UEFA

UEFA
	File:UEFA logo 2012.png
Abbreviation	UEFA
Formation	15 June 1954; 70 years ago
Type	Sports organisation
Headquarters	Nyon, Switzerland
Coordinates	46°22′16″N 6°13′52″E / 46.371009°N 6.23103°E
Region served	Europe
Membership	54 full member associations
Official language	English, French, German
President	Michel Platini
Vice-president	Şenes Erzik
general secretary	Gianni Infantino
Honorary President	Lennart Johansson
Main organ	UEFA Congress
Parent organization	FIFA
Website	www.UEFA.com

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The Union of European Football Associations (French: Union des associations européennes de football,^[3]^[4] mostly referred to by its acronym, UEFA (/juːˈeɪfə/ ew-AY-fə)), is the administrative body for association football in Europe and part of Asia. It is one of six continental confederations of world football's governing body FIFA. UEFA consists of 54 national association members.

UEFA represents the national football associations of Europe, runs nation and club competitions including the UEFA European Championship, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and UEFA Super Cup, and controls the prize money, regulations, and media rights to those competitions.

UEFA was founded on 15 June 1954 in Basel, Switzerland after consultation between the Italian, French, and Belgian associations. Initially, the European football union consisted of 25 members which number doubled by the early 1990s. UEFA membership coincides for the most part with recognition as a sovereign country in Europe, although there some exceptions. Some micro states, (e.g. the Vatican City) are not members. Some UEFA members are not sovereign states, but form part of a larger recognised sovereign state in the context of international law. Examples include England and Scotland, (part of the United Kingdom) or the Faroe Islands, (part of Denmark) however in the context of these countries government functions concerning sport tend to be carried at the territorial level coterminous with the UEFA member entity. Some UEFA members are transcontinental states, (e.g. Turkey and Russia). Several Asian countries were also admitted to the European football association, particularly Israel and Kazakhstan, which had been members of the Asian football association. Additionally some UEFA member associations allow teams from outside their association's main territory to take part in their "domestic" competition. Monaco, for example, takes part in the French League (though a separate sovereign entity); Welsh clubs Cardiff City and Swansea City participate in the English League; Berwick Rangers, situated in England, play in the Scottish Professional Football League and Derry City, situated in Northern Ireland, play in the Republic of Ireland-based League of Ireland .

Until 1959 the main headquarters were located in Paris, and later in Bern. Since 1995, UEFA headquarters transferred to Nyon, Switzerland. Henri Delaunay was the first general secretary and Ebbe Schwartz the first president. The current president is Michel Platini.

Members

Code	Association	National teams	Founded	FIFA affiliation	UEFA affiliation	IOC member
ALB	Albania	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1930	1932	1954	Yes
AND	Andorra	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1994	1996	1996	Yes
ARM	Armenia	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1992	1992	1992	Yes
AUT	Austria	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1904	1905	1954	Yes
AZE	Azerbaijan	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1992	1994	1994	Yes
BLR	Belarus	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1989	1992	1993	Yes
BEL	Belgium	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1895	1904	1954	Yes
BIH	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1992	1996	1998	Yes
BUL	Bulgaria	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1923	1924	1954	Yes
CRO	Croatia	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1912	1992	1993	Yes
CYP	Cyprus	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1934	1948	1962	Yes
CZE	Czech Republic	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1901	1907	1954	Yes
DEN	Denmark	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1889	1904	1954	Yes
ENG	England	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1863	1905	1954	No^{[n 1]}
EST	Estonia	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1921	1923	1992	Yes
FRO	Faroe Islands	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1979	1988	1990	No^{[n 2]}
FIN	Finland	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1907	1908	1954	Yes
FRA	France	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1919^{[n 3]}	1904^{[n 4]}	1954	Yes
MKD	FYR Macedonia	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1948	1994	1994	Yes
GEO	Georgia	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1990	1992	1992	Yes
GER	Germany	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1900	1904	1954	Yes
GIB^{[n 5]}	Gibraltar	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1895	None	2013	No^{[n 1]}
GRE	Greece	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1926	1927	1954	Yes
HUN	Hungary	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1901	1906	1954	Yes
ISL	Iceland	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1947	1947	1954	Yes
ISR	Israel^{[n 6]}	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1928	1929	1994	Yes
ITA	Italy	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1898	1905	1954	Yes
KAZ	Kazakhstan^{[n 7]}	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1994	1994	2002	Yes
LVA	Latvia	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1921	1922	1992	Yes
LIE	Liechtenstein	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1934	1974	1974	Yes
LTU	Lithuania	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1922	1923	1992	Yes
LUX	Luxembourg	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1908	1910	1954	Yes
MLT	Malta	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1900	1959	1960	Yes
MDA	Moldova	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1990	1994	1993	Yes
MNE	Montenegro	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1931	2007	2007	Yes
NED	Netherlands	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1889	1904	1954	Yes
NIR	Northern Ireland	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1880	1911	1954	No^{[n 1]}
NOR	Norway	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1902	1908	1954	Yes
POL	Poland	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1919	1923	1954	Yes
POR	Portugal	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1914	1923	1954	Yes
IRL	Republic of Ireland	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1921	1923	1954	Yes
ROU	Romania	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1909	1923	1954	Yes
RUS	Russia	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1912	1912	1954	Yes
SMR	San Marino	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1931	1988	1988	Yes
SCO	Scotland	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1873	1910	1954	No^{[n 1]}
SRB	Serbia	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1919	1921	1954	Yes
SVK	Slovakia	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1938	1994	1993	Yes
SVN	Slovenia	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1920	1994	1994	Yes
ESP	Spain	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1909	1913	1954	Yes
SWE	Sweden	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1904	1904	1954	Yes
SUI	Switzerland	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1895	1904	1954	Yes
TUR	Turkey	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1923	1923	1962	Yes
UKR	Ukraine	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1991	1992	1992	Yes
WAL	Wales	Men's U21 U19 U17 F BS Women's U19 U17	1876	1910	1954	No^{[n 1]}

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Part of the British Olympic Association
^ Part of the Danish National Olympic Committee
^ Originally founded as Comité Français Interfédéral in 1907, a predecessor to the current federation.
^ The current French FA, the French Football Federation (in its previous incarnation, the Comité Français Interfédéral), replaced the USFSA in 1907.
^ Tentative abbreviation, used by uefa.com to link to yet uncreated pages regarding Gibraltar
^ Former member of the Asian Football Confederation (1954–1974), joined UEFA as several AFC teams refused to play against them. See also Foreign relations of Israel and International recognition of Israel.
^ Former member of the Asian Football Confederation (1994–2002), joined UEFA.

Former members

Saarland Football Union 1954–1956
German football association of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) 1954–1990
Football Federation of the Soviet Union 1954–1991, in 1992 became Russian Football Union. The newly independent 14 Soviet Republics created their own football associations, and they all became members of FIFA and UEFA or AFC.
Football Association of Yugoslavia 1954–1992, became Football Association of Serbia and Montenegro. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia became independent and created their own football associations.
Football Association of Serbia and Montenegro 1992–2006, became Football Association of Serbia. Montenegro, which became independent, created its own football association.

Competitions

UEFA runs official international competitions in Europe and some countries of Northern, Southwestern and Central regions of Asia for national teams and professional clubs, known as UEFA competitions, some of them regarded between the world's most prestigious tournaments.

International

The main competition for men's national teams is the UEFA European Football Championship, started in 1958, with the first finals in 1960, and known as the European Nations Cup until 1964. It is also called UEFA or the EURO. UEFA also runs national competitions at Under-21, Under-19 and Under-17 levels. For women's national teams, UEFA operates the UEFA Women's Championship for senior national sides as well as Women's Under-19 and Women's Under-17 Championships.

UEFA also organized the UEFA-CAF Meridian Cup with CAF for youth teams. In an effort to boost youth soccer.

UEFA launched the UEFA Regions' Cup, for semi-professional teams representing their local region, in 1999.

In futsal there is the UEFA Futsal Championship and UEFA Futsal Under-21 Championship.

Italian, German, Spanish and French men's national teams are the sole to have won the European football championship in all categories.

Club

The top-ranked UEFA competition is the UEFA Champions League, which started in the 1992/93 season and gathers the top 1–4 teams of each country's league (the number of teams depend on that country's ranking and can be upgraded or downgraded); this competition was re-structured from a previous one that only gathered the top team of each country (held from 1955–92 and known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or simply the European Cup).

A second, lower-ranked competition is the UEFA Europa League. This competition, for national knockout cup winners and high-placed league teams, was launched by UEFA in 1971 as a successor of both the former UEFA Cup and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (also begun in 1955). A third competition, the Cup Winners' Cup, which had started in 1960, was absorbed into the UEFA Cup (now UEFA Europa League) in 1999.

In women's football UEFA also conducts the UEFA Women's Champions League for club teams. The competition was first held in 2001, and known as the UEFA Women's Cup until 2009.

The UEFA Super Cup pits the winners of the Champions League against the winners of the UEFA Europa League (previously the winners of the Cup Winners' Cup), and came into being in 1973.^[5]^[6]^[7]

The UEFA Intertoto Cup was a summer competition, previously operated by several Central European football associations, which was relaunched and recognized as official UEFA club competition by UEFA in 1995.^[8] The last Intertoto Cup took place in 2008.

The Intercontinental Cup was jointly organised with CONMEBOL between the Champions League and the Copa Libertadores winners.^[9]

Only four teams^[10]^[11] (Juventus, Ajax, Bayern Munich and Chelsea^[12]) have won each of the three main competitions (European Cup/UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup Winner's Cup and UEFA Cup/Europa League),^[13] a feat that is no longer possible for any team that did not win the Cup Winners' Cup. There are currently nine teams throughout Europe that have won two of the three trophies; all but one have won the Cup Winners Cup, four require a win in the Champions League and five require a UEFA Europa League win.

Juventus of Italy was the first team in Europe—remaining the only one to date (2013)—to win all UEFA's official championships and cups^[14] and, in commemoration of achieving that feat, have received The UEFA Plaque by the Union of European Football Associations on 12 July 1988.^[15]^[16]

UEFA's premier futsal competition is the UEFA Futsal Cup, a tournament started in 2001 which replaced the former Futsal European Clubs Championship. This event, despite enjoying a long and well-established tradition in the European futsal community, dating back to 1984, was never recognized as official by UEFA.

League revenues

Annual revenue comparison. All figures in Euros.

Source is the Deloitte 2013 annual report, which uses 2011–12 figures.^[24]

Rank	League	Revenue	Revenue sources
1	English Premier League	3.0 bn	Broadcast revenue accounts for 50% of league revenue
2	German Bundesliga	1.9 bn	Commercial sponsorship accounts for almost 50% of league revenue
3	Spanish La Liga	1.8 bn	Two clubs – Real Madrid and Barcelona – account for 56% of league revenue
4	Italian Serie A	1.6 bn	Matchday revenue accounts for only 12% of league revenue
5	French Ligue 1	1.1 bn	Matchday revenue accounts for only 11% of league revenue
6	Russian Premier League	636 m
7	English League Championship	588 m
8	Turkish Süper Lig	444 m
9	Dutch Eredivisie	434 m

World Cup participation and results

Legend

1st – Champion
2nd – Runner-up
3rd – Third Place^[25]
4th – Fourth place
QF – Quarterfinals
R16 – Round of 16 (since 1986: knockout round of 16)
R2 – Second round (for the 1974, 1978, and 1982 tournaments, which had two group stages)
GS – Group Stage (in the 1950, 1974, 1978, and 1982 tournaments, which had two group stages, this refers to the first group stage)
1S – First Knockout Stage (1934–1938 Single-elimination tournament)
• — Did not qualify
× — Did not enter / Withdrew / Banned
— Hosts

Men

Team	1930 (13)	1934 (16)	1938 (15)	1950 (13)	1954 (16)	1958 (16)	1962 (16)	1966 (16)	1970 (16)	1974 (16)	1978 (16)	1982 (24)	1986 (24)	1990 (24)	1994 (24)	1998 (32)	2002 (32)	2006 (32)	2010 (32)	2014 (32)
Austria	×	4th	••^[26]	×	3rd	R1 15th	×	•	•	•	R2 7th	R2 8th	•	R1 T-18th	•	R1 23rd	•	•	•	•
Belgium	R1 11th	R1 15th	R1 13th	×	R1 12th	•	•	•	R1 T-10th	•	•	R2 10th	4th	R2 11th	R16 11th	R1 19th	R2 14th	•	•	QF 6th
Bosnia and Herzegovina^{[citation needed]}	Part of Yugoslavia														×	•	•	•	•	GS 20th
Bulgaria	×	•	•	×	•	•	R1 15th	R1 15th	R1 13th	R1 12th	•	•	R2 15th	•	4th	R1 29th	•	•	•	•
Croatia^{[citation needed]}	Part of Yugoslavia														×	3rd	R1 23rd	R1 22nd	•	GS 19th
Czechoslovakia^{[citation needed]}	see Czech Republic (1930–1994)
Czech Republic^{[citation needed]}	×	2nd	QF 5th	×	R1 14th	R1 9th	2nd	•	R1 15th	•	•	R1 19th	•	QF 6th	•	•	•	R1 20th	•	•
Denmark	×	×	×	×	×	•	×	•	•	•	•	•	R2 9th	•	•	QF 8th	R2 10th	•	R1 24th	•
East Germany^{[citation needed]}	Part of Germany			×	×	•	•	•	•	R2 6th	•	•	•	•	Part of Germany
England	×	×	×	R1 8th	QF 6th	R1 11th	QF 8th	1st	QF 8th	•	•	R2 6th	QF 8th	4th	•	R2 9th	QF 6th	QF 7th	R2 13th	GS 26th
France	R1 7th	R1 T-9th	QF 6th	•	R1 11th	3rd	•	R1 T-13th	•	•	R1 12th	4th	3rd	•	•	1st	R1 28th	2nd	R1 29th	QF 7th
Germany^{[citation needed]}	×	3rd	R1 10th	×	1st	4th	QF 7th	2nd	3rd	1st	R2 6th	2nd	2nd	1st	QF 5th	QF 7th	2nd	3rd	3rd	1st
Greece	×	•	•	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	R1 24th	•	•	•	R1 25th	GS 13th
Hungary	×	QF 6th	2nd	×	2nd	R1 10th	QF 5th	QF 6th	•	•	R1 15th	R1 14th	R1 18th	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Israel^[27]	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	R1 12th	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Italy	×	1st	1st	R1 7th	R1 10th	•	R1 9th	R1 9th	2nd	R1 10th	4th	1st	R2 12th	3rd	2nd	QF 5th	R2 15th	1st	R1 26th	GS 22nd
Netherlands	×	R1 T-9th	R1 14th	×	×	•	•	•	•	2nd	2nd	•	•	R2 15th	QF 7th	4th	•	R2 11th	2nd	3rd
Northern Ireland	×	×	×	•	•	QF 8th	•	•	•	•	•	R2 9th	R1 21st	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Norway	×	×	R1 12th	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	R1 17th	R2 15th	•	•	•	•
Poland	×	•	R1 11th	×	×	•	•	•	•	3rd	R2 5th	3rd	R2 14th	•	•	•	R1 25th	R1 21st	•	•
Portugal	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	3rd	•	•	•	•	R1 17th	•	•	•	R1 21st	4th	R2 11th	GS 18th
Republic of Ireland^[28]	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	QF 8th	R2 16th	•	R2 12th	•	•	•
Romania	R1 8th	R1 12th	R1 9th	×	•	•	•	•	R1 T-10th	•	•	•	•	R2 12th	QF 6th	R2 11th	•	•	•	•
Russia^[29]						QF 7th	QF 6th	4th	QF 5th	•	•	R2 7th	R2 10th	R1 17th	R1 18th	•	R1 22nd	•	•	GS 24th
Scotland	×	×	×	••	R1 15th	R1 14th	•	•	•	R1 9th	R1 11th	R1 15th	R1 19th	R1 T-18th	•	R1 27th	•	•	•	•
Serbia^{[citation needed]}	4th^[30]	•	•	R1 5th	QF 7th	QF 5th	4th	•	•	R2 7th	•	R1 16th	•	QF 5th	×	R2 10th	•	R1 32nd	R1 23rd	•
Serbia and Montenegro^{[citation needed]}	see Serbia (2006)
Slovakia^{[citation needed]}	Part of Czechoslovakia															•	•	•	R2 16th	•
Slovenia^{[citation needed]}	Part of Yugoslavia														×	•	R1 30th	•	R1 18th	•
Soviet Union^[29]	see Russia (1930–1990)
Spain	×	QF 5th	×	4th	•	•	R1 12th	R1 10th	•	•	R1 10th	R2 12th	QF 7th	R2 10th	QF 8th	R1 17th	QF 5th	R2 9th	1st	GS 23rd
Sweden	×	QF 8th	4th	3rd	•	2nd	•	•	R1 9th	R2 5th	R1 13th	•	•	R1 21st	3rd	•	R2 13th	R2 14th	•	•
Switzerland	×	QF 7th	QF 7th	R1 6th	QF 8th	•	R1 16th	R1 16th	•	•	•	•	•	•	R2 15th	•	•	R2 10th	R1 19th	R16 11th
Turkey	×	×	×	••	R1 9th	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	3rd	•	•	•
Ukraine^[29]	Part of Soviet Union														×	•	•	QF 8th	•	•
Wales	×	×	×	•	•	QF 6th	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
West Germany^{[citation needed]}	see Germany (1950–1990)
Yugoslavia^{[citation needed]}	see Serbia (1930 for Kingdom of Yugoslavia; 1950–1990 for SFR Yugoslavia; 1994–2002 for FR Yugoslavia)

Women

Team	1991 (12)	1995 (12)	1999 (16)	2003 (16)	2007 (16)	2011 (16)	2015 (24)
Denmark	QF 7th	QF 7th	R2 15th	•	R2 12th	•
England	•	QF 6th	•	•	QF 7th	QF 7th
France	•	•	•	R2 9th	•	4th
Germany	4th	2nd	QF 8th	1st	1st	QF 6th
Italy	QF 6th	•	R2 9th	•	•	•
Norway	2nd	1st	4th	QF 7th	4th	R2 10th
Russia	×	•	QF 5th	QF 8th	•	•
Sweden	3rd	QF 5th	QF 6th	2nd	R2 10–11	3rd
Switzerland	•	•	•	•	•	•	q

FIFA Confederations Cup

Legend

1st – Champions
2nd – Runners-up
3rd – Third place
4th – Fourth place
GS – Group stage
•• — Qualified / Invited, but declined to take part
• — Did not qualify
× — Did not enter / Withdrew from continental championship / Confederation did not take part
Q — Qualified for upcoming tournament
— Hosts

Team	1992 (4)	1995 (6)	1997 (8)	1999 (8)	2001 (8)	2003 (8)	2005 (8)	2009 (8)	2013 (8)
Czech Republic	×	×	3rd	•	•	•	•	•	•
Denmark	×	1st	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
France	×	•	•	••	1st	1st	•	•	•
Germany	×	•	••	GS	•	••	3rd	•	•
Greece	×	•	•	•	•	•	GS	•	•
Italy	×	•	•	•	•	••	•	GS	3rd
Spain	×	•	•	•	•	••	•	3rd	2nd
Turkey	×	•	•	•	•	3rd	•	•	•

Official website
Union of European Football Association, Soccerlens.com. Retrieved: 9 October 2010.

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[NOC-GBR-5] Part of the British Olympic Association

[NOC-DEN-6] Part of the Danish National Olympic Committee

[FRA-founded-7] Originally founded as Comité Français Interfédéral in 1907, a predecessor to the current federation.

[FRA-FIFA-8] The current French FA, the French Football Federation (in its previous incarnation, the Comité Français Interfédéral), replaced the USFSA in 1907.

[9] Tentative abbreviation, used by uefa.com to link to yet uncreated pages regarding Gibraltar

[ISR-10] Former member of the Asian Football Confederation (1954–1974), joined UEFA as several AFC teams refused to play against them. See also Foreign relations of Israel and International recognition of Israel.

[KAZ-11] Former member of the Asian Football Confederation (1994–2002), joined UEFA.

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[1930_World_Cup-32] There was no Third Place match in 1930; The United States and Yugoslavia lost in the semifinals. FIFA recognizes the United States as the third-placed team and Yugoslavia as the fourth-placed team using the overall records of the teams in the 1930 FIFA World Cup.

[33] Austria qualified in 1938, but withdrew to play as part of Germany after being annexed.

[34] Israel competed as Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel) in 1934 and in 1938, with a team consisting exclusively of Jewish and British footballers from the Palestine Mandate.

[Republic_of_Ireland-35] Republic of Ireland competed as the Irish Free State in 1934 and then as Ireland in 1938 and 1950.

[USSR-36] Russia's best result is group stage in 1994 and 2002. However FIFA considers Russia as the successor team of the USSR.

[wc1930-37] There was no official World Cup Third Place match in 1930; The USA and Yugoslavia lost in the semi-finals. Currently, FIFA recognizes USA as the third-placed team and Yugoslavia as the fourth-placed team, using the overall records of the teams in the 1930 FIFA World Cup.

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