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Chapter 1: Coming back to football.
June 15, 1947

As the FIFA members looked at the bid of Sweden, they had something else on their mind and that was to do in terms of the tournament size. After getting extra funds because of the Victory International tournament that was run by FIFA after the Second World War, they had plans to expand the tournament from the sixteen team competition that had been running since the 1926 edition which was held in Spain.

After a conversation lasted for about a couple of hours, it was decided that the 1950 edition would be expanded to twenty teams with the format being four groups of five with the top two teams going into the knockout phase. This now left with who was going to be hosting the tournament and with only one bid coming from Sweden, it was decided that Sweden would be hosting this tournament as the country was neutral during the Second World War and with facilities barely having any damage from the war it was decided to hold it there.

OOC: Welcome to the sequel to my first timeline on the forum in Alt World Football which can be found here and will pick up 14 years after the ending of the first timeline. The format of these posts would be different though and might be putting more detail in the posts between the World Cup and will also be adding other football related stuff like the domestic results that started here.
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