1966 FIFA World Cup Sunderland. The most used venue was Wembley, which was used for nine matches, including all six featuring England, the final and the third-place match. Goodison Park was used for five matches, Roker Park and Hillsborough both hosted four, while Old Trafford, Villa Park and Ayresome Park each hosted three matches and did not host any knockout round matches. For a list of all squads that appeared in the final tournament, see "1966 FIFA World Cup squads". With nine goals, Eusébio was the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 89 goals were scored by 47 players, with two of them
1966 FIFA World Cup qualification were 393 goals scored over 127 games, for an average of 3.09 goals per game and 51 teams played in qualification. The 16 spots available in the 1966 World Cup were be distributed among the continental zones as follows: UEFA, CONMEBOL and CONCACAF had a guaranteed number of places, whereas the CAF and AFC had to contest a play-off to determine which confederation would be represented. After the first round of 1966 FIFA World Cup finals, the percentage of teams from each confederation that passed through to the Quarter-finals was as follows: For FIFA World Cup qualifying stages using a