The 2006 World Cup was the 18th edition of the FIFA international association football tournament.
2006 World Cup may also refer to:
Association football, more commonly known as simply football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of 11 players. It is played by approximately 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal, usually within a time frame of 90 or more minutes.
The Football Association is the governing body of association football in England and the Crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man. Formed in 1863, it is the oldest football association in the world and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the amateur and professional game in its territory.
The golden goal or golden point is a rule used in association football, bandy, baseball, lacrosse, field hockey, ice hockey, floorball and korfball to decide the winner of a match in which scores are equal at the end of normal time. It is a type of sudden death. Under this rule, the game will end when a goal or point is scored; the team that scores that goal or point during extra time will be the winner. Introduced formally in 1992, though with some history before that, the rule ceased to apply to most FIFA-authorized football games in 2004. The similar silver goal supplemented the golden goal between 2002 and 2004.
A goal is an objective that a person or a system plans or intends to achieve.
Women's association football, usually known as women's football or women's soccer, and colloquially WOSO, is the team sport of association football when played by women's teams only. It is played at the professional level in numerous countries throughout the world and 176 national teams participate internationally. The history of women's football has seen major competitions being launched at both the national and international levels.
The 2002 World Cup was the 17th edition of the FIFA international association football tournament.
Soccer in Canada is the most popular sport in terms of participation rate. According to FIFA's Big Count, over 2.6 million people played in Canada in 2006. Professional soccer in Canada is played in Major League Soccer, the Canadian Premier League and the United Soccer League. Canada also has many semi-professional and amateur soccer leagues. Canada's men's and women's national soccer teams are ranked 78th and 7th respectively in the FIFA World Rankings, as of September 1, 2019.
A trophy is a tangible, durable reminder of a specific achievement, and serves as a recognition or evidence of merit. Trophies are often awarded for sporting events, from youth sports to professional level athletics. In many sports medals are often given out either as the trophy or along with more traditional trophies.
Instant replay or action replay is a video reproduction of something that recently occurred which was both shot and broadcast live. The video, having already been shown live, is replayed in order for viewers to see again and analyze what had just taken place. Some sports allow officiating calls to be overturned after the review of a play. Instant replay is most commonly used in sports, but is also used in other fields of live TV. While the first near-instant replay system was developed and used in Canada, the first instant replay was developed and deployed in the United States.
Sports in Canada consist of a wide variety of games. The most common sports are ice hockey, lacrosse, gridiron football, soccer, basketball, curling and baseball, with ice hockey and lacrosse being the official winter and summer sports, respectively.
World Cup commonly refers to the FIFA World Cup.
Nations Cup may refer to:
This article refers to sports broadcasting contracts in Germany. For a list of contracts in other countries, see Sports television broadcast contracts.
The 2010 World Cup is the 19th edition of the FIFA international association football tournament.
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word football normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called football include association football ; gridiron football ; Australian rules football; rugby football ; and Gaelic football. These various forms of football share to varying extent common origins and are known as football codes.
The association football (soccer) tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics is scheduled to be held from 21 July to 7 August 2021 in Japan.
The 2014 World Cup was the 20th edition of the FIFA international association football tournament.
This is a list of the next scheduled events designated as "World Cup". There are a number of notable world cups in popular sports. Such a competition is generally considered the premier competition in its sport, with the victor attaining the highest honour in that sport and able to lay claim to the title of their sport's best.