Homeless World Cup

Homeless World Cup

The Homeless World Cup logo
Founded	2001
Region	World
Number of teams	70+
Current champions	Mexico (2nd title)
Most successful team(s)	Mexico  Scotland  Brazil  Italy  Chile (2 titles each)
Website	http://www.homelessworldcup.org/

The Homeless World Cup is an annual football tournament organized by the Homeless World Cup organization, a social organization which advocates the end of homelessness through the sport of association football (or soccer). The organization puts together an annual football tournament where teams of homeless people from each country compete. The fifteenth edition of the Homeless World Cup will take place in Oslo, Norway in 2017. The defending champions are Mexico, who won in Glasgow in 2016.

The Homeless World Cup organization was co-founded by Mel Young and Harald Schmied in 2001 to advocate for a global solution to homelessness. The first annual football tournament for homeless people took place in 2003 in Graz, Austria. Host cities since then have included Gothenburg, Edinburgh, Copenhagen, Cape Town, Melbourne, Milan, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Mexico City, Poznań, Santiago Amsterdam and Glasgow.

The international headquarters of the Homeless World Cup is in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The Homeless World Cup organization operates through a network of more than 70 national partners around the world, supporting football programs and social enterprise development.

Players must meet all of the following criteria:

Also, must be any of the following:

A maximum of 4 players per team on the court:

The winning team gets 3 points. The losing team gets zero points. If a match ends in a draw, it is decided by sudden-death penalty shootout and the winning team gets two points and the losing team gets one point. Games are 14 minutes long, in two seven-minute halves. The field measures 22m long x 16m wide.