1966 FIFA World Cup

1966 FIFA World Cup

World Cup 1966
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Tournament details
Host country	England
Dates	11 July – 30 July
Teams	16 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	8 (in 7 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	England (1st title)
Runner-up	West Germany
Third place	Portugal
Fourth place	USSR
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	89 (2.78 per match)
Attendance	1,635,000 (51,094 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Eusébio (9 goals)

The 1966 FIFA World Cup, the eighth staging of the World Cup, was held in England from 11 July to 30 July. England was chosen as hosts by FIFA in August 1960 to celebrate the centenary of the standardisation of football in England. England won the final, beating West Germany 4-2, giving them their first (and to date, only) World Cup win, and becoming the first host to win the tournament since Italy in 1934.

Contents 1 Qualification 2 Summary 2.1 First Round 2.2 Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and third-place match 2.3 Final 3 Mascot 4 Venues 5 Match officials 6 Squads 7 Results 7.1 First round 7.1.1 Group 1 7.1.2 Group 2 7.1.3 Group 3 7.1.4 Group 4 7.2 Knockout stage 7.2.1 Quarter-finals 7.2.2 Semi-finals 7.2.3 Third place match 7.2.4 Final 8 Scorers 9 Other facts 10 References 11 External links

Qualification

The 1966 World Cup was the subject of bitter disagreement before a ball was ever kicked. Sixteen African nations boycotted the tournament in protest of a 1964 FIFA ruling that required the champion team from the African zone to enter a playoff round against the winners of either the Asian or the Oceania zone in order to win a place at the finals. The Africans felt that winning their zone should have been enough in itself to merit qualification for the finals.

Despite the Africans' absence, there was another new record number of entries for the qualifying tournament, with 70 nations taking part. After all the arguments, FIFA finally ruled that ten teams from Europe would qualify, along with four from South America, one from Asia and one from North and Central America.

Summary

First Round

The 1966 World Cup had a rather unusual hero off the field, a dog called Pickles. In the build up to the tournament the Jules Rimet trophy was stolen from an exhibition display. A nation wide hunt for the icon ensued. It was later discovered wrapped in some newspaper as the dog sniffed under some bushes in London. The FA commissioned a replica cup in case the original cup was not found in time. This replica is held at the English National Football Museum in Preston, where it is on display.

The format of the 1966 competition remained the same as 1962: 16 qualified teams were divided into four groups of four. The top two teams in each group advanced to the quarter-finals. The draw for the final tournament, taking place on 6 January 1966 at the Royal Garden Hotel in London was the first ever to be televised, with England, West Germany, Brazil and Italy as seeds.^[1]

Despite achieving record attendances for the time, 1966 was a World Cup with few goals as the teams began to play much more tactically and defensively. This was exemplified by Alf Ramsey's England as they finished top of Group 1 with only four goals to their credit, but having none scored against them. Uruguay were the other team to qualify from that group at the expense of both Mexico and France. All the group's matches were played at Wembley Stadium apart from the match between Uruguay and France which took place at White City Stadium.

In Group 2, West Germany and Argentina qualified with ease as they both finished the group with 5 points, Spain managed 2, while Switzerland left the competition after losing all three group matches.

In the northwest of England, Old Trafford and Goodison Park played host to Group 3 which saw the World Champions Brazil finish in third place behind Portugal and Hungary and controversially eliminated along with Bulgaria. Brazil were defeated by Hungary and Portugal in controversial wins as the English referees from those two matches, Kenneth Dagnall and George McCabe, decided to ignore a large amount of fouls to the Brazilians often targeted at key players. Portugal appeared in the finals for the first time, and made quite an impact. They won all three of their games in the group stage, with a lot of help from their outstanding striker Eusébio, whose nine goals made him the tournament's top scorer.

Group 4, however, provided the biggest upset when North Korea beat Italy 1-0 at Ayresome Park, Middlesbrough and finished above them, thus earning qualification to the next round along with the USSR. Chile finished bottom of the group.

Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and third-place match

The quarter-finals provided a controversial victory for West Germany as they cruised past Uruguay 4-0; the South Americans claimed that this occurred only after the referee (who was Jim Finney, from England) had not recognised a handstop by Schnellinger on the goal line and then had sent off two players from Uruguay: Horacio Troche and Héctor Silva^[2]. It appeared as though the surprise package North Korea might do the same to Portugal when after 22 minutes they were in the lead 3-0. It fell to one of the greatest stars of the tournament, Eusébio, to change that. He scored four goals in the game and with José Augusto adding a fifth in the 78th minute, one of the most incredible comebacks was complete.

Meanwhile in the other two games, Ferenc Bene's late goal for Hungary against the USSR, who were led by Lev Yashin's stellar goalkeeping, proved little more than a consolation as they crashed out 2-1, and the only goal between Argentina and England came courtesy of England's Geoff Hurst. During that controversial game (for more details see Argentina and England football rivalry), Argentina's Antonio Rattín became the first player to be sent off in a senior international football match at Wembley. Afterwards, the German referee, Rudolf Kreitlein, said that he had sent off Rattín because he didn't like how he had looked at him (it is worth noting that the referee did not understand Spanish)^[3]. Rattín at first refused to leave the field and eventually had to be escorted by several policemen. After 30 minutes England scored the only goal of the match. This game, even today, is called el robo del siglo (the robbery of the century) in Argentina.^[4]

At this point, all semifinalists were from Europe. The first semifinal between England and Portugal was controversial as well. Liverpool was the original venue for the first semifinal. However, due to intervention of the English officials, the venue changed to Wembley.^[5] Bobby Charlton scored both goals in England's triumph against Portugal. Portugal's goal came from a penalty kick in the 82nd minute after an intentional handball by Jack Charlton on the goal line.^[6] The other semi-final also finished finished 2-1: Franz Beckenbauer provided the winning goal for West Germany as they beat the USSR. Portugal went on to beat the USSR 2-1 to take third place.

Final

London's Wembley Stadium provided the venue for the final, and 98,000 people crammed inside to watch. After 12 minutes 32 seconds Helmut Haller had put West Germany ahead, but the score was levelled by Geoff Hurst four minutes later. Martin Peters put England in the lead in the 78th minute; England looked set to claim the title when the referee awarded a free kick to West Germany with one minute left. The ball was launched goalward and Wolfgang Weber managed to poke it across the line, with England appealing in vain for handball as the ball came through the crowded penalty area.

With the score level at 2-2 at the end of 90 minutes, the game went to extra time. In the 98th minute Hurst found himself on the score sheet again; his shot hit the crossbar, and bounced down and hit the ground either onto or just over goal line. Whether the ball actually crossed the goal line or not has been a matter of discussion for decades, and this goal, known as the "Ghost Goal", has become part of World Cup history. Recent digitally-enhanced footage is said to clearly illustrate that Geoff Hurst's second goal did not cross the line [1]. In the last minute it was Hurst again, who dribbled easily through the German half to net his third goal, just as the gathered crowd invaded the pitch to celebrate with the team, thus cementing the victory for England with another controversial goal. This made Geoff Hurst the only player ever to have scored three times in a World Cup final.

BBC commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme's description of the match's closing moments has gone down in history: "Some people are on the pitch. They think it's all over ... [Hurst scores] It is now!".

England received the recovered Jules Rimet trophy from the Queen and were crowned World Cup winners for the first time.

Mascot

World Cup Willie, the mascot for the 1966 competition, was the first World Cup mascot, and one of the first mascots to be associated with a major sporting competition. World Cup Willie is a lion, a typical symbol of the United Kingdom, wearing a Union Flag jersey emblazoned with the words "WORLD CUP".

Venues

White City Stadium in London was used for a single game from Group 1, between Uruguay and France. The game was scheduled for a Friday, the same day as regularly scheduled greyhound racing at Wembley. Because Wembley's owner refused to cancel this, the game had to be moved to the alternative venue.

London	Liverpool	Sheffield	Sunderland
Wembley Stadium	Goodison Park	Hillsborough Stadium	Roker Park
London	Birmingham	Manchester	Middlesbrough
White City Stadium	Villa Park	Old Trafford	Ayresome Park

Match officials

Africa Ali Kandil Asia Menachem Ashkenazi Europe John Adair Tofik Bakhramov Leo Callaghan Joaquim Campos Ken Dagnall Gottfried Dienst Jim Finney Karol Galba Juan Gardeazábal Garay Rudolf Kreitlein Concetto Lo Bello Bertil Lööw George McCabe Hugh Phillips Dimiter Rumentchev Pierre Schwinte Kurt Tschenscher Konstantin Zečević István Zsolt

South America José María Codesal Robert Goicoechea Armando Marques Arturo Yamasaki

Squads

For a list of all squads that appeared in the final tournament, see 1966 FIFA World Cup squads.

Results

First round

Group 1

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv	Pts
England	3	2	1	0	4	0	∞	5
Uruguay	3	1	2	0	2	1	2.00	4
Mexico	3	0	2	1	1	3	0.33	2
France	3	0	1	2	2	5	0.40	1

11 July 1966 19:30 BST	England	0 – 0	Uruguay	Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 87,000 Referee: Istvan Zsolt (Hungary)
		(Report)

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13 July 1966 19:30 BST	France	1 – 1	Mexico	Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 69,000 Referee: Menachem Ashkenazi (Israel)
	Hausser  62'	(Report)	Borja  48'

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15 July 1966 19:30 BST	Uruguay	2 – 1	France	White City Stadium, London Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Karol Galba (Czechoslovakia)
	Rocha  26' Cortés  31'	(Report)	De Bourgoing  15' (pen.)

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16 July 1966 15:00 BST	England	2 – 0	Mexico	Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 92,000 Referee: Concetto Lo Bello (Italy)
	B. Charlton  37' Hunt  75'	(Report)

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19 July 1966 16:30 BST	Mexico	0 – 0	Uruguay	Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 61,000 Referee: Bertil Lööw (Sweden)
		(Report)

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20 July 1966 19:30 BST	England	2 – 0	France	Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 98,000 Referee: Arturo Yamasaki (Peru)
	Hunt  38', 75'	(Report)

Group 2

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv	Pts
West Germany	3	2	1	0	7	1	7.00	5
Argentina	3	2	1	0	4	1	4.00	5
Spain	3	1	0	2	4	5	0.80	2
Switzerland	3	0	0	3	1	9	0.11	0

• West Germany was placed first due to superior goal average.

12 July 1966 19:30 BST	West Germany	5 – 0	Switzerland	Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield Attendance: 36,000 Referee: Hugh Phillips (Scotland)
	Held  16' Haller  21', 77' (pen.) Beckenbauer  40', 52'	(Report)

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13 July 1966 19:30 BST	Argentina	2 – 1	Spain	Villa Park, Birmingham Attendance: 48,000 Referee: Dimiter Rumentchev (Bulgaria)
	Artime  65', 77'	(Report)	Roma  71' (o.g.)

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15 July 1966 19:30 BST	Spain	2 – 1	Switzerland	Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield Attendance: 32,000 Referee: Tofik Bakhramov (Soviet Union)
	Sanchís  57' Amancio  75'	(Report)	Quentin  31'

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16 July 1966 15:00 BST	Argentina	0 – 0	West Germany	Villa Park, Birmingham Attendance: 51,000 Referee: Konstantin Zečević (Yugoslavia)
	Albrecht  65'	(Report)

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19 July 1966 19:30 BST	Argentina	2 – 0	Switzerland	Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield Attendance: 31,000 Referee: Joaquim Campos (Portugal)
	Artime  52' Onega  79'	(Report)

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20 July 1966 19:30 BST	West Germany	2 – 1	Spain	Villa Park, Birmingham Attendance: 51,000 Referee: Armando Marques (Brazil)
	Emmerich  39' Seeler  84'	(Report)	Fusté  23'

Group 3

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv	Pts
Portugal	3	3	0	0	9	2	4.50	6
Hungary	3	2	0	1	7	5	1.40	4
Brazil	3	1	0	2	4	6	0.67	2
Bulgaria	3	0	0	3	1	8	0.13	0

12 July 1966 19:30 BST	Brazil	2 – 0	Bulgaria	Goodison Park, Liverpool Attendance: 48,000 Referee: Kurt Tschenscher (West Germany)
	Pelé  15' Garrincha  63'	(Report)

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13 July 1966 19:30 BST	Portugal	3 – 1	Hungary	Old Trafford, Manchester Attendance: 37,000 Referee: Leo Callaghan (Wales)
	José Augusto  1', 67' Torres  90'	(Report)	Bene  60'

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15 July 1966 19:30 BST	Hungary	3 – 1	Brazil	Goodison Park, Liverpool Attendance: 52,000 Referee: Ken Dagnall (England)
	Bene  2' Farkas  64' Mészöly  73' (pen.)	(Report)	Tostão  14'

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16 July 1966 15:00 BST	Portugal	3 – 0	Bulgaria	Old Trafford, Manchester Attendance: 26,000 Referee: José María Codesal (Uruguay)
	Vutsov  17' (o.g.) Eusébio  38' Torres  81'	(Report)

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19 July 1966 19:30 BST	Portugal	3 – 1	Brazil	Goodison Park, Liverpool Attendance: 62,000 Referee: George McCabe (England)
	Simöes  15' Eusébio  27', 85'	(Report)	Rildo  70'

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20 July 1966 19:30 BST	Hungary	3 – 1	Bulgaria	Old Trafford, Manchester Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Robert Goicoechea (Argentina)
	Davidov  43' (o.g.) Mészöly  45' Bene  54'	(Report)	Asparuhov  15'

Group 4

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv	Pts
USSR	3	3	0	0	6	1	6.00	6
Korea DPR	3	1	1	1	2	4	0.50	3
Italy	3	1	0	2	2	2	1.00	2
Chile	3	0	1	2	2	5	0.40	1

12 July 1966 19:30 BST	USSR	3 – 0	Korea DPR	Ayresome Park, Middlesbrough Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Juan Gardeazábal Garay (Spain)
	Malofeyev  31', 88' Banishevskiy  33'	(Report)

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13 July 1966 19:30 BST	Italy	2 – 0	Chile	Roker Park, Sunderland Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Gottfried Dienst (Switzerland)
	Mazzola  8' Barison  88'	(Report)

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15 July 1966 19:30 BST	Chile	1 – 1	Korea DPR	Ayresome Park, Middlesbrough Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Ali Kandil (United Arab Republic)
	Marcos  26' (pen.)	(Report)	Pak S.  88'

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16 July 1966 15:00 BST	USSR	1 – 0	Italy	Roker Park, Sunderland Attendance: 27,800 Referee: Rudolf Kreitlein (West Germany)
	Chislenko  57'	(Report)

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19 July 1966 19:30 BST	Korea DPR	1 – 0	Italy	Ayresome Park, Middlesbrough Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Pierre Schwinte (France)
	Pak D.  42'	(Report)

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20 July 1966 19:30 BST	USSR	2 – 1	Chile	Roker Park, Sunderland Attendance: 22,000 Referee: John Adair (Northern Ireland)
	Porkujan  28', 85'	(Report)	Marcos  32'

Knockout stage

	Quarter finals				Semi finals				Final
	23 July - London
	England	1
					26 July - London
	Argentina	0
					England	2
	23 July - Liverpool
					Portugal	1
	Portugal	5
									30 July – London
	Korea DPR	3
									England (a.e.t.)	4
	23 July – Sheffield
									West Germany	2
	West Germany	4
					25 July – Liverpool
	Uruguay	0
					West Germany	2			Third place
	23 July - Sunderland
					USSR	1
	USSR	2							Portugal	2
	Hungary	1							USSR	1
									28 July - London

Quarter-finals

23 July 1966 15:00 BST	Portugal	5 – 3	Korea DPR	Goodison Park, Liverpool Attendance: 51,780 Referee: Menachem Ashkenazi (Israel)
	Eusébio  27', 43' (pen.), 56', 59' (pen.) José Augusto  80'	(Report)	Pak S.  1' Lee  22' Yang  25'

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23 July 1966 15:00 BST	West Germany	4 – 0	Uruguay	Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield Attendance: 34,000 Referee: Jim Finney (England)
	Haller  11', 83' Beckenbauer  70' Seeler  75'	(Report)	Troche  49' Silva  54'

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23 July 1966 15:00 BST	USSR	2 – 1	Hungary	Roker Park, Sunderland Attendance: 22,100 Referee: Juan Gardeazábal Garay (Spain)
	Chislenko  5' Porkujan  46'	(Report)	Bene  57'

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23 July 1966 15:00 BST	England	1 – 0	Argentina	Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 90,000 Referee: Rudolf Kreitlein (West Germany)
	Hurst  78'	(Report)	Rattin  35'

Semi-finals

25 July 1966 19:30 BST	West Germany	2 – 1	USSR	Goodison Park, Liverpool Attendance: 38,300 Referee: Concetto Lo Bello (Italy)
	Haller  42' Beckenbauer  67'	(Report)	Chislenko  47' Porkujan  88'

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26 July 1966 19:30 BST	England	2 – 1	Portugal	Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 95,000 Referee: Pierre Schwinte (France)
	B. Charlton  30', 80'	(Report)	Eusébio  82' (pen.)

Third place match

28 July 1966 19:30 BST	Portugal	2 – 1	USSR	Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 88,000 Referee: Ken Dagnall (England)
	Eusébio  12' (pen.) Torres  89'	(Report)	Malofeyev  43'

Final

30 July 1966 15:00 BST	England	4 – 2 (a.e.t.)	West Germany	Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 98,000 Referee: Gottfried Dienst (Switzerland)
	Hurst  18', 101', 120' Peters  78'	(Report)	Haller  12' Weber  89'

1966 FIFA World Cup Winners
England First title

Scorers

9 goals Eusébio 6 goals Helmut Haller 4 goals Geoff Hurst Franz Beckenbauer Ferenc Bene Valeriy Porkujan 3 goals Luis Artime Bobby Charlton Roger Hunt José Augusto José Torres Eduard Malofeyev

2 goals Rubén Marcos Uwe Seeler Kálmán Mészöly Pak Seung-Zin Igor Chislenko 1 goal Ermindo Onega Garrincha Pelé Rildo Tostão Georgi Asparuhov Martin Peters Héctor De Bourgoing Gérard Hausser Lothar Emmerich Sigfried Held Wolfgang Weber

János Farkas Paolo Barison Sandro Mazzola Enrique Borja Lee Dong-Woon Pak Doo-Ik Yang Sung-Kook António Simões Anatoliy Banishevskiy Amancio Josep Fusté Pirri Manuel Sanchís René-Pierre Quentin Julio César Cortés Pedro Rocha Own goals Ivan Davidov (for Hungary) Ivan Vutsov (for Portugal)

Other facts

Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (January 2009)

• The World Cup victory by England was ranked second of the 100 Greatest Sporting Moments in 2002 by Channel 4.
• This World Cup was claimed to be the origin of the fierce rivalry between the English team and Argentina, and between England and Germany, due to the two controversial matches.^{[citation needed]}
• The Game of Their Lives is a 2002 documentary film directed by Daniel Gordon and his executive Nicholas Bonner about the seven surviving members of North Korean national football team who participated in the 1966 World Cup. North Korea's victory over the Italian team propelled the North Koreans into the quarter-final, the first time an Asian squad had advanced so far in a World Cup.

References

1. ^ History of the World Cup Final Draw
2. ^ Mundial de Inglaterra 1966 - SIGUEN LOS CHOREOS A SUDAMÉRICA
3. ^ Mundial de Inglaterra 1966 - EL RATA CONTRA EL MUNDO
4. ^ Mundial de Inglaterra 1966 - EL ROBO DEL SIGLO
5. ^ Mundial de Inglaterra 1966 - Y POR SI TODO ESTO FUERA POCO
6. ^ YouTube - ENGLAND PORTUGAL 1/2 FINAL WORLD CUP 1966

External links

• 1966 FIFA World Cup on FIFA.com
• Details at RSSSF
• History of the World Cup-1966
• Planet World Cup - England 1966
• 1966 World Cup newsreel footage at British Pathe (Adobe Flash video)

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