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Explainer: Why is the trophy not given to the team that becomes FIFA World Cup champion? Know the interesting reason behind this

By Samira Vishwas

FIFA World Cup Trophy: From June 12, football fans around the world will be excited about the FIFA World Cup 2026. Football fans are eagerly waiting for the world’s biggest tournament. Last time in 2022, Lionel Messi’s team Argentina won the FIFA World Cup trophy after 36 years by defeating France. However, Argentina did not get the FIFA World Cup trophy even after becoming champion. Argentina’s team, captained by Messi, received the trophy only for a photo op and then it was taken back from them. Now you must be wondering why this happened, then let us tell you that the real trophy is not given to the team that becomes FIFA champion, let us know what is the real reason behind this.

The team that becomes champion gets the real trophy just for taking photographs.

The real trophy is not given to the team that wins the FIFA World Cup. The teams that become champions are given the real FIFA World Cup trophy just to celebrate and get photographed in the stadium. As soon as the celebrations are over, FIFA officials take away the real trophy from the team.

The team that becomes champion gets a duplicate trophy.

The FIFA World Cup winning team is given a replica trophy, an exact copy of the original trophy. It is called the FIFA World Cup Winters Trophy. This trophy is plated with gold and is completely made of bronze. The real trophy of the FIFA World Cup always remains with FIFA. This trophy is kept very safe in the FIFA Museum located in Zurich city of Switzerland.

When does Fifi’s real trophy come out?

The real FIFA World Cup trophy comes out of the FIFA Museum only on certain special occasions. Whenever there is an official global trophy tour of FIFA or an official draw ceremony, the real trophy of the FIFA World Cup is taken out. The real trophy is presented on the field on the day of the opening match and final match of the World Cup.

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Who has the right to touch the real FIFA World Cup trophy?

Let us tell you that not everyone has the right to touch the real FIFA World Cup trophy. There are strict rules regarding touching this trophy. No one can touch the trophy. Only a few people have the right to touch the trophy without gloves, which includes the players, coaches and staff of the World Cup winning country and some top FIFA officials other than the Heads of State of different countries.

Why doesn’t the champion team get the FIFA World Cup trophy?

Now let us know why the team that became the last champion does not get the real trophy. Actually, the old rule regarding the actual trophy of FIFA World Cup was different. At that time the real FIFA trophy was called Jules Rimet Trophy. This trophy was used in the FIFA World Cup tournaments from 1930 to 1970.

The real FIFA World Cup trophy has been stolen twice

In the year 1970, Jules Rimet, the then President of FIFA, had made a rule that the country which wins the World Cup title three times, will keep the real trophy forever. In 1970, after winning the FIFA World Cup title for the third time, Brazil kept the ‘Jules Rimet Trophy’ i.e. the original trophy, but the ‘Jules Rimet Trophy’ used before 1970 was stolen twice. The original trophy was stolen from England in 1966 and Brazil in 1983. After it was stolen from Brazil, the thieves melted it.

FIFA made strict rules regarding the real trophy

After this, in the year 1974, FIFA changed the rules of the original trophy. FIFA made a new rule that no country can keep the real trophy permanently. After this, in the year 2005, FIFA made this rule even more strict. Under this rule, the real trophy of the FIFA World Cup is kept forever in the FIFA Museum located in Zurich, Switzerland. It is not handed over to any country.

Real FIFA World Cup trophy worth crores

The real FIFA World Cup trophy is quite expensive. The original FIFA trophy is made of 18-carat solid gold, weighs approximately 6.175 kg and is worth crores of rupees. This is the reason why the real trophy of the FIFA World Cup is not given to the team that becomes champion. A duplicate trophy is given in its place.

FIFA World Cup 2026 will start from June 11

FIFA World Cup 2026 is historic in many ways. FIFA World Cup 2026 will start from June 11. Whereas on 19th July The final match of the FIFA World Cup will be played at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. This time the FIFA World Cup is being hosted by three countries – America, Mexico and Canada. This is happening for the first time in the history of FIFA. Not only this, this time 48 teams will participate instead of 32, among which a total of 104 matches will be played. Earlier, 64 matches were played between 32 teams, but this time due to increase in the number of teams, the number of matches has also been increased. Now it remains to be seen whether Argentina is successful in defending the trophy or someone else wins.

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