FIFA World Cup preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase, which is often called the "World Cup Finals". After this, 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 21 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight 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, France and inaugural winner Uruguay, with
2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC First Round 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC First Round The 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification AFC play-off was the first round of the Asian Football Confederation qualification for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The 14 teams with the lowest FIFA rankings played home-and-away knockout matches to qualify for the second stage. <div id="Turkmenistan v Afghanistan"> <div id="Afghanistan v Turkmenistan"> Turkmenistan won 13–0 on aggregate and advanced to the Second Round. <div id="Chinese Taipei v Macau"> <div id="Macau v Chinese Taipei"> Chinese Taipei won 6–1 on aggregate and advanced to the Second Round. <div id="Bangladesh v Tajikistan"> <div id="Tajikistan v Bangladesh">