The 2018 FOOTBALL WORLD CUP RUSSIA World Cup will be the 21st Football world cup, a quadrennial international football tournament contested by the mens national teams of the member associations of FOOTBALL WORLD CUP RUSSIA. It is scheduled to take place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018. The right to host the Football world cup is a fiercely contested honour. When Russia was awarded the tournament of 2018, it defeated a rival bid from England—as well as joint proposals from Belgium and Holland, and Spain and Portugal. Yet hosting the worlds most popular sporting event also entails real risks for the Russian government. In previous tournaments, football has become a backdrop for political and social protests. HOSTING FOOTBALL WORLD CUP IS A SENSITIVE THING, In Brazil in 2014, President Dilma Rousseff was routinely booed when she appeared at matches—a sign of the unpopularity that was to lead to her impeachment and removal from office in 2016. Football provided little solace for the Brazilian president. Her country celebrated team, widely expected to win the cup, suffered a humiliating 7-1 defeat by Germany in the semi-finals. The feel-good mood that the Brazilian government had fondly hoped would be generated by the tournament swiftly gave way to something much more sour. Russia is a far more tightly controlled and less democratic country than Brazil, so there will be fewer opportunities to use the tournament as a forum for public protest. Still, the World Cup will take place at a sensitive time. The first match, in Moscow on June 14th, will be less than three months after Russias presidential election. TEAMS AND SQUADS The 2018 Football world cups qualification process was a series of tournaments organised by the six FIFA confederations to decide 31 of the 32 teams which will play in the 2018 FOOTBALL WORLD CUP RUSSIA , with Russia qualifying automatically as hosts. The Football world cup Russia has eight different groups which includes Russia/Saudi Arabia/Egypt/Uruguay in the GROUP A ,Portugal/Spain/Morocco/Iran in the GROUP B ,France/Australia/Peru/Denmark in the GROUP C ,Argentina/Iceland/Croatia/Nigeria in the GROUP D ,Brazil/Switzerland/Costa Rica/Serbia in the GROUP E ,Germany/Mexico/Sw