Twelve venues (seven new and five renovated) in twelve Brazilian cities were selected for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The cities also housed the 32 teams and fan-zones for spectators without tickets for the stations. Around 3 million tickets were put on sale of which most were sold out in a day. Eighteen locations were presented as potential host cities with the twelve successful candidates announced on 31 May 2009: Belém, Campo Grande, Florianópolis, Goiânia and Rio Branco were rejected, while Maceió had already withdrawn in January 2009.[1] [2]
FIFA proposed that no more than one city could use two stadiums, and the number of host cities was limited between eight and ten. However, FIFA subsequently accepted the Brazilian Football Confederation's suggestion to use twelve host cities in "the interest of the whole country".[3] The twelve selections – each the capital of its state – covered all the main regions of Brazil and created more evenly distributed hosting than the 1950 finals in Brazil provided, when matches were concentrated in the south-east and south.[4] Consequently, the tournament required significant long-distance travel for teams.[5] Statistics show that nearly 10 million passengers used around 20 Brazilian airports in 31 days of the tournament.[6]
The 64 matches were staged at the following 12 stadiums:
| Rio de Janeiro, RJ | Brasília, DF | São Paulo, SP | Fortaleza, CE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estádio do Maracanã | Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha | Arena de São Paulo | Estádio Castelão | |
| Capacity 74,738[7] | Capacity: 69,432 New stadium 4 Group/1 R16/1 QF/3rd place | Capacity: 63,321 New stadium 4 Group/1 R16/1 SF | Capacity: 60,348 Renovated 4 Group/1 R16/1 QF | |
| Belo Horizonte, MG | Porto Alegre, RS | |||
| Estádio Mineirão | Estádio Beira-Rio | |||
| Capacity: 58,259 Renovated 4 Group/1 R16/1 SF | Capacity: 43,394 Renovated[8] 4 Group/1 R16 | |||
| Salvador, BA | Recife, PE | |||
| Arena Fonte Nova | Arena Pernambuco | |||
| Capacity: 51,708 New stadium 4 Group/1 R16/1 QF | Capacity: 42,583 New stadium 4 Group/1 R16 | |||
| Cuiabá, MT | Manaus, AM | Natal, RN | Curitiba, PR | |
| Arena Pantanal | Arena da Amazônia | Arena das Dunas | Arena da Baixada | |
| Capacity: 41,112 New stadium 4 Group | Capacity: 40,549 New stadium 4 Group | Capacity: 39,971 New stadium 4 Group | Capacity: 39,631 Renovated 4 Group | |
Base camps were used by the 32 national squads to stay and train before and during the tournament. On 31 January 2014, FIFA announced the base camps for each participating team.[9] The table below shows base camps and venues for each team.
| width=15% | Team | width=15% | Base camp | width=10% | Round 1 | width=10% | Round 2 | width=10% | Round 3 | width=10% | Round of 16 | width=10% | Quarter Final | width=10% | Semi Final | width=10% | Final/3rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sorocaba (São Paulo) | Belo Horizonte | Porto Alegre | Curitiba | Porto Alegre | |||||||||||||
| Vespasiano (Minas Gerais) | Rio de Janeiro | Belo Horizonte | Porto Alegre | São Paulo | Brasília | São Paulo | Rio de Janeiro | ||||||||||
| Vitória (Espírito Santo) | Cuiabá | Porto Alegre | Curitiba | ||||||||||||||
| Mogi das Cruzes (São Paulo) | Belo Horizonte | Rio de Janeiro | São Paulo | Salvador | Brasília | ||||||||||||
| Guarujá (São Paulo) | Rio de Janeiro | Cuiabá | Salvador | ||||||||||||||
| Teresópolis (Rio de Janeiro) | São Paulo | Fortaleza | Brasília | Belo Horizonte | Fortaleza | Belo Horizonte | Brasília | ||||||||||
| Vitória (Espírito Santo) | Natal | Manaus | Brasília | ||||||||||||||
| Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais) | Cuiabá | Rio de Janeiro | São Paulo | Belo Horizonte | |||||||||||||
| Cotia (São Paulo) | Belo Horizonte | Brasília | Cuiabá | Rio de Janeiro | Fortaleza | ||||||||||||
| Mata de São João (Bahia) | São Paulo | Manaus | Recife | ||||||||||||||
| Santos (São Paulo) | Fortaleza | Recife | Belo Horizonte | Recife | Salvador | ||||||||||||
| Viamão (Rio Grande do Sul) | Brasília | Curitiba | Rio de Janeiro | ||||||||||||||
| Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro) | Manaus | São Paulo | Belo Horizonte | ||||||||||||||
| Ribeirão Preto (São Paulo) | Porto Alegre | Salvador | Rio de Janeiro | Brasília | Rio de Janeiro | ||||||||||||
| Santa Cruz Cabrália (Bahia) | Salvador | Fortaleza | Recife | Porto Alegre | Rio de Janeiro | Belo Horizonte | Rio de Janeiro | ||||||||||
| Maceió (Alagoas) | Natal | Fortaleza | Brasília | ||||||||||||||
| Aracaju (Sergipe) | Belo Horizonte | Natal | Fortaleza | Recife | |||||||||||||
| Porto Feliz (São Paulo) | Porto Alegre | Curitiba | Manaus | ||||||||||||||
| Guarulhos (São Paulo) | Curitiba | Belo Horizonte | Salvador | ||||||||||||||
| Mangaratiba (Rio de Janeiro) | Manaus | Recife | Natal | ||||||||||||||
| Águas de Lindoia (São Paulo) | Recife | Brasília | Fortaleza | ||||||||||||||
| Itu (São Paulo) | Recife | Natal | Cuiabá | ||||||||||||||
| Santos (São Paulo) | Natal | Fortaleza | Recife | Fortaleza | |||||||||||||
| Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro) | Salvador | Porto Alegre | São Paulo | Fortaleza | Salvador | São Paulo | Brasília | ||||||||||
| Campinas (São Paulo) | Curitiba | Cuiaba | Porto Alegre | Brasília | |||||||||||||
| Campinas (São Paulo) | Salvador | Manaus | Brasília | ||||||||||||||
| Itu (São Paulo) | Cuiabá | Rio de Janeiro | Curitiba | ||||||||||||||
| Foz do Iguaçu (Paraná) | Cuiabá | Porto Alegre | São Paulo | ||||||||||||||
| Curitiba (Paraná) | Salvador | Rio de Janeiro | Curitiba | ||||||||||||||
| Porto Seguro (Bahia) | Brasília | Salvador | Manaus | São Paulo | |||||||||||||
| São Paulo (São Paulo) | Natal | Manaus | Recife | Salvador | |||||||||||||
| Sete Lagoas (Minas Gerais) | Fortaleza | São Paulo | Natal | Rio de Janeiro |
For a third consecutive World Cup tournament, FIFA announced they would be holding FIFA Fan Fests in each of the twelve host cities. Prominent examples are the Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, which had already held a Fan Fest in 2010, São Paulo's Vale do Anhangabaú and Brasília's Esplanada dos Ministérios, with the Congress in the background.[10] [11] The official "kick-off event" for the 2014 Fan Fest took place on Iracema Beach, in Fortaleza, on Sunday, June 8, 2014, according to FIFA's official website.[12]