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Tournament Details



Details:
Host country: Chile
Dates: 30-May-1962 to 17-June-1962
Teams: 16
Tournament stats

Stages:
Round 1: 16 teams split in 4 groups of 4
Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Group 4
Round 2: 8 Team Playoff
Playoffs

Qualification:
      Countries qualified       Country failed to qualify       Countries that did not enter       Country not a member
Notes:
  • 2 Years before play began, an earthquake struck, the largest ever recorded at 9.5 magnitude, prompting officials to rebuild due to major damage to infrastructure.
  • Colombia's Marcos Coll made World Cup history when he scored a goal direct from a corner kick (called an Olympic Goal in Latin America) the only one ever made in a World Cup and to the mythical goal keeper Lev Yashin.

    • Team Placing:
    Placing Team Starting ELO Rating GF GA GD Region
    1 Brazil 2102 14 5 +9 CONMEBOL
    2 Czechoslovakia 1975 7 7 0 UEFA
    3 Chile 1739 10 8 +2 CONMEBOL
    4 Yugoslavia 1971 10 7 +3 UEFA
    5 England 1935 5 6 -1 UEFA
    5 Hungary 1951 8 3 +5 UEFA
    5 Soviet Union 2036 9 7 +2 UEFA
    5 West Germany 1894 4 2 +2 UEFA
    17 Argentina 1979 2 3 -1 CONMEBOL
    17 Bulgaria 1763 1 7 -6 UEFA
    17 Colombia 1441 5 11 -6 CONMEBOL
    17 Italy 1853 3 2 +1 UEFA
    17 Mexico 1809 3 4 -1 CONCACAF
    17 Spain 1961 2 3 -1 UEFA
    17 Switzerland 1715 2 8 -6 UEFA
    17 Uruguay 1904 4 6 -2 CONMEBOL
    Top goal scorers:

    • 4 goals Dražan Jerkovic
    • 4 goals Flórián Albert
    • 4 goals Garrincha
    • 4 goals Leonel Sánchez
    • 4 goals Valentin Ivanov
    • 4 goals Vavá
    • 3 goals Adolf Scherer
    • 3 goals Amarildo
    • 3 goals Lajos Tichy
    • 3 goals Milan Galic
    • 2 goals Eladio Rojas
    • 2 goals Giacomo Bulgarelli
    • 2 goals Igor Chislenko
    • 2 goals Jaime Ramírez
    • 2 goals Jorge Toro
    • 2 goals José Sasía
    • 2 goals Ron Flowers
    • 2 goals Uwe Seeler
    • 2 goals Viktor Ponedelnik
    • 1 goal Adelardo
    • 1 goal Albert Brülls
    • 1 goal Aleksei Mamykin
    • 1 goal Alfredo del Águila
    • 1 goal Alfredo Hernández
    • 1 goal Ángel Cabrera
    • 1 goal Antonio Rada
    • 1 goal Bobby Charlton
    • 1 goal Bruno Mora
    • 1 goal Erno Solymosi
    • 1 goal Francisco Zuluaga
    • 1 goal Georgi Sokolov
    • 1 goal Germán Aceros
    • 1 goal Gerry Hitchens
    • 1 goal Héctor Facundo
    • 1 goal Heinz Schneiter
    • 1 goal Horst Szymaniak
    • 1 goal Isidoro Díaz
    • 1 goal Jimmy Greaves
    • 1 goal Joaquín Peiró
    • 1 goal José Sanfilippo
    • 1 goal Josef Kadraba
    • 1 goal Josef Masopust
    • 1 goal Josip Skoblar
    • 1 goal Jozef Štibrányi
    • 1 goal Luis Cubilla
    • 1 goal Marcos Coll
    • 1 goal Marino Klinger
    • 1 goal Pelé
    • 1 goal Petar Radakovic
    • 1 goal Rolf Wüthrich
    • 1 goal Václav Mašek
    • 1 goal Vojislav Melic
    • 1 goal Zagallo
    • 1 goal Zito


    Own goal scorers:

    No own goals