# Brazil

> Brazil's national football team, for which Pelé won three World Cups and scored 77 goals in 92 matches between 1957 and 1971.

Source page: https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/brazil
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_goals_scored_by_Pel%C3%A9

- Type: National team
- Country: Brazil
- Nickname: Seleção
- His years: 1957–1971
- His matches: 92
- His goals: 77

Pelé first played for Brazil on 7 July 1957, aged 16, and scored in a 2–1 defeat by Argentina. He remains the youngest player to score for his country. His last match was a 2–2 draw with Yugoslavia at the Maracanã on 18 July 1971.

In between he played in four World Cups and won three of them, in 1958, 1962 and 1970. No other man has won three. He scored 12 goals in 14 World Cup matches.

His international totals depend on who is counting. Wikipedia's figure of 77 goals in 92 matches includes one 1968 match against a Rest of the World side that FIFA does not recognise as official. The Brazilian Football Confederation credits him with 95 goals in 113 matches, because it also counts games against club sides.

His 77 goals stood as Brazil's record for more than fifty years, until Neymar passed it in September 2023. With Pelé on the pitch, Brazil won 67, drew 14 and lost 11. Brazil never lost a match in which both Pelé and Garrincha played.

## Related

- Its home city or country: [Brazil](https://pele.wiki/footballer/locations/brazil-country)
- The tournaments it played with him: [FIFA World Cup 1958](https://pele.wiki/footballer/tournaments/1958-fifa-world-cup), [South American Championship 1959 (Argentina)](https://pele.wiki/footballer/tournaments/1959-south-american-championship), [FIFA World Cup 1962](https://pele.wiki/footballer/tournaments/1962-fifa-world-cup), [FIFA World Cup 1966](https://pele.wiki/footballer/tournaments/1966-fifa-world-cup), [FIFA World Cup 1970](https://pele.wiki/footballer/tournaments/1970-fifa-world-cup)
- Its matches with him: [Brazil 1–2 Argentina](https://pele.wiki/footballer/matches/brazil-debut-1957), [Brazil 2–0 Soviet Union](https://pele.wiki/footballer/matches/brazil-2-0-soviet-union-1958), [Brazil 1–0 Wales](https://pele.wiki/footballer/matches/brazil-1-0-wales-1958), [Brazil 5–2 France](https://pele.wiki/footballer/matches/brazil-5-2-france-1958), [Brazil 5–2 Sweden](https://pele.wiki/footballer/matches/1958-world-cup-final), [Brazil 2–0 Mexico](https://pele.wiki/footballer/matches/brazil-2-0-mexico-1962), [Brazil 0–0 Czechoslovakia](https://pele.wiki/footballer/matches/brazil-0-0-czechoslovakia-1962), [Brazil 2–0 Bulgaria](https://pele.wiki/footballer/matches/brazil-2-0-bulgaria-1966), [Brazil 1–3 Portugal](https://pele.wiki/footballer/matches/brazil-1-3-portugal-1966), [Brazil 4–1 Czechoslovakia](https://pele.wiki/footballer/matches/brazil-4-1-czechoslovakia-1970), [Brazil 1–0 England](https://pele.wiki/footballer/matches/brazil-1-0-england-1970), [Brazil 3–1 Uruguay](https://pele.wiki/footballer/matches/brazil-3-1-uruguay-1970), [Brazil 4–1 Italy](https://pele.wiki/footballer/matches/1970-world-cup-final), [Brazil 2–2 Yugoslavia](https://pele.wiki/footballer/matches/brazil-2-2-yugoslavia-1971)
- Its people: [Pelé](https://pele.wiki/footballer/people/pele), [Waldemar de Brito](https://pele.wiki/footballer/people/waldemar-de-brito), [Vicente Feola](https://pele.wiki/footballer/people/vicente-feola), [Mário Zagallo](https://pele.wiki/footballer/people/mario-zagallo), [Garrincha](https://pele.wiki/footballer/people/garrincha), [Didi](https://pele.wiki/footballer/people/didi), [Vavá](https://pele.wiki/footballer/people/vava), [Nílton Santos](https://pele.wiki/footballer/people/nilton-santos), [Coutinho](https://pele.wiki/footballer/people/coutinho), [Carlos Alberto Torres](https://pele.wiki/footballer/people/carlos-alberto-torres), [Jairzinho](https://pele.wiki/footballer/people/jairzinho), [Tostão](https://pele.wiki/footballer/people/tostao), [Rivellino](https://pele.wiki/footballer/people/rivellino)
- The chapters it appears in: [Santos: discovery and debut (1956–1957)](https://pele.wiki/footballer/chapters/santos-discovery-and-debut), [Sweden 1958](https://pele.wiki/footballer/chapters/sweden-1958), [Chile 1962: the injury](https://pele.wiki/footballer/chapters/chile-1962-the-injury), [England 1966](https://pele.wiki/footballer/chapters/england-1966), [Mexico 1970](https://pele.wiki/footballer/chapters/mexico-1970), [Leaving Brazil and Santos (1971–1974)](https://pele.wiki/footballer/chapters/leaving-brazil-and-santos)
- The honours he won with it: [FIFA World Cup winner, 1958](https://pele.wiki/footballer/honours/1958-world-cup-winner), [FIFA World Cup winner, 1962](https://pele.wiki/footballer/honours/1962-world-cup-winner), [FIFA World Cup winner, 1970](https://pele.wiki/footballer/honours/1970-world-cup-winner)
- The questions it answers: [How many goals did Pelé score?](https://pele.wiki/footballer/questions/how-many-goals-did-pele-score), [How many matches and goals did Pelé play and score for Brazil?](https://pele.wiki/footballer/questions/how-many-caps-and-goals-for-brazil)