1998 FIFA World Cup
Appearance
Tournament details | |
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Host country | France |
Dates | 10 June – 12 July |
Teams | 32 (from 5 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 10 (in 10 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | ![]() |
Runners-up | ![]() |
Third place | ![]() |
Fourth place | ![]() |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 64 |
Goals scored | 171 (2.67 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | ![]() (6 goals) |
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.
Participants
[change | change source]Africa
[change | change source]Cameroon (CMR) • Squad
Morocco (MAR) • Squad
Nigeria (NGA) • Squad
South Africa (RSA) • Squad
Tunisia (TUN) • Squad
Asia
[change | change source]Iran (IRN) • Squad
Japan (JPN) • Squad
South Korea (KOR) • Squad
Saudi Arabia (KSA) • Squad
Europe
[change | change source]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
[change | change source]South America
[change | change source]Argentina (ARG) • Squad
Brazil (BRA) • Squad
Chile (CHI) • Squad
Colombia (COL) • Squad
Paraguay (PAR) • Squad
Group Stage
[change | change source]A win would earn the team 3 points, a draw would earn them 1 point, and a loss earns them no points.
Group A
[change | change source]Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 6 |
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 5 |
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 |
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -4 | 1 |
10 June 1998 | ||
Brazil ![]() |
2 – 1 | ![]() |
Morocco ![]() |
2 – 2 | ![]() |
16 June 1998 | ||
Scotland ![]() |
1 – 1 | ![]() |
Brazil ![]() |
3 – 0 | ![]() |
23 June 1998 | ||
Scotland ![]() |
0 – 3 | ![]() |
Brazil ![]() |
1 – 2 | ![]() |
Group B
[change | change source]Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 7 |
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3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 |
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3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 2 |
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3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 2 |
11 June 1998 | ||
Cameroon ![]() |
1 – 1 | ![]() |
Italy ![]() |
2 – 2 | ![]() |
17 June 1998 | ||
Chile ![]() |
1 – 1 | ![]() |
Italy ![]() |
3 – 0 | ![]() |
23 June 1998 | ||
Italy ![]() |
2 – 1 | ![]() |
Chile ![]() |
1 – 1 | ![]() |
Group C
[change | change source]Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | +8 | 9 |
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
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3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | -3 | 2 |
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -5 | 1 |
12 June 1998 | ||
Saudi Arabia ![]() |
0 – 1 | ![]() |
France ![]() |
3 – 0 | ![]() |
18 June 1998 | ||
South Africa ![]() |
1 – 1 | ![]() |
France ![]() |
4 – 0 | ![]() |
24 June 1998 | ||
France ![]() |
2 – 1 | ![]() |
South Africa ![]() |
2 – 2 | ![]() |
Group D
[change | change source]Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 5 |
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 4 |
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | -6 | 1 |
12 June 1998 | ||
Paraguay ![]() |
0 – 0 | ![]() |
13 June 1998 | ||
Spain ![]() |
2 – 3 | ![]() |
19 June 1998 | ||
Nigeria ![]() |
1 – 0 | ![]() |
Spain ![]() |
0 – 0 | ![]() |
24 June 1998 | ||
Nigeria ![]() |
1 – 3 | ![]() |
Spain ![]() |
6 – 1 | ![]() |
Group E
[change | change source]Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | +5 | 5 |
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 5 |
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3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | -7 | 1 |
13 June 1998 | ||
South Korea ![]() |
1 – 3 | ![]() |
Netherlands ![]() |
0 – 0 | ![]() |
20 June 1998 | ||
Belgium ![]() |
2 – 2 | ![]() |
Netherlands ![]() |
5 – 0 | ![]() |
25 June 1998 | ||
Netherlands ![]() |
2 – 2 | ![]() |
Belgium ![]() |
1 – 1 | ![]() |
Group F
[change | change source]Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | +4 | 7 |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 7 |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 3 |
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | -4 | 0 |
14 June 1998 | ||
Yugoslavia ![]() |
1 – 0 | ![]() |
15 June 1998 | ||
Germany ![]() |
2 – 0 | ![]() |
21 June 1998 | ||
Germany ![]() |
2 – 2 | ![]() |
United States ![]() |
1 – 2 | ![]() |
25 June 1998 | ||
United States ![]() |
0 – 1 | ![]() |
Germany ![]() |
2 – 0 | ![]() |
Group G
[change | change source]Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 7 |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 6 |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 3 |
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 1 |
15 June 1998 | ||
England ![]() |
2 – 0 | ![]() |
Romania ![]() |
1 – 0 | ![]() |
22 June 1998 | ||
Colombia ![]() |
1 – 0 | ![]() |
Romania ![]() |
2 – 1 | ![]() |
26 June 1998 | ||
Colombia ![]() |
0 – 2 | ![]() |
Romania ![]() |
1 – 1 | ![]() |
Group H
[change | change source]Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | +7 | 9 |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 6 |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | -6 | 3 |
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 0 |
Knockout stage
[change | change source]Round of 16 | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||||
27 June – Paris | ||||||||||||||
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4 | |||||||||||||
3 July – Nantes | ||||||||||||||
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1 | |||||||||||||
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3 | |||||||||||||
28 June – Saint-Denis | ||||||||||||||
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2 | |||||||||||||
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1 | |||||||||||||
7 July – Marseille | ||||||||||||||
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4 | |||||||||||||
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1 (4) | |||||||||||||
29 June – Toulouse | ||||||||||||||
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1 (2) | |||||||||||||
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2 | |||||||||||||
4 July – Marseille | ||||||||||||||
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1 | |||||||||||||
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2 | |||||||||||||
30 June – Saint-Étienne | ||||||||||||||
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1 | |||||||||||||
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2 (4) | |||||||||||||
12 July – Saint-Denis | ||||||||||||||
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2 (3) | |||||||||||||
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0 | |||||||||||||
27 June – Marseille | ||||||||||||||
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3 | |||||||||||||
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1 | |||||||||||||
3 July – Saint-Denis | ||||||||||||||
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0 | |||||||||||||
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0 (3) | |||||||||||||
28 June – Lens | ||||||||||||||
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0 (4) | |||||||||||||
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1 | |||||||||||||
8 July – Saint-Denis | ||||||||||||||
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0 | |||||||||||||
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2 | |||||||||||||
29 June – Montpellier | ||||||||||||||
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1 | Third place | ||||||||||||
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2 | |||||||||||||
4 July – Lyon | 11 July – Paris | |||||||||||||
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1 | |||||||||||||
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0 | ![]() |
1 | |||||||||||
30 June – Bordeaux | ||||||||||||||
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3 | ![]() |
2 | |||||||||||
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0 | |||||||||||||
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1 | |||||||||||||
Round of 16
[change | change source]Netherlands ![]() | 2-1 | ![]() |
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Bergkamp ![]() Davids ![]() |
Komljenović ![]() |
Argentina ![]() | 2-2 (a.e.t.) | ![]() |
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Batistuta ![]() Zanetti ![]() |
Shearer ![]() Owen ![]() |
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Penalties | ||
Berti ![]() Crespo ![]() Verón ![]() Gallardo ![]() Ayala ![]() |
4-3 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Quarter-finals
[change | change source]Italy ![]() | 0-0 (a.e.t.) | ![]() |
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Penalties | ||
R. Baggio ![]() Albertini ![]() Costacurta ![]() Vieri ![]() Di Biagio ![]() |
3-4 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Netherlands ![]() | 2-1 | ![]() |
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Kluivert ![]() Bergkamp ![]() |
López ![]() |
Semi-finals
[change | change source]Brazil ![]() | 1-1 (a.e.t.) | ![]() |
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Ronaldo ![]() |
Kluivert ![]() |
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Penalties | ||
Ronaldo ![]() Rivaldo ![]() Emerson ![]() Dunga ![]() |
4-2 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Third-place match
[change | change source]Netherlands ![]() | 1-2 | ![]() |
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Zenden ![]() |
Prosinečki ![]() Šuker ![]() |
Final
[change | change source]
1998 FIFA World Cup Winners |
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![]() France 1st title |
Statistics
[change | change source]Goalscorers
[change | change source]- 6 goals
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 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
[change | change source]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
[change | change source]- FIFA Archived 2018-04-14 at the Wayback Machine