1950 FIFA World Cup Brazil
- When: 24 June 1950 to 16 July 1950
- Final: 16 July 1950
- Matches: 22
- Goals Scored: 88 (average 4.0 per match)
- Attendance: 1043500 (average 47431)
- Teams: 13
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Final Round
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- Golden Shoe: ADEMIR (9 goals) (Brazil)
- Oscar MIGUEZ (5 goals) (Urugay)
- Estanislao BASORA (5 goals) (Spain)
- Alcides GHIGGIA (4 goals) (Uruguay)
- CHICO (4 goals) (Brazil)
- In his solitary FIFA World Cup™ appearance, Ruben Moran, 19, helped Uruguay beat Brazil 2-1 in the competition's deciding match to claim gold.
- Fredy Bickel turned out for Switzerland in their curtain raiser against Yugoslavia, 12 years and 13 days after his last appearance in the competition.
- Yugoslavia's 22-man squad included players from only four different clubs; Red Star Belgrade, Partizan Belgrade, Hajduk Split and Dinamo Zagreb.
- When the USA caused a huge upset by beating England 1-0, one British newspaper, assuming a misprint in the wires, reported that England had won 10-1.
- Scotland declined to compete after failing to win the British Home Championship, while India withdrew after being told they could not play barefoot.
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