![]() List of officialsĪlireza Faghani ( Iran) / Hassan Kamranifar ( Iran) ![]() Yuichi Nishimura from Japan acted as referee in the opening match whereas Nicola Rizzoli from Italy acted as referee in the final. ![]() On 14 January 2014, the FIFA Referees Committee appointed 25 referee trios and eight support duos representing 43 countries for the tournament. In March 2013, FIFA published a list of 52 prospective referees, each paired, on the basis of nationality, with two assistant referees, from all six football confederations for the tournament. Main article: 2014 FIFA World Cup officials This was also the most recent World Cup finals to feature every prior winning team. Teams listed by FIFA ranking as of June 2014 Īs of 2022, this was the last time Chile, Ivory Coast, Greece, Italy, Honduras, and Algeria qualified for the World Cup finals, and the only time Bosnia and Herzegovina have qualified, and the last time Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal, Denmark, Poland, and Serbia failed to qualify. Germany became the first European team to win a World Cup staged in the Americas, and this result marked the third consecutive title won by a European team, after Italy in 2006 and Spain in 2010. In the final, Germany defeated Argentina 1–0 after extra time thanks to a Mario Götze half-volley in the 113th minute of the final to win the tournament and secure the country's fourth world title, the first after German reunification in 1990, when as West Germany they also beat Argentina by the same score in 90 minutes in the World Cup final. Host nation Brazil, who had won the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, lost to Germany 7–1 in the semi-finals and eventually finished in fourth place. Uruguay were eliminated in the round of 16, and France exited in the quarter-finals. Spain, the defending champions, were eliminated at the group stage, along with England and Italy. FIFA Fan Fests in each host city gathered a total of 5 million people, and the country received 1 million visitors from 202 countries. For the first time at a World Cup finals, match officials used goal-line technology, as well as vanishing spray for free kicks. A total of 64 matches were played in 12 venues located in as many host cities across Brazil. It was the second time that Brazil staged the competition, the first being in 1950, and the fifth time that it was held in South America.ģ1 national teams advanced through qualification competitions to join the host nation in the final tournament (with Bosnia and Herzegovina as the only debutant). It took place in Brazil from 12 June to 13 July 2014, after the country was awarded the hosting rights in 2007. ![]() The 2014 FIFA World Cup was the 20th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national football teams organised by FIFA. ![]()
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