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 1966 tournament were as follows:
Final
- England
- West Germany
3rd and 4th place
- Portugal
- Soviet Union
Eliminated in the quarter-finals
- Argentina
- Hungary
- Uruguay
- North Korea
Eliminated at the group stage
- Italy
- Spain
- Brazil
- Mexico
- France, Chile
- Bulgaria
- Switzerland
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