Brazil Independence Cup

Twenty teams competed; 18 national teams as well as two representative sides from Africa and CONCACAF (North and Central America and the Caribbean).

15 teams competed in the first round, while 5 teams (Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Scotland, Soviet Union, Uruguay) received byes to the final stage.

The teams are drawn into three groups of 5 teams. Each team plays each other team in its group once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw. The three first-placed teams advance to the final stage.

The 8 teams are drawn into two groups of 4 teams. Each team plays each other team in its group once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw.

The two group runners-up play each other in the third-place playoff.

The two group winners play each other in the final.

File:Brasil-TII.svg

The tournament was played in 12 cities: Aracaju, Belo Horizonte, Campo Grande, Curitiba, Maceió, Manaus, Natal, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and São Paulo.

{{main|Brazil Independence Cup squads}}

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|time =

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Mastrángelo {{goal|42}}

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|attendance = 12,826

|referee = José Faville Neto (Brazil)

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|date = 11 June 1972

|time =

|team1 = {{fb-rt|FRA}}

|score = 5–0

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Revelli {{goal|15||21||69}}
Bulnes {{goal|82|o.g.}}

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|stadium = Estádio Fonte Nova, Salvador

|attendance = 21,422

|referee = Kurt Tschenscher (West Germany)

}}

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{{football box

|date = 14 June 1972

|time =

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Floch {{goal|83}}

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|team2 = Africa

|stadium = Estádio Rei Pelé, Maceió

|attendance = 10,000

|referee = José Faville Neto (Brazil)

}}

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{{football box

|date = 15 June 1972

|time =

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|score = 4–3

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|team2 = CONCACAF

|goals1 = Pineros {{goal|13}}
Lugo {{goal|15||17}}
Morón {{goal|77}}

|goals2 = Reiner {{goal|38||59}}
Désir {{goal|64}}

|stadium = Batistão, Aracaju

|attendance = 7,642

|referee = Rafael Hormazábal Diaz (Chile)

}}

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{{football box

|date = 18 June 1972

|time =

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Más {{goal|12||65}}
Bianchi {{goal|70}}

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|stadium = Estádio Rei Pelé, Maceió

|attendance = 8,587

|referee = Paul Schiller (Austria)

}}

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|goals1 = Piñeros {{goal|23|pen.}}
Mesa {{goal|82}}

|goals2 = Loubet {{goal|30||72}}
Molitor {{goal|33|pen.}}

|stadium = Estádio Fonte Nova, Salvador

|attendance = 10,000

|referee = Ángel Eduardo Pazos (Uruguay)

}}

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{{football box

|date = 22 June 1972

|time =

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|score = 0–0

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|team2 = Africa

|stadium = Estádio Fonte Nova, Salvador

|attendance = 1,928

|referee = Édison Pérez Nuñez (Peru)

}}

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{{football box

|date = 22 June 1972

|time =

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|team2 = {{fb|COL}}

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Vargas {{goal|60}}

|goals2 = Morón {{goal|68}}

|stadium = Estádio Fonte Nova

|location = Salvador, Brazil

|attendance = 10,000

|referee = Kurt Tschenscher (West Germany)

}}

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{{football box

|date = 25 June 1972

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Tokoto {{goal|39||55}}

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|attendance = 10,579

|referee = José Romei Cañete (Paraguay)

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|stadium = Estádio Fonte Nova, Salvador

|attendance = 6,587

|referee = Armando Marques (Brazil)

}}

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Nené {{goal|75}}

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|attendance =

|referee = Norberto Angel Coerezza (Argentina)

}}

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{{football box

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Givens {{goal|74}}

|goals2 = Ghelichkhani {{goal|10}}

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|attendance= 10,500

|referee= Aurelio Angonese (Italy)

|stadium = Estádio do Arruda, Recife

}}

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{{football box

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Dinis {{goal|31}}
Coelho {{goal|72}}

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|referee= Guillermo Velásquez Ramirez (Colombia)

|stadium = Estádio do Arruda, Recife

}}

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{{football box

|date = 14 June 1972

|time =

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|goals1 = Caszely {{goal|??}}
Crisosto {{goal|??}}

|goals2 = Lasso {{goal|??}}

|attendance =

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}}

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{{football box

|date = 18 June 1972

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Dinis {{goal|54||66}}
Eusébio {{goal|71}}

|goals2 = Caszely {{goal|56}}

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|team2 = {{fb|CHI}}

|stadium = Estádio do Arruda, Recife

|attendance =

|referee = Aurelio Angonese (Italy)

}}

----

{{football box

|date = 18 June 1972

|time =

|team1 = {{fb-rt|IRL}}

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|goals1 = Rogers {{goal|2}}
Martin {{goal|61}}
O'Connor {{goal|86}}

|goals2 = Coronel {{goal|36}}
Lasso {{goal|78}}

|stadium = Machadão, Natal

|attendance =

|referee = Michael Kitabdjian (France)

}}

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{{football box

|date = 21 June 1972

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|goals1 = Lasso {{goal|15}}

|goals2 = Ghelichkhani {{goal|36}}

|attendance= 5,000

|referee= Sebastião Rufino (Brazil)

|stadium = Estádio do Arruda, Recife

}}

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{{football box

|date = 21 June 1972

|time =

|team1 = {{fb-rt|CHI}}

|score = 2–1

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|team2 = {{fb|IRL}}

|goals1 = Caszely {{goal|16}}
Fouilloux {{goal|25}}

|goals2 = Rogers {{goal|79}}

|stadium = Estádio do Arruda, Recife

|attendance =

|referee = Romualdo Arppi Filho (Brazil)

}}

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{{football box

|date = 25 June 1972

|time =

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|report= [http://www.11v11.com/matches/chile-v-iran-25-june-1972-231996/ Report]

|team2 = {{fb|IRN|1964}}

|goals1 = Caszely {{goal|50||79}}

|goals2 = Halvaei {{goal|85}}

|attendance= 15,000

|referee = Michael Kitabdjian (France)

|stadium = Estádio do Arruda, Recife}}

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{{football box

|date = 25 June 1972

|time =

|team1 = {{fb-rt|POR}}

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|goals1 = Peres {{goal|35}}
Nené {{goal|37}}

|goals2 = Leech {{goal|38}}

|stadium = Estádio do Arruda, Recife

|attendance =

|referee = Norberto Ángel Coerezza (Argentina)

}}

{{#invoke:sports table|main|style=WDL

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{{football box

|date = 11 June 1972

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Castañeda {{goal|16}}
Sotil {{goal|31}}

|goals2 =

|stadium = Estádio Couto Pereira, Curitiba

|attendance =

|referee = Edwin Keith Walker (England)

}}

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{{football box

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|time =

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|score = 4–1

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|team2 = {{fb|VEN|1954}}

|goals1 = L. Jiménez {{goal|2}}
Escobar {{goal|11}}
Maldonado {{goal|13||37}}

|goals2 = Olivares {{goal|26}}

|stadium = Morenão, Campo Grande

|attendance =

|referee = George Lamptey (Ghana)

}}

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{{football box

|date = 14 June 1972

|time =

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|score = 10–0

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Džajić {{goal|20}}
Aćimović {{goal|37}}
Popivoda {{goal|44}}
Stepanović {{goal|51}}
Katalinski {{goal|54}}

|goals2 =

|stadium = Estádio Couto Pereira, Curitiba

|attendance = 5,000

|referee = Ove Dahlberg (Sweden)

}}

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{{football box

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|stadium = Morenão, Campo Grande

|attendance =

|referee = Abraham Klein (Israel)

}}

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{{football box

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|goals2 = Pariente {{goal|78}}

|stadium = Morenão, Campo Grande

|attendance = 15,000

|referee = Abraham Klein (Israel)

}}

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{{football box

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|stadium = Vivaldão, Manaus

|goals1 = O. Ramírez {{goal|65}}

|goals2 =

|attendance =

|referee = Arnaldo Cézar Coelho (Brazil)

}}

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{{football box

|date = 21 June 1972

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Mendoza {{goal|49}}

|goals2 = Rimazza {{goal|5}}
Blacutt {{goal|57}}

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|attendance =

|referee = Oei Poh Hwa (Malaysia)

}}

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{{football box

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|goals2 = Escobar {{goal|17}}

|stadium = Vivaldão, Manaus

|attendance = 25,000

|referee = Abraham Klein (Israel)

}}

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{{football box

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Arrúa {{goal|57||59||67}}
dos Santos {{goal|86}}

|goals2 = Molinas {{goal|63|o.g.}}

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|attendance =

|referee = Arnaldo Cézar Coelho (Brazil)

}}

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|goals2 = O. Ramírez {{goal|11}}

|stadium = Vivaldão, Manaus

|attendance = 20,000

|referee = Alfonso González Archundía (Mexico)

}}

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|team2 = {{fb|Czechoslovakia}}

|stadium = Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro

|attendance = 115,000

|referee = Kurt Tschenscher (West Germany)

}}

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{{football box

|date = 29 June 1972

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|goals2 = Bajević {{goal|60}}
Buchan {{goal|87|o.g.}}

|stadium = Mineirão, Belo Horizonte

|attendance = 4,000

|referee =Norberto Ángel Coerezza (Argentina)

}}

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{{football box

|date = 2 July 1972

|time =

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Jairzinho {{goal|65}}

|goals2 =

|stadium = Estádio do Morumbi, São Paulo

|attendance = 100,000

|referee = Ove Dahlberg (Sweden)

}}

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{{football box

|date = 2 July 1972

|time =

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|score = 0–0

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|team2 = {{fb|Czechoslovakia}}

|stadium = Estádio Beira-Rio, Porto Alegre

|attendance = 15,000

|referee = Armando Marques (Brazil)

}}

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{{football box

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|goals2 =

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|referee = Abraham Klein (Israel)

}}

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{{football box

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Džajić {{goal|77}}

|goals2 = Hrušecký {{goal|37}}

|stadium = Estádio do Pacaembu, São Paulo

|attendance = 3,000

|referee = Armando Marques (Brazil)

}}

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{{football box

|date = 29 June 1972

|time =

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|score = 1–0

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|goals1 = Onishchenko {{goal|59}}

|goals2 =

|stadium = Estádio do Morumbi, São Paulo

|attendance = 10,000

|referee = Abraham Klein (Israel)

}}

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{{football box

|date = 29 June 1972

|time =

|team1 = {{fb-rt|POR}}

|score = 3–1

|report = [http://www.11v11.com/matches/portugal-v-argentina-29-june-1972-232000/ Report]

|team2 = {{fb|ARG|alt}}

|goals1 = Calisto {{goal|36}}
Eusébio {{goal|45}}
Dinis {{goal|47}}

|goals2 = Brindisi {{goal|29}}

|stadium = Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro

|attendance =

|referee = Edwin Keith Walker (England)

}}

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{{football box

|date = 2 July 1972

|time =

|team1 = {{fb-rt|URU}}

|score = 1–1

|report = [http://www.11v11.com/matches/uruguay-v-portugal-02-july-1972-232005/ Report]

|team2 = {{fb|POR}}

|goals1 = Pavoni {{goal|20}}

|goals2 = Graça {{goal|46}}

|stadium = Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro

|attendance = 50,000

|referee = Rudolf Scheurer (Switzerland)

}}

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{{football box

|date = 2 July 1972

|time =

|team1 = {{fb-rt|ARG|alt}}

|score = 1–0

|report = [http://www.11v11.com/matches/argentina-v-ussr-02-july-1972-232006/ Report]

|team2 = {{fb|URS|1955}}

|goals1 = Pastoriza {{goal|75}}

|goals2 =

|stadium = Mineirão, Belo Horizonte

|attendance = 8,000

|referee = Alfonso González Archundía (Mexico)

}}

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{{football box

|date = 6 July 1972

|time =

|team1 = {{fb-rt|POR}}

|score = 1–0

|report = [http://www.11v11.com/matches/portugal-v-ussr-06-july-1972-232015/ Report]

|team2 = {{fb|URS|1955}}

|goals1 = Jordão {{goal|46}}

|goals2 =

|stadium = Mineirão, Belo Horizonte

|attendance = 12,000

|referee = Kurt Tschenscher (West Germany)

}}

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{{football box

|date = 6 July 1972

|time =

|team1 = {{fb-rt|ARG|alt}}

|score = 1–0

|report = [http://www.11v11.com/matches/argentina-v-uruguay-06-july-1972-232016/ Report]

|team2 = {{fb|URU}}

|goals1 = Más {{goal|37}}

|goals2 =

|stadium = Estádio Beira-Rio, Porto Alegre

|attendance =

|referee = Edwin Keith Walker (England)

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{{football box

|date = 9 July 1972

|time =

|team1 = {{fb-rt|YUG}}

|score = 4–2

|report = [http://www.soccer-db.info/index.php?option=com_joomsport&task=view_match&id=9778&Itemid=0 Report]

|team2 = {{fb|ARG|alt}}

|goals1 = Bajević {{goal|26||83}}
Katalinski {{goal|37}}
Džajić {{goal|64}}

|goals2 = Brindisi {{goal|58|pen.|87|pen.}}

|stadium = Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro

|attendance = 170,000

|referee = Paul Schiller (Austria)

}}

{{football box

|date = 9 July 1972

|time =

|team1 = {{fb-rt|BRA|1968}}

|score = 1–0

|report = [https://jogosdaselecaobrasileira.wordpress.com/1972/07/09/9-de-julho-de-1972-brasil-1-x-0-portugal/ Report]

|team2 = {{fb|POR}}

|goals1 = Jairzinho {{goal|89}}

|stadium = Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro

|attendance = 99,138

|referee = Abraham Klein (Israel)

}}

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{{goalscorers

|matches=16|goals=57

|13 goals=

• {{flagicon|YUG}} Dušan Bajević

|5 goals=

• {{flagicon|ARG|alt}} Rodolfo Fischer
• {{flagicon|CHI}} Carlos Caszely
• {{flagicon|POR}} Joaquim Dinis

|4 goals=

• {{flagicon|ARG|alt}} Carlos Bianchi
• {{flagicon|POR}} Eusébio
• {{flagicon|PRY|1954}} Cristóbal Maldonado

|3 goals=

• {{flagicon|ARG|alt}} Miguel Ángel Brindisi
• {{flagicon|ARG|alt}} Oscar Más
• {{flagicon|BRA|1968}} Jairzinho
• {{flagicon|ECU}} Félix Lasso
• {{flagicon|FRA}} Hervé Revelli
• {{flagicon|PRY|1954}} Saturnino Arrúa
• {{flagicon|YUG}} Dragan Džajić
• {{flagicon|YUG}} Josip Katalinski

|2 goals=

• {{flagicon|BRA|1968}} Leivinha
• {{flagicon|CMR}} Jean-Pierre Tokoto
• {{flagicon|COL}} Carlos Lugo
• {{flagicon|COL}} Jaime Morón
• {{flagicon|COL}} Hernando Pineros
• {{flagicon|FRA}} Charly Loubet
• {{flagicon|IRL}} Mick Leech
• {{flagicon|IRL}} Eamonn Rogers
• {{flagicon|IRN|1964}} Parviz Ghelichkhani
• {{flagicon|PER}} Oswaldo Ramírez
• {{flagicon|POR}} Humberto Coelho
• {{flagicon|POR}} Nené
• {{flagicon|PRY|1954}} Adalberto Escobar
• {{flagicon|SCO}} Lou Macari
• {{flagicon|SUR}} Edwin Reiner

|1 goal=

• {{flagicon|ARG|alt}} Ernesto Mastrángelo
• {{flagicon|ARG|alt}} José Omar Pastoriza
• {{flagicon|ARG|alt}} Ángel Vargas
• {{flagicon|BOL}} Ramiro Blacutt
• {{flagicon|BOL}} Mario Pariente
• {{flagicon|BOL}} Jaime Rimazza
• {{flagicon|CIV}} Laurent Pokou
• {{flagicon|CHI}} Julio Crisosto
• {{flagicon|CHI}} Alberto Fouilloux
• {{flagicon|COL}} Orlando Mesa
• {{flagicon|CSK}} Anton Hrušecký
• {{flagicon|ECU}} Miguel Coronel
• {{flagicon|FRA}} Georges Bereta
• {{flagicon|FRA}} Bernard Blanchet
• {{flagicon|FRA}} Louis Floch
• {{flagicon|FRA}} Marc Molitor
• {{flagicon|HAI|1964}} Jean-Claude Désir
• {{flagicon|IRL}} Don Givens
• {{flagicon|IRL}} Mick Martin
• {{flagicon|IRL}} Turlough O'Connor
• {{flagicon|IRN|1964}} Majid Halvaei
• {{flagicon|PER}} Hernán Castañeda
• {{flagicon|PER}} Alberto Gallardo
• {{flagicon|PER}} Hugo Sotil
• {{flagicon|POR}} Adolfo Calisto
• {{flagicon|POR}} Jaime Graça
• {{flagicon|POR}} Rui Jordão
• {{flagicon|POR}} Fernando Peres
• {{flagicon|PRY|1954}} Emigdio dos Santos
• {{flagicon|PRY|1954}} Tiberio Godoy
• {{flagicon|PRY|1954}} Lorenzo Jiménez
• {{flagicon|URS|1955}} Vladimir Onishchenko
• {{flagicon|URY}} Ricardo Pavoni
• {{flagicon|VEN|1954}}Ramón Iriarte
• {{flagicon|VEN|1954}}Luis Mendoza
• {{flagicon|VEN|1954}} Asdrúbal Olivares
• {{flagicon|YUG}} Jovan Acimovic
• {{flagicon|YUG}} Danilo Popivoda
• {{flagicon|YUG}} Dragoslav Stepanovic

|3 own goals=

• {{flagicon|HON|1949}} Fernando Bulnes (against France)
• {{flagicon|PRY|1954}} Pedro Molinas (against Bolivia)
• {{flagicon|SCO}} Martin Buchan (against Yugoslavia)

}}

• Macario Reyes: [https://www.rsssf.org/tablesb/braz-indep72.html Brazil Independence Cup 1972], Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation, 27 June 2007.
• Eliézer Sebastián Pérez Pérez: [https://www.rsssf.org/tablesb/braz-indep72det.html Brazil Independence Cup 1972 – Additional Details], RSSSF, 6 July 2007.

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120915141347/http://www.cbf.com.br/noticias/memorias/2011/5/27/taca-independencia Sala de troféus] Confederação Brasileira de Futebol, 27 May 2011. (Information about the Taça Independência)
• [http://www.eu-football.info/_tournament.php?id=IT Tournament: Taça Independência (Mini-Copa)], EU-Football.info (details about matches with European participation)

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