1998 FIFA World Cup

1998 FIFA World Cup
Coupe du Monde - France 98
1998 FIFA World Cup official logo
Tournament details
Host country	France
Dates	10 June – 12 July
Teams	32 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	10 (in 9 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	France (1st title)
Runner-up	Brazil
Third place	Croatia
Fourth place	Netherlands
Tournament statistics
Matches played	64
Goals scored	171 (2.67 per match)
Attendance	2,785,100 (43,517 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Davor Šuker (6 goals)
Best player	Ronaldo
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The 1998 FIFA World Cup, the 16th FIFA World Cup, was held in France from 10 June to 12 July 1998. France was chosen as host nation by FIFA on 2 July 1992. The tournament was won by France, who beat Brazil 3-0 in the final. France won their first title, becoming the seventh nation to win a World Cup, and the sixth (after Uruguay, Italy, England, West Germany and Argentina) to win the tournament on home soil.

This was the first FIFA World Cup in which 32 teams competed at the finals. The official match ball was the Adidas Tricolore.

Qualification

Countries qualified for World Cup Country failed to qualify Countries that did not enter World Cup Country not a FIFA member

Four nations qualified for the World Cup for the first time: Croatia, Jamaica, Japan, and South Africa.

Iran qualified for the first time since 1974, and Tunisia for the first time since 1978. Among the teams who failed to qualify were two-time winners Uruguay (for the second successive tournament) and 1994 bronze medallist Sweden. Russia/USSR failed to qualify for the first time since 1978.

Seeding

Germany, Italy, Argentina, Spain, Romania and the Netherlands were seeded along with defending champion Brazil and host France. For the first time in FIFA's history, the draw took place in a football stadium - Stade Vélodrome in Marseilles, on 4 December 1997.

Norway was the last remaining European team in Pot 3, destined to be in Brazil or Argentina's group, which was the former.^[1]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
France (Host Nation) Brazil (1994 Champions) Argentina Germany Italy Netherlands Romania Spain	Cameroon Morocco Nigeria South Africa Tunisia Jamaica Mexico United States	Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Denmark England Norway Scotland Yugoslavia	Chile Colombia Paraguay Iran Japan Korea Republic Saudi Arabia

Summary

The format of the competition was different from 1994, as the finals were expanded from 24 to 32 teams. The 32 teams were divided into eight groups of four. The eight group winners and the eight group runners-up would qualify for the knockout stage. Unlike in the 1986-1994 tournaments, there was no possibility for third-place teams to advance. Starting in this tournament, all teams had to travel in group stage, and stadia held matches for multiple groups.

The golden goal rule was also introduced to decide knockout matches which went into extra time. Another change in the rules came into effect at this World Cup, stating that as regulation time was about to expire in any period of play the fourth official would use a handheld electronic display to show how many minutes of stoppage time were to be played. This practice has continued since then, after being well received by media and spectators alike.

The tournament opened with 1994 FIFA World Cup champions Brazil's 2-1 victory over Scotland. Norway pulled the shock of Group A, topping the holders 2-1 after two late goals. Still, both teams advanced to the next round. Italy easily won Group B, with Chile's three draws enough for them to get through. The Italy-Chile clash which ended 2-2 saw Italy's Roberto Baggio cast aside the spectre of his miss in the penalty shootout in the final 4 years earlier: this time around his highly controversial spot-kick earned Italy a draw.

France 98 mascot.

France swept Group C, with the lone blemish being the red card expulsion and two-game suspension of Zinedine Zidane in a 4-0 win over Saudi Arabia. Denmark also moved on from the group. Nigeria was the surprise winner of Group D, dubbed the group of death, as Spain once again failed to live up to high pre-cup expectations. Nigeria beat them 3-2 in a thrilling game and moved on to the next round together with Paraguay.

Netherlands and Mexico moved on from Group E, a group that saw four games end in draws. Mexico came from behind in two of those four games that ended in a draw after being down two goals in both games. Germany and Yugoslavia made easy work of Group F.

A late goal for Romania saw them beat England 2-1 and take the top spot in Group G; the English finished second. Argentina swept Group H, joined by Croatia in the second round.

In the second round, Italy beat Norway 1-0 and Brazil made easy work of Chile, 4-1. Laurent Blanc of France scored the first Golden Goal in World Cup history as the hosts beat Paraguay 1-0. Denmark surprised Nigeria, crushing them 4-1. Germany beat Mexico and Netherlands topped Yugoslavia by identical 2-1 scores. Croatia upset Romania 1-0. Argentina beat England on penalties after drawing 2-2 in a game that saw a stunning goal from 18-year-old Michael Owen, and two fairly debatable penalty awards (one for each side) which were both scored. The game was marred by England's David Beckham being sent off after kicking Diego Simeone: despite being a man down, England fashioned the better chances and were unfortunate that an extra-time goal by Sol Campbell was disallowed after Alan Shearer was, also debatably, adjudged to have fouled the Argentine keeper.

France beat Italy in the quarter-finals on penalties after a scoreless draw. Brazil topped Denmark 3-2 in an exciting game. Croatia pulled perhaps the biggest shocker of the tournament, crushing Germany 3-0. Since Germany had also been defeated in the quarter-finals of the 1994 tournament, this marked the only time in history that Germany had failed to make the top four in two successive World Cup appearances. The Netherlands-Argentina match was marred by violence; the Netherlands was reduced to 10 men early on after a tackle by Artur Numan injured Diego Simeone and Simeone had to be carried off the field for treatment. Late in the match, Argentina star Ariel Ortega received a red card for head-butting Dutch goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar after van der Sar confronted Ortega on the latter's play-acting attempt to draw a penalty [1]. Shortly after Ortega's sending off, Dennis Bergkamp of the Netherlands scored a memorable goal, finishing from a 60-yard pass to eliminate Argentina 2-1.

In the semi-finals, striker Patrick Kluivert equalized late for the Netherlands to make it 1-1, but the Brazilians won on penalties. They were joined by France, as veteran defender Lilian Thuram scored two goals with stunning runs from the right hand side of the pitch to overcome Golden Boot winner Davor Šuker's opener for Croatia. The Croats beat the Dutch for third place.

For the first time ever, the final featured the host nation and the defending champions. Zinedine Zidane scored two headers from corners in the 27th minute and in first half stoppage time, and Emmanuel Petit added a late goal in second half stoppage time to give France a 3-0 win over Brazil. An estimated one million people took to the Paris streets to celebrate through the night. France became the seventh country to have won the world cup, joining Uruguay, Italy, Germany, Brazil, England and Argentina.

France conceded only two goals in the entire tournament, a record low subsequently equalled by Italy in 2006 and Spain in 2010.

The official song for the event was The Cup of Life by Ricky Martin, and the official anthem was La Cour des Grands by Youssou N'Dour and Axelle Red.

Mascot

The official mascot of this World Cup was Footix, a cockerel with the words "FRANCE 98" on the chest. Its body is mostly blue, like the host's national team shirt and its name is a portmanteau of "football" and the ending "-ix" from the popular Astérix comic strip.

Venues

Ten stadia were used during the tournament:

Saint-Denis	Marseille	Paris	Lens
Stade de France	Stade Vélodrome	Parc des Princes	Stade Félix Bollaert

Capacity: 80,000	Capacity: 60,000	Capacity: 49,000	Capacity: 44,000

Lyon	Saint-Denis Marseille Paris Lens Lyon Nantes Toulouse Saint-Étienne Bordeaux Montpellier
Stade de Gerland

Capacity: 41,300

Nantes
Stade de la Beaujoire

Capacity: 39,500

Toulouse	Saint-Étienne	Bordeaux	Montpellier
Stadium de Toulouse	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard	Parc Lescure	Stade de la Mosson

Capacity: 37,000	Capacity: 36,000	Capacity: 35,200	Capacity: 34,000

Match officials

Africa

Said Belqola
Gamal Al-Ghandour
Lucien Bouchardeau
Lim Kee Chong
Ian McLeod

Asia

Abdul Rahman Al-Zeid
Ali Bujsaim
Masayoshi Okada
Pirom Un-Prasert

Europe

Marc Batta
Günter Benkö
Pierluigi Collina
Hugh Dallas
Paul Durkin
José Garcia Aranda
Bernd Heynemann
Nikolai Levnikov
Urs Meier
Vítor Melo Pereira
Kim Milton Nielsen
Rune Pedersen
László Vagner
Mario van der Ende
Ryszard Wójcik

North, Central America and Caribbean

Esfandiar Baharmast
Arturo Brizio Carter
Ramesh Ramdhan

Oceania

Edward Lennie

South America

Javier Castrilli
Epifanio González
Márcio Rezende de Freitas
Mario Sanchez Yanten
Alberto Tejada
John Toro Rendón

Squads

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1998 FIFA World Cup squads.

Results

Champion Runner-up

Third place Fourth place

Quarter-finals Round of 16

Group stage

All times local (CEST)/(UTC+2)

Key to colours in group tables
	Group winners and runners-up advance to the Round of 16

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6
Norway	3	1	2	0	5	4	+1	5
Morocco	3	1	1	1	5	5	0	4
Scotland	3	0	1	2	2	6	-4	1

10 June 1998 17:30	Brazil	2 – 1	Scotland	Stade de France, Saint-Denis Attendance: 80,000 Referee: José García Aranda (Spain)
	César Sampaio 4' Boyd 73' (o.g.)	(Report)	Collins 38' (pen.)

10 June 1998 21:00	Morocco	2 – 2	Norway	Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier Attendance: 29,800 Referee: Pirom Un-Prasert (Thailand)
	Hadji 38' Hadda 59'	(Report)	Chippo 46' (o.g.) Eggen 60'

16 June 1998 17:30	Scotland	1 – 1	Norway	Parc Lescure, Bordeaux Attendance: 31,800 Referee: László Vagner (Hungary)
	Burley 66'	(Report)	H. Flo 46'

16 June 1998 21:00	Brazil	3 – 0	Morocco	Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes Attendance: 35,500 Referee: Nikolai Levnikov (Russia)
	Ronaldo 9' Rivaldo 45+2' Bebeto 50'	(Report)

23 June 1998 21:00	Brazil	1 – 2	Norway	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 55,000 Referee: Esfandiar Baharmast (United States)
	Bebeto 78'	(Report)	T. A. Flo 83' Rekdal 88' (pen.)

23 June 1998 21:00	Scotland	0 – 3	Morocco	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne Attendance: 30,600 Referee: Ali Bujsaim (United Arab Emirates)
		(Report)	Bassir 22', 85' Hadda 46'

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	3	2	1	0	7	3	+4	7
Chile	3	0	3	0	4	4	0	3
Austria	3	0	2	1	3	4	-1	2
Cameroon	3	0	2	1	2	5	-3	2

11 June 1998 17:30	Italy	2 – 2	Chile	Parc Lescure, Bordeaux Attendance: 31,800 Referee: Lucien Bouchardeau (Niger)
	Vieri 10' R. Baggio 85' (pen.)	(Report)	Salas 45', 49'

11 June 1998 21:00	Cameroon	1 – 1	Austria	Stade de Toulouse, Toulouse Attendance: 33,460 Referee: Epifanio González (Paraguay)
	Njanka 78'	(Report)	Polster 90'

17 June 1998 17:30	Chile	1 – 1	Austria	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne Attendance: 30,600 Referee: Gamal Al-Ghandour (Egypt)
	Salas 70'	(Report)	Vastić 90'

17 June 1998 21:00	Italy	3 – 0	Cameroon	Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier Attendance: 29,800 Referee: Edward Lennie (Australia)
	Di Biagio 7' Vieri 75', 89'	(Report)

23 June 1998 16:00	Italy	2 – 1	Austria	Stade de France, Saint-Denis Attendance: 80,000 Referee: Paul Durkin (England)
	Vieri 49' R. Baggio 89'	(Report)	Herzog 90' (pen.)

23 June 1998 16:00	Chile	1 – 1	Cameroon	Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes Attendance: 35,500 Referee: Laszlo Vagner (Hungary)
	Sierra 20'	(Report)	Mboma 55'

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
France	3	3	0	0	9	1	+8	9
Denmark	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
South Africa	3	0	2	1	3	6	-3	2
Saudi Arabia	3	0	1	2	2	7	-5	1

12 June 1998 17:30	Saudi Arabia	0 – 1	Denmark	Stade Félix Bollaert, Lens Attendance: 38,140 Referee: Javier Castrilli (Argentina)
		(Report)	Rieper 68'

12 June 1998 21:00	France	3 – 0	South Africa	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 55,077 Referee: Márcio Rezende de Freitas (Brazil)
	Dugarry 34' Issa 77' (o.g.) Henry 90'	(Report)

18 June 1998 17:30	South Africa	1 – 1	Denmark	Stade de Toulouse, Toulouse Attendance: 33,300 Referee: John Toro Rendón (Colombia)
	McCarthy 52'	(Report)	Nielsen 13'

18 June 1998 21:00	France	4 – 0	Saudi Arabia	Stade de France, Saint-Denis Attendance: 80,000 Referee: Arturo Brizio Carter (Mexico)
	Henry 36', 77' Trezeguet 68' Lizarazu 85'	(Report)

24 June 1998 16:00	France	2 – 1	Denmark	Stade Gerland, Lyon Attendance: 39,100 Referee: Pierluigi Collina (Italy)
	Djorkaeff 12' (pen.) Petit 56'	(Report)	M. Laudrup 42' (pen.)

24 June 1998 16:00	South Africa	2 – 2	Saudi Arabia	Parc Lescure, Bordeaux Attendance: 31,800 Referee: Mario Sanchez Yanten (Chile)
	Bartlett 19', 90+4' (pen.)	(Report)	Al-Jaber 45' (pen.) Al-Thunayan 74' (pen.)

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Nigeria	3	2	0	1	5	5	0	6
Paraguay	3	1	2	0	3	1	+2	5
Spain	3	1	1	1	8	4	+4	4
Bulgaria	3	0	1	2	1	7	-6	1

12 June 1998 14:30	Paraguay	0 – 0	Bulgaria	Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier Attendance: 27,650 Referee: Abdul Rahman Al-Zeid (Saudi Arabia)
		(Report)

13 June 1998 14:30	Spain	2 – 3	Nigeria	Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes Attendance: 33,257 Referee: Esfandiar Baharmast (United States)
	Hierro 20' Raúl 46'	(Report)	Adepoju 24' Lawal 72' Oliseh 77'

19 June 1998 17:30	Nigeria	1 – 0	Bulgaria	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 45,500 Referee: Mario Sanchez Yanten (Chile)
	Ikpeba 26'	(Report)

19 June 1998 21:00	Spain	0 – 0	Paraguay	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne Attendance: 30,600 Referee: Ian McLeod (South Africa)
		(Report)

24 June 1998 21:00	Nigeria	1 – 3	Paraguay	Stade de Toulouse, Toulouse Attendance: 33,500 Referee: Pirom Un-Prasert (Thailand)
	Oruma 10'	(Report)	Ayala 1' Benítez 58' Cardozo 86'

24 June 1998 21:00	Spain	6 – 1	Bulgaria	Stade Félix Bollaert, Lens Attendance: 38,100 Referee: Mario van der Ende (Netherlands)
	Hierro 5' (pen.) Luis Enrique 18' Morientes 53', 80' Kiko 88', 90'	(Report)	Kostadinov 56'

Group E

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Netherlands	3	1	2	0	7	2	+5	5
Mexico	3	1	2	0	7	5	+2	5
Belgium	3	0	3	0	3	3	0	3
Korea Republic	3	0	1	2	2	9	-7	1

13 June 1998 17:30	Korea Republic	1 – 3	Mexico	Stade Gerland, Lyon Attendance: 39,133 Referee: Günter Benkö (Austria)
	Ha Seok-Ju 28'	(Report)	Peláez 51' Hernández 74', 84'

13 June 1998 21:00	Netherlands	0 – 0	Belgium	Stade de France, Saint-Denis Attendance: 75,000 Referee: Pierluigi Collina (Italy)
		(Report)

20 June 1998 17:30	Belgium	2 – 2	Mexico	Parc Lescure, Bordeaux Attendance: 31,800 Referee: Hugh Dallas (Scotland)
	Wilmots 43', 47'	(Report)	García Aspe 55' (pen.) Blanco 62'

20 June 1998 21:00	Netherlands	5 – 0	Korea Republic	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 55,000 Referee: Ryszard Wójcik (Poland)
	Cocu 38' Overmars 42' Bergkamp 71' van Hooijdonk 80' R. de Boer 83'	(Report)

25 June 1998 16:00	Netherlands	2 – 2	Mexico	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne Attendance: 30,600 Referee: Abdul Rahman Al-Zeid (Saudi Arabia)
	Cocu 4' R. de Boer 18'	(Report)	Peláez 75' Hernández 90+5'

25 June 1998 16:00	Belgium	1 – 1	Korea Republic	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 45,500 Referee: Márcio Rezende de Freitas (Brazil)
	Nilis 7'	(Report)	Yoo Sang-Chul 71'

Group F

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Germany	3	2	1	0	6	2	+4	7
Yugoslavia	3	2	1	0	4	2	+2	7
Iran	3	1	0	2	2	4	-2	3
United States	3	0	0	3	1	5	-4	0

14 June 1998 17:30	Yugoslavia	1 – 0	Iran	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne Attendance: 30,392 Referee: Alberto Tejada (Peru)
	Mihajlović 72'	(Report)

15 June 1998 21:00	Germany	2 – 0	United States	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 43,815 Referee: Said Belqola (Morocco)
	Möller 8' Klinsmann 64'	(Report)

21 June 1998 14:30	Germany	2 – 2	Yugoslavia	Stade Félix Bollaert, Lens Attendance: 38,100 Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen (Denmark)
	Mihajlović 73' (o.g.) Bierhoff 80'	(Report)	Mijatović 13' Stojković 54'

21 June 1998 21:00	United States	1 – 2	Iran	Stade Gerland, Lyon Attendance: 39,100 Referee: Urs Meier (Switzerland)
	McBride 87'	(Report)	Estili 40' Mahdavikia 84'

25 June 1998 21:00	United States	0 – 1	Yugoslavia	Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes Attendance: 35,500 Referee: Gamal Al-Ghandour (Egypt)
		(Report)	Komljenović 4'

25 June 1998 21:00	Germany	2 – 0	Iran	Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier Attendance: 29,800 Referee: Epifanio González (Paraguay)
	Bierhoff 50' Klinsmann 57'	(Report)

Group G

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Romania	3	2	1	0	4	2	+2	7
England	3	2	0	1	5	2	+3	6
Colombia	3	1	0	2	1	3	-2	3
Tunisia	3	0	1	2	1	4	-3	1

15 June 1998 14:30	England	2 – 0	Tunisia	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 54,587 Referee: Masayoshi Okada (Japan)
	Shearer 43' Scholes 89'	(Report)

15 June 1998 17:30	Romania	1 – 0	Colombia	Stade Gerland, Lyon Attendance: 37,572 Referee: Lim Kee Chong (Mauritius)
	Ilie 45'	(Report)

22 June 1998 17:30	Colombia	1 – 0	Tunisia	Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier Attendance: 29,800 Referee: Bernd Heynemann (Germany)
	Preciado 83'	(Report)

22 June 1998 21:00	Romania	2 – 1	England	Stade de Toulouse, Toulouse Attendance: 33,500 Referee: Marc Batta (France)
	Moldovan 47' Petrescu 90'	(Report)	Owen 79'

26 June 1998 21:00	Colombia	0 – 2	England	Stade Félix Bollaert, Lens Attendance: 38,100 Referee: Arturo Brizio Carter (Mexico)
		(Report)	Anderton 20' Beckham 29'

26 June 1998 21:00	Romania	1 – 1	Tunisia	Stade de France, Saint-Denis Attendance: 77,000 Referee: Edward Lennie (Australia)
	Moldovan 72'	(Report)	Souayah 10' (pen.)

Group H

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Argentina	3	3	0	7	0	+7	9
Croatia	3	2	1	4	2	+2	6
Jamaica	3	1	2	3	9	-6	3
Japan	3	0	3	1	4	-3	0

14 June 1998 14:30	Argentina	1 – 0	Japan	Stade de Toulouse, Toulouse Attendance: 33,400 Referee: Mario van der Ende (Netherlands)
	Batistuta 28'	(Report)

14 June 1998 21:00	Jamaica	1 – 3	Croatia	Stade Félix Bollaert, Lens Attendance: 38,058 Referee: Vítor Melo Pereira (Portugal)
	Earle 45'	(Report)	Stanić 27' Prosinečki 53' Šuker 69'

20 June 1998 14:30	Japan	0 – 1	Croatia	Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes Attendance: 35,500 Referee: Ramesh Ramdhan (Trinidad and Tobago)
		(Report)	Šuker 77'

21 June 1998 17:30	Argentina	5 – 0	Jamaica	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Rune Pedersen (Norway)
	Ortega 31', 55' Batistuta 72', 80', 83' (pen.)	(Report)

26 June 1998 16:00	Argentina	1 – 0	Croatia	Parc Lescure, Bordeaux Attendance: 31,800 Referee: Said Belqola (Morocco)
	Pineda 36'	(Report)

26 June 1998 16:00	Japan	1 – 2	Jamaica	Stade Gerland, Lyon Attendance: 39,100 Referee: Günter Benkö (Austria)
	Nakayama 74'	(Report)	Whitmore 39', 54'

Knockout stage

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

27 June - Paris

Brazil

3 July - Nantes

Chile

Brazil

28 June - Saint-Denis

Denmark

Nigeria

7 July - Marseille

Denmark

Brazil (pen.)

1 (4)

29 June - Toulouse

Netherlands

1 (2)

Netherlands

4 July - Marseille

Yugoslavia

Netherlands

30 June - St. Étienne

Argentina

Argentina (pen.)

2 (4)

12 July - Saint-Denis

England

2 (3)

Brazil

27 June - Marseille

France

Italy

3 July - Saint-Denis

Norway

Italy

0 (3)

28 June - Lens

France (pen.)

0 (4)

France (a.e.t.)

8 July - Saint-Denis

Paraguay

France

29 June - Montpellier

Croatia

Third place

Germany

4 July - Lyon

11 July - Paris

Mexico

Germany

Netherlands

30 June - Bordeaux

Croatia

Romania

Croatia

Round of 16

27 June 1998 16:30	Italy	1 – 0	Norway	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 55,000 Referee: Bernd Heynemann (Germany)
	Vieri 18'	(Report)

27 June 1998 21:00	Brazil	4 – 1	Chile	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 45,500 Referee: Marc Batta (France)
	César Sampaio 11', 27' Ronaldo 45+1' (pen.), 70'	(Report)	Salas 68'

28 June 1998 16:30	France	1 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Paraguay	Stade Félix Bollaert, Lens Attendance: 38,100 Referee: Ali Bujsaim (United Arab Emirates)
	Blanc 113'	(Report)

28 June 1998 21:00	Nigeria	1 – 4	Denmark	Stade de France, Saint-Denis Attendance: 77,000 Referee: Urs Meier (Switzerland)
	Babangida 78'	(Report)	Møller 3' B. Laudrup 12' Sand 60' Helveg 76'

29 June 1998 16:30	Germany	2 – 1	Mexico	Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier Attendance: 29,800 Referee: Vítor Melo Pereira (Portugal)
	Klinsmann 75' Bierhoff 86'	(Report)	Hernández 47'

29 June 1998 21:00	Netherlands	2 – 1	Yugoslavia	Stade de Toulouse, Toulouse Attendance: 33,500 Referee: José Garcia Aranda (Spain)
	Bergkamp 38' Davids 90+2'	(Report)	Komljenović 48'

30 June 1998 16:30	Romania	0 – 1	Croatia	Parc Lescure, Bordeaux Attendance: 31,800 Referee: Javier Castrilli (Argentina)
		(Report)	Šuker 45+2' (pen.)

30 June 1998 21:00	Argentina	2 – 2 (a.e.t.)	England	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne Attendance: 30,600 Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen (Denmark)
	Batistuta 6' (pen.) Zanetti 45+1'	(Report)	Shearer 10' (pen.) Owen 16'
		Penalties
	Berti Crespo Verón Gallardo Ayala	4 – 3	Shearer Ince Merson Owen Batty

Quarter-finals

3 July 1998 16:30	France	0 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Italy	Stade de France, Saint-Denis Attendance: 77,000 Referee: Hugh Dallas (Scotland)
		(Report)
		Penalties
	Zidane Lizarazu Trezeguet Henry Blanc	4 – 3	R. Baggio Albertini Costacurta Vieri Di Biagio

3 July 1998 21:00	Brazil	3 – 2	Denmark	Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes Attendance: 35,500 Referee: Gamal Al-Ghandour (Egypt)
	Bebeto 11' Rivaldo 27', 60'	(Report)	Jørgensen 2' B. Laudrup 50'

4 July 1998 16:30	Netherlands	2 – 1	Argentina	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 55,000 Referee: Arturo Brizio Carter (Mexico)
	Kluivert 12' Bergkamp 89'	(Report)	López 18'

4 July 1998 21:00	Germany	0 – 3	Croatia	Stade Gerland, Lyon Attendance: 39,100 Referee: Rune Pedersen (Norway)
		(Report)	Jarni 45+3' Vlaović 80' Šuker 85'

Semi-finals

7 July 1998 21:00	Brazil	1 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Netherlands	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 54,000 Referee: Ali Bujsaim (United Arab Emirates)
	Ronaldo 46'	(Report)	Kluivert 87'
		Penalties
	Ronaldo Rivaldo Emerson Dunga	4 – 2	F. de Boer Bergkamp Cocu R. de Boer

8 July 1998 21:00	France	2 – 1	Croatia	Stade de France, Saint-Denis Attendance: 76,000 Referee: José Garcia Aranda (Spain)
	Thuram 47', 69'	(Report)	Šuker 46'

Third place match

11 July 1998 21:00	Netherlands	1 – 2	Croatia	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 45,500 Referee: Epifanio González (Paraguay)
	Zenden 21'	(Report)	Prosinečki 13' Šuker 35'

Final

12 July 1998 21:00	Brazil	0 – 3	France	Stade de France, Saint-Denis Attendance: 80,000 Referee: Said Belqola (Morocco)
		(Report)	Zidane 27', 45+1' Petit 90+3'

Statistics

Scorers

6 goals

Davor Šuker

5 goals

4 goals

Ronaldo
Marcelo Salas
Luis Hernández

3 goals

Bebeto
César Sampaio
Rivaldo

2 goals

Ariel Ortega
Marc Wilmots
Robert Prosinečki
Brian Laudrup
Alan Shearer
Michael Owen
Emmanuel Petit
Lilian Thuram

Zinedine Zidane
Roberto Baggio
Theodore Whitmore
Ricardo Peláez
Salaheddine Bassir
Abdeljalil Hadda
Phillip Cocu
Ronald de Boer

Patrick Kluivert
Viorel Moldovan
Shaun Bartlett
Fernando Hierro
Kiko
Fernando Morientes
Slobodan Komljenović

1 goal

Claudio López
Mauricio Pineda
Javier Zanetti
Andreas Herzog
Toni Polster
Ivica Vastić
Luc Nilis
Emil Kostadinov
Patrick Mboma
Pierre Njanka
José Luis Sierra
Léider Preciado
Robert Jarni
Mario Stanić
Goran Vlaović
Thomas Helveg
Martin Jørgensen
Michael Laudrup
Peter Møller
Allan Nielsen
Marc Rieper
Ebbe Sand
Darren Anderton
David Beckham

Paul Scholes
Laurent Blanc
Youri Djorkaeff
Christophe Dugarry
Bixente Lizarazu
David Trezeguet
Andreas Möller
Mehdi Mahdavikia
Hamid Reza Estili
Luigi Di Biagio
Robbie Earle
Masashi Nakayama
Cuauhtémoc Blanco
Alberto García Aspe
Mustapha Hadji
Edgar Davids
Marc Overmars
Pierre van Hooijdonk
Boudewijn Zenden
Mutiu Adepoju
Tijjani Babangida
Victor Ikpeba
Garba Lawal
Sunday Oliseh

Wilson Oruma
Dan Eggen
Håvard Flo
Tore André Flo
Kjetil Rekdal
Celso Ayala
Miguel Ángel Benítez
José Cardozo
Adrian Ilie
Dan Petrescu
Sami Al-Jaber
Yousuf Al-Thunayan
Craig Burley
John Collins
Benni McCarthy
Ha Seok-Ju
Yoo Sang-Chul
Luis Enrique
Raúl
Skander Souayah
Brian McBride
Siniša Mihajlović
Predrag Mijatović
Dragan Stojković

Own goals

Youssef Chippo (for Norway)
Tom Boyd (for Brazil)
Pierre Issa (for France)
Siniša Mihajlović (for Germany)

Awards

Golden Shoe winner	Golden Ball winner	Yashin Award	FIFA Fair Play Trophy	Most Entertaining Team
Davor Šuker	Ronaldo	Fabien Barthez	England France	France

All-star team

Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Fabien Barthez José Luis Chilavert	Roberto Carlos Marcel Desailly Lilian Thuram Frank de Boer Carlos Gamarra	Dunga Rivaldo Michael Laudrup Zinedine Zidane Edgar Davids	Ronaldo Davor Šuker Brian Laudrup Dennis Bergkamp

Video games

The official video game is World Cup 98 by EA Sports, but many other games – including International Superstar Soccer 98, World League Soccer 98, Actua Soccer 2, Neo Geo Cup '98: The Road to the Victory – were released and were mainly based on the 1998 FIFA World Cup. FIFA: Road to World Cup 98, also by EA Sports, focused on the qualification, for World Cup 98.

References

↑ History of the World Cup Final Draw

External links

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1998 FIFA World Cup finalists

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1998 FIFA World Cup

Contents

Qualification

Seeding

Summary

Mascot

Venues

Match officials

Squads

Results

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Knockout stage

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Third place match

Final

Statistics

Scorers

Awards

All-star team

Video games

See also

References

External links