First International Competitions of FIFA

The first international soccer game was a challenge match played in Glasgow in 1872 between Scotland and England [2], with the first international tournament, the opening meeting of British Home Championship, which will be held 1884th. In this stage of the sport is rarely played outside the United Kingdom. Football has started to increase in popularity in other parts of the world at the turn of the century, as a demonstration sport at the no medals in 1900 and 1904 Summer Olympics (but the IOC awarded was expected, updated its status retroactively for the official events) and the interludes of 1906.

When FIFA was founded in 1904, there was an attempt by FIFA to an international football tournament between nations outside the Olympic in Switzerland in 1906, agreed. These were very early days for international football, and the official history of the FIFA competition has been described failed.

In the Summer Olympics in London in 1908 was an official FIFA competition. Planned by the Football Association (FA), England's football governing body, was the event for amateur players and was only with suspicion, as a spectacle, and not as competitors. Great Britain (represented by England amateur football team) won the gold medals. She repeated the feat in 1912 in Stockholm, where the tournament was hosted by the Swedish Football Association.

With the Olympic event can continue to come only between amateur teams, Sir Thomas Lipton organized the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy tournament in Turin 1909. The Lipton tournament was a championship between the clubs (not national teams) from different nations, each with a whole nation. The competition is sometimes described as The First World Cup,and the pages featured renowned professional club from Italy, Germany and Switzerland, but rejected the FA of England refuses to be related to competition and declined the offer with a to send team of experts. Lipton invited West Auckland, an amateur side from County Durham, England, to represent instead. West Auckland won the tournament and returned in 1911, successfully defending her title and received the trophy for ever according to the rules of competition to hold.

In 1914, FIFA has decided to recognize the tournament as World Cup "for football fans," and took responsibility for managing the event. This paved the way for the first intercontinental football competition of the Olympic Summer Games of 1920, Egypt and thirteen European teams contested and won by Belgium. Uruguay won the next two Olympic Football Tournaments in 1924 and 1928.