Four stars above Uruguay's football crest
Design element in Uruguay's football crest / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The four stars above Uruguay's football crest represent the four FIFA recognized senior (non-amateur) world titles won by the Uruguay national football team in 1924, 1928, 1930 and 1950.[1] The Olympic football tournaments of Paris 1924 and Amsterdam 1928 have been recognized by global football associations from the outset as open world championships, the only editions to be subsequently accepted as equivalent in value to the FIFA World Cup.[2] As of 30 May 2022, the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) has announced that Uruguay have been permitted to continue wearing four stars on their football crest for the fifth consecutive FIFA World Cup tournament.[3][4] In 2023, FIFA further clarified this by officially publishing the history of them recognizing those particular Olympic football tournaments as legitimate world championships.[5]