Argentina by the same score in 90 minutes in the World Cup final. Host nation Brazil, who had won the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, lost to Germany 7–1 in the semi-finals and eventually finished in fourth place. Uruguay were eliminated in the round of 16, and France exited in the quarter-finals. Spain, the title holders, were eliminated at the group stage, along with England and Italy. Every World Cup-winning team since the first tournament in 1930 – Argentina, Brazil, England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Uruguay – qualified for this tournament. FIFA Fan Fests in each host city gathered a total of 5 million people, and the country received 1 million visitors from 202 countries.
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For the first time at a World Cup finals, match officials used goal-line technology, as well as vanishing spray for free kicks.
A total of 64 matches were played in 12 venues located in as many host cities across Brazil. ģ1 national teams advanced through qualification competitions to join the host nation in the final tournament (with Bosnia and Herzegovina as the only debutant). Fans and pundits alike consider this edition of the World Cup to be one of the greatest ever held. It was the second time that Brazil staged the competition, the first being in 1950, and the fifth time that it was held in South America. It took place in Brazil from 12 June to 13 July 2014, after the country was awarded the hosting rights in 2007. The 2014 FIFA World Cup ( Brazilian Portuguese: Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2014) was the 20th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national football teams organised by FIFA.