FIFA World Cup Top 4 Positions

I did

And Me!

Try this:http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/172272/top-fifa-countries-rating. You'll like it. (Update every month)

Seems the pudding has been disproved (quiz not updated since 2017).

In every quiz you enter USA, I guess not many people knew it, but its totally clear that everyones tries USA, cause its only 3 letters :D

yeah remember joe gaetjens who scored an amazing random header in the england match to help us move on? then they got beat like 12-0 by yugoslavia or argentina or something...

The score wasn't that bad

Except Joe Gaetjens scored in 1950, not 1930...

I mean I even try "USA" on City quizzes so...

Yes, that's why I also tried the Central African Republic on this quiz too :)

I know!! I had no idea!! madness.

I knew.

and they also finished in the top 3 in '91, '95, '99, '03, '07, and '11..

And '15

didn't they also win it in '67?

There was no World Cup in 1967. I was being serious.

There was a FIFA World Cup in those years you listed? 🙃🤠

A women's one I'm guessing

not me!

I guessed. Does that count? Probably not....

Fun fact: Unlike later tournaments, there was no bronze match in 1930. Apparently they thought it would be boring to watch the semifinal losers play each other, so the US and Yugoslavia were given joint third place. This fact is how I remember.

OK, I know I messed up by trying Russia and not Soviet Union. But why in the world would I try England? UK didn't work so I moved on. England is not a country. Please explain!!

Though maybe they would do better if they amalgamated!

You are just going to blank on robbo like that?

what are you on about!???? that's abusing england

thats why in the last world cup- the USA played 'England' not UK.

How can you not think england isnt a country? Of course it is!! the UK is a Sovereign state made up for 4 countries

Arron is absolutely right. The UK is a STATE, which is what misinformed people call a country. There are 196 states in the world. China, Russia, and USA are STATES. The UK is comprised of four countries, not states.

How can't anybody not think that England isn't not a non-country? I can never understand that. I mean that. Literally. I have no idea what I just typed.

England is a constituent country, so it’s basically all about wether or not you consider a constituent country to be an actual country or not

Except Planet Hollywood doesn't play as a separate planet in the Solar System Worlds Cup...

England is not a country, it's part of the UK. Except in sports like the World Cup when it is a country. Except in the Olympic Games when it's part of Great Britian. Except in the Commonwealth Games when it IS a country again!

I agree with Larry, But if The UK was a sovreign state than there would be 199 Countries in the world.

@Akbadry But UK itself would disappear then as well, so there's still 199, if we add the 4 new countries and take away the now non-existent UK.

England is a country the UK are united countries(Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland)

Why are there only 196 countries in the world then?

Gosh some people have zero imagination when it comes to nuance and exceptions to rules. I hope these people are retiring and not about to enter the workforce.

The only reason the people of the UK agreed to be a country together was if FIFA still let them be separate for football.

They are recognized as independent teams by fifa

There is a problem in 1954: Uruguay finish 4th.

so, hungary came 2nd and 4th in 1954 did they?

They had Puskás.

Exactly.

It is legitimately confusing that England, Scotland and Wales are countries but not sovereign states- I don't think anyone claiming "England is not a country" is having a go. I still don't know if Russia et al were considered countries during the time of the Soviet Union.

The USSR maintained the political fiction that Belarus and Ukraine were both separate, associated states alongside the USSR and claimed seats at the UN for them. At the end of the war, the US and Britain let that slide.

However, the USSR definitely stamped on anything even remotely nationalist so it's not like they were ever going to get their own footie teams...

This might help kids;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10

That may be the best treatment of the subject I've seen in a LONG time.

CGP Grey FTW. also check out his netherlands vs holland

Got them all except Bulgaria, first try :D I think Russia should count as USSR though, and Germany as West Germany

3:51 remaining

Forgot Bulgaria for a bit, :/

For a bit :D

west germany should just be germany.

freaking south korea great quiz though!

23/25 turkey and czechoslovakia caught me out

I hate yugoslavia

Failed. Stupid Netherlands, Chile, Uruguay,(it was the only winner i missed) Belgium, Poland, and Austria. :(

23/25. Forgot Chile and Czechoslovakia.

Tomorrow you have to update!

This is one of those irritating quizzes that I take every couple of months and while over time I have gotten every one, I have never gotten 100% as each time I forget one or two. Today it was Poland.

all but turkey :(

I forgot Croatia :(

Damn it Oranje! If Argentina can make it twice and 3 runners, so can you!

I guess most people don't know czechchoslovakia and yugoslavia. Makes sense, both cause serbia, montenegro, bosnia & herzegovina, macedonia, kosovo (Not even in fifa) czech rep. and slovakia don't do that well, and cause they separated into those countries a long time ago.

South Korea 4th

I guess miracles do happen

If blatant gifts from the referees count as miracles... both Italy and Spain lost to South Korea after some awful refereeing against them.

Mexico has never won or placed. Wow.

my inability to spell czechoslovakia and stupidly just typing 'korea' instead of south korea stopped me from getting 100%

I typed in Czech Republic and Slovakia, I wouldn't have thought to type in Czechoslovakia even though it might have been obvious.

As far as I know, I see two arguments here. 1. Did the USA finish 3rd or 4th in the 1930 WC? 2. Is England a country?

1. Officially, FIFA states that the USA finished 3rd in that cup.

2. England is not a country. It is part of the UK. But they still have a separate soccer team, just like Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

I'm an American who doesn't closely follow soccer/futbol and I'm thoroughly confused by the whole thing. Apparently, being a sovereign state is not a requirement to have a FIFA team. I looked up the list of associations and confederations, and after seeing British Virgin Islands, US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, Cook Islands, etc. on the list, I gave up trying to figure the whole thing out. I'm curious, though, - what are the requirements to become an accepted team? Perhaps we should stop referring to the teams that play as "countries" and call them associations or something, because obviously not all of them are separate nations. Or am I missing something?

Yugoslavia you dog! You almost got me, but not today! 2:06 remaining on the clock. Got 'em all baby yeah!

Ghana should be there :////

I don't mean literally, I mean as an allusion to their 2010 World Cup performance when they just lost out to Uruguay after Suarez handballed the ball out of the net, and then Gyan missed that penalty. I was so sad.

Stink.

I would like to put in what I can about the under-fire "countryhood" of England vs the UK. The United Kingdom is rather complex when it comes to administrative divisions on account of hundreds and hundreds of years of monarchy and feudal history. But in a nutshell, the UK's official name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Great Britain is the island the includes what is referred to as the 3 "constituent countries" of the UK: England, Scotland, and Wales. It's not the same as the Bundeslander in Germany or the 50 states of the USA because these two are federal republics, which give a certain level of autonomous power to their regional districts. The UK, however, is a parliamentary democracy operating under a constitutional monarchy. It's more like if the US and Canada banded together as one super country. The two would definitely get their own international teams, whereas Texas, California, Alaska, and other regions of the countries' states/provinces don't.

"It's more like if the US and Canada banded together as one super country" - and how do you think the German unification (which was more recent than the Acts of Union) came about?

Easy! Thanks for the quiz.

Just missed Bulgaria and Turkey :/

Dang it! Missed Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia...

great 100%

100%!!! YES!

Nice quiz! If you type in Russia, Soviet Union comes up, but if you type in Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia doesn't come up. Wouldn't it be better if either, both Czech Rep. and Russia Count or neither?

2018 is the first time since 1930 that neither Brazil nor Germany got to the semi-finals

Brazil did not play that badly, they were just beaten by a very good Belgium side. The big surprise was that Netherlands and Italy did not even qualify. Likewise, Chile and the USA, both reigning regional champions at the time, did not even qualify for the finals.

It also took 17 tournaments for the two to finally face off each other in 2002, and it only happened twice in the whole World Cup history.

Super easy

forgot england

Ha :) Well, not that it matters as it was 4-2 anyway, but yes it was!

How did I get everything except Portugal?

easy: 2:56

ROK doesn't work for South Korea. I missed it because of that. :(

There was no 3rd place match in 1930. USA and Yugoslavia were joint 3rd, there was no 4th place.

ok boomer

I missed only Turkey and South Korea

IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN GHANA

howdidimissfranceandswedenandpolandomg.

I'm surprised that Sweden won more that Chile, Hungary, Turkey, and Russia (Soviet Union).