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The '''1950 [[FIFA World Cup]]''' was a [[association football|football]] [[sporting event]] that was held in [[Brazil]] in 1950. 
This competition was special compared to other FIFA World Cup tournaments as the winner was decided by winning a mini-league instead of a knock-out game.  [[Uruguay]] won the trophy after finishing higher than [[Brazil]], [[Sweden]] and [[Spain]] in the final group stage.

== Participants ==
=== Europe ===
* {{flagicon|England}}[[England national football team|England (ENG)]] • [[Template:England Squad 1950 World Cup|Squad]]
* {{flagicon|Italy}}[[Italy national football team|Italy (ITA)]] • [[Template:Italy Squad 1950 World Cup|Squad]]
* {{flagicon|Spain|1939}}[[Spain national football team|Spain (ESP)]] • [[Template:Spain Squad 1950 World Cup|Squad]]
* {{flagicon|Sweden}}[[Sweden national football team|Sweden (SWE)]] • [[Template:Sweden Squad 1950 World Cup|Squad]]
* {{flagicon|Switzerland}}[[Switzerland national football team|Switzerland (SUI)]] • [[Template:Switzerland Squad 1950 World Cup|Squad]]
* {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}}[[Yugoslavia national football team|Yugoslavia (YUG)]] • [[Template:Yugoslavia Squad 1950 World Cup|Squad]]

=== North and Central America ===
* {{flagicon|Mexico}}[[Mexico national football team|Mexico (MEX)]] • [[Template:Mexico Squad 1950 World Cup|Squad]]
* {{flagicon|United States}}[[United States national soccer team|United States (USA)]] • [[Template:United States Squad 1950 World Cup|Squad]]

=== South America ===
* {{flagicon|Bolivia}}[[Bolivia national football team|Bolivia (BOL)]] • [[Template:Bolivia Squad 1950 World Cup|Squad]]
* {{flagicon|Brazil}}[[Brazil national football team|Brazil (BRA)]] • [[Template:Brazil Squad 1950 World Cup|Squad]]
* {{flagicon|Chile}}[[Chile national football team|Chile (CHI)]] • [[Template:Chile Squad 1950 World Cup|Squad]]
* {{flagicon|Paraguay}}[[Paraguay national football team|Paraguay (PAR)]] • [[Template:Paraguay Squad 1950 World Cup|Squad]]
* {{flagicon|Uruguay}}[[Uruguay national football team|Uruguay (URU)]] • [[Template:Uruguay Squad 1950 World Cup|Squad]]

== Results ==
=== Round 1 ===
==== Group A ====
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|Pos||style="width:12em"|Team||[[Brazil national football team|BRA]]||[[Yugoslavia national football team|YUG]]||[[Switzerland national football team|SUI]]||[[Mexico national football team|MEX]]||P||W||D||L||GF||GA||Pts||Note
|-style="background:#99FFFF;"
|1||align="left"|[[Brazil national football team|Brazil]]||-||2-0||2-2||4-0||3||2||1||0||8||2||5||Round 2
|-
|2||align="left"|[[Yugoslavia national football team|Yugoslavia]]||0-2||-||3-0||4-1||3||2||0||1||7||3||4
|-
|3||align="left"|[[Switzerland national football team|Switzerland]]||2-2||0-3||-||2-1||3||1||1||1||4||6||3
|-
|4||align="left"|[[Mexico national football team|Mexico]]||0-4||1-4||1-2||-||3||0||0||3||2||10||0
|}

==== Group B ====
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|Pos||style="width:12em"|Team||[[Spain national football team|ESP]]||[[England national football team|ENG]]||[[Chile national football team|CHI]]||[[United States national soccer team|USA]]||P||W||D||L||GF||GA||Pts||Note
|-style="background:#99FFFF;"
|1||align="left"|[[Spain national football team|Spain]]||-||1-0||2-0||3-1||3||3||0||0||6||1||6||Round 2
|-
|2||align="left"|[[England national football team|England]]||0-1||-||2-0||0-1||3||1||0||2||2||2||2
|-
|3||align="left"|[[Chile national football team|Chile]]||0-2||0-2||-||5-2||3||1||0||2||5||6||2
|-
|4||align="left"|[[United States national soccer team|United States]]||1-3||1-0||2-5||-||3||1||0||2||4||8||2
|}

==== Group C ====
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|Pos||style="width:12em"|Team||[[Sweden national football team|SWE]]||[[Italy national football team|ITA]]||[[Paraguay national football team|PAR]]||P||W||D||L||GF||GA||Pts||Note
|-style="background:#99FFFF;"
|1||align="left"|[[Sweden national football team|Sweden]]||-||3-2||2-2||2||1||1||0||5||4||3||Round 2
|-
|2||align="left"|[[Italy national football team|Italy]]||2-3||-||2-0||2||1||0||1||4||3||2
|-
|3||align="left"|[[Paraguay national football team|Paraguay]]||2-2||0-2||-||2||0||1||1||2||4||1
|}

==== Group D ====
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|Pos||style="width:12em"|Team||[[Uruguay national football team|URU]]||[[Bolivia national football team|BOL]]||P||W||D||L||GF||GA||Pts||Note
|-style="background:#99FFFF;"
|1||align="left"|[[Uruguay national football team|Uruguay]]||-||8-0||1||1||0||0||8||0||2||Round 2
|-
|2||align="left"|[[Bolivia national football team|Bolivia]]||0-8||-||1||0||0||1||0||8||0
|}

=== Round 2 ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|Pos||style="width:12em"|Team||[[Uruguay national football team|URU]]||[[Brazil national football team|BRA]]||[[Sweden national football team|SWE]]||[[Spain national football team|ESP]]||P||W||D||L||GF||GA||Pts||Note
|-style="background:#99FFFF;"
|1||align="left"|[[Uruguay national football team|Uruguay]]||-||2-1||3-2||2-2||3||2||1||0||7||5||5||championship
|-
|2||align="left"|[[Brazil national football team|Brazil]]||1-2||-||7-1||6-1||3||2||0||1||14||4||4
|-
|3||align="left"|[[Sweden national football team|Sweden]]||2-3||1-7||-||3-1||3||1||0||2||6||11||2
|-
|4||align="left"|[[Spain national football team|Spain]]||2-2||1-6||1-3||-||3||0||1||2||4||11||1
|}

== References ==
* [https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition=7/index.html FIFA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080605053750/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition=7/index.html |date=2008-06-05 }}

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