World Team or Team World is a designation for a sports team in many competitions. It is usually equivalent to a "rest of the world" team, which is pitted against a particular territory.

Competitions featuring a world team

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Competition Sport Contributing regions Notes
National Hockey League All-Star Game Ice hockey non-North American

From 1998 to 2002, the game featured a Team World versus Team North America

[1][2]
Laver Cup Tennis non-Europe Team Europe vs Team World [3]
2013 CrossFit Games CrossFit non-USA The 2013 edition of the CrossFit Games competition features a Team USA vs Team World [4]
MLB All-Star Futures Game Baseball non-USA Held since 1999 [5]
NBA Rising Stars Challenge Basketball non-USA Format between 2015 and 2021. [6]
NBA Africa Game 2015
NBA Africa Game 2017
NBA Africa Game 2018 		Basketball non-African The inaugural NBA Africa Game (2015) featured Team Africa facing Team World [7]
Continental Cup of Curling Curling outside of North America Team World or Team Europe against Team North America
NBB All-Star Game Basketball non-Brazilian Equipe Mundo (Team World) against Equipe Brasil (Team Brazil), based on player nationality
Arnold Palmer Cup Golf non-USA Format since 2018: Team USA vs International Team; originally Team USA vs. Team Europe. All individual players are college/university golfers, with teams based on player nationalities and not the locations of the players' institutions.
Note that in the above sports there also exist national teams taking part in other competitions

All-World's Team

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2015)

Some "Team World" or "World Team" teams are all-star teams with rosters drawn up from the world's players as an honors project.

Team Sport Contributing Era Notes
regions leagues
World Team of the 20th Century Soccer World FIFA 20th century soccer (association football) all-star team of stars of all eras of the 20th century [8]

See also

References

  1. ^ Dave Stevenson (23 January 2015). "NHL All Star Game: North America Vs. The World". Fansided. Sports Illustrated.
  2. ^ Joe Lapointe (19 January 1998). "HOCKEY; North America All-Stars Conquer World". New York Times.
  3. ^ "Laver Cup".
  4. ^ CrossFit (29 August 2013). "Announcing the Roster for Team World". CrossFit Games.
  5. ^ MLB should do better with the Futures Game instead of burying it – Matt Snyder, CBS, 10 July 2017
  6. ^ NBA Rising Stars Challenge 2015 final score: Team World rules Team USA, 121–112 – Liam Boylan-Pett, SB Nation, 13 February 2015
  7. ^ "Team World triumphs in inaugural Africa Game". ESPN. 1 August 2015.
  8. ^ Brown, Gerry, and Morrison, Michael (eds.; 2003). ESPN Information Please Sports Almanac. New York City: ESPN Books and Hyperion (joint). ISBN 0-7868-8715-X.


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