Editing 1966 FIFA World Cup (section)

===Final===
{{Main|1966 FIFA World Cup Final}}
London's Wembley Stadium was the venue for the final, and 98,000 people attended. After 12 minutes 32 seconds [[Helmut Haller]] put West Germany ahead, but the score was levelled by [[Geoff Hurst]] four minutes later. [[Martin Peters]] put England in the lead in the 78th minute; England looked set to claim the title when the referee awarded a free kick to West Germany with one minute left. The ball was launched goalward and [[Wolfgang Weber]] scored, with England appealing in vain for handball as the ball came through the crowded penalty area.<ref name=mcilvanney/>


With the score level at 2–2 at the end of 90 minutes, the game went to [[Overtime (association football)|extra time]]. In the 98th minute, Hurst found himself on the scoresheet again; his shot hit the crossbar, bounced down onto the goal line, and was awarded as a goal. Debate has long raged over whether the ball crossed the line, with the goal becoming part of World Cup history.<ref>{{cite web |first1=Ian |last1=Reid |first2=Andrew |last2=Zisserman |url=http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/publications/papers/reid96.pdf |title=Goal-directed Video Metrology |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=10 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302225512/http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/publications/papers/reid96.pdf |archive-date=2 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> England's final goal was scored by Hurst again, as a celebratory pitch invasion began. This made Geoff Hurst the first player to have scored three times in a single World Cup final.<ref name=mcilvanney/> [[BBC]] commentator [[Kenneth Wolstenholme]]'s description of the match's closing moments has gone down in history: "Some people are on the pitch. [[They think it's all over]] ... ''[Hurst scores]'' It is now!"<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1388921/Kenneth-Wolstenholme.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1388921/Kenneth-Wolstenholme.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Kenneth Wolstenholme |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=27 March 2002 |access-date=22 June 2010 |quote=Kenneth Wolstenholme, who has died aged 81, was the voice of football on the BBC for almost a quarter of a century and the author of arguably the most celebrated words in British sports broadcasting, his commentary on England's last goal in the World Cup Final of 1966: "Some people are on the pitch. They think it's all over – it is now!"}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

England's total of eleven goals scored in six games set a new record low for average goals per game scored by a World Cup winning team. The record stood until 1982, when it was surpassed by Italy's 12 goals in seven games; in 2010 this record was lowered again by Spain, winning the Cup with eight goals in seven games. England's total of three goals conceded also constituted a record low for average goals per game conceded by a World Cup winning team. That record stood until 1994, when it was surpassed by Brazil's three goals in seven games. France again lowered the record to two goals in seven during the [[1998 FIFA World Cup|1998 tournament]], a record that has since been equalled by Italy at the 2006 tournament and by Spain's two goals conceded during the [[2010 FIFA World Cup|2010 tournament]].

England received the recovered Jules Rimet trophy from [[Queen Elizabeth II]] and were crowned World Cup winners for the first time.<ref name=mcilvanney>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/jul/30/englandfootballteam |title=From the Vault: Hurst's hat-trick wins the World Cup |last=McIlvanney |first=Hugh |work=The Guardian|date=30 July 2008 |access-date=22 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100606002132/http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/jul/30/englandfootballteam |archive-date=6 June 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In this World Cup, the national anthems were played only in the final. They were not played in the earlier matches because the organisers (FIFA and the FA) feared that North Korea's presence – a socialist country that was not recognised by the United Kingdom – in the World Cup would cause problems with South Korea. A memo from the Foreign Office months before the finals began stated that the solution would be "denying the visas to North Korean players".<ref name=nk1/> The final, held at [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley Stadium]], was the last to be broadcast in black and white.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150905071210/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/matches/round=3478/match=1633/classic-match/index.html "1966 FIFA World Cup England – Final"]. FIFA.com.</ref>