1938 FIFA World Cup

Association football tournament in France

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Official poster

Tournament details
Host country| France
Dates| 4–19 June
Teams| 15 (from 4 confederations)
Venue(s)| 10 (in 9 host cities)
Final positions
Champions|  Italy (2nd title)
Runners-up|  Hungary
Third place|  Brazil
Fourth place|  Sweden
Tournament statistics
Matches played| 18
Goals scored| 84 (4.67 per match)
Attendance| 374,835 (20,824 per match)
Top scorer(s)|  Leônidas (7 goals)

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The 1938 FIFA World Cup was the 3rd edition of the World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams. It was held in France from 4 to 19 June 1938. Italy defended its title in the final, beating Hungary 4–2. Italy's 1934 and 1938 teams hold the distinction of being the only men's national team to win the World Cup multiple times under the same coach, Vittorio Pozzo. It would be the last World Cup until 1950; the 1942 and 1946 World Cups were cancelled due to World War II.

## Host selection

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Main article: FIFA World Cup hosts

France was chosen as host nation by FIFA in Berlin on 13 August 1936. France was chosen over Argentina and Germany in the first round of voting. The decision to hold a second consecutive tournament in Europe (after Italy in 1934) caused outrage in South America, where it was believed that the venue should alternate between the two continents. This was the last World Cup to be staged before the outbreak of the Second World War.

## Qualification

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Main article: 1938 FIFA World Cup qualification

Because of anger over the decision to hold a second successive World Cup in Europe, Uruguay, Argentina, the United States, and Mexico refused to enter the competition. Spain meanwhile could not participate due to the ongoing Spanish Civil War.

It was the first time that the hosts, France, and the title holders, Italy, qualified automatically. Title holders were given an automatic entry into the World Cup from 1938 until 2002 (inclusive), since abolished.

Of the 14 remaining places, eleven were allocated to Europe, two to the Americas, and one to Asia. As a result, only three non-European nations took part: Brazil, Cuba and Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), the latter being the first Asian country to participate in a FIFA World Cup.[1] This is the smallest ever number of teams from outside the host continent to compete at a FIFA World Cup.

Austria qualified for the World Cup, but after qualification was complete, the Anschluss united Austria with Germany. Austria subsequently withdrew from the tournament, with some Austrian players joining the German squad, although not including Austrian star player Matthias Sindelar, who refused to play for the unified team.[2] Latvia was the runner-up in Austria's qualification group, but was not invited to participate; instead Austria's place remained empty, and Sweden, which would have been Austria's initial opponent, progressed directly to the second-round by default.

This tournament saw the first, and as of 2022[update] the only, participation in a World Cup tournament from Cuba and the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). It also saw the World Cup debuts of Poland and Norway. Romania would not qualify for another World Cup until 1970, Poland and the Netherlands would not reappear at a finals tournament until 1974, and Norway would not qualify for another World Cup finals until 1994. A unified Germany team would not appear again until 1994, although Austria returned in 1954 and finished in third place.

### List of qualified teams

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The following 16 teams originally qualified for the final tournament. However, 15 teams participated after Austria's withdrawal due to the Anschluss.

Asia (1)

* Dutch East Indies (debut)

Africa (0)

* None qualified

North, Central America and Caribbean (1)

* Cuba (debut)

South America (1)

* Brazil

Europe (12)

* ~~Austria~~ (withdrew)
* Belgium
* Czechoslovakia
* France (hosts)
* Germany
* Hungary
* Italy (1934 champions)
* Netherlands
* Norway (debut)
* Poland (debut)
* Romania
* Sweden
* Switzerland

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## Format

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The knockout format from 1934 was retained. If a match was tied after 90 minutes, then 30 minutes of extra time were played. If the score was still tied after extra time, the match would be replayed. This was the last World Cup tournament that used a straight knockout format.

## Summary

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Qualifying countries and their results

Germany, France, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Cuba and Brazil were seeded for the draw taking place in Paris, on 5 March 1938. Sweden was given a bye due to Austria's withdrawal.[3]

Five of the seven first round matches required extra time to break the deadlock; two games still went to a replay. In one replay, Cuba advanced to the next round at the expense of Romania. In the other replay, Germany, which had led 1–0 in the first game against Switzerland, led 2–0 but eventually was beaten 2–4. This loss, which took place in front of a hostile, bottle-throwing crowd in Paris, was blamed by German coach Sepp Herberger on a defeatist attitude from the five Austrian players he had been forced to include; a German journalist later commented that "Germans and Austrians prefer to play against each other even when they're in the same team".[4] Until they were knocked out in the group stage in 2018, this was the only time Germany had failed to advance past the first round, and until their penalty shoot-out victory over France in the round of 16 of UEFA Euro 2020, this would be the last time Switzerland advanced past the first knockout game of a tournament.[5]

Sweden advanced directly to the quarter-finals as a result of Austria's withdrawal, and they proceeded to beat Cuba 8–0. The hosts, France, were beaten by the holders, Italy, and Switzerland were seen off by Hungary. Czechoslovakia took Brazil to extra time in a notoriously feisty match in Bordeaux before succumbing in a replay; the South Americans proved too strong for the depleted Czechoslovak side (both Oldřich Nejedlý and František Plánička had suffered broken bones in the first game) and won 2–1. This was the last match to be replayed in a World Cup.

Hungary destroyed Sweden in one of the semi-finals 5–1, while Italy and Brazil had the first of their many important World Cup clashes in the other. The Brazilians were without their star player Leônidas, who was injured, and the Italians won 2–1.[6] Brazil topped Sweden 4–2 for third place.

Rumour has it, before the finals Benito Mussolini was to have sent a telegram to the team, saying "Vincere o morire!" (literally translated as "Win or die!"). This should not have been meant as a literal threat, but instead just an encouragement to win. However, no record remains of such a telegram, and World Cup player Pietro Rava said, when interviewed in 2001, "No, no, no, that's not true. He sent a telegram wishing us well, but no never 'win or die'."[7]

The final itself took place at the Stade Olympique de Colombes in Paris. Vittorio Pozzo's Italian side took the lead early, but Hungary equalised within two minutes. The Italians took the lead again shortly after, and by the end of the first half were leading the Hungarians 3–1. Hungary never really got back into the game. With the final score favouring the Italians 4–2, Italy became the first team to successfully defend the title and were once more crowned World Cup winners.

Because of World War II, the World Cup would not be held for next 12 years, until 1950. As a result, Italy were the reigning World Cup holders for a record 16 years, from 1934 to 1950. The Italian Vice-president of FIFA, Dr. Ottorino Barassi, hid the trophy in a shoe-box under his bed throughout the Second World War and thus saved it from falling into the hands of occupying troops.[8]

## Venues

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Eleven venues in ten cities were planned to host the tournament; of these, all hosted matches except the Stade de Gerland in Lyon, which did not due to Austria's withdrawal.

Colombes
(Paris area) | Marseille | Paris | Bordeaux

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Stade Olympique de Colombes | Stade Vélodrome | Parc des Princes | Parc Lescure
Capacity: 60,000 | Capacity: 48,000 | Capacity: 40,000 | Capacity: 34,694
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Strasbourg |

Antibes

Bordeaux

Le Havre

Lille

Marseille

Colombes

Paris

Reims

Strasbourg

Toulouse

1938 FIFA World Cup (France)

| Le Havre
Stade de la Meinau | Stade Municipal
Capacity: 30,000 | Capacity: 22,000

Reims | Toulouse | Lille | Antibes
Vélodrome Municipal | Stade du T.O.E.C. | Stade Victor Boucquey | Stade du Fort Carré
Capacity: 21,684 | Capacity: 15,000 | Capacity: 15,000 | Capacity: 7,000
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## Squads

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For a list of all squads that appeared in the final tournament, see 1938 FIFA World Cup squads.

## Final tournament

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Main article: 1938 FIFA World Cup final tournament

### Bracket

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| Round of 16| | Quarter-finals| | Semi-finals| | Final

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| 5 June – Marseille| | | | | | | |

|  Italy (a.e.t.)| 2

| 12 June – Colombes

|  Norway| 1 |

|  Italy| 3

| 5 June – Colombes

| |  France| 1 |

|  France| 3

| | 16 June – Marseille

|  Belgium| 1 |

|  Italy| 2

| 5 June – Strasbourg

| |  Brazil| 1 |

|  Brazil (a.e.t.)| 6

| 12 and 14 June – Bordeaux|

|  Poland| 5 |

|  Brazil (rep.)| 1 (2)

| 5 June – Le Havre

| |  Czechoslovakia| 1 (1) |

|  Czechoslovakia (a.e.t.)| 3

| | 19 June – Colombes

|  Netherlands| 0 |

|  Italy| 4

| 5 June – Reims

| |  Hungary| 2

|  Hungary| 6

| 12 June – Lille|

|  Dutch East Indies| 0 |

|  Hungary| 2

| 4 and 9 June – Paris

| |  Switzerland| 0 |

|  Switzerland (rep.)| 1 (4)

| | 16 June – Paris

|  Germany| 1 (2) |

|  Hungary| 5

| 5 June – Lyon

| |  Sweden| 1 | | Third place play-off

|  Sweden| w/o

| 12 June – Antibes| | 19 June – Bordeaux

|  Austria| |

|  Sweden| 8|  Brazil| 4

| 5 and 9 June – Toulouse

| |  Cuba| 0 | |  Sweden| 2

|  Cuba (rep.)| 3 (2)

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|  Romania| 3 (1) |

### Round of 16

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4 June 1938

17:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)

Switzerland | 1–1 (a.e.t.)|  Germany

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Abegglen 43' | Report | Gauchel 29'

Parc des Princes, Paris

Attendance: 27,152

Referee: John Langenus (Belgium)

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5 June 1938

17:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)

Hungary | 6–0|  Dutch East Indies

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Kohut 13'
Toldi 15'
G. Sárosi 28', 89'
Zsengellér 35', 76' | Report |

Vélodrome Municipal, Reims

Attendance: 9,000

Referee: Roger Conrié (France)

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5 June 1938

Sweden | w/o|  Austria

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Stade Gerland, Lyon

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5 June 1938

17:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)

Cuba | 3–3 (a.e.t.)|  Romania

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Socorro 44', 103'
Magriñá 69' | Report | Bindea 35'
Barátky 88'
Dobay 105'

Stade du T.O.E.C., Toulouse

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: Giuseppe Scarpi (Italy)

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5 June 1938

17:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)

France | 3–1|  Belgium

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Veinante 1'
Nicolas 16', 69' | Report | Isemborghs 38'

Stade Olympique de Colombes, Colombes

Attendance: 30,454

Referee: Hans Wüthrich (Switzerland)

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5 June 1938

17:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)

Italy | 2–1 (a.e.t.)|  Norway

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Ferraris 2'
Piola 94' | Report | Brustad 83'

Stade Vélodrome, Marseille

Attendance: 19,000

Referee: Alois Beranek (Germany)[a]

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Main article: Brazil v Poland (1938 FIFA World Cup)

5 June 1938 (1938-06-05)

17:30 WEST (UTC+01:00)

Brazil | 6–5 (a.e.t.)|  Poland

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Leônidas 18', 93', 104'
Romeu 25'
Perácio 44', 71' | Report | Scherfke 23' (pen.)
Wilimowski 53', 59', 89', 118'

Stade de la Meinau, Strasbourg

Attendance: 13,452

Referee: Ivan Eklind (Sweden)

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5 June 1938

18:30 WEST (UTC+01:00)

Czechoslovakia | 3–0 (a.e.t.)|  Netherlands

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Košťálek 93'
Zeman 111'
Nejedlý 118' | Report |

Stade municipal, Le Havre

Attendance: 11,000

Referee: Lucien Leclerq (France)

#### Replays

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9 June 1938

18:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)

Switzerland | 4–2|  Germany

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Walaschek 42'
Bickel 64'
Abegglen 75', 78' | Report | Hahnemann 8'
Lörtscher 22' (o.g.)

Parc des Princes, Paris

Attendance: 20,025

Referee: Ivan Eklind (Sweden)

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9 June 1938

18:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)

Cuba | 2–1|  Romania

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Socorro 51'
Fernández 57' | Report | Dobay 35'

Stade du T.O.E.C., Toulouse

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Alfred Birlem (Germany)

### Quarter-finals

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12 June 1938

17:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)

Hungary | 2–0|  Switzerland

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G. Sárosi 40'
Zsengellér 89'[b] | Report |

Stade Victor Boucquey, Lille

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Rinaldo Barlassina (Italy)

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12 June 1938

17:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)

Sweden | 8–0|  Cuba

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H. Andersson 9', 81', 89'[c]
Wetterström 22', 37', 44'
Keller 80'[d]
Nyberg 84'[e] | Report |

Stade du Fort Carré, Antibes

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: Augustin Krist (Czechoslovakia)

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12 June 1938

17:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)

Italy | 3–1|  France

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Colaussi 9'
Piola 51', 72' | Report | Heisserer 10'

Stade Olympique de Colombes, Colombes

Attendance: 58,455

Referee: Louis Baert (Belgium)

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Main article: Battle of Bordeaux (1938 FIFA World Cup)

12 June 1938

17:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)

Brazil | 1–1 (a.e.t.)|  Czechoslovakia

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Leônidas 30' | Report | Nejedlý 65' (pen.)

Parc Lescure, Bordeaux

Attendance: 22,021

Referee: Pál von Hertzka (Hungary)

#### Replay

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14 June 1938

18:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)

Brazil | 2–1|  Czechoslovakia

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Leônidas 57'
Roberto 62'[f] | Report | Kopecký 25'

Parc Lescure, Bordeaux

Attendance: 18,141

Referee: Georges Capdeville (France)

### Semi-finals

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16 June 1938

18:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)

Hungary | 5–1|  Sweden

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Jacobsson 19' (o.g.)
Titkos 37'
Zsengellér 39', 85'
G. Sárosi 65' | Report | Nyberg 1'

Parc des Princes, Paris

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Lucien Leclerq (France)

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16 June 1938

18:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)

Italy | 2–1|  Brazil

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Colaussi 51'
Meazza 60' (pen.) | Report | Romeu 87'

Stade Vélodrome, Marseille

Attendance: 33,000

Referee: Hans Wüthrich (Switzerland)

### Third place play-off

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19 June 1938

17:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)

Brazil | 4–2|  Sweden

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Romeu 44'
Leônidas 63', 74'
Perácio 80' | Report | Jonasson 28'
Nyberg 38'

Parc Lescure, Bordeaux

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: John Langenus (Belgium)

### Final

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Main article: 1938 FIFA World Cup final

19 June 1938

15:00 (WEST)

Italy | 4–2|  Hungary

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Colaussi 6', 35'
Piola 16', 82' | Report | Titkos 8'
G. Sárosi 70'

Stade Olympique de Colombes, Paris

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: Georges Capdeville (France)

## Goalscorers

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With seven goals, Leônidas was the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 84 goals were scored by 42 players, with two of them credited as own goals.

7 goals

* Leônidas

5 goals

* György Sárosi
* Gyula Zsengellér
* Silvio Piola

4 goals

* Gino Colaussi
* Ernest Wilimowski

3 goals

* Perácio
* Romeu
* Héctor Socorro
* Harry Andersson
* Arne Nyberg
* Gustav Wetterström
* André Abegglen

2 goals

* Oldřich Nejedlý
* Jean Nicolas
* Pál Titkos
* Ștefan Dobay

1 goal

* Henri Isemborghs
* Roberto
* Tomás Fernández
* José Magriñá
* Vlastimil Kopecký
* Josef Košťálek
* Josef Zeman
* Oscar Heisserer
* Émile Veinante
* Josef Gauchel
* Wilhelm Hahnemann
* Vilmos Kohut
* Géza Toldi
* Pietro Ferraris
* Giuseppe Meazza
* Arne Brustad
* Fryderyk Scherfke
* Iuliu Barátky
* Silviu Bindea
* Tore Keller
* Sven Jonasson
* Alfred Bickel
* Eugen Walaschek

1 own goal

* Sven Jacobsson (playing against Hungary)
* Ernst Lörtscher (playing against Germany)

## FIFA retrospective ranking

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A ball from the tournament

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.[11][12] The rankings for the 1938 tournament were as follows:

R | Team  | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts.

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1 |  Italy | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 5 | +6 | 8
2 |  Hungary | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 5 | +10 | 6
3 |  Brazil | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 11 | +3 | 7
4 |  Sweden | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 9 | +2 | 2
Eliminated in the quarter-finals
5 |  Czechoslovakia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 3
6 |  Switzerland | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3
7 |  Cuba | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 12 | −7 | 3
8 |  France | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2
Eliminated in the round of 16
9 |  Romania | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -1 | 1
10 |  Germany | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | –2 | 1
11 |  Poland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 0
12 |  Norway | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 0
13 |  Belgium | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 0
14 |  Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | −3 | 0
15 |  Dutch East Indies | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | −6 | 0
16 |  Austria | Withdrew

## Footnotes

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1. ^ Actually from Austria, but representing the German Football Association because of the Anschluss.
2. ^ RSSSF credits this goal as coming in the 90th minute.[9]
3. ^ RSSSF credits goal in the 81st minute as coming in the 61st minute.[9]
4. ^ RSSSF credits goal in the 80th minute as coming in the 60th minute.[9]
5. ^ RSSSF credits this goal as coming in the 89th minute.[9]
6. ^ FIFA initially credited this goal to Leônidas, but changed it to Roberto in 2006.[10]

## References

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1. ^ "Did you know Dutch East Indies, erstwhile Indonesia, were the first flagbearers of Asia in FIFA World Cup?". FIFA.com. 2 March 2023. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
2. ^ Ashdown, John (22 April 2014). "World Cup: 25 stunning moments … No11: Austria's Wunderteam". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
3. ^ "History of the World Cup Final Draw" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
4. ^ Hesse-Lichtenberger, Ulrich (2003). Tor!: The Story of German Football. London: WSC Books. p. 85\. ISBN 095401345X.
5. ^ Steinberg, Jacob (27 June 2018). "Germany crashed out of the World Cup group stages and finished bottom of Group F after defeat to South Korea". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
6. ^ Gehringer, Max (November 2005). "Faltaram os papéis". A Saga da Jules Rimet (in Portuguese). No. 3\. São Paulo: Editora Abril. p. 37.
7. ^ Martin, Simon (5 April 2018). "World Cup stunning moments: Mussolini's blackshirts' 1938 win". TheGuardian.com. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
8. ^ "History". FIFAWorldCup.com. Archived from the original on 20 March 2007. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
9. ^ a b c d "World Cup 1938 finals". RSSSF. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
10. ^ "American Bert Patenaude credited with first hat trick in FIFA World Cup history". FIFA.com. 2006. Archived from the original on 16 November 2006.
11. ^ "Mexico 1986" (PDF). FIFA. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 June 2010. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
12. ^ "FIFA World Cup: Milestones, facts & figures. Statistical Kit 7" (PDF). FIFA. 26 March 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 May 2013.

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