Editing 1930 FIFA World Cup (section)

==Format and draw==
The 13 teams were drawn into four groups, with Group 1 containing four teams and the others containing three. Each group played a [[Round-robin tournament|round-robin]] format, with the four group winners progressing to the knockout semi-final stage.

Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, and the United States were [[single-elimination tournament#Seeding|seeded]] and kept apart in the draw;<ref name="g17"/> which took place in Montevideo once all the teams arrived.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fifa.com/mm/document/fifafacts/mcwc/ip-201_10e_fwcdraw-history_8842.pdf |title=History of the World Cup draw |work=FIFA |accessdate=14 June 2009 |archive-date=23 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130723113048/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/fifafacts/mcwc/ip-201_10e_fwcdraw-history_8842.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Since there were no qualifying games, the opening two matches of the tournament were the first World Cup games ever played, taking place simultaneously on 13 July 1930; France beat Mexico 4–1 at the Estadio Pocitos, while the United States defeated Belgium 3–0 at the same time at the Estadio Gran Parque Central. France's [[Lucien Laurent]] was the scorer of the first World Cup goal.<ref>{{cite news |title=Lucien Laurent: The World Cup's First Goal Scorer |work=CBC Sports |publisher=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] |url=http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/the-world-cup-s-1st-goal-scorer-1.825335 |accessdate=14 June 2014 |last=Molinaro |first=John F }}</ref>