2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup 2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup The 2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup was the 7th FIFA Futsal World Cup, an international futsal tournament that took place from 1–18 November 2012 in Thailand. An extra four teams (increase to 24 from 20 at the 2008 event in Brazil) were competing at this World Cup. This was the first men's FIFA tournament held in the country, having hosted the 2004 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship. This was also the first men's FIFA tournament in Southeast Asia since the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship, held in Malaysia. Brazil defended their title, winning it for
FIFA World Cup final draw FIFA World Cup final draw The first event of the FIFA World Cup starts with a kind of lottery but instead of selecting classified numbers, in this contest a country is selected; most had been made in January of the tournament year until 1982 and since the 1986 World Cup it is held in early December of the year before the start of the tournament. The first version of the draw had been made in a football association's office, a few days before the 1930 World Cup; it was also repeated in 1934. Five of these have been held in