1966 FIFA World Cup final - wikipedia 1966 FIFA World Cup final 1966 FIFA World Cup Final The original Wembley Stadium with its twin towers Event 1966 FIFA World Cup England West Germany After extra time Date 30 July 1966 Venue Wembley Stadium, London Referee Gottfried Dienst ( Switzerland ) Attendance 96,924 ← 1962 1970 → The 1966 FIFA World Cup Final was the final match in the 1966 FIFA World Cup, the eighth football World Cup. The match was played by England and West Germany on 30 July 1966 at Wembley Stadium in London, and had an attendance of 96,924. The British television audience peaked at 32.3 million viewers, making it the most watched television event ever in the United Kingdom. England won 4 -- 2 after extra time to win the Jules Rimet Trophy. The England team became known as the `` wingless wonders '', on account of their then - unconventional narrow attacking formation, described at the time as a 4 -- 4 -- 2. The match is remembered for England 's only World Cup trophy, Geoff Hurst 's hat - trick -- the first, and to date, only one ever scored in a FIFA World Cup Final -- and the controversial third goal awarded to England by referee Gottfried Dienst and linesman Tofiq Bahramov. Contents 1 Road to the final 1.1 England 1.2 West Germany 2 Match 2.1 Summary 2.1. 1 Normal time 2.1. 2 Extra time 2.2 Details 3 Champions photograph and statue 4 Cultural impact 5 2009 receipt of winners medals 6 See also 7 References Road to the final Both teams were strong throughout the tournament. Each won two and drew one of their three matches in the group stages. England did not concede a goal until their semi-final against Portugal. England Team Score Venue Round Uruguay 0 -- 0 Wembley Stadium, London Group 1 Mexico 2 -- 0 Group 1 France 2 -- 0 Group 1 Argentina 1 -- 0 Quarter - final Portugal 2 -- 1 Semi-final West Germany Team Score Venue Round Switzerland 5 -- 0 Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield Group 2 Argentina 0 -- 0 Villa Park, Birmingham Group 2 Spain 2 -- 1 Group 2 Uruguay 4 -- 0 Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield Quarter - final Soviet Union 2 -- 1 Goodison Park, Liverpool Semi-final Match Summary Normal time England, managed by Alf Ramsey and captained by Bobby Moore, won the toss and elected to kick off. After 12 minutes, Sigfried Held sent a cross into the English penalty area which Ray Wilson misheaded to Helmut Haller, who got his shot on target. Jack Charlton and goalkeeper Gordon Banks failed to deal with the shot which went in making it 1 -- 0 to West Germany. In the 19th minute, Wolfgang Overath conceded a free kick, which Moore took immediately, floating a cross into the West German area, where Geoff Hurst rose unchallenged and levelled the scores with a downward glancing header. The teams were level at half - time, and after 77 minutes England won a corner. Alan Ball delivered the ball to Geoff Hurst whose deflected shot from the edge of the area found Martin Peters. He produced the final shot, beating the West German keeper from eight yards to make the score 2 -- 1 to England. Germany pressed for an equaliser in the closing moments, and in the 89th minute Jack Charlton conceded a free kick for climbing on Uwe Seeler as they both went up for a header. The kick was taken by Lothar Emmerich, who struck it into George Cohen in the wall ; the rebound fell to Held, who shot across the face of goal and into the body of Karl - Heinz Schnellinger. The ball deflected across the England six - yard box, wrong - footing the England defence and allowing Wolfgang Weber to level the score at 2 -- 2 and force the match into extra time. Banks protested that the ball had struck Schnellinger on the arm, and reiterated the claim in his 2002 autobiography, but replays showed that it actually struck Schnellinger on the back. Extra time Geoff Hurst 's `` Wembley Goal '' England pressed forward and created several chances. In particular, with five minutes gone, Bobby Charlton struck the post and sent another shot just wide. With 11 minutes of extra time gone, Alan Ball put in a cross and Geoff Hurst swivelled and shot from close range. The ball hit the underside of the crossbar, bounced down and was cleared. The referee Gottfried Dienst was uncertain if it had been a goal and consulted his linesman, Tofiq Bahramov from Azerbaijan in the USSR, who indicated that it was, and the Swiss referee awarded the goal to the home team. The crowd and the audience of 400 million television viewers were left arguing whether the goal should have been given or not. England 's third goal has remained controversial ever since the match. According to the Laws of the Game the definition of a goal is when `` the whole of the ball passes over the goal line ''. English supporters cited the good position of the linesman and the statement of Roger Hunt, the nearest England player to the ball, who claimed it was a goal and that was why he wheeled away in celebration rather than attempting to tap the rebounding ball in. Modern studies using film analysis and computer simulation have shown that the ball never crossed the line -- both Duncan Gillies of the Visual Information Processing Group at Imperial College London and Ian Reid and Andrew Zisserman of the Department of Engineering Science at University of Oxford have stated that the ball would have needed to travel a further 2.5 -- 6.0 cm to fully cross the line. Some Germans cited possible bias of the Soviet linesman, especially as the USSR had just been defeated in the semi-finals by West Germany. Bahramov later stated in his memoirs that he believed the ball had bounced back not from the crossbar but from the net, and that he was not able to observe the rest of the scene, so it did not matter where the ball hit the ground anyway. Queen Elizabeth II presented England captain Bobby Moore with the FIFA World Cup trophy ( Jules Rimet ). One minute before the end of play, the West Germans sent their defenders forward in a desperate attempt to score a last - minute equaliser. Winning the ball, Bobby Moore picked out the unmarked Geoff Hurst with a long pass, which Hurst carried forward while some spectators began streaming onto the field and Hurst scored moments later. Hurst later admitted that his blistering shot was as much intended to send the ball as far into the Wembley stands as possible should it miss, in order to kill time on the clock. The final goal gave rise to one of the most famous sayings in English football, when BBC commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme described the situation as follows : `` And here comes Hurst. He 's got... some people are on the pitch, they think it 's all over. It is now ! It 's four ! '' One of the balls from the final is on display in the National Football Museum in Manchester. Details 30 July 1966 15 : 00 BST England 4 -- 2 ( a.e.t. ) West Germany Hurst 18 ', 101 ', 120 ' Peters 78 ' Report Haller 12 ' Weber 89 ' Wembley Stadium, London Attendance : 96,924 Referee : Gottfried Dienst ( Switzerland ) England West Germany GK Gordon Banks RB George Cohen CB 5 Jack Charlton CB 6 Bobby Moore ( c ) LB Ray Wilson DM Nobby Stiles RM 7 Alan Ball AM 9 Bobby Charlton LM 16 Martin Peters 20 ' CF 10 Geoff Hurst CF 21 Roger Hunt Manager : Alf Ramsey GK Hans Tilkowski RB Horst - Dieter Höttges CB 5 Willi Schulz CB 6 Wolfgang Weber LB Karl - Heinz Schnellinger CM Franz Beckenbauer CM 12 Wolfgang Overath RF 8 Helmut Haller CF 9 Uwe Seeler ( c ) CF 10 Sigfried Held LF 11 Lothar Emmerich Manager : Helmut Schön Officials Linesman : Tofiq Bahramov ( Soviet Union ) Linesman : Dr. Karol Galba ( Czechoslovakia ) Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Replay if scores still level : 19 : 30 BST, Tuesday, 2 August 1966 Wembley Stadium, London No substitutions permitted Champions photograph and statue The World Cup Sculpture featuring Moore with the World Cup trophy, on the shoulders of Geoff Hurst and Ray Wilson, together with Martin Peters One of the enduring images of the celebrations in Wembley immediately after the game was the picture of the captain Bobby Moore holding the Jules Rimet Trophy aloft, on the shoulders of Geoff Hurst and Ray Wilson, together with Martin Peters. In recognition of Moore and other West Ham United players ' contribution to the win, the club and Newham Borough Council jointly commissioned a statue of this scene. On 28 April 2003 Prince Andrew as president of The Football Association, duly unveiled the World Cup Sculpture ( also called The Champions ) in a prominent place near West Ham 's ground, at the time, the Boleyn Ground, at the junction of Barking Road and Green Street. The 4 - metre ( 13 ft ) - high bronze piece was sculpted by Philip Jackson and weighed 4 tonnes. Cultural impact Replica of the England shirt worn for the final Ball used in the final, located in the National Football Museum, Manchester The final is the most watched event ever on British television, as of July 2018, attracting 32.30 million viewers. In Germany, a goal resulting from a shot bouncing off the crossbar and hitting the line is called a Wembley - Tor ( Wembley Goal ) due to the controversial nature of Hurst 's second goal. This goal has been parodied a large number of times. Some of the most notable include : England 's third goal was referenced in a 2006 Adidas advertisement, where English midfielder Frank Lampard takes a shot at German keeper Oliver Kahn, and a similar event happens. On 27 June 2010 at that year 's World Cup a similar goal by Lampard was wrongly disallowed ( TV replays showed the ball landing past the goal line before bouncing away ) which would have levelled the second - round game against Germany 2 -- 2 ( Germany won 4 -- 1 ). Kenneth Wolstenholme 's commentary on the third goal that bounced on the line, `` It 's a goal ! '' was used ( along with the sound of breaking glass ) in the tape - looped coda of an early version of The Beatles song `` Glass Onion '', available on the album Anthology 3. In August 1966 a special 4d stamp marked ENGLAND WINNERS was issued by the Royal Mail to celebrate the victory and which soared in value to up to 15 shillings each on the back of public enthusiasm for the victory before falling back in value when the public realised it was not rare. The 1991 BBC miniseries Sleepers, about a pair of deep - cover KGB agents placed in England in the mid-1960s and then forgotten includes a subplot about an archive film of the match recorded by Soviet agents and then placed in archives. A KGB officer who sees the film in the early 1990s is excited to discover it includes footage of the disputed goal and attempts to sell it to a contact at a television network ( pointedly described as not the BBC ). Sleepers is coy about what the film depicts and in the course of the story, the film is destroyed. Marking the 50th anniversary of England 's World Cup victory in July 2016, ITV broadcast 1966 -- A Nation Remembers, which was narrated by the actor Terence Stamp who attended every England game at the tournament. The World Cup win features in the song `` Three Lions '' ( known by its chorus `` Football 's Coming Home '' ), the unofficial anthem of the England football team. England 's win in the final also helped fans to create the `` Two World Wars and One World Cup '' chant. 2009 receipt of winners medals The players and staff of England 's winning squad who did not get medals in 1966 received them on 10 June 2009 after a ceremony at 10 Downing Street in London. Initially, only the 11 players on the pitch at the end of the match received medals, but FIFA later awarded medals to every non-playing squad and staff member from every World Cup - winning country from 1930 to 1974. See also England -- Germany football rivalry Ghost goal References Jump up ^ `` Hurst the hero for England in the home of football ''. FIFA. Retrieved 11 November 2014 Jump up ^ `` 1966 FIFA World Cup England ''. FIFA. Retrieved 21 June 2014. ^ Jump up to : `` Tracking 30 years of TV 's most watched programmes ''. BBC. Retrieved 2 February 2015 Jump up ^ `` A riot of colour, emotion and memories : the World Cup stands alone in the field of sport ''. The Independent. Retrieved 20 August 2018. Jump up ^ `` Alf Ramsey -- England 's Anonymous Hero ''. FIFA. Retrieved 28 January 2013. ^ Jump up to : Smyth, Rob ; Murray, Scott ( 30 May 2014 ). `` World Cup final 1966 : England v West Germany -- live ! ''. theguardian.com ( Guardian News and Media ). Retrieved 30 May 2014. Jump up ^ Banks, Gordon ( 2002 ). Banksy. Penguin Books. p. 136. ISBN 978 - 0 - 7181 - 4582 - 8. Jump up ^ Glanville, Brian ( 2010 ) ( 1973 ). The Story of the World Cup. London : Faber and Faber. p. 154. ISBN 978 - 0 - 571 - 23605 - 3. Jump up ^ `` Team Spirit Gains England the cup ''. Glasgow Herald ( Page 4 ). 1 August 1966. Retrieved 30 April 2014. Jump up ^ https://www.fifa.com/en/laws/Laws10_01.htm Archived 23 May 2007 at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ Reid, Ian ; Zisserman, Andrew ( 1996 ). Cipolla, R. ; Buxton, B., eds. `` Goal - directed Video Metrology '' ( PDF ). Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Computer Vision. New York City : Springer. II : 647 -- 658. LNCS 1065. Archived ( PDF ) from the original on 19 May 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2012. Jump up ^ Ken Jones ( 4 December 1997 ). `` Football : It is possible to forget that England 's overall World Cup record is nothing much to shout about ''. The Independent. Retrieved 21 June 2012. ^ Jump up to : Lister, Graham ( 26 June 2010 ). `` Two World Wars, One World Cup And The ' Achtung ! ' Chaos -- The Complex And Violent History Of England Vs Germany ''. Goal.com. Retrieved 21 June 2012. 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Retrieved 10 June 2009. 1966 FIFA World Cup Stages Group stage Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Knockout stage Final General information Qualification Squads 1966 FIFA World Cup finalists Champions England Runners - up West Germany Third place Portugal Fourth place Soviet Union Quarter - finals Argentina Hungary North Korea Uruguay Group stage Brazil Bulgaria Chile France Italy Mexico Spain Switzerland FIFA World Cup Tournaments Uruguay 1930 Italy 1934 France 1938 Brazil 1950 Switzerland 1954 Sweden 1958 Chile 1962 England 1966 Mexico 1970 West Germany 1974 Argentina 1978 Spain 1982 Mexico 1986 Italy 1990 United States 1994 France 1998 South Korea -- Japan 2002 Germany 2006 South Africa 2010 Brazil 2014 Russia 2018 Qatar 2022 Canada -- Mexico -- United States 2026 2030 2034 Qualification 1930 1934 1938 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2014 2018 Finals 1930 1934 1938 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2014 2018 Squads 1930 1934 1938 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2014 2018 Seedings 1998 2002 2006 2014 2018 Broadcasters 1998 2002 2006 2014 2018 Bids 2014 2018 and 2022 2026 2030 Statistics 2002 2006 2014 2018 Disciplinary record 1994 1998 2002 2006 2014 2018 Team appearances AFC CAF CONCACAF CONMEBOL OFC UEFA Teams with no appearances Overall records All - time table Goalscorers top goalscorers finals goalscorers hat - tricks own goals Penalty shoot - outs Player appearances Red cards Referees Winners Miscellaneous Openings Stadiums Awards Balls Economics Final draw History Hosts Mascots Official films Official anthems & songs Organisers Trophy Video games Notes : There was no qualification for the 1930 World Cup as places were given by invitation only. In 1950, there was no final ; the article is about the decisive match of the final group stage. England national football team matches FIFA World Cup Final 1966 Other matches England v Scotland ( 1870 -- 72 ) Scotland 0 -- 0 England ( 1872 ) England 1 -- 5 Scotland ( 1928 ) England 3 -- 2 Italy ( 1934 ) England 0 -- 2 Ireland ( 1949 ) United States 1 -- 0 England ( 1950 ) England 3 -- 6 Hungary ( 1953 ) Hungary 7 -- 1 England ( 1954 ) England 2 -- 1 Rest of the World ( 1963 ) Scotland 1 -- 0 England ( 1985 ) England 2 -- 1 Scotland ( 1986 ) Argentina 2 -- 1 England ( 1986 ) Republic of Ireland 1 -- 0 England ( 1995 ) England 0 -- 1 Germany ( 2000 ) Germany 1 -- 5 England ( 2001 ) England 1 -- 2 Iceland ( 2016 ) Germany national football team matches FIFA World Cup Finals 1954 1966 1982 1986 1990 2002 2014 FIFA Confederations Cup Finals 2017 UEFA European Championship Finals 1972 1976 1980 2008 Other matches Germany 8 -- 0 Denmark ( 1937 ) Italy 4 -- 3 West Germany ( 1970 ) Austria 3 -- 2 West Germany ( 1978 ) West Germany 1 -- 0 Austria ( 1982 ) West Germany 3 -- 3 ( 5 -- 4 pen. ) France ( 1982 ) England 0 -- 1 Germany ( 2000 ) Germany 1 -- 5 England ( 2001 ) Brazil 1 -- 7 Germany ( 2014 ) South Korea 2 -- 0 Germany ( 2018 ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1966_FIFA_World_Cup_Final&oldid=856889942 '' Categories : FIFA World Cup finals 1966 FIFA World Cup 1966 in London England national football team matches Germany national football team matches Events at Wembley Stadium West Germany at the 1966 FIFA World Cup England at the 1966 FIFA World Cup FIFA World Cup controversies 1966 controversies England -- Germany football rivalry International association football competitions hosted by London Hidden categories : Webarchive template wayback links Use dmy dates from June 2018 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Dansk Español فارسی Français 한국어 Bahasa Indonesia Italiano עברית Қазақша Magyar Nederlands Português Română Русский Svenska Türkçe Українська Tiếng Việt 中文 11 more Edit links This page was last edited on 28 August 2018, at 05 : 47 ( UTC ). 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Question: who did england beat in 1966 world cup final
Answer: West Germany