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1938 FIFA World Cup

3rd FIFA World Cup, held in France
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1938 FIFA World Cup
Henri Desmé (?–?) · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

1938 FIFA World Cup is a sports season[1]. It ranks in the top 0.4% of sports season entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,558 views/month, #147 of 36,855).[2]

Key Facts

  • Winner: Italy men's national association football team[3]
  • Country: France[4]
  • Follows: 1934 FIFA World Cup[5]
  • Followed by: 1950 FIFA World Cup[6]
  • Location: Stade de la Meinau[7], Stade Vélodrome[8], Yves du Manoir Stadium[9], Stade Jules Deschaseaux[10], Parc des Princes[11], Stade Auguste Delaune[12], Stade Chaban-Delmas[13], Stade Victor Boucquey[14], Stade du Fort Carré[15], Stadium Municipal[16]
  • Commons category: 1938 FIFA World Cup[17]
  • Edition number: 3[18]
  • Start time: June 4, 1938[19]
  • End time: June 19, 1938[20]
  • Point in time: June 1938[21]
  • Sport: association football[22]
  • Organizer: FIFA[23]
  • Topic's main category: Category:1938 FIFA World Cup[24]
  • Attendance: 369,720[25]
  • Number of participants: 15[26]
  • Number of matches played/races/starts: 18[27]
  • Number of points/goals/set scored: 84[28]
  • Topic has template: Template:1938 FIFA World Cup[29]
  • Participating team: Brazil men's national football team[30], Cuban men's national football team[31], Dutch East Indies national football team[32], Belgium men's national football team[33], Germany men's national association football team[34], France men's national association football team[35], Hungary men's national football team[36], Italy men's national association football team[37], Netherlands national association football team[38], Norway men's national association football team[39], Poland men's national football team[40], Romania men's national association football team[41], Czechoslovakia men's national association football team[42], Sweden men's national football team[43]
  • Competition class: men's association football[44]
  • Statistical leader: Leônidas[45]
  • Sports season of league or competition: FIFA World Cup[46]
  • Final event: 1938 FIFA World Cup Final[47]

Why It Matters

1938 FIFA World Cup has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[48] It is known by 81 alternative names across languages and contexts.[49]

FAQs

What awards did 1938 FIFA World Cup receive?

Honors received include Italy men's national association football team[3].

Related Entities

Alfredo Foni Amedeo Biavati André Abegglen Antonín Puč Eraldo Monzeglio Ernst Wilimowski France František Plánička Gino Colaussi Giovanni Ferrari Giuseppe Meazza György Sárosi Leônidas Oldřich Nejedlý Pietro Rava Saint-Donat-sur-l'Herbasse Silvio Piola

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [48] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [49] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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