1982 FIFA World Cup

1982 FIFA World Cup

Copa Mundial de Fútbol – España 82
1982 FIFA World Cup official logo
Tournament details
Host country	Spain
Dates	13 June – 11 July (29 days)
Teams	24 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	17 (in 14 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Italy (3rd title)
Runners-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
Best young player	Manuel Amoros

The 1982 FIFA World Cup, the 12th FIFA World Cup, was held in Spain from 13 June to 11 July 1982.

The tournament was won by Italy, after defeating West Germany 3–1 in the final in the Spanish capital of Madrid. It was Italy's third World Cup win and first since 1938. The holders Argentina were eliminated in the second group round. Algeria, Cameroon, Honduras, Kuwait and New Zealand made their first appearances in the finals.

The tournament featured two of the greatest matches in World Cup history: Italy's sensational win over Brazil in a second round game and West Germany's semi-final defeat of France via the first ever penalty shoot-out in World Cup competition.^[1][2]

In the first round of Group 3, Hungary defeated El Salvador 10–1, equalling the largest margin of victory ever recorded in the finals (Hungary over South Korea 9–0 in 1954, and Yugoslavia over Zaire 9–0 in 1974).

Host selection

Spain was chosen as the host nation by FIFA in London, England on 6 July 1966. Hosting rights for the 1974 and 1978 tournaments were awarded at the same time. West Germany agreed a deal with Spain by which Spain would support West Germany for the 1974 tournament, and in return West Germany would allow Spain to bid for the 1982 World Cup unopposed.

Qualification

For the first time, the World Cup finals expanded from 16 to 24 teams. This allowed more teams, especially from Africa and Asia, to participate.

Those teams absent from the finals and who also failed to qualify were 1974 and 1978 runners-up Netherlands (eliminated by Belgium and France), Mexico (eliminated by Honduras and El Salvador), and the 1970s participants Sweden (eliminated by Scotland and Northern Ireland). Northern Ireland qualified for the first time since 1958. Belgium, Czechoslovakia, El Salvador, England, and the Soviet Union were back in the Finals after a 12-year absence. England had its first successful World Cup qualifying campaign in 20 years^[3] – the English team had qualified automatically as hosts in 1966 and as defending champions in 1970, then had missed the 1974 and 1978 tournaments. Yugoslavia were also back after having missed the 1978 tournament.

Algeria, Cameroon, Honduras, Kuwait, and New Zealand all participated in the World Cup for the first time. As of 2014, this was the last time that El Salvador, Kuwait and Peru qualified for a FIFA World Cup finals.

There was some consideration given as to whether England, Northern Ireland and Scotland should withdraw from the tournament due to the Falklands War between Argentina and the United Kingdom.^[3] A directive issued by the British sports minister Neil Macfarlane in April, at the start of the conflict, suggested that there should be no contact between British representative teams and Argentina.^[3] This directive was not rescinded until August, following the end of hostilities.^[3] Macfarlane reported to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that some players and officials were uneasy about participating due to the casualties being suffered by British forces.^[3] FIFA advised the British Government that there was no prospect of Argentina (the defending champions) being asked to withdraw.^[3] It also became apparent that no other countries would withdraw from the tournament.^[3] It was decided to allow the British national teams to participate because it could have been used for propaganda purposes by Argentina, rather than having the intended effect of applying political pressure onto Argentina.^[3]

Summary

Format

The 1982 competition used a unique format. The first round was a round-robin group stage containing six groups of four teams each. Two points were awarded for a win and one for a draw, with goal difference used to separate teams equal on points. The top two teams in each group advanced. In the second round, the twelve remaining teams were split into four groups of three teams each, with the winner of each group progressing to the knockout semi-final stage.

The composition of the groups in the second round was predetermined before the start of the tournament. In the aggregate, Groups A and B were to include one team from each of Groups 1 through 6, and Groups C and D included the remaining six teams. The winners of Groups 1 and 3 were in Group A whilst the runners-up were in Group C. The winners of Groups 2 and 4 were in Group B whilst the runners-up were in Group D. The winner of Group 5 was in Group D whilst the runner-up was in Group B. The winner of Group 6 was in Group C whilst the runner-up was in Group A. Thus, Group A mirrored Group C, and Group B mirrored Group D with the winners and runners-up from the first round being placed into opposite groups in the second round.

The second-round groups that mirrored each other (based on the first-round groupings) faced off against each other in the semifinals. Thus, the Group A winner played the Group C winner, and the Group B winner player the Group D winner. This meant that if two teams which played in the same first-round group both emerged from the second round, they would meet for the second time of the tournament in a semifinal match. It also guaranteed that the final match would feature two teams that had not previously played each other in the tournament. As it turned out, Italy and Poland who were both in Group 1 in the first round, each won their second-round groups and played each other in a semifinal match.^[4]

First round

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.^[5]

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, West Germany met 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.^[6] 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 Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber 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.

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.^[7]

Brazil were in Group 6. With Zico, Sócrates, Falcão, Éder and others, 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 on goal difference 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.

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 and Mario Kempes'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 João Batista in the groin and was sent off in the 85th minute.

The match between Brazil and Italy pitted Brazil's attack against Italy's defense, with the majority of the game played around the Italian area, and with the Italian midfielders and defenders returning the repeated set volleys of Brazilian shooters such as Zico, Sócrates and Falcao. Italian centre back Gentile was assigned to mark Brazilian striker Zico, earning a yellow card and a suspension for the semi-final. Paolo Rossi opened the scoring when he headed in Antonio Cabrini's cross with just five minutes played. Sócrates equalised for Brazil seven minutes later. In the twenty-fifth minute Rossi stepped past Júnior, intercepted a pass from Cerezo across the Brazilians' goal, and drilled the shot home. The Brazilians threw everything in search of another equalizer, while Italy defended bravely. On 68 minutes, Falcão collected a pass from Junior and as Cerezo's dummy run distracted three defenders, fired home from 20 yards out. Now Italy had gained the lead twice thanks to Rossi's goals, and Brazil had come back twice; At 2–2, Brazil would have been through on goal difference, but in the 74th minute, a poor clearance from an Italian corner kick went back to the Brazilian 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 86th minute Giancarlo Antognoni scored an apparent fourth goal for Italy, but it was wrongly disallowed for offside. In the dying moments Dino Zoff made a miraculous save to deny Oscar a goal, ensuring that Italy advanced to the semi-final.^[8][9]

In the last group, Group D, France dispatched Austria 1–0 thanks to a brilliant free kick by Bernard Genghini and then beat Northern Ireland 4–1 to reach their first semi-final since 1958.

Semi-finals, third-place match, and final

In a re-match of the encounter in the first round, 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 didn't seem to go for 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".^[10] 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 an 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 towards Klaus Fischer, who was unmarked but with his back to goal. Fischer in turn volleyed the ball past French keeper Jean-Luc Ettori with a bicycle kick, levelling the scores at 3–3.

The match went to penalties, with France and West Germany participating 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 third-place match, Poland edged the 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.

In the final, Antonio Cabrini fired a penalty wide of goal in the first half. In the second half, 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 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.

Records

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.

Italy's 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, something that did not happen again until 2006.

Venues

17 stadiums in 14 cities hosted the tournament.^[11] The most used stadium was FC Barcelona's Camp Nou stadium which hosted 5 matches including a semi-final match; it was the largest stadium used for this tournament and still is one of the largest stadiums in Europe. In addition to Barcelona's Sarria Stadium hosting 3 total matches, Barcelona was the Spanish city with the most matches in Espana '82 with 8; the Spanish capital of Madrid followed with 7.

This particular World Cup was organized in such a way where all of the matches of each of the six groups of four were assigned stadiums in cities close in proximity to each other; reducing the stress of travel on the players and fans. For example: Group 1 only played in Vigo and A Coruña, Group 2 only played in Gijon and Oviedo, Group 3 only played in Elche and Alicante (except for the first match, which was the opening match of the tournament, which was played at the Camp Nou), Group 4 played only in Bilbao and Valladolid (England played all their first round group matches in Bilbao), Group 5 (which included hosts Spain) was played exclusively in Valencia and Zaragoza, and Group 6 played exclusively in Seville and Malaga (of the 3 1st round matches in Seville, the first match between Brazil and the USSR was played in the Pizjuan Stadium, and the other two were played in the Villamarin Stadium).

When the tournament went into the round-robin second round matches, all the aforementioned cities excluding Barcelona, Alicante and Seville did not host any more matches in Espana '82. Both the Santiago Bernabeu and Vincente Calderon stadiums in Madrid and the Sarria Stadium in Barcelona were used for the first time for this tournament for the second round matches. Madrid and Barcelona hosted the four second round group matches; Barcelona hosted Groups A and C (Camp Nou hosted all 3 of Group A's matches, and Sarria did the same with Group C's matches) and Madrid hosted Groups B and D (Real Madrid's Bernabeu Stadium hosted all 3 of Group B's matches, and Athletico Madrid's Calderon Stadium did the same with the Group D matches)

The two semi final matches were held at Camp Nou and the Pizjuan Stadium in Seville, the third largest stadium used for the tournament (one of only 2 Espana '82 matches it hosted), the third place match was held in Alicante and the final was held at the Bernabeu, the second largest stadium used for this tournament.^[12]

Spain's hot summer climate was avoided by playing most matches in the late afternoon or at night; for instance Seville- which is one of the hottest cities in Europe, with June and July average temperatures going past the 90s Fahrenheit (32 Celsius)- could only play its matches at 21:00 local military time (9:00 at night).

Madrid		Barcelona
Santiago Bernabéu	Vicente Calderón	Camp Nou	Sarrià
Capacity: 90,800	Capacity: 65,695	Capacity: 97,679	Capacity: 40,400
Sevilla		Bilbao	Valladolid
Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán	Benito Villamarín	San Mamés	José Zorrilla
Capacity: 68,110	Capacity: 50,253	Capacity: 46,223	Capacity: 29,990
Málaga	A Coruña Alicante Barcelona Bilbao Elche Gijón Madrid Málaga Oviedo Sevilla Valencia Valladolid Vigo Zaragoza 1982 FIFA World Cup (Spain)
La Rosaleda
Capacity: 34,411
Valencia	Zaragoza	Elche	Oviedo
Luis Casanova	La Romareda	Martínez Valero	Carlos Tartiere
Capacity: 47,542	Capacity: 41,806	Capacity: 53,290	Capacity: 35,886
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Gijón	Alicante	Vigo	A Coruña
El Molinón	José Rico Pérez	Balaídos	Riazor
Capacity: 45,153	Capacity: 28,421	Capacity: 33,000	Capacity: 34,190

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

António Garrido Alojzy Jarguz Augusto Lamo Castillo Henning Lund-Sørensen Damir Matovinović Malcolm Moffat 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

Group stage

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

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Group 2

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Second round

The second round of matches consisted of four 3-way round-robin groups, each confined to one stadium in both of Spain's largest cities- 2 in Madrid, and 2 in Barcelona. The winners of each one of these groups would progress to the semi-finals. The 43,000-capacity Sarria Stadium in Barcelona, used for the Group C round-robin matches between Italy, Argentina and Brazil was, unlike any of the other matches (except 1) in the other groups - completely overcrowded for all 3 matches. The venue was then heavily criticized for its lack of space and inability to handle such rampant crowds; although no one had foreseen such crowds at all; the Group A matches held at the nearby and much larger 99,500-capacity Camp Nou stadium never went past 65,000 and hosted all European teams; it was anticipated there would be larger crowds for the Camp Nou-hosted second round matches between Belgium, the Soviet Union and Poland.^[13]

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

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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

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Group C

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

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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

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Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	8 July – Barcelona (Camp Nou)
	Poland	0
	Italy	2
					11 July – Madrid (Bernabéu)
					Italy	3
					West Germany	1
					Third place
	8 July – Seville (Pizjuán)			10 July – Alicante
	West Germany (pen.)	3 (5)		Poland	3
	France	3 (4)			France	2

Semi-finals

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Third place match

Final

Statistics

Goalscorers

Paolo Rossi received the Golden Boot for scoring six goals. In total, 146 goals were scored by 100 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.

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 László Fazekas

Tibor Nyilasi Gábor Pölöskei Marco Tardelli Billy Hamilton John Wark Klaus Fischer Pierre Littbarski

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 M'Bida Juan Carlos Letelier Gustavo Moscoso Miguel Ángel Neira Luis Ramírez Zapata Paul Mariner Maxime Bossis Alain Couriol René Girard Gérard Soler

Marius Trésor Eduardo 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 Oleh Blokhin Aleksandre Chivadze Yuri Gavrilov Khoren Oganesian Ramaz Shengelia Juanito Roberto López Ufarte Enrique Saura Jesús María Zamora Paul Breitner Horst Hrubesch Uwe Reinders Ivan Gudelj Vladimir Petrović

Own goals

• Jozef Barmoš (against England)

Red cards

• Américo Gallego
• Diego Maradona
• Ladislav Vízek
• Gilberto Yearwood
• Mal Donaghy

Awards

The Golden Ball, awarded to the tournament's best player, was handed out for the first time.

• Golden Ball: Paolo Rossi (Italy)
• Golden Boot: Paolo Rossi (Italy)

FIFA retrospective ranking

In 1986, FIFA had 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.^[14][15] The rankings for the 1982 tournament were as follows:

R	Team	G	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts.
1	Italy	1/C	7	4	3	0	12	6	+6	11
2	West Germany	2/B	7	3	2	2	12	10	+2	8
3	Poland	1/A	7	3	3	1	11	5	+6	9
4	France	4/D	7	3	2	2	16	12	+4	8
Eliminated in the second group stage
5	Brazil	6/C	5	4	0	1	15	6	+9	8
6	England	4/B	5	3	2	0	6	1	+5	8
7	Soviet Union	6/A	5	2	2	1	7	4	+3	6
8	Austria	2/D	5	2	1	2	5	4	+1	5
9	Northern Ireland	5/D	5	1	3	1	5	7	−2	5
10	Belgium	3/A	5	2	1	2	3	5	−2	5
11	Argentina	3/C	5	2	0	3	8	7	+1	4
12	Spain	5/B	5	1	2	2	4	5	−1	4
Eliminated in the first group stage
13	Algeria	2	3	2	0	1	5	5	0	4
14	Hungary	3	3	1	1	1	12	6	+6	3
15	Scotland	6	3	1	1	1	8	8	0	3
16	Yugoslavia	5	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	3
17	Cameroon	1	3	0	3	0	1	1	0	3
18	Honduras	5	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2
19	Czechoslovakia	4	3	0	2	1	2	4	−2	2
20	Peru	1	3	0	2	1	2	6	−4	2
21	Kuwait	4	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1
22	Chile	2	3	0	0	3	3	8	−5	0
23	New Zealand	6	3	0	0	3	2	12	−10	0
24	El Salvador	3	3	0	0	3	1	13	−12	0

Symbols

Mascot

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

Football in action (fútbol en acción) was the name of the animated series first performed in 1982 on public broadcaster RTVE. Chapters had a duration of 20 minutes and the main character was Naranjito. The series lasted 26 episodes and the theme was football, adventures and World Cup of 82. Naranjito was accompanied by other characters, as his girlfriend Clementine, his friend citronio and Imarchi the robot.

Match ball

The match ball for 1982 World Cup, manufactured by Adidas, was the Tango España.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to FIFA World Cup 1982.

• 1982 FIFA World Cup Spain ™, FIFA.com
• Details at RSSSF
• FIFA Technical Report (Part 1), (Part 2) and (Part 3)
• History of the World Cup-1982
• Planet World Cup – Spain 1982
• FIFA Awards – World Cup 1982 "Golden Ball"
• Special feature on Estadios de España (English)

1982 FIFA World Cup finalists Champions Italy Runners-up West Germany Third place Poland Fourth place France Eliminated in the second group stage Argentina Austria Belgium Brazil England Northern Ireland Soviet Union Spain Eliminated in the first group stage Algeria Cameroon Chile Czechoslovakia El Salvador Honduras Hungary Kuwait New Zealand Peru Scotland Yugoslavia 1930 1934 1938 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014

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