;8 goals* Ademir;5 goals* Óscar Míguez;4 goals* Chico* Estanislau Basora* Telmo Zarra* Alcides Ghiggia;3 goals* Karl-Erik Palmér* Stig Sundqvist* Juan Alberto Schiaffino;2 goals* Baltazar* Jair* Zizinho* Atilio Cremaschi* Riccardo Carapellese* Silvestre Igoa* Sune Andersson* Hasse Jeppson* Jacques Fatton* Željko Čajkovski* Kosta Tomašević;1 goal* Alfredo* Friaça* Maneca* Andrés Prieto* George Robledo* Fernando Riera* Wilf Mannion* Stan Mortensen* Ermes Muccinelli* Egisto Pandolfini* Horacio Casarín* Héctor Ortiz* Atilio López* César López Fretes* Bror Mellberg* Charles Antenen* René Bader* Joe Gaetjens* Joe Maca* Gino Pariani* Frank Wallace* Julio Pérez* Obdulio Varela* Ernesto Vidal* Rajko Mitić* Stjepan Bobek* Tihomir Ognjanov;Own goals* José Parra (against Brazil)==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.
Brazilci so za prvenstvo pripravili 7 prizorišč v šestih mestih.