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Qualification

The allocation of places for the final tournament was decided on 3 March 2011, with the distribution of the 31 places determined through the qualification process unchanged from that of the previous tournament.The qualification draw for the 2014 World Cup was held at the Marina da Glória in Rio de Janeiro on 30 July 2011.As the host nation, Brazil automatically qualified for the tournament.

203 of the 208 FIFA national teams at the time participated in the qualification stages, which began on 15 June 2011 and concluded on 20 November 2013. 24 of the 32 eventual qualifiers were present at the previous tournament, with the only debutant being Bosnia and Herzegovina, which qualified for the first time as an independent nation.The highest-ranked absentee according to FIFA World Rankings will be Ukraine,while the OFC region will have no representation at a World Cup Finals for the first time since 2002.

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Venues

Dilma Rousseff (2nd from the right) and Pelé (center) following the works in Belo Horizonte

Eighteen locations were presented as potential World Cup host cities: Belém, Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Campo Grande, Cuiabá, Curitiba, Florianópolis, Fortaleza, Goiânia, Maceió, Manaus, Natal, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio Branco, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and São Paulo.

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Host selection

 

Sepp Blatter announcing Brazil as the hosts of the 2014 FIFA World Cup

On 7 March 2003, FIFA announced that the tournament would be held in South America for the first time since 1978, in line with its then-active policy of rotating the right to host the World Cup among different confederations. The decision meant that it would be the first time that two consecutive World Cups will be staged outside Europe.

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2014 FIFA World Cup

"2014 World Cup" redirects here. For other competitions of that name, see 2014 World Cup disambiguation

2014 FIFA World Cup

Copa do Mundo da FIFA Brasil 2014
e 2014 FIFA World Cup logo
Tournament details
Host country	Brazil
Dates	12 June–13 July
Teams	32 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	12 (in 12 host cities)