1970 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 1970 tournament were as follows:

Final

  1. Brazil
  2. Italy

3rd and 4th place

  1. West Germany
  2. Uruguay

Eliminated in the quarter-finals

  1. Soviet Union
  2. Mexico
  3. Peru
  4. England

Eliminated at the group stage

  1. Sweden
  2. Belgium, Romania (same rank)
  3. Bulgaria
  4. Israel
  5. Morocco
  6. Czechoslovakia
  7. El Salvador

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