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The FIFA Jules Rimet Cup or the Rimet Cup is a proposed international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship is for teams that fail to qualify for the respective year's World Cup. For retroactive reasons, the championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1974. The current champion is Portugal, which won its fourth title at the 2014 tournament in China.
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The current format of the competition involves a qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase, which is often called the Silver Cup Finals. 32 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation(s), compete in the tournament phase for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month.
The tournament is named in honor of the late FIFA president, Jules Rimet.