Scope sorts competitions by how wide a field of entrants they actually draw, from local to global. Wikipedia describes the FIFA World Cup as "an international association football competition among the senior men's national teams of the members of FIFA," a scope covering the entire footballing world. This dimension separates competitions open to the whole world from those limited to one region or league.
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1. Wikipedia: 1930 FIFA World Cup
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The 1930 FIFA World Cup was the first FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national football teams.
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Why is the FIFA World Cup grouped separately from the World Chess Championship?
This category is reserved for physical team ball sports; mind sport championships like chess sit under Mind Sport World Championships instead.
Team and Ball-Sport World Cups covers global single-sport championship tournaments for team ball sports, such as the Cricket World Cup, the FIBA Basketball World Cup, the FIFA World Cup and the Rugby World Cup. Single-sport world championships for mind sports are grouped instead under Mind Sport World Championships, since this category is reserved for physical team ball sports.