Host country : Russia   

Dates : 14 June to 15 July 2018  

Teams : 32     

Venue : 12     

The FIFA World Cup 2018 will be the 21st FIFA World Cup.It is a quadrennial international football tournament contested by national teams(male) of the member associations of FIFA .It will scheduled to take place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018.It will be the first World Cup held in Europe since the 2006 tournament in Germany .The twenty two member FIFA Executive committe convened in Zurich on 2 December 2010.Russia won the right to be the 2018 host in the second round of voting .The Spain bid came secound and that from Belgium third .

The final tournament will involve 32 national teams.A total of 64 matches will be played in 12 venues in 11 cities.The final will take place on 15 July at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.The winners of the world cup will qualify for the 2021 FIFA CONFEDERAtions CUP.

Russia proposed the following Host cities Kazan,Moscow,Nizhny,Samara,Saransk,Sochi.Al the cities are in just outsiside European Russia to reduce travel time for the teams in the huge country.In 2011,Russia decreased the number of stadiums from 16 to 14.Finally 12 venues is selected.

Final match will play in Luzhnki Stadium in Moscow.Capacity in Luzhnki Stadium 81,000.

Field size: 105 by 68 metres.

Surface : Grass

The full schedule was announced by Fifa on 2015.Russia was placed in position A1 in the group stage. 

Knockout stage

If a match is level at the end of normal playing time.Extra time is played and followed , if necessary by apenalty shoot-out to determine the winners.

                          

Group A first match will be played on 14 June 2018.

Group B first match will be played on 15 June 2018.

Group C first match will be played on 16 June 2018.

Group D first match will be played on 16 June 2018.

Group E first match will be played on 17 June 2018.

Group F first match will be played on 17 June 2018.

Group G first match will be played on 18 June 2018.

Group H first match will be played on  19 June 2018.

Quarter-finals

6 July 2018

Semi-finals

10 July 2018

Third place play-off

14 July 2018

Final 

15 July 2018

18:00 MSK

Prize money:

Per team

Champions      : 38 USD million.

Runners-up     : 28 USD million.

Third place     : 24 USD million.

Fourth place   : 22 USD million.

5th-8th place  : 16 USD million.

9th-16th place: 12 USD million.

17th-32nd place: 8 USD million.

Total : 400 million USD.

The first phase of ticket sales started on 14 september 2017 until 12 october 2017.

Every team must first name a preliminary squad of 30 players.The team must name a final squad of 23 players.Players in the final squad maybe replaced due to serious injury up to  24 hours to kickoff.

For players named in the 30 player preliminary squad.

The fifa council approved the use of video assistnt referees for the time in a fifa world cup tournament .On 29 march 2018,FIFA released the list of 36 referees and 63 assistant selected to match.

Argentina VS Spain 2018.It is a International Friendly match.World cup 2018 will start in 14 june 2018.Russia will host this show.The 2018 FIFA world cup will be the 21st FIFA WORLD CUP.It is a football tournament.It is scheduled to take place in Russia from 14 june to 15 july 2018.32 teams will join this tournament.There are 12 venue in this tournament.

This is a very interesting match.There are two legend in this two teams who name is Leo Messi and Andres Iniesta.They are in same team in club.But at this moment they will play each other opposite team.But they are good friend.

We will miss someone in this match which name is XAVI.He was a good player. Riquelme:Spain are the best of all. Messi will play this match.In Previous match he could  not play match because of his injury.

Argentina is in group D.There are four teams in this group .First match will be played on 16 june 2018.

Argentina and Spain match venue is Wanda Metropolitano. Argentina won world cup two times.Spain win world cup one time againest Netherlands.

FIFA World cup 2018 friendly match will play in April.Argentina,Brasil,Spain,Iran,Japan,Peru and many country is playing in April.

Venue: Wanda Metropolitano.

Time:1:30 AM BDT, 28 march 2018

Game type :International friendly match.

ARG 4-1 ESP   8 sep 2010

ARG 1-2 ESP   15 Nov 2009

ARG 1-2 ESP    12 oct 2006

We can see this record.Spain was two time .But last time in International Friendly won ARG .So we will watch a very interesting match. 

Iniesta is a midfielder.But he will try to win this match .He is the captain of Spain football team.Messi is a  Forwarder.He is the captain of argentina football club.

Now we talk about world cup 2018.

Group stage of world cup

the top two teams of each group advance to the round of 16 .Matches are played on a round-robin basis.The ranking of teams in each group are determined as follows.If two or more teams are equal on the basic of the above three criteria ,their ranking are determined as follow.

Prize money of FIFA world cup

Champions will get  38 million USD

Runners-up will get 28 million USD

Third place will get 24 million USD

Marketing of game

The tournament logo was unveiled on 21 oct 2014 by cosmonauts.

Ticket of World Cup 

The first phase of ticket sales started on 14 sep 2017 12:00 MOscow time .The general visa policy of russia will not apply to the world cup participants and fans.

FIFA WORLD CUP SPONSORSHIP

Anheuser-busch Inbev,vivo,Hisence,Mcdonald's,Mengniu daily.

Argentina is most favorite team in this season.Last world cup Germany won the game against Argentina.But In this world cup we will watch a very exciteful  match.Brasil is one of the most favorite team. 

Two of the favourites for the world cup meet in Madrid on Tuesday night as Spain host Argentina.Messi: Everyone is waiting for you .