List of winners of Unofficial Football World Championships
- List of winners of Unofficial Football World Championships
The teams below have won the Unofficial Football World Championships.
The Unofficial Football World Championships (UFWC) (or World Perpetual Football Championship) is a novel way of calculating the world's best football team, using a knock-out title system similar to that used in boxing.
The idea stemmed originally from some Scotland fans jokingly asserting that as they beat England, Champions of the 1966 World Cup, in a British Home Championship match on April 15 1967 - England's first loss after their World Cup victory - they were the Unofficial World Champions.
Many years later, a website was created to show results of research triggered by this idea. The website was featured in respected football magazine FourFourTwo, which gained it extra publicity. The FourFourTwo feature also suggested the compilation of an unofficial clubs world championship.
It is not FIFA-sanctioned, nor indeed does it have any sort of official backing.
Full winners list
"Entries in gold indicate that for at least part of the reign, the title holder was also FIFA World Cup holder. Every World Cup winning nation has concurrently held the Unofficial World Championship at least once."
Pre-1900
1930-1940
1960-1970
1990-2000
Post-2000
References
External links
* [http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/unoff-wc.html RSSSF showing all matches in which title was "at stake"] There is a contradiction between this list and results recorded by FIFA which affects the course of the title in the period January 1995 to June 1996.
* [http://www.ufwc.co.uk UFWC site]
* [http://www.fifa.com FIFA site with links to results in all authorised internationals since 1980, and source of ranking information]
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