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.

### Africa

- (CMR) • Squad
- (MAR) • Squad
- (NGA) • Squad
- (RSA) • Squad
- (TUN) • Squad

### Asia

- (IRN) • Squad
- (JPN) • Squad
- (KOR) • Squad
- (KSA) • Squad

### Europe

- (AUT) • Squad
- (BEL) • Squad
- (BUL) • Squad
- (CRO) • Squad
- (DEN) • Squad
- (ENG) • Squad
- (FRA) • Squad
- (GER) • Squad
- (ITA) • Squad
- (NED) • Squad
- (NOR) • Squad
- (ROU) • Squad
- (SCO) • Squad
- (ESP) • Squad
- (YUG) • Squad

### North and Central America

- (JAM) • Squad
- (MEX) • Squad
- (USA) • Squad

### South America

- (ARG) • Squad
- (BRA) • Squad
- (CHI) • Squad
- (COL) • Squad
- (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

|width=200|Team|width=20 abbr="Played"|Pld|width=20 abbr="Won"|W|width=20 abbr="Drawn"|D|width=20 abbr="Lost"|L|width=20 abbr="Goals for"|GF|width=20 abbr="Goals against"|GA|width=20 abbr="Goal difference"|GD|width=20 abbr="Points"|Pts|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|Brazil|3|2|0|1|6|3|+3|**6**|||||||||
|align=left|Norway|3|1|2|0|5|4|+1|**5**|||||||||
|align=left|Morocco|3|1|1|1|5|5|0|**4**|||||||||
|align=left|Scotland|3|0|1|2|2|6|-4|**1**|||||||||

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|10 June 1998|||||
|****|**2 – 1**|****|||
|****|**2 – 2**|****|||
|16 June 1998|||||
|****|**1 – 1**|****|||
|****|**3 – 0**|****|||
|23 June 1998|||||
|****|**0 – 3**|****|||
|****|**1 – 2**|****|||

### Group B

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|Italy|3|2|1|0|7|3|+4|**7**|||||||||
|align=left|Chile|3|0|3|0|4|4|0|**3**|||||||||
|align=left|Austria|3|0|2|1|3|4|-1|**2**|||||||||
|align=left|Cameroon|3|0|2|1|2|5|-3|**2**|||||||||

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|11 June 1998|||||
|****|**1 – 1**|****|||
|****|**2 – 2**|****|||
|17 June 1998|||||
|****|**1 – 1**|****|||
|****|**3 – 0**|****|||
|23 June 1998|||||
|****|**2 – 1**|****|||
|****|**1 – 1**|****|||

### Group C

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|France|3|3|0|0|9|1|+8|**9**|||||||||
|align=left|Denmark|3|1|1|1|3|3|0|**4**|||||||||
|align=left|South Africa|3|0|2|1|3|6|-3|**2**|||||||||
|align=left|Saudi Arabia|3|0|1|2|2|7|-5|**1**|||||||||

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|12 June 1998|||||
|****|**0 – 1**|****|||
|****|**3 – 0**|****|||
|18 June 1998|||||
|****|**1 – 1**|****|||
|****|**4 – 0**|****|||
|24 June 1998|||||
|****|**2 – 1**|****|||
|****|**2 – 2**|****|||

### Group D

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|Nigeria|3|2|0|1|5|5|0|**6**|||||||||
|align=left|Paraguay|3|1|2|0|3|1|+2|**5**|||||||||
|align=left|Spain|3|1|1|1|8|4|+4|**4**|||||||||
|align=left|Bulgaria|3|0|1|2|1|7|-6|**1**|||||||||

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|12 June 1998|||||
|****|**0 – 0**|****|||
|13 June 1998|||||
|****|**2 – 3**|****|||
|19 June 1998|||||
|****|**1 – 0**|****|||
|****|**0 – 0**|****|||
|24 June 1998|||||
|****|**1 – 3**|****|||
|****|**6 – 1**|****|||

### Group E

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|Netherlands|3|1|2|0|7|2|+5|**5**|||||||||
|align=left|Mexico|3|1|2|0|7|5|+2|**5**|||||||||
|align=left|Belgium|3|0|3|0|3|3|0|**3**|||||||||
|align=left|South Korea|3|0|1|2|2|9|-7|**1**|||||||||

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|13 June 1998|||||
|**South Korea **|**1 – 3**|****|||
|****|**0 – 0**|****|||
|20 June 1998|||||
|****|**2 – 2**|****|||
|****|**5 – 0**|****|||
|25 June 1998|||||
|****|**2 – 2**|****|||
|****|**1 – 1**|****|||

### Group F

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|Germany|3|2|1|0|6|2|+4|**7**|||||||||
|align=left|Yugoslavia|3|2|1|0|4|2|+2|**7**|||||||||
|align=left|Iran|3|1|0|2|2|4|-2|**3**|||||||||
|align=left|United States|3|0|0|3|1|5|-4|**0**|||||||||

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|14 June 1998|||||
|**Yugoslavia **|**1 – 0**|****|||
|15 June 1998|||||
|****|**2 – 0**|****|||
|21 June 1998|||||
|****|**2 – 2**|** Yugoslavia**|||
|****|**1 – 2**|****|||
|25 June 1998|||||
|****|**0 – 1**|** Yugoslavia**|||
|****|**2 – 0**|****|||

### Group G

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|Romania|3|2|1|0|4|2|+2|**7**|||||||||
|align=left|England|3|2|0|1|5|2|+3|**6**|||||||||
|align=left|Colombia|3|1|0|2|1|3|-2|**3**|||||||||
|align=left|Tunisia|3|0|1|2|1|4|-3|**1**|||||||||

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|15 June 1998|||||
|****|**2 – 0**|****|||
|****|**1 – 0**|****|||
|22 June 1998|||||
|****|**1 – 0**|****|||
|****|**2 – 1**|****|||
|26 June 1998|||||
|****|**0 – 2**|****|||
|****|**1 – 1**|****|||

### Group H

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|Argentina|3|3|0|0|7|0|+7|**9**|||||||||
|align=left|Croatia|3|2|0|1|4|2|+2|**6**|||||||||
|align=left|Jamaica|3|1|0|2|3|9|-6|**3**|||||||||
|align=left|Japan|3|0|0|3|1|4|-3|**0**|||||||||

### Round of 16

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### Quarter-finals

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### Semi-finals

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### 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

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## Infobox (international football competition)

- **year**: 1998
- **dates**: 10 June – 12 July
- **country**: France
- **num teams**: 32
- **confederations**: 5
- **venues**: 10
- **cities**: 10
- **champion other**: France national football team, France
- **count**: 1
- **second other**: Brazil national football team, Brazil
- **third other**: Croatia national football team, Croatia
- **fourth other**: Netherlands national football team, Netherlands
- **matches**: 64
- **goals**: 171
- **top scorer**: Davor Šuker
(6 goals)
- **prevseason**: 1994 FIFA World Cup, 1994
- **nextseason**: 2002 FIFA World Cup, 2002