FIFA World Cup hosts second of these, the 1938 FIFA World Cup, in France was controversial, as the South American countries had been led to understand that the World Cup would rotate between the two continents. Both Argentina and Uruguay thus boycotted the tournament. The first tournament following World War II, held in Brazil in 1950, had three teams withdraw for either financial problems or disagreements with the organization. To avoid any future boycotts or controversy, FIFA began a pattern of alternation between the Americas and Europe, which continued until the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Asia. The system evolved so that the host
Poland at the FIFA World Cup the only one of those three from a country that has never won the World Cup, either. Ernst Wilimowski was the first player ever to score four goals in one match at a FIFA World Cup, and to this day is the only player who managed this feat and still lost the match. Poland at the FIFA World Cup This is a record of Poland's results at the FIFA World Cup. They have qualified for the finals on eight occasions, most recently in 2018. The FIFA World Cup, sometimes called the Football World Cup or the Soccer World Cup, but