INAS World Football Championships
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The Virtus World Football Championships (formerly INAS World Football Championship) is an international Intellectual disability football (variation of association football) competition for athletes with intellectual disabilities.
History
It takes place every four years, typically in the country that also hosts the FIFA World Cup. It is organized by the International Sports Federation for Persons with Intellectual Disability (INAS-FID) which also organizes championships in other sports.
To participate in an INAS-FID event, an athlete must have an intellectual disability that was evident before the age of 18, significant limitations in adaptive behavior, and an IQ score below 75. The latter requirement led to controversy in 2006, when third-placed Germany was disqualified because the employed IQ tests did not accord with international standards.
Results
| Host | Year | Final | Venue | Bronze match | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Score | Runner-up | Third place | Score | Fourth place | |||
| Netherlands | 1994 | |||||||
| England | 1998 | Poland Poland | ||||||
| Japan | 2002 | England England | 2 – 1 | Netherlands Netherlands | International Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama | |||
| Germany | 2006 | Saudi Arabia | 4 – 4 (a.e.t.) (9 – 8 pens.) | Netherlands | BayArena, Leverkusen | |||
| South Africa | 2010 | Saudi Arabia | 1 – 0 | Netherlands | Peter Mokaba Stadium, Polokwane | Poland | Portugal | |
| Brazil | 2014 | Saudi Arabia | 4 – 2 | South Africa | Arena Corinthians, São Paulo | Poland | 2-0 | Japan |
| Sweden | 2018 | Saudi Arabia | 2 – 0 | Argentina | Tingvalla IP, Karlstad | |||
| France France | 2022 | Cancelled due to insufficient teams participating |
See also
External links
- . International Sports Federation for Persons with Intellectual Disability (INAS). Archived from on 5 June 2017.