1982 FIFA World Cup

1982 FIFA World Cup
Copa del Mundo de Fútbol - España 82
1982 FIFA World Cup official logo
Tournament details
Host country	Spain
Dates	13 June – 11 July
Teams	24 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	17 (in 14 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Italy (3rd title)
Runner-up	West Germany
Third place	Poland
Fourth place	France
Tournament statistics
Matches played	52
Goals scored	146 (2.81 per match)
Attendance	2,109,723 (40,572 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Paolo Rossi (6 goals)
Best player	Paolo Rossi
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The 1982 FIFA World Cup, the 12th FIFA World Cup, was held in Spain from 13 June to 11 July. Spain was chosen as the host by FIFA in July 1966. The tournament was won by Italy, after beating West Germany 3–1 in the final. Italy became the first team to advance from the first round without winning a game, drawing all three (while Cameroon were eliminated in the same way), and also the only World Cup winner to draw or lose three matches at the Finals. By winning, Italy equalled Brazil's record of winning the World Cup three times. Italy's total of twelve goals scored in seven matches set a new low for average goals scored per game by a World Cup winning side (subsequently exceeded by Spain in 2010), while Italy's aggregate goal difference of +6 for the tournament remains a record low for a champion, equalled by Spain. For the first time, the World Cup was expanded to feature 24 teams, eight more than in the previous tournament 1978. The official match football was the Adidas Tango España.

Italy's Paolo Rossi won both the Golden Boot as the tournament's top goalscorer, and the Golden Ball as the tournament's best player (handed out for the first time), and 40-year-old captain-goalkeeper Dino Zoff became the oldest-ever player to win the World Cup. This was the first World Cup in which teams from all six continental confederations participated in the finals.

Qualification

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

Absentees from the finals were those of 1974 and 1978 runners-up Netherlands (eliminated by Belgium and France) and 1974 and 1978 participant Sweden (eliminated by Scotland and Northern Ireland). Northern Ireland qualified for the first time since 1958. England, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, and the Soviet Union were back in the Finals after a 12-year absence. Yugoslavia were also back after missing the 1978 tournament. Algeria, Cameroon, Honduras, Kuwait, and New Zealand all participated in the World Cup for the first time.

Summary

First round

The format of the competition changed from 1978: for the first time, 24 teams qualified, divided into six groups of four (1 to 6). The top two teams in each group advanced to the second round, where they split into four groups of three (A to D). The winners of each group advanced to the semi-finals. This was the only World Cup to be played under this format. The decision to expand from 16 to 24 teams came from FIFA to give the opportunity to more teams to participate, especially teams from North America, Africa and Asia.

In Group 1, newcomers Cameroon held both Poland and Italy to draws, and were denied a place in the next round on the basis of having scored fewer goals than Italy (the sides had an equal goal difference). Poland and Italy qualified over Cameroon and Peru. Italian journalists and tifosi criticised their team for their uninspired performances that managed three draws; the squad was reeling from the recent Serie A scandal, where national players were suspended for match fixing and illegal betting.

Group 2 saw one of the great World Cup upsets on the first day with the 2–1 victory of Algeria over reigning European Champions West Germany. In the final match in the group between West Germany and Austria, Algeria had already played their final group game the day before, and West Germany and Austria knew that a West German win by 1 or 2 goals would qualify them both, while a larger German victory would qualify Algeria over Austria, and a draw or an Austrian win would eliminate the Germans. After 10 minutes of all-out attack, West Germany scored through a goal by Horst Hrubesch. After the goal was scored, the two teams kicked the ball around aimlessly for the rest of the match. Chants of "Fuera, fuera" ("Out, out") were screamed by the Spanish crowd, while angry Algerian supporters waved banknotes at the players. This performance was widely deplored, even by the German and Austrian fans. One German fan was so upset by his team's display that he burned his German flag in disgust.^[1] Algeria protested to FIFA, who ruled that the result be allowed to stand; FIFA introduced a revised qualification system at subsequent World Cups in which the final two games in each group were played simultaneously.

Group 3, where the opening ceremony and first match of the tournament took place, saw Belgium beat defending champions Argentina 1–0. The Camp Nou stadium was the home of Barcelona, and many fans had wanted to see the club's new signing, Argentinian star Diego Maradona, who did not perform to expectations. Both Belgium and Argentina ultimately advanced at the expense of Hungary and El Salvador despite Hungary's 10–1 win over the Central American nation — which, with a total of 11 goals, is the second highest scoreline in a World Cup game (equal with Brazil's 6–5 victory over Poland in the 1938 tournament and Hungary's 8–3 victory over West Germany in the 1954 tournament).

Group 4 opened with England midfielder Bryan Robson's goal against France after only 27 seconds of play. England won 3–1 and qualified along with France over Czechoslovakia and Kuwait, though the tiny Gulf emirate held Czechoslovakia to a 1–1 draw. In the game between Kuwait and France, with France leading 3–1, France midfielder Alain Giresse scored a goal vehemently contested by the Kuwait team, who had stopped play after hearing a piercing whistle from the stands, which they thought had come from Soviet referee Miroslav Stupar. Play had not yet resumed when Sheikh Fahid Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, brother of the Kuwaiti Emir and president of the Kuwaiti Football Association, rushed onto the pitch to remonstrate with the referee. Stupar countermanded his initial decision and disallowed the goal to the fury of the French. Maxime Bossis scored another valid goal a few minutes later and France won 4–1. Stupar lost his international refereeing credentials as a result of this incident, and Al-Sabah received a $10,000 fine.

In Group 5, Honduras held hosts Spain to a 1–1 draw. Northern Ireland won the group outright, eliminating Yugoslavia and beating hosts Spain 1–0; Northern Ireland had to play the majority of the second half with ten men after Mal Donaghy was dismissed. Spain scraped by thanks to a controversial penalty in the 2-1 victory over Yugoslavia. At 17 years and 41 days, Northern Ireland forward Norman Whiteside was the youngest player to appear in a World Cup match.

Brazil were in Group 6. With Zico, Sócrates, Falcão, Éder and fellows, they boasted an offensive firepower that promised a return to the glory days of 1970. They beat the USSR 2–1 thanks to a 20 metre Éder goal two minutes from time, then Scotland and New Zealand with four goals each. The Soviets took the group's other qualifying berth at the expense of the Scots.

Second round

Poland opened Group A with a 3–0 defeat of Belgium thanks to a Zbigniew Boniek hat-trick. The Soviet Union prevailed 1–0 in the next match over Belgium. The Poles edged out the USSR for the semi-final spot on the final day on goal difference thanks to a 0–0 draw in a politically charged match, as Poland's then-Communist government had imposed a martial law a few months earlier to quash internal dissent and forestall a Soviet invasion.

In Group B, a match between England and West Germany ended in a goalless draw. West Germany put the pressure on England in their second match by beating Spain 2–1. The home side drew 0–0 against England, denying Ron Greenwood's team a semi-final place and putting England in the same position as Cameroon, being eliminated without losing a game.

In Group C, with Brazil, Argentina and Italy, in the opener, Italy prevailed 2–1 over Diego Maradona's side after a game in which Italian defenders Gaetano Scirea and Claudio Gentile proved themselves equal to the task of stopping the Argentinian attack. Argentina now needed a win over Brazil on the second day, but lost 3–1 — Argentina only scoring in the last minute. Diego Maradona kicked Brazilian player Joao Batista and was sent off in the 85th minute.

The match between Brazil and Italy put Brazil's attack against Italy's defence, built around the two central defenders, Claudio Gentile and Gaetano Scirea. The majority of the game was played around the Italian area, with the Italian midfielders and defenders returning the repeated set volleys of Brazilian shooters such as Zico, Socrates and Falcao. Italian centre back Claudio Gentile was assigned to mark Brazilian striker Zico, and earned him a yellow card and a suspension for the following game against Poland. Enzo Bearzot's striker, Paolo Rossi, opened the scoring when he headed in Antonio Cabrini's cross with just five minutes played. Socrates equalised for Brazil twelve minutes later. In the twenty-fifth minute Rossi stepped past a Brazilian defender, intercepted a pass across the Brazilians' goal, and drilled the shot home. The Brazilians threw everything in search of another equaliser, while Italy defended bravely. On 68 minutes, Falcao collected a pass from Junior and fired home from 20 yards out to draw the match. Twice now Italy gained the lead from Paolo Rossi goals, and twice Brazil came back. At 2–2, Brazil would have been through on goal difference, but at 74 minutes, a poor clearance from an Italy corner kick went back to the Brazil six-yard line where Rossi and Francesco Graziani were waiting. Both aimed at the same shot, Rossi connecting to get a hat trick and sending Italy into the lead for good.

In the last group, Group D, France dispatched Austria 1-0 in their opener, then beat Northern Ireland 4-1 for their first semifinal appearance since 1958.

Semi-finals, third-place match, and final

Italy beat Poland in the first semi-final through two goals from Paolo Rossi. In the game between France and West Germany, the Germans opened the scoring through a Pierre Littbarski strike in the 17th minute, and the French equalised nine minutes later with a Michel Platini penalty. In the second half a long through ball sent French defender Patrick Battiston racing clear towards the German goal. With both Battiston and the lone German defender trying to be the first to reach the ball, Battiston flicked it past German keeper Harald Schumacher from the edge of the German penalty area and Schumacher reacted by jumping up to block. Schumacher completely missed the ball, however, and clattered straight into the oncoming Battiston - which left the French player unconscious and knocked two of his teeth out. Schumacher's action has been described as "one of history's most shocking fouls"^[2]. The ball went just wide of the post and Dutch referee Charles Corver deemed Schumacher's tackle on Battiston not to be a foul and awarded a goal kick. Play was interrupted for several minutes while Battiston, still unconscious and with a broken jaw, was carried off the field on a stretcher. After French defender Manuel Amoros had sent a 25-metre drive crashing onto the West German crossbar in the final minute, the match went into extra time. On 92 minutes, France's sweeper Marius Trésor fired a swerving volley under Schumacher's crossbar from ten metres out to make it 2–1. Six minutes later, an unmarked Alain Giresse drove in a 18-metre shot off the inside of the right post to finish off a counter-attack and put France up 3–1. But West Germany would not give up. In the 102nd minute a counter-attack culminated in a cross that recent substitute Karl-Heinz Rummenigge turned in at the near post from a difficult angle with the outside of his foot, reducing France's lead to 3–2. Then in the 108th minute Germany took a short corner and after France failed to clear, the ball was played by Germany to Littbarski whose cross to Horst Hrubesch was headed back to the centre to Klaus Fischer, who was unmarked thanks to Hrubesch winning his header over two defenders. Fischer in turn volleyed the ball past French keeper Jean-Luc Ettori with a bicycle kick, levelling the scores at 3–3 and sending the match to penalties. This goal was voted the greatest goal in the history of German football by German supporters. Because the scores were level after extra time, France and West Germany participated in the first ever penalty shootout at a World Cup finals. Giresse, Manfred Kaltz, Manuel Amoros, Paul Breitner and Dominique Rocheteau all converted penalties until Uli Stielike was stopped by Ettori, giving France the advantage. But then Schumacher stepped forward, lifted the tearful Stielike from the ground, and saved Didier Six's shot. With Germany handed the lifeline they needed Littbarski converted his penalty, followed by Platini for France, and then Rummenigge for Germany as the tension mounted. France defender Maxime Bossis then had his kick parried by Schumacher who anticipated it, and Hrubesch stepped up to score and send Germany to the World Cup final yet again with a victory on penalties, 4–5.

In the final, after a scoreless first half during which Antonio Cabrini fired a penalty wide of goal, the fresher legs of the Italians and the confidence gained from their previous two victories began to make the difference between the teams. After a foul just outside the area by Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Italian central defender Claudio Gentile raced upfield to set the ball and initiate the quick restart, catching the German goalkeeper Schumacher out of position and the German defence unprepared. Paolo Rossi scored first for the third straight game by heading home Gentile's bouncing cross at close range. Exploiting the situation, Italy scored twice more on quick counter-strikes, all the while capitalising on their defence to hold the Germans. With Gentile and Gaetano Scirea of Juventus holding the centre, the Italian strikers were free to counter-punch the weakened German defence. Marco Tardelli's shot from the edge of the area beat Schumacher first, and Alessandro Altobelli, the substitute for injured striker Francesco Graziani, made it 3–0 at the end of a solo sprint down the right side by the stand-out winger Bruno Conti. Italy's lead appeared secure, encouraging Italian president Sandro Pertini to wag his finger at the cameras in a playful "not going to catch us now" gesture. In the 83rd minute Paul Breitner scored a goal against Dino Zoff, but Italy claimed their first World Cup title in 44 years, and their third in total with a 3–1 victory.

In the third-place match, Poland edged an exhausted, depleted and emotionally drained French side 3–2 which matched Poland's best ever performance at a World Cup previously achieved in 1974. France would go on to win the European Championship two years later.

Mascot

The official mascot of this World Cup was Naranjito, an orange, a typical fruit in Spain, wearing the kit of the host's national team. Its name comes from naranja, Spanish for orange, and the diminutive suffix "-ito".

Venues

17 stadia in 14 cities hosted the tournament.

Madrid		Barcelona		Vigo	A Coruña
Santiago Bernabeu	Vicente Calderón	Camp Nou	de Sarrià	Balaídos	Riazor
Capacity: 80,800	Capacity: 65,000	Capacity: 98,053	Capacity: 43,667	Capacity: 31,800	Capacity: 34,617

Gijón	Oviedo	Elche	Alicante	Bilbao	Valladolid
El Molinón	Carlos Tartiere	Nuevo	José Rico Pérez	San Mamés	José Zorrilla
Capacity: 25,885	Capacity: 20,000	Capacity: 39,000	Capacity: 30,000	Capacity: 40,000	Capacity: 30,500

Valencia	Zaragoza	Sevilla		Málaga
Luis Casanova	La Romareda	Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán	Benito Villamarín	La Rosaleda
Capacity: 49,092	Capacity: 34,596	Capacity: 56,000	Capacity: 52,500	Capacity: 45,000

Match officials

AFC

Ibrahim Youssef Al-Doy
Chan Tam Sun
Abraham Klein

CAF

Benjamin Dwomoh
Yousef El-Ghoul
Belaid Lacarne

CONCACAF

Rómulo Méndez
David Socha
Luis Paulino Siles
Mario Rubio Vázquez

CONMEBOL

Gilberto Aristizábal
Luis Barrancos
Juan Daniel Cardellino
Arnaldo Cézar Coelho
Gastón Castro
Arturo Ithurralde
Enrique Labo Revoredo
Héctor Ortiz

UEFA

Paolo Casarin
Vojtech Christov
Charles Corver
Bogdan Dotchev
Walter Eschweiler
Erik Fredriksson
Bruno Galler

Antonio Garrido
Alojzy Jarguz
Augusto Lamo Castillo
Henning Lund-Sørensen
Damir Matovinović
Malcolm Moffatt
Károly Palotai
Alexis Ponnet
Adolf Prokop
Nicolae Rainea
Miroslav Stupar
Michel Vautrot
Bob Valentine
Clive White
Franz Wöhrer

OFC

Tony Boskovic

Squads

For a list of all squads that appeared in the final tournament, see 1982 FIFA World Cup squads.

Seeding

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Spain (Hosts) Argentina (Current Champions) Brazil (1978 3rd Place) Italy (1978 4th Place) West Germany England	Austria Soviet Union Hungary Poland Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia	Belgium Scotland Northern Ireland France Chile Peru	Algeria Cameroon Kuwait El Salvador Honduras New Zealand

Results

Champion Runner-up

Third place Fourth place

Quarter-finals Round of 16

Group stage

First round

Group 1

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Poland	3	1	2	0	5	1	+4	4
Italy	3	0	3	0	2	2	0	3
Cameroon	3	0	3	0	1	1	0	3
Peru	3	0	2	1	2	6	−4	2

14 June 1982 17:15 CEST	Italy	0 – 0	Poland	Estadio de Balaídos, Vigo Attendance: 33,000 Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)
		Report

15 June 1982 17:15 CEST	Peru	0 – 0	Cameroon	Estadio de Riazor, A Coruña Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Franz Wöhrer (Austria)
		Report

18 June 1982 17:15 CEST	Italy	1 – 1	Peru	Estadio de Balaídos, Vigo Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Walter Eschweiler (West Germany)
	Conti 18'	Report	Díaz 83'

19 June 1982 17:15 CEST	Poland	0 – 0	Cameroon	Estadio de Riazor, A Coruña Attendance: 19,000 Referee: Alexis Ponnet (Belgium)
		Report

22 June 1982 17:15 CEST	Poland	5 – 1	Peru	Estadio de Riazor, A Coruña Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Mario Rubio Vázquez (Mexico)
	Smolarek 55' Lato 58' Boniek 61' Buncol 68' Ciołek 76'	Report	La Rosa 83'

23 June 1982 17:15 CEST	Italy	1 – 1	Cameroon	Estadio de Balaídos, Vigo Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Bogdan Dotchev (Bulgaria)
	Graziani 60'	Report	Mbida 61'

Group 2

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
West Germany	3	2	1	6	3	+3	4
Austria	3	2	1	3	1	+2	4
Algeria	3	2	1	5	5	0	4
Chile	3	0	3	3	8	−5	0

16 June 1982 17:15 CEST	West Germany	1 – 2	Algeria	El Molinón, Gijón Attendance: 42,000 Referee: Enrique Labo Revoredo (Peru)
	Rummenigge 67'	Report	Madjer 54' Belloumi 68'

17 June 1982 17:15 CEST	Chile	0 – 1	Austria	Estadio Carlos Tartiere, Oviedo Attendance: 22,500 Referee: Juan Daniel Cardellino (Uruguay)
		Report	Schachner 21'

20 June 1982 17:15 CEST	West Germany	4 – 1	Chile	El Molinón, Gijón Attendance: 42,000 Referee: Bruno Galler (Switzerland)
	Rummenigge 9', 57', 66' Reinders 81'	Report	Moscoso 90'

21 June 1982 17:15 CEST	Algeria	0 – 2	Austria	Estadio Carlos Tartiere, Oviedo Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Tony Boskovic (Australia)
		Report	Schachner 55' Krankl 67'

24 June 1982 17:15 CEST	Algeria	3 – 2	Chile	Estadio Carlos Tartiere, Oviedo Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Rómulo Méndez (Guatemala)
	Assad 7', 31' Bensaoula 35'	Report	Neira 59' (pen.) Letelier 73'

25 June 1982 17:15 CEST	West Germany	1 – 0	Austria	El Molinón, Gijón Attendance: 41,000 Referee: Bob Valentine (Scotland)
	Hrubesch 10'	Report

Group 3

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Belgium	3	2	1	0	3	1	+2	5
Argentina	3	2	0	1	6	2	+4	4
Hungary	3	1	1	1	12	6	+6	3
El Salvador	3	0	0	3	1	13	−12	0

13 June 1982 20:00 CEST	Argentina	0 – 1	Belgium	Camp Nou, Barcelona Attendance: 95,500 Referee: Vojtěch Christov (Czechoslovakia)
		Report	Vandenbergh 62'

15 June 1982 21:15 CEST	Hungary	10 – 1	El Salvador	Nuevo Estadio, Elche Attendance: 23,000 Referee: Ibrahim Youssef Al-Doy (Bahrain)
	Nyilasi 4', 83' Pölöskei 11' Fazekas 23', 54' Tóth 50' L. Kiss 69', 72', 76' Szentes 72'	Report	Ramírez 64'

18 June 1982 21:15 CEST	Argentina	4 – 1	Hungary	Estadio José Rico Pérez, Alicante Attendance: 32,093 Referee: Belaid Lacarne (Algeria)
	Bertoni 26' Maradona 28', 57' Ardiles 60'	Report	Pölöskei 76'

19 June 1982 21:15 CEST	Belgium	1 – 0	El Salvador	Nuevo Estadio, Elche Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Malcolm Moffatt (Northern Ireland)
	Coeck 19'	Report

22 June 1982 21:15 CEST	Belgium	1 – 1	Hungary	Nuevo Estadio, Elche Attendance: 37,000 Referee: Clive White (England)
	Czerniatynski 76'	Report	Varga 27'

23 June 1982 21:15 CEST	Argentina	2 – 0	El Salvador	Estadio José Rico Pérez, Alicante Attendance: 32,500 Referee: Luis Barrancos (Bolivia)
	Passarella 22' (pen.) Bertoni 52'	Report

Group 4

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
England	3	3	0	0	6	1	+5	6
France	3	1	1	1	6	5	+1	3
Czechoslovakia	3	0	2	1	2	4	−2	2
Kuwait	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1

16 June 1982 17:15 CEST	England	3 – 1	France	Estadio San Mamés, Bilbao Attendance: 44,172 Referee: Antonio Garrido (Portugal)
	Robson 1', 67' Mariner 83'	Report	Soler 24'

17 June 1982 17:15 CEST	Czechoslovakia	1 – 1	Kuwait	Estadio José Zorrilla, Valladolid Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Benjamin Dwomoh (Ghana)
	Panenka 21' (pen.)	Report	Al-Dakhil 57'

20 June 1982 17:15 CEST	England	2 – 0	Czechoslovakia	Estadio San Mamés, Bilbao Attendance: 41,123 Referee: Charles Corver (Netherlands)
	Francis 62' Barmoš 66' (o.g.)	Report

21 June 1982 17:15 CEST	France	4 – 1	Kuwait	Estadio José Zorrilla, Valladolid Attendance: 30,043 Referee: Miroslav Stupar (Soviet Union)
	Genghini 31' Platini 43' Six 48' Bossis 89'	Report	Al-Buloushi 75'

24 June 1982 17:15 CEST	France	1 – 1	Czechoslovakia	Estadio José Zorrilla, Valladolid Attendance: 28,000 Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy)
	Six 66'	Report	Panenka 84' (pen.)

25 June 1982 17:15 CEST	England	1 – 0	Kuwait	Estadio San Mamés, Bilbao Attendance: 39,700 Referee: Gilberto Aristizábal (Colombia)
	Francis 27'	Report

Group 5

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Northern Ireland	3	1	2	0	2	1	+1	4
Spain	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	3
Yugoslavia	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	3
Honduras	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2

16 June 1982 21:15 CEST	Spain	1 – 1	Honduras	Estadio Luís Casanova, Valencia Attendance: 49,562 Referee: Arturo Ithurralde (Argentina)
	López Ufarte 65' (pen.)	Report	Zelaya 8'

17 June 1982 21:15 CEST	Yugoslavia	0 – 0	Northern Ireland	La Romareda, Zaragoza Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)
		Report

20 June 1982 21:15 CEST	Spain	2 – 1	Yugoslavia	Estadio Luis Casanova, Valencia Attendance: 48,000 Referee: Henning Lund-Sørensen (Denmark)
	Juanito 14' (pen.) Saura 66'	Report	Gudelj 10'

21 June 1982 21:15 CEST	Honduras	1 – 1	Northern Ireland	La Romareda, Zaragoza Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Chan Tam Sun (Hong Kong)
	Laing 60'	Report	Armstrong 10'

24 June 1982 21:15 CEST	Honduras	0 – 1	Yugoslavia	La Romareda, Zaragoza Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Gastón Castro (Chile)
		Report	Petrović 88' (pen.)

25 June 1982 21:15 CEST	Spain	0 – 1	Northern Ireland	Estadio Luis Casanova, Valencia Attendance: 49,562 Referee: Héctor Ortiz (Paraguay)
		Report	Armstrong 47'

Group 6

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	3	3	0	0	10	2	+8	6
Soviet Union	3	1	1	1	6	4	+2	3
Scotland	3	1	1	1	8	8	0	3
New Zealand	3	0	0	3	2	12	−10	0

14 June 1982 21:15 CEST	Brazil	2 – 1	Soviet Union	Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, Seville Attendance: 68,000 Referee: Augusto Lamo Castillo (Spain)
	Sócrates 75' Éder 87'	Report	Bal 34'

15 June 1982 21:15 CEST	Scotland	5 – 2	New Zealand	Estadio La Rosaleda, Málaga Attendance: 36,000 Referee: David Socha (United States)
	Dalglish 18' Wark 30', 33' Robertson 73' Archibald 79'	Report	Sumner 54' Wooddin 65'

18 June 1982 21:15 CEST	Brazil	4 – 1	Scotland	Estadio Benito Villamarín, Seville Attendance: 47,379 Referee: Luis Paulino Siles (Costa Rica)
	Zico 33' Oscar 49' Éder 65' Falcão 87'	Report	Narey 18'

19 June 1982 21:15 CEST	Soviet Union	3 – 0	New Zealand	Estadio La Rosaleda, Málaga Attendance: 19,000 Referee: Yousef El-Ghoul (Libya)
	Gavrilov 25' Blokhin 48' Baltacha 69'	Report

22 June 1982 21:15 CEST	Soviet Union	2 – 2	Scotland	Estadio La Rosaleda, Málaga Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania)
	Chivadze 60' Shengelia 84'	Report	Jordan 15' Souness 87'

23 June 1982 21:15 CEST	Brazil	4 – 0	New Zealand	Estadio Benito Villamarín, Seville Attendance: 43,000 Referee: Damir Matovinović (Yugoslavia)
	Zico 28', 31' Falcão 55' Serginho 69'	Report

Second round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Poland	2	1	1	0	3	0	+3	3
Soviet Union	2	1	1	0	1	0	+1	3
Belgium	2	0	0	2	0	4	−4	0

28 June 1982 21:15 CEST	Belgium	0 – 3	Poland	Camp Nou, Barcelona Attendance: 65,000 Referee: Luis Paulino Siles (Costa Rica)
		Report	Boniek 4', 26', 53'

1 July 1982 21:15 CEST	Belgium	0 – 1	Soviet Union	Camp Nou, Barcelona Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)
		Report	Oganesian 48'

4 July 1982 21:15 CEST	Soviet Union	0 – 0	Poland	Camp Nou, Barcelona Attendance: 65,000 Referee: Bob Valentine (Scotland)
		Report

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
West Germany	2	1	1	0	2	1	+1	3
England	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
Spain	2	0	1	1	1	2	−1	1

29 June 1982 21:15 CEST	West Germany	0 – 0	England	Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid Attendance: 75,000 Referee: Arnaldo Cézar Coelho (Brazil)
		Report

2 July 1982 21:15 CEST	West Germany	2 – 1	Spain	Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid Attendance: 90,089 Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy)
	Littbarski 50' Fischer 75'	Report	Zamora 82'

5 July 1982 21:15 CEST	Spain	0 – 0	England	Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid Attendance: 75,000 Referee: Alexis Ponnet (Belgium)
		Report

Group C

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	2	2	0	5	3	+2	4
Brazil	2	1	1	5	4	+1	2
Argentina	2	0	2	2	5	−3	0

29 June 1982 17:15 CEST	Argentina	1 – 2	Italy	Estadio Sarriá, Barcelona Attendance: 43,000 Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania)
	Passarella 83'	Report	Tardelli 55' Cabrini 67'

2 July 1982 17:15 CEST	Argentina	1 – 3	Brazil	Estadio Sarriá, Barcelona Attendance: 43,000 Referee: Mario Rubio Vázquez (Mexico)
	Díaz 89'	Report	Zico 11' Serginho 66' Júnior 75'

5 July 1982 17:15 CEST	Brazil	2 – 3	Italy	Estadio Sarriá, Barcelona Attendance: 44,000 Referee: Abraham Klein (Israel)
	Sócrates 12' Falcão 68'	Report	Rossi 5', 25', 74'

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
France	2	2	0	0	5	1	+4	4
Austria	2	0	1	1	2	3	−1	1
Northern Ireland	2	0	1	1	3	6	−3	1

28 June 1982 17:15 CEST	Austria	0 – 1	France	Estadio Vicente Calderón, Madrid Attendance: 37,000 Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary)
		Report	Genghini 39'

1 July 1982 17:15 CEST	Austria	2 – 2	Northern Ireland	Estadio Vicente Calderón, Madrid Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Adolf Prokop (East Germany)
	Pezzey 50' Hintermaier 68'	Report	Hamilton 27', 75'

4 July 1982 17:15 CEST	Northern Ireland	1 – 4	France	Estadio Vicente Calderón, Madrid Attendance: 37,000 Referee: Alojzy Jarguz (Poland)
	Armstrong 75'	Report	Giresse 33', 80' Rocheteau 46', 68'

Knockout stage

Semifinals			Final

8 July - Barcelona
Poland	0
Italy	2

			11 July - Madrid
			Italy	3
			West Germany	1


			Third place
8 July - Seville		10 July - Alicante
West Germany (p)	3 (5)	Poland	3
France	3 (4)		France	2

Semi-finals

8 July 1982 17:15 CEST	Poland	0 – 2	Italy	Camp Nou, Barcelona Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Juan Daniel Cardellino (Uruguay)
		Report	Rossi 22', 73'

8 July 1982 21:15 CEST	West Germany	3 – 3 (a.e.t.)	France	Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, Seville Attendance: 63,000 Referee: Charles Corver (Netherlands)
	Littbarski 17' Rummenigge 102' Fischer 108'	Report	Platini 26' (pen.) Trésor 92' Giresse 98'
		Penalties
	Kaltz Breitner Stielike Littbarski Rummenigge Hrubesch	5 – 4	Giresse Amoros Rocheteau Six Platini Bossis

Third place match

10 July 1982 20:00 CEST	Poland	3 – 2	France	Estadio José Rico Pérez, Alicante Attendance: 28,000 Referee: Antonio Garrido (Portugal)
	Szarmach 40' Majewski 44' Kupcewicz 46'	Report	Girard 13' Couriol 72'

Final

11 July 1982 20:00 CEST	Italy	3 – 1	West Germany	Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid Attendance: 90,000 Referee: Arnaldo Cézar Coelho (Brazil)
	Rossi 57' Tardelli 69' Altobelli 81'	Report	Breitner 83'

Scorers

6 goals

Paolo Rossi

5 goals

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

4 goals

Zico
Zbigniew Boniek

3 goals

Falcão
Alain Giresse
László Kiss
Gerry Armstrong

2 goals

Salah Assad
Daniel Bertoni
Diego Maradona
Daniel Passarella
Walter Schachner
Éder
Serginho
Sócrates
Antonín Panenka
Trevor Francis
Bryan Robson
Bernard Genghini
Michel Platini
Dominique Rocheteau
Didier Six
Klaus Fischer
Pierre Littbarski
László Fazekas
Tibor Nyilasi
Gábor Pölöskei
Marco Tardelli
Billy Hamilton
John Wark

1 goal

Lakhdar Belloumi
Tedj Bensaoula
Rabah Madjer
Osvaldo Ardiles
Ramón Díaz
Reinhold Hintermaier
Hans Krankl
Bruno Pezzey
Ludo Coeck
Alexandre Czerniatynski
Erwin Vandenbergh
Júnior
Oscar
Grégoire Mbida
Juan Carlos Letelier
Gustavo Moscoso
Miguel Ángel Neira
Luis Ramírez
Paul Mariner
Maxime Bossis
Alain Couriol
René Girard
Gérard Soler
Marius Trésor
Paul Breitner
Horst Hrubesch
Uwe Reinders
Antonio Laing
Héctor Zelaya
Lázár Szentes
József Tóth
József Varga
Alessandro Altobelli
Antonio Cabrini
Bruno Conti
Francesco Graziani

Abdullah Al-Buloushi
Faisal Al-Dakhil
Steve Sumner
Steve Wooddin
Rubén Toribio Díaz
Guillermo La Rosa
Andrzej Buncol
Włodzimierz Ciołek
Janusz Kupcewicz
Grzegorz Lato
Stefan Majewski
Włodzimierz Smolarek
Andrzej Szarmach
Steve Archibald
Kenny Dalglish
Joe Jordan
David Narey
John Robertson
Graeme Souness
Andriy Bal
Sergei Baltacha
Oleg Blokhin
Aleksandr Chivadze
Yuri Gavrilov
Khoren Oganesian
Ramaz Shengelia
Juanito
Roberto López Ufarte
Enrique Saura
Jesús María Zamora
Ivan Gudelj
Vladimir Petrović

Own goals

Jozef Barmoš (for England)

FIFA Retrospective Ranking

In 1986, FIFA published a report that ranked all teams in each World Cup up to and including 1986, based on progress in the competition, overall results and quality of the opposition.^[3] The rankings for the 1982 tournament were as follows:

Final

3rd and 4th place

Eliminated at the second group stage

Eliminated at the first group stage

References

↑ Booth, Lawrence; Smyth, Rob (11 August 2004). "What's the dodgiest game in football history?". guardian.co.uk (Guardian News and Media). http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2004/aug/11/theknowledge.sport. Retrieved 25 February 2009.
↑ "World's worst refereeing decisions", BBC, January 5, 2005
↑ http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/afdeveloping/technicaldevp/50/09/00/fwc_mexico_1986_en_part4_279.pdf page 45

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1982 FIFA World Cup finalists

Champions	Italy

Runners-up	Germany FR

Third place	Poland

Fourth place	France

Eliminated in the second group stage	Argentina · Austria · Brazil · Belgium · England · Northern Ireland · Spain · Soviet Union

Eliminated in the first group stage	Algeria · Cameroon · Chile · Czechoslovakia · El Salvador · Honduras · Hungary · Kuwait · New Zealand · Peru · Scotland · Yugoslavia

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1982 FIFA World Cup

Contents

Qualification

Summary

First round

Second round

Semi-finals, third-place match, and final

Mascot

Venues

Match officials

Squads

Seeding

Results

First round

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Group 5

Group 6

Second round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

Third place match

Final

Scorers

FIFA Retrospective Ranking

References

External links