Belgium

Belgium is a small country in western Europe, bordering France, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. It has an area of just over 30,000 km and a population of over 11 million people. It is known for hosting one of the earliest Summer Olympics, in 1920.

Sports
Belgium's most popular sport is football. The Belgium national football team qualified for 12 FIFA World Cups, including six consecutive from 1982 to 2002. The national team made it to the semifinals in the 1986 FIFA World Cup and the quarterfinals in the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

In the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying, Belgium finally failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time since 1978.

The Belgium women's team struggles in the qualifying stages of the FIFA Women's World Cup and UEFA Women's Euro.