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1. Worldcup
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2. About the FIFAWorld Cup 1954
5th FIFA World Cup
 1st time Switzerland host the FIFA World Cup
The game was played at the Wankdorf Stadium in
Bern, Switzerland.
6 cities will host a total of 26 matches
West Germany are the defending champions
Will be played on 16 June to 4 July 1954
There are 16 teams from confederations
Sandor Kocsis was the top scorer with 11 goals.

4. Official LogoOfficial poster

5. Switzerland was awarded the
tournament unopposed on 22 July 1946,
the same day that Brazil was selected
for the 1950 World Cup, in Luxembourg
City

6. Qualification
The hosts (Switzerland) and the defending champions (Uruguay) qualified
automatically. Of the remaining 14 places, 11 were allocated to Europe
(including Egypt, Turkey and Israel), two to the Americas, and one to Asia.
Scotland, Turkey and South Korea made their World Cup debuts at this
tournament (Turkey and Scotland had qualified for the 1950 competition
but both withdrew). Austria appeared for the first time since 1934. Turkey
would not participate at a finals again until the 2002 competition, while
South Korea's next appearance would be in 1986.
The third and fourth place teams from 1950, Sweden and Spain, both
failed to qualify. In a shock result, Spain was eliminated by Turkey: after
the two countries had tied a three-game series, Turkey progressed by
drawing of lots
German teams as well as Japan were allowed to qualify again, after
having been banned from the 1950 FIFA World Cup. West Germany
qualified against fellow Germans from the Saarland (which then was a
French protectorate), while East Germany had not entered, cancelling
international football games after the East German uprising of 1953.
Argentina declined to participate for the third World Cup in succession.

8. Belgium
Hungary
Austria
West Germany
England
Italy
France
South Korea
Czechoslovakia
Brazil
Yugoslavia
Uruguay
Switzerland
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Turkey
Mexico

10.  The 1954 tournament used a unique format. The sixteen qualifying
teams were divided into four groups of four teams each. Each group
contained two seeded teams and two un seeded teams. Only four
matches were scheduled for each group, each pitting a seeded team
against an un seeded team. This contrasts with the usual round-robin
in which every team plays every other team: six matches in each
group. Another oddity was that extra time, which in most tournaments
is not employed at the group stage, was played in the group games if
the score was level after 90 minutes, with the result being a draw if the
scores were still level after 120 minutes.
 Two points were awarded for a win and one for a draw. The two teams
with the most points from each group progressed to the knockout
stage. If the first and second placed teams were level on points, lots
were drawn to decide which team would top the group. However, if the
second and third placed teams were level on points, there was a play-
off to decide which team would progress to the next stage.

11.  It turned out that two of the four groups required play-offs, and the other two
required drawing of lots between the two top teams. The play-offs were between
Switzerland and Italy, and Turkey and West Germany: in both matches the un
seeded teams (Switzerland and West Germany) repeated earlier victories against
the seeds (Italy & Turkey) to progress. In the other two groups, lots were drawn to
determine the first-place teams: resulting in Uruguay and Brazil finishing above
Austria and Yugoslavia, respectively.
 A further unusual feature of the format was that the four group-winning teams
were drawn against each other in the knockout stages to produce one finalist, and
the four second-placed teams played against each other to produce the second
finalist. In subsequent tournaments it has become customary to draw group
winners against second-placed teams in the first knockout round.
 In any knockout game tied after 90 minutes, 30 minutes of extra time were played.
If the scores had still been level after extra time, in any knockout game other than
the final, lots would have been drawn to decide which team progressed. However,
if the final had been tied after extra time, it would have been replayed, with lots
deciding the winner only if the replay was also tied after extra time.[4] In the event,
all the knockout games were decided in either normal time or extra time, with no
replays or drawing of lots being required.

12. SEEDING
OBefore qualification was complete,
the eight seeded teams were
determined by FIFA based on world
rankings.
OThey were; Austria, Brazil, England,
France, Hungary, Italy, Spain and
Uruguay.

13. Plot 1 Plot 2 Plot 3 Plot 4
Switzerland
Uruguay
Brazil
Hungary
Austria
England
Germany
Yugoslavia
France
Italy
Czechoslovakia
Turkey
Belgium
Mexico
South Korea
Scotland

14.  West Germany, who had been reinstated as full FIFA members only in
1950 and were unseeded, convincingly won the first of two encounters
with the seeded Turkish side at Wankdorf stadium in Berne.
 The South Koreans, the other unseeded team, lost 7–0 and 9–0, with
West Germany being denied the chance to play such an easy
opponent.
 Sepp Herberger, the West German coach, gambled against the seeded
team of Hungary by sending in a reserve side, and lost 8–3; so they
had to play off against Turkey, a match that West Germany easily won.
 Hungary's team captain Ferenc Puskás, considered by many as the
best player in the world in that time, was injured by West German
defender Werner Liebrich, and had to miss Hungary's next two
matches. Puskás played for Hungary in the final, despite still being in a
questionable condition.

15.  In the quarter-finals, the favourites Hungary beat Brazil 4–2 in one of
the most violent matches in football history, which became infamous
as the Battle of Berne. Meanwhile, the World Cup holders Uruguay
sent England out of the tournament, also by 4–2.
 West Germany dispatched Yugoslavia 2–0, and Austria beat the host
nation Switzerland in the game that saw the most goals in any World
Cup match, 7–5.
 In the first semi-final, West Germany beat Austria 6–1.
 The other semi-final, one of the most exciting games of the
tournament, saw Hungary go into the second half leading Uruguay 1–
0, only for the game to be taken to extra time with a score after 90
minutes of 2–2. The deadlock was broken by Sándor Kocsis with two
late goals to take Hungary through to the final, with Uruguay finally
losing their unbeaten record in World Cup Final matches. Uruguay
then went on to be beaten for a second time as Austria secured third
place.

17.  Hungary's Ferenc Puskás played again in the final, even though he was
not fully fit. Despite this he put his team ahead after only six minutes
and with Zoltán Czibor adding another two minutes later it seemed that
the pre-tournament favourites would take the title. However, with a quick
goal from Max Morlock in the 10th and the equalizer of Helmut Rahn in
the 19th, the tide began to turn.
 The Wankdorf Stadium in Berne saw 60,000 people cram inside to
watch the final between West Germany and Hungary, a rematch of a
first-round game, which Hungary had won 8–3 against the reserves of
the German team. The Golden Team of the Hungarians were
favourites, as they were unbeaten for a record of 32 consecutive
matches, but they had had two tough play-off matches.
 The second half saw telling misses by the Hungarian team. Barely six
minutes before the end of the match, the popular German radio
reporter Herbert Zimmermann gave the most famous German piece
of commentary, recommending that "Rahn should shoot from deep",
The second goal from Rahn gave West Germany a 3–2. Later,
Zimmermann called Puskás offside before he kicked the ball into Toni
Turek's net with 2 minutes left.

18.  The West Germans were handed the Jules Rimet Trophy and the title of
World Cup winners, while the crowd sang along to the tune of the
national anthem of West Germany. In Germany the success is known as
"The Miracle of Berne", upon which a 2003 film of the same name was
based.
 One controversy concerns the 2–2 equaliser. Hungarian goalie Gyula
Grosics jumped to catch Fritz Walter's corner shot, but in plain sight of
the camera. The second controversy concerns allegations of doping to
explain the better condition of the West German team in the second
half. Though teammates steadfastly denied this rumour, German
historian Guido Knopp claimed in a 2004 documentary for German
public channel ZDF that the players were injected with shots of vitamin
C at half-time, using a needle earlier taken from a Soviet sports doctor,
which would also explain the wave of jaundice among team members
following the tournament.
 Most controversial was the offside ruling for Puskás's intended 87th
minute equalizer. The camera filming the official footage was in a bad
position to judge the situation, but eyewitnesses claimed that the referee
was wrong, including West German substitute player Alfred Pfaff.
However, since then, unofficial footage surfaced evidencing no offside.

19. Card autographed by coach Sepp Her Berger
and the 11 German players that appeared in
the final

20. ALL MATCHES IN ONE TOURNAMENT
 highest average goals per game (5.38)
RECORDS FOR A SINGLE GAME
 most goals in a single game (both teams) (Austria 7
Switzerland 5)
 greatest margin of victory in a single game (Hungary 9 South
Korea 0) (subsequently equalled by Yugoslavia winning 9–0
against Zaire in 1974 and again Hungary winning 10–1
against El Salvador in 1982).
RECORDS

22. Venues and Stadiums

23. 1. Basel
Stadium Name : St. Jacob Stadium
Capacity : 54,800
Owner : Genossenschaft
Stadion
Matches to be Played : 4 groups

25. 2. Bern
Stadium Name : Wankdorf Stadium
Capacity : 64,600

27. 3. Geneva
Stadium Name : Charmilles
Stadium
Capacity : 35997
Matches to be played : 5 games

29. 4. Lausanne
Stadium Name : Stade Olympique de la pontaise
Capacity : 50300
Matches to be played : 5 games

31. 5. Lugano
Stadium Name : Cornaredo Stadium
Capacity : 35800
Matches to be played : 1 game

33. 6. Zurich
Stadium Name : Hardturm Stadium
Capacity : 34800

35. West Germany Hungary
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