This Football World Championship Banner depicts an international football/soccer tournament and one of the world's largest sporting events. Every four years, members of FIFA compete for the title of World Cup Champion. The first FIFA World Cup was held in 1930, and subsequent tournaments have been organized every four years since then, with the exceptions of 1942 and 1946 due to World War I. The FIFA World Cup is popularly regarded as the most watched sporting event on the planet, with more than 3.5 billion viewers—roughly half of the world's population watching the 2018 finals tournament.
