The Australian Football International Cup is currently the highest level of senior international competition.

The number of teams selected through the ICC Trophy has varied throughout the years ; currently, six teams are selected for the Cricket World Cup.

The NAFC-North American Floorball Championship is an international club tournament series currently including three tournaments: Canada Cup, Falls floorball classic and USA Cup.

Overall, they have won fifty-three official titles on the national and international stage, more than any other Italian club: a record twenty-eight league titles, a record nine Italian cups and five national super cups and, with eleven titles in confederation and inter-confederation competitions ( two Intercontinental Cups, two European Champion Clubs ' Cup / UEFA Champions Leagues, one European Cup Winners ' Cup, a record three UEFA Cups, one UEFA Intertoto Cup and two UEFA Super Cups ) the club currently ranks fourth in Europe and seventh in the world with the most trophies won.

There are currently nine teams throughout Europe that have won two of the three trophies ; all but one have won the Cup Winners Cup, four require a win in the Champions League and five require a UEFA Europa League win.

Since their last Cup win in 1983, they are currently the only team of the four major North American sports leagues ( NHL, NFL, NBA, & MLB ) to win 4 consecutive championships, and hold the NHL record for most consecutive playoff series ' wins at 19 ( 1980 Playoffs-1984 Playoffs ).

The Montreal Canadiens have won the Cup a record 24 times and are currently the last Canadian-based team in the NHL to win the cup after winning it in 1993.

The one of this country's most prominent race is the Grade 1 Japan Cup, a 2, 400 m ( about 1½ mile ) invitational turf race run every November at Tokyo Racecourse for a purse of ¥ 476 million ( about US $ 5. 6 million ), currently the richest turf race in the world.

Under Ryder Cup rules, the team that does not currently hold the Cup must win the contest to win the Ryder Cup, so that if the contest is a tie ( 14 points each ) the Ryder Cup is retained by the team who held it before the contest.

* Tom McKnight – former top ranked amateur golfer, member 1999 Walker Cup Team, currently plays on the PGA Champions Tour.

It is currently under construction for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

* Martin Truex, Jr. ( born 1980 ), a NASCAR Sprint Cup driver who currently pilots the # 56 NAPA Auto Parts Toyota Camry lived in the Mayetta section of Stafford.

The shop currently operates three Sprint Cup Series teams, the # 11 FedEx Toyota Camry, the # 18 M & M's Toyota Camry, and the # 20 Home Depot Toyota Camry.

* Former professional tennis player Cliff Richey, who won 45 career singles titles, 1970 World Grand Prix Champion, two-time Davis Cup Champion, No. 1 ranked player in the United States in 1970 and the coauthor of " Acing Depression: A Tennis Champion's Toughest Match " was born in San Angelo and currently lives there.

Brazil is currently coached by Mano Menezes, who was appointed to replace Dunga after the 2010 World Cup.

# Played at least five seasons in an American first-division professional league ( currently MLS or WPSL-Elite ), and won either the league championship, or the U. S. Open Cup, or was selected as a league all-star at least once.

The club is one of the five teams that has earned the right to keep the European Cup and to wear a multiple-winner badge ; they won consecutively in 1971 – 1973.

According to a 2008 television programme, presented by Griff Rhys Jones, “ the flame has only been extinguished once, by a drunken Mexican football supporter on the night that France beat Brazil here in Paris ,” most likely referring to the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final.

File: JohnMcFall-Manchester-20070513. jpg | John McFall, who has an above-knee leg amputation, and uses a prosthetic leg, is a sprinter and winner of a gold medal at the 2007 Paralympic World Cup

Before the end of this World Cup Glenn McGrath stated that Lara is the greatest batsman that he has ever bowled to.

Copacabana Beach plays host to millions of revellers during the annual New Year's Eve celebrations and, in most years, has been the official venue of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.

A separate Women's Cricket World Cup has been held every four years since 1973.

The World Cricket League ( administered by the International Cricket Council ) is the qualification system provided to allow the Associate and Affiliate members of the ICC more opportunities to qualify. The name " ICC Trophy " has been changed to " ICC World Cup Qualifier ".

The format of the Cricket World Cup has changed greatly over the course of its history.

It hosted the FA Cup Final from 1920 to 1922, has held ten FA Cup semi-finals ( most recently in 1978 ), ten FA Charity Shield matches ( the last in 1970 ), and three England international matches, the last in 1932 ; it was also the venue for an unofficial Victory International in 1946.

* Every three years since Earnhardt's death, someone associated with Earnhardt has won the Daytona 500 ( his son Dale Earnhardt, Jr. in 2004, Earnhardt's replacement Cup driver Kevin Harvick in 2007, and Earnhardt Ganassi's Jamie McMurray in 2010.

Recent popularity has been increased with the Irish Wolfhound's success in the Rugby League World Cup which was held in Australia in 2008.

In recent years, Enniskillen has hosted an array of international events, most notably, stages of the World Waterski World Cup annually from 2005 to 2007, at the Broadmeadow.

The FIFA Women's World Cup was inaugurated in 1991 and has been held every four years since.

The tournament has become known for the possibility for " minnows " from the lower divisions to become " giant-killers " by eliminating top clubs from the tournament and even theoretically winning the Cup, although lower division teams rarely progress beyond the early stages.

The FA Cup has a set pattern for when each round is played.

However, if the FA Cup winning team has also qualified for the following season's Champions League, then the losing FA Cup finalist is given the Europa League place instead.

The withdrawal from the FA Cup, however, drew considerable criticism as this weakened the tournament's prestige and Alex Ferguson has since admitted his regrets in how they handled the situation.

Since the start of the 1994 – 95 season, the FA Cup has been sponsored.

However, to protect the identity of the competition, the sponsored name has always included ' The FA Cup ' in addition to the sponsor's name, unlike sponsorship deals for the League Cup where the word ' cup ' is preceded by only the sponsor's name.

Each year since 2001, Fort William has hosted a round of UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, and in 2007 it hosted the UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships (' The Worlds ').

He was top scorer in the 1986 World Cup and received the Golden Boot, the only time an Englishman has achieved this feat.

The new Great Southern Stand was completed in 1992, in time for the 1992 Cricket World Cup, at a final cost of $ 150 million.

After the declaration of weights for the Melbourne Cup, the winner of any handicap flat race of the advertised value of A $ 55, 000 or over to the winner, or an internationally recognised Listed, Group, or Graded handicap flat race, shall carry such additional weight ( if any ), for each win, as the VRC Handicapper shall determine.

The 1985 Melbourne Cup, won by " What a Nuisance ", was the first race run in Australia with prize money of $ 1 million.

On 31 August 2009, Infraero unveiled a R $ 2, 814 million ( US $ 1, 482. 6 million ; € 1, 038. 8 million ) investiment plan to up-grade Viracopos International Airport focusing on the preparations for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the Summer Olympics in 2016 which will be held in Brazil, São Paulo ( 99 km away ) being one of the venue cities.

He also became the grandsire of 1991 Canadian Triple Crown winner Dance Smartly, who became the richest filly at that time with twelve wins from seventeen career starts including the 1991 Breeders ' Cup Distaff and over $ 2 million.

Their elimination from the 1995 Stanley Cup playoffs in Game 4 of the second round marked the Canucks ' last game played at the Pacific Coliseum, as the team moved into the General Motors Place ( since renamed Rogers Arena ), a new $ 160 million arena situated in Downtown Vancouver, the following season.

The race with the largest international following is the Prix de l ' Arc de Triomphe held at Longchamp Racecourse, with a prize of 4 million Euro ( approx US $ 5. 2 million ), making it the richest race in Europe and the second richest turf race in the world after the Japan Cup.

The top prize of the Forrest Wood Cup is $ 1 Million.

Known for the highest prize money of a steeplechase in America, the purse for the Breeders ' Cup winner may be as large as $ 250, 000 and it may draw as many as 100, 000 spectators.

The horse started in the $ 4 million Breeders ' Cup Classic event at Belmont Park in the United States in 2005.

The Cup Champion wins US $ 100, 000, and the runner-up takes home US $ 25, 000 ; each semi-finalist loser receives US $ 12, 500.

In 2011, the University of Washington began a $ 250 million renovation to Husky Stadium, so the Huskies and the Washington State Cougars played the 2011 Apple Cup at CenturyLink Field.

From 2001-2003, the Grand Slam Prize of $ 1 million was offered to any harness racing pacer who could win the North America Cup ( Woodbine Racetrack, Toronto ), Meadowlands Pace ( Meadowlands Racetrack, N. J .), Little Brown Jug ( Delaware County Fair, Ohio ) and their Breeders Crown event ( Meadowlands Racetrack, NJ ).

The stadium underwent further renovations for the 1990 World Cup with $ 60 million being spent, bringing the stadium up to UEFA category four standard.

He received $ 150 cash out of a prize fund of $ 335, plus a $ 50 gold medal ; his club received the Open Championship Cup trophy, which was presented by the USGA.

The highlight of his troubled four-year-old season was winning the 1¼-mile, US $ 1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park in October against Evening Attire and The Cliff's Edge.

Since the Torontos had won the Cup, even more revenue was at stake and Livingstone held out for $ 20, 000, though the Arena offered $ 6, 000.