WAFO World Cup

The WAFO World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the World Association Football Organisation (WAFO), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1922, except in 1950 when it was not held because of the World War. The current champion is Undecided, which won its X title at the 2018 tournament in Auronia.

The current format involves a qualification phase, which takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase. In the tournament phase, 96 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation(s), compete for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over about a month.

The 24 World Cup tournaments have been won by eleven national teams. Latina have won four times, the most of any other nation. It's followed by Karolia with 3 titles, then Brasonia and Sathria with 2 titles each. Pretany, Kalm, Neo Delta, Escadia, Ataraxia, Mergany and Vega have one title each.

The World Cup is the most prestigious association football tournament in the world, as well as the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Geolympic Games. The cumulative viewership of all matches of the 2014 World Cup was estimated to be X with an estimated X people watching the final match.

13 countries have hosted the World Cup. Kalm has hosted the tournament twice, with the 2022 edition being hosted by Kalm for the third time, toping them as the nation with most times hosted. Ataraxia, Karolia, Latina, Pretany have each hosted twice, while Auronia, Chastechek, Gobrassanya, Gran-Lusland (Belgravia, Brasonia and Luslandia jointly), Sathria and Vega.