Last updated : 25/05/2024 18:34:21
Introduction
Unofficial_rr are a Grassroots football team made up of 1 team members.
The team is from .
Unofficial_rr started using TeamStats in August 2017.
Team Details
Team Type
Unofficial Football World Championships
The Unofficial Football World Championships (UFWC) is an informal way of calculating the world's best international association football team, using a knock-out title system similar to that used in professional boxing.
The UFWC was formalized by James Allnutt, Paul Crankshaw, Jostein Nygård, and Roberto Di Maggio in 2002 and published by English journalist Paul Brown in 2003.
History
The idea for the UFWC stemmed originally from some Scotland fans and sections of the media jokingly asserting that as they beat England (who had won the 1966 World Cup) in a British Home Championship match on 15 April 1967—England's first loss after their FIFA World Cup victory—they were the "Unofficial World Champions".
In 2002, football statisticians James Allnutt, Paul Crankshaw, Jostein Nygård, and Roberto Di Maggio defined the rules of the UFWC, traced its lineage and published it on the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website.
The following year, freelance journalist Paul Brown wrote an article on the UFWC in football magazine FourFourTwo. In 2011, Brown authored a book on the subject. Brown also created the championship's website which tracks its progression.
Rules
- The title is held by the team that has won its most recent international match.
- If two teams are tied for the title, the team with the most recent win over the other team is the champion.
- If two teams are still tied, the title is shared.
- The title is lost if a team loses an international match.
Current Champions
The current champions are Argentina, who won the title from Croatia on 13 December 2022.
Argentina's current title defence is against Bolivia on 12 September 2023.
