1962 FIFA World Cup
Campeonato Mundial de Fútbol Copa Jules Rimet Chile 1962 (Spanish) | |
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Tournament details | |
Host country | Chile |
Dates | 30 May – 17 June |
Teams | 16 (from 3 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 4 (in 4 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Brazil (2nd title) |
Runners-up | Czechoslovakia |
Third place | Chile |
Fourth place | Yugoslavia |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 32 |
Goals scored | 89 (2.78 per match) |
Attendance | 893,172 (27,912 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Garrincha Vavá Leonel Sánchez Flórián Albert Valentin Ivanov Dražan Jerković (4 goals each) |
The 1962 FIFA World Cup was the seventh edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams. It was held from 30 May to 17 June 1962 in Chile. The qualification rounds took place between August 1960 and December 1961, with 56 teams entering from six confederations, and fourteen qualifying for the finals tournament alongside Chile, the hosts, and Brazil, the defending champions.
Brazil successfully defended their World Cup title, defeating Czechoslovakia 3–1 in the final in the Chilean capital Santiago. They became the second team, after Italy in 1934 and 1938, to win the World Cup twice consecutively; no team has since achieved the feat. Host nation Chile finished third, defeating Yugoslavia 1–0 in the third-place play-off.
The tournament was marred by violence between players on the pitch and a toxic atmosphere; it included the first-round match between Chile and Italy (2–0), which became known as the
Host selection
After Europe hosted two consecutive World Cups, the American federations demanded the 1962 edition must be held in South America or they would stage a complete boycott of the tournament, similar to 1938.[1] Argentina, after previously failed candidacies, was the favorite. Magallanes' chairman, Ernesto Alvear, attended a FIFA Congress held in Helsinki while the Finnish city was hosting the 1952 Summer Olympics. He considered that Chile was able to organise the World Cup. Several sources also say that FIFA did not want Argentina to run alone, requesting the participation of Chile as almost symbolic. Chile registered its candidacy in 1954 alongside Argentina and West Germany, the latter withdrawing at the request of FIFA.[1]
Chile's
Qualification
57 teams entered the 1962 World Cup (due to rejected entries and withdrawals, 52 teams eventually participated in the qualifying stages). Chile as host nation and Brazil as reigning World Cup champions were granted automatic qualification, with the remaining 14 finals places divided among the continental confederations.
Eight places were contested by UEFA teams (Europe) and three by CONMEBOL teams (South America). CAF teams (Africa), AFC teams (Asia), NAFC teams (North America), and CCCF teams (Central America and Caribbean) contested three play-offs slots. The three winners would then face a European or South American team for entry into the World Cup. The 1962 tournament was the last one for which only nations from Europe or the Americas qualified.
Two teams qualified for the first time ever: Colombia and Bulgaria. Colombia would not qualify for another World Cup until 1990.
Among the teams who failed to qualify were the
withdrew during the qualification tournament due to financial problems.Italy, Switzerland and Uruguay all qualified for the first time since 1954, and Spain for the first time since 1950. Scotland failed to qualify for the first time since rejoining FIFA in 1946 (though they had ultimately also declined to participate in the 1950 edition).
List of qualified teams
The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.
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Venues
Originally, eight stadiums were selected to host the World Cup matches in eight cities: Santiago, Viña del Mar, Rancagua, Arica, Talca, Concepción, Talcahuano and Valdivia.
The
Being largely concerned with the build-up of the country after the 1960 earthquake, government support for the tournament was minimal.[4]
Team bases
Team | Site | City |
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Argentina | Hostería El Sauzal | Rancagua |
Brazil | Villa Retiro | Quilpué |
Bulgaria | Parque Municipal | Machalí |
Chile | Villa del Seleccionado | Santiago |
Colombia | Hotel El Morro | Arica |
Czechoslovakia | Posada Quebrada Verde | Valparaíso |
England | Staff House Braden Copper Co. | Coya |
Hungary | Hotel Turismo | Rengo |
Italy | Escuela de Aviación Cap. Ávalos | Santiago |
Mexico | Hotel O'Higgins | Viña del Mar |
Soviet Union | Hostería Arica | Arica |
Spain | Hotel Miramar Caleta Abarca | Viña del Mar |
Switzerland | Club Suizo | Santiago |
Uruguay | Hotel Azapa | Arica |
West Germany | Escuela Militar Bernardo O'Higgins | Santiago |
Yugoslavia | Hotel El Paso | Arica |
Squads
Squads for the 1962 World Cup consisted of 22 players, as for the previous tournament in 1958.
After Attilio Demaría and Luis Monti, who both represented Argentina in 1930 and Italy in 1934, Ferenc Puskás (Hungary in 1954, then Spain), José Santamaría (Uruguay in 1954, then Spain) and José Altafini (Brazil in 1958, then Italy) became the third, fourth and fifth players to play for two national teams in the World Cup. In light of this, FIFA created stipulations describing that once a player represents a nation during a World Cup or its qualifying rounds the player cannot switch to another national team.[5] Robert Prosinečki and Robert Jarni would later become the sixth and seventh such players, playing for Yugoslavia in 1990, then for Croatia in 1998; Davor Šuker was also selected in both squads, but did not play in 1990. This was accepted by FIFA because Croatia was a newly independent former republic of Yugoslavia.
Match officials
Eighteen match officials from 17 countries were assigned to the tournament to serve as referees and assistant referees.
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Seeding
Pot 1: South America | Pot 2: Europe I | Pot 3: Europe II | Pot 4: Rest of the World |
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Format
The format of the competition was similar to that of the 1958 competition: 16 teams qualified, divided into four groups of four. Four teams were seeded in the draw taking place in Santiago, on 18 January 1962: Brazil, England, Italy and Uruguay.[6] The top two teams in each group advanced to the quarter-finals.
Two points were awarded for a win and one for a draw. In a change from the 1958 format,
In the knockout games, if the teams were level after ninety minutes, thirty minutes of extra time were played. For any match other than the final, if the teams were still even after extra time then lots would be drawn to determine the winner. The final would have been replayed if still tied after extra time; but if still tied after the replay, the champion would have been decided by drawing lots. In the event, no replays or drawing of lots were necessary.
Summary
In May 1960, as the preparations were well under way, Chile suffered
President Jorge Alessandri gave an uninspiring inaugural speech before the first match, which was played between Chile and Switzerland. Alessandri left however before the end of the match. While Chilean society was living in a "footballized" atmosphere, Alessandri was criticized for his cold attitude towards the tournament, which forced his ministers to come out and claim he was as "footballized" as everybody else, but was too busy to devote too much attention to the competition.[4]
The competition was marred by constant violence on the pitch. This poisonous atmosphere culminated in the first-round match between host Chile and Italy (2–0), known as the Battle of Santiago. Two Italian journalists had written unflattering articles about the host country and its capital city; describing Santiago as a "proudly backwards and poverty-stricken dump full of prostitution and crime".[10] Although only two players (both of them Italian) were sent off by the English referee Ken Aston, the match saw repeated attempts from players on both sides to harm opponents, and the Italian team needed police protection to leave the field in safety.[11] Articles in the Italian papers La Nazione and Corriere della Sera were saying that allowing Chile to host the World Cup was "pure madness"; this was used and magnified by local newspapers to inflame the Chilean population. The British newspaper the Daily Express wrote "The tournament shows every sign of developing into a violent bloodbath. Reports read like battlefront despatches; the Italy vs West Germany match was described as 'wrestling and warfare'".
As the competition began, a shift in strategy was imminent. Defensive strategies began to take hold as the average goals per match dropped to 2.78, under 3 for the first time in competition history (the average has never been above 3 since).[12]
In the first round, Brazil topped their group with
Chile defeated European champions USSR to earn a semi-final game against the winner of the England – Brazil game. Garrincha scored two goals in a 3–1 win against England. Meanwhile, 1–0 wins for Yugoslavia against West Germany – and another 1–0 win of Czechoslovakia against neighbours Hungary – saw the two Slavic states meet in the semi-finals.
Group stage
Group 1
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Soviet Union | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 1.600 | 5 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Yugoslavia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 2.667 | 4 | |
3 | Uruguay | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 0.667 | 2 | |
4 | Colombia | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 0.455 | 1 |
Uruguay | 2–1 | Colombia |
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Cubilla 56' Sasía 75' |
Report | Zuluaga 19' (pen.) |
Soviet Union | 2–0 | Yugoslavia |
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83' | Report |
Yugoslavia | 3–1 | Uruguay |
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Skoblar 25' (pen.) Galić 29' Jerković 49' |
Report | Cabrera 19' |
Soviet Union | 4–4 | Colombia |
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56' | Report | Aceros 21' Coll 68' Rada 72' Klinger 86' |
Soviet Union | 2–1 | Uruguay |
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Ivanov 89' |
Report | Sasía 54' |
Group 2
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | West Germany | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4.000 | 5 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Chile | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1.667 | 4 | |
3 | Italy | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1.500 | 3 | |
4 | Switzerland | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 0.250 | 0 |
Chile | 3–1 | Switzerland |
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51' | Report | Wüthrich 6' |
West Germany | 0–0 | Italy |
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Report |
West Germany | 2–1 | Switzerland |
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Brülls 45' Seeler 59' |
Report | Schneiter 73' |
Italy | 3–0 | Switzerland |
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Mora 2' Bulgarelli 65', 67' |
Report |
Group 3
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Brazil | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4.000 | 5 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Czechoslovakia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.667 | 3 | |
3 | Mexico | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0.750 | 2 | |
4 | Spain | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0.667 | 2 |
Czechoslovakia | 1–0 | Spain |
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Štibrányi 80' | Report |
Mexico | 3–1 | Czechoslovakia |
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Díaz 12' Del Águila 29' Hernández 90' (pen.) |
Report | Mašek 1' |
Group 4
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Hungary | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 4.000 | 5 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | England | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1.333 | 3[a] | |
3 | Argentina | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.667 | 3[a] | |
4 | Bulgaria | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0.143 | 1 |
Notes:
- ^ goal average.
Knockout stage
Bracket
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
10 June – Arica | ||||||||||
Soviet Union | 1 | |||||||||
13 June – Santiago | ||||||||||
Chile | 2 | |||||||||
Chile | 2 | |||||||||
10 June – Viña del Mar | ||||||||||
Brazil | 4 | |||||||||
Brazil | 3 | |||||||||
17 June – Santiago | ||||||||||
England | 1 | |||||||||
Brazil | 3 | |||||||||
10 June – Santiago | ||||||||||
Czechoslovakia | 1 | |||||||||
West Germany | 0 | |||||||||
13 June – Viña del Mar | ||||||||||
Yugoslavia | 1 | |||||||||
Yugoslavia | 1 | |||||||||
10 June – Rancagua | ||||||||||
Czechoslovakia | 3 | Third place play-off | ||||||||
Hungary | 0 | |||||||||
16 June – Santiago | ||||||||||
Czechoslovakia | 1 | |||||||||
Chile | 1 | |||||||||
Yugoslavia | 0 | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
Chile | 2–1 | Soviet Union |
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Rojas 29' |
Report | Chislenko 26' |
Czechoslovakia | 1–0 | Hungary |
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Scherer 13' | Report |
Yugoslavia | 1–0 | West Germany |
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Radaković 85' | Report |
Semi-finals
Czechoslovakia | 3–1 | Yugoslavia |
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Kadraba 48' Scherer 80', 84' (pen.) |
Report | Jerković 69' |
Third place play-off
Chile | 1–0 | Yugoslavia |
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Rojas 90' |
Report |
Final
Brazil | 3–1 | Czechoslovakia |
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78' | Report | Masopust 15' |
Goalscorers
With four goals each, Flórián Albert, Garrincha, Valentin Ivanov, Dražan Jerković, Leonel Sánchez and Vavá were the top scorers in the tournament. In total, 89 goals were scored by 54 players, with none of them credited as own goal.
- 4 goals
- Garrincha
- Vavá
- Leonel Sánchez
- Flórián Albert
- Valentin Ivanov
- Dražan Jerković
- 3 goals
- Amarildo
- Adolf Scherer
- Lajos Tichy
- Milan Galić
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Héctor Facundo
- José Sanfilippo
- Pelé
- Mário Zagallo
- Zito
- Georgi Sokolov
- Germán Aceros
- Marcos Coll
- Marino Klinger
- Antonio Rada
- Francisco Zuluaga
- Josef Kadraba
- Václav Mašek
- Josef Masopust
- Jozef Štibrányi
- Bobby Charlton
- Jimmy Greaves
- Gerry Hitchens
- Ernő Solymosi
- Bruno Mora
- Alfredo del Águila
- Isidoro Díaz
- Héctor Hernández
- Aleksei Mamykin
- Adelardo
- Joaquín Peiró
- Heinz Schneiter
- Rolf Wüthrich
- Ángel Cabrera
- Luis Cubilla
- Albert Brülls
- Horst Szymaniak
- Vojislav Melić
- Petar Radaković
- Josip Skoblar
FIFA retrospective ranking
In 1986, FIFA published a report that ranked all teams in each World Cup up to and including 1986, based on progress in the competition, overall results and quality of the opposition.[15][16] The rankings for the 1962 tournament were as follows:
R | Team | G | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts. |
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1 | Brazil | 3 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 5 | +9 | 11 |
2 | Czechoslovakia | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
3 | Chile | 2 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 8 | +2 | 8 |
4 | Yugoslavia | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 7 | +3 | 6 |
Eliminated in the quarter-finals | ||||||||||
5 | Hungary | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 5 |
6 | Soviet Union | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 5 |
7 | West Germany | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 5 |
8 | England | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 3 |
Eliminated in the group stage | ||||||||||
9 | Italy | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 3 |
10 | Argentina | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 3 |
11 | Mexico | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 2 |
12 | Spain | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 2 |
13 | Uruguay | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 2 |
14 | Colombia | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | −6 | 1 |
15 | Bulgaria | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | −6 | 1 |
16 | Switzerland | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 0 |
Footnotes
- ^ a b "FIFA World Cup 1962 – Historical Football Kits". Historicalkits.co.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
- ^ Paul (16 December 2012). "Carlos Dittborn Pinto – 1962 FIFA World Cup". DoFooty.com. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 15 June 2014.
- ^ a b c Zamorano, Javier (31 May 2022). ""Porque no tenemos nada...": la icónica respuesta a Argentina que pasó a la historia". Radio Bío-Bío (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ^ ISBN 956-239-337-2
- ^ Ryan, Kelly. "FIFA national team eligibility: Rules, players who have switched & everything you need to know". Goal.com. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
- ^ "History of the World Cup Final Draw" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
- ^ "for the first time goal average was brought in as a means of separating teams with the same number of points""Compact book of the World Cup" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 December 2013.
- ^ Brewin, John; Williamson, Martin (30 April 2014). "World Cup History: 1962". ESPN FC. ESPN Internet Ventures. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- S2CID 221714908.
- ^ "Italy World Cup Rewind: Infamy at the Battle of Santiago, 1962". Bleacher Report.
- ^ Lopresti, Sam (28 February 2014). "Italy World Cup Rewind: Infamy at the Battle of Santiago, 1962". Bleacher Report. Retrieved 15 June 2014.
- ^ "FIFA World Cup Record – Organisation". FIFA. Archived from the original on 13 June 2007. Retrieved 15 June 2014.
- ISBN 978-3-89784-261-8.
- ^ RSSSF credits this goal to Georgi Asparuhov.
- ^ "page 45" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 June 2010. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
- ^ "FIFA World Cup: Milestones, facts & figures. Statistical Kit 7" (PDF). FIFA. 26 March 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 May 2013.
External links
- 1962 FIFA World Cup Chile , FIFA.com
- Details at RSSSF