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World Cup 1970

🏟️ Mexico
🏆 Champion
Brazil

The 1970 FIFA World Cup was held in Mexico and crowned Brazil as three-time world champions. Pelé's side thrashed Italy 4–1 in the Estadio Azteca final, fielding one of the greatest teams in history. Brazil thereby won the Jules Rimet Trophy permanently. The first World Cup broadcast in color, at Mexico 1970.

Teams
16
Matches
32
Top scorer
G. Müller (10)
Final venue
Estadio Azteca, Ciudad de México
Semi-finals
Brasil3–1Uruguay
Italia4–3 (a.e.t.)Alemania Occidental
Third place
Alemania Occidental1–0Uruguay
The final
Brasil4–1Italia

Participating teams (16)

BélgicaBulgariaChecoslovaquiaInglaterraItaliaRumaníaUnión SoviéticaSueciaAlemania OccidentalBrasilPerúUruguayEl SalvadorMéxicoMarruecosIsrael
All matches (32)
Mexico0-0Soviet UnionGroup stagevenue
Belgium3-0El SalvadorGroup stagevenue
Soviet Union4-1BelgiumGroup stagevenue
Mexico4-0El SalvadorGroup stagevenue
Soviet Union2-0El SalvadorGroup stagevenue
Mexico1-0BelgiumGroup stagevenue
Uruguay2-0IsraelGroup stagevenue
Italy1-0SwedenGroup stagevenue
Uruguay0-0ItalyGroup stagevenue
Sweden1-1IsraelGroup stagevenue
Uruguay0-1SwedenGroup stagevenue
Israel0-0ItalyGroup stagevenue
Romania0-1EnglandGroup stagevenue
Czechoslovakia1-4BrazilGroup stagevenue
Romania2-1CzechoslovakiaGroup stagevenue
England0-1BrazilGroup stagevenue
Romania2-3BrazilGroup stagevenue
England1-0CzechoslovakiaGroup stagevenue
Peru3-2BulgariaGroup stagevenue
Morocco1-2West GermanyGroup stagevenue
Peru3-0MoroccoGroup stagevenue
Bulgaria2-5West GermanyGroup stagevenue
Peru1-3West GermanyGroup stagevenue
Bulgaria1-1MoroccoGroup stagevenue
Soviet Union0-0UruguayQuarter-finalsvenue
Italy4-1MexicoQuarter-finalsvenue
Brazil4-2PeruQuarter-finalsvenue
West Germany2-2EnglandQuarter-finalsvenue
Uruguay1-3BrazilSemi-finalsvenue
Italy1-1West GermanySemi-finalsvenue
Uruguay0-1West GermanyThird placevenue
Brazil4-1ItalyFinalvenue