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1906 FIFA World Cup
Tournament details
Host country France
City Paris
Dates April 9-May 13
Teams 12 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s) 1 (in Paris host cities)
Final positions
Champions Flag of Uruguay Uruguay (1st title)
Runners-up Flag of Austria Austria
Third place File:Flag of Argentina (alternative).svg Argentina
Fourth place Flag of England England
Tournament statistics
Matches played 15
Goals scored 30 (2 per match)
Top scorer(s) Uruguay Carlos Cespedes (4 goals)
Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy 1910

The 1906 FIFA World Cup was the 1st FIFA World Cup and the first on an international scale. It took place between April 9 to May 13, 1906. FIFA selected France to host as FIFA had it headquarters there until 1912.

All of the FIFA nations at the time entered the tournament. The teams were divided into four groups of three with the winner progressing through to the semi-finals.

Background[]

Every country that was affiliated with FIFA was sent an invite to compete in the first World Cup by the 1 January 1906 to accept. Interest was shown all between the 12 countries at the time. Uruguay and Argentina despite their distance were keen to enter the first World Cup.

Group Stage[]

Group 1[]

Uruguay surprised the European nations in Group 1 after they defeated Switzerland in the opening game of the World Cup when the Cespedes brothers scored all three goals in the match. This with a draw against Scotland got the team over the line to the semi-finals while Scotland could only wonder if they had scored another goal in the game against Switzerland.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Flag of Uruguay Uruguay 2 2 0 0 3 1 2 3
Flag of Scotland Scotland 2 1 0 1 2 0 2 3
Flag of Switzerland  Switzerland 2 0 0 2 1 5 -5 0
9 April 1906
Flag of Uruguay Uruguay 3-1 Flag of Switzerland  Switzerland
C Cespedes Goal 23', Goal 76'
B Cespedes Goal 52'
Garonne Goal 15'
Parc des Princes, Paris
Attendance: 3,000


23 April 1906
Flag of Switzerland  Switzerland 0-2 Flag of Scotland Scotland
Livingstone Goal 34', Goal 75'
Parc des Princes, Paris
Attendance: 2,000


27 April 1906
Flag of Scotland Scotland 0-0 Flag of Uruguay Uruguay
Parc des Princes, Paris
Attendance: 1,250

Group 2[]

Argentina showed the courage in Group 2 when they defeated their opponents in Wales and Belgium. This also surprised their more fancy European opponents as they were expected to be the easy beats of the group.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
File:Flag of Argentina (alternative).svg Argentina 2 2 0 0 6 0 6 4
Flag of Wales 2 Wales 2 1 0 1 1 2 -1 2
Flag of Belgium (civil) Belgium 2 0 0 2 0 5 -5 0
11 April 1906
File:Flag of Argentina (alternative).svg Argentina 4-0 Flag of Belgium (civil) Belgium
Brown Goal 25'78'
Moore Goal 48'
Frers Goal 89'



21 April 1906
Flag of Belgium (civil) Belgium 0-1 Flag of Wales 2 Wales
Hughes Goal 84'



Group 3[]

In Group 3, Austria finished on top of the group after drawing with France and defeating Ireland in their group. While France struggled on home turf finishing in last place with only the one point against Austria.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Flag of Austria Austria 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 3
St Patrick's saltire Ireland 2 1 0 1 3 3 0 2
Flag of France France 2 0 1 1 0 1 -1 1
7 April 1906
Flag of France France 0-0 Flag of Austria Austria



19 April 1906
St Patrick's saltire Ireland 1-0 Flag of France France
Waddell Goal 46'



1 May 1906
Flag of Austria Austria 3-2 St Patrick's saltire Ireland
Muller Goal 36', Goal 59'
Engel Goal 90+1'
Sloan Goal 23'
Harris Goal 87'


Group 4[]

The final group, saw England going through at the expense of Netherlands and Hungary. This was after they defeated both opponents in what was a tough standard with the game against Hungary being tougher than the match it would be in 1908 when England would defeat them 6-0.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Flag of England England 2 2 0 0 9 0 9 4
Flag of the Netherlands Netherlands 2 1 0 1 1 4 -3 2
File:Flag of Hungary (1867-1918).svg Hungary 2 0 0 2 0 6 -6 0

17 April 1906
Flag of the Netherlands Netherlands 0-4 Flag of England England
Bond Goal 15'51'
Brown Goal 38'
Gosnell Goal 77'



Knockout stage[]

Semi-finals Final
7 May – Paris
 Flag of Uruguay Uruguay 1  
 Flag of England England 0  
 
13 May – Paris
     Flag of Uruguay Uruguay 3
   Flag of Austria Austria 0
9 May – Paris
 File:Flag of Argentina (alternative).svg Argentina 1
 Flag of Austria Austria 2  

Semi Finals[]

The semi-finals saw an upset with England having a shock lost in the first semi-final against Uruguay after Aniceto Camacho scored the only goal of the match to record the massive victory. The other semi saw Austria going through to the final after they defeated Argentina to qualify through to their first (and to date only) World Cup final.

7 May 1906
Flag of Uruguay Uruguay 1-0 Flag of England England
Camacho Goal 26'



Final[]

The first World Cup final saw a crowd of 6000 people coming to watch the first World Cup final in Paris. What they saw was an Uruguay dominance with Carlos Cespedes scoring a double in the result which would give Uruguay the first ever World Cup title. For Austria, they was disapponited in the result with multiple chances not connecting hurting them in the long run.

13 May 1906
Flag of Uruguay Uruguay 3-0 Flag of Austria Austria
C Cespedes Goal 23', Goal 55'
Sardeson Goal 76'


Goalscorers[]

4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal

Tournament team rankings[]

R Team G P W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Flag of Uruguay Uruguay 1 4 3 1 0 7 1 +6 7
2 Flag of Austria Austria 3 4 2 1 1 5 7 −2 5
3 Flag of England England 4 3 2 0 1 9 1 +8 4
4 File:Flag of Argentina (alternative).svg Argentina 2 3 2 0 1 7 2 +5 4
Eliminated in the group stage
5 Flag of Scotland Scotland 1 2 1 1 0 2 0 2 3
6 St Patrick's saltire Ireland 3 2 1 0 1 3 3 0 2
7 Flag of Wales 2 Wales 2 2 1 0 1 1 2 −1 2
8 Flag of the Netherlands Netherlands 4 2 1 0 1 1 4 −3 2
9 Flag of France France 3 2 0 1 1 0 1 −1 1
10 Flag of Switzerland  Switzerland 1 2 0 0 2 1 5 −4 0
11 Flag of Belgium (civil) Belgium 2 2 0 0 2 0 5 −5 0
12 File:Flag of Hungary (1867-1918).svg Hungary 4 2 0 0 2 0 6 −6 0

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