1934 FIFA World Cup Final

The 1934 FIFA World Cup Final was a football match that took place on 10 June 1934 to determine the winner of the 1934 FIFA World Cup. It was the final of the second FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The match was between Italy and Czechoslovakia at the Stadio Nazionale PNF in Rome, Italy.

1934 FIFA World Cup Final

The Stadio Nazionale PNF held the final
Event	1934 FIFA World Cup
Italy Czechoslovakia 2 1
After extra time
Date	10 June 1934
Venue	Stadio Nazionale PNF, Rome
Referee	Ivan Eklind (Sweden)
Attendance	55,000

In the final it was Italy who came back from a one goal deficit to win the match 2–1 in a match which had temperatures approaching 40 °C (104 °F).[1]

The last living player from that final, Czech goalkeeper František Plánička, died on 20 July 1996 at the age of 92.[2]

Background

After Uruguay refused to participate for the 1934 edition due to the lack of European teams in the previous tournament and Argentina getting eliminated in the first round of the competition by Sweden,[3] this meant that the competition would be seeing two different finalists.

For both nations this was the first time that they were competing in the FIFA World Cup.[4] It was also the eleventh meeting between the two teams with the previous match being in the 1933–35 Central European International Cup with Italy winning the match at Florence, Italy 2-0 to level the head to head in this match to three all with four draws.[5]

Route to the final

Italy		Round	Czechoslovakia
Opponent	Result	Final tournament	Opponent	Result
United States	7–1	Preliminary round	Romania	2–1
Spain	1–1 (1–0)	Quarter-finals	Switzerland	3–2
Austria	1–0	Semifinals	Germany	3–1

Match

Summary

Czechoslovakia took the lead with 19 minutes remaining through Antonín Puč. They held the lead for only 10 minutes though, as Italy drew level through striker Raimundo Orsi. There were no more goals in regulation so the match was forced to go into extra time, the first World Cup final to do so. With just five minutes played in extra time, Italy took the lead with a goal from Angelo Schiavio and they held on for the victory.

Details

10 June 1934

17:00 CET (UTC+01:00)

Italy	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Czechoslovakia
Orsi  81' Schiavio  95'	Report	Puč  71'

Stadio Nazionale PNF, Rome

Attendance: 55,000

Referee: Ivan Eklind (Sweden)

Italy

Czechoslovakia

GK Gianpiero Combi (c) RB Eraldo Monzeglio LB Luigi Allemandi RH Attilio Ferraris CH Luis Monti LH Luigi Bertolini OR Enrique Guaita IR Giuseppe Meazza IL Giovanni Ferrari OL Raimundo Orsi CF Angelo Schiavio Manager: Vittorio Pozzo

GK František Plánička (c) RB Josef Čtyřoký LB Ladislav Ženíšek RH Rudolf Krčil CH Štefan Čambal LH Josef Košťálek OR Antonín Puč IR Oldřich Nejedlý IL František Svoboda OL František Junek CF Jiří Sobotka Manager: Karel Petrů

Assistant referees: Louis Baert (Belgium) Mihály Ivanicsics (Hungary)

Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Replay if scores still level. No substitutions permitted.

References

1. Kelly, Jon (25 February 2015). "What happened to the Qatar World Cup's cooling technology?". BBC. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
2. "František Plánička: Slávny brankár chytal aj so zlomeným lakt'om!". Život (in Slovak). 30 May 2009. Archived from the original on 14 July 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
3. Freddi 2006:20
4. "FIFA World Cup: Milestones, facts & figures. Statistical Kit 7" (PDF). FIFA. 26 March 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 May 2013.
5. "Italy-Czech Republic/Czechoslovakia matches 1922-2013". 21 December 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2019.

Bibliography

• Freddi, Cris (2006), Complete Book of the World Cup 2006, London: HarperCollins, ISBN 0-00-722916-X

External links

• 1934 FIFA World Cup Final at Planet World Cup