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1954 FIFA World Cup Group 4

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1 1954 FIFA World Cup
The 1954 FIFA World Cup was the fifth edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football tournament for senior men's national teams of the nations affiliated to FIFA. It was held in Switzerland from 16 June to 4 July. Switzerland was selected as the host country in July 1946. At the tournament several all-time records for goal-scoring were set, including the highest average number of goals scored per game. The tournament was won by West Germany, who defeated Hungary 3–2 in the final, their first World Cup title.More
2 Belgium national football team
The Belgian national football team officially represents Belgium in men's international football since their maiden match in 1904. The squad is under the global jurisdiction of FIFA and is governed in Europe by UEFA—both of which were co-founded by the Belgian team's supervising body, the Royal Belgian Football Association. Periods of regular Belgian representation at the highest international level, from 1920 to 1938, from 1982 to 2002 and again from 2014 onwards, have alternated with mostly unsuccessful qualification rounds. Most of Belgium's home matches are played at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels.More
3 England national football team
The England national football team represents England in men's international football since the first international match in 1872. It is controlled by The Football Association (FA), the governing body for football in England, which is affiliated with UEFA and comes under the global jurisdiction of world football's governing body FIFA. Also known as The Three Lions, England competes in the three major international tournaments contested by European nations; the FIFA World Cup, the UEFA European Championship and the UEFA Nations League. England is one of only eight nations to have been crowned world champions, having won the 1966 edition of the World Cup.More

Group 4 of the 1954 FIFA World Cup took place from 17 to 23 June 1954. The group consisted of Belgium, England, Italy, and Switzerland.[1]

1954 FIFA World Cup Group 4 Intro articles: 2
1 Italy national football team
The Italy national football team has officially represented Italy in international football since their first match in 1910. The squad is under the global jurisdiction of FIFA and is governed in Europe by UEFA—the latter of which was co-founded by the Italian team's supervising body, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC). Italy's home matches are played at various stadiums throughout Italy, and their primary training ground, Centro Tecnico Federale di Coverciano, is located at the FIGC technical headquarters in Coverciano, Florence.More
2 Switzerland national football team
The Switzerland national football team represents Switzerland in international football. The national team is controlled by the Swiss Football Association.More

Standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  England 2 1 1 0 6 4 +2 3 Advance to the knockout stage
2   Switzerland 2 1 0 1 2 3 −1 2[a]
3  Italy 2 1 0 1 5 3 +2 2[a]
4  Belgium 2 0 1 1 5 8 −3 1
Source:
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Second place decided over through play-off: Switzerland 4–1 Italy

Matches

All times listed are local time (CET, UTC+1).

Switzerland vs Italy

Switzerland   2–1  Italy
Ballaman  18'
Hügi  78'		 Report Boniperti  44'
Attendance: 40,749[2]
Referee: Mario Vianna (Brazil)

England vs Belgium

England  4–4 (a.e.t.)  Belgium
Broadis  26', 63'
Lofthouse  36', 91'		 Report Anoul  5', 71'
Coppens  67'
Dickinson  94' (o.g.)
Attendance: 14,000
Referee: Emil Schmetzer (West Germany)

Italy vs Belgium

Italy  4–1  Belgium
Pandolfini  41' (pen.)
Galli  48'
Frignani  58'
Lorenzi  78'		 Report Anoul  81'
Attendance: 24,000
Referee: Carl Erich Steiner (Austria)

England vs Switzerland

England  2–0   Switzerland
Mullen  43'
Wilshaw  69'		 Report
Attendance: 43,119[3]
Referee: Istvan Zsolt (Hungary)

Play-off: Switzerland vs Italy

Switzerland   4–1  Italy
Hügi  14', 85'
Ballaman  48'
Fatton  90'		 Report Nesti  67'
Attendance: 28,655[4]
Referee: Benjamin Griffiths (Wales)

1954 FIFA World Cup Group 4 Standings articles: 32
1 Central European Time
Central European Time (CET), used in most parts of Europe and a few North African countries, is a standard time which is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The time offset from UTC can be written as UTC+01:00. The same standard time, UTC+01:00, is also known as Middle European Time and under other names like Berlin Time, Warsaw Time, Paris Time or Rome Time.More
2 UTC+01:00
UTC+01:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +01:00. In ISO 8601, the associated time would be written as 2019-02-07T23:28:34+01:00. This time is used in:
  • Central European Time
  • West Africa Time
  • Western European Summer Time
    • British Summer Time
    • Irish Standard Time
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3 Robert Ballaman
Robert Ballaman was a Swiss footballer who played as a centre forward.More
4 Josef Hügi
Josef "Seppe" Hügi was a Swiss international footballer who played as a striker during the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s.More
5 Giampiero Boniperti
Giampiero Boniperti is an Italian former football player who played his entire 15 season career at Juventus between 1946 and 1961, winning five Serie A titles and two Coppa Italia titles. He also played for the Italy national football team at international level, and took part at the 1950 and 1954 FIFA World Cup finals, as well as the 1952 Summer Olympics with Italy. After retirement from professional football, Boniperti has been a chairman of Juventus and a deputy to the European Parliament.More
6 Stade Olympique de la Pontaise
Stade Olympique de la Pontaise is a multi-purpose stadium in Lausanne, Switzerland. The stadium holds 15,850 people and was built in 1904.More
7 Lausanne
Lausanne is the capital city and biggest town of the canton of Vaud in Romandy, Switzerland. A municipality, it is situated on the shores of Lake Léman. It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura Mountains to its north-west. Lausanne is located 62 kilometres northeast of Geneva.More
8 Brazilian Football Confederation
The Brazilian Football Confederation is the governing body of football in Brazil. It was founded on 8 June 1914 as Federação Brasileira de Sports), and renamed to Confederação Brasileira de Desportos in 1916. The football confederation, as known today, separated from other sports associations in September 1979. Between 1914 and 1979 it was the governing body, or at least the international reference, for other olympic sports, such as tennis, athletics, Swimming, Waterpolo, Handball. It currently has the most wins on FIFA world cups, with a total of 5 wins.More
9 Ivor Broadis
Ivan Arthur "Ivor" Broadis was an English professional footballer.More
10 Nat Lofthouse
Nathaniel Lofthouse was an English professional footballer who played as a forward for Bolton Wanderers for his entire career. He won 33 caps for England between 1950 and 1958, scoring 30 goals, with one of the highest goals-per-game ratios of any England player.More
11 Léopold Anoul
Léopold "Pol" Anoul was a Belgian footballer.More
12 Henri Coppens
Henri 'Rik' François Louis Coppens was a Belgian footballer who played as a striker. He played 389 games and scored 261 goals for Beerschot AC. Coppens won the first Belgian Golden Shoe in 1954. After his career as a player, he became a coach with Tubantia Borgerhout (1970–1971), Berchem, Beerschot and Club Brugge (1981).More
13 Jimmy Dickinson
James William Dickinson MBE was an English footballer.More
14 St. Jakob Stadium
The St. Jakob Stadium was a football stadium in Basel, Switzerland and the former home of Swiss club FC Basel. It was built in 1954, and as well as serving as a club stadium, it hosted several important matches, including the 1954 FIFA World Cup matches and four European Cup Winners' Cup finals.More
15 Basel
Basel or Basle is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine. Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city with about 180,000 inhabitants. The official language of Basel is German, but the main spoken language is the local Basel German dialect.More
16 German Football Association
The German Football Association is the successful governing body of football in Germany. A founding member of both FIFA and UEFA, the DFB has jurisdiction for the German football league system and is in charge of the men's and women's national teams. The DFB headquarters are in Frankfurt am Main. Sole members of the DFB are the German Football League, organising the professional Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga, along with five regional and 21 state associations, organising the semi-professional and amateur levels. The 21 state associations of the DFB have a combined number of more than 25,000 clubs with more than 6.8 million members, making the DFB the single largest sports federation in the world.More
17 Egisto Pandolfini
Egisto Pandolfini was an Italian footballer who played as a midfielder.More
18 Penalty kick (association football)
A penalty kick is a method of restarting play in association football, in which a player is allowed to take a single shot on the goal while it is defended only by the opposing team's goalkeeper. It is awarded when a foul punishable by a direct free kick is committed by a player in their own penalty area. The shot is taken from the penalty mark, which is 11 m from the goal line and centred between the touch lines.More
19 Carlo Galli
Giancarlo Galli, commonly known as Carlo Galli, is an Italian retired footballer who played as a striker.More
20 Amleto Frignani
Amleto Frignani was an Italian footballer who played as a striker.More
21 Benito Lorenzi
Benito "Veleno" Lorenzi was an Italian footballer born in Borgo a Buggiano, province of Pistoia. He played as a striker.More
22 Cornaredo Stadium
Cornaredo Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Lugano, Switzerland. It is used mostly for football matches. It is a home ground of FC Lugano. The stadium is able to hold 15,000 people and was built in 1951. The stadium has 5,000 seats and 10,000 standing places. During the 1954 FIFA World Cup, it hosted one game.More
23 Lugano
Lugano is a town and a municipality in southern Switzerland in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino bordering Italy.More
24 Austrian Football Association
The Austrian Football Association is the governing body of football in Austria. It organises the football league, Austrian Bundesliga, the Austrian Cup and the Austrian national team, as well as its female equivalent. It is based in the capital, Vienna.More
25 Jimmy Mullen (footballer, born 1923)
James Mullen was an English international footballer who played as an outside left.More
26 Dennis Wilshaw
Dennis James Wilshaw was an English international footballer. A forward, he scored 173 goals in 380 appearances in the Football League, and also scored ten goals in twelve appearances for the England national team. He spent 13 years with Wolverhampton Wanderers from 1944 to 1957, where he won the First Division title in 1953–54. He spent 1946 to 1948 on loan at Walsall, and ended his career after playing for Stoke City between 1957 and 1961.More
27 Wankdorf Stadium
The Wankdorf Stadium was a football stadium in the Wankdorf quarter of Bern, Switzerland, and the former home of Swiss club BSC Young Boys. It was built in 1925, and as well as serving as a club stadium, it hosted several important matches, including the finals of the 1954 FIFA World Cup, the 1960–61 European Cup, and the 1988–89 European Cup Winners' Cup. The Stade de Suisse has been built in Wankdorf's place.More
28 Bern
Bern is the de facto capital of Switzerland, referred to by the Swiss as their "federal city", in German: Bundesstadt, French: ville fédérale, and Italian: città federale. With a population of about 144,000, Bern is the fifth-most populous city in Switzerland. The Bern agglomeration, which includes 36 municipalities, had a population of 406,900 in 2014. The metropolitan area had a population of 660,000 in 2000.More
29 Hungarian Football Federation
The Hungarian Football Federation is the governing body of football in Hungary. It organizes the Hungarian league and the Hungarian national team. It is based in Budapest.More
30 Jacques Fatton
Jacques "Jacky" Fatton was a Swiss footballer.More
31 Fulvio Nesti
Fulvio Nesti was an Italian footballer who played as a midfielder.More
32 Football Association of Wales
The Football Association of Wales is the governing body of association football and futsal in Wales, and controls the Welsh national football team, its corresponding women's team, as well as the Welsh national futsal team. It is a member of FIFA, UEFA and the IFAB.More

References

  1. ^ Stokkermans, Karel; Jarreta, Sergio Henrique (22 October 1999). "World Cup 1954 (Switzerland, June 16 – July 4)". RSSSF.com. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  2. ^ "European football teams database - Group 4 - Switzerland v Italy".
  3. ^ "European football teams database - Group 4 - Switzerland v England".
  4. ^ "European football teams database - Group 4 Play-off".

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