32 teams competed in the 16th World
Cup -- better known as France 98 -- offering fans a total of 64 matches, at reasonable
viewing times for the European television audience.
1800-worldcup.com covers all the games in the France 98 archives.
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Round, Second Round, Quarter-finals, Third
place. 1998 World Cup Final.
Croatia, appearing in their first World
Cup Finals tournament as an independent nation, were the surprise of the competition;
beating a tired-out Germany team in the quarter-finals, before
losing out narrowly to soon to be World Champions France, in the
semi-finals.
For their efforts, Croatia picked up the wooden spoon for third place and Davor Suker the Golden boot; as the
tournament's leading scorer, with six goals.
Revelation of the tournament was young Michael Owen, who scored a
stunning solo goal against Argentina in the second round.
David Beckham let the England side down by needlessly getting
sent off at the start of the second-half, with the game at (2:2). Ten-man England held on
gallantly and Sol Campbell even scored what might have been England's winner (heading in
from a corner) had Alan 'Windmill' Shearer not elbowed the Argentine goalkeeper in the
face as the ball came over.
But the headlines belonged to France, the
only team to win all of their games; three of them with only ten men (Zinedine Zidane was
sent off against Saudi Arabia, Laurent Blanc against Croatia and Marcel Desailly in the final, against Brazil).
France became the 6th nation to win the World Cup on home soil; having
failed at their previous attempt, in France 1938.
France 98 Matches by Date - France 98 Matches by Stadium.
Opening up the World Cup Finals tournament to 32 teams, with eight
groups of four competing in the first round group stage, meant a lot more goals in the
tournament; 171 goals were scored.
It also meant that only the top two teams, in each group, would move
on to the last 16; no more room for a third-placed
houdini act in the opening round.
10th June
Montpellier: Morocco vs Norway (2:2)
Saint-Denis: Brazil vs Scotland (2:1)
16th June
Bordeaux: Scotland vs Norway (1:1)
Nantes: Brazil vs Morocco (3:0)
23rd June
Marseille: Norway vs Brazil (2:1)
St. Etienne: Morocco vs Scotland (3:0)
Brazil and Norway
move onto the 2nd Round.
11th June
Bordeaux: Italy vs Chile (2:2)
Toulouse: Cameroon vs Austria (1:1)
17th June
Montpellier: Italy vs Cameroon (3:0)
St. Etienne: Chile vs Austria (1:1)
23rd June
Nantes: Chile vs Cameroon (1:1)
Saint-Denis: Italy vs Austria (2:1)
Italy and Chile
move onto the 2nd Round.
12th June
Lens: Denmark vs Saudi Arabia (1:0)
Marseille: France vs South Africa (3:0)
18th June
Saint-Denis: France vs Saudi Arabia (4:0)
Toulouse: South Africa vs Denmark (1:1)
24th June
Bordeaux: South Africa vs Saudi Arabia (2:2)
Lyon: France vs Denmark (2:1)
France and Denmark
move onto the 2nd Round.
12th June
Montpellier: Paraguay vs Bulgaria (0:0)
13th June
Nantes: Nigeria vs Spain (3:2)
19th June
Paris: Nigeria vs Bulgaria (1:0)
St. Etienne: Spain vs Paraguay (0:0)
24th June
Lens: Spain vs Bulgaria (6:1)
Toulouse: Paraguay vs Nigeria (3:1)
Nigeria and Paraguay
move onto the 2nd Round.
13th June
Lyon: Mexico vs South Korea (3:1)
Saint-Denis: Holland vs Belgium (0:0)
20th June
Bordeaux: Belgium vs Mexico (2:2)
Marseille: Holland vs South Korea (5:0)
25th June
Paris: Belgium vs South Korea (1:1)
St. Etienne: Holland vs Mexico (2:2)
Holland and Mexico
move onto the 2nd Round.
14th June
St. Etienne: Yugoslavia vs Iran (1:0)
15th June
Paris: Germany vs United States (2:0)
21st June
Lens: Germany vs Yugoslavia (2:2)
Lyon: Iran vs United States (2:1)
25th June
Montpellier: Germany vs Iran (2:0)
Nantes: Yugoslavia vs United States (1:0)
Germany and Yugoslavia
move onto the 2nd Round.
15th June
Lyon: Romania vs Colombia (1:0)
Marseille: England vs Tunisia (2:0)
22nd June
Montpellier: Colombia vs Tunisia (1:0)
Toulouse: Romania vs England (2:1)
26th June
Lens: England vs Colombia (2:0)
Saint-Denis: Romania vs Tunisia (1:1)
Romania and England
move onto the 2nd Round.
14th June
Lens: Croatia vs Jamaica (3:1)
Toulouse: Argentina vs Japan (1:0)
20th June
Nantes: Croatia vs Japan (1:0)
21st June
Paris: Argentina vs Jamaica (5:0)
26th June
Bordeaux: Argentina vs Croatia (1:0)
Lyon: Jamaica vs Japan (2:1)
Argentina and Croatia
move onto the 2nd Round.
27th June
Marseille: Italy vs Norway (1:0)
Paris: Brazil vs Chile (4:1)
28th June
Lens: France vs Paraguay (1:0 aet)
Saint-Denis: Denmark vs Nigeria (4:1)
29th June
Montpellier: Germany vs Mexico (2:1)
Toulouse: Holland vs Yugoslavia (2:1)
30th June
Bordeaux: Croatia vs Romania (1:0)
St. Etienne: Argentina vs England (2:2
aet) (4:3pens)
3rd July
Nantes: Brazil vs Denmark (3:2)
Saint-Denis: France
vs Italy (0:0 aet) (4:3pens)
4th July
Lyon: Croatia vs Germany (3:0)
Marseille: Holland
vs Argentina (2:1)
7th July
Marseille: Brazil vs Holland (1:1 aet)
(4:2pens)
8th July
Saint-Denis: France vs Croatia (2:1)
Paris: Croatia vs Holland (2:1)
1998 World Cup Final
12th July:
France vs Brazil (3:0)
Saint-Denis.
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