Fascinating football facts including: The 2026 World Cup is the biggest in history, with 48 teams and a record 727 million dollar prize pot.. Nigeria’s first recorded football match was played all the way back in 1904, decades before the Super Eagles even existed..
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Did you know? The 2026 World Cup is the biggest in history, with 48 teams and a record 727 million dollar prize pot.
Hosted jointly by the USA, Canada and Mexico, it is the first World Cup ever shared across three nations, with Mexico becoming the first country to co-host three men’s tournaments.
Curacao, a nation of just over 150,000 people, became the smallest country ever to compete at and score in a men’s World Cup.
Category: Stat | Source: NigerianMatchday.com
Did you know? Nigeria’s first recorded football match was played all the way back in 1904, decades before the Super Eagles even existed.
The match took place at the Hope Waddell Training Institution in Calabar between students and visiting sailors.
Nigeria would go on to win three Africa Cup of Nations titles and, in April 1994, reached 5th in the FIFA world rankings, still the highest ever achieved by an African nation.
Category: History | Source: NigerianMatchday.com
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