Over 100,000 players from more than 40 countries across six continents embarked on a journey with the same dream: outplaying all other athletes and making it to the Red Bull Neymar Jr’s Five World Final. This year, for the second time, a women’s competition was also played in 10 countries. Only the strongest teams made it through and will now get to live their dream at the Instituto Projeto Neymar Jr in Praia Grande, Brazil on 12-13 July, when the 2019 World Champions will be crowned in the tournament that unites the world in football.

Along with the best teams from each country, one international team will also compete for the title: the winners of the Jr‘s Global Five competition, where players from all over the world participated by posting videos of their best skills on their Instagram channels. These individual players have the unique chance to form one international team - Jr’s Global Five - and train together in Brazil for two days, before joining the World Final along with the 42 national champs in the mixed competition representing their home country.

The World Final begins on Friday, July 12, with the group stage. The best teams will advance to the knock-out stage on Saturday and battle it out in the round of 16, quarter-finals and semi-finals before the top two women’s and mixed teams face each other in the final of each division.

The event is hosted at Instituto Projeto Neymar Jr, a private, non-profit association dedicated to social causes set up by the player and his family. Located in Jardim Glória, in Praia Grande, where Neymar Jr spent much of his childhood, the Institute is an 8,400m2 education and sporting complex catering to 2,470 underprivileged children aged between 7 and 14.

Red Bull Neymar Jr‘s Five will return for the fifth time in 2020. Stay tuned to find out where in the world the qualifiers will be played: www.redbullneymarjrsfive.com