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.
National Hockey League All-Star Game | Ice hockey | non-North American | From 1998 to 2002, the game featured a Team World versus Team North America | |
Laver Cup | Tennis | non-Europe | Team Europe vs Team World | |
2013 CrossFit Games | CrossFit | non-USA | The 2013 edition of the CrossFit Games competition features a Team USA vs Team World | |
MLB All-Star Futures Game | Baseball | non-USA | Held since 1999 | MLB should do better with the Futures Game instead of burying it – Matt Snyder, CBS, 10 July 2017 |
NBA Rising Stars Challenge | Basketball | non-USA | Format between 2015 and 2021. | NBA Rising Stars Challenge 2015 final score: Team World rules Team USA, 121–112 – Liam Boylan-Pett, SB Nation, 13 February 2015 |
NBA Africa Game 2015 NBA Africa Game 2017 NBA Africa Game 2018 | Basketball | non-African | The inaugural NBA Africa Game (2015) featured Team Africa facing Team World | |
Continental Cup of Curling | Curling | outside of North America | Team World or Team Europe against Team North America | |
NBB All-Star Game | Basketball | non-Brazilian | Equipe Mundo (Team World) against Equipe Brasil (Team Brazil), based on player nationality | |
Arnold Palmer Cup | Golf | 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. |
World Team of the 20th Century | Soccer | World | FIFA | 20th century | soccer (association football) all-star team of stars of all eras of the 20th century | Brown, Gerry, and Morrison, Michael (eds.; 2003). ESPN Information Please Sports Almanac. New York City: ESPN Books and Hyperion (joint). . |
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