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 1962 tournament were as follows:
Final
- Brazil
- Czechoslovakia
3rd and 4th place
- Chile
- Yugoslavia
Eliminated in the quarter-finals
- Hungary
- Soviet Union
- West Germany
- England
Eliminated at the group stage
- Italy
- Argentina
- Mexico
- Uruguay
- Spain
- Colombia
- Bulgaria
- Switzerland
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