FIRST PHASE
Group A
24.06.50 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 4-0 Mexico 1.BRAZIL 3 2 1 0 8- 2 5
25.06.50 Belo Horizonte Yugoslavia 3-0 Switzerland 2.Yugoslavia 3 2 0 1 7- 3 4
28.06.50 São Paulo Brazil 2-2 Switzerland 3.Switzerland 3 1 1 1 4- 6 3
28.06.50 Porto Alegre Mexico 1-4 Yugoslavia 4.Mexico 3 0 0 3 2-10 0
01.07.50 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 2-0 Yugoslavia
02.07.50 Porto Alegre Mexico 1-2 Switzerland
Group B
25.06.50 Rio de Janeiro Chile 0-2 England 1.SPAIN 3 3 0 0 6- 1 6
25.06.50 Curitiba USA 1-3 Spain 2.England 3 1 0 2 2- 2 2
29.06.50 Belo Horizonte USA 1-0 England 3.Chile 3 1 0 2 5- 6 2
29.06.50 Rio de Janeiro Chile 0-2 Spain 4.USA 3 1 0 2 4- 8 2
02.07.50 Rio de Janeiro England 0-1 Spain
02.07.50 Recife Chile 5-2 USA
Group C
25.06.50 São Paulo Sweden 3-2 Italy 1.SWEDEN 2 1 1 0 5- 4 3
29.06.50 Curitiba Paraguay 2-2 Sweden 2.Italy 2 1 0 1 4- 3 2
02.07.50 São Paulo Paraguay 0-2 Italy 3.Paraguay 2 0 1 1 2- 4 1
NB: India withdrew before the draw.
Group D
25.06.50 Porto Alegre Uruguay n/p France 1.URUGUAY 1 1 0 0 8- 0 2
29.06.50 Recife Bolivia n/p France 2.Bolivia 1 0 0 1 0- 8 0
02.07.50 Belo Horizonte Uruguay 8-0 Bolivia -.France withdrew
NB: France withdrew after their protest against the fixture list (Porto Alegre and Recife
are 3000 kilometres apart and in entirely different climate zones) was rejected.
Turkey withdrew before the draw; Portugal declined a late invitation to replace them.
FINAL GROUP
09.07.50 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 7-1 Sweden 1.URUGUAY 3 2 1 0 7- 5 5
09.07.50 São Paulo Uruguay 2-2 Spain 2.Brazil 3 2 0 1 14- 4 4
13.07.50 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 6-1 Spain 3.Sweden 3 1 0 2 6-11 2
13.07.50 São Paulo Uruguay 3-2 Sweden 4.Spain 3 0 1 2 4-11 1
16.07.50 São Paulo Sweden 3-1 Spain
DECIDING MATCH
Rio de Janeiro, July 16, 1950.
Uruguay 2-1 Brazil
Uruguay: Máspoli, M. González, Tejera, Gambetta, Varela, Andrade, Ghiggia,
Pérez, Miguez, Schiaffino, Morán.
Brazil: Barbosa, Augusto, Juvenal, Bauer, Danilo, Bigode, Friaça, Zizinho,
Ademir, Jair, Chico.
Referee: Reader (England)
Attendance: 200,000.
Scorers: 47' Friaça 0-1; 66' Schiaffino 1-1; 79' Ghiggia 2-1.
Topscorer: Ademir (Brazil) 9 goals.
NB: FIFA credited Ademir with 2 goals (1-0 and 5-0) on July 13 vs Spain
which in the past were often listed as own goal by Parra (1-0) and
goal by Jair (5-0)
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Last updated: 5 Jul 2017
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