Description

The 2018 FIFA World Cup will be the 21st FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It is scheduled to take place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018. This will be the first World Cup ever held in Eastern Europe, and the first held in Europe since 2006.

The 20 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight different national teams. Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. The other World Cup winners are Germany and Italy, with four titles each; Argentina and inaugural winner Uruguay, with two titles each; and England, France and Spain, with one title each. The current champion is Germany, which won its fourth title at the 2014 tournament in Brazil.

The World Cup is the most prestigious association football tournament in the world as well as the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games; the cumulative audience of all matches of the 2006 FIFA World Cup was estimated to be 26.29 billion with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the final match, a ninth of the entire population of the planet.

Obverse

Depicts 2018 FIFA World Cup official logo and the competition’s name, inserted among a multitude of symbols from football and Russian culture.

The tournament logo was unveiled on 28 October 2014 by cosmonauts at the International Space Station and then projected onto Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre during an evening television programme. For the branding, a typeface called Dusha (from Душа, Russian for soul) was created by Portuguese design agency Brandia Central in 2014.

TM
FIFA WORLD CUP
RUSSIA 2018

Reverse

Depicts a kicking football player. In the background, Russian cathedral onion roofs are portrayed, as well as graphic elements from Russian culture.

• Acronym RF indicating the coin’s nation of origin (République Française).
• Cornucopia is the mintmark of the Paris Mint.
• Small pentagon is the trademark of the Paris Mint Director Yves Sampo.

COUPE DU MONDE DE LA FIFA TM
RF 10
EURO

Edge -
Characteristics
Type Commemorative Issue (Non-circulating)
Material Silver
Fineness 0.900
Weight 22.2 g
Diameter 37 mm
Thickness -
Shape round
Alignment Medal
Mint
Paris Mint (A)

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