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FIFA World Cup: Launch Edition
FIFA World Cup: Launch Edition, a 2026 arcade football game by Delphi Interactive and Refactor Games published by Netflix Games, phone-as-controller TV play, 48 teams, three modes, poorly reviewed.
FIFA World Player of the Year
FIFA World Player of the Year, also called FIFA World Footballer of the Year, was FIFA's annual best-player award from 1991 (first winner Lothar Matthäus) until 2009, merged with the Ballon d'Or 2010-2015, then rebranded The Best FIFA Men's Player in 2016.
FIFA–CONMEBOL Club Challenge
The FIFA–CONMEBOL Club Challenge is a proposed football fixture between the holders of FIFA's and CONMEBOL's premier club titles, with no documented edition in the standard statistical record.
FIFA: Road to World Cup 98
FIFA: Road to World Cup 98 (FIFA 98) is EA Sports' 1997 football game for eight platforms, with 172 national teams, 189 clubs, full World Cup qualifying, indoor mode, and Blur's Song 2 soundtrack.
Fife
Fife, known as the Kingdom of Fife, is a council area in Scotland on the peninsula between the Firths of Forth and Tay, with St Andrews among its main towns.
FIFI (aircraft)
FIFI is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress owned by the Commemorative Air Force and one of only two B-29s still flying, based in Dallas, Texas, and touring annually.
Fifi Cooper
Fifi Cooper (born Refilwe Boingotlo Mooketsi) is a South African Motswako rapper from Mahikeng whose debut album 20FIFI was released in 2015 on Ambitiouz Entertainment.
FIFO (computing)
FIFO, first-in-first-out, is a queue discipline in which the first item added is the first removed, used in router buffers, CPU scheduling, and concurrent queues.
FIFO and LIFO accounting
FIFO and LIFO accounting are two cost flow assumptions for valuing inventory: FIFO charges the oldest acquisition costs first, LIFO the newest, with LIFO banned under IFRS.
FIFPRO World 11
FIFPRO World 11 (FIFA FIFPRO World XI): annual men's and women's all-star football teams voted exclusively by professional players since 2005; 2025 teams led by PSG's treble winners and Lucy Bronze's record eighth women's selection.
Fifteen Dogs
Fifteen Dogs: An Apologue is André Alexis's 2015 Coach House novel, second in his Quincunx, in which Hermes and Apollo grant human intelligence to fifteen Toronto dogs and bet on whether any dies happy; it won the 2015 Giller Prize.
Fifteen Million Merits
Fifteen Million Merits is Black Mirror season 1, episode 2, written by Charlie Brooker and Konnie Huq, aired on Channel 4 on 11 December 2011. In a dystopia where people earn Merits on exercise bikes, Bing (Daniel Kaluuya) buys Abi (Jessica Brown Findlay) a Hot Shots talent show entry, with tragic results.
Fifteen Strings of Cash
Fifteen Strings of Cash (十五贯) is a kunqu play adapted by the Zhejiang Kunqu-Su Troupe in 1956, whose runaway success is credited with reviving the kunqu opera genre.
Fifteen-Love
Fifteen-Love is a 2023 British psychological sports drama on Amazon Prime Video, created by Hania Elkington, starring Ella Lily Hyland and Aidan Turner in six episodes.
Fifteenth Air Force
The Fifteenth Air Force is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Air Force, headquartered at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, under Air Combat Command.
Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland
The Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland (1995) removed the constitutional ban on divorce, passed 24 November 1995 with 50.28% Yes, and was signed 17 June 1996, replaced in part by the 2019 Thirty-eighth Amendment.
Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Fifteenth Amendment (1870) bars denying or abridging the vote on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude; ratified February 3, 1870, enforced by the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Fifteenth Doctor
The Fifteenth Doctor is the Doctor Who incarnation played by Ncuti Gatwa (2023-2025), introduced via bi-generation in The Giggle, traveling with Ruby Sunday and Belinda Chandra, and regenerating in The Reality War.
Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt
The Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt, or Great Hyksos Dynasty, was a line of six West Semitic rulers who governed from Avaris in the Nile Delta from about 1650 to 1550 BC.
Fifteenth Finance Commission
The Fifteenth Finance Commission of India, chaired by N.K. Singh, was a constitutional body formed in 2017 that recommended how central tax revenue should be shared with the states.
Fifteenth Party Congress and the Great Turn
The Fifteenth Party Congress and the Great Turn was the 1927 congress of the All-Union Communist Party that set the course toward collectivization and the first five-year plan.
Fifth (unit)
A fifth is a former US liquid unit for liquor, one fifth of a gallon (757 mL), now the name for the standard 750 mL bottle.
Fifth Air Force
The Fifth Air Force is a US Air Force numbered air force under Pacific Air Forces, headquartered at Yokota Air Base, Japan, activated in the Philippines in 1941.
Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights ratified in 1791, guarantees due process, grand jury indictment, and the privilege against self-incrimination.
Fifth Avenue
Fifth Avenue, Manhattan's 6.2-mile north-south avenue from Washington Square to 143rd Street, mapped in 1811, opened 1824 as Middle Road; home of Millionaire's Row, the Midtown luxury retail corridor, and the $402 million Future of Fifth redesign.
Fifth Beatle
Fifth Beatle is an informal honorary title for associates of the Beatles; leading candidates are Stuart Sutcliffe, Pete Best, manager Brian Epstein, and producer George Martin, with Murray the K, Neil Aspinall, Derek Taylor, and Billy Preston also cited.
Fifth Business
Fifth Business is a 1970 novel by the Canadian writer Robertson Davies and the first volume of the Deptford Trilogy, narrated by retired schoolmaster Dunstan Ramsay.
Fifth Chinese Daughter
Fifth Chinese Daughter is a 1950 autobiography by Jade Snow Wong recounting her coming of age in San Francisco's Chinatown, and a bestseller that became a foundational work of Asian American literature.
Fifth Cinven Fund (No. 1) Limited Partnership
Fifth Cinven Fund (No. 1) Limited Partnership is one of the parallel Guernsey vehicles of the Fifth Cinven Fund, a €5 billion European buyout fund managed by Cinven.
Fifth column
Fifth column (quinta columna): a group undermining a country or organization from within for an external enemy. Coined by General Emilio Mola at the 1936 siege of Madrid; fueled WWII spy panics and remains a political accusation.