MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide has unveiled plans to celebrate the 2006 football World Cup in Germany. It will come out with a major documentary series celebrating the competition's history.

BBC Worldwide has signed a deal with Fifa which is football's world governing body. BBC Documentaries and Contemporary Factual have secured access to over 70 years of official Fifa World Cup films and television footage, including newly discovered material dating back to the first World Cup in 1930.

The series will air in the UK on BBC Two in early 2006. It will comprise of six documentaries, each one-hour in duration. Combining over three hours of rare and unique archive footage and interviews with football legends of the last 75 years, the series will recount the greatest World Cup moments. BBC Worldwide will also distribute the series to broadcasters across the globe.

Series producer, Tom Ware said, "This is a definitive documentary series on the World Cup and is completely international in scope. It will chronicle the history of the 'greatest show on earth' through the images and words of football's greatest names."