Why can't the World Cup be scheduled for every 3 years instead of 4.?
362685
There are other competitions that are scheduled round it such as the European cup, this is every 4 years too. So European teams spend the first 2 years after the world cup qualifying for and playing in the Euro Championships then once these are over qualifying for the world cup.
883019
Because it is not a Leap Year ! Wait till 2008 after the World Cup is over the team performance will go up by leaps and bounds. After that give them a commercial break to do ads and ramp shows till 2012 - another leap year.
344507
According to the rotation system in practice today, 2014 will be held in South America. The Commebol (South Americans football federation) has already agreed that if the rotation system holds, their picked country will be Brazil.\nBlatter has already stated that in order for Brazil to hold the World Cup it will need some hardcore investments on its stadium. And finally, just yesterday, the Brazilian Football Federation boss, Ricardo Teixeira, announced that in order for the country to hold the world cup, it will need approximately 10 new stadiums, he also plans to present the plans for these new stadiums by the deadline for the 2014 applicants later on this year (november).\nSo, only if something new comes up, or a disaster of some sorts, looks like 2014 will be held in Brazil\nAs a bonus, in 2014, the Brazilian football federation will be celebrating it's 100 year aniversary, all the more reasons why it will be held there.
1079418
It's been going on for ages.  I believe FIFA is going to start having empty stadium matches if it happens next year, I think they even threatened to relegate teams whose fans get out of hand.  There are some sanctions for doing it in the world cup, I forget what they are.  I think the team loses a point or something like that.
670490
School is almost over unless it's a college or university dont go. Plus Fifa World Cup only happens every 4 years And Ronadhino is gonna play! Over here in Oklahoma they are gonna play at that time too so you know where im going to be!
475423
world cups are held just once every four years. with that being said here are a list counting down with the winners.\n\nGermany 2006        ?\nJapan/Korea 2002    Brazil\nFrance 1998         France\nUS 1994             Brazil\nItaly 1990          W. Germany\n\nAs you can see with this year falling on a world cup year there was no competition in 1996, therefore no winner.\n\nFederation Internationale de Footballe Association
1104966
It wouldn't work. It's fine as it is. The Women's world cup is in 2 years from today, and for international teams, there is Euro Cup and the Copa de Liberatordes or something of that sort for Souther America. Hence, if it was every 2 years, international teams would be playing Euro and World Cup at the same time. That wouldn't work at all. Hell I want more soccer too, but that's just not possible.
929137
waiting 4 entire years for each world cup is what makes the world cup so great...so important, and so huge\n\nany shorter of a time in between world cups would make it mean less, and being the world cup champion wouldn't mean as much
1183587
4 years if that is your Q, 4 years between world cups, next one is South Africa 2010
370493
No special reason... only for the obvious, if it were held every years it would have no meaning or expectation after a while.... but there are other importatnt cups to keep us entertained, eouro cup (e 4 yrs), copa america (e 3yrs), african, u20 world cup, and more.
756849
At the 2007 World Cup, forty-eight games will be played in 12 different cities from September 7th, to October 20th. Ten of the cities are in France while Cardiff and Edinburgh also host games.\n\nAs of the start of 2006, 10 nations were already qualified for the tournament: the eight 2003 quarterfinalists were seeded in the four groups back in May 2005.
320175
This is because of the buzz created by the World Cup, which is a big world-wide soccer event which is held every four years in different host countries. This summer it will be hosted in Germany, and there a great expectations from many national teams.
1042462
Hello,\nI presume you are talking about the football worlcup\nIt started in 1930 In Uruguay, why? well the FIFA (the organisation in charge of the football competiton around the world) wanted at the begining leave the world cup into the olympics game (1908) but after the great world war, the FIFA and his president Jules Rimet changed their mind and decided to creat the World cup, they took the decision in 1928. The first edition had 13 teams (countries) vs 32 today.\n\nWell it's brief and i hope it will help you to start, if you need more info on the organisation or the cup your best try will be www.fifa.com
581077
What world cup? it wasnt football as it is every 4 years and was in France in 1998 and in U.S.A 4 years earlier.
444981
It is to allow regional championships such as the European championships to happen also every four years (two years after the world cup) and also to faciliate the qualifying rounds. \n\nWith the amount of national soccer teams now in existence it would be impossible for all of them to compete in one final tournament so more than half are eliminated in a series of regional qualifying rounds over the preceding two years.\n\nThe same is true of the regional championships.\n\nFor example for England to qualify for the World Cup we had to play home and away games against Poland, Austria, Wales, and Northern Ireland. That is 8 games which have to be fitted in with the domestic seasons, and also straight on the back of a European championship two years ago, which we also had to qualify for in the same way.\n\nWe won our group by the way, which meant automatic qualification and seeding.\n\nAs soon as we finish this world cup in June (and winning it) we commence our European championship qualifyers for 2008....and so on
638547
The World Cup is held every Four Years and is held in differant countries around the world (i.e France 1998, Korea 2002, Germany 2006)\nAnd even if you wanted to go to the World Cup, the tickets will be sold out now, if you want to go you better have good clicking skills once the Quarter Final participants are announced, as people WILL be buying them then.
398722
I see it very difficult to happen since Americans don't like or don't pay as much attention to soccer as they do to other sports, but as soon as they start paying attention to soccer as they do to baseball or football I think it would only take them as much as 3-4 world cups since they can really afford sponsoring a very good team.... but hey that's just my opinion