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The Quidditch World Cup is an international Quidditch competition in the Harry Potter book series held every four years.[1]

About[]

The Quidditch World Cup takes place every four years. About a hundred thousand witches and wizards from across the world will turn up throughout the tournament to spectate. This causes organisational problems because the games have to be played without drawing the attention of the Muggle world. They have to be held somewhere isolated with as many anti-Muggle precautions that can be possibly be taken.[2]

Arrivals have to be spread out. There are limitations on how many people can use Muggle transport to get there to ensure buses and trains aren't unusually busy. Safe points are set up for people to Apparate to. Others have to travel at a prearranged time and spot using a Portkey. People with cheaper tickets have to arrive two weeks before.[2]

Preceding the match is a display from the mascots that normally involves magical creatures from the native land of the teams playing, which is "always interesting".[3]

History[]

1st World Cup[]

1st Quidditch World Cup

First World Cup final

The first World Cup was held in 1473. The teams were only European which is thought to be the result of distance. Owls carrying invitations collapsed en route, others were relutance to travel so far and some teams preferred to stay at home.[1]

The final was played by Transylvania and Flanders.[1] Every one of the seven-hundred known ways of cheating occurred during the game. The records are now kept in the Department of Magical Games and Sports and are not available to the public.[4] Cheating included a Chaser being transfigured into a polecat, someone trying to decapitate a Keeper with a broadsword and the Transylvanian Captain releasing a hundred blood-sucking vampire bats which they snuck on the pitch under their robes.[1]

The first World Cup is also the first time the Transylvanian Tackle was used.[5]

17th century[]

The first game in which teams outside of Europe also competed in the World Cup took place in the seventeenth century.[1]

20th century[]

In the late twentieth century, a record of six players from the same team (the Patonga Proudsticks) played for their national team together (Uganda).[1]

In the 1960s, Britain hosted the World Cup.[6]

The 421st World Cup final went on for five days.[7]

422nd World Cup[]

The 422nd World Cup was hosted in Britain.[6] During the tournament, these games are known to have taken place:

21st century[]

At the start of the twenty-first century, Peru was tipped to be the first Latin World Cup winner within the first ten years.[1]

Trivia[]

  • Argentina and Brazil both reached the quarter-finals twice during the twentieth century.[1]

Notes and sources[]

  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Quidditch Through the Ages, Chapter Eight: The Spread of Quidditch Worldwide
  2. 2.0 2.1 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 6
  3. 3.0 3.1 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 8
  4. Quidditch Through the Ages, Chapter Six: Changes in Quidditch Since the Fourteenth Century
  5. Quidditch Through the Ages: Chapter Ten: Quidditch Today
  6. 6.0 6.1 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 2
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 5