The 1930 FIFA World Cup was the inaugural tournament for men’s national association football teams. It took place in Uruguay from 13 to 30 July, and was won by Uruguay in the final by Argentina in a penalty shoot-out. The tournament was the only one without qualification, as the number of 16 teams was not reached so there were no qualifications. All matches were played in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo, the majority at the Estadio Centenario.
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The 1930 FIFA World Cup was the inaugural tournament for men’s national association football teams. It took place in Uruguay from 13 to 30 July 1930. FIFA selected Uruguay as host nation as the country would be celebrating the centenary of its first constitution. All matches were played in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo, the majority at the Estadio Centenario, which was built for the tournament. Only a few European teams chose to participate because of the difficulty of travelling to South America. The first two World Cup matches took place simultaneously and were won by France and the United States, who defeated Mexico 4–1 and Belgium 3–0, respectively. Argentina, Uruguay, the U.S. and Yugoslavia each won their respective groups to qualify for the semi-finals. In the final, hosts and pre-tournament favourites Uruguay defeated Argentina 4–2 in front of a crowd of 68,346 people to become the first nation to win the World Cup. The Yugoslavia team achieved the joint–biggest success in both Yugoslav and Serbian World Cup history, fourth place, a result that would be repeated in 1962. The tournament was the only one without qualification, as the number of 16 teams was not reached so there were no qualifications. The final was held at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which has since been the site of the 2014 World Cup and 2014 Confederations Cup.
It was the first World Cup to be held in a South American country, and the first to be played in a stadium outside the British Isles, with a capacity of 90,000. The stadium was the primary venue for all matches in the tournament, referred to as a “temple of football” by FIFA president Jules Rimet. All games were played at three different stadiums in Montevideo: Estadios Gran Parque, EstadIO Pocitos and Estudio Parque Central. The matches were also played at the Parque de las Américas in the city’s central district, as well as the Maracanã Stadium in the outskirts of the city. The games were held in three different grounds: the Estadio Pocitos, the Gran Parque Central and the Maracana Stadio de Montevideo. The stadiums were built by Juan Scasso Scasso, who was also responsible for the construction of the Uruguayan national football team’s training ground in the 1920s and 1930s. The Stadium was the largest football stadium outside of the UK and hosted the majority of the matches at the 1930 World Cup, as it was the home of the Uruguay national team at the time. It is the only stadium in the world to host all the matches, with the other two being played in Brazil and Argentina. The World Cup took place between 13 and 30 July, and was won by Uruguay in the final by Argentina in a penalty shoot-out. The teams were divided into four groups.
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