World Military Cup

World Military Cup

Founded	1946
Region	International (CISM)
Current champions	M:  Bahrain (2019) W:   (2019)
Most successful team(s)	Men:  Italy (8 titles) Women:   (5 titles)
2019 Military World Games

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, was created the first Military World Games where football competition take place in this games.^[1]

Format[]

Since 2013, the world championship is divided in 2 different competitions. The CISM World Football Cup is a four years cycle, the 2nd edition of the Cup was played from 15 to 28 January 2017 in Muscat, Oman.

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	Prague						Belgium
1947	Hanover		Belgium
1948	Copenhagen		France		Belgium
1949	Lille / Paris		France	3 – 1	Turkey		Belgium	3 – 1
1950	The Hague		Italy	2 – 1	Belgium		France	4 – 4 (France win on corners)
1951	Cairo		Italy	3 – 1	Egypt		France	3 – 1	Belgium
1952	Athens		Greece	3 – 2	Belgium			1 – 0	Turkey
1953	Ankara / Istanbul 1		Belgium	n/a	Turkey		Greece
1954	Brussels		Belgium	5 – 1	Turkey		Portugal	1 – 0	France
1955	Rome		Turkey	n/a	Italy		Egypt	n/a
1956	Lisbon		Italy	n/a	Portugal		Egypt	n/a	Turkey
1957	Buenos Aires		France	n/a			Italy	n/a
1958	Lisbon		Portugal	2 – 1	France			4 – 3	Belgium
1959	Florence 1		Italy	n/a	Portugal		France
1960 Details	Oran 2		Belgium	n/a	Turkey		Greece	n/a	France
1961	Ankara		Turkey	n/a	Greece		France	n/a
1962	Seoul		Greece	1st leg: 3 – 1 2nd leg: 1 – 2	South Korea		Turkey
1963	Athens / Saloniki		Greece	n/a	Belgium		France  Turkey
1964	Ankara / Istanbul		France	n/a	Turkey		West Germany
1965	Gijón			3 – 0	Turkey			2 – 1	Belgium
1966	Rabat		Turkey	1st leg: 2 – 1 2nd leg: 0 – 0
1967	Brussels		Turkey	n/a	Belgium
1968	Baghdad		Greece	4 – 1	Turkey
1969	Athens		Greece	w/o	Algeria			1 – 1	South Korea
1972	Baghdad		Iraq	n/a	Italy		Greece	n/a	Turkey
1973	Brazzaville		Italy	n/a	Iraq			n/a
1975	Hagen		West Germany	1 – 0				6 – 5 aet
1977 Details	Damascus		Iraq	0 – 0 Pens: 5 – 4			Italy	3 – 1 aet	France
1979	Kuwait City		Iraq	0 – 0 Pens: 4 – 3	Italy			3 – 1
1981	Doha			1 – 0	Qatar			2 – 0	France
1983	Kuwait City			2 – 0	Belgium
1987	Arezzo		Italy	2 – 0	West Germany		Egypt	4 – 1	Belgium
1989	Caserta		Italy	3 – 0			Belgium	1 – 0
1991	Arnhem / Apeldoorn		Italy	3 – 3 aet Pens: 5 – 4	Germany		Turkey	1 – 0	France
1993	Rabat		Egypt	3 – 2 aet			Germany	3 – 0	France
1995	Rome *		France	1 – 0			South Korea	1 – 0
1997	Tehran		Greece	1 – 0	Italy		France	3 – 2 aet
1999	Zagreb *		Egypt	3 – 3 Pens: 5 – 4	Greece			2 – 0	Germany
2001	Cairo		Egypt	3 – 0	Greece			5 – 0
2003	Catania *			3 – 2	Egypt		Italy	3 – 2
2005 Details	Warendorf		Egypt	1 – 0	Algeria		Qatar	3 – 1	Germany
2007 Details	Hyderabad *		Egypt	2 – 0				2 – 0	Qatar
2011 Details	Rio de Janeiro * [2]		Algeria	1 – 0	Egypt			1 – 0 aet	Qatar
2015 Details	Mungyeong *		Algeria	2 – 0 aet	Oman		South Korea	3 – 2	Egypt
2019 Details	Wuhan *		Bahrain	3 – 1	Qatar		Algeria	4 – 0

• ^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 Pens: 4 – 1	Qatar			2 – 2 Pens: 6 – 5	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
	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
	1 (2003)	—	2 (2001, 2007)	1 (2019)	4
	1 (1965)	—	—	2 (1966, 1968)	3
Bahrain	1 (2019)	—	—	—	1
	1 (1946)	—	—	—	1
	—	3 (1966, 1989, 1993)	2 (1965, 1967)	—	5
Qatar	—	3 (1981, 2017, 2019)	1 (2005)	2 (2007, 2011)	6
	—	2 (1947, 1975)	4 (1952, 1958, 1966, 1968)	6 (1949, 1950, 1955, 1961, 1964, 1967)	12
	—	1 (1995)	1 (1969)	—	2
South Korea	—	1 (1962)	2 (1995, 2015)	—	3
	—	1 (2007)	—	1 (1975)	2
	—	1 (1957)	—	—	1
	—	1 (1946)	—	—	1
	—	—	2 (1947, 1948)	—	2
	—	—	2 (1981, 2017)	—	2
	—	—	1 (2011)	1 (1957)	2
	—	—	1 (1999)	—	1
Ivory Coast	—	—	1 (2013)	—	1
	—	—	—	1 (1979)	1
	—	—	—	1 (1973)	1
	—	—	—	1 (1995)	1
	—	—	—	1 (2001)	1
	—	—	—	1 (2003)	1
	—	—	—	1 (1948)	1
	—	—	—	1 (1989)	1
	—	—	—	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	Netherlands			n/a				n/a
2002	Kingston			1 – 0				4 – 0
2003	Warendorf			7 – 3				1 – 0
2004	Fort Eustis			3 – 0 aet				3 – 1
2006	Assen			2 – 0				6 – 4 aet
2007	Hyderabad *			5 – 0				1 – 0
2008	Ede			3 – 0				2 – 1	South Korea
2009	Biloxi			1 – 0	South Korea			2 – 1
2010	Cherbourg-Octeville			1 – 0	South Korea			2 – 1
2011	Rio de Janeiro *			5 – 0				2 – 0
2012	Warendorf			1 – 0	South Korea			2 – 0
2015 Details	Mungyeong *			2 – 1 aet			South Korea	3 – 0
2016	France			2 – 1			South Korea	3 – 3 (a.e.t.) (4–3 p)
2018	Fort Bliss			3 – 2	South Korea			3 – 1
2019 Details	Wuhan *			2 – 1				3 – 1	South Korea

• ^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
Netherlands	2 (2004, 2006)	2 (2001, 2003)	4 (2002, 2008, 2009, 2011)	3 (2007, 2010, 2015)	11
North Korea	2 (2007, 2019)	—	—	—	2
France	1 (2016)	2 (2008, 2015)	2 (2007, 2010)	5 (2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2018)	10
United States	1 (2002)	1 (2006)	2 (2003, 2004)	—	4
South Korea	—	4 (2009, 2010, 2012, 2018)	2 (2015, 2016)	2 (2008, 2019)	8
England	—	—	1 (2001)	—	1
China PR	—	1 (2019)	1 (2018)	—	2
Canada	—	—	—	4 (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)	4
Cameroon	—	—	—	1 (2016)	1

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)