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Tournament details
Host country :France
Dates :10 June – 12 July (33 days)
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)
Attendance 2,784,687 (43,511
per match)
Top scorer(s) Croatia Davor
Šuker (6 goals)
Best player Brazil Ronaldo
Best young player England Michael
Owen
Best goalkeeper France Fabien
Barthez
The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the
16th FIFA World Cup, the world
championship for men's national
association football teams. It was
held in France from 10 June to 12
July 1998. The country was chosen
as the host nation by FIFA for the
second time in the history of the
tournament, defeating Morocco in
the bidding process. It was the
second time that France staged the
competition (the first was in 1938),
and the ninth time that it was held
in Europe.
List of qualified teams
AFC (4) UEFA (15)
Iran (42) Austria (31)
Japan (12) Belgium (36)
Saudi Arabia (34) Bulgaria (35)
South Korea (20) Croatia (19)
The following 32 Denmark (27)
teams, shown with CONMEBOL
England (5) (5)
final pre-tournament CAF (5) France (18)
rankings, qualified Cameroon (49) Argentina (6)
(hosts) Brazil (1)
for the final Morocco (13) Germany (2)
tournament. Nigeria (74) Chile (9)
Italy (3) Colombia
South Africa (24) Netherlands
Tunisia (21) (10)
(25) Paraguay
Norway (7) (29)
Romania (22)
CONCACAF (3)
Scotland (41)
Jamaica (30)
Spain (4)
Mexico (11)
Yugoslavia (8)
United States (14)
 Countries qualified for World cup

Country failed to qualify

Countries that did not enter World Cup

Country not a FIFA member

VENUES

France's bid to host the World Cup centered on a national stadium

with 80,000 seats and nine other stadiums located across the
country. When the finals were originally awarded in July 1992,
none of the regional club grounds were of a capacity meeting
FIFA's requirements – namely being able to safely seat 40,000.The
proposed national stadium, colloquially referred to as the 'Grand
stade' met with controversy at every stage of planning; the
stadium's location was determined by politics, finance and national
symbolism. As Mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac successfully
negotiated a deal with Prime Minister Édouard Balladur to bring
the Stade de France – as it was named now, to the commune of
Saint-Denis just north of the capital city. Construction on the
stadium started in December 1995 and was completed after 26
months of work in November 1997 at a cost of ₣2.67 billion.
Squads
1998 FIFA WORLD CUP FOOTBALL

Samuel Eto'o of
Cameroon was
the youngest
player selected
in the
competition at
17 years, 3
months, while
the oldest was
Jim Leighton of
Scotland at 39
years, 11
months.
 CONMEBOL (6) CONCACAF
Argentina Javier Castrilli (3)
Paraguay Epifanio González United States
Brazil Márcio Rezende de Esfandiar
Freitas
Baharmast
Chile Mario Sánchez Yanten
Peru Alberto Tejada
Mexico
34 referees and 33 Noriega Arturo Brizio
assistants officiated in Colombia John Toro Carter
Match officials

the 1998 World Rendón Trinidad and

Cup.[20] As a result of Tobago
the extension to 32 Ramesh
teams in the finals, AFC (4) Ramdhan
there was an increase Saudi Arabia Abdul
of 10 referees and 11 Rahman Al-Zaid CAF (5)
officials from the United Arab Morocco Said
1994 World Cup. Emirates Ali Belqola
Bujsaim Egypt Gamal Al-
Japan Masayoshi Ghandour
Okada Niger Lucien
Thailand Pirom Un- Bouchardeau
Prasert Mauritius Lim Kee
Chong
South Africa Ian
McLeod
 Brazil were drawn in Group A for the group stages alongside
Scotland, Morocco and Norway. They recorded victories over
Scotland (2–1) and Morocco (3–0) to progress but lost their final
game 2–1 to Norway.

FINAL
They next faced Group B runners-up Chile in the last-16 and
comprehensively won 4–1, Ronaldo and César Sampaio each
scoring twice. In the quarter-finals, they played Denmark, who had
also won their previous game 4–1 (against Nigeria), but Brazil won
a tight game 3–2. Despite being 1–0 down to a Martin Jorgensen
goal in the second minute, Brazil turned the game around in their
favour with goals from Bebeto (11) and Rivaldo (27). Brian Laudrup
BRAZIL
equalised for Denmark after 50 minutes but Brazil won the game
10 minutes later courtesy of a second from Rivaldo.

In the semi-finals, Brazil faced the Netherlands in Marseille. The

game finished 1–1 at full-time, Ronaldo scoring just after half-time
and Patrick Kluivert equalising for the Netherlands in the 87th
minute, and the score remained the same through extra-time. The
match had to be settled by penalties which Brazil won 4–2 to reach
their second successive World Cup final
 France were drawn in Group C alongside Denmark, South Africa and
FRANCE Saudi Arabia. They started their campaign with an easy 3–0 win over
South Africa followed by a convincing 4–0 win over Saudi Arabia.
France secured top spot in their group courtesy of a 2–1 win over
Denmark with goals from YouriDjorkaeff and Emmanuel Petit.

In the second round, they faced Group D runners-up Paraguay. France won a close
encounter 1–0 in extra time thanks to a golden goal scored by Laurent Blanc. In the
quarter-finals France faced Italy who had also scraped through to the quarter-finals
with a 1–0 win over Norway. A tense match ended 0–0 after extra time and France
won 4–3 on penalties after Italy's Luigi Di Biagio struck his penalty onto the
crossbar.

In the semi-finals, France faced tournament surprise Croatia. After a goal-less first half,
Croatia took the lead in the first minute of the second half through DavorŠuker, his fifth goal
of the tournament. France responded immediately with LilianThuram scoring his first
international goal. Thuram then added a second twenty minutes from time to send France
to their first ever World Cup final. The match ended in controversy however when Laurent
Blanc was sent off after a skirmish with Croatia's SlavenBilić. Bilić had sunk down to his
knees, seemingly in pain. Replays showed, however, that there was minimal contact
between the players. Blanc's expulsion meant he would miss the final.
Results

GROUP STAGE

CHAMPIONS THIRD PLACE

QUARTER FINAL

RUNNER-UP FOURTH PLACE ROUND OF 16

1998 FIFA World Cup

Coupe du Monde – France 98

CHAMPIONS : FRANCE
RUNNERS-UP : BRAZIL
THIRD PLACE : CROATIA
FOURTH PLACE : NETHERLAND
CHAMPIONS:FRANCE
RUNNERS UP: BRAZIL
THIRD PLACE:CROATIA
FOURTH PLACE:NETHERLAND
 FINAL SESSION
BRAZIL VS FRANCE
FULL HIGH LIGHTS
FRANCE AN DBRAZIL
IN THE LAST FINAL
SESSION