World Military Cup

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The World Military Cup is a football competition for national military teams. It is organized by the International Military Sports Council (CISM). The tournament has been held since 1946 and was originally called the World Military Championship. The name changed for the 2001 edition. When the multi-sport Military World Games was set up in 1995, the football championship was incorporated into it, but it is still being held independently every two years.

A women's tournament, World Military Women's Championship, was started in 2001.

History

The first championship took place in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1946 under the responsibility of the Armed Forces Sports Council, which in 1948 became the International Military Sports Council (CISM). Great Britain won the first title, and Czechoslovakia was the runner-up. In 1995, the first Military World Games where football competitions took place, were this games.^[1]

Format

Since 2013, the world championship has been divided into 2 different competitions. The CISM World Football Cup is a four-year cycle; the 2nd edition of the Cup was played from January to 28 January 2017 in

Additionally, all 4 years at the Military World Games, football tournament - Military World Championship.^[1]

Qualifications

Qualifying tournaments are:

Results

Men

Military World Championship

In 1995 started a football tournament which is a part of the Military World Games every four years. this competition is counted as a part of the world championship.

Year	Host		Final				Third Place Match
			Champions	Score	Runners-Up		Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
1946 Details	Prague		England		Czechoslovakia		Belgium
1947 Details	Hanover		Belgium		Netherlands		Denmark
1948 Details	Copenhagen		France		Belgium		Denmark		Luxembourg
1949 Details	Lille / Paris		France	3–1	Turkey		Belgium	3–1	Netherlands
1950 Details	The Hague		Italy	2–1	Belgium		France	4–4 (France win on corners)	Netherlands
1951 Details	Cairo		Italy	3–1	Egypt		France	3–1	Belgium
1952 Details	Athens		Greece	3–2	Belgium		Netherlands	1–0	Turkey
1953 Details	Ankara / Istanbul 1		Belgium	n/a	Turkey		Greece
1954 Details	Brussels		Belgium	5–1	Turkey		Portugal	1–0	France
1955 Details	Rome		Turkey	n/a	Italy		Egypt	n/a	Netherlands
1956 Details	Lisbon		Italy	n/a	Portugal		Egypt	n/a	Turkey
1957 Details	Buenos Aires		France	n/a	Argentina		Italy	n/a	Brazil
1958 Details	Lisbon		Portugal	2–1	France		Netherlands	4–3	Belgium
1959 Details	Florence 1		Italy	n/a	Portugal		France
1960 Details	Oran 2		Belgium	n/a	Turkey		Greece	n/a	France
1961 Details	Ankara		Turkey	n/a	Greece		France	n/a	Netherlands
1962 Details	Seoul		Greece	1st leg: 3–1 2nd leg: 1–2	South Korea		Turkey
1963 Details	Saloniki		Greece	n/a	Belgium		France and  Turkey
1964 Details	Ankara / Istanbul		France	n/a	Turkey		West Germany and  Netherlands
1965 Details	Gijón		Spain	3–0	Turkey		Morocco	2–1	Belgium
1966 Details	Rabat		Turkey	1st leg: 2–1 2nd leg: 0–0	Morocco		Netherlands and  Spain
1967 Details	Brussels		Turkey	n/a	Belgium		Morocco and  Netherlands
1968 Details	Baghdad		Greece	4–1	Turkey		Netherlands and  Spain
1969 Details	Athens		Greece	w/o	Algeria		Iran	1–1	South Korea
1972 Details	Baghdad		Iraq	n/a	Italy		Greece	n/a	Turkey
1973 Details	Brazzaville		Italy	n/a	Iraq		Kuwait	n/a	Congo
1975 Details	Hagen		West Germany	1–0	Netherlands		Kuwait	6–5 ( a.e.t. )	Cameroon
1977 Details	Damascus		Iraq	0–0 (5–4 p )	Kuwait		Italy	3–1 ( a.e.t. )	France
1979 Details	Kuwait City		Iraq	0–0 (4–3 p )	Italy		Kuwait	3–1	Austria
1981 Details	Doha		Kuwait	1–0	Qatar		Syria	2–0	France
1983 Details	Kuwait City		Kuwait	2–0	Belgium
1987 Details	Arezzo		Italy	2–0	West Germany		Egypt	4–1	Belgium
1989 Details	Caserta		Italy	3–0	Morocco		Belgium	1–0	United Arab Emirates
1991 Details	Arnhem / Apeldoorn		Italy	3–3 ( p )	Germany		Turkey	1–0	France
1993 Details	Rabat		Egypt	3–2 ( a.e.t. )	Morocco		Germany	3–0	France
1995 Details	Rome *		France	1–0	Iran		South Korea	1–0	Cyprus
1997 Details	Tehran		Greece	1–0	Italy		France	3–2 ( a.e.t. )	Burkina Faso
1999 Details	Zagreb *		Egypt	3–3 (5–4 p )	Greece		Croatia	2–0	Germany
2001 Details	Cairo		Egypt	3–0	Greece		North Korea	5–0	Guinea
2003 Details	Catania *		North Korea	3–2	Egypt		Italy	3–2	Lithuania
2005 Details	Warendorf		Egypt	1–0	Algeria		Qatar	3–1	Germany
2007 Details	Hyderabad *		Egypt	2–0	Cameroon		North Korea	2–0	Qatar
2011 Details	Rio de Janeiro * [2]		Algeria	1–0	Egypt		Brazil	1–0 ( a.e.t. )	Qatar
2015 Details	Mungyeong *		Algeria	2–0 ( a.e.t. )	Oman		South Korea	3–2	Egypt
2019 Details	Wuhan *		Bahrain	3–1	Qatar		Algeria	4–0	North Korea

• ^n/a A round-robin tournament determined the final standings
• ^n1 Only three teams in final group
• ^n2 Tournament held in French Algeria
• * Held as part of the Military World Games

CISM World Football Cup

Year	Host		Final				Third Place Match
			Champions	Score	Runners-Up		Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
2013 Details	Baku		Iraq	3–2	Oman		Ivory Coast	1–0	Azerbaijan
2017 Details	Muscat		Oman	0–0 (4–1 p )	Qatar		Syria	2 – 2 (6–5 p )	Egypt

Teams reaching the top four

Team	Titles	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place	Total
Italy	8 (1950, 1951, 1956, 1959, 1973, 1987, 1989, 1991)	4 (1955, 1972, 1979, 1997)	3 (1957, 1977, 2003)	—	15
Greece	6 (1952, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1969, 1997)	3 (1961, 1999, 2001)	3 (1953, 1960, 1972)	—	12
Egypt	5 (1993, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2007)	3 (1951, 2003, 2011)	3 (1955, 1956, 1987)	2 (2015, 2017)	13
France	5 (1948, 1949, 1957, 1964, 1995)	1 (1958)	6 (1950, 1951, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1997)	6 (1954, 1960, 1977, 1981, 1991, 1993)	18
Turkey	4 (1955, 1961, 1966, 1967)	7 (1949, 1953, 1954, 1960, 1964, 1965, 1968)	2 (1962, 1991)	4 (1952, 1956, 1963, 1972)	17
Belgium	4 (1947, 1953, 1954, 1960)	6 (1948, 1950, 1952, 1963, 1967, 1983)	3 (1946, 1949, 1989)	4 (1951, 1958, 1965, 1987)	14
Iraq	4 (1972, 1977, 1979, 2013)	1 (1973)	—	—	5
Algeria	2 (2011, 2015)	2 (1969, 2005)	1 (2019)	—	5
Kuwait	2 (1981, 1983)	1 (1977)	3 (1973, 1975, 1979)	—	6
Germany	1 (1975)	2 (1987, 1991)	2 (1964, 1993)	2 (1999, 2005)	7
Portugal	1 (1958)	2 (1956, 1959)	1 (1954)	—	4
Oman	1 (2017)	2 (2013, 2015)	—	—	3
North Korea	1 (2003)	—	2 (2001, 2007)	1 (2019)	4
Spain	1 (1965)	—	—	2 (1966, 1968)	3
Bahrain	1 (2019)	—	—	—	1
England	1 (1946)	—	—	—	1
Morocco	—	3 (1966, 1989, 1993)	2 (1965, 1967)	—	5
Qatar	—	3 (1981, 2017, 2019)	1 (2005)	2 (2007, 2011)	6
Netherlands	—	2 (1947, 1975)	4 (1952, 1958, 1966, 1968)	6 (1949, 1950, 1955, 1961, 1964, 1967)	12
Iran	—	1 (1995)	1 (1969)	—	2
South Korea	—	1 (1962)	2 (1995, 2015)	—	3
Cameroon	—	1 (2007)	—	1 (1975)	2
Argentina	—	1 (1957)	—	—	1
Czechoslovakia	—	1 (1946)	—	—	1
Denmark	—	—	2 (1947, 1948)	—	2
Syria	—	—	2 (1981, 2017)	—	2
Brazil	—	—	1 (2011)	1 (1957)	2
Croatia	—	—	1 (1999)	—	1
Ivory Coast	—	—	1 (2013)	—	1
Austria	—	—	—	1 (1979)	1
Congo	—	—	—	1 (1973)	1
Cyprus	—	—	—	1 (1995)	1
Guinea	—	—	—	1 (2001)	1
Lithuania	—	—	—	1 (2003)	1
Luxembourg	—	—	—	1 (1948)	1
United Arab Emirates	—	—	—	1 (1989)	1
Burkina Faso	—	—	—	1 (1997)	1
Azerbaijan	—	—	—	1 (2013)	1

Women

Year	Host nation		Final				Third Place Match
			Winner	Score	Second Place		Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
2001 Details	Netherlands		Germany	n/a	Netherlands		England	n/a	Canada
2002 Details	Kingston		United States	1–0	Germany		Netherlands	4–0	Canada
2003 Details	Warendorf		Germany	7–3	Netherlands		United States	1–0	Canada
2004 Details	Fort Eustis		Netherlands	3–0 ( a.e.t. )	Germany		United States	3–1	Canada
2006 Details	Assen		Netherlands	2–0	United States		Germany	6–4 ( a.e.t. )	France
2007 Details	Hyderabad *		North Korea	5–0	Germany		France	1–0	Netherlands
2008 Details	Ede		Germany	3–0	France		Netherlands	2–1	South Korea
2009 Details	Biloxi		Brazil	1–0	South Korea		Netherlands	2–1	France
2010 Details	Cherbourg-Octeville		Brazil	1–0	South Korea		France	2–1	Netherlands
2011 Details	Rio de Janeiro *		Brazil	5–0	Germany		Netherlands	2–0	France
2012 Details	Warendorf		Germany	1–0	South Korea		Brazil	2–0	France
2015 Details	Mungyeong *		Brazil	2–1 ( a.e.t. )	France		South Korea	3–0	Netherlands
2016 Details	France		France	2–1	Brazil		South Korea	3–3 ( p )	Cameroon
2018 Details	Fort Bliss		Brazil	3–2	South Korea		China	3–1	France
2019 Details	Wuhan *		North Korea	2–1	China		Brazil	3–1	South Korea
2020	Yaoundé[3]		Cancelled				Cancelled
2022 Details	Spokane		France	2–1	Cameroon		South Korea	3–0	United States
2023 Details	Bunschoten-Spakenburg		South Korea	1–0	France		Cameroon	4–0	Netherlands

• ^n/a A round-robin tournament determined the final standings
• * Held as part of the Military World Games

Teams reaching the top four

Team	Titles	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place	Total
Brazil	5 (2009, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2018)	1 (2016)	2 (2012, 2019)	—	8
Germany	4 (2001, 2003, 2008, 2012)	4 (2002, 2004, 2007, 2011)	1 (2006)	—	9
France	2 (2016, 2022)	3 (2008, 2015, 2023)	2 (2007, 2010)	5 (2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2018)	12
Netherlands	2 (2004, 2006)	2 (2001, 2003)	4 (2002, 2008, 2009, 2011)	4 (2007, 2010, 2015, 2023)	12
North Korea	2 (2007, 2019)	—	—	—	2
South Korea	1 (2023)	4 (2009, 2010, 2012, 2018)	3 (2015, 2016, 2022)	2 (2008, 2019)	10
United States	1 (2002)	1 (2006)	2 (2003, 2004)	1 (2022)	5
Cameroon	—	1 (2022)	1 (2023)	1 (2016)	3
China	—	1 (2019)	1 (2018)	—	2
England	—	—	1 (2001)	—	1
Canada	—	—	—	4 (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)	4

See also

• International Military Sports Council
• Football at the Military World Games
• African Military Cup
• Americas Military Cup

References

External links

• RSSSF (men)
• RSSSF (women)