32 teams compete in the World Cup. They are broken up into eight groups of four teams and play a three-game round robin schedule. The top two teams advance to a round of 16 and then play a single elimination tournament to determine the winner.
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There are 32 teams in the world cup.
There was 32 teams in the 2006 World Cup.
There will be no teams taking part, as the world cup was in 2014.
There were 32 teams taking part in the 2010 world cup.
France have been eliminated from the World Cup 2010 in the Group stages.