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Unofficial World Champions...again
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Unofficial Football World Championships
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Current Champions
Italy
Current Title
Won March 28, 2007
Opponents Scotland
Venue Bari, Italy
Competition 2008 European Chamionship qualifier
Score 2-0
Title Defences

The Unofficial Football World Championships (UFWC) is a novel way of calculating the world's best football team, using a knock-out title system similar to that used in boxing and wrestling. The title is currently held by Italy and the next defence of the title will take place against Faroe Islands at Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn, on 2 June 2007.

The idea stemmed originally from some Scotland fans jokingly asserting that as they beat England (who had won the 1966 World Cup) in a British Home Championship match on April 15, 1967 - England's first loss after their World Cup victory - they were the Unofficial World Champions.

Many years later, a website was created to show results of research triggered by this idea. The website was featured in respected football magazine FourFourTwo, which gained it extra publicity. The FourFourTwo feature also suggested the compilation of an unofficial clubs' world championship.

It is not FIFA-sanctioned, nor does it have any sort of official backing.

Italy's defeat of Scotland on 28 March 2007, made them the first team since France in 1998 to hold simultaneously the official and unofficial championships. Scotland remain the team which has both spent the most time as the champion and won the most matches as the champion.