INAS World Football Championships

The Virtus World Football Championships (formerly INAS World Football Championship) is an international association football competition for athletes with intellectual disabilities.

History

It takes place every four years, typically in the country that also hosts the FIFA World Cup. It is organized by the International Sports Federation for Persons with Intellectual Disability (INAS-FID) which also organizes championships in other sports.

To participate in an INAS-FID event, an athlete must have an intellectual disability that was evident before the age of 18, significant limitations in adaptive behavior, and an IQ score below 75. ^[1] The latter requirement led to controversy in 2006, when third-placed Germany was disqualified because the employed IQ tests did not accord with international standards. ^[2]

Results

Host	Year	Final			Venue	Bronze match
		Winner	Score	Runner-up		Third place	Score	Fourth place
Netherlands	1994
England	1998	Poland
Japan	2002	England	2 – 1	Netherlands	International Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama
Germany	2006	Saudi Arabia	4 – 4 (a.e.t.) (9 – 8 pens.)	Netherlands	BayArena, Leverkusen
South Africa	2010	Saudi Arabia	1 – 0 [3]	Netherlands	Peter Mokaba Stadium, Polokwane	Poland		Portugal
Brazil	2014	Saudi Arabia	4 – 2	South Africa	Arena Corinthians, São Paulo	Poland	2-0	Japan
Sweden	2018	Saudi Arabia	2 – 0	Argentina	Tingvalla IP, Karlstad
France	2022	Cancelled due to insufficient teams participating

See also

• Intellectually Disabled Futsal at the 2005 Islamic Solidarity Games

References

1. Classification Application Guidance Notes ^{[ permanent dead link ]}, INAS-FID, February 2010
2. Fußball: "Die Jungs sollen bei der WM Spaß haben", Westdeutsche Zeitung, 20 August 2010. (in German)
3. "President General of Youth Welfare congratulates the leadership on the winning of the Saudi national team for special needs the World Football Cup". Saudi Press Agency (SPA). 11 September 2010. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2010.

External links

• "INAS official site". International Sports Federation for Persons with Intellectual Disability (INAS). Archived from the original on 5 June 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
• FIFA.com