Homeless World Cup

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Homeless World Cup
Homeless World Cup logo.jpg
Men's & Women's Homeless World Cups
Founded2001
RegionWorldwide
Number of teams60+
Current championsMexico (4th & 7th titles)
Most successful team(s)Mexico (11 titles)
Websitehttp://www.homelessworldcup.org/

The Homeless World Cup is an annual association football tournament organized by the Homeless World Cup Foundation, a social organization which advocates the end of homelessness through the sport of association football. The organization puts together an annual football tournament where teams of homeless people from each country compete.

The 2008 tournament was the first to include a women's competition. From 2010 onwards, all tournaments have featured both men's and women's teams.

History[]

Players huddle during the Homeless World Cup 2007 in Copenhagen

The Homeless World Cup organization was co-founded by Mel Young and Harald Schmied in 2001 to advocate for a global solution to homelessness. The first annual football tournament for homeless people took place in 2003 in Graz, Austria. Host cities since then have included Gothenburg, Edinburgh, Copenhagen, Cape Town, Melbourne, Milan, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Mexico City, Poznań, Santiago, Amsterdam, Glasgow, Oslo and Mexico City. Most recently, the 2019 edition was hosted by Wales in Bute Park, Cardiff, with Michael Sheen opening the tournament.

The 2020 tournament had been due to take place in Tampere, Finland, but was cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]

The international headquarters of the Homeless World Cup is in Edinburgh, Scotland.

National partners[]

The Homeless World Cup organization operates through a network of more than 70 national partners around the world, supporting football programs and social enterprise development.[2]

List of national partners

Format[]

Fields[]

Since 2015 the tournament has been played on synthetic turf fields from Act Global.[3]

Rules[]

Player eligibility[]

Players must meet all of the following criteria:

  • Be at least 16 years old at the time of the tournament
  • Have not taken part in previous Homeless World Cup tournaments

Also, must be any of the following:

  • Have been homeless at some point after the previous year's tournament in accordance with the national definition of homelessness
  • Make their main living income as a streetpaper vendor
  • Be asylum seekers currently without positive asylum status or who were previously asylum seekers but obtained residency status a year before the event
  • Currently be in drug or alcohol rehabilitation and also have been homeless at some point in the past two years

Participants[]

A maximum of 4 players per team on the court:

  • 3 outfield players,
  • 1 goalkeeper,
  • Plus 4 substitution players (rolling substitution allowed)

Tournament details[]

The winning team gets 3 points. The losing team gets zero points. If a match ends in a draw, it is decided by sudden-death penalty shootout and the winning team gets two points and the losing team gets one point. Games are 14 minutes long, in two seven-minute halves. The field measures 22m long x 16m wide.

Results[]

Men[]

Year Host Winners Score Runners-up Third place Score Fourth place Number of teams
2003
Graz,
 Austria

Austria
2–1
England

Netherlands
11–5
Brazil
18
2004
Gothenburg,
 Sweden

Italy
4–0
Austria

Poland
7–4
Scotland
26
2005
Edinburgh,
 Scotland

Italy
9–3
Poland

Ukraine
11–5
Scotland
27
2006
Cape Town,
 South Africa

Russia
1–0
Kazakhstan

Poland
3–1
Mexico
26
2007
Copenhagen,
 Denmark

Scotland
9–3
Poland

Liberia
11–5
Denmark
48
2008
Melbourne,
 Australia

Afghanistan
5–4
Russia

Ghana
6–4
Scotland
45
2009
Milan,
 Italy

Ukraine
5–4
Portugal

Brazil
3–2
Nigeria
48
2010
Rio de Janeiro,
 Brazil

Brazil
6–0
Chile

Mexico
4–4
(1–0p)

Portugal
43
2011
Paris,
 France

Scotland
4–3
Mexico

Brazil
7–1
Kenya
48
2012
Details
Mexico City,
 Mexico

Chile
8–5
Mexico

Brazil
6–2
Indonesia
43
2013
Poznań,
 Poland

Brazil
3–3
(1–0p)

Mexico

Russia
6–6
(1–0p)

Chile
46
2014
Santiago,
 Chile

Chile
5–2
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Poland
6–6
(1–0p)

Brazil
42
2015
Amsterdam,
 Netherlands

Mexico
5–2
Ukraine

Portugal
2–2
(1–0p)

Brazil
47
2016
Glasgow,
 Scotland

Mexico
6–1
Brazil

Russia
3–1
Chile
44
2017
Oslo,
 Norway

Brazil
4–3
Mexico

Russia
5–3
Chile
45
2018
Details
Mexico City,
 Mexico

Mexico
6–3
Chile

Hungary
6–5
Portugal
40
2019
Cardiff,
 Wales

Mexico
5-1
Chile

Russia
7–7
(1–0p)

Portugal
44

Participating nations[]

Nation
Austria
(18)

Sweden
(26)

Scotland
(27)

South Africa
(48)

Denmark
(48)

Australia
(45)

Italy
(48)

Brazil
(43)

France
(48)
2012
Mexico
(43)

Poland
(46)

Chile
(42)

Netherlands
(47)

Scotland
(44)

Norway
(45)
2018
Mexico
(40)

Wales
(44)

Finland
( )
 Afghanistan 12th 20th 1st
 Argentina 14th 13th 42nd 38th 28th 26th 33rd 26th 12th 22nd 24th 20th
 Australia 7th 43rd 43rd 22nd 43rd 37th 45th 39th 43rd 39th
 Austria 1st 2nd 8th 45th 33rd 15th 23rd 17th 21st 7th 10th 23rd 25th 40th 9th 16th 8th
 Belgium 45th 41st 12th 34th 25th 37th 31st 40th 40th
 Bosnia and Herzegovina 6th 6th 2nd 13th 8th 7th 7th 6th
 Brazil 4th 15th 11th 16th 22nd 7th 3rd 1st 3rd 3rd 1st 4th 4th 2nd 1st 5th 13th
 Bulgaria 22nd 17th 12th 9th 17th 10th 12th 12th
 Burundi 41st 27th
 Cambodia 43rd 42nd 39th 45th 16th 35th 39th 36th 33rd 34th 36th
 Cameroon 6th 8th
 Canada 16th 20th 35th 40th 42nd 28th 40th 46th 27th 40th 41st 44th
 Chile 23rd 34th 9th 2nd 5th 1st 4th 1st 7th 4th 4th 2nd 2nd
 Colombia 25th
 Costa Rica 14th 19th 13th 20th 18th 15th 8th 11th 14th 11th 11th
 Croatia 46th 45th 30th 22nd 28th 31st 33rd
 Czech Republic 23rd 25th 15th 15th 35th 36th 23rd 23rd 35th 27th 40th 30th 41st 39th 37th
 Denmark 6th 9th 7th 4th 32nd 17th 11th 23rd 26th 31st 16th 17th 20th 28th
 Egypt 10th 13th 5th
 England 2nd 6th 9th 13th 29th 6th 10th 15th 12th 38th 44th 31st 27th 22nd 30th 32nd 30th
 Estonia 31st
 Ethiopia 27th
 Finland 18th 28th 32nd 31st 27th 42nd 41st 41st 37th 45th 28th 38th 24th 41st
 France 21st 26th 24th 21st 18th 11th 29th 29th 26th 16th 28th 26th 27th 33rd 14th
 Germany 16th 22nd 16th 22nd 23rd 12th 21st 32nd 43rd 29th 33rd 18th 46th 30th 33rd 38th 26th
 Ghana 20th 10th 3rd 6th 8th 35th 19th
 Greece 35th 30th 24th 38th 31st 31st 32nd 22nd 41st 43rd 44th 36th 44th
 Grenada 34th 27th 26th
 Guatemala 25th 34th
 Haiti 18th
 Hong Kong 21st 44th 47th 24th 40th 37th 40th 15th 37th 20th 32nd 32nd 37th 28th 38th
 Hungary 36th 12th 23rd 20th 31st 38th 40th 21st 11th 29th 6th 32nd 4th 18th
 India 45th 39th 39th 35th 33rd 30th 33rd 33rd 24th 18th 21st 25th
 Indonesia 6th 4th 8th 10th 17th 7th 5th 10th 20th
 Ireland 14th 17th 5th 17th 30th 9th 5th 6th 11th 24th 11th 16th 10th 9th 8th 17th 17th
 Israel 35th 36th 43rd
 Italy 5th 1st 1st 30th 14th 14th 25th 21st 19th 14th 24th 27th 43rd 23rd 24th 30th 21st
 Ivory Coast 48th 36th 27th
 Japan 25th 44th 48th
 Kazakhstan 2nd 9th 47th
 Kenya 9th 6th 5th 5th 4th
 Kyrgyzstan 41st 27th 27th 36th 23rd
 Liberia 5th 3rd
 Lithuania 26th 17th 19th 13th 18th 16th 8th 14th 14th 28th 15th 31st 8th 10th
 Luxembourg 30th 24th 38th
 Malawi 48th 41st 18th
 Mexico 4th 26th 25th 7th 3rd 2nd 2nd 2nd 9th 1st 1st 2nd 1st 1st
 Moldova
 Morocco 32nd
 Namibia 19th 14th 29th 38th 35th 28th 30th 17th 20th 7th 14th 12th
 Netherlands 3rd 12th 6th 14th 25th 20th 16th 16th 15th 34th 9th 8th 11th 37th 23rd 31st
 New Zealand 40th 42nd
 Nigeria 8th 5th 10th 4th 7th
 Northern Ireland 31st 25th 24th 13th 12th 29th 29th
 Norway 23rd 47th 37th 16th 37th 26th 36th 36th 34th 30th 18th 29th 21st 22nd 23rd
 Pakistan 42nd
 Palestine 10th 25th
 Paraguay 32nd
 Peru 9th 13th 22nd 22nd 13th
 Philippines 37th 29th 25th 24th 13th 29th 38th
 Poland 12th 3rd 2nd 3rd 2nd 13th 8th 13th 10th 23rd 15th 3rd 12th 18th 29th 15th 9th
 Portugal 18th 10th 11th 7th 11th 2nd 4th 14th 5th 5th 6th 3rd 5th 6th 3rd 4th
 Romania 26th 22nd 22nd 41st 33rd 7th 17th 6th 19th 11th 18th
 Russia 13th 5th 12th 1st 13th 2nd 15th 7th 9th 19th 3rd 5th 19th 3rd 3rd 9th 3rd
 Rwanda 19th 33rd
 Scotland 11th 4th 4th 33rd 1st 4th 12th 14th 1st 37th 12th 21st 16th 21st 25th 19th 24th
 Serbia 37th 18th
 Sierra Leone 36th
 Singapore
 Slovakia 10th 26th 24th 34th 24th
 Slovenia 42nd 41st 32nd 26th 29th 21st 44th 45th 40th 35th
 South Africa 7th 8th 18th 27th 16th 21st 17th 11th 20th 21st 19th 5th 14th 16th 6th 7th
 South Korea 43rd 39th 43rd 46th 42nd 40th 42nd 42nd 39th 32nd
 Spain 15th 20th 19th 39th 32nd 46th 47th
 Sweden 8th 7th 22nd 40th 44th 44th 34th 34th 44th 42nd 42nd 38th 47th 34th 41st 37th 34th
  Switzerland 18th 24th 15th 38th 48th 38th 36th 28th 30th 39th 34th 42nd 38th 20th 26th 15th
 East Timor 31st
 Uganda 21st 39th
 Ukraine 10th 3rd 10th 11th 8th 1st 9th 8th 39th 13th 2nd 15th
 United States 9th 13th 27th 46th 36th 29th 19th 20th 18th 28th 43rd 35th 23rd 35th 28th 27th 22nd
 Vietnam
 Wales 17th 11th 17th 31st 33rd 10th 36th 32nd 39th 25th 35th 35th 16th
 Zambia 25th 19th
 Zimbabwe 28th 34th 17th 15th 26th 19th 14th 19th
Street Soccer United 20th

Women[]

Year Host Winners Score Runners-up Third place Score Fourth place Number of teams
2008
Melbourne,
 Australia

Zambia
7–1[4]
Liberia

Cameroon

Colombia
8
2010
Rio de Janeiro,
 Brazil

Brazil
7-3
Mexico

Haiti

Colombia
12
2011
Paris,
 France

Kenya
4–3[5]
Mexico

Brazil

Argentina
16
2012
Details
Mexico City,
 Mexico

Mexico
6-2[6]
Brazil

Chile

Netherlands
13
2013
Poznań,
 Poland

Mexico
4-1[7]
Chile

Hungary

Kyrgyzstan
13
2014
Santiago,
 Chile

Chile
4–3[8]
Mexico

Brazil

Hungary
12
2015
Amsterdam,
 Netherlands

Mexico
3–1[9]
Chile

Norway

Hungary
16
2016
Glasgow,
 Scotland

Mexico
5-0[10]
Kyrgyzstan

Chile
6-6[11]
(1–0p)

Scotland
14
2017
Oslo,
 Norway

Mexico
4–2
Chile

Kenya

Kyrgyzstan
19
2018
Details
Mexico City,
 Mexico

Mexico
5–3
Colombia

Chile

Brazil
16
2019
Cardiff,
 Wales

Mexico
5-1[12]
Peru

Romania
3-3[13]
(2-1p)

Chile
16

Participating nations[]

Nation
Australia
(8)

Brazil
(12)

France
(16)
2012
Mexico
(13)

Poland
(13)

Chile
(12)

Netherlands
(16)

Scotland
(14)

Norway
(19)
2018
Mexico
(16)

Wales
(16)

Finland
( )
 Afghanistan
 Argentina 8th 4th 7th 5th 5th 5th 9th
 Australia 8th
 Austria 6th
 Belgium 14th 19th 13th
 Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Brazil 1st 3rd 2nd 3rd 4th
 Bulgaria 7th
 Burundi
 Cambodia
 Cameroon 3rd
 Canada 14th 12th
 Chile 3rd 2nd 1st 2nd 3rd 2nd 3rd 4th
 Colombia 4th 4th 7th 8th 2nd
 Costa Rica 5th
 Croatia
 Czech Republic
 Denmark 11th 8th
 Egypt 16th 6th 6th
 England 9th 9th 7th 15th 5th 8th 10th 8th
 Estonia
 Ethiopia
 Finland 12th
 France 10th 13th 5th
 Germany
 Ghana
 Greece 10th 12th 16th
 Grenada
 Guatemala 13th
 Haiti 3rd 9th
 Hong Kong
 Hungary 6th 3rd 4th 4th 13th 5th
 India 12th 13th 10th 6th 7th 7th 9th 7th
 Indonesia
 Ireland 11th
 Israel
 Italy
 Ivory Coast 14th
 Japan
 Kazakhstan
 Kenya 1st 3rd
 Kyrgyzstan 5th 5th 5th 4th 2nd 4th
 Liberia 2nd
 Lithuania
 Luxembourg
 Malawi 6th
 Mexico 2nd 2nd 1st 1st 2nd 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st
 Moldova
 Morocco
 Namibia
 Netherlands 6th 11th 4th 6th 6th 11th 6th 10th 12th
 New Zealand
 Nigeria
 Northern Ireland 16th 14th 15th
 Norway 9th 8th 11th 3rd 12th 14th 7th 10th
 Pakistan
 Palestine
 Paraguay 6th 7th 12th 11th 15th
 Peru 8th 2nd
 Philippines
 Poland 8th
 Portugal
 Romania 3rd
 Russia
 Rwanda
 Scotland 5th 7th 4th 9th 11th
 Serbia
 Sierra Leone
 Singapore
 Slovakia
 Slovenia
 South Africa
 South Korea
 Spain
 Sweden 12th 12th 10th 15th 14th
  Switzerland
 East Timor
 Uganda 7th 10th 16th
 Ukraine
 United States 11th 15th 10th 13th 9th 13th 8th 18th 12th 9th
 Vietnam
 Wales 10th 8th 9th 11th 17th 13th 11th
 Zambia 1st
 Zimbabwe
Street Football United 16th


Performance by country[]

Men[]

Team Titles Runners-up Third place Fourth place Top 4
finishes
Top 3
finishes
Top 2
finishes
 Mexico 4 (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019) 4 (2011, 2012, 2013, 2017) 1 (2010) 1 (2006) 10 9 8
 Brazil 3 (2010, 2013, 2017) 1 (2016) 3 (2009, 2011, 2012) 3 (2003, 2014, 2015) 10 7 4
 Chile 2 (2012, 2014) 3 (2010, 2018, 2019) 0 3 (2013, 2016, 2017) 7 4 4
 Scotland 2 (2007, 2011) 0 0 3 (2004, 2005, 2008) 5 2 2
 Italy 2 (2004, 2005) 0 0 0 2 2 2
 Russia 1 (2006) 1 (2008) 4 (2013, 2016, 2017, 2019) 0 5 5 2
 Austria 1 (2003) 1 (2004) 0 0 2 2 2
 Ukraine 1 (2009) 1 (2015) 1 (2005) 0 3 3 2
 Afghanistan 1 (2008) 0 0 0 1 1 1
 Poland 0 2 (2005, 2007) 3 (2004, 2006, 2014) 0 5 5 2
 Portugal 0 1 (2009) 1 (2015) 3 (2010, 2018, 2019) 4 2 1
 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 1 (2014) 0 0 1 1 1
 England 0 1 (2003) 0 0 1 1 1
 Kazakhstan 0 1 (2006) 0 0 1 1 1
 Ghana 0 0 1 (2008) 0 1 1 0
 Hungary 0 0 1 (2018) 0 1 1 0
 Liberia 0 0 1 (2007) 0 1 1 0
 Netherlands 0 0 1 (2003) 0 1 1 0
 Denmark 0 0 0 1 (2007) 1 0 0
 Indonesia 0 0 0 1 (2012) 1 0 0
 Kenya 0 0 0 1 (2011) 1 0 0
 Nigeria 0 0 0 1 (2009) 1 0 0

Women[]

Team Titles Runners-up Third place Fourth place Top 4
finishes
Top 3
finishes
Top 2
finishes
 Mexico 7 (2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019) 3 (2010, 2011, 2014) 0 0 10 10 10
 Chile 1 (2014) 3 (2013, 2015, 2017) 3 (2012, 2016, 2018) 1 (2019) 8 7 4
 Brazil 1 (2010) 1 (2012) 2 (2011, 2014) 1 (2018) 5 4 2
 Zambia 1 (2008) 0 0 0 1 1 1
 Kenya 1 (2011) 0 0 0 1 1 1
 Kyrgyzstan 0 1 (2016) 0 2 (2013, 2017) 3 1 1
 Colombia 0 1 (2018) 0 2 (2008, 2010) 3 1 1
 Liberia 0 1 (2008) 0 0 1 1 1
 Peru 0 1 (2019) 0 0 1 0 0
 Hungary 0 0 1 (2013) 2 (2014, 2015) 3 1 0
 Cambodia 0 0 1 (2008) 0 1 1 0
 Haiti 0 0 1 (2010) 0 1 1 0
 Norway 0 0 1 (2015) 0 1 1 0
 Romania 0 0 1 (2019) 0 1 1 0
 Argentina 0 0 0 1 (2011) 1 0 0
 Netherlands 0 0 0 1 (2012) 1 0 0
 Scotland 0 0 0 1 (2016) 1 0 0

Media coverage[]

Several TV documentaries have been made tracking the participation of teams from homelessness to participating at the annual event.

In 2011, a 90-minute documentary called Hors-Jeu: Carton rouge contre l’exclusion was broadcast by Canal+ and focused on the Paris 2011 Homeless World Cup and Homeless World Cup itself and five national partners: Japan, Argentina, Palestine, France and Kenya. It was aired in France on 9 October 2011. The documentary was directed by Jérôme Mignard and Thomas Risch.[14]

The 2006 Homeless World Cup was the subject of a documentary entitled Kicking It.[15][16] directed by Susan Koch and Jeff Werner focusing on the experiences of seven homeless people at the Homeless World Cup football (soccer) game in South Africa. Featured in the documentary, narrated by actor Colin Farrell were residents of Afghanistan; Kenya; Dublin, Ireland; Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.; Madrid, Spain and St. Petersburg in Russia. The film premiered in January, 2008 at the Sundance Film Festival, distributed by Liberation Entertainment, Netflix and ESPN.

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