# Teams: Pelé, the wiki

> A club or national team: one he played for, or one he played against in a match that mattered.

- [Argentina](https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/argentina-national-team): Brazil's neighbours and rivals, against whom a 16-year-old Pelé made his international debut and scored in 1957.
- [Bauru Atlético Clube](https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/bauru-ac): The club in Bauru whose junior team Pelé played for as a boy, coached by Waldemar de Brito.
- [Benfica](https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/benfica): The Lisbon club Santos beat for the 1962 Intercontinental Cup, with Pelé scoring five goals over the two legs.
- [Brazil](https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/brazil): Brazil's national football team, for which Pelé won three World Cups and scored 77 goals in 92 matches between 1957 and 1971.
- [Bulgaria](https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/bulgaria-national-team): Brazil's first opponents at the 1966 World Cup: Pelé scored, but was fouled repeatedly and missed the next match.
- [Corinthians de Santo André](https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/corinthians-santo-andre): The club Santos beat 7–1 in a friendly on 7 September 1956, the day a 15-year-old Pelé scored his first senior goal.
- [Czechoslovakia](https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/czechoslovakia-national-team): Opponents in two of Pelé's World Cups: he was injured against them in 1962 and scored against them in 1970.
- [Dallas Tornado](https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/dallas-tornado): The NASL club the Cosmos drew 2–2 with on 15 June 1975, Pelé's first match for New York.
- [England](https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/england-national-team): The 1966 world champions, beaten 1–0 by Brazil in 1970 in the match of Gordon Banks's save from Pelé.
- [Fluminense](https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/fluminense): Rio de Janeiro club beaten 3–1 by Santos at the Maracanã in March 1961, the match of Pelé's gol de placa.
- [France](https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/france-national-team): Brazil's semi-final opponents in 1958, beaten 5–2 as Pelé scored a second-half hat-trick.
- [Italy](https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/italy-national-team): Brazil's opponents in the 1970 World Cup final, beaten 4–1 at the Estadio Azteca.
- [Mexico](https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/mexico-national-team): Brazil's first opponents at the 1962 World Cup, beaten 2–0 with a goal from Pelé.
- [New York Cosmos](https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/cosmos): The North American Soccer League club Pelé joined in 1975, winning the 1977 title in the last season of his career.
- [Ponte Preta](https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/ponte-preta): The Campinas club Santos beat 2–0 at Vila Belmiro on 2 October 1974, Pelé's last official match for Santos.
- [Portugal](https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/portugal-national-team): The team that knocked Brazil out of the 1966 World Cup with a 3–1 win, as Pelé was fouled out of the match.
- [Santos FC](https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/santos): The São Paulo state club Pelé played for from 1956 to 1974, and for which he scored 643 goals in official matches.
- [Seattle Sounders](https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/seattle-sounders): The NASL club the Cosmos beat 2–1 in Soccer Bowl '77, the last competitive match of Pelé's career.
- [Soviet Union](https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/soviet-union-national-team): Brazil's opponents in Pelé's first World Cup match, a 2–0 win in Gothenburg on 15 June 1958.
- [Sweden](https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/sweden-national-team): The hosts of the 1958 World Cup, beaten 5–2 by Brazil in the final, in which Pelé scored twice.
- [Uruguay](https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/uruguay-national-team): Brazil's semi-final opponents at the 1970 World Cup, beaten 3–1 in Guadalajara.
- [Vasco da Gama](https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/vasco-da-gama): The Rio de Janeiro club Pelé scored his 1,000th goal against, from a penalty at the Maracanã in November 1969.
- [Wales](https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/wales-national-team): The team Pelé scored his first World Cup goal against, in Brazil's 1–0 quarter-final win in 1958.
- [Yugoslavia](https://pele.wiki/footballer/teams/yugoslavia-national-team): The opponents in Pelé's last match for Brazil, a 2–2 draw at the Maracanã on 18 July 1971.