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1946 FIFA World Cup
FIFA Fussball-Weltmeisterschaft 1946
Championnat du Monde de Football 1946
Campionato mondiale di calcio 1946
Campiunadis mundials da ballape 1946
Tournament details
Host countrySwitzerland
Dates1–11 August (11 days)
Teams8 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
← 1942
1950 →

The 1946 FIFA World Cup, the fourth staging of the FIFA World Cup, was held in Switzerland from 1 to 11 August.

Host selection[edit]

Becuase of the outbreak in Europe of World War II in September 1939, the 1942 FIFA World Cup had been cancelled, even before a host country could have been selected, thus leaving the 1938 FIFA World Cup as the last edition of the tournament to be played in order of time.

Shortly after the end of the war, in May 1945, discussions begun about the possibility to hold the competition in the following year, despite the large damage and the high number of dead the war had inflicted. After some months of debate, FIFA eventually decided to ask countries if there were certain interests to organize the tournament; moreover, as a way to facilitate applications to be proposed, it was agreed to exceptionally reduce the number of participating teams to eight (instead of sixteen) and to request the arrangement of just one venue (instead of six) in which play the matches.

Switzerland, who did not take part in the war, was awarded, despite its initial reluctance, the tournament unopposed on 20 November 1945, the same day that Brazil was selected for the 1950 FIFA World Cup, in Luxembourg City.[1]

Qualification[edit]

Main article: 1946 FIFA World Cup qualification

The hosts (Switzerland) and the defending champions (Italy) qualified automatically. Of the remaining six places, four were allocated to Europe and two to the Americas.

Due to the short amount of time available to select the partecipating teams, FIFA decided to use, as part of the qualification process, some international competitions already organized and scheduled, but yet to be played. Thus, the 1946 South American Championship, the 1946 CCCF Championship and the 1945–46 British Home Championship served also as groups of qualification, for CONMEBOL, CCCF and UK respectively.

The three NAFC teams (Canada did not participate) were organized in one group, resulting with the best-placed team challenging the CCCF champions. The winners of such match eventually played against the second-placed team of the South American Championship (of which the winners were automatically qualified) in order to gain acces to the final stage of the competition in Switzerland.

The reimainig three groups, all European, were composed of just two teams each, who competed in two matches home and away, and with the winners of each group qualifying to the final stage. No other continent from the rest of world was admitted by FIFA (nor there were requests in such way).

List of qualified teams[edit]

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

Summary[edit]

Format[edit]

Qualifying countries

Abc.

Seeding[edit]

Abc.

Notable results[edit]

Abc.

Final[edit]

Abc.

Records[edit]

Abc.

Other landmarks[edit]

Abc.

Venues[edit]

Abc.

Squads[edit]

For a list of all squads that appeared in the final tournament, see 1946 FIFA World Cup squads.

Match officials[edit]

Group stage[edit]

Group A[edit]

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 A1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to the final
2 A2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to 3rd place play-off
3 A3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 A4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source: FIFA.
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers.
A1Match 1A3
Report
A2Match 2A4
Report
A2Match 5A3
Report
A1Match 6A4
Report
A1Match 9A2
Report
A3Match 10A4
Report

Group B[edit]

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 B1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to the final
2 B2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to 3rd place play-off
3 B3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 B4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source: FIFA.
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers.
B1Match 3B3
Report
B2Match 4B4
Report
B2Match 7B3
Report
B1Match 8B4
Report
B1Match 11B2
Report
B3Match 12B4
Report

Third place play-off[edit]

The two runners-up of each group qualified for the third place play-off.

Runners-up Group AMatch 13Runners-up Group B
Report

Final[edit]

The two winners of each group qualified for the final of the competition.

Winners Group AMatch 14Winners Group B
Report



Goalscorers[edit]

With 11 goals, Sándor Kocsis was the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 140 goals were scored by 63 players, with four of them credited as own goals.

11 goals
6 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal

FIFA retrospective ranking[edit]

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.[2][3] The rankings for the 1954 tournament were as follows:

R Team G P W D L GF GA GD Pts.
1  West Germany 2 6 5 0 1 25 14 +11 10
2  Hungary 2 5 4 0 1 27 10 +17 8
3  Austria 3 5 4 0 1 17 12 +5 8
4  Uruguay 3 5 3 0 2 16 9 +7 6
Eliminated in the quarter-finals
5   Switzerland 4 4 2 0 2 11 11 0 4
6  Brazil 1 3 1 1 1 8 5 +3 3
7  England 4 3 1 1 1 8 8 0 3
8  Yugoslavia 1 3 1 1 1 2 3 −1 3
Eliminated in the group stage
9  Turkey 2 3 1 0 2 10 11 −1 2
10  Italy 4 3 1 0 2 6 7 −1 2
11  France 1 2 1 0 1 3 3 0 2
12  Belgium 4 2 0 1 1 5 8 −3 1
13  Mexico 1 2 0 0 2 2 8 −6 0
14  Czechoslovakia 3 2 0 0 2 0 7 −7 0
15  Scotland 3 2 0 0 2 0 8 −8 0
16  South Korea 2 2 0 0 2 0 16 −16 0

In film[edit]

The final scene of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film The Marriage of Maria Braun takes place during the finals of the 1954 World Cup; in the scene's background, the sports announcer is celebrating West Germany's victory and shouting "Deutschland ist wieder was!" (Germany is something again); the film uses this as the symbol of Germany's recovery from the ravages of the Second World War.

Sönke Wortmann's 2003 German box-office hit The Miracle of Bern (in German: Das Wunder von Bern) re-tells the story of the German team's route to victory through the eyes of a young boy who admires the key player of the final, Helmut Rahn.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference hosts was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "page 45" (PDF). Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  3. ^ "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[edit]

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