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2006 Football World Cup - Germany
 
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Teams 197
(final tournament: 32)
Host Germany
Champions - (- title)
Matches played 64
Goals scored -
(- per match)
Attendance -
(- per match)
Top scorer(s) -

The 2006 Football World Cup (officially titled 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™) finals are scheduled to take place in Germany between 9 June and 9 July 2006. Qualification for the tournament is now almost complete, with 27 of the 32 competing teams confirmed.

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Controversy

The decision to award the highly prestigious event to Germany was controversial, as it was widely expected that the tournament would take place in South Africa. The final tally was 12 votes to 11 in favour of Germany. The New Zealand FIFA member, Charles Dempsey, who was instructed to vote for South Africa by the Oceania Football Confederation, abstained from voting at the last minute. If he had voted for the Africans, the tally would have been 12:12, giving the decision to FIFA President Sepp Blatter; it was widely believed then that Blatter would have voted for South Africa. There has been much speculation since the vote of 2000 as to why Dempsey pulled out; there were reports of threats and bribes, involving the German satirial magazine titanic. South Africa has instead been chosen as the host of the 2010 World Cup. Since the announcement of the 2006 award was made, FIFA has made public its intention to henceforth rotate the hosting of the event between its constituent confederations.

Venues

A total of 12 German cities have been selected to host the World Cup final tournament:

City Stadium Host club(s) Capacity
Berlin Olympiastadion Hertha BSC Berlin 76,176
Dortmund Westfalenstadion Borussia Dortmund 81,264
Frankfurt Waldstadion Eintracht Frankfurt 48,132
Gelsenkirchen Veltins-Arena FC Schalke 04 53,804
Hamburg AOL Arena Hamburger SV 51,055
Hannover AWD-Arena Hannover 96 44,652
Kaiserslautern Fritz-Walter-Stadion 1. FC Kaiserslautern 41,170
Cologne (Köln) RheinEnergieStadion 1. FC Köln 46,120
Leipzig Zentralstadion FC Sachsen Leipzig 44,199
Munich (München) Allianz Arena Bayern Munich, TSV 1860 München 66,016
Nuremberg (Nürnberg) Frankenstadion 1. FC Nürnberg 41,926
Stuttgart Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion VfB Stuttgart 54,267

The effective capacity of some of the stadia in the World Cup, in particular the Westfalenstadion, will be lower than the figures quoted, as the Bundesliga regulations allow for terracing in stadia but the FIFA rules do not, and hence seating will have to be installed in the terraced areas for the World Cup thus reducing the capacity somewhat.

Also, during the World Cup proper, many of the stadiums will be officially known by different names, as FIFA prohibits sponsorship of stadium names. For example, Allianz Arena will be known during the competition as "FIFA WM-Stadion München" (FIFA World Cup Stadium Munich), while Veltins-Arena will revert to its original name of "Arena AufSchalke".

It is perhaps noteworthy that of the twelve hosting cities, all but one (Leipzig) are in what was West Germany.

Teams

After the 12 October 2005 round of qualification matches, the following teams had secured qualification (shown here broken down by regional association):

  • Oceania (OFC)

For details, see Football World Cup 2006 (qualification).

External links

FIFA (Men's) World Cup

Uruguay 1930 | Italy 1934 | France 1938 | Brazil 1950 | Switzerland 1954 | Sweden 1958 | Chile 1962 | England 1966 | Mexico 1970 | West Germany 1974 | Argentina 1978 | Spain 1982 | Mexico 1986 | Italy 1990 | USA 1994 | France 1998 | Korea/Japan 2002 | Germany 2006 | South Africa 2010 | South America 2014 | 2018

FIFA Women's World Cup

China 1991 | Sweden 1995 | USA 1999 | USA 2003 | China 2007 | 2011

International football

FIFA - World Cup - Women's World Cup - World Rankings - Player of the Year
Asia: AFC - Asian Cup | Africa: CAF - African Nations Cup
South America: CONMEBOL - Copa América | North America: CONCACAF - Gold Cup
Oceania: OFC - OFC Nations Cup | Europe: UEFA - European Championship

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