After the match, Pelé gave his shirt to his roommate and teammate Dida, whose family owned it for several decades before it ended up in a Brazilian museum and was then resold in 2004.
The price tag came in at $4.9 million, around SEK 47.3 million, according to auction house Sotheby's. It is therefore the second most expensive football shirt of all time, behind Diego Maradona's "Hand of God" match shirt, which sold for $9.3 million in 2022.
The 1958 final ended in a 5-2 victory for Brazil. Pelé, then 17, remains the youngest player ever to score in a World Cup final.
Pelé died at the age of 82 in 2022.
