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The World Blind Football Championships, formerly the Football-5-a-Side World Championships, were played for the first time in 1998.

IBSA Men's World Blind Football Championships

Blind (B1)

Year Venue Winners Score Runners-up Third place Score Fourth place Number of teams
1998
Details 		Brazil
Paulínia 		 Brazil 1–0  Argentina  Spain 2–0  Colombia 6
2000
Details 		Spain
Jerez 		 Brazil 3–0  Argentina  Spain 4–0  Greece 8
2002
Details 		Brazil
Rio de Janeiro 		 Argentina 4–2  Spain  Brazil 2–0  Colombia 9
2006
Details 		Argentina
Buenos Aires 		 Argentina 1–0  Brazil  Paraguay 2–1  Spain 8
2010
Details 		United Kingdom
Hereford 		 Brazil 2–0  Spain  China 1–0  England 10
2014
Details 		Japan
Tokyo 		 Brazil 1–0  Argentina  Spain 0–0
(2–0 p) 		 China 12
2018
Details[2] 		Spain
Madrid 		 Brazil 2–0  Argentina  China 2–1  Russia 16
2023
Details 		United Kingdom
Birmingham 		 Argentina 0–0
(2–1 p) 		 China  Brazil 7–1  Colombia 16

Partially sighted (B2/B3)

Year Venue Winners Score Runners-up Third place Score Fourth place Number of teams
1998
Details 		Brazil
Paulínia 		 Belarus 3–2  Spain  Italy 9–2  Argentina 6
2002
Details 		Italy
Varese 		 Belarus 14–2  Russia  Spain 3–2  Brazil 12
2004
Details 		United Kingdom
Manchester 		 Belarus
2008
Details 		Argentina
Buenos Aires 		 Ukraine
2013
Details 		Japan
Sendai 		 Russia 1–0 (a.e.t.)  Ukraine  England 14–0  Japan 4
2015
Details 		South Korea
Seoul 		 Ukraine 3–1  Spain  Italy 2–1  Japan 5
2017
Details 		Italy
Cagliari 		 Ukraine 3–0  England  Russia 2–2
(2–1 p) 		 Spain 8
2019
Details 		Turkey
Antalya 		 Ukraine 6–2  England  Russia 2–2
(3–2 p) 		 Turkey 7
2023
Details 		United Kingdom
Birmingham 		 Ukraine 4–3 (a.e.t.)  England  Spain 9–0  Japan 7

IBSA Women's World Blind Football Championship

B1/B2/B3 (together)

Year Venue Winners Score Runners-up Third place Score Fourth place Number of teams
2020 Nigeria
Enugu 		Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic[3] — — — —
2023
Details[4] 		United Kingdom
Birmingham 		 Argentina 2–1  Japan  Sweden 0–0
(1–0 p) 		 India 8

Blind Football at the IBSA World Games

Main article: IBSA World Games

Men's B1

Year Venue Winners Score Runners-up Third place Score Fourth place Number of teams
2007
Details 		Brazil
São Paulo 		 Brazil 2–0  Argentina  Spain 0–0
(1–0 p) 		 Japan 4
2011
Details 		Turkey
Antalya 		 Iran 3–0  France  China 3–0  England 7
2015
Details 		South Korea
Seoul 		 Argentina 2–1 United Kingdom Great Britain  Spain 1–0  China 9

Men's B2/B3 (partially sighted)

Year Venue Winners Score Runners-up Third place Score Fourth place Number of teams
2007
Details 		Brazil
São Paulo 		 Belarus 1–1
(3–2 p) 		 Ukraine  Spain 4–0  Brazil 4
2011
Details 		Turkey
Antalya 		 Belarus 5–1  Ukraine  Spain 7–4  England 9
2015
Details 		South Korea
Seoul 		 Ukraine 3–1  Spain  Italy 2–1  Japan 5

IBSA Blind Football World Grand Prix

Year Venue Winners Score Runners-up Third place Score Fourth place Number of teams
2018
Details[5] 		Japan
Tokyo 		 Argentina 0–0
(2–0 p) 		 England  Turkey 1–0  Russia 8
2019
Details[6] 		 Argentina 2–0  England  Spain 1–0  Japan 8
2020
Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic[7] — — — —
2021
Details[8] 		 Argentina 3–0  Japan  Spain 1–0  Thailand 5
2022
Details[9] 		Mexico
Puebla 		 Brazil 0–0
(3–2 p) 		 Argentina  Mexico 0–0
(4–3 p) 		 Costa Rica 5
2023
Details[10] 		Brazil
São Paulo 		 Brazil 2–0  Japan  Argentina 1–0  France 8

See also

References

  1. ^ "Football - Results". IBSA. Archived from the original on 16 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Championship organization and information - Blind Football World Cup". Archived from the original on 2018-06-20. Retrieved 2018-06-20.
  3. ^ "IBSA Blind Football calls off first Women's World Championship in Nigeria over COVID-19". Inside Games. 4 August 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  4. ^ "Argentina is the first women's blind football world champion in history". IBSA. 21 August 2023.
  5. ^ "IBSA Blind Football World Grand Prix 2018" (PDF). blindfootball.sport. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  6. ^ "IBSA Blind Football World Grand Prix 2019" (PDF). blindfootball.sport. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  7. ^ "Blind Football World Grand Prix cancelled". IBSA. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  8. ^ "IBSA Blind Football World Grand Prix 2021" (PDF). blindfootball.sport. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  9. ^ "Brasil bate Argentina, fatura Grand Prix e se classifica para o Mundial". CBDV (in Portuguese). 7 August 2022. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  10. ^ "Brasil vence Japão e é bicampeão do Grand Prix de futebol de cegos". CBDV (in Portuguese). 27 May 2023. Retrieved 21 August 2023.

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