2014 FIFA World Cup

The 2014 FIFA World Cup was the 20th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national football teams organised by FIFA. It took place in Brazil from 12 June to 13 July 2014, after the country was awarded the hosting rights in 2007. It was the second time that Brazil staged the competition, the first being in 1950, and the fifth time that it was held in South America.

31 national teams advanced through qualification competitions to join the host nation in the final tournament (with Bosnia and Herzegovina as the only debutant). A total of 64 matches were played in 12 venues located in as many host cities across Brazil. For the first time at a World Cup finals, match officials used goal-line technology, as well as vanishing spray for free kicks. FIFA Fan Fests in each host city gathered a total of 5 million people, and the country received 1 million visitors from 202 countries. Spain, the defending champions, were eliminated at the group stage. Host nation Brazil, who had won the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, lost to Germany 7–1 in the semi-finals and eventually finished in fourth place.

In the final, Germany defeated Argentina 1–0 after extra time following a half-volley goal by Mario Götze in the 113th minute of the final to win the tournament and secure the country's fourth world title, the first after German reunification in 1990, when as West Germany they also beat Argentina by the same score in 90 minutes in the World Cup final. It was Germany's first major tournament win since UEFA Euro 1996. Germany became the first European team to win the World Cup in the Americas, and this result marked the third consecutive title won by a European team, after Italy in 2006 and Spain in 2010, a record-breaking streak by the teams from the same continent continued by France four years later.

As of the 2026 tournament, this is the most recent World Cup to feature all previous winners (Uruguay, Italy, Germany, Brazil, England, Argentina, France and Spain).

Host selection

thumb|FIFA president [[Sepp Blatter announces Brazil as hosts, 30 October 2007]]

In March 2003, FIFA announced that the tournament would be held in South America for the first time since 1978, in line with its policy at the time of rotating the right to host the World Cup among different confederations. With the 2010 FIFA World Cup hosted in South Africa, it would be the second consecutive World Cup outside Europe, which was a first for the tournament. It was also sixth time (second consecutive) in the Southern Hemisphere. Only Brazil and Colombia formally declared their candidacy but, after the withdrawal of the latter from the process, Brazil was officially elected as host nation unopposed on 30 October 2007.

Participating teams and officials

Qualification

Qualification was held between June 2011 and November 2013. Twenty-four of the 32 qualifiers were returning participants from the 2010 World Cup.

Bosnia and Herzegovina were the only team with no previous appearance at the World Cup finals.
Colombia qualified for the World Cup after 16 years of absence.
Belgium and Russia both returned after 12 years.
This was also the first World Cup for 32 years that did not feature a representative from the Nordic countries.
Iran, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Croatia returned after missing the previous tournament in 2010.
The highest ranked team not to qualify was Ukraine (ranked 16th), while the lowest ranked team that did qualify was Australia (ranked 62nd). – qualified for the final tournament.

;AFC (4)

(62)
(43)
(46)
(57)

;CAF (5)

(22)
(56)
(37)
(23)
(44)

;OFC (0)

None qualified

;CONCACAF (4)

(28)
(33)
(20)
(13)

;CONMEBOL (6)

(5)
(3) (hosts)
(14)
(8)
(26)
(7)

;UEFA (13)

(11)
(21) (debut)
(18)
(10)
(17)
(2)
(12)
(9)
(15)
(4)
(19)
(1)
(6)

[[File:2014 world cup qualification.svg|thumb|upright=1.8|

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, this was the last time Chile, Greece, Italy and Honduras qualified for the World Cup finals, and the last time Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Tunisia, and Senegal failed to qualify. With Italy failing to qualify since, this is also currently the most recent World Cup finals to feature every previous winner.

Final draw

The draw took place on 6 December 2013 at the Costa do Sauípe resort in Bahia, during which the teams were drawn by various past World Cup-winning players. Hosted by TV presentators Fernanda Lima and Tadeu Schmidt and conducted by the FIFA general secretary Jérôme Valcke, the draw featured football celebrities from all FIFA World Cup champion countries such as Cafu (Brazil), Fabio Cannavaro (Italy), Lothar Matthäus (Germany), Zinedine Zidane (France), Mario Alberto Kempes (Argentina), Fernando Hierro (Spain), Geoff Hurst (England) and Alcides Ghiggia (Uruguay).

The 32 participating teams were drawn into eight groups. In preparation for this, the teams were organised into four pots with the seven highest-ranked teams joining host nation Brazil in the seeded pot. As with the previous tournaments, FIFA aimed to create groups which maximised geographic separation and therefore the unseeded teams were arranged into pots based on geographic considerations. Under the draw procedure, one randomly drawn team – Italy – was firstly relocated from Pot 4 to Pot 2 to create four equal pots of eight teams.

{|class="wikitable"

!width=25%|Group A

!width=25%|Group B

!width=25%|Group C

!width=25%|Group D

!width=25%|Group E

!width=25%|Group F

!width=25%|Group G

!width=25%|Group H

Officials

In March 2013, FIFA published a list of 52 prospective referees, each paired, on the basis of nationality, with two linesmen, from all six football confederations for the tournament. On 14 January 2014, the FIFA Referees Committee appointed 25 referee trios and eight support duos representing 43 countries for the tournament.

Yuichi Nishimura from Japan acted as referee in the opening match whereas Nicola Rizzoli from Italy acted as referee in the final.

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"

!colspan="5"|List of officials

!Confederation

!Referee

!colspan=2|Assistants

!Support (referee/assist)

|rowspan="4"|AFC

|Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|Abdukhamidullo Rasulov (Uzbekistan)||Bakhadyr Kochkarov (Kyrgyzstan)

|rowspan=4|Alireza Faghani (Iran) / Hassan Kamranifar (Iran)

|Yuichi Nishimura (Japan)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|Toru Sagara (Japan)||Toshiyuki Nagi (Japan)

|Nawaf Shukralla (Bahrain)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|Yaser Tulefat (Bahrain)||Ebrahim Saleh (Bahrain)

|Ben Williams (Australia)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|Matthew Cream (Australia)||Hakan Anaz (Australia)

|rowspan="3"|CAF

|Noumandiez Doué (Ivory Coast)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|Songuifolo Yeo (Ivory Coast)||Jean-Claude Birumushahu (Burundi)

|rowspan=3|Néant Alioum (Cameroon) / Djibril Camara (Senegal)

|Bakary Gassama (Gambia)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|Evarist Menkouande (Cameroon)||Félicien Kabanda (Rwanda)

|Djamel Haimoudi (Algeria)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|Redouane Achik (Morocco)||Abdelhak Etchiali (Algeria)

|rowspan="3"|CONCACAF

|Joel Aguilar (El Salvador)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|William Torres (El Salvador)||Juan Zumba (El Salvador)

|rowspan=3|Roberto Moreno (Panama) / Eric Boria (United States) Walter López (Guatemala) / Leonel Leal (Costa Rica)

|Mark Geiger (United States)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|Mark Hurd (United States)||Joe Fletcher (Canada)

|Marco Rodríguez (Mexico)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|Marvin Torrentera (Mexico)||Marcos Quintero (Mexico)

|rowspan="5"|CONMEBOL

|Néstor Pitana (Argentina)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|Hernán Maidana (Argentina)||Juan Pablo Belatti (Argentina)

|rowspan=5|Víctor Hugo Carrillo (Peru) / Rodney Aquino (Paraguay)

|Sandro Ricci (Brazil)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|Emerson De Carvalho (Brazil)||Marcelo Van Gasse (Brazil)

|Enrique Osses (Chile)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|Carlos Astroza (Chile)||Sergio Román (Chile)

|Wilmar Roldán (Colombia)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|Humberto Clavijo (Colombia)||Eduardo Díaz (Colombia)

|Carlos Vera (Ecuador)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|Christian Lescano (Ecuador)||Byron Romero (Ecuador)

||OFC

|Peter O'Leary (New Zealand)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|Jan Hendrik Hintz (New Zealand)||Mark Rule (New Zealand)

|Norbert Hauata (Tahiti) / Aden Marwa (Kenya)

|rowspan="9"|UEFA

|Felix Brych (Germany)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|Mark Borsch (Germany)||Stefan Lupp (Germany)

|rowspan=9|Svein Oddvar Moen (Norway) / Kim Haglund (Norway)

|Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|Bahattin Duran (Turkey)||Tarık Ongun (Turkey)

|Jonas Eriksson (Sweden)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|Mathias Klasenius (Sweden)||Daniel Wärnmark (Sweden)

|Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|Sander van Roekel (Netherlands)||Erwin Zeinstra (Netherlands)

|Milorad Mažić (Serbia)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|Milovan Ristić (Serbia)||Dalibor Đurđević (Serbia)

|Pedro Proença (Portugal)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|Bertino Miranda (Portugal)||Tiago Trigo (Portugal)

|Nicola Rizzoli (Italy)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|Renato Faverani (Italy)||Andrea Stefani (Italy)

|Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spain)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|Roberto Alonso Fernández (Spain)||Juan Carlos Yuste Jiménez (Spain)

|Howard Webb (England)

|style="border-right:1px solid #f9f9f9;"|Michael Mullarkey (England)||Darren Cann (England)

Squads

As with the 2010 tournament, each team's squad consisted of 23 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers). Each participating national association had to confirm their final 23-player squad no later than 10 days before the start of the tournament. Teams were permitted to make late replacements in the event of serious injury, at any time up to 24 hours before their first game. Consequently, the tournament required long-distance travel for teams. While all six host cities from the 1950 tournament were among the 12 chosen, the Maracanã was the only stadium common to both tournaments. During the World Cup, Brazilian cities were also home to the participating teams at 32 separate base camps, as well as staging official fan fests where supporters could view the games.

The Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro was the only stadium to previously have hosted the 1950 FIFA World Cup. The most used stadiums were the Maracanã and the new Estádio Nacional in Brasília, which hosted seven matches each. The least-used venues were in Cuiabá, Manaus, Natal, and Curitiba, which hosted four matches each; as the four smallest stadiums in use at the tournament, they did not host any knockout round matches.

|Capacity: 69,432 Most teams opted to stay in the Southeast Region of Brazil, with only eight teams choosing other regions; five teams (Croatia, Germany, Ghana, Greece and Switzerland) opted to stay in the Northeast Region and three teams (Ecuador, South Korea and Spain) opted to stay in the South Region. None opted to stay in the North Region or the Central-West Region. Campo Bahia, the base camp of the eventual champion Germany, attracted much interest.

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"

!colspan="2"| National squads' base camps

<td>

{| class="wikitable"

! Team

! City

| Algeria

| Sorocaba, SP

| Argentina

| Vespasiano, MG

| Australia

| Vitória, ES

| Belgium

| Mogi das Cruzes, SP

| Bosnia and Herzegovina

| Guarujá, SP

| Brazil

| Teresópolis, RJ

| Cameroon

| Vitória, ES

| Chile

| Belo Horizonte, MG

| Colombia

| Cotia, SP

| Costa Rica

| Santos, SP

| Croatia

| Mata de São João, BA

| Ecuador

| Viamão, RS

| England

| Rio de Janeiro, RJ

| France

| Ribeirão Preto, SP

| Germany

| Campo Bahia, BA

| Ghana

| Maceió, AL

<td>

{| class="wikitable"

! Team

! City

| Greece

| Aracaju, SE

| Honduras

| Porto Feliz, SP

| Iran

| Guarulhos, SP

| Italy

| Mangaratiba, RJ

| Ivory Coast

| Águas de Lindoia, SP

| Japan

| Itu, SP

| South Korea

| Foz do Iguaçu, PR

| Mexico

| Santos, SP

| Netherlands

| Rio de Janeiro, RJ

| Nigeria

| Campinas, SP

| Portugal

| Campinas, SP

| Russia

| Itu, SP

| Spain

| Curitiba, PR

| Switzerland

| Porto Seguro, BA

| United States

| São Paulo, SP

| Uruguay

| Sete Lagoas, MG

FIFA Fan Fests

thumb|Brazilian fans at the FIFA Fan Fest in Brasília

For a third consecutive World Cup tournament, FIFA staged FIFA Fan Fests in each of the 12 host cities throughout the competition. Prominent examples were the Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, which already held a Fan Fest in 2010, and São Paulo's Vale do Anhangabaú. The first official event took place on Iracema Beach, in Fortaleza, on 8 June 2014.

Innovations

Technologies

thumb|Adidas Brazuca the official ball used during most of the matches.

In order to avoid ghost goals, the 2014 World Cup introduced goal-line technology following successful trials at, among other competitions, the 2013 Confederations Cup. The chosen Goal Control system featured 14 high speed cameras, 7 directed to each of the goals. Data were sent to the central image-processing centre, where a virtual representation of the ball was output on a widescreen to confirm the goal. The referee was equipped with a watch which vibrated and displayed a signal upon a goal. France's second goal in their group game against Honduras was the first time goal-line technology was needed to confirm that a goal should be given.

Following successful trials, FIFA approved the use of vanishing spray by the referees for the first time at a World Cup Finals. The water-based spray, which disappears within minutes of application, can be used to mark a ten-yard line for the defending team during a free kick and also to draw where the ball is to be placed for a free kick.

The Adidas Brazuca was the official match ball of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and was supplied by Forward Sports of Sialkot, Pakistan. Breaks could take place at the referee's discretion after the 30th minute of each half if the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature exceeded ; the breaks would last 3 minutes, with this time made up by an extended period of stoppage time at the end of the half.

The first cooling break in a World Cup play took place during the 32nd minute of the match between the Netherlands and Mexico in the round of 16. At the start of the match, FIFA listed the temperature at with 68% humidity.

Anti-doping

The biological passport was introduced in the FIFA World Cup starting in 2014. Blood and urine samples collected from all players before the competition, and from two players per team per match, were analysed by the Swiss Laboratory for Doping Analyses. FIFA reported that 91.5% of the players taking part in the tournament were tested before the start of the competition and none tested positive. However, FIFA was criticised for how it conducted doping tests.

Format

The first round, or group stage, was a competition between the 32 teams divided among eight groups of four, where each group engaged in a round-robin tournament within itself. The two highest ranked teams in each group advanced to the knockout stage. with the kick-off times being confirmed on 27 September 2012; after the final draw, the kick-off times of seven matches were adjusted by FIFA. The competition was organised so that teams that played each other in the group stage could not meet again during the knockout phase until the final (or the match for third place).

Opening ceremony

thumb|From left to right: [[Claudia Leitte, Pitbull, and Jennifer Lopez performing at the opening ceremony at the Arena de São Paulo, São Paulo.]]

On 12 June 2014, the 20th edition of the FIFA World Cup began with the opening ceremony at Arena de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. The event saw 660 dancers take to the stadium and perform in a ceremony which celebrated the nature of the country and its love of football. Following the dancers native singer Claudia Leitte emerged on centre stage to perform for the crowd. She was later joined by Cuban-American rapper Pitbull, and American singer Jennifer Lopez to perform the tournament's official song "We Are One (Ole Ola)" which had been released as an official single on 8 April 2014. Following the ceremony, the opening match was played, which saw the hosts come from behind to beat Croatia 3–1.

Group stage

The group stage of the cup took place in Brazil from 12 June 2014 to 26 June 2014: each team played three games. The group stage was notable for a scarcity of draws and a large number of goals. The first drawn (and goalless) match did not occur until the 13th match of the tournament, between Iran and Nigeria: a drought longer than any World Cup since 1930. The group stage produced a total of 136 goals (an average of 2.83 goals per match), nine fewer than were scored during the entire 2010 tournament. This is the largest number of goals in the group stage since the 32-team system was implemented in 1998 and the largest average in a group stage since 1958. World Cup holders Spain were eliminated after only two games, the quickest exit for the defending champions since Italy's from the 1950 tournament. Spain also became the fourth nation to be eliminated in the first round while holding the World Cup crown, the first one being Italy in 1950 (and again in 2010), Brazil in 1966, and France in 2002. For the first time, two teams from Africa advanced to the second round, a feat that would be repeated in the 2022 tournament.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Knockout stage

Bracket

Results decided after extra time are indicated by (a.e.t.), and results decided via a penalty shoot-out are indicated by (p).

Round of 16

All the group winners advanced into the quarter-finals. They included four teams from UEFA, three from CONMEBOL, and one from CONCACAF. Of the eight matches, five required extra-time, and two of these required penalty shoot-outs; this was the first time penalty shoot-outs occurred in more than one game in a round of 16. The goal average per game in the round of 16 was 2.25, a drop of 0.58 goals per game from the group stage. The eight teams to win in the round of 16 included four former champions (Brazil, Germany, Argentina and France), a three-time runner-up (Netherlands), and two first-time quarter-finalists (Colombia and Costa Rica). Belgium reached the quarter-finals for the first time since 1986.

All times listed below are at local time (UTC−3)

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Quarter-finals

With a 1–0 victory over France, Germany set a World Cup record with four consecutive semi-final appearances. Brazil beat Colombia 2–1, but Brazil's Neymar was injured and missed the rest of the competition. Argentina reached the final four for the first time since 1990 after a 1–0 win over Belgium. The Netherlands reached the semi-finals for the second consecutive tournament, after overcoming Costa Rica in a penalty shoot-out following a 0–0 draw at the end of extra time, with goalkeeper Tim Krul having been substituted on for the shoot-out and saving two penalties.

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Semi-finals

Germany qualified for the final for the eighth time with a historic 7–1 win over Brazil – the biggest defeat in Brazilian football since 1920. Miroslav Klose's goal in this match was his 16th throughout all World Cups, breaking the record he had previously shared with Ronaldo. Klose set another record by becoming the first player to appear in four World Cup semi-finals. Argentina reached their first final since 1990, and their fifth overall, after overcoming the Netherlands in a penalty shoot-out following a 0–0 draw at the end of extra time.

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Match for third place

The Netherlands defeated Brazil 3–0 to secure third place, the first for the Dutch team in their history. Overall, Brazil conceded 14 goals in the tournament; this was the most by a team at any single World Cup since 1986, and the most by a host nation in history, although their fourth-place finish still represented Brazil's best result in a World Cup since their last win in 2002.

Final

The final featured Germany against Argentina for a record third time after 1986 and 1990.

This marked the first time that teams from the same continent had won three consecutive World Cups (following Italy in 2006 and Spain in 2010). It was also the first time that a European nation had won the World Cup in the Americas. On aggregate Europe then had eleven victories, to South America's nine.

Statistics

Goalscorers

In total, 171 goals were scored by a record 121 players, with five credited as own goals. Goals scored from penalty shoot-outs are not counted.

Discipline

The most notable disciplinary case was that of Uruguayan striker Luis Suárez, who was suspended for nine international matches and banned from taking part in any football-related activity (including entering any stadium) for four months, following a biting incident on Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini. He was also fined CHF100,000. After an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Suárez was later allowed to participate in training and friendly matches with new club Barcelona.

A player is automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:

Receiving a red card (red card suspensions may be extended for serious offences)
Receiving two yellow cards in two matches; yellow cards expire after the completion of the quarter-finals (yellow card suspensions are not carried forward to any other future international matches)

The following suspensions were served during the tournament:

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"

! Player

! Offence(s)

! Suspension(s)

| Maxi Pereira

| in Group D vs Costa Rica (matchday 1; 14 June)

| Group D vs England (matchday 2; 19 June)

| Wilson Palacios

| in Group E vs France (matchday 1; 15 June)

| Group E vs Ecuador (matchday 2; 20 June)

| Pepe

| in Group G vs Germany (matchday 1; 16 June)

| Group G vs United States (matchday 2; 22 June)

| Tim Cahill

| in Group B vs Chile (matchday 1; 13 June) in Group B vs Netherlands (matchday 2; 18 June)

| Group B vs Spain (matchday 3; 23 June)

| Robin van Persie

| in Group B vs Spain (matchday 1; 13 June) in Group B vs Australia (matchday 2; 18 June)

| Group B vs Chile (matchday 3; 23 June)

| Alex Song

| in Group A vs Croatia (matchday 2; 18 June)

| Group A vs Brazil (matchday 3; 23 June)

| Didier Zokora

| in Group C vs Japan (matchday 1; 14 June) in Group C vs Colombia (matchday 2; 19 June)

| Group C vs Greece (matchday 3; 24 June)

| Kostas Katsouranis

| in Group C vs Japan (matchday 2; 19 June)

| Group C vs Ivory Coast (matchday 3; 24 June)

| Yohan Cabaye

| in Group E vs Honduras (matchday 1; 15 June) in Group E vs Switzerland (matchday 2; 20 June)

| Group E vs Ecuador (matchday 3; 25 June)

| Sulley Muntari

| in Group G vs United States (matchday 1; 16 June) in Group G vs Germany (matchday 2; 21 June)

| Group G vs Portugal (matchday 3; 26 June)

| José Juan Vázquez

| in Group A vs Brazil (matchday 2; 17 June) in Group A vs Croatia (matchday 3; 23 June)

| Round of 16 vs Netherlands (29 June)

| Ante Rebić

| in Group A vs Mexico (matchday 3; 23 June)

| Suspension served outside tournament

| Claudio Marchisio

| in Group D vs Uruguay (matchday 3; 24 June)

| Suspension served outside tournament

| Antonio Valencia

| in Group E vs France (matchday 3; 25 June)

| Suspension served outside tournament

| Steven Defour

| in Group H vs South Korea (matchday 3; 26 June)

| Round of 16 vs United States (1 July)

| Luiz Gustavo

| in Group A vs Croatia (matchday 1; 12 June) in Round of 16 vs Chile (28 June)

| Quarter-finals vs Colombia (4 July)

| Óscar Duarte

| in Round of 16 vs Greece (29 June)

| Quarter-finals vs Netherlands (5 July)

| Marcos Rojo

| in Group F vs Bosnia and Herzegovina (matchday 1; 15 June) in Round of 16 vs Switzerland (1 July)

| Quarter-finals vs Belgium (5 July)

| Thiago Silva

| in Group A vs Mexico (matchday 2; 17 June) in Quarter-finals vs Colombia (4 July)

| Semi-finals vs Germany (8 July)

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:

{| class="wikitable"

!Award

!Winner

!Other nominees

|Golden Ball

|valign="top"|

Lionel Messi

Thomas Müller

Arjen Robben

Ángel Di María

James Rodríguez

Javier Mascherano

Mats Hummels

Neymar

Philipp Lahm

Toni Kroos

|Golden Boot

|valign="top"|

James Rodríguez (6 goals, 2 assists)

Thomas Müller (5 goals, 3 assists)

Neymar (4 goals, 1 assist)

|Golden Glove

|valign="top"|

Manuel Neuer

Keylor Navas

Sergio Romero

|Young Player Award

|valign="top"|

Paul Pogba

Memphis Depay

Raphaël Varane

|FIFA Fair Play Trophy

|valign="top"|

;Technical Study Group

The members of the Technical Study Group, the committee that decided which players won the awards, were led by FIFA's head of the Technical Division Jean-Paul Brigger and featured:

Gérard Houllier
Raul Arias
Gabriel Calderón
Ricki Herbert
Abdel Moneim Hussein
Kwok Ka Ming
Ioan Lupescu
Ginés Meléndez
Tsuneyasu Miyamoto
Sunday Oliseh
Mixu Paatelainen
Jaime Rodríguez
Theodore Whitmore

There were changes to the voting procedure for awards for the 2014 edition: while in 2010 accredited media were allowed to vote for the Golden Ball award, in 2014 only the Technical Study Group could select the outcome.

All-Star Team

As was the case during the 2010 edition, FIFA released an All-Star Team based on the Castrol performance index in its official website.

{| class="wikitable"

!style="width:25%"|Goalkeeper

!style="width:25%"|Defenders

!style="width:25%"|Midfielders

!style="width:25%"|Forwards

|valign=top|

Manuel Neuer

|valign=top|

Marcos Rojo Mats Hummels Thiago Silva Stefan de Vrij

|valign=top|

Oscar Toni Kroos Philipp Lahm James Rodríguez

|valign=top|

Arjen Robben Thomas Müller

Dream Team

FIFA also invited users of FIFA.com to elect their Dream Team.

{| class="wikitable"

!style="width:20%"|Goalkeeper

!style="width:20%"|Defenders

!style="width:20%"|Midfielders

!style="width:20%"|Forwards

!style="width:20%"|Manager

|valign=top|

Manuel Neuer

|valign=top|

Marcelo

Mats Hummels

Thiago Silva

David Luiz

|valign=top|

Ángel Di María

Toni Kroos

James Rodríguez

|valign=top|

Neymar

Lionel Messi

Thomas Müller

|valign=top|

Joachim Löw

Prize money

The total prize money on offer for the tournament was confirmed by FIFA as US$576 million (including payments of $70 million to domestic clubs and $100 million as player insurances), a 37 percent increase from the amount allocated in the 2010 tournament. Before the tournament, each of the 32 entrants received $1.5 million for preparation costs. At the tournament, the prize money was distributed as follows:

$8 million – To each team eliminated at the group stage (16 teams)
$9 million – To each team eliminated in the round of 16 (8 teams)
$14 million – To each team eliminated in the quarter-finals (4 teams)
$20 million – Fourth placed team
$22 million – Third placed team
$25 million – Runner-up
$35 million – Winner

Final standings

Per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

[[File:2014_Men%27s_Soccer_World_Cup.png|thumb|Result of countries participating in the 2014 FIFA World Cup

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