1982 FIFA World Cup - wikipedia 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 Fair play award Brazil ← 1978 1986 → 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, who defeated West Germany 3 -- 1 during the final match, held in the Spanish capital of Madrid. It was Italy 's third World Cup win and first since 1938. The defending champions 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 the first penalty shoot - out in World Cup competition. It was also the third time ( 1934 and 1966 ) that all four semifinalists were European. In the first round of Group 3, Hungary defeated El Salvador 10 -- 1, equalling the largest margin of victory recorded in the finals ( Hungary over South Korea 9 -- 0 in 1954, and Yugoslavia over Zaire 9 -- 0 in 1974 ). Contents 1 Host selection 2 Qualification 2.1 List of qualified teams 3 Summary 3.1 Format 3.2 First round 3.3 Second round 3.4 Semi-finals, third - place match, and final 4 Records 5 Venues 6 Match officials 7 Squads 8 Groups 8.1 Seeding 8.2 Final draw 9 Results 9.1 First round 9.1. 1 Group 1 9.1. 2 Group 2 9.1. 3 Group 3 9.1. 4 Group 4 9.1. 5 Group 5 9.1. 6 Group 6 9.2 Second round 9.2. 1 Group A 9.2. 2 Group B 9.2. 3 Group C 9.2. 4 Group D 9.3 Knockout stage 9.3. 1 Semi-finals 9.3. 2 Third place match 9.3. 3 Final 10 Statistics 10.1 Goalscorers 11 Red cards 12 Awards 13 FIFA retrospective ranking 14 Symbols 14.1 Mascot 14.2 Match ball 15 References 16 External links Host selection Main article : FIFA World Cup hosts 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 Main article : 1982 FIFA World Cup qualification Countries qualified for World Cup Country failed to qualify Countries that did not enter World Cup Country not a FIFA member For the first time, the World Cup finals expanded from 16 to 24 teams. This allowed more teams to participate, especially from Africa and Asia. Teams absent from the finals were 1974 and 1978 runners - up Netherlands ( eliminated by Belgium and France ), Mexico ( eliminated by Honduras and El Salvador ), and the three times 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 -- 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 and Chile 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 2018, this was the last time that El Salvador and Kuwait 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 because of the Falklands War between Argentina and the United Kingdom. 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. This directive was not rescinded until August, following the end of hostilities. Macfarlane reported to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that some players and officials were uneasy about participating because of the casualties suffered by British forces. FIFA advised the British Government that there was no prospect that Argentina ( the defending champions ) would be asked to withdraw. It also became apparent that no other countries would withdraw from the tournament. It was decided to allow the British national teams to participate so that Argentina could not use their absence for propaganda purposes, reversing the intended effect of applying political pressure onto Argentina. List of qualified teams The following 24 teams qualified for the final tournament. AFC ( 1 ) Kuwait CAF ( 2 ) Algeria Cameroon OFC ( 1 ) New Zealand CONCACAF ( 2 ) Honduras El Salvador CONMEBOL ( 4 ) Argentina Brazil Chile Peru UEFA ( 14 ) Austria Belgium Czechoslovakia England France Hungary Italy Northern Ireland Poland Scotland Soviet Union Spain ( hosts ) West Germany Yugoslavia Summary Format A statue commemorating the 1982 FIFA World Cup at the Estadio Riazor in A Coruña. 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. 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. 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. Further information on this match : Disgrace of Gijón 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. 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. 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 Falcão. 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. In the last group, Group D, France dispatched Austria 1 -- 0 with a free kick goal by Bernard Genghini, and then defeated Northern Ireland 4 -- 1 to reach their first semi-final since 1958. Semi-finals, third - place match, and final Official ball of Spain ' 82 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 did n'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 ''. 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 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, 5 -- 4. In the third - place match, Poland edged the French side 3 -- 2 which matched Poland 's best 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 for West Germany, but it was only a consolation goal as Italy won 3 -- 1 to claim their first World Cup title in 44 years, and their third in total. 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 by virtue of having only one goal scored against Italy 's two ), 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 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, a record that stood until the 2002 tournament, which was played 20 stadiums in two countries. The most used venue was FC Barcelona 's Camp Nou stadium, which hosted five matches, including a semi-final ; it was the largest stadium used for this tournament. With the city 's Sarrià Stadium also hosting three matches, Barcelona was the Spanish city with the most matches in Espana ' 82 with eight ; Madrid, the nation 's capital, followed with seven. This particular World Cup was organized in such a way that all of the matches of each of the six groups were assigned stadiums in cities near to each other, in order to reduce the stress of travel on the players and fans. For example, Group 1 matches were played in Vigo and A Coruña, Group 2 in Gijon and Oviedo, Group 3 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 in Bilbao and Valladolid, Group 5 ( which included hosts Spain ) in Valencia and Zaragoza, and Group 6 in Seville and Malaga ( of the three first - round matches in Seville, the first match between Brazil and the Soviet Union was played in the Pizjuán Stadium, and the other two were played in the Villamarín 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 Bernabéu and Vicente Calderón stadiums in Madrid and the Sarrià 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 three of Group A 's matches, and Sarrià did the same with Group C 's matches ) and Madrid hosted Groups B and D ( Real Madrid 's Bernabeu Stadium hosted all three of Group B 's matches, and Atletico Madrid 's Calderon Stadium did the same with the Group D matches ) The two semi final matches were held at Camp Nou and the Pizjuán Stadium in Seville, the third largest stadium used for the tournament ( one of only two 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. Madrid Barcelona Santiago Bernabéu Vicente Calderón Camp Nou Sarrià Capacity : 90,800 Capacity : 65,695 Capacity : 97,679 Capacity : 40,400 Sevilla Elche Valencia Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Benito Villamarín Martínez Valero Luis Casanova Capacity : 68,110 Capacity : 50,253 Capacity : 53,290 Capacity : 47,542 Bilbao A Coruña Alicante Barcelona Bilbao Elche Gijón Madrid Málaga Oviedo Sevilla Valencia Valladolid Vigo Zaragoza 1982 FIFA World Cup ( Spain ) San Mamés Capacity : 46,223 Gijón Zaragoza Málaga A Coruña El Molinón La Romareda La Rosaleda Riazor Capacity : 45,153 Capacity : 41,806 Capacity : 34,411 Capacity : 34,190 Vigo Valladolid Alicante Oviedo Balaídos José Zorrilla José Rico Pérez Carlos Tartiere Capacity : 33,000 Capacity : 29,990 Capacity : 28,421 Capacity : 23,500 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. Groups Seeding The 24 qualifiers were divided into four groupings which formed the basis of the draw for the group stage. FIFA announced the six seeded teams on the day of the draw and allocated them in advance to the six groups ; as had become standard, the host nation and the reigning champions were among the seeds. The seeded teams would play all their group matches at the same venue ( with the exception of World Cup holders Argentina who would play in the opening game scheduled for the Camp Nou, the largest of the venues ). The remaining 18 teams were split into three pots based on FIFA 's assessment of the team 's strength, but also taking in account geographic considerations. The seedings and group venues for those teams were tentatively agreed at an informal meeting in December 1981 but not officially confirmed until the day of the draw. FIFA executive Hermann Neuberger told the press that the seeding of England had been challenged by other nations but they were to be seeded as `` the Spanish want England to play in Bilbao for security reasons ''. Seeded teams Pot A Pot B Pot C Spain ( hosts ) Argentina ( reigning champions ) Brazil England Italy West Germany Austria Czechoslovakia Hungary Poland Soviet Union Yugoslavia Belgium France Northern Ireland Scotland Chile Peru Algeria Cameroon Kuwait El Salvador Honduras New Zealand Final draw On 16 January 1982 the draw was conducted at the Palacio de Congresos in Madrid, where the teams were drawn out from the three pots to be placed with the seeded teams in their predetermined groups. Firstly a draw was made to decide the order in which the three drums containing pots A, B and C would be emptied. The teams were then drawn one - by - one and entered in the groups in that order. A number was then drawn to determine the team 's `` position '' in the group and hence the fixtures. The only stipulation of the draw was that no group could feature two South American teams. As a result, Pot B -- which contained two South American teams -- was initially drawn containing only the four Europeans, which were then to be immediately allocated to Groups 3 and 6 which contained the two South American seeds Argentina and Brazil. Once these two groups had been filled with the entrants from Pot B, then Chile and Peru would be added to the pot and the draw continue as normal. In the event, FIFA executives Sepp Blatter and Hermann Neuberger conducting the draw initially forgot this stipulation and immediately placed the first team drawn from this pot ( Belgium ) into Group 1, rather than Group 3 before then placing the second team drawn out ( Scotland ) into Group 3 ; they then had to correct this by moving Belgium to Group 3 and Scotland into Group 6. The ceremony suffered further embarrassment when one of the revolving drums containing the teams broke down. Results All times are Central European Summer Time ( UTC + 2 ) Champion Runner - up Third place Fourth place Second group stage First group stage First round The group winners and runners - up advanced to the second round. Teams were ranked on the following criteria : 1. Greater number of points in all group matches 2. Goal difference in all group matches 3. Greater number of goals scored in all group matches 4. Drawing of lots Group 1 Main article : 1982 FIFA World Cup Group 1 Pos Team Pld GF GA GD Pts Qualification Poland 0 5 + 4 Advance to second round Italy 0 0 0 Cameroon 0 0 0 Peru 0 6 − 4 Source : FIFA 14 June 1982 Italy 0 -- 0 Poland Balaídos, Vigo 15 June 1982 Peru 0 -- 0 Cameroon Estadio de Riazor, A Coruña 18 June 1982 Italy 1 -- 1 Peru Balaídos, Vigo 19 June 1982 Poland 0 -- 0 Cameroon Estadio de Riazor, A Coruña 22 June 1982 Poland 5 -- 1 Peru Estadio de Riazor, A Coruña 23 June 1982 Italy 1 -- 1 Cameroon Balaídos, Vigo Group 2 Main article : 1982 FIFA World Cup Group 2 Pos Team Pld GF GA GD Pts Qualification West Germany 0 6 + 3 Advance to second round Austria 0 + 2 Algeria 0 5 5 0 Chile 0 0 8 − 5 0 Source : FIFA 16 June 1982 West Germany 1 -- 2 Algeria El Molinón, Gijón 17 June 1982 Chile 0 -- 1 Austria Estadio Carlos Tartiere, Oviedo 20 June 1982 West Germany 4 -- 1 Chile El Molinón, Gijón 21 June 1982 Algeria 0 -- 2 Austria Estadio Carlos Tartiere, Oviedo 24 June 1982 Algeria 3 -- 2 Chile Estadio Carlos Tartiere, Oviedo 25 June 1982 West Germany 1 -- 0 Austria El Molinón, Gijón Group 3 Main article : 1982 FIFA World Cup Group 3 Pos Team Pld GF GA GD Pts Qualification Belgium 0 + 2 5 Advance to second round Argentina 0 6 + 4 Hungary 12 6 + 6 El Salvador 0 0 13 − 12 0 Source : FIFA 13 June 1982 Argentina 0 -- 1 Belgium Camp Nou, Barcelona 15 June 1982 Hungary 10 -- 1 El Salvador Nuevo Estadio, Elche 18 June 1982 Argentina 4 -- 1 Hungary Estadio José Rico Pérez, Alicante 19 June 1982 Belgium 1 -- 0 El Salvador Nuevo Estadio, Elche 22 June 1982 Belgium 1 -- 1 Hungary Nuevo Estadio, Elche 23 June 1982 Argentina 2 -- 0 El Salvador Estadio José Rico Pérez, Alicante Group 4 Main article : 1982 FIFA World Cup Group 4 Pos Team Pld GF GA GD Pts Qualification England 0 0 6 + 5 6 Advance to second round France 6 5 + 1 Czechoslovakia 0 − 2 Kuwait 0 6 − 4 Source : FIFA 16 June 1982 England 3 -- 1 France San Mamés Stadium, Bilbao 17 June 1982 Czechoslovakia 1 -- 1 Kuwait Estadio José Zorrilla, Valladolid 20 June 1982 England 2 -- 0 Czechoslovakia San Mamés Stadium, Bilbao 21 June 1982 France 4 -- 1 Kuwait Estadio José Zorrilla, Valladolid 24 June 1982 France 1 -- 1 Czechoslovakia Estadio José Zorrilla, Valladolid 25 June 1982 England 1 -- 0 Kuwait San Mamés Stadium, Bilbao Group 5 Main article : 1982 FIFA World Cup Group 5 Pos Team Pld GF GA GD Pts Qualification Northern Ireland 0 + 1 Advance to second round Spain 0 Yugoslavia 0 Honduras 0 − 1 Source : FIFA 16 June 1982 Spain 1 -- 1 Honduras Estadio Luis Casanova, Valencia 17 June 1982 Yugoslavia 0 -- 0 Northern Ireland La Romareda, Zaragoza 20 June 1982 Spain 2 -- 1 Yugoslavia Estadio Luis Casanova, Valencia 21 June 1982 Honduras 1 -- 1 Northern Ireland La Romareda, Zaragoza 24 June 1982 Honduras 0 -- 1 Yugoslavia La Romareda, Zaragoza 25 June 1982 Spain 0 -- 1 Northern Ireland Estadio Luis Casanova, Valencia Group 6 Main article : 1982 FIFA World Cup Group 6 Pos Team Pld GF GA GD Pts Qualification Brazil 0 0 10 + 8 6 Advance to second round Soviet Union 6 + 2 Scotland 8 8 0 New Zealand 0 0 12 − 10 0 Source : FIFA 14 June 1982 Brazil 2 -- 1 Soviet Union Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium, Seville 15 June 1982 Scotland 5 -- 2 New Zealand La Rosaleda Stadium, Málaga 18 June 1982 Brazil 4 -- 1 Scotland Estadio Benito Villamarín, Seville 19 June 1982 Soviet Union 3 -- 0 New Zealand La Rosaleda Stadium, Málaga 22 June 1982 Soviet Union 2 -- 2 Scotland La Rosaleda Stadium, Málaga 23 June 1982 Brazil 4 -- 0 New Zealand Estadio Benito Villamarín, Seville Second round The second round of matches consisted of four 3 - way round - robin groups, each confined to one stadium in one of Spain 's two largest cities : 2 in Madrid, and 2 in Barcelona. The winners of each one of these groups would progress to the semi-finals. Teams were ranked on the following criteria : 1. Greater number of points in all group matches 2. Goal difference in all group matches 3. Greater number of goals scored in all group matches 4. Whether the team finished first or second in their first round group 5. Drawing of lots Although the fixtures were provisionally determined in advance, the teams competing in each fixture depended on the result of the opening match in each group : Should a team be defeated in the opening game of the group, that team would then have to play in the second fixture against the team not participating in the opening group game ; the winner of the opening game would, by contrast, be rewarded by not needing to play again until the final fixture of the group and therefore gained extra recovery time. If the opening game was a draw, the predetermined order of games would proceed as planned. These regulations helped ensure that the final group games were of importance as no team could already have progressed to the semi-finals by the end of the second fixtures. 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, severely 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. Group A Main article : 1982 FIFA World Cup Group A Pos Team Pld GF GA GD Pts Qualification Poland 0 0 + 3 Advance to knockout stage Soviet Union 0 0 + 1 Belgium 0 0 0 − 4 0 Source : FIFA 28 June 1982 Poland 3 -- 0 Belgium Camp Nou, Barcelona 1 July 1982 Belgium 0 -- 1 Soviet Union Camp Nou, Barcelona 4 July 1982 Soviet Union 0 -- 0 Poland Camp Nou, Barcelona Group B Main article : 1982 FIFA World Cup Group B Pos Team Pld GF GA GD Pts Qualification West Germany 0 + 1 Advance to knockout stage England 0 0 0 0 0 Spain 0 − 1 Source : FIFA 29 June 1982 West Germany 0 -- 0 England Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid 2 July 1982 West Germany 2 -- 1 Spain Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid 5 July 1982 Spain 0 -- 0 England Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid Group C Main article : 1982 FIFA World Cup Group C Pos Team Pld GF GA GD Pts Qualification Italy 0 0 5 + 2 Advance to knockout stage Brazil 0 5 + 1 Argentina 0 0 5 − 3 0 Source : FIFA 29 June 1982 Italy 2 -- 1 Argentina Sarrià Stadium, Barcelona 2 July 1982 Argentina 1 -- 3 Brazil Sarrià Stadium, Barcelona 5 July 1982 Italy 3 -- 2 Brazil Sarrià Stadium, Barcelona Group D Main article : 1982 FIFA World Cup Group D Pos Team Pld GF GA GD Pts Qualification France 0 0 5 + 4 Advance to knockout stage Austria 0 − 1 Northern Ireland 0 6 − 3 Source : FIFA 28 June 1982 Austria 0 -- 1 France Vicente Calderón Stadium, Madrid 1 July 1982 Austria 2 -- 2 Northern Ireland Vicente Calderón Stadium, Madrid 4 July 1982 France 4 -- 1 Northern Ireland Vicente Calderón Stadium, Madrid Knockout stage Main article : 1982 FIFA World Cup knockout stage Semi-finals Final 8 July -- Barcelona ( Camp Nou ) Poland 0 Italy 11 July -- Madrid ( Bernabéu ) Italy West Germany 1 Third place 8 July -- Seville ( Pizjuán ) 10 July -- Alicante West Germany ( pen. ) 3 ( 5 ) Poland France 3 ( 4 ) France 2 Semi-finals 8 July 1982 17 : 15 CEST Poland 0 -- 2 Italy Report Rossi 22 ', 73 ' Camp Nou, Barcelona Attendance : 50,000 Referee : Juan Daniel Cardellino ( Uruguay ) Main article : West Germany v France ( 1982 FIFA World Cup ) 8 July 1982 21 : 00 CEST West Germany 3 -- 3 ( a.e.t. ) France 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 Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium, Seville Attendance : 70,000 Referee : Charles Corver ( Netherlands ) Third place match 10 July 1982 20 : 00 CEST Poland 3 -- 2 France Szarmach 40 ' Majewski 44 ' Kupcewicz 46 ' Report Girard 13 ' Couriol 72 ' Estadio José Rico Pérez, Alicante Attendance : 28,000 Referee : António Garrido ( Portugal ) Final Main article : 1982 FIFA World Cup Final 11 July 1982 20 : 00 CEST Italy 3 -- 1 West Germany Rossi 57 ' Tardelli 69 ' Altobelli 81 ' Report Breitner 83 ' Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid Attendance : 90,000 Referee : Arnaldo Cézar Coelho ( Brazil ) Statistics Goalscorers Paolo Rossi received the Golden Boot for scoring six goals. In total, 146 goals were scored by 100 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 Source : Golden Boot Golden Ball Best Young Player FIFA Fair Play Trophy Paolo Rossi Paolo Rossi Manuel Amoros Brazil 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. The rankings for the 1982 tournament were as follows : R Team GF GA GD Pts. Italy 1 / C 7 0 12 6 + 6 11 West Germany 2 / B 7 12 10 + 2 8 Poland 1 / A 7 11 5 + 6 9 France 4 / D 7 16 12 + 4 8 Eliminated in the second group stage 5 Brazil 6 / C 5 0 15 6 + 9 8 6 England 4 / B 5 0 6 + 5 8 7 Soviet Union 6 / A 5 7 + 3 6 8 Austria 2 / D 5 5 + 1 5 9 Northern Ireland 5 / D 5 5 7 − 2 5 10 Belgium 3 / A 5 5 − 2 5 11 Argentina 3 / C 5 0 8 7 + 1 12 Spain 5 / B 5 5 − 1 Eliminated in the first group stage 13 Algeria 0 5 5 0 14 Hungary 12 6 + 6 15 Scotland 6 8 8 0 16 Yugoslavia 5 0 17 Cameroon 0 0 0 18 Honduras 5 0 − 1 19 Czechoslovakia 0 − 2 20 Peru 0 6 − 4 21 Kuwait 0 6 − 4 22 Chile 0 0 8 − 5 0 23 New Zealand 6 0 0 12 − 10 0 24 El Salvador 0 0 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 an educational animated series first aired in 1982 on public broadcaster RTVE. Chapters had a duration of 20 minutes and the main character was Naranjito. The series lasted for 26 episodes and the theme was football, adventures and World Cup of 82. Naranjito was accompanied by other characters, as his girlfriend Clementina, his friend Citronio and Imarchi the robot. Match ball The match ball for 1982 World Cup, manufactured by Adidas, was the Tango España. References Jump up ^ Lewis, Tim ( 11 July 2014 ). `` 1982 : Why Brazil V Italy Was One Of Football 's Greatest Ever Matches ''. Esquire. Retrieved 20 May 2015. Jump up ^ Ger, McCarthy. `` Memory Lane -- West Germany v France at World Cup 82 ''. Backpage Football. Retrieved 17 June 2014. ^ Jump up to : `` World Cup withdrawal considered amid Falklands War ''. BBC Sport. 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Question: who won the soccer world cup in 1982
Answer: Italy