Matches were played in Genoa, Bologna, Milan, Bari, Salerno, Naples, and the third-place playoff and final were both in Turin.

The first list of participants, published in February 1970, consisted of Argentina, Denmark, France, Italy, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, England, and the Soviet Union.

This was changed in a later revision, with West Germany, Mexico, Austria and Switzerland replacing Argentina, France, Brazil and the Soviet Union in May 1970.

The tournament did not involve FIFA, which had held the first men's World Cup in 1930 but did not hold any women's event until 1988.

[7] Tan cerca de las nubes[citation needed], documentary (in Spanish) about the Mexican squad that participated in the 1970 cup, as well as the 1971 one.