More than 500 players from 40 countries will gather in Nantes from 5th to 8th January for the World Cup 4th edition, the first and most important event of the year for table football.The competitions, which will hosted at the Sport Complex Mangin-Beaulieu, on the île de Nantes, will be watched by 15000 spectators.On 7th January the World Cup Handisport, for players on wheelchairs, will also start.The event organization is carried on by the FFFT, the French Table Football Federation, located in Nantes, and by the ITSF,  the World Federation. The matches will be broacast by the tv network Eurosport 2, an ITSF partner, to subscribers in  58 world countries.