 TheEstadio Nacional de Chile held the final | |||||||
| Event | 1962 FIFA World Cup | ||||||
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| Date | 17 June 1962 | ||||||
| Venue | Estadio Nacional,Santiago | ||||||
| Referee | Nikolay Latyshev (Soviet Union) | ||||||
| Attendance | 68,679 | ||||||
←1958 1966 → | |||||||
| Opponent | Result | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mexico | 2–0 |
| 2 | Czechoslovakia | 0–0 |
| 3 | Spain | 2–1 |
| QF | England | 3–1 |
| SF | Chile | 4–2 |
| Opponent | Result | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spain | 1–0 |
| 2 | Brazil | 0–0 |
| 3 | Mexico | 1–3 |
| QF | Hungary | 1–0 |
| SF | Yugoslavia | 3–1 |
The1962 FIFA World Cup final was the deciding match of the1962 FIFA World Cup. The match was held at theEstadio Nacional inSantiago, and was contested byCzechoslovakia andBrazil. Brazil won the game 3–1 to record their second consecutive World Cup victory. Both teams had played each other during the group stage which ended in a goalless draw. This was the second World Cup final match featuring teams who had already competed against each other during the group stage (the first was the1954 final betweenHungary andWest Germany). This event was on Sunday, June 17, 1962.
This was the first final where the two countries had both previously appeared in the final. Every World Cup final before this one had at least one country that was playing in the final for the first time.
This was only the second successful defence of the World Cup title in the history of the competition (after Italy in 1938) in spite of the absence of one of Brazil's star players of 1958,Pelé, who was ruled out of action after being injured during the second match of the tournament.[1]
The last surviving player on Czechoslovakia's side wasJosef Jelínek, who died on 29 November 2024, aged 83.[2] As a consequence, Brazil'sAmarildo is the last surviving player of the final.
After 15 minutes, Brazil again found themselves a goal behind in the World Cup final, as a long ball fromTomáš Pospíchal was latched onto byJosef Masopust to put Czechoslovakia 1–0 ahead. However, just like the previous final four years earlier, Brazil soon hit back, equalising two minutes later throughAmarildo after an error by the previously flawless Czechoslovak goalkeeperViliam Schrojf. The Brazilians did not stop there and with goals fromZito andVavá (another Schrojf error) midway through the second half, the Czechoslovaks could not get back into the game, with the match ending 3–1 to Brazil.[3]
Brazil  | 3–1 |  Czechoslovakia |
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Amarildo 17'Zito 69'Vavá 78' | https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/chile1962/matches/match/1463[dead link] | Masopust 15' |
          Brazil |   Czechoslovakia |
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