1958 FIFA World Cup

The **1958 FIFA World Cup** was the eleventh FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial international football championship contested by the men's national teams of FIFA. The tournament was held in Switzerland for the first (and to date only) time. In the final it would be Brazil who would become the ninth different winner of the FIFA World Cup after they defeated France 4-1 in the final.

## Bids

With the format of being Europe and the Americas continuing, it was time for Europe turn and in a strange call of events, there was only one bid despite a proposal from Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom wanting to host the tournament but later dropping their bid. This left only the Swiss as they got the hosting rights unopposed on April 11, 1950.

## Qualifying

Main article: 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification
The first matches in the qualifying period started in mid-1956 with the first matches being in the opening round of the North American qualification period with Guatemala, El Salvador and Barbados being the teams.

The tournament would see the debut of Canada while Egypt appeared in the World Cup for the first time since 1930.

File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria
File:Flag of France.svg France
File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary
File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy
File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
File:Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland
File:Flag of the Soviet Union (1955-1980).svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey
File:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg Yugoslavia

File:Canadian Red Ensign 1921-1957.svg Canada
File:Flag of Mexico (1934–1968).png Mexico
**CONMEBOL**
File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina
File:Flag of Brazil (1889-1960).svg Brazil
File:Flag of Uruguay.svg Uruguay
**AFC/CAF**
File:Flag of Egypt (1952-1958).svg Egypt

## Seeding

For the first time, the tournament seeding was based off the new FIFA World Rankings system which factored in every tournament in an eight-year span instead of 12 like it had been before. For Switzerland they would create history by being the lowest-ranked hosts in World Cup history as they were ranked 68th before the 1958 tournament.

File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden (3)
File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary (7) (Champion)
File:Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland (68) (Host)
File:Flag of Brazil (1889-1960).svg Brazil (6)
File:Flag of Uruguay.svg Uruguay (9)
File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain (10)
File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina (14)
File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey (15)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union (1955-1980).svg Soviet Union (20)
File:Flag of Egypt (1952-1958).svg Egypt (23)
File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy (47)
File:Canadian Red Ensign (1957-1965).svg Canada (72)

## Goalscorers

8 goals

* File:Flag of France.svg Just Fontaine

6 goals

* File:Flag of the Soviet Union (1955-1980).svg Anatoli Ilyin

5 goals

* File:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg Aleksandar Petaković

4 goals

* File:Flag of Brazil (1889-1960).svg Mazzola
* File:Flag of Brazil (1889-1960).svg Vavá
* File:Flag of France.svg Maryan Wisnieski

3 goals

* File:Flag of Brazil (1889-1960).svg Mário Zagallo
* File:Flag of France.svg Roger Piantoni
* File:Flag of Italy.svg Carlo Galli

2 goals

* File:Flag of Argentina.svg Norberto Boggio
* File:Flag of Egypt (1952-1958).svg Mahmoud El-Gohary
* File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Ivor Allchurch
* File:Flag of Hungary.svg Károly Sándor
* File:Flag of Hungary.svg Lajos Tichy
* File:Flag of the Soviet Union (1955-1980).svg Boris Kuznetsov
* File:Flag of Sweden.svg Kurt Hamrin
* File:Flag of Switzerland.svg Norbert Eschmann
* File:Flag of Turkey.svg Metin Oktay

1 goal

* File:Flag of Argentina.svg Omar Oreste Corbatta
* File:Flag of Argentina.svg Néstor Rossi
* File:Flag of Argentina.svg José Sanfilippo
* File:Flag of Brazil (1889-1960).svg Dino Sani
* File:Flag of Bulgaria (1948-1967).svg Todor Diev
* File:Flag of Bulgaria (1948-1967).svg Georgi Dimitrov
* File:Flag of Bulgaria (1948-1967).svg Nikola Kovachev
* File:Flag of Egypt (1952-1958).svg Alaa El-Hamouly
* File:Flag of France.svg Bernard Chiarelli
* File:Flag of France.svg Kazimir Hnatow
* File:Flag of France.svg Jean Vincent
* File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Bobby Evans
* File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Johnny Haynes
* File:Flag of Hungary.svg József Bozsik
* File:Flag of Hungary.svg Ferenc Szojka
* File:Flag of Italy.svg Dino Da Costa
* File:Flag of Italy.svg Miguel Montuori
* File:Flag of Mexico (1934–1968).png Jaime Belmonte
* File:Flag of the Soviet Union (1955-1980).svg Gennadi Gusarov
* File:Flag of the Soviet Union (1955-1980).svg Valentin Ivanov
* File:Flag of the Soviet Union (1955-1980).svg Konstantin Krizhevsky
* File:Flag of the Soviet Union (1955-1980).svg Sergei Salnikov
* File:Flag of Switzerland.svg Ferdinando Riva
* File:Flag of Sweden.svg Agne Simonsson
* File:Flag of Turkey.svg Kadri Aytaç
* File:Flag of Turkey.svg Lefter Küçükandonyadis
* File:Flag of Uruguay.svg Javier Ambrois
* File:Flag of Uruguay.svg Carlos Borges
* File:Flag of Uruguay.svg Guillermo Escalada
* File:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg Ilijas Pašić
* File:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg Nikola Radović
* File:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg Zdravko Rajkov
* File:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg Ivan Šantek
* File:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg Todor Veselinović