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2006 FIFA World Cup

2006 FIFA World CupFIFA Fussball Weltmeisterschaft

Deutschland 2006

Tournament details

Host nation Germany

Dates June 9 July 9

Teams 32 (from 6 confederations)

Venue(s) 12 (in 12 host cities)

Champions Italy (4 titles)

Tournament statistics

Matches 64

Goals scored 147 (2.3 per match)

Attendance 3,353,655 (52,401 per match)

Top scorer(s) Miroslav Klose(5 goals)

Best player Zinedine Zidane

The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the eighteenth instance of theFIFA World Cup, the quadrennial

international footballworld championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to9 July2006in Germany,

which won the right to host the event in July 2000.

Teams representing 198 national football associations from all six populated continents participated in thequalificationprocess which began in September 2003. Thirty-one teams qualified from this process, along

with the host nation,Germany, for the finals tournament.

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The tournament was won byItaly, their fourth world championship, defeatingFrance53 in apenalty

shootoutafterextra time finished in a 11 draw. Germany defeated Portugal 31 to finish third.

The 2006 World Cup stands as one of the most watched event in television history garnering an estimated26.29 billion non-unique viewers, compiled over the course of the tournament. The final attracted an

estimated audience of 715.1 million people.[1] The 2006 World Cup ranks fourth in non-unique viewers,

behind the1994, the2002, and the 1990 FIFA World Cups.[2]

Host selection

The vote to choose the hosts of the 2006 tournament was held on7 July2000 in Zrich,Switzerland, and

involved four bidding nations afterBrazilhad withdrawn three days earlier. The four remaining nations

were Germany,South Africa,England andMorocco. Three rounds of voting were required, each round

eliminating the nation with the least votes. Morocco was the first nation to be eliminated with only two of

the 23 votes cast. The next nation to be eliminated was England, with two votes. Finally, Germany won thefinal round of voting 12-11 over South Africa, but the success of Germany's bid was marred by a hoax

bribery affair which even led to calls for a re-vote.[3]On the night before the vote, German satirical

magazine Titanic sent letters to FIFA representatives, offering gifts in exchange for their vote for Germany.

Oceania delegate Charles Dempsey, who had been instructed to support South Africa, abstained citing

"intolerable pressure" on the eve of the vote.[4]

Had Dempsey voted as originally instructed, the vote wouldhave resulted with a 12-12 tie, and FIFA president Sepp Blatter, who favoured the South African bid,[5]

would have had to cast the deciding vote.

Qualification

One-hundred and ninety-eight teams attempted to qualify for the 2006 World Cup. Hosts Germany weregranted automatic qualification with the remaining thirty-one finals places divided among the continental

confederations. This was the first World Cup for which the holders were not granted automatic

qualification. Thirteen places were contested by UEFAteams (Europe), five by CAF teams (Africa), four

byCONMEBOLteams (South America), four byAFC teams (Asia), and three byCONCACAF teams

(North and Central America and Caribbean). The remaining two places were decided by playoffs between

AFC and CONCACAF and between CONMEBOL andOFC (Oceania).

Eight nations qualified for the finals for the first time: Angola,Cte d'Ivoire,Czech Republic, Ghana,

Togo, Trinidad and Tobago,Ukraine and Serbia & Montenegro. Czech Republic and Ukraine were makingtheir first appearance as independent nations, but had previously been represented as part of

Czechoslovakiaand theSoviet Unionrespectively; Serbia & Montenegro had competed asYugoslavia in

1998, as well as making up part ofYugoslavteams from 1930 to 1990. For the first time since the 1982

World Cup, all six confederations were represented at the finals tournament.

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