Football World Cup 1966 / Italy

This article covers the Italian national team at the 1966 World Cup .

qualification

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Italy	17: 3	9: 3
2	Scotland	8: 8	7: 5
3	Poland	11:10	6: 6
4th	Finland	5:20	2:10

Italy	-	Finland	6: 1 (3: 0)
Poland	-	Italy	0-0
Finland	-	Italy	0: 2 (0: 1)
Italy	-	Poland	6: 1 (2: 0)
Scotland	-	Italy	1: 0 (0: 0)
Italy	-	Scotland	3: 0 (1: 0)

Contingent

No.	Surname	Club at the beginning of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Enrico Albertosi	AC Florence	11/02/1939	3	0	0
2	Roberto Anzolin	Juventus Turin	04/18/1938	0	0	0
18th	Pierluigi Pizzaballa	Atalanta Bergamo	09/14/1939	0	0	0
Defender
5	Tarcisio Burgnich	Inter Milan	04/25/1939	2	0	0
6th	Giacinto Facchetti	Inter Milan	07/18/1942	3	0	0
8th	Aristide Guarneri	Inter Milan	03/07/1938	1	0	0
9	Francesco Janich	Bologna FC	03/27/1937	1	0	0
11	Spartaco Landini	Inter Milan	January 31, 1944	1	0	0
21st	Roberto Rosato	AC Turin	August 18, 1943	2	0	0
22nd	Sandro Salvadore	Juventus Turin	11/29/1939	2	0	0
midfield player
4th	Giacomo Bulgarelli	Bologna FC	October 24, 1940	3	0	0
7th	Romano Fogli	Bologna FC	01/21/1938	1	0	0
10	Antonio Juliano	AC Napoli	01/01/1943	0	0	0
12	Gianfranco Leoncini	Juventus Turin	09/25/1939	1	0	0
13	Giovanni Lodetti	AC Milan	08/10/1942	2	0	0
19th	Gianni Rivera	AC Milan	August 18, 1943	2	0	0
striker
3	Paolo Barison	AS Roma	06/23/1936	2	1	0
14th	Sandro Mazzola	Inter Milan	11/08/1942	3	1	0
15th	Gigi Meroni	AC Turin	02/24/1943	1	0	0
16	Ezio Pascutti	Bologna FC	06/01/1937	1	0	0
17th	Marino Perani	Bologna FC	10/27/1939	2	0	0
20th	Francesco Rizzo	US Cagliari	05/30/1943	0	0	0
Trainer
	Edmondo Fabbri		11/16/1921

Italian team matches

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Soviet Union	6: 1	6-0
2	North Korea	2: 4	3: 3
3	Italy	2: 2	2: 4
4th	Chile	2: 5	1: 5

Preliminary round
Italy	-	Chile		2: 0 (1: 0)
Soviet Union	-	Italy		1: 0 (0: 0)
North Korea	-	Italy		1: 0 (1: 0)