Wikipedia / Team World
Wikipedia / Team World
World Team or Team World is a designation for a sports team in many competitions. It is usually equivalent to a "rest of the world" team, which is pitted against a particular territory.
Competitions featuring a world team
Competition | Sport | Contributing regions | Notes |
non-North American | From 1998 to 2002, the game featured a Team World versus Team North America | ||
non-Europe | Team Europe vs Team World | ||
non-USA | The 2013 edition of the CrossFit Games competition features a Team USA vs Team World | ||
non-USA | Held since 1999 | ||
non-USA | Format between 2015 and 2021. | ||
NBA Africa Game 2015 NBA Africa Game 2017 NBA Africa Game 2018 | non-African | The inaugural NBA Africa Game (2015) featured Team Africa facing Team World | |
outside of North America | Team World or Team Europe against Team North America | ||
non-Brazilian | Equipe Mundo (Team World) against Equipe Brasil (Team Brazil), based on player nationality | ||
non-USA | Format since 2018: Team USA vs International Team; originally Team USA vs. Team Europe. All individual players are college/university golfers, with teams based on player nationalities and not the locations of the players' institutions. |
Note that in the above sports there also exist national teams taking part in other competitions
All-World's Team
Some "Team World" or "World Team" teams are all-star teams with rosters drawn up from the world's players as an honors project.
Team | Sport | Contributing | Era | Notes | |
regions | leagues | ||||
Soccer | World | 20th century | soccer (association football) all-star team of stars of all eras of the 20th century |