Football World Cup 1998

1998 Football World Cup - France Coupe du Monde - France 98
Official 1998 Football World Cup poster
Official 1998 Football World Cup logo

Participant teams	172 (final tournament: 32)
Host	France
Champions	France (1st title)
Matches played	64
Goals scored	171 (2.67 per match)
Attendance	2,785,100 (43,517 per match)
Top scorer/ Golden Shoe	Davor Suker (CRO) 6 goals
Best player/ Golden Ball	Ronaldo (BRA)

The 1998 Football World Cup was held in France. The tournament was won by France, who beat Brazil 3-0 in the final. This was the first World Cup title for France, who became the seventh team (after Uruguay, Italy, Germany, Brazil, England, and Argentina) to be world champions.

The format of the competition changed from 1994: it was expanded to 32 teams, divided into eight groups of four. 16 teams: eight group winners and eight second place finishers would qualify for the knockout competition.

Davor Suker of surprise third place finisher Croatia won the Golden Boot after scoring six goals.

This World Cup tournament was the first one for the countries of Croatia, Jamaica, Japan, and South Africa.

For details of the competition, see 1998 World Cup Tournament article.

Contents

1 Venues

2 Squads

3 First round

3.1 Group A
3.2 Group B
3.3 Group C
3.4 Group D
3.5 Group E
3.6 Group F
3.7 Group G
3.8 Group H

Venues

City	Stadium	Capacity
Saint-Denis	Stade de France	80,000
Marseille	Stade Vélodrome	60,000
Paris	Parc des Princes	49,000
Lens	Stade Félix Bollaert	41,800
Lyon	Stade Gerland	41,200
Nantes	Stade de la Beaujoire	38,500
Toulouse	Stade de Toulouse	37,000
Saint-Étienne	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard	36,000
Bordeaux	Parc Lescure	35,200
Montpellier	Stade de la Mosson	33,900

Squads

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

First round

All times local (CET)
Half-time scores are in brackets

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Brazil	6	3	2	0	1	6	3
Norway	5	3	1	2	0	5	4
Missing image Morocco_flag_large.png Morocco	4	3	1	1	1	5	5
Scotland	1	3	0	1	2	2	6

Brazil	2 - 1	Scotland
Morocco	2 - 2	Norway
Scotland	1 - 1	Norway
Brazil	3 - 0	Morocco
Brazil	1 - 2	Norway
Scotland	0 - 3	Morocco

June 10, 1998

Brazil	2 - 1 (1-1)	Scotland	17:30 - Stade de France, Saint-Denis Ref: José Maria Garcia Aranda (Spain) Attendance: 80,000
César Sampaio 4'		Collins (p) 38'
Boyd (og) 73'

Morocco	2 - 2 (1-1)	Norway	21:00 - Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier Ref: Un Prasert (Thailand) Attendance: 29,750
Hadji 38'		Chippo (og) 45'+1'
Hadda 59'		Eggen 60'

June 16, 1998

Scotland	1 - 1 (0-0)	Norway	17:30 - Parc Lescure, Bordeaux Ref: Laszlo Vagner (Hungary) Attendance: 31,800
Burley 66'		H. Flo 46'


Brazil	3 - 0 (2-0)	Morocco	21:00 - Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes Ref: Nikolai Levnikov (Russia) Attendance: 35,000
Ronaldo 9'
Rivaldo 45'+2'
Bebeto 50'

June 23, 1998

Brazil	1 - 2 (0-0)	Norway	21:00 - Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Ref: Esfandiar Baharmast (USA) Attendance: 55,000
Bebeto 78'		T.A. Flo 83'
		Rekdal (p) 88'

Scotland	0 - 3 (0-1)	Morocco	21:00 - Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, St. Étienne Ref: Ali Bujsaim (UAE) Attendance: 30,600
		Bassir 22'
		Hadda 46'
		Bassir 85'

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italy	7	3	2	1	0	7	3
Chile	3	3	0	3	0	4	4
Austria	2	3	0	2	1	3	4
Missing image Cameroon_flag_large.png Cameroon	2	3	0	2	1	2	5

Italy	2 - 2	Chile
Cameroon	1 - 1	Austria
Chile	1 - 1	Austria
Italy	3 - 0	Cameroon
Italy	2 - 1	Austria
Chile	1 - 1	Cameroon

June 11, 1998

Italy	2 - 2 (1-1)	Chile	17:30 - Parc Lescure, Bordeaux Ref: Lucien Bouchardeau (Nigeria) Attendance: 31,800
Vieri 10'		Salas 45'
R. Baggio (p) 85'		Salas 49'

Cameroon	1 - 1 (0-0)	Austria	21:00 - Stade de Toulouse, Toulouse Ref: Epifanio Gonzalez Chavez (Paraguay) Attendance: 33,460
Njanka 78'		Polster 90'

June 17, 1998

Chile	1 - 1 (0-0)	Austria	17:30 - Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, St. Étienne Ref: Gamal Ghandour (Egypt) Attendance: 30,600
Salas 70'		Vastic 90'


Italy	3 - 0 (1-0)	Cameroon	21:00 - Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier Ref: Edward Lennie (Australia) Attendance: 29,800
Di Biagio 7'
Vieri 75'
Vieri 89'

June 23, 1998

Italy	2 - 1 (0-0)	Austria	16:00 - Stade de France, Saint-Denis Ref: Paul Durkin (England) Attendance: 80,000
Vieri 49'		Herzog (p) 90'
R. Baggio 89'

Chile	1 - 1 (1-0)	Cameroon	16:00 - Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes Ref: Laszlo Vagner (Hungary) Attendance: 35,500
Sierra 20'		Mboma 55'

Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
France	9	3	3	0	0	9	1
Denmark	4	3	1	1	1	3	3
South Africa	2	3	0	2	1	3	6
Missing image Saudi_arabia_flag_large.png Saudi Arabia	1	3	0	1	2	2	7

Saudi Arabia	0 - 1	Denmark
France	3 - 0	South Africa
South Africa	1 - 1	Denmark
France	4 - 0	Saudi Arabia
France	2 - 1	Denmark
South Africa	2 - 2	Saudi Arabia

June 12, 1998

Saudi Arabia	0 - 1 (0-0)	Denmark	17:30 - Stade Félix Bollaert, Lens Ref: Javier Castrilli (Argentina) Attendance: 38,140
		Rieper 68'


France	3 - 0 (0-0)	South Africa	21:00 - Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Ref: Márcio Rezende Freitas (Brazil) Attendance: 55,077
Dugarry 34'
Issa (og) 77'
Henry 90'

June 18, 1998

South Africa	1 - 1 (0-1)	Denmark	17:30 - Stade de Toulouse, Toulouse Ref: John Toro Rendon (Colombia) Attendance: 33,300
McCarthy 52'		Nielsen 13'


France	4 - 0 (1-0)	Saudi Arabia	21:00 - Stade de France, Saint-Denis Ref: Arturo Brizio Carter (Mexico) Attendance: 80,000
Henry 36'
Trézéguet 68'
Henry 77'
Lizarazu 85'

June 24, 1998

France	2 - 1 (1-1)	Denmark	16:00 - Stade Gerland, Lyon Ref: Pierluigi Collina (Italy) Attendance: 39,100
Djorkaeff (p) 12'		M. Laudrup (p) 42'
Petit 56'

South Africa	2 - 2 (1-1)	Saudi Arabia	16:00 - Parc Lescure, Bordeaux Ref: Mario Sanchez Yanten (Chile) Attendance: 31,800
Bartlett 19'		Al Jaber (p) 45'
Bartlett (p) 90'+4'		Al Tunian (p) 74'

Group D

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

Paraguay	0 - 0	Bulgaria
Spain	2 - 3	Nigeria
Nigeria	1 - 0	Bulgaria
Spain	0 - 0	Paraguay
Nigeria	1 - 3	Paraguay
Spain	6 - 1	Bulgaria

June 12, 1998

Paraguay

0 - 0 (0-0)

Bulgaria

14:30 - Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier
Ref: Abdul Rahman Al Zaid (Saudi Arabia)
Attendance: 27,650

June 13, 1998

Spain	2 - 3 (1-1)	Nigeria	14:30 - Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes Ref: Esfandiar Baharmast (USA) Attendance: 33,257
Hierro 21'		Adepoju 25'
Raúl 47'		Lawal 73'
		Oliseh 78'

June 19, 1998

Nigeria	1 - 0 (1-0)	Bulgaria	17:30 - Parc des Princes, Paris Ref: Mario Sanchez Yanten (Chile) Attendance: 45,500
Ikpeba 26'

Spain	0 - 0 (0-0)	Paraguay	21:00 - Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, St. Étienne Ref: Ian McLeod (South Africa) Attendance: 30,600

June 24, 1998

Nigeria	1 - 3 (1-1)	Paraguay	21:00 - Stade de Toulouse, Toulouse Ref: Un Prasert (Thailand) Attendance: 33,500
Oruma 11'		Ayala 1'
		Benitez 59'
		Cardozo 86'

Spain	6 - 1 (2-0)	Bulgaria	21:00 - Stade Félix Bollaert, Lens Ref: Mario van der Ende (Netherlands) Attendance: 38,100
Hierro (p) 6'		Kostadinov 58'
Luis Enrique 19'
Morientes 55'
Morientes 81'
Kiko 88'
Kiko 90'

Group E

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Netherlands	5	3	1	2	0	7	2
Missing image Mexico_flag_large.png Mexico	5	3	1	2	0	7	5
Belgium	3	3	0	3	0	3	3
South Korea	1	3	0	1	2	2	9

South Korea	1 - 3	Mexico
Netherlands	0 - 0	Belgium
Belgium	2 - 2	Mexico
Netherlands	5 - 0	South Korea
Netherlands	2 - 2	Mexico
Belgium	1 - 1	South Korea

June 13, 1998

South Korea	1 - 3 (1-0)	Mexico	17:30 - Stade Gerland, Lyon Ref: Günter Benkö (Austria) Attendance: 39,133
Ha 28'		Pelaez 51'
		Hernandez 74'
		Hernandez 84'

Netherlands	0 - 0 (0-0)	Belgium	21:00 - Stade de France, Saint-Denis Ref: Pierluigi Collina (Italy) Attendance: 75,000

June 20, 1998

Belgium	2 - 2 (1-0)	Mexico	17:30 - Parc Lescure, Bordeaux Ref: Hugh Dallas (Scotland) Attendance: 31,800
Wilmots 43'		García Aspe (p) 55'
Wilmots 47'		Blanco 62'

Netherlands	5 - 0 (2-0)	South Korea	21:00 - Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Ref: Ryszard Wojcik (Poland) Attendance: 55,000
Cocu 38'
Overmars 42'
Bergkamp 71'
van Hooijdonk 80'
R. de Boer 83'

June 25, 1998

Netherlands	2 - 2 (2-0)	Mexico	16:00 - Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, St. Étienne Ref: Abdul Rahman Al Zaid (Saudi Arabia) Attendance: 30,600
Cocu 4'		Pelaez 75'
R. de Boer 18'		Hernandez 90'

Belgium	1 - 1 (1-0)	South Korea	16:00 - Parc des Princes, Paris Ref: Márcio Rezende Freitas (Brazil) Attendance: 45,500
Nilis 7'		Yoo 71'

Group F

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Germany	7	3	2	1	0	6	2
Missing image Yugoslavia_flag_large.png Yugoslavia	7	3	2	1	0	4	2
Iran	3	3	1	0	2	2	4
USA	0	3	0	0	3	1	5

Yugoslavia	1 - 0	Iran
Germany	2 - 0	USA
Germany	2 - 2	Yugoslavia
USA	1 - 2	Iran
USA	0 - 1	Yugoslavia
Germany	2 - 0	Iran

June 14, 1998

Yugoslavia	1 - 0 (0-0)	Iran	17:30 - Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, St. Étienne Ref: Alberto Tejada Noriega (Peru) Attendance: 30,392
Mihajlovic 72'

June 15, 1998

Germany	2 - 0 (1-0)	USA	21:00 - Parc des Princes, Paris Ref: Said Belqola (Morocco) Attendance: 43,815
Möller 8'
Klinsmann 64'

June 21, 1998

Germany	2 - 2 (0-1)	Yugoslavia	14:30 - Stade Félix Bollaert, Lens Ref: Kim Milton Nielsen (Denmark) Attendance: 38,100
Mihajlovic (og) 73'		Mijatovic 2'
Bierhoff 80'		Stojkovic 54'

USA	1 - 2 (0-1)	Iran	21:00 - Stade Gerland, Lyon Ref: Urs Meier (Switzerland) Attendance: 39,100
McBride 87'		Estili 40'
		Mahdavikia 84'

June 25, 1998

USA	0 - 1 (0-1)	Yugoslavia	21:00 - Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes Ref: Gamal Ghandour (Egypt) Attendance: 35,500
		Komljenovic 4'


Germany	2 - 0 (0-0)	Iran	21:00 - Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier Ref: Epifanio Gonzalez Chavez (Paraguay) Attendance: 29,800
Bierhoff 50'
Klinsmann 57'

Group G

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

England	2 - 0	Tunisia
Romania	1 - 0	Colombia
Colombia	1 - 0	Tunisia
Romania	2 - 1	England
Colombia	0 - 2	England
Romania	1 - 1	Tunisia

June 15, 1998

England	2 - 0 (1-0)	Tunisia	14:30 - Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Ref: Masayoshi Okada (Japan) Attendance: 54,587
Shearer 43'
Scholes 89'

Romania	1 - 0 (1-0)	Colombia	17:30 - Stade Gerland, Lyon Ref: Lim Kee Chong (Mauritius) Attendance: 37,572
Ilie 45'

June 22, 1998

Colombia	1 - 0 (0-0)	Tunisia	17:30 - Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier Ref: Bernd Heynemann (Germany) Attendance: 29,800
Preciado 83'


Romania	2 - 1 (0-0)	England	21:00 - Stade de Toulouse, Toulouse Ref: Marc Batta (France) Attendance: 33,500
Moldovan 47'		Owen 79'
Petrescu 90'

June 26, 1998

Colombia	0 - 2 (0-2)	England	21:00 - Stade Félix Bollaert, Lens Ref: Arturo Brizio Carter (Mexico) Attendance: 38,100
		Anderton 20'
		Beckham 29'

Romania	1 - 1 (0-1)	Tunisia	21:00 - Stade de France, Saint-Denis Ref: Edward Lennie (Australia) Attendance: 77,000
Moldovan 72'		Souayah (p) 10'

Group H

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA
Argentina	9	3	3	0	7	0
Croatia	6	3	2	1	4	2
Jamaica	3	3	1	2	3	9
Missing image Japan_flag_large.png Japan	0	3	0	3	1	4

Argentina	1 - 0	Japan
Jamaica	1 - 3	Croatia
Japan	0 - 1	Croatia
Argentina	5 - 0	Jamaica
Argentina	1 - 0	Croatia
Japan	1 - 2	Jamaica

June 14, 1998

Argentina	1 - 0 (1-0)	Japan	14:30 - Stade de Toulouse, Toulouse Ref: Mario van der Ende (Netherlands) Attendance: 33,400
Batistuta 28'


Jamaica	1 - 3 (1-1)	Croatia	21:00 - Stade Félix Bollaert, Lens Ref: Vítor Pereira (Portugal) Attendance: 38,058
Earle 45'		Stanic 27'
		Prosinecki 53'
		Suker 69'

June 20, 1998

Japan	0 - 1 (0-0)	Croatia	14:30 - Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes Ref: Ramesh Ramdhan (Trinidad and Tobago) Attendance: 35,500
		Suker 77'

June 21, 1998

Argentina	5 - 0 (1-0)	Jamaica	17:30 - Parc des Princes, Paris Ref: Rune Pedersen (Norway) Attendance: 45,000
Ortega 31'
Ortega 55'
Batistuta 72'
Batistuta 80'
Batistuta (p) 82'

June 26, 1998

Argentina	1 - 0 (1-0)	Croatia	16:00 - Parc Lescure, Bordeaux Ref: Said Belqola (Morocco) Attendance: 31,800
Pineda 36'


Japan	1 - 2 (0-1)	Jamaica	16:00 - Stade Gerland, Lyon Ref: Günter Benkö (Austria) Attendance: 39,100
Nakayama 74'		Whitmore 39'
		Whitmore 54'

Round of sixteen

June 27, 1998

Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italy	1 - 0 (1-0)	Norway	16:30 - Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Ref: Bernd Heynemann (Germany) Attendance: 55,000
Vieri 18'


Brazil	4 - 1 (3-0)	Chile	21:00 - Parc des Princes, Paris Ref: Marc Batta (France) Attendance: 45,500
César Sampaio 11'		Salas 68'
César Sampaio 27'
Ronaldo (p) 45'+1'
Ronaldo 70'

June 28, 1998

France	0 - 0 (0-0)	Paraguay	16:30 - Stade Félix Bollaert, Lens Ref: Ali Bujsaim (UAE) Attendance: 38,100
after extra-time:	1 - 0 (0-0)
Blanc (GG) 113'

Nigeria	1 - 4 (0-2)	Denmark	21:00 - Stade de France, Saint-Denis Ref: Urs Meier (Switzerland) Attendance: 77,000
Babangida 78'		Møller 3'
		B. Laudrup 12'
		Sand 60'
		Helveg 76'

June 29, 1998

Germany	2 - 1 (0-0)	Missing image Mexico_flag_large.png Mexico	16:30 - Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier Ref: Vítor Pereira (Portugal) Attendance: 29,800
Klinsmann 75'		Hernandez 47'
Bierhoff 86'

Netherlands	2 - 1 (1-0)	Missing image Yugoslavia_flag_large.png Yugoslavia	21:00 - Stade de Toulouse, Toulouse Ref: José Garcia Aranda (Spain) Attendance: 33,500
Bergkamp 38'		Komljenovic 48'
Davids 90'+2'

June 30, 1998

Romania	0 - 1 (0-1)	Croatia	16:30 - Parc Lescure, Bordeaux Ref: Javier Castrilli (Argentina) Attendance: 31,800
		Šuker (p) 45'+2'


Argentina	2 - 2 (2-2)	England	21:00 - Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, St. Étienne Ref: Kim Milton Nielsen (Denmark) Attendance: 30,600
after extra-time:	2 - 2 (2-2)
Batistuta (p) 6'		Shearer (p) 10'
Zanetti 45'+1'		Owen 16'

Penalty shootout
Argentina		4 - 3	England
Berti: goal		1-1	Shearer: goal
Crespo: Seaman saved		1-1	Ince: Roa saved
Verón: goal		2-2	Merson: goal
Gallardo: goal		3-3	Owen: goal
Ayala: goal		4-3	Batty: Roa saved

Quarter-finals

July 3, 1998

France	0 - 0 (0-0)	Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italy	16:30 - Stade de France, Saint-Denis Ref: Hugh Dallas (Scotland) Attendance: 77,000
after extra-time:	0 - 0 (0-0)

Penalty shootout
France		4 - 3	Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italy
Zidane: goal		1-1	R. Baggio: goal
Lizarazu: Pagliuca saved		1-1	Albertini: Barthez saved
Trézéguet: goal		2-2	Costacurta: goal
Henry: goal		3-3	Vieri: goal
Blanc: goal		4-3	Di Biagio: out

Brazil	3 - 2 (2-1)	Denmark	21:00 - Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes Ref: Gamal Ghandour (Egypt) Attendance: 35,500
Bebeto 11'		Jørgensen 2'
Rivaldo 27'		B. Laudrup 50'
Rivaldo 60'

July 4, 1998

Netherlands	2 - 1 (1-1)	Argentina	16:30 - Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Ref: Arturo Brizio Carter (Mexico) Attendance: 55,000
Kluivert 12'		López 17'
Bergkamp 89'

Germany	0 - 3 (0-1)	Croatia	21:00 - Stade Gerland, Lyon Ref: Rune Pedersen (Norway) Attendance: 39,100
		Jarni 45'+3'
		Suker 80'
		Suker 85'

Semi-finals

July 7, 1998

Brazil	1 - 1 (0-0)	Netherlands	21:00 - Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Ref: Ali Bujsaim (UAE) Attendance: 54,000
after extra-time:	1 - 1 (1-1)
Ronaldo 46'		Kluivert 87'

Penalty shootout
Brazil		4 - 2	Netherlands
Ronaldo: goal		1-1	F. de Boer: goal
Rivaldo: goal		2-2	Bergkamp: goal
Emerson: goal		3-2	Cocu: Taffarel saved
Dunga: goal		4-2	R. de Boer: Taffarel saved

July 8, 1998

France	2 - 1 (0-0)	Croatia	21:00 - Stade de France, Saint-Denis Ref: José Garcia Aranda (Spain) Attendance: 76,000
Thuram 47'		Suker 46'
Thuram 69'

Third place match

July 11, 1998

Netherlands	1 - 2 (1-2)	Croatia	21:00 - Parc des Princes, Paris Ref: Epifanio Gonzalez Chavez (Paraguay) Attendance: 45,500
Zenden 21'		Prosinecki 13'
		Suker 35'