1922 FIFA World Cup

The 1922 FIFA World Cup was the fourth edition of the FIFA World Cup, a tournament that was organised by FIFA since it's inception in 1906 and it was the first tournament after World War One. The tournament compared to the previous one in 1914 saw the tournament be reduced to only ten teams with all of them being neutral nations in the World War.

With the lowest amount of teams in the tournament's history, the format of the tournament changed to be a straight knock-out tournament with six of the ten teams receiving byes in the first round, while the remaining four (all being debutants) competed in the opening round. In the final, took home their first (and to date only) World Cup defeating the  2-1. came in third place after they defeated in the third-place playoff.

Background
After World War One, the main football nations of the British Isles (, Scotland, Wales and Ireland) stayed in Britain while Germany, Austria and Hungary who was defeated in WW-1 were expelled from FIFA. None of the Americas countries turned up in Europe to compete.

European infrastructure was also a problem for this World Cup with it not being effective and secure after WW-1. The host nation of the Netherlands, being neutral during WW-1, was the suitable host for the fourth edition of the World Cup.

Round 1
The opening round of the 1922 edition saw four teams who were making their first appearance at World Cup taking on each other in two matches to book a spot into the quarter finals. In the first match of the tournament, and  played in what was the only match that went into extra time during the tournament with Yugoslavia player  scoring the winning goal in the 109th minute of play. Spain attempted to get a goal back but with no success.

The following day at the same venue saw showed the damage that they could do in the tournament as they scored a 4-1 win over. scored two goals in the match while Luxembourg midfielder scored a late goal in the 86th minute to at least some pride for Luxembourg.

Quarter-finals
12-5-1922: Netherlands 3-0 Yugoslavia (Rotterdam) 12-5-1922: Sweden 0-1 Switzerland (Zwolie) 13-5-1922: Belgium 3-2 France (Amsterdam) 13-5-1922: Czechoslovakia 0-2 Italy (Rotterdam)

Final
17-5-1922: Netherlands 1-2 Belgium (Amsterdam)