The FIFA World Cup is the most prestigious tournament in international football, contested by nations every four years since ...

The fourth in Michael Cox's series looking at the teams who won each World Cup looks at Uruguay's triumph in Brazil 75 years ...

2030 marks the 100th anniversary of the first-ever World Cup in 1930, and the proposed expansion would be a one-off change to ...

“FIFA has to come to celebrate the World Cup where football was born and that was in 1930 when few countries dared to do it,” said Uruguay's Sports Secretary Sebastián Bauzá. “In ...

Uruguay hosted the first World Cup in 1930. The 1930 World Cup, won by the host Uruguay side, featured 13 teams which did not have to pre-qualify — seven from South America, four from Europe and ...