1954 FIFA World Cup - FIFA Retrospective Ranking

FIFA Retrospective Ranking

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. The rankings for the 1954 tournament were as follows:

Final

  1. West Germany
  2. Hungary

3rd and 4th place

  1. Austria
  2. Uruguay

Eliminated in the quarter-finals

  1. Switzerland
  2. Brazil
  3. England
  4. Yugoslavia

Eliminated at the group stage

  1. Turkey
  2. Italy
  3. France
  4. Belgium
  5. Mexico
  6. Czechoslovakia
  7. Scotland
  8. South Korea

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