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The Walt Disney World Showcase, often simply called The Showcase, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every year since the inaugural tournament in 2018, except in 2021 when it was not held because of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The current champions are France, who won their second title at the 2022 tournament.

The current format involves a selection process, which takes place up to a year in advance, to determine which teams will compete in the tournament. In the tournament, 48 teams, compete for the title at venues within Walt Disney World over about three weeks. The United States is automatically selected.

Selection
Since the beginning of the tournament in 2018, teams who have interest in participating in the tournament go through an application process in order to get into the tournament. For each tournament, the CSA decides the number of places awarded to each of the continental zones beforehand, generally based on the amount of teams that applied to enter.

Final tournament
The current final tournament has been used since 2022 and features 48 national teams competing over the course of three weeks. There are two stages: the group stage followed by the knockout stage.

In the group stage, teams compete within sixteen groups of three teams each. All teams are seeded, excluding the hosts, based on the FIFA World Rankings or performances in recent World Cups, and are assigned to different "pots". Teams in each pot are drawn at random to the sixteen groups. Since 2023, constraints have been applied to the draw to ensure that no group contains more than one team from any confederation.

Each group plays a round-robin tournament, in which each team is scheduled for two matches against other teams in the same group. This means that a total of three matches are played within a group. The top two teams from each group advance to the knockout stage. Points are used to rank the teams within a group. Three points are awarded for a win, one for a draw and none for a loss. Since 2020, if games are tied at the end of regulation, the game will go into a Golden Goal overtime with two, fifteen minute halves. If there is no score after the Overtime period, the game ends in a draw.

If teams are tied in the Group Stage, the following tie breakers are used:
 * 1) Greatest combined goal difference in all group matches
 * 2) Greatest combined number of goals scored in all group matches
 * 3) If more than one team remain level after applying the above criteria, their ranking will be determined as follows:
 * 4) Greatest number of points in head-to-head matches among those teams
 * 5) Greatest goal difference in head-to-head matches among those teams
 * 6) Greatest number of goals scored in head-to-head matches among those teams
 * 7) Fair play points, defined by the number of yellow and red cards received in the group stage:
 * 8) Yellow card: minus 1 point
 * 9) Indirect red card (as a result of a second yellow card): minus 3 points
 * 10) Direct red card: minus 4 points
 * 11) Yellow card and direct red card: minus 5 points
 * 12) If any of the teams above remain level after applying the above criteria, their ranking will be determined by the drawing of lots

The knockout stage is a single-elimination tournament in which teams play each other in one-off matches, with golden goal extra time and penalty shootouts used to decide the winner if necessary. It begins with the Preliminary Round in which the winners of each group are randomly drawn against the runner-up of another group. This is followed by the Round of 16, quarter-finals, the semi-finals, the third-place match (contested by the losing semi-finalists), and the final.