1998 FIFA World Cup

The 1998 FIFA World Cup was a football sporting event that was held in France from 10 June to 12 July 1998. 32 teams took part from many countries. France won the trophy after beating Brazil in the final 3-0.

1998 FIFA World Cup

Tournament details
Host country	France
Dates	10 June – 12 July
Teams	32 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	10 (in 10 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	France (1st title)
Runners-up	Brazil
Third place	Croatia
Fourth place	Netherlands
Tournament statistics
Matches played	64
Goals scored	171 (2.67 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Davor Šuker (6 goals)
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Participants

Africa

•  Cameroon (CMR) • Squad
•  Morocco (MAR) • Squad
•  Nigeria (NGA) • Squad
•  South Africa (RSA) • Squad
•  Tunisia (TUN) • Squad

Asia

•  Iran (IRN) • Squad
•  Japan (JPN) • Squad
•  South Korea (KOR) • Squad
•  Saudi Arabia (KSA) • Squad

Europe

•  Austria (AUT) • Squad
•  Belgium (BEL) • Squad
•  Bulgaria (BUL) • Squad
•  Croatia (CRO) • Squad
•  Denmark (DEN) • Squad
•  England (ENG) • Squad
•  France (FRA) • Squad
•  Germany (GER) • Squad
•  Italy (ITA) • Squad
•  Netherlands (NED) • Squad
•  Norway (NOR) • Squad
•  Romania (ROU) • Squad
•  Scotland (SCO) • Squad
•  Spain (ESP) • Squad
•  Yugoslavia (YUG) • Squad

North and Central America

•  Jamaica (JAM) • Squad
•  Mexico (MEX) • Squad
•  United States (USA) • Squad

South America

•  Argentina (ARG) • Squad
•  Brazil (BRA) • Squad
•  Chile (CHI) • Squad
•  Colombia (COL) • Squad
•  Paraguay (PAR) • Squad

Group Stage

A win would earn the team 3 points, a draw would earn them 1 point, and a loss earns them no points.

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
Brazil	2 – 1	Scotland
Morocco	2 – 2	Norway
16 June 1998
Scotland	1 – 1	Norway
Brazil	3 – 0	Morocco
23 June 1998
Scotland	0 – 3	Morocco
Brazil	1 – 2	Norway

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
Cameroon	1 – 1	Austria
Italy	2 – 2	Chile
17 June 1998
Chile	1 – 1	Austria
Italy	3 – 0	Cameroon
23 June 1998
Italy	2 – 1	Austria
Chile	1 – 1	Cameroon

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
Saudi Arabia	0 – 1	Denmark
France	3 – 0	South Africa
18 June 1998
South Africa	1 – 1	Denmark
France	4 – 0	Saudi Arabia
24 June 1998
France	2 – 1	Denmark
South Africa	2 – 2	Saudi Arabia

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
Paraguay	0 – 0	Bulgaria
13 June 1998
Spain	2 – 3	Nigeria
19 June 1998
Nigeria	1 – 0	Bulgaria
Spain	0 – 0	Paraguay
24 June 1998
Nigeria	1 – 3	Paraguay
Spain	6 – 1	Bulgaria

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
South Korea	3	0	1	2	2	9	-7	1

13 June 1998
South Korea	1 – 3	Mexico
Netherlands	0 – 0	Belgium
20 June 1998
Belgium	2 – 2	Mexico
Netherlands	5 – 0	South Korea
25 June 1998
Netherlands	2 – 2	Mexico
Belgium	1 – 1	South Korea

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
Yugoslavia	1 – 0	Iran
15 June 1998
Germany	2 – 0	United States
21 June 1998
Germany	2 – 2	Yugoslavia
United States	1 – 2	Iran
25 June 1998
United States	0 – 1	Yugoslavia
Germany	2 – 0	Iran

Group G

Main article: 1998 FIFA World Cup 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
England	2 – 0	Tunisia
Romania	1 – 0	Colombia
22 June 1998
Colombia	1 – 0	Tunisia
Romania	2 – 1	England
26 June 1998
Colombia	0 – 2	England
Romania	1 – 1	Tunisia

Group H

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

21 June 1998

17:30

Argentina	5-0	Jamaica
Ortega  31', 55' Batistuta  73', 78', 83' (pen.)

Parc des Princes, Paris

Knockout stage

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

27 June – Paris

Brazil

4

3 July – Nantes

Chile

1

Brazil

3

28 June – Saint-Denis

Denmark

2

Nigeria

1

7 July – Marseille

Denmark

4

Brazil (p)

1 (4)

29 June – Toulouse

Netherlands

1 (2)

Netherlands

2

4 July – Marseille

Yugoslavia

1

Netherlands

2

30 June – Saint-Étienne

Argentina

1

Argentina (p)

2 (4)

12 July – Saint-Denis

England

2 (3)

Brazil

0

27 June – Marseille

France

3

Italy

1

3 July – Saint-Denis

Norway

0

Italy

0 (3)

28 June – Lens

France (p)

0 (4)

France (aet)

1

8 July – Saint-Denis

Paraguay

0

France

2

29 June – Montpellier

Croatia

1

Third place

Germany

2

4 July – Lyon

11 July – Paris

Mexico

1

Germany

0

Netherlands

1

30 June – Bordeaux

Croatia

3

Croatia

2

Romania

0

Croatia

1

Round of 16

27 June 1998

16:30

Italy	1-0	Norway
Vieri  18'

Stade Vélodrome, Marseille

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27 June 1998

21:00

Brazil	4-1	Chile
César Sampaio  11', 27' Ronaldo  45+1' (pen.), 70'		Salas  68'

Parc des Princes, Paris

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28 June 1998

16:30

France	1-0 (a.e.t.)	Paraguay
Blanc  114'

Stade Félix-Bollaert, Lens

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28 June 1998

21:00

Nigeria	1-4	Denmark
Babangida  78'		Møller  3' B. Laudrup  12' Sand  60' Helveg  76'

Stade de France, Saint-Denis

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29 June 1998

16:30

Germany	2-1	Mexico
Klinsmann  75' Bierhoff  86'		Hernández  47'

Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier

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29 June 1998

21:00

Netherlands	2-1	Yugoslavia
Bergkamp  38' Davids  90+2'		Komljenović  48'

Stade de Toulouse, Toulouse

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30 June 1998

16:30

Romania	0-1	Croatia
		Šuker  45+2' (pen.)

Parc Lescure, Bordeaux

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30 June 1998

21:00

Argentina	2-2 (a.e.t.)	England
Batistuta  6' (pen.) Zanetti  45+1'		Shearer  10' (pen.) Owen  16'
Penalties
Berti Crespo Verón Gallardo Ayala	4-3	Shearer Ince Merson Owen Batty

Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne

Quarter-finals

3 July 1998

16:30

Italy	0-0 (a.e.t.)	France
Penalties
R. Baggio Albertini Costacurta Vieri Di Biagio	3-4	Zidane Lizarazu Trezeguet Henry Blanc

Stade de France, Saint-Denis

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3 July 1998

21:00

Brazil	3-2	Denmark
Bebeto  11' Rivaldo  27', 60'		Jørgensen  2' B. Laudrup  50'

Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes

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4 July 1998

16:30

Netherlands	2-1	Argentina
Kluivert  12' Bergkamp  90'		López  17'

Stade Vélodrome, Marseille

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4 July 1998

21:00

Germany	0-3	Croatia
		Jarni  45+3' Vlaović  80' Šuker  85'

Stade de Gerland, Lyon

Semi-finals

7 July 1998

21:00

Brazil	1-1 (a.e.t.)	Netherlands
Ronaldo  46'		Kluivert  87'
Penalties
Ronaldo Rivaldo Emerson Dunga	4-2	F. de Boer Bergkamp Cocu R. de Boer

Stade Vélodrome, Marseille

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8 July 1998

21:00

France	2-1	Croatia
Thuram  47', 69'		Šuker  46'

Stade de France, Saint-Denis

Third-place match

11 July 1998

21:00

Netherlands	1-2	Croatia
Zenden  21'		Prosinečki  13' Šuker  35'

Parc des Princes, Paris

Final

12 July 1998

21:00

Brazil	0-3	France
		Zidane  27' (+45) Piet  90'

Stade de France, Saint-Denis

1998 FIFA World Cup Winners
France 1st title

Statistics

Goalscorers

6 goals

• Davor Šuker

5 goals

• Christian Vieri
• Gabriel Batistuta

4 goals

• Marcelo Salas
• Luis Hernández
• Ronaldo

3 goals

• Thierry Henry
• César Sampaio
• Bebeto
• Rivaldo
• Jürgen Klinsmann
• Oliver Bierhoff
• Dennis Bergkamp

2 goals

• Ricardo Peláez
• Marc Wilmots
• Ariel Ortega
• Roberto Baggio
• Abdejalil Hadda
• Salaheddine Bassir
• Shaun Bartlett
• Fernando Hierro
• Fernando Morientes
• Phillip Cocu
• Ronald de Boer
• Patrick Kluivert
• Theodore Whitmore
• Viorel Moldovan
• Slobodan Komljenović
• Alan Shearer
• Michael Owen
• Brian Laudrup
• Lilian Thuram
• Zinedine Zidane
• Emmanuel Petit
• Robert Prosinečki

1 goal

• John Collins
• Craig Burley
• Mustapha Hadji
• Dan Eggen
• Håvard Flo
• Tore André Flo
• Kjetil Rekdal
• Luigi Di Biagio
• Pierre Njanka
• Patrick M'Boma
• Toni Polster
• Ivica Vastić
• Andreas Herzog
• Marc Rieper
• Allan Nielsen
• Michael Laudrup
• Peter Møller
• Ebbe Sand
• Thomas Helveg
• Martin Jørgensen
• Christophe Dugarry
• David Trezeguet
• Bixente Lizarazu
• Youri Djorkaeff
• Laurent Blanc
• Raúl
• Luis Enrique
• Kiko
• Mutiu Adepoju
• Sunday Oliseh
• Victor Ikpeba
• Wilson Oruma
• Tijani Babangida
• Ha Seok-Ju
• Yoo Sang-chul
• Alberto García Aspe
• Cuauhtémoc Blanco
• Siniša Mihajlović
• Predrag Mijatović
• Dragan Stojković
• Mario Stanić
• Robert Jarni
• Goran Vlaović
• Robbie Earle
• Paul Scholes
• Darren Anderton
• David Beckham
• Adrian Ilie
• Dan Petrescu
• Andreas Möller
• Benni McCarthy
• Marc Overmars
• Pierre van Hooijdonk
• Edgar Davids
• Boudewijn Zenden
• Hamid Estili
• Mehdi Mahdavikia
• Brian McBride
• Léider Preciado
• José Luis Sierra
• Sami Al-Jaber
• Yousuf Al-Thunayan
• Celso Ayala
• Miguel Ángel Benítez
• José Cardozo
• Emil Kostadinov
• Luc Nilis
• Mauricio Pineda
• Javier Zanetti
• Claudio López
• Masashi Nakayama
• Skander Souayah

Own goals

• Tom Boyd (against Brazil)
• Youssef Chippo (against Norway)
• Pierre Issa (against France)
• Andoni Zubizarreta (against Nigeria)
• Siniša Mihajlović (against Germany)
• Georgi Bachev (against Spain)

Players who were red-carded during the tournament

• Ariel Ortega
• Gert Verheyen
• Anatoli Nankov
• Raymond Kalla
• Lauren
• Rigobert Song
• Miklos Molnar
• Morten Wieghorst
• David Beckham
• Laurent Blanc
• Marcel Desailly
• Zinedine Zidane
• Christian Wörns
• Darryl Powell
• Ha Seok-ju
• Pável Pardo
• Ramón Ramírez
• Patrick Kluivert
• Arthur Numan
• Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi
• Craig Burley
• Alfred Phiri

References

• FIFA Archived 2018-04-14 at the Wayback Machine