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officials</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Match_officials-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Draw" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Draw"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Draw</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Draw-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Draw subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Draw-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Draw_results_and_group_fixtures" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Draw_results_and_group_fixtures"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>Draw results and group fixtures</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Draw_results_and_group_fixtures-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Squads" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Squads"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Squads</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Squads-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Group_stage" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Group_stage"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Group stage</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Group_stage-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Group stage subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Group_stage-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Group_A" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Group_A"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.1</span> <span>Group A</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Group_A-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Group_B" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Group_B"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.2</span> <span>Group B</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Group_B-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Group_C" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Group_C"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.3</span> <span>Group C</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Group_C-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Group_D" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Group_D"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.4</span> <span>Group D</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Group_D-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Group_E" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Group_E"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.5</span> <span>Group E</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Group_E-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Group_F" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Group_F"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.6</span> <span>Group F</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Group_F-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Group_G" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Group_G"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.7</span> <span>Group G</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Group_G-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Group_H" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Group_H"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.8</span> <span>Group H</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Group_H-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Knockout_stage" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Knockout_stage"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Knockout stage</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Knockout_stage-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Knockout stage subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Knockout_stage-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Bracket" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bracket"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.1</span> <span>Bracket</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bracket-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Round_of_16" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Round_of_16"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.2</span> <span>Round of 16</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Round_of_16-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Quarter-finals" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Quarter-finals"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.3</span> <span>Quarter-finals</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Quarter-finals-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Semi-finals" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Semi-finals"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.4</span> <span>Semi-finals</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Semi-finals-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Third_place_play-off" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Third_place_play-off"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.5</span> <span>Third place play-off</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Third_place_play-off-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Final" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Final"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.6</span> <span>Final</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Final-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Statistics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Statistics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Statistics</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Statistics-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Statistics subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Statistics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Goalscorers" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Goalscorers"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.1</span> <span>Goalscorers</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Goalscorers-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Awards" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Awards"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.2</span> <span>Awards</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Awards-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Players_who_were_red-carded_during_the_tournament" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Players_who_were_red-carded_during_the_tournament"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.3</span> <span>Players who were red-carded during the tournament</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Players_who_were_red-carded_during_the_tournament-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-All-star_team" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#All-star_team"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.4</span> <span>All-star team</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-All-star_team-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Final_standings" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Final_standings"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.5</span> <span>Final standings</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Final_standings-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Marketing" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Marketing"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>Marketing</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Marketing-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Marketing subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Marketing-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Tournoi_de_France" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Tournoi_de_France"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.1</span> <span>Tournoi de France</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Tournoi_de_France-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Broadcasting" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Broadcasting"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.2</span> <span>Broadcasting</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Broadcasting-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sponsorship" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sponsorship"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.3</span> <span>Sponsorship</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sponsorship-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Video_games" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Video_games"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.4</span> <span>Video games</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Video_games-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Symbols" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Symbols"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>Symbols</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Symbols-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Symbols subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Symbols-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Mascot" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Mascot"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.1</span> <span>Mascot</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Mascot-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Match_ball" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Match_ball"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.2</span> <span>Match ball</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Match_ball-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Music" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Music"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.3</span> <span>Music</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Music-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Legacy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Legacy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>Legacy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Legacy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">15</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sources" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sources"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">16</span> <span>Sources</span> </div> 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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-als mw-list-item"><a href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu%C3%9Fball-Weltmeisterschaft_1998" title="Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1998 – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1998" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-am mw-list-item"><a href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8B%A81998_%E1%8A%A5.%E1%8A%A4.%E1%8A%A0._%E1%8D%8A%E1%8D%8B_%E1%8B%A8%E1%8B%93%E1%88%88%E1%88%9D_%E1%8B%8B%E1%8A%95%E1%8C%AB" title="የ1998 እ.ኤ.አ. ፊፋ የዓለም ዋንጫ – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="የ1998 እ.ኤ.አ. ፊፋ የዓለም ዋንጫ" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A3%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85_1998" title="كأس العالم 1998 – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="كأس العالم 1998" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copa_Mundial_de_F%C3%BAtbol_de_1998" title="Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1998 – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1998" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gn mw-list-item"><a href="https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_Tembiesar%C3%A1i_Yvypav%E1%BA%BD_1998" title="FIFA Tembiesarái Yvypavẽ 1998 – Guarani" lang="gn" hreflang="gn" data-title="FIFA Tembiesarái Yvypavẽ 1998" data-language-autonym="Avañe'ẽ" data-language-local-name="Guarani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Avañe'ẽ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_F%C4%B0FA_D%C3%BCnya_Kuboku" title="1998 FİFA Dünya Kuboku – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="1998 FİFA Dünya Kuboku" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piala_Jagat_FIFA_1998" title="Piala Jagat FIFA 1998 – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="Piala Jagat FIFA 1998" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Bali</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%A7%E0%A7%AF%E0%A7%AF%E0%A7%AE_%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AA" title="১৯৯৮ ফিফা বিশ্বকাপ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="১৯৯৮ ফিফা বিশ্বকাপ" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_n%C3%AE_FIFA_S%C3%A8-k%C3%A0i_Poe" title="1998 nî FIFA Sè-kài Poe – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="1998 nî FIFA Sè-kài Poe" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D1%8D%D0%BC%D0%BF%D1%96%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82_%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%83_%D0%BF%D0%B0_%D1%84%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5_1998" title="Чэмпіянат свету па футболе 1998 – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Чэмпіянат свету па футболе 1998" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D1%8D%D0%BC%D0%BF%D1%96%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82_%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%83_%D0%BF%D0%B0_%D1%84%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5_1998_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%83" title="Чэмпіянат сьвету па футболе 1998 году – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Чэмпіянат сьвету па футболе 1998 году" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%BE_%D0%BF%D1%8A%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D1%84%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB_1998" title="Световно първенство по футбол 1998 – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Световно първенство по футбол 1998" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svjetsko_prvenstvo_u_nogometu_1998." title="Svjetsko prvenstvo u nogometu 1998. – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Svjetsko prvenstvo u nogometu 1998." data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kib_vell-droad_ar_bed_1998" title="Kib vell-droad ar bed 1998 – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Kib vell-droad ar bed 1998" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copa_del_M%C3%B3n_de_Futbol_de_1998" title="Copa del Món de Futbol de 1998 – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Copa del Món de Futbol de 1998" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistrovstv%C3%AD_sv%C4%9Bta_ve_fotbale_1998" title="Mistrovství světa ve fotbale 1998 – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Mistrovství světa ve fotbale 1998" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cwpan_y_Byd_P%C3%AAl-droed_1998" title="Cwpan y Byd Pêl-droed 1998 – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Cwpan y Byd Pêl-droed 1998" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_i_fodbold_1998" title="VM i fodbold 1998 – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="VM i fodbold 1998" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu%C3%9Fball-Weltmeisterschaft_1998" title="Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1998 – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1998" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998._aasta_jalgpalli_maailmameistriv%C3%B5istlused" title="1998. aasta jalgpalli maailmameistrivõistlused – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="1998. aasta jalgpalli maailmameistrivõistlused" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%B1%CE%B3%CE%BA%CF%8C%CF%83%CE%BC%CE%B9%CE%BF_%CE%9A%CF%8D%CF%80%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%BF_%CE%A0%CE%BF%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%86%CE%B1%CE%AF%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%85_1998" title="Παγκόσμιο Κύπελλο Ποδοσφαίρου 1998 – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Παγκόσμιο Κύπελλο Ποδοσφαίρου 1998" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copa_Mundial_de_F%C3%BAtbol_de_1998" title="Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1998 – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1998" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futbala_Mondpokalo_1998" title="Futbala Mondpokalo 1998 – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Futbala Mondpokalo 1998" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998ko_Munduko_Futbol_Txapelketa" title="1998ko Munduko Futbol Txapelketa – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="1998ko Munduko Futbol Txapelketa" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84_%DB%B1%DB%B9%DB%B9%DB%B8" title="جام جهانی فوتبال ۱۹۹۸ – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="جام جهانی فوتبال ۱۹۹۸" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupe_du_monde_de_football_1998" title="Coupe du monde de football 1998 – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Coupe du monde de football 1998" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wr%C3%A2ldkampioenskip_fuotbal_1998" title="Wrâldkampioenskip fuotbal 1998 – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Wrâldkampioenskip fuotbal 1998" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundial_de_F%C3%BAtbol_de_1998" title="Mundial de Fútbol de 1998 – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Mundial de Fútbol de 1998" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%EB%85%84_FIFA_%EC%9B%94%EB%93%9C%EC%BB%B5" title="1998년 FIFA 월드컵 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="1998년 FIFA 월드컵" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%96%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%BF%D5%A2%D5%B8%D5%AC%D5%AB_%D5%A1%D5%B7%D5%AD%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%B0%D5%AB_%D5%A1%D5%BC%D5%A1%D5%BB%D5%B6%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6_1998" title="Ֆուտբոլի աշխարհի առաջնություն 1998 – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ֆուտբոլի աշխարհի առաջնություն 1998" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svjetsko_prvenstvo_u_nogometu_%E2%80%93_Francuska_1998." title="Svjetsko prvenstvo u nogometu – Francuska 1998. – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Svjetsko prvenstvo u nogometu – Francuska 1998." data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piala_Dunia_FIFA_1998" title="Piala Dunia FIFA 1998 – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Piala Dunia FIFA 1998" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimsmeistaram%C3%B3t_landsli%C3%B0a_%C3%AD_knattspyrnu_karla_1998" title="Heimsmeistaramót landsliða í knattspyrnu karla 1998 – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Heimsmeistaramót landsliða í knattspyrnu karla 1998" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campionato_mondiale_di_calcio_1998" title="Campionato mondiale di calcio 1998 – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Campionato mondiale di calcio 1998" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9C_1998" title="מונדיאל 1998 – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מונדיאל 1998" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piala_Donya_FIFA_1998" title="Piala Donya FIFA 1998 – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Piala Donya FIFA 1998" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%A1%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A4%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%9D_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%A4%E1%83%94%E1%83%AE%E1%83%91%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A0%E1%83%97%E1%83%9D_%E1%83%A9%E1%83%94%E1%83%9B%E1%83%9E%E1%83%98%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98_1998" title="მსოფლიო საფეხბურთო ჩემპიონატი 1998 – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="მსოფლიო საფეხბურთო ჩემპიონატი 1998" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD_1998_%D0%B6%D1%8B%D0%BB%D2%93%D1%8B_%D3%99%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BC_%D0%B1%D1%96%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%88%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B3%D1%96" title="Футболдан 1998 жылғы әлем біріншілігі – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Футболдан 1998 жылғы әлем біріншілігі" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certamen_Mundanum_Pedilusorium_(1998)" title="Certamen Mundanum Pedilusorium (1998) – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Certamen Mundanum Pedilusorium (1998)" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998._gada_FIFA_Pasaules_kauss" title="1998. gada FIFA Pasaules kauss – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="1998. gada FIFA Pasaules kauss" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/XVI_pasaulio_futbolo_%C4%8Dempionatas" title="XVI pasaulio futbolo čempionatas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="XVI pasaulio futbolo čempionatas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998-as_labdar%C3%BAg%C3%B3-vil%C3%A1gbajnoks%C3%A1g" title="1998-as labdarúgó-világbajnokság – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="1998-as labdarúgó-világbajnokság" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE_%D0%B2%D0%BE_%D1%84%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BB_1998" title="Светско првенство во фудбал 1998 – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Светско првенство во фудбал 1998" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AB%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%8B%E0%B5%BE_%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D_1998" title="ഫുട്ബോൾ ലോകകപ്പ് 1998 – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ഫുട്ബോൾ ലോകകപ്പ് 1998" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%AF%E0%A5%AF%E0%A5%AE_%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%B7%E0%A4%95" title="१९९८ फिफा विश्वचषक – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="१९९८ फिफा विश्वचषक" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85_1998" title="كاس العالم 1998 – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="كاس العالم 1998" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piala_Dunia_FIFA_1998" title="Piala Dunia FIFA 1998 – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Piala Dunia FIFA 1998" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%8B_%D1%85%D3%A9%D0%BB%D0%B1%D3%A9%D0%BC%D0%B1%D3%A9%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%BD_%D0%94%D0%90%D0%A8%D0%A2" title="1998 оны хөлбөмбөгийн ДАШТ – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="1998 оны хөлбөмбөгийн ДАШТ" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wereldkampioenschap_voetbal_1998" title="Wereldkampioenschap voetbal 1998 – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Wereldkampioenschap voetbal 1998" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%AF%E0%A5%AF%E0%A5%AE_%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%AA" title="१९९८ फिफा विश्वकप – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="१९९८ फिफा विश्वकप" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_FIFA%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%82%AB%E3%83%83%E3%83%97" title="1998 FIFAワールドカップ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="1998 FIFAワールドカップ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nap mw-list-item"><a href="https://nap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppa_dd%C3%B2_Munno_FIFA_1998" title="Coppa ddò Munno FIFA 1998 – Neapolitan" lang="nap" hreflang="nap" data-title="Coppa ddò Munno FIFA 1998" data-language-autonym="Napulitano" data-language-local-name="Neapolitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Napulitano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_i_fotball_1998" title="VM i fotball 1998 – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="VM i fotball 1998" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_i_fotball_1998" title="VM i fotball 1998 – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="VM i fotball 1998" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_Jahon_chempionati_1998" title="FIFA Jahon chempionati 1998 – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="FIFA Jahon chempionati 1998" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%81%D8%A7_%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D9%BE" title="1998 فیفا عالمی کپ – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="1998 فیفا عالمی کپ" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football-Weltmeesterschop_1998" title="Football-Weltmeesterschop 1998 – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="Football-Weltmeesterschop 1998" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistrzostwa_%C5%9Awiata_w_Pi%C5%82ce_No%C5%BCnej_1998" title="Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 1998 – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 1998" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copa_do_Mundo_FIFA_de_1998" title="Copa do Mundo FIFA de 1998 – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Copa do Mundo FIFA de 1998" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campionatul_Mondial_de_Fotbal_1998" title="Campionatul Mondial de Fotbal 1998 – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Campionatul Mondial de Fotbal 1998" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piluta_Hayt%27ay_Pachantin_Kupa_1998" title="Piluta Hayt'ay Pachantin Kupa 1998 – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Piluta Hayt'ay Pachantin Kupa 1998" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82_%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D1%84%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%83_1998" title="Чемпионат мира по футболу 1998 – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Чемпионат мира по футболу 1998" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampionati_Bot%C3%ABror_i_Futbollit_1998" title="Kampionati Botëror i Futbollit 1998 – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Kampionati Botëror i Futbollit 1998" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup" title="1998 FIFA World Cup – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="1998 FIFA World Cup" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majstrovstv%C3%A1_sveta_vo_futbale_1998" title="Majstrovstvá sveta vo futbale 1998 – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Majstrovstvá sveta vo futbale 1998" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetovno_prvenstvo_v_nogometu_1998" title="Svetovno prvenstvo v nogometu 1998 – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Svetovno prvenstvo v nogometu 1998" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C_%D8%AC%DB%8C%DA%BE%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%DB%8C_%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%81%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D9%A1%D9%A9%D9%A9%D9%A8" title="جامی جیھانیی فیفای ١٩٩٨ – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="جامی جیھانیی فیفای ١٩٩٨" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE_%D1%83_%D1%84%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%83_1998." title="Светско првенство у фудбалу 1998. – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Светско првенство у фудбалу 1998." data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_Svjetsko_prvenstvo_1998." title="FIFA Svjetsko prvenstvo 1998. – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="FIFA Svjetsko prvenstvo 1998." data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalkapallon_maailmanmestaruuskilpailut_1998" title="Jalkapallon maailmanmestaruuskilpailut 1998 – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Jalkapallon maailmanmestaruuskilpailut 1998" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4rldsm%C3%A4sterskapet_i_fotboll_1998" title="Världsmästerskapet i fotboll 1998 – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Världsmästerskapet i fotboll 1998" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_%E0%AE%89%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%88_%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B1%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%81" title="1998 உலகக்கோப்பை காற்பந்து – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="1998 உலகக்கோப்பை காற்பந்து" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B3%D1%8B_%D0%B4%D3%A9%D0%BD%D1%8C%D1%8F_%D1%84%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB_%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8B" title="1998 елгы дөнья футбол чемпионаты – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="1998 елгы дөнья футбол чемпионаты" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%9F%E0%B8%B8%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A5%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%81_1998" title="ฟุตบอลโลก 1998 – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="ฟุตบอลโลก 1998" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_FIFA_D%C3%BCnya_Kupas%C4%B1" title="1998 FIFA Dünya Kupası – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="1998 FIFA Dünya Kupası" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tk mw-list-item"><a href="https://tk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futbol_bo%C3%BDun%C3%A7a_d%C3%BCn%C3%BD%C3%A4_%C3%A7empionaty-1998" title="Futbol boýunça dünýä çempionaty-1998 – Turkmen" lang="tk" hreflang="tk" data-title="Futbol boýunça dünýä çempionaty-1998" data-language-autonym="Türkmençe" data-language-local-name="Turkmen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkmençe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BF%D1%96%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82_%D1%81%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%82%D1%83_%D0%B7_%D1%84%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%83_1998" title="Чемпіонат світу з футболу 1998 – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Чемпіонат світу з футболу 1998" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%D8%A1_%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%81%D8%A7_%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D9%BE" title="1998ء فیفا عالمی کپ – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="1998ء فیفا عالمی کپ" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gi%E1%BA%A3i_v%C3%B4_%C4%91%E1%BB%8Bch_b%C3%B3ng_%C4%91%C3%A1_th%E1%BA%BF_gi%E1%BB%9Bi_1998" title="Giải vô địch bóng đá thế giới 1998 – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Giải vô địch bóng đá thế giới 1998" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%E5%B9%B4%E5%9B%BD%E9%99%85%E8%B6%B3%E8%81%94%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E6%9D%AF" title="1998年国际足联世界杯 – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="1998年国际足联世界杯" data-language-autonym="吴语" data-language-local-name="Wu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>吴语</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-yue mw-list-item"><a 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d3/1998_FIFA_World_Cup.svg/250px-1998_FIFA_World_Cup.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="191" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d3/1998_FIFA_World_Cup.svg/375px-1998_FIFA_World_Cup.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d3/1998_FIFA_World_Cup.svg/500px-1998_FIFA_World_Cup.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="339" data-file-height="259" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Tournament details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Host country</th><td class="infobox-data">France</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Dates</th><td class="infobox-data">10 June – 12 July</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Teams</th><td class="infobox-data">32 (from 5 confederations)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Venue(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">10 (in 10 host cities)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Final positions</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Champions</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a></span><span class="nowrap"> (1st title)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Runners-up</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" title="Brazil national football team">Brazil</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Third place</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Croatia_national_football_team" title="Croatia national football team">Croatia</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fourth place</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Michael_Owen" title="Michael Owen">Michael Owen</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Best <a href="/wiki/Goalkeeper_(association_football)" title="Goalkeeper (association football)">goalkeeper</a></th><td class="infobox-data attendee"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/France" title="France"><img alt="France" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, 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href="/wiki/England_national_football_team" title="England national football team">England</a></span><br /><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top:#bbb solid 1px"><div style="float: left;">← <a href="/wiki/1994_FIFA_World_Cup" title="1994 FIFA World Cup">1994</a> </div><div style="float: right;"><a href="/wiki/2002_FIFA_World_Cup" title="2002 FIFA World Cup">2002</a> → </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">International football competition</div> <p>The <b>1998 FIFA World Cup</b> was the 16th <a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup" title="FIFA World Cup">FIFA World Cup</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">football</a> world championship for <a href="/wiki/List_of_men%27s_national_association_football_teams" title="List of men's national association football teams">men's national</a> teams. The finals tournament was held in France from 10 June to 12 July 1998. The country was chosen as the <a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_hosts#1998_FIFA_World_Cup" title="FIFA World Cup hosts">host nation</a> by <a href="/wiki/FIFA" title="FIFA">FIFA</a> for the second time in the history of the tournament (the first was in <a href="/wiki/1938_FIFA_World_Cup" title="1938 FIFA World Cup">1938</a>), defeating Morocco in the bidding process. It was the ninth time that it was held in Europe. Spanning 32 days, it was the longest World Cup tournament ever held. </p><p><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification" title="1998 FIFA World Cup qualification">Qualification for the finals</a> began in March 1996 and concluded in November 1997. For the first time in the competition, the group stage was expanded from 24 teams to 32, with eight groups of four. 64 matches were played in 10 stadiums in 10 host cities, with the opening match and final staged at the newly built <a href="/wiki/Stade_de_France" title="Stade de France">Stade de France</a> in the Parisian commune of <a href="/wiki/Saint-Denis,_Seine-Saint-Denis" title="Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis">Saint-Denis</a>. </p><p>The tournament was won by host country <a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a>, who beat defending champions <a href="/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" title="Brazil national football team">Brazil</a> 3–0 in <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_final" title="1998 FIFA World Cup final">the final</a>. France won their first title, becoming the seventh nation to win a World Cup, and the sixth (after <a href="/wiki/Uruguay_national_football_team" title="Uruguay national football team">Uruguay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italy_national_football_team" title="Italy national football team">Italy</a>, <a href="/wiki/England_national_football_team" title="England national football team">England</a>, <a href="/wiki/Germany_national_football_team" title="Germany national football team">West Germany</a> and <a href="/wiki/Argentina_national_football_team" title="Argentina national football team">Argentina</a>) to win the World Cup <a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_records_and_statistics#Hosts" title="FIFA World Cup records and statistics">on home soil</a>. As of 2022, they are the most recent team to win the tournament on home soil. <a href="/wiki/Croatia_national_football_team" title="Croatia national football team">Croatia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jamaica_national_football_team" title="Jamaica national football team">Jamaica</a>, <a href="/wiki/Japan_national_football_team" title="Japan national football team">Japan</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_Africa_national_football_team" class="mw-redirect" title="South Africa national football team">South Africa</a> made their first appearances in the finals. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Host_selection">Host selection</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Host selection"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_hosts" title="FIFA World Cup hosts">FIFA World Cup hosts</a></div> <p>France was awarded the 1998 World Cup on 2 July 1992 by the executive committee of FIFA during a general meeting in <a href="/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich" class="mw-redirect" title="Zürich">Zürich</a>, Switzerland. They defeated Morocco by 12 votes to 7.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Switzerland withdrew, due to being unable to meet FIFA's requirements. This made France the third country to host two World Cups, after Mexico and Italy in <a href="/wiki/1986_FIFA_World_Cup" title="1986 FIFA World Cup">1986</a> and <a href="/wiki/1990_FIFA_World_Cup" title="1990 FIFA World Cup">1990</a> respectively. France previously hosted the third edition of the World Cup in <a href="/wiki/1938_FIFA_World_Cup" title="1938 FIFA World Cup">1938</a>. England, who hosted the competition in <a href="/wiki/1966_FIFA_World_Cup" title="1966 FIFA World Cup">1966</a> and won it, were among the original applicants, but later withdrew their application in favour of an ultimately successful bid to host <a href="/wiki/UEFA_Euro_1996" title="UEFA Euro 1996">UEFA Euro 1996</a>. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="margin:0.5em"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="4" style="text-align:center">Voting results<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <th>Country </th> <th>Round 1 </th></tr> <tr> <td>France</td> <td><b>12</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Morocco</td> <td>7 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bribery_and_corruption_investigations">Bribery and corruption investigations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Bribery and corruption investigations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 4 June 2015, while co-operating with the <a href="/wiki/FBI" class="mw-redirect" title="FBI">FBI</a> and the Swiss authorities, <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Blazer" title="Chuck Blazer">Chuck Blazer</a> confirmed that he and other members of FIFA's executive committee were bribed during the 1998 and <a href="/wiki/2010_World_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="2010 World Cup">2010 World Cups</a> host selection process. Blazer stated that "we facilitated bribes in conjunction with the selection of the host nation for the 1998 World Cup". Since France won the selection process it was initially thought the bribery came from its bid committee. It eventually transpired that the bribe payment was from the failed Moroccan bid.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Qualification">Qualification</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Qualification"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification" title="1998 FIFA World Cup qualification">1998 FIFA World Cup qualification</a></div> <p>The qualification draw for the 1998 World Cup finals took place in the Musée du <a href="/wiki/Louvre" title="Louvre">Louvre</a>, Paris on 12 December 1995.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As tournament hosts, France was exempt from the draw as was defending champion Brazil, but it was also France's first World Cup since 1986. 174 teams from six confederations participated, 24 more than in the <a href="/wiki/1994_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification" title="1994 FIFA World Cup qualification">previous round</a>. Fourteen countries qualified from the European zone (in addition to hosts France). Ten were determined after group play – nine group winners and the best second-placed team; the other eight group runners-up were drawn into pairs of four play-off matches with the winners qualifying for the finals as well.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/CONMEBOL" title="CONMEBOL">CONMEBOL</a> (South America) and <a href="/wiki/Confederation_of_African_Football" title="Confederation of African Football">CAF</a> (Africa) were each given five spots in the final tournament, while three spots were contested between 30 <a href="/wiki/CONCACAF" title="CONCACAF">CONCACAF</a> members in the North and Central America and the Caribbean zone. The winner of the Oceanian zone advanced to an intercontinental play-off against the runner-up of the Asian play-off, determined by the two best second-placed teams. </p><p>Four nations qualified for the first time: <a href="/wiki/Croatia_national_football_team" title="Croatia national football team">Croatia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jamaica_national_football_team" title="Jamaica national football team">Jamaica</a>, <a href="/wiki/Japan_national_football_team" title="Japan national football team">Japan</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_Africa_national_football_team" class="mw-redirect" title="South Africa national football team">South Africa</a>. The last team to qualify was <a href="/wiki/Iran_national_football_team" title="Iran national football team">Iran</a> by virtue of beating <a href="/wiki/Australia_men%27s_national_soccer_team" title="Australia men's national soccer team">Australia</a> in a <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(AFC%E2%80%93OFC_play-off)" title="1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC–OFC play-off)">two-legged tie</a> on 29 November 1997.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It marked their first appearance in the finals since <a href="/wiki/1978_FIFA_World_Cup" title="1978 FIFA World Cup">1978</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chile_national_football_team" title="Chile national football team">Chile</a> qualified for the first time since 1982, after serving a ban that saw them miss out on the two previous tournaments. Paraguay and Denmark returned for the first time since 1986. Austria, England, Scotland and Yugoslavia returned after missing out on the <a href="/wiki/1994_FIFA_World_Cup" title="1994 FIFA World Cup">1994 tournament</a>, with the Balkan team now appearing under the name of <a href="/wiki/Serbia_and_Montenegro" title="Serbia and Montenegro">FR Yugoslavia</a>. Among the teams who failed to qualify were two-time winners <a href="/wiki/Uruguay_national_football_team" title="Uruguay national football team">Uruguay</a> (for the second successive tournament); <a href="/wiki/Portugal_national_football_team" title="Portugal national football team">Portugal</a> (their last absence as of 2022); <a href="/wiki/Sweden_men%27s_national_football_team" title="Sweden men's national football team">Sweden</a>, who finished third in <a href="/wiki/1994_FIFA_World_Cup" title="1994 FIFA World Cup">1994</a>; <a href="/wiki/Russia_national_football_team" title="Russia national football team">Russia</a> (who failed to qualify for the first time since 1978 after losing to Italy in the play-off round); and the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland_national_football_team" title="Republic of Ireland national football team">Republic of Ireland</a>, who had qualified for the previous two tournaments.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The highest-ranked team not to qualify was the UEFA Euro 1996 runners-up the <a href="/wiki/Czech_Republic_national_football_team" title="Czech Republic national football team">Czech Republic</a> (ranked 3rd), while the lowest-ranked team that did qualify was Nigeria (ranked 74th). </p><p>As of 2022, this was the last time <a href="/wiki/Austria_national_football_team" title="Austria national football team">Austria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria_national_football_team" title="Bulgaria national football team">Bulgaria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norway_national_football_team" title="Norway national football team">Norway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Romania_national_football_team" title="Romania national football team">Romania</a> and <a href="/wiki/Scotland_national_football_team" title="Scotland national football team">Scotland</a> qualified for a FIFA World Cup finals, and the only time Jamaica have qualified. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="List_of_qualified_teams">List of qualified teams</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: List of qualified teams"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_seeding" title="1998 FIFA World Cup seeding">1998 FIFA World Cup seeding</a></div> <p>The following 32 teams, shown with final pre-tournament rankings,<sup id="cite_ref-FIFA_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FIFA-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> qualified for the final tournament. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1216972533">.mw-parser-output .col-begin{border-collapse:collapse;padding:0;color:inherit;width:100%;border:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .col-begin-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .col-break{vertical-align:top;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .col-break-2{width:50%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-3{width:33.3%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-4{width:25%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-5{width:20%}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .col-begin,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr>td{display:block!important;width:100%!important}.mw-parser-output .col-break{padding-left:0!important}}</style><div> <table class="col-begin" role="presentation"> <tbody><tr> <td class="col-break col-break-4"> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(AFC)" title="1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)">AFC</a> (4)</dt></dl> <ul><li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/35px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/46px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="630" data-file-height="360" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Iran_national_football_team" title="Iran national football team">Iran</a></span> (42)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/22px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/33px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/43px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Japan_national_football_team" title="Japan national football team">Japan</a></span> (debut) (12)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 1.5x, 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national football team">Cameroon</a></span> (49)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/23px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/35px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/45px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Morocco_national_football_team" title="Morocco national football team">Morocco</a></span> (13)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Nigeria_national_football_team" title="Nigeria national football team">Nigeria</a></span> (74)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Africa_national_soccer_team" title="South Africa national soccer team">South Africa</a></span> (debut) (24) </li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Tunisia_national_football_team" title="Tunisia national football team">Tunisia</a></span> (21)</li></ul> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(OFC)" title="1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)">OFC</a> (0)</dt></dl> <ul><li><i>None qualified</i></li></ul> </td> <td class="col-break col-break-4"> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(CONCACAF)" title="1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)">CONCACAF</a> (3)</dt></dl> <ul><li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/23px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/35px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/46px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_national_football_team" title="Jamaica national football team">Jamaica</a></span> (debut) (30)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/46px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="980" data-file-height="560" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Mexico_national_football_team" title="Mexico national football team">Mexico</a></span> (4)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States_men%27s_national_soccer_team" title="United States men's national soccer team">United States</a></span> (11)</li></ul> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(CONMEBOL)" title="1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)">CONMEBOL</a> (5)</dt></dl> <ul><li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Argentina_national_football_team" title="Argentina national football team">Argentina</a></span> (6)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" title="Brazil national football team">Brazil</a></span> (holders) (1)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/23px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/35px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/45px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Chile_national_football_team" title="Chile national football team">Chile</a></span> (9)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Colombia_national_football_team" title="Colombia national football team">Colombia</a></span> (10)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="540" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Paraguay_national_football_team" title="Paraguay national football team">Paraguay</a></span> (29)</li></ul> </td> <td class="col-break col-break-4"> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(UEFA)" title="1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)">UEFA</a> (15)</dt></dl> <ul><li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/45px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Austria_national_football_team" title="Austria national football team">Austria</a></span> (31)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Belgium_national_football_team" title="Belgium national football team">Belgium</a></span> (36)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Bulgaria_national_football_team" title="Bulgaria national football team">Bulgaria</a></span> (35)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Croatia_national_football_team" title="Croatia national football team">Croatia</a></span> (debut) (19)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/31px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/40px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Denmark_national_football_team" title="Denmark national football team">Denmark</a></span> (27)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/England_national_football_team" title="England national football team">England</a></span> (5)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a></span> (18) (hosts)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Germany_national_football_team" title="Germany national football team">Germany</a></span> (2)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Italy_national_football_team" title="Italy national football team">Italy</a></span> (14)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_national_football_team" title="Netherlands national football team">Netherlands</a></span> (25)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/21px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/32px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/41px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="372" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Norway_national_football_team" title="Norway national football team">Norway</a></span> (7)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Romania_national_football_team" title="Romania national football team">Romania</a></span> (22)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Scotland_national_football_team" title="Scotland national football team">Scotland</a></span> (41)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/45px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Spain_national_football_team" title="Spain national football team">Spain</a></span> (15)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/FR_Yugoslavia_national_football_team" class="mw-redirect" title="FR Yugoslavia national football team">FR Yugoslavia</a> (8)</li></ul> </td> <td class="col-break col-break-4"> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1998_world_cup_qualification.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/1998_world_cup_qualification.png/310px-1998_world_cup_qualification.png" decoding="async" width="310" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/1998_world_cup_qualification.png/465px-1998_world_cup_qualification.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/1998_world_cup_qualification.png/620px-1998_world_cup_qualification.png 2x" data-file-width="1357" data-file-height="628" /></a><figcaption><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#000cff; color:white;"> </span> Countries qualified for World Cup</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#ffb400; color:black;"> </span> Country did not qualify</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:black; color:white;"> </span> Countries that did not enter World Cup</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#ababab; color:black;"> </span> Country not a FIFA member</div></figcaption></figure> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <table class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="4">Teams listed by FIFA ranking as of May 1998<sup id="cite_ref-FIFA_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FIFA-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <th></th> <th>Country</th> <th>Confederation</th> <th>Rank </th></tr> <tr> <td>1</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" title="Brazil national football team">Brazil</a></span> (1994 winner)</td> <td>CONMEBOL</td> <td align="center">1 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Germany_national_football_team" title="Germany national football team">Germany</a></span></td> <td>UEFA</td> <td align="center">2 </td></tr> <tr> <td>3</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/46px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="980" data-file-height="560" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Mexico_national_football_team" title="Mexico national football team">Mexico</a></span></td> <td>CONCACAF</td> <td align="center">4 </td></tr> <tr> <td>4</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/England_national_football_team" title="England national football team">England</a></span></td> <td>UEFA</td> <td align="center">5 </td></tr> <tr> <td>5</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Argentina_national_football_team" title="Argentina national football team">Argentina</a></span></td> <td>CONMEBOL</td> <td align="center">6 </td></tr> <tr> <td>6</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/21px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/32px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/41px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="372" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Norway_national_football_team" title="Norway national football team">Norway</a></span></td> <td>UEFA</td> <td align="center">7 </td></tr> <tr> <td>7</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Serbia_and_Montenegro_national_football_team" title="Serbia and Montenegro national football team">FR Yugoslavia</a></span></td> <td>UEFA</td> <td align="center">8 </td></tr> <tr> <td>8</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/23px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/35px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/45px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Chile_national_football_team" title="Chile national football team">Chile</a></span></td> <td>CONMEBOL</td> <td align="center">9 </td></tr> <tr> <td>9</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Colombia_national_football_team" title="Colombia national football team">Colombia</a></span></td> <td>CONMEBOL</td> <td align="center">10 </td></tr> <tr> <td>10</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States_men%27s_national_soccer_team" title="United States men's national soccer team">United States</a></span></td> <td>CONCACAF</td> <td align="center">11 </td></tr> <tr> <td>11</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/22px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/33px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/43px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Japan_national_football_team" title="Japan national football team">Japan</a></span></td> <td>AFC</td> <td align="center">12 </td></tr> <tr> <td>12</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/23px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/35px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/45px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Morocco_national_football_team" title="Morocco national football team">Morocco</a></span></td> <td>CAF</td> <td align="center">13 </td></tr> <tr> <td>13</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Italy_national_football_team" title="Italy national football team">Italy</a></span></td> <td>UEFA</td> <td align="center">14 </td></tr> <tr> <td>14</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/45px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Spain_national_football_team" title="Spain national football team">Spain</a></span></td> <td>UEFA</td> <td align="center">15 </td></tr> <tr> <td>15</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a></span> (host)</td> <td>UEFA</td> <td align="center">18 </td></tr> <tr> <td>16</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Croatia_national_football_team" title="Croatia national football team">Croatia</a></span></td> <td>UEFA</td> <td align="center">19 </td></tr> <tr> <td>17</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Korea_national_football_team" title="South Korea national football team">South Korea</a></span></td> <td>AFC</td> <td align="center">20 </td></tr> <tr> <td>18</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Tunisia_national_football_team" title="Tunisia national football team">Tunisia</a></span></td> <td>CAF</td> <td align="center">21 </td></tr> <tr> <td>19</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Romania_national_football_team" title="Romania national football team">Romania</a></span></td> <td>UEFA</td> <td align="center">22 </td></tr> <tr> <td>20</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Africa_national_soccer_team" title="South Africa national soccer team">South Africa</a></span></td> <td>CAF</td> <td align="center">24 </td></tr> <tr> <td>21</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_national_football_team" title="Netherlands national football team">Netherlands</a></span></td> <td>UEFA</td> <td align="center">25 </td></tr> <tr> <td>22</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/31px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/40px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Denmark_national_football_team" title="Denmark national football team">Denmark</a></span></td> <td>UEFA</td> <td align="center">27 </td></tr> <tr> <td>23</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Paraguay.svg/23px-Flag_of_Paraguay.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Paraguay.svg/35px-Flag_of_Paraguay.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Paraguay.svg/46px-Flag_of_Paraguay.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="660" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Paraguay_national_football_team" title="Paraguay national football team">Paraguay</a></span></td> <td>CONMEBOL</td> <td align="center">29 </td></tr> <tr> <td>24</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/23px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/35px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/46px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_national_football_team" title="Jamaica national football team">Jamaica</a></span></td> <td>CONCACAF</td> <td align="center">30 </td></tr> <tr> <td>25</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/45px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Austria_national_football_team" title="Austria national football team">Austria</a></span></td> <td>UEFA</td> <td align="center">31 </td></tr> <tr> <td>26</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia_national_football_team" title="Saudi Arabia national football team">Saudi Arabia</a></span></td> <td>AFC</td> <td align="center">34 </td></tr> <tr> <td>27</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Bulgaria_national_football_team" title="Bulgaria national football team">Bulgaria</a></span></td> <td>UEFA</td> <td align="center">35 </td></tr> <tr> <td>28</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Belgium_national_football_team" title="Belgium national football team">Belgium</a></span></td> <td>UEFA</td> <td align="center">36 </td></tr> <tr> <td>29</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Scotland_national_football_team" title="Scotland national football team">Scotland</a></span></td> <td>UEFA</td> <td align="center">41 </td></tr> <tr> <td>30</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/35px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/46px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="630" data-file-height="360" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Iran_national_football_team" title="Iran national football team">Iran</a></span></td> <td>AFC</td> <td align="center">42 </td></tr> <tr> <td>31</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/23px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/35px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/45px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Cameroon_national_football_team" title="Cameroon national football team">Cameroon</a></span></td> <td>CAF</td> <td align="center">49 </td></tr> <tr> <td>32</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Nigeria_national_football_team" title="Nigeria national football team">Nigeria</a></span></td> <td>CAF</td> <td align="center">74 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Venues">Venues</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Venues"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDaunceyHare199998_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDaunceyHare199998-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDaunceyHare199998_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDaunceyHare199998-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDaunceyHare199999_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDaunceyHare199999-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Paris" title="Mayor of Paris">Mayor of Paris</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Chirac" title="Jacques Chirac">Jacques Chirac</a> successfully negotiated a deal with Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/%C3%89douard_Balladur" title="Édouard Balladur">Édouard Balladur</a> to bring the Stade de France, as it was now called, to the commune of Saint-Denis just north of the <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">capital city</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDaunceyHare199999_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDaunceyHare199999-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDaunceyHare1999107_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDaunceyHare1999107-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The choice of stadium locations was drafted from an original list of 14 cities.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDaunceyHare1999101_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDaunceyHare1999101-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> FIFA and CFO monitored the progress and quality of preparations, culminating in the former providing final checks of the grounds weeks before the tournament commenced. <a href="/wiki/Montpellier" title="Montpellier">Montpellier</a> was the surprise inclusion from the final list of cities because of its low urban hierarchy in comparison to <a href="/wiki/Strasbourg" title="Strasbourg">Strasbourg</a>, who boasted a better hierarchy and success from its local football team, having been taken over by a consortium. Montpellier however was considered ambitious by the selecting panel to host World Cup matches. The local city and regional authorities in particular had invested heavily into football the previous two decades and were able to measure economic effects, in terms of jobs as early as in 1997.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDaunceyHare1999104_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDaunceyHare1999104-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of the venues used for this tournament were also used for the previous World Cup in France in <a href="/wiki/1938_FIFA_World_Cup" title="1938 FIFA World Cup">1938</a>. The Stade Vélodrome in Marseille, the Stade Municipal in Toulouse, the Gerland in Lyon, the Parc Lescure in Bordeaux and the Parc des Princes in Paris received the honour of hosting World Cup matches once again in 1998 as they had all done in 1938. </p><p>10 stadiums were used for the finals; in addition to nine matches being played at the Stade de France (the most used stadium in the tournament), a further six matches took place in <a href="/wiki/Paris_Saint-Germain_F.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Paris Saint-Germain F.C.">Paris Saint-Germain</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Parc_des_Princes" title="Parc des Princes">Parc des Princes</a>, bringing Paris's total matches hosted to 15. France played four of their seven matches in the national stadium; they also played in the country's second and third largest cities, Marseille (hosting 7 total matches) and Lyon (hosting 6 total matches), as well as a Round of 16 knockout match in the northern city of Lens (also hosting 6 total matches). Nantes, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Montpellier and Saint-Etienne also hosted 6 matches in total; all of the stadiums used also hosted knockout round matches. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/Saint-Denis,_Seine-Saint-Denis" title="Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis">Saint-Denis</a>)</span> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Marseille" title="Marseille">Marseille</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Lyon" title="Lyon">Lyon</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_France" title="Stade de France">Stade de France</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Stade_V%C3%A9lodrome" title="Stade Vélodrome">Stade Vélodrome</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Parc_des_Princes" title="Parc des Princes">Parc des Princes</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_Gerland" title="Stade de Gerland">Stade de Gerland</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span 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.infobox-full-data .locmap div{background:transparent!important}}</style><div class="locmap" style="width:475px;float:none;clear:none"><div style="width:475px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:475px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:France_location_map-Regions_and_departements-2016.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="1998 FIFA World Cup is located in France"><img alt="1998 FIFA World Cup is located in France" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/France_location_map-Regions_and_departements-2016.svg/475px-France_location_map-Regions_and_departements-2016.svg.png" decoding="async" width="475" height="456" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/France_location_map-Regions_and_departements-2016.svg/713px-France_location_map-Regions_and_departements-2016.svg.png 1.5x, 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title="Lyon">Lyon</a></b></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:40.423%;left:27.055%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Nantes"><img alt="Nantes" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div><b><a href="/wiki/Nantes" title="Nantes">Nantes</a></b></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:75.397%;left:45.785%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Toulouse"><img alt="Toulouse" 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title="Bordeaux">Bordeaux</a></b></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:75.027%;left:60.836%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Montpellier"><img alt="Montpellier" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pv" style="width:6em;bottom:5px;left:-3em"><div><b><a href="/wiki/Montpellier" title="Montpellier">Montpellier</a></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Stade_Bollaert-Delelis" title="Stade Bollaert-Delelis">Stade Félix-Bollaert</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&params=50_25_58.26_N_2_48_53.47_E_region:FR_type:landmark&title=Stade+F%C3%A9lix-Bollaert"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">50°25′58.26″N</span> <span class="longitude">2°48′53.47″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">50.4328500°N 2.8148528°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">50.4328500; 2.8148528</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Stade Félix-Bollaert</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Capacity: <b>41,300</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Stade_Felix-Bollaert.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Stade_Felix-Bollaert.jpg/170px-Stade_Felix-Bollaert.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Stade_Felix-Bollaert.jpg/255px-Stade_Felix-Bollaert.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Stade_Felix-Bollaert.jpg/340px-Stade_Felix-Bollaert.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1443" /></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Nantes" title="Nantes">Nantes</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_la_Beaujoire" title="Stade de la Beaujoire">Stade de la Beaujoire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&params=47_15_20.27_N_1_31_31.35_W_region:FR_type:landmark&title=Stade+de+la+Beaujoire"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">47°15′20.27″N</span> <span class="longitude">1°31′31.35″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">47.2556306°N 1.5253750°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">47.2556306; -1.5253750</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Stade de la Beaujoire</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Capacity: <b>39,500</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Stade_de_la_Beaujoire.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Stade_de_la_Beaujoire.jpg/180px-Stade_de_la_Beaujoire.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="118" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Stade_de_la_Beaujoire.jpg/270px-Stade_de_la_Beaujoire.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Stade_de_la_Beaujoire.jpg/360px-Stade_de_la_Beaujoire.jpg 2x" data-file-width="488" data-file-height="320" /></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Toulouse" title="Toulouse">Toulouse</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Saint-%C3%89tienne" title="Saint-Étienne">Saint-Étienne</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Bordeaux" title="Bordeaux">Bordeaux</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Montpellier" title="Montpellier">Montpellier</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Stadium_Municipal" class="mw-redirect" title="Stadium Municipal">Stadium de Toulouse</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Stade_Geoffroy-Guichard" title="Stade Geoffroy-Guichard">Stade Geoffroy-Guichard</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Stade_Chaban-Delmas" title="Stade Chaban-Delmas">Parc Lescure</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_la_Mosson" title="Stade de la Mosson">Stade de la Mosson</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&params=43_34_59.93_N_1_26_2.57_E_region:FR_type:landmark&title=Stadium+de+Toulouse"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">43°34′59.93″N</span> <span class="longitude">1°26′2.57″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">43.5833139°N 1.4340472°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">43.5833139; 1.4340472</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Stadium de Toulouse</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&params=45_27_38.76_N_4_23_24.42_E_region:FR_type:landmark&title=Stade+Geoffroy-Guichard"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">45°27′38.76″N</span> <span class="longitude">4°23′24.42″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">45.4607667°N 4.3901167°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">45.4607667; 4.3901167</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Stade Geoffroy-Guichard</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&params=44_49_45_N_0_35_52_W_region:FR_type:landmark&title=Parc+Lescure"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">44°49′45″N</span> <span class="longitude">0°35′52″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">44.82917°N 0.59778°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">44.82917; -0.59778</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Parc Lescure</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&params=43_37_19.85_N_3_48_43.28_E_region:FR_type:landmark&title=Stade+de+la+Mosson"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">43°37′19.85″N</span> <span class="longitude">3°48′43.28″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">43.6221806°N 3.8120222°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">43.6221806; 3.8120222</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Stade de la Mosson</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Capacity: <b>37,000</b> </td> <td>Capacity: <b>36,000</b> </td> <td>Capacity: <b>35,200</b> </td> <td>Capacity: <b>34,000</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Stadium_TFC_LOSC_mai2013_2.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Stadium_TFC_LOSC_mai2013_2.JPG/180px-Stadium_TFC_LOSC_mai2013_2.JPG" decoding="async" width="180" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Stadium_TFC_LOSC_mai2013_2.JPG/270px-Stadium_TFC_LOSC_mai2013_2.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Stadium_TFC_LOSC_mai2013_2.JPG/360px-Stadium_TFC_LOSC_mai2013_2.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a></span> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Stade-GeoffroyGuichard-RWC2007.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Stade-GeoffroyGuichard-RWC2007.JPG/180px-Stade-GeoffroyGuichard-RWC2007.JPG" decoding="async" width="180" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Stade-GeoffroyGuichard-RWC2007.JPG/270px-Stade-GeoffroyGuichard-RWC2007.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Stade-GeoffroyGuichard-RWC2007.JPG/360px-Stade-GeoffroyGuichard-RWC2007.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2288" data-file-height="1712" /></a></span> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Stade_Chaban-Delmas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Stade_Chaban-Delmas.jpg/180px-Stade_Chaban-Delmas.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Stade_Chaban-Delmas.jpg/270px-Stade_Chaban-Delmas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Stade_Chaban-Delmas.jpg/360px-Stade_Chaban-Delmas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a></span> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Australie-Fidji.4.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Australie-Fidji.4.JPG/180px-Australie-Fidji.4.JPG" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Australie-Fidji.4.JPG/270px-Australie-Fidji.4.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Australie-Fidji.4.JPG/360px-Australie-Fidji.4.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1578" data-file-height="1052" /></a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Innovations">Innovations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Innovations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Technologies">Technologies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Technologies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This was the first FIFA World Cup where fourth officials used electronic boards, instead of cardboard.<sup id="cite_ref-sport24ZA_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sport24ZA-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rule_changes">Rule changes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Rule changes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This was the first World Cup since the introduction of <a href="/wiki/Golden_goal" title="Golden goal">golden goals</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-sport24ZA_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sport24ZA-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> banning of tackles from behind that endanger the safety of an opponent<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and allowance of three substitutions per game.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Match_officials">Match officials</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Match officials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>34 referees and 33 assistants officiated in the 1998 World Cup.<sup id="cite_ref-Refs_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Refs-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a result of the extension to 32 teams in the finals, there was an increase of 10 referees and 11 officials from the 1994 World Cup.<sup id="cite_ref-Refs_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Refs-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1215345927">@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .multicol-float{width:auto!important}}.mw-parser-output .multicol-float{clear:none;float:left}.mw-parser-output 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href="/wiki/Egyptian_Football_Association" title="Egyptian Football Association"><img alt="Egypt" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Egypt.svg/23px-Flag_of_Egypt.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Egypt.svg/35px-Flag_of_Egypt.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Egypt.svg/45px-Flag_of_Egypt.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Gamal_Al-Ghandour" title="Gamal Al-Ghandour">Gamal Al-Ghandour</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Nigerien_Football_Federation" title="Nigerien Football Federation"><img alt="Niger" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Flag_of_Niger.svg/18px-Flag_of_Niger.svg.png" decoding="async" width="18" height="15" class="mw-file-element" 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href="/wiki/Urs_Meier" title="Urs Meier">Urs Meier</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Football_Federation" title="Portuguese Football Federation"><img alt="Portugal" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/23px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/35px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/45px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/V%C3%ADtor_Melo_Pereira" title="Vítor Melo Pereira">Vítor Melo Pereira</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Danish_Football_Association" title="Danish Football Association"><img alt="Denmark" 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<li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Royal_Dutch_Football_Association" title="Royal Dutch Football Association"><img alt="Netherlands" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Mario_van_der_Ende" title="Mario van der Ende">Mario van der Ende</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Polish_Football_Association" title="Polish Football Association"><img alt="Poland" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Ryszard_W%C3%B3jcik" title="Ryszard Wójcik">Ryszard Wójcik</a></li></ul> </div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215345927"><div class="multicol-float" style=""> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/CONCACAF" title="CONCACAF">CONCACAF</a> (3)</dt></dl> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Soccer_Federation" title="United States Soccer Federation"><img alt="United States" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Esfandiar_Baharmast" title="Esfandiar Baharmast">Esfandiar Baharmast</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Mexican_Football_Federation" title="Mexican Football Federation"><img alt="Mexico" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/46px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="980" data-file-height="560" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Arturo_Brizio_Carter" title="Arturo Brizio Carter">Arturo Brizio Carter</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago_Football_Association" title="Trinidad and Tobago Football Association"><img alt="Trinidad and Tobago" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago.svg/23px-Flag_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago.svg/35px-Flag_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago.svg.png 1.5x, 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Lennie" title="Eddie Lennie">Eddie Lennie</a></li></ul> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/CONMEBOL" title="CONMEBOL">CONMEBOL</a> (6)</dt></dl> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Argentine_Football_Association" title="Argentine Football Association"><img alt="Argentina" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" 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class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Brazilian_Football_Confederation" title="Brazilian Football Confederation"><img alt="Brazil" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A1rcio_Rezende_de_Freitas" title="Márcio Rezende de Freitas">Márcio Rezende de Freitas</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Football_Federation_of_Chile" title="Football Federation of Chile"><img alt="Chile" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/23px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/35px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/45px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Mario_S%C3%A1nchez_Yanten" class="mw-redirect" title="Mario Sánchez Yanten">Mario Sánchez Yanten</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Peruvian_Football_Federation" title="Peruvian Football Federation"><img alt="Peru" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Flag_of_Peru_%28state%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Peru_%28state%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Flag_of_Peru_%28state%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Peru_%28state%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Flag_of_Peru_%28state%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Peru_%28state%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Alberto_Tejada_Noriega" class="mw-redirect" title="Alberto Tejada Noriega">Alberto Tejada Noriega</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Colombian_Football_Federation" title="Colombian Football Federation"><img alt="Colombia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/John_Toro_Rend%C3%B3n" title="John Toro Rendón">John Toro Rendón</a></li></ul> </div><div class="multicol-float-clear" style=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Draw">Draw</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Draw"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="Format"></span> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_seeding" title="1998 FIFA World Cup seeding">1998 FIFA World Cup seeding</a></div> <p>The FIFA Organising Committee announced the eight seeded teams on 3 December 1997. The historic tradition to seed the hosts (France) and <a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_Trophy#Winners" title="FIFA World Cup Trophy">holders</a> (Brazil) was upheld; while the remaining six seeds were granted for the other <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_seeding" title="1998 FIFA World Cup seeding">top7-ranked teams</a>, based on their results obtained in the last three FIFA World Cups (ratio 3:2:1, counting in total 60%) and their <a href="/wiki/FIFA_Men%27s_World_Rankings" class="mw-redirect" title="FIFA Men's World Rankings">FIFA World Ranking</a> position in the last month of the past three years (equal ratio, counting in total 40%).<sup id="cite_ref-Seeding_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Seeding-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DrawProcedure_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DrawProcedure-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For the draw, the 32 teams were allocated into four pots. The eight top-seeded teams were allocated in pot A and would be drawn/selected into the first position of the eight groups playing in the group stage. The remaining 24 unseeded teams were allocated into three pots based on geographical sections, with the: Nine European teams in pot B; four Asian teams and three South American teams in pot C; five African teams and three North American teams in pot D.<sup id="cite_ref-Draw_of_Groups_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Draw_of_Groups-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The general principle was to draw one team from each pot into the eight groups, although with special combined procedures for pot B and pot C, due to comprising more/less than eight teams - but sixteen teams in total. At the same time, the draw also needed to respect the geographical limitation, that each group could not feature more than one team from each confederation, except for the European teams where the limitation was maximum two per group.<sup id="cite_ref-Draw_of_Groups_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Draw_of_Groups-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th style="width:25%">Pot A<br />Top-seeded teams<br /><small>(<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Defending Champion (1994 winner)">DC</span> + Host + <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_seeding" title="1998 FIFA World Cup seeding">Top7 seeds</a>)</small> </th> <th style="width:25%">Pot B<br />Europe<br /><small>(<a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(UEFA)" title="1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)">UEFA</a>)</small> </th> <th style="width:25%">Pot C<br />Asia & South America<br /><small>(<a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(AFC)" title="1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)">AFC</a> & <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(CONMEBOL)" title="1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)">CONMEBOL</a>)</small> </th> <th style="width:25%">Pot D<br />Africa & North America<br /><small>(<a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(CAF)" title="1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)">CAF</a> & <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(CONCACAF)" title="1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)">CONCACAF</a>)</small> </th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" title="Brazil national football team">Brazil</a></span> <small>(1994 winner, group A1)</small></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a></span> <small>(host, group C1)</small></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Germany_national_football_team" title="Germany national football team">Germany</a></span> (1)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Italy_national_football_team" title="Italy national football team">Italy</a></span> (3)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/45px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Spain_national_football_team" title="Spain national football team">Spain</a></span> (4)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Argentina_national_football_team" title="Argentina national football team">Argentina</a></span> (5)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Romania_national_football_team" title="Romania national football team">Romania</a></span> (6)</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_national_football_team" title="Netherlands national football team">Netherlands</a></span> (7)</li></ul> </div> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/45px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Austria_national_football_team" title="Austria national football team">Austria</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Belgium_national_football_team" title="Belgium national football team">Belgium</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Bulgaria_national_football_team" title="Bulgaria national football team">Bulgaria</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Croatia_national_football_team" title="Croatia national football team">Croatia</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/31px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/40px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Denmark_national_football_team" title="Denmark national football team">Denmark</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/England_national_football_team" title="England national football team">England</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Scotland_national_football_team" title="Scotland national football team">Scotland</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Serbia_and_Montenegro_national_football_team" title="Serbia and Montenegro national football team">FR Yugoslavia</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/21px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/32px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/41px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="372" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Norway_national_football_team" title="Norway national football team">Norway</a></span></li></ul> </div> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/23px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/35px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/45px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Chile_national_football_team" title="Chile national football team">Chile</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Colombia_national_football_team" title="Colombia national football team">Colombia</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/35px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/46px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="630" data-file-height="360" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Iran_national_football_team" title="Iran national football team">Iran</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/22px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/33px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/43px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Japan_national_football_team" title="Japan national football team">Japan</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="540" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Paraguay_national_football_team" title="Paraguay national football team">Paraguay</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia_national_football_team" title="Saudi Arabia national football team">Saudi Arabia</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Korea_national_football_team" title="South Korea national football team">South Korea</a></span></li></ul> </div> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/23px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/35px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/45px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Cameroon_national_football_team" title="Cameroon national football team">Cameroon</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/23px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/35px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/46px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_national_football_team" title="Jamaica national football team">Jamaica</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/46px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="980" data-file-height="560" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Mexico_national_football_team" title="Mexico national football team">Mexico</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/23px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/35px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/45px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Morocco_national_football_team" title="Morocco national football team">Morocco</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Nigeria_national_football_team" title="Nigeria national football team">Nigeria</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Africa_national_soccer_team" title="South Africa national soccer team">South Africa</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Tunisia_national_football_team" title="Tunisia national football team">Tunisia</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States_men%27s_national_soccer_team" title="United States men's national soccer team">United States</a></span></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li>The draw took place at <a href="/wiki/Stade_V%C3%A9lodrome" title="Stade Vélodrome">Stade Vélodrome</a> in <a href="/wiki/Marseille" title="Marseille">Marseille</a>, and was televised live on 4 December 1997: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAeH5Xn-6t0">FIFA World Cup Draw</a> on <a href="/wiki/BBC_Sport" title="BBC Sport">BBC Sport</a>.</li></ul> <p>For the first time in history, the draw event took place in a football stadium, with 38,000 spectators and an estimated 1 billion TV viewers. The draw was officiated by FIFA secretary general <a href="/wiki/Sepp_Blatter" title="Sepp Blatter">Sepp Blatter</a>. Teams were drawn by football legends <a href="/wiki/Franz_Beckenbauer" title="Franz Beckenbauer">Franz Beckenbauer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Alberto_Parreira" title="Carlos Alberto Parreira">Carlos Alberto Parreira</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Weah" title="George Weah">George Weah</a> and <a href="/wiki/Raymond_Kopa" title="Raymond Kopa">Raymond Kopa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Organiser <a href="/wiki/Michel_Platini" title="Michel Platini">Michel Platini</a>, who later became president of UEFA, admitted in 2018 that the draw for the group stage of the competition had been fixed so that France and Brazil were kept apart until the final, telling <a href="/wiki/France_Bleu" title="France Bleu">France Bleu Sport</a>: "We did a bit of trickery. When we were organising the schedule. We did not spend six years organising the World Cup to not do some little shenanigans".<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The statement from Platini referred to the fact that, shortly before the World Cup finals draw took place, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=FIFA_World_Cup_Organisers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="FIFA World Cup Organisers (page does not exist)">FIFA Organising Committee</a> had met to finalise the draw process. At this meeting, the committee had approved the proposal to assign host nation France to group position C1 and defending champions Brazil to group position A1 ahead of the draw. As the <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_knockout_stage" title="1998 FIFA World Cup knockout stage">tournament structure</a> was also predetermined so that the winners of Groups A, D, E and H, and the runners-up of Groups B, C, F and G would be kept apart from the group winners of B, C, F and G, and the runners-up of Group A, D, E and H until the final; thus, France and Brazil could avoid meeting each other until the final if both teams finished in the same position in the top two of their respective groups.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Procedure for the draw:<sup id="cite_ref-Draw_of_Groups_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Draw_of_Groups-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ol><li>Pot A was used to draw the remaining six top-seeded teams for the first position of groups B, D, E, F, G and H.</li> <li>Pot D was used to draw one team to each of the eight groups (drawing in the alphabetic order from A to H).</li> <li>Pot B was used to draw one team to each of the eight groups (drawing in the alphabetic order from A to H).</li> <li>As per the FIFA rule of only allowing a maximum of two UEFA teams in each group, the remaining ninth team from Pot B, was subject to a second draw, to be put in either of the groups containing a top-seeded <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(CONMEBOL)" title="1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)">South American (CONMEBOL)</a> team.</li> <li>Pot C was used to draw one team to each of the seven groups with an empty spot (drawing in alphabetical order from A to H). However, as each group could only contain one South American (CONMEBOL) team, the first <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(AFC)" title="1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)">Asian (AFC)</a> team drawn would not be drawn into a group in alphabetical order, but instead be drawn into the remaining open group with a top-seeded South American (CONMEBOL) team.</li> <li>To decide the match schedules, the exact group position number for the un-seeded teams in each group (2, 3 or 4), were also drawn immediately from eight special group bowls, after each respective team had been drawn from pot D, B and C.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Draw_results_and_group_fixtures">Draw results and group fixtures</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Draw results and group fixtures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The draw resulted in the following eight groups:<sup id="cite_ref-Draw_of_Groups_23-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Draw_of_Groups-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1216972533"><div> <table class="col-begin" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"> <tbody><tr> <td class="col-break" style="padding-left: 4em;"> <table class="wikitable" style="display:inline-table;"> <caption><a href="#Group_A">Group A</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Position">Pos</span></th> <th width="120">Team </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center">A1</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" title="Brazil national football team">Brazil</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">A2</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Scotland_national_football_team" title="Scotland national football team">Scotland</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">A3</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/23px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/35px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/45px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Morocco_national_football_team" title="Morocco national football team">Morocco</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">A4</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/21px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/32px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/41px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="372" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Norway_national_football_team" title="Norway national football team">Norway</a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> </td> <td class="col-break" style="padding-left: 2em;"> <table class="wikitable" style="display:inline-table;"> <caption><a href="#Group_B">Group B</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Position">Pos</span></th> <th width="120">Team </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center">B1</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Italy_national_football_team" title="Italy national football team">Italy</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">B2</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/23px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/35px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/45px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Chile_national_football_team" title="Chile national football team">Chile</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">B3</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/23px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/35px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/45px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Cameroon_national_football_team" title="Cameroon national football team">Cameroon</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">B4</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/45px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Austria_national_football_team" title="Austria national football team">Austria</a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> </td> <td class="col-break" style="padding-left: 2em;"> <table class="wikitable" style="display:inline-table;"> <caption><a href="#Group_C">Group C</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Position">Pos</span></th> <th width="120">Team </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center">C1</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">C2</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Africa_national_soccer_team" title="South Africa national soccer team">South Africa</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">C3</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia_national_football_team" title="Saudi Arabia national football team">Saudi Arabia</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">C4</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/31px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/40px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Denmark_national_football_team" title="Denmark national football team">Denmark</a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> </td> <td class="col-break" style="padding-left: 2em;"> <table class="wikitable" style="display:inline-table;"> <caption><a href="#Group_D">Group D</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Position">Pos</span></th> <th width="120">Team </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center">D1</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/45px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Spain_national_football_team" title="Spain national football team">Spain</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">D2</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Nigeria_national_football_team" title="Nigeria national football team">Nigeria</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">D3</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="540" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Paraguay_national_football_team" title="Paraguay national football team">Paraguay</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">D4</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Bulgaria_national_football_team" title="Bulgaria national football team">Bulgaria</a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1216972533"><div> <table class="col-begin" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"> <tbody><tr> <td class="col-break" style="padding-left: 4em;"> <table class="wikitable" style="display:inline-table;"> <caption><a href="#Group_E">Group E</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Position">Pos</span></th> <th width="120">Team </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center">E1</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_national_football_team" title="Netherlands national football team">Netherlands</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">E2</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Belgium_national_football_team" title="Belgium national football team">Belgium</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">E3</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Korea_national_football_team" title="South Korea national football team">South Korea</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">E4</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/46px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="980" data-file-height="560" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Mexico_national_football_team" title="Mexico national football team">Mexico</a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> </td> <td class="col-break" style="padding-left: 2em;"> <table class="wikitable" style="display:inline-table;"> <caption><a href="#Group_F">Group F</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Position">Pos</span></th> <th width="120">Team </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center">F1</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Germany_national_football_team" title="Germany national football team">Germany</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">F2</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States_men%27s_national_soccer_team" title="United States men's national soccer team">United States</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">F3</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Serbia_and_Montenegro_national_football_team" title="Serbia and Montenegro national football team">FR Yugoslavia</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">F4</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/35px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/46px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="630" data-file-height="360" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Iran_national_football_team" title="Iran national football team">Iran</a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> </td> <td class="col-break" style="padding-left: 2em;"> <table class="wikitable" style="display:inline-table;"> <caption><a href="#Group_G">Group G</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Position">Pos</span></th> <th width="120">Team </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center">G1</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Romania_national_football_team" title="Romania national football team">Romania</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">G2</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Colombia_national_football_team" title="Colombia national football team">Colombia</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">G3</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/England_national_football_team" title="England national football team">England</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">G4</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Tunisia_national_football_team" title="Tunisia national football team">Tunisia</a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> </td> <td class="col-break" style="padding-left: 2em;"> <table class="wikitable" style="display:inline-table;"> <caption><a href="#Group_H">Group H</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Position">Pos</span></th> <th width="120">Team </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center">H1</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Argentina_national_football_team" title="Argentina national football team">Argentina</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">H2</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/22px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/33px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/43px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Japan_national_football_team" title="Japan national football team">Japan</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">H3</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/23px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/35px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/46px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_national_football_team" title="Jamaica national football team">Jamaica</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">H4</td> <td><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Croatia_national_football_team" title="Croatia national football team">Croatia</a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <p>In each group, the teams played three matches, one against each of the other teams. Three points were awarded for each win, while a draw was worth one point. After completion of the group stage, the two teams with the most points in each group would advance to the <a href="#Knockout_stage">knockout stage</a>, with each group winner facing the runner-up from one of the other groups in the round of 16. This was a new format for the World Cup, following the expansion from 24 teams in 1994. A total of 64 games were played, including the <a href="#Final">final</a> and a <a href="#Third_place_play-off">third-place play-off</a> between the losers of the two semi-finals. </p><p>The fixtures for the group stage were decided based on the draw results, as follows: </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"> <caption>Group stage schedule </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Matchday </th> <th>Dates </th> <th>Matches </th></tr> <tr> <td>Matchday 1 </td> <td>10–15 June 1998 </td> <td>1 v 2, 3 v 4 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Matchday 2 </td> <td>16–22 June 1998 </td> <td>1 v 3, 2 v 4 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Matchday 3 </td> <td>23–26 June 1998 </td> <td>4 v 1, 2 v 3 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Squads">Squads</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Squads"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_squads" title="1998 FIFA World Cup squads">1998 FIFA World Cup squads</a></div> <p>As with the <a href="/wiki/1994_FIFA_World_Cup_squads" title="1994 FIFA World Cup squads">preceding tournament</a>, each team's squad for the 1998 World Cup finals consisted of 22 players. Each participating national association had to confirm their final 22-player squad by 1 June 1998. </p><p>Out of the 704 players participating in the 1998 World Cup, 447 were signed up with a European club; 90 in Asia, 67 in South America, 61 in Northern and Central America and 37 in Africa.<sup id="cite_ref-Squad_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Squad-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 75 played their club football in England – five more than Italy and Spain. <a href="/wiki/FC_Barcelona" title="FC Barcelona">Barcelona</a> of Spain was the club contributing to the most players in the tournament with 13 players on their side.<sup id="cite_ref-Squad_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Squad-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The average age of all teams was 27 years, 8 months – five months older than the previous tournament.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFIFA15_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFIFA15-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Eto%27o" title="Samuel Eto'o">Samuel Eto'o</a> of <a href="/wiki/Cameroon_national_football_team" title="Cameroon national football team">Cameroon</a> was the youngest player selected in the competition at 17 years, 3 months, while the oldest was <a href="/wiki/Jim_Leighton" title="Jim Leighton">Jim Leighton</a> of <a href="/wiki/Scotland_national_football_team" title="Scotland national football team">Scotland</a> at 39 years, 11 months.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFIFA15_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFIFA15-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Group_stage">Group stage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Group stage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1998_world_cup.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/1998_world_cup.png/420px-1998_world_cup.png" decoding="async" width="420" height="194" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/1998_world_cup.png/630px-1998_world_cup.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/1998_world_cup.png/840px-1998_world_cup.png 2x" data-file-width="1357" data-file-height="628" /></a><figcaption><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1216972533"><div> <table class="col-begin" role="presentation"> <tbody><tr> <td class="col-break col-break-4"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#2b42a3; 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Heading into the third game, Brazil had nothing to play for but still started its regulars against Norway, who was looking to upset Brazil once again. Needing a victory, Norway overturned a 1–0 deficit with 7 minutes remaining to defeat Brazil 2–1, with <a href="/wiki/Kjetil_Rekdal" title="Kjetil Rekdal">Kjetil Rekdal</a> scoring<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the winning penalty to send Norway into the knockout stage for the first time.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Norway's victory denied Morocco a chance at the Round of 16, despite winning 3–0 against Scotland. 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width="28"><abbr title="Played">Pld</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Won">W</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Drawn">D</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Lost">L</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Goals for">GF</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Goals against">GA</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Goal difference">GD</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Points">Pts</abbr> </th> <th scope="col">Qualification </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" title="Brazil national football team">Brazil</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">6 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">+3 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:#BBF3BB;">6 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;" rowspan="2">Advance to <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_knockout_stage" title="1998 FIFA World Cup knockout stage">knockout stage</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/21px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/32px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/41px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="372" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Norway_national_football_team" title="Norway national football team">Norway</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">5 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">4 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">+1 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:#BBF3BB;">5 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" 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<td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">5 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">4 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;" rowspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">4 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 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</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="sports-table-notes">Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/groups/">FIFA</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r997937747">.mw-parser-output .footballbox{clear:both;overflow:auto}.mw-parser-output .footballbox tr{vertical-align:top}.mw-parser-output .footballbox time{display:block;overflow:auto}.mw-parser-output .footballbox .ftitle{text-align:center;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .footballbox .fevent{width:100%;table-layout:fixed;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .footballbox .fevent,.mw-parser-output .footballbox .fright{margin-bottom:10px}.mw-parser-output .footballbox .fdate,.mw-parser-output .footballbox .ftime{display:block}.mw-parser-output .footballbox .fhome,.mw-parser-output .footballbox .faway{width:39%}.mw-parser-output .footballbox .fscore{width:22%}.mw-parser-output .footballbox .fgoals{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .footballbox .fhome,.mw-parser-output .footballbox .fhgoal{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .footballbox .faway,.mw-parser-output .footballbox .fagoal{text-align:left}@media all and (min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .footballbox .fdate,.mw-parser-output .footballbox .ftime,.mw-parser-output .footballbox .frnd{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .footballbox .fleft,.mw-parser-output .footballbox .fright{float:left;padding:2px 0}.mw-parser-output .footballbox .fleft{width:15%;overflow:auto}.mw-parser-output .footballbox .fevent{float:left;width:61%}.mw-parser-output .footballbox .fevent,.mw-parser-output .footballbox .fright{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .footballbox .fright{font-size:85%;width:24%}}</style><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">10 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">17:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" title="Brazil national football team">Brazil</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">2–1</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Scotland_national_football_team" title="Scotland national football team">Scotland</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Sampaio" title="César Sampaio">César Sampaio</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1194938686">.mw-parser-output .fb-goal>span{}</style><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>5'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Tom_Boyd_(Scottish_footballer)" title="Tom Boyd (Scottish footballer)">Boyd</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>74' (<a href="/wiki/Own_goal#Association_football" title="Own goal">o.g.</a>)</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/4000/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/John_Collins_(footballer,_born_1968)" title="John Collins (footballer, born 1968)">Collins</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>38' (<a href="/wiki/Penalty_kick_(association_football)" title="Penalty kick (association football)">pen.</a>)</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_France" title="Stade de France">Stade de France</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint-Denis,_Seine-Saint-Denis" title="Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis">Saint-Denis</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 80,000</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mar%C3%ADa_Garc%C3%ADa-Aranda" title="José María García-Aranda">José María García-Aranda</a> (<a href="/wiki/Royal_Spanish_Football_Federation" title="Royal Spanish Football Federation">Spain</a>)</div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">10 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Morocco_national_football_team" title="Morocco national football team">Morocco</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/23px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/35px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/45px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">2–2</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/21px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/32px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/41px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="372" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Norway_national_football_team" title="Norway national football team">Norway</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Mustapha_Hadji" title="Mustapha Hadji">Hadji</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>37'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Abdeljalil_Hadda" title="Abdeljalil Hadda">Hadda</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>60'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8725/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Youssef_Chippo" title="Youssef Chippo">Chippo</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>45+1' (<a href="/wiki/Own_goal#Association_football" title="Own goal">o.g.</a>)</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Dan_Eggen" title="Dan Eggen">Eggen</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>61'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_la_Mosson" title="Stade de la Mosson">Stade de la Mosson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Montpellier" title="Montpellier">Montpellier</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 29,800</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Pirom_Un-prasert" title="Pirom Un-prasert">Pirom Un-prasert</a> (<a href="/wiki/Football_Association_of_Thailand" title="Football Association of Thailand">Thailand</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">16 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">17:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Scotland_national_football_team" title="Scotland national football team">Scotland</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">1–1</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/21px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/32px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/41px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="372" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Norway_national_football_team" title="Norway national football team">Norway</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Craig_Burley" title="Craig Burley">Burley</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>66'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8741/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/H%C3%A5vard_Flo" title="Håvard Flo">H. Flo</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>46'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_Chaban-Delmas" title="Stade Chaban-Delmas">Parc Lescure</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bordeaux" title="Bordeaux">Bordeaux</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 31,800</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_V%C3%A1gner" title="László Vágner">László Vágner</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Football_Federation" title="Hungarian Football Federation">Hungary</a>)</div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">16 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" title="Brazil national football team">Brazil</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">3–0</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/23px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/35px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/45px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Morocco_national_football_team" title="Morocco national football team">Morocco</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Ronaldo_(Brazilian_footballer)" title="Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)">Ronaldo</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>9'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Rivaldo" title="Rivaldo">Rivaldo</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>45+2'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Bebeto" title="Bebeto">Bebeto</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>50'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8742/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_la_Beaujoire" title="Stade de la Beaujoire">Stade de la Beaujoire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nantes" title="Nantes">Nantes</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 35,500</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Levnikov" title="Nikolai Levnikov">Nikolai Levnikov</a> (<a href="/wiki/Russian_Football_Union" title="Russian Football Union">Russia</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">23 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Scotland_national_football_team" title="Scotland national football team">Scotland</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">0–3</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/23px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/35px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/45px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Morocco_national_football_team" title="Morocco national football team">Morocco</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8758/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Salaheddine_Bassir" title="Salaheddine Bassir">Bassir</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>23'</span>, <span>85'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Abdeljalil_Hadda" title="Abdeljalil Hadda">Hadda</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>46'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_Geoffroy-Guichard" title="Stade Geoffroy-Guichard">Stade Geoffroy-Guichard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint-%C3%89tienne" title="Saint-Étienne">Saint-Étienne</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 30,600</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Ali_Bujsaim" title="Ali Bujsaim">Ali Bujsaim</a> (<a href="/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates_Football_Association" title="United Arab Emirates Football Association">United Arab Emirates</a>)</div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">23 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" title="Brazil national football team">Brazil</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">1–2</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/21px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/32px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/41px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="372" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Norway_national_football_team" title="Norway national football team">Norway</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Bebeto" title="Bebeto">Bebeto</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>78'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8759/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Tore_Andr%C3%A9_Flo" title="Tore André Flo">T. A. Flo</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>83'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Kjetil_Rekdal" title="Kjetil Rekdal">Rekdal</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>89' (<a href="/wiki/Penalty_kick_(association_football)" title="Penalty kick (association football)">pen.</a>)</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_V%C3%A9lodrome" title="Stade Vélodrome">Stade Vélodrome</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marseille" title="Marseille">Marseille</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 55,000</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Esfandiar_Baharmast" title="Esfandiar Baharmast">Esfandiar Baharmast</a> (<a href="/wiki/United_States_Soccer_Federation" title="United States Soccer Federation">United States</a>)</div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Group_B">Group B</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Group B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_B" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group B">1998 FIFA World Cup Group B</a></div> <p>Italy and Chile progressed to the second round, while Austria failed to win for the first time since <a href="/wiki/1958_FIFA_World_Cup" title="1958 FIFA World Cup">1958</a> and Cameroon failed to get out of the group stage for the second time in a row. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1011077906"> <span class="anchor" id="sports-table-standings"></span> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Position">Pos</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="200">Team<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini" style="float:right"><ul class="navbar-brackets"><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_B#sports-table-standings" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group B"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Talk:1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_B" title="Talk:1998 FIFA World Cup Group B"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_B#sports-table-standings" title="Special:EditPage/1998 FIFA World Cup Group B"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Played">Pld</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Won">W</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Drawn">D</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Lost">L</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Goals for">GF</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Goals against">GA</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Goal difference">GD</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Points">Pts</abbr> </th> <th scope="col">Qualification </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Italy_national_football_team" title="Italy national football team">Italy</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">7 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">+4 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:#BBF3BB;">7 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;" rowspan="2">Advance to <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_knockout_stage" title="1998 FIFA World Cup knockout stage">knockout stage</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/23px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/35px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/45px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Chile_national_football_team" title="Chile national football team">Chile</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">4 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">4 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/45px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Austria_national_football_team" title="Austria national football team">Austria</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">4 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">−1 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;" rowspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">4 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/23px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/35px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/45px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Cameroon_national_football_team" title="Cameroon national football team">Cameroon</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">5 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">−3 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">2 </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="sports-table-notes">Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/groups/">FIFA</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">11 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">17:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Italy_national_football_team" title="Italy national football team">Italy</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">2–2</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/23px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/35px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/45px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Chile_national_football_team" title="Chile national football team">Chile</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Christian_Vieri" title="Christian Vieri">Vieri</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>10'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Roberto_Baggio" title="Roberto Baggio">R. Baggio</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>84' (<a href="/wiki/Penalty_kick_(association_football)" title="Penalty kick (association football)">pen.</a>)</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8726/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Marcelo_Salas" title="Marcelo Salas">Salas</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>45+3'</span>, <span>50'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_Chaban-Delmas" title="Stade Chaban-Delmas">Parc Lescure</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bordeaux" title="Bordeaux">Bordeaux</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 31,800</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Lucien_Bouchardeau" title="Lucien Bouchardeau">Lucien Bouchardeau</a> (<a href="/wiki/Nigerien_Football_Federation" title="Nigerien Football Federation">Niger</a>)</div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">11 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Cameroon_national_football_team" title="Cameroon national football team">Cameroon</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/23px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/35px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/45px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">1–1</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/45px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Austria_national_football_team" title="Austria national football team">Austria</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Njanka" title="Pierre Njanka">Njanka</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>77'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8727/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Toni_Polster" title="Toni Polster">Polster</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>90+1'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stadium_de_Toulouse" title="Stadium de Toulouse">Stade de Toulouse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Toulouse" title="Toulouse">Toulouse</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 33,500</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Epifanio_Gonz%C3%A1lez" title="Epifanio González">Epifanio González</a> (<a href="/wiki/Paraguayan_Football_Association" title="Paraguayan Football Association">Paraguay</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">17 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">17:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Chile_national_football_team" title="Chile national football team">Chile</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/23px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/35px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/45px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">1–1</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/45px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Austria_national_football_team" title="Austria national football team">Austria</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Marcelo_Salas" title="Marcelo Salas">Salas</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>70'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8743/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Ivica_Vasti%C4%87" title="Ivica Vastić">Vastić</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>90+2'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_Geoffroy-Guichard" title="Stade Geoffroy-Guichard">Stade Geoffroy-Guichard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint-%C3%89tienne" title="Saint-Étienne">Saint-Étienne</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 30,600</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Gamal_Al-Ghandour" title="Gamal Al-Ghandour">Gamal Al-Ghandour</a> (<a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Football_Association" title="Egyptian Football Association">Egypt</a>)</div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">17 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Italy_national_football_team" title="Italy national football team">Italy</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">3–0</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/23px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/35px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/45px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Cameroon_national_football_team" title="Cameroon national football team">Cameroon</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Luigi_Di_Biagio" title="Luigi Di Biagio">Di Biagio</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>7'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Christian_Vieri" title="Christian Vieri">Vieri</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>75'</span>, <span>89'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8744/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_la_Mosson" title="Stade de la Mosson">Stade de la Mosson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Montpellier" title="Montpellier">Montpellier</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 29,800</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Lennie" title="Eddie Lennie">Eddie Lennie</a> (<a href="/wiki/Football_Federation_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="Football Federation Australia">Australia</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">23 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">16:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Italy_national_football_team" title="Italy national football team">Italy</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">2–1</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/45px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Austria_national_football_team" title="Austria national football team">Austria</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Christian_Vieri" title="Christian Vieri">Vieri</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>48'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Roberto_Baggio" title="Roberto Baggio">R. Baggio</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>90'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8757/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Andreas_Herzog" class="mw-redirect" title="Andreas Herzog">Herzog</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>90+2' (<a href="/wiki/Penalty_kick_(association_football)" title="Penalty kick (association football)">pen.</a>)</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_France" title="Stade de France">Stade de France</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint-Denis,_Seine-Saint-Denis" title="Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis">Saint-Denis</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 80,000</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Paul_Durkin" title="Paul Durkin">Paul Durkin</a> (<a href="/wiki/The_Football_Association" title="The Football Association">England</a>)</div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">23 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">16:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Chile_national_football_team" title="Chile national football team">Chile</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/23px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/35px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/45px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">1–1</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/23px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/35px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/45px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Cameroon_national_football_team" title="Cameroon national football team">Cameroon</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Luis_Sierra_(footballer,_born_1968)" title="José Luis Sierra (footballer, born 1968)">Sierra</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>20'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8760/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Mboma" title="Patrick Mboma">Mboma</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>56'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_la_Beaujoire" title="Stade de la Beaujoire">Stade de la Beaujoire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nantes" title="Nantes">Nantes</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 35,500</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_V%C3%A1gner" title="László Vágner">László Vágner</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Football_Federation" title="Hungarian Football Federation">Hungary</a>)</div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Group_C">Group C</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Group C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_C" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group C">1998 FIFA World Cup Group C</a></div> <p>France, the host nation, swept Group C when the start of their path to their first FIFA World Cup trophy culminated with their 2–1 win over Denmark, who despite their loss, progressed to the second round. Saudi Arabia, after a good performance four years earlier, finished bottom with only one point. Debutant South Africa grabbed two points and also exited at the group stage. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1011077906"> <span class="anchor" id="sports-table-standings"></span> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Position">Pos</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="200">Team<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini" style="float:right"><ul class="navbar-brackets"><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_C#sports-table-standings" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group C"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Talk:1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_C" title="Talk:1998 FIFA World Cup Group C"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_C#sports-table-standings" title="Special:EditPage/1998 FIFA World Cup Group C"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Played">Pld</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Won">W</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Drawn">D</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Lost">L</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Goals for">GF</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Goals against">GA</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Goal difference">GD</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Points">Pts</abbr> </th> <th scope="col">Qualification </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a></span> <span style="font-weight:bold">(H)</span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">9 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">+8 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:#BBF3BB;">9 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;" rowspan="2">Advance to <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_knockout_stage" title="1998 FIFA World Cup knockout stage">knockout stage</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/31px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/40px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Denmark_national_football_team" title="Denmark national football team">Denmark</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:#BBF3BB;">4 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Africa_national_soccer_team" title="South Africa national soccer team">South Africa</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">6 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">−3 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;" rowspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">4 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia_national_football_team" title="Saudi Arabia national football team">Saudi Arabia</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">7 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">−5 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">1 </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="sports-table-notes">Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/groups/">FIFA</a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold">(H)</span> Hosts</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">12 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">17:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia_national_football_team" title="Saudi Arabia national football team">Saudi Arabia</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">0–1</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/31px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/40px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Denmark_national_football_team" title="Denmark national football team">Denmark</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8729/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Marc_Rieper" title="Marc Rieper">Rieper</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>69'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_F%C3%A9lix_Bollaert" class="mw-redirect" title="Stade Félix Bollaert">Stade Félix Bollaert</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lens,_Pas-de-Calais" title="Lens, Pas-de-Calais">Lens</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 38,100</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Javier_Castrilli" title="Javier Castrilli">Javier Castrilli</a> (<a href="/wiki/Argentine_Football_Association" title="Argentine Football Association">Argentina</a>)</div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">12 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">3–0</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Africa_national_soccer_team" title="South Africa national soccer team">South Africa</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Christophe_Dugarry" title="Christophe Dugarry">Dugarry</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>36'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Issa" title="Pierre Issa">Issa</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>77' (<a href="/wiki/Own_goal#Association_football" title="Own goal">o.g.</a>)</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Thierry_Henry" title="Thierry Henry">Henry</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>90+2'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8730/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_V%C3%A9lodrome" title="Stade Vélodrome">Stade Vélodrome</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marseille" title="Marseille">Marseille</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 55,000</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A1rcio_Rezende_de_Freitas" title="Márcio Rezende de Freitas">Márcio Rezende de Freitas</a> (<a href="/wiki/Brazilian_Football_Confederation" title="Brazilian Football Confederation">Brazil</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">18 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">17:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/South_Africa_national_soccer_team" title="South Africa national soccer team">South Africa</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">1–1</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/31px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/40px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Denmark_national_football_team" title="Denmark national football team">Denmark</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Benni_McCarthy" title="Benni McCarthy">McCarthy</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>51'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8746/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Allan_Nielsen" title="Allan Nielsen">A. Nielsen</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>12'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stadium_de_Toulouse" title="Stadium de Toulouse">Stade de Toulouse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Toulouse" title="Toulouse">Toulouse</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 33,500</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/John_Toro_Rend%C3%B3n" title="John Toro Rendón">John Toro Rendón</a> (<a href="/wiki/Colombian_Football_Federation" title="Colombian Football Federation">Colombia</a>)</div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">18 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">4–0</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia_national_football_team" title="Saudi Arabia national football team">Saudi Arabia</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Thierry_Henry" title="Thierry Henry">Henry</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>37'</span>, <span>78'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/David_Trezeguet" title="David Trezeguet">Trezeguet</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>68'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Bixente_Lizarazu" title="Bixente Lizarazu">Lizarazu</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>85'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8745/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_France" title="Stade de France">Stade de France</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint-Denis,_Seine-Saint-Denis" title="Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis">Saint-Denis</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 80,000</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Arturo_Brizio_Carter" title="Arturo Brizio Carter">Arturo Brizio Carter</a> (<a href="/wiki/Mexican_Football_Federation" title="Mexican Football Federation">Mexico</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">24 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">16:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">2–1</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/31px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/40px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Denmark_national_football_team" title="Denmark national football team">Denmark</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Youri_Djorkaeff" title="Youri Djorkaeff">Djorkaeff</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>12' (<a href="/wiki/Penalty_kick_(association_football)" title="Penalty kick (association football)">pen.</a>)</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Emmanuel_Petit" title="Emmanuel Petit">Petit</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>56'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8762/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Laudrup" title="Michael Laudrup">M. Laudrup</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>42' (<a href="/wiki/Penalty_kick_(association_football)" title="Penalty kick (association football)">pen.</a>)</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_Gerland" class="mw-redirect" title="Stade Gerland">Stade Gerland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lyon" title="Lyon">Lyon</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 39,100</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Pierluigi_Collina" title="Pierluigi Collina">Pierluigi Collina</a> (<a href="/wiki/Italian_Football_Federation" title="Italian Football Federation">Italy</a>)</div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">24 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">16:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/South_Africa_national_soccer_team" title="South Africa national soccer team">South Africa</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">2–2</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia_national_football_team" title="Saudi Arabia national football team">Saudi Arabia</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Shaun_Bartlett" title="Shaun Bartlett">Bartlett</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>18'</span>, <span>90+3' (<a href="/wiki/Penalty_kick_(association_football)" title="Penalty kick (association football)">pen.</a>)</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8764/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Sami_Al-Jaber" title="Sami Al-Jaber">Al-Jaber</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>45+2' (<a href="/wiki/Penalty_kick_(association_football)" title="Penalty kick (association football)">pen.</a>)</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Yousuf_Al-Thunayan" title="Yousuf Al-Thunayan">Al-Thunayan</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>74' (<a href="/wiki/Penalty_kick_(association_football)" title="Penalty kick (association football)">pen.</a>)</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_Chaban-Delmas" title="Stade Chaban-Delmas">Parc Lescure</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bordeaux" title="Bordeaux">Bordeaux</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 31,800</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Mario_S%C3%A1nchez_Yant%C3%A9n" title="Mario Sánchez Yantén">Mario Sánchez</a> (<a href="/wiki/Football_Federation_of_Chile" title="Football Federation of Chile">Chile</a>)</div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Group_D">Group D</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Group D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_D" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group D">1998 FIFA World Cup Group D</a></div> <p>Nigeria and Paraguay advanced to the Round of 16 after a surprise elimination of top seed Spain, while Bulgaria failed to repeat their surprise performance from the previous tournament. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1011077906"> <span class="anchor" id="sports-table-standings"></span> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Position">Pos</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="200">Team<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini" style="float:right"><ul class="navbar-brackets"><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_D#sports-table-standings" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group D"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Talk:1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_D" title="Talk:1998 FIFA World Cup Group D"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_D#sports-table-standings" title="Special:EditPage/1998 FIFA World Cup Group D"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Played">Pld</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Won">W</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Drawn">D</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Lost">L</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Goals for">GF</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Goals against">GA</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Goal difference">GD</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Points">Pts</abbr> </th> <th scope="col">Qualification </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Nigeria_national_football_team" title="Nigeria national football team">Nigeria</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">5 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">5 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:#BBF3BB;">6 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;" rowspan="2">Advance to <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_knockout_stage" title="1998 FIFA World Cup knockout stage">knockout stage</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="540" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Paraguay_national_football_team" title="Paraguay national football team">Paraguay</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">+2 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:#BBF3BB;">5 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/45px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Spain_national_football_team" title="Spain national football team">Spain</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">8 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">4 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">+4 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">4 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;" rowspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">4 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Bulgaria_national_football_team" title="Bulgaria national football team">Bulgaria</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">7 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">−6 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">1 </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="sports-table-notes">Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/groups/">FIFA</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">12 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">14:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Paraguay_national_football_team" title="Paraguay national football team">Paraguay</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="540" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">0–0</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Bulgaria_national_football_team" title="Bulgaria national football team">Bulgaria</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8728/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_la_Mosson" title="Stade de la Mosson">Stade de la Mosson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Montpellier" title="Montpellier">Montpellier</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 29,800</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rahman_Al-Zeid" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdul Rahman Al-Zeid">Abdul Rahman Al-Zeid</a> (<a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia_Football_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="Saudi Arabia Football Federation">Saudi Arabia</a>)</div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">13 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">14:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Spain_national_football_team" title="Spain national football team">Spain</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/45px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">2–3</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Nigeria_national_football_team" title="Nigeria national football team">Nigeria</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Fernando_Hierro" title="Fernando Hierro">Hierro</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>21'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_(footballer)" title="Raúl (footballer)">Raúl</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>47'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8731/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Mutiu_Adepoju" title="Mutiu Adepoju">Adepoju</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>24'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Andoni_Zubizarreta" title="Andoni Zubizarreta">Zubizarreta</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>73' (<a href="/wiki/Own_goal#Association_football" title="Own goal">o.g.</a>)</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Sunday_Oliseh" title="Sunday Oliseh">Oliseh</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>78'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_la_Beaujoire" title="Stade de la Beaujoire">Stade de la Beaujoire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nantes" title="Nantes">Nantes</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 35,500</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Esfandiar_Baharmast" title="Esfandiar Baharmast">Esfandiar Baharmast</a> (<a href="/wiki/United_States_Soccer_Federation" title="United States Soccer Federation">United States</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">19 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">17:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Nigeria_national_football_team" title="Nigeria national football team">Nigeria</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">1–0</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Bulgaria_national_football_team" title="Bulgaria national football team">Bulgaria</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Victor_Ikpeba" title="Victor Ikpeba">Ikpeba</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>28'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8747/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Parc_des_Princes" title="Parc des Princes">Parc des Princes</a>, Paris</span></div><div>Attendance: 45,500</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Mario_S%C3%A1nchez_Yant%C3%A9n" title="Mario Sánchez Yantén">Mario Sánchez Yantén</a> (<a href="/wiki/Football_Federation_of_Chile" title="Football Federation of Chile">Chile</a>)</div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">19 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Spain_national_football_team" title="Spain national football team">Spain</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/45px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">0–0</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="540" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Paraguay_national_football_team" title="Paraguay national football team">Paraguay</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8748/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_Geoffroy-Guichard" title="Stade Geoffroy-Guichard">Stade Geoffroy-Guichard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint-%C3%89tienne" title="Saint-Étienne">Saint-Étienne</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 30,600</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Ian_McLeod_(referee)" title="Ian McLeod (referee)">Ian McLeod</a> (<a href="/wiki/South_African_Football_Association" title="South African Football Association">South Africa</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">24 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Nigeria_national_football_team" title="Nigeria national football team">Nigeria</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">1–3</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="540" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Paraguay_national_football_team" title="Paraguay national football team">Paraguay</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Wilson_Oruma" title="Wilson Oruma">Oruma</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>11'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8763/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Celso_Ayala" title="Celso Ayala">Ayala</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>1'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Miguel_%C3%81ngel_Ben%C3%ADtez" title="Miguel Ángel Benítez">Benítez</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>58'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Cardozo" title="José Cardozo">Cardozo</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>86'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stadium_Municipal" class="mw-redirect" title="Stadium Municipal">Stade de Toulouse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Toulouse" title="Toulouse">Toulouse</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 33,500</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Pirom_Un-prasert" title="Pirom Un-prasert">Pirom Un-prasert</a> (<a href="/wiki/Football_Association_of_Thailand" title="Football Association of Thailand">Thailand</a>)</div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">24 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Spain_national_football_team" title="Spain national football team">Spain</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/45px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">6–1</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Bulgaria_national_football_team" title="Bulgaria national football team">Bulgaria</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Fernando_Hierro" title="Fernando Hierro">Hierro</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>6' (<a href="/wiki/Penalty_kick_(association_football)" title="Penalty kick (association football)">pen.</a>)</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Luis_Enrique" title="Luis Enrique">Luis Enrique</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>18'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Fernando_Morientes" title="Fernando Morientes">Morientes</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>55'</span>, <span>81'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Georgi_Bachev" title="Georgi Bachev">Bachev</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>88' (<a href="/wiki/Own_goal#Association_football" title="Own goal">o.g.</a>)</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Kiko_(footballer,_born_1972)" title="Kiko (footballer, born 1972)">Kiko</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>90+4'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8761/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Emil_Kostadinov" title="Emil Kostadinov">Kostadinov</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>58'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_F%C3%A9lix-Bollaert" class="mw-redirect" title="Stade Félix-Bollaert">Stade Félix-Bollaert</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lens,_Pas-de-Calais" title="Lens, Pas-de-Calais">Lens</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 38,100</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Mario_van_der_Ende" title="Mario van der Ende">Mario van der Ende</a> (<a href="/wiki/Royal_Dutch_Football_Association" title="Royal Dutch Football Association">Netherlands</a>)</div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Group_E">Group E</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Group E"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_E" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group E">1998 FIFA World Cup Group E</a></div> <p>The Netherlands and Mexico advanced with the same record, with the former placing first on goal difference. Belgium and eventual <a href="/wiki/2002_FIFA_World_Cup" title="2002 FIFA World Cup">2002 FIFA World Cup</a> co-hosts South Korea failed to advance. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1011077906"> <span class="anchor" id="sports-table-standings"></span> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Position">Pos</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="200">Team<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini" style="float:right"><ul class="navbar-brackets"><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_E#sports-table-standings" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group E"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Talk:1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_E" title="Talk:1998 FIFA World Cup Group E"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_E#sports-table-standings" title="Special:EditPage/1998 FIFA World Cup Group E"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Played">Pld</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Won">W</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Drawn">D</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Lost">L</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Goals for">GF</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Goals against">GA</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Goal difference">GD</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Points">Pts</abbr> </th> <th scope="col">Qualification </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_national_football_team" title="Netherlands national football team">Netherlands</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">7 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">+5 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:#BBF3BB;">5 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;" rowspan="2">Advance to <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_knockout_stage" title="1998 FIFA World Cup knockout stage">knockout stage</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/46px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="980" data-file-height="560" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Mexico_national_football_team" title="Mexico national football team">Mexico</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">7 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">5 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">+2 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:#BBF3BB;">5 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Belgium_national_football_team" title="Belgium national football team">Belgium</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;" rowspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">4 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Korea_national_football_team" title="South Korea national football team">South Korea</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">9 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">−7 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">1 </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="sports-table-notes">Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/groups/index.html">FIFA</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">13 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">17:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/South_Korea_national_football_team" title="South Korea national football team">South Korea</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">1–3</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/46px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="980" data-file-height="560" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Mexico_national_football_team" title="Mexico national football team">Mexico</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Ha_Seok-ju" title="Ha Seok-ju">Ha Seok-ju</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>27'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8732/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Ricardo_Pel%C3%A1ez" title="Ricardo Peláez">Peláez</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>50'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Luis_Hern%C3%A1ndez_(footballer,_born_1968)" title="Luis Hernández (footballer, born 1968)">Hernández</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>75'</span>, <span>84'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_Gerland" title="Stade de Gerland">Stade de Gerland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lyon" title="Lyon">Lyon</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 39,100</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Benk%C3%B6" title="Günter Benkö">Günter Benkö</a> (<a href="/wiki/Austrian_Football_Association" title="Austrian Football Association">Austria</a>)</div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">13 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_national_football_team" title="Netherlands national football team">Netherlands</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">0–0</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Belgium_national_football_team" title="Belgium national football team">Belgium</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8733/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_France" title="Stade de France">Stade de France</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint-Denis,_Seine-Saint-Denis" title="Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis">Saint-Denis</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 77,000</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Pierluigi_Collina" title="Pierluigi Collina">Pierluigi Collina</a> (<a href="/wiki/Italian_Football_Federation" title="Italian Football Federation">Italy</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">20 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">17:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Belgium_national_football_team" title="Belgium national football team">Belgium</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">2–2</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/46px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="980" data-file-height="560" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Mexico_national_football_team" title="Mexico national football team">Mexico</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Marc_Wilmots" title="Marc Wilmots">Wilmots</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>42'</span>, <span>47'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8750/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Alberto_Garc%C3%ADa_Aspe" title="Alberto García Aspe">García Aspe</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>55' (<a href="/wiki/Penalty_kick_(association_football)" title="Penalty kick (association football)">pen.</a>)</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Cuauht%C3%A9moc_Blanco" title="Cuauhtémoc Blanco">Blanco</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>62'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_Chaban-Delmas" title="Stade Chaban-Delmas">Parc Lescure</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bordeaux" title="Bordeaux">Bordeaux</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 31,800</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Dallas" title="Hugh Dallas">Hugh Dallas</a> (<a href="/wiki/Scottish_Football_Association" title="Scottish Football Association">Scotland</a>)</div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">20 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_national_football_team" title="Netherlands national football team">Netherlands</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">5–0</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Korea_national_football_team" title="South Korea national football team">South Korea</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Phillip_Cocu" title="Phillip Cocu">Cocu</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>37'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Marc_Overmars" title="Marc Overmars">Overmars</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>41'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Bergkamp" title="Dennis Bergkamp">Bergkamp</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>71'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Pierre_van_Hooijdonk" title="Pierre van Hooijdonk">Van Hooijdonk</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>80'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Ronald_de_Boer" title="Ronald de Boer">R. de Boer</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>83'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8749/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_V%C3%A9lodrome" title="Stade Vélodrome">Stade Vélodrome</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marseille" title="Marseille">Marseille</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 55,000</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Ryszard_W%C3%B3jcik" title="Ryszard Wójcik">Ryszard Wójcik</a> (<a href="/wiki/Polish_Football_Association" title="Polish Football Association">Poland</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">25 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">16:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_national_football_team" title="Netherlands national football team">Netherlands</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">2–2</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/46px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="980" data-file-height="560" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Mexico_national_football_team" title="Mexico national football team">Mexico</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Phillip_Cocu" title="Phillip Cocu">Cocu</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>4'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Ronald_de_Boer" title="Ronald de Boer">R. de Boer</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>18'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8766/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Ricardo_Pel%C3%A1ez" title="Ricardo Peláez">Peláez</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>75'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Luis_Hern%C3%A1ndez_(footballer,_born_1968)" title="Luis Hernández (footballer, born 1968)">Hernández</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>90+4'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_Geoffroy-Guichard" title="Stade Geoffroy-Guichard">Stade Geoffroy-Guichard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint-%C3%89tienne" title="Saint-Étienne">Saint-Étienne</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 30,600</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rahman_Al-Zeid" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdul Rahman Al-Zeid">Abdul Rahman Al-Zeid</a> (<a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia_Football_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="Saudi Arabia Football Federation">Saudi Arabia</a>)</div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">25 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">16:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Belgium_national_football_team" title="Belgium national football team">Belgium</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">1–1</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Korea_national_football_team" title="South Korea national football team">South Korea</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Luc_Nilis" title="Luc Nilis">Nilis</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>7'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8765/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Yoo_Sang-chul" title="Yoo Sang-chul">Yoo Sang-chul</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>72'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Parc_des_Princes" title="Parc des Princes">Parc des Princes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 45,500</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A1rcio_Rezende_de_Freitas" title="Márcio Rezende de Freitas">Márcio Rezende de Freitas</a> (<a href="/wiki/Brazilian_Football_Confederation" title="Brazilian Football Confederation">Brazil</a>)</div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Group_F">Group F</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Group F"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_F" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group F">1998 FIFA World Cup Group F</a></div> <p>Germany and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia advanced, each with 7 points (Germany took 1st through goal differential tiebreak). Iran and <a href="/wiki/1994_FIFA_World_Cup" title="1994 FIFA World Cup">1994 host</a> United States failed to advance. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1011077906"> <span class="anchor" id="sports-table-standings"></span> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Position">Pos</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="200">Team<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini" style="float:right"><ul class="navbar-brackets"><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_F#sports-table-standings" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group F"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Talk:1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_F" title="Talk:1998 FIFA World Cup Group F"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_F#sports-table-standings" title="Special:EditPage/1998 FIFA World Cup Group F"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Played">Pld</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Won">W</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Drawn">D</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Lost">L</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Goals for">GF</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Goals against">GA</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Goal difference">GD</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Points">Pts</abbr> </th> <th scope="col">Qualification </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Germany_national_football_team" title="Germany national football team">Germany</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">6 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">+4 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:#BBF3BB;">7 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;" rowspan="2">Advance to <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_knockout_stage" title="1998 FIFA World Cup knockout stage">knockout stage</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Serbia_and_Montenegro_national_football_team" title="Serbia and Montenegro national football team">FR Yugoslavia</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">4 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">+2 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:#BBF3BB;">7 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/35px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/46px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="630" data-file-height="360" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Iran_national_football_team" title="Iran national football team">Iran</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">4 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">−2 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;" rowspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">4 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States_men%27s_national_soccer_team" title="United States men's national soccer team">United States</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">5 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">−4 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">0 </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="sports-table-notes">Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/groups/">FIFA</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">14 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">17:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Serbia_and_Montenegro_national_football_team" title="Serbia and Montenegro national football team">FR Yugoslavia</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">1–0</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/35px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/46px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="630" data-file-height="360" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Iran_national_football_team" title="Iran national football team">Iran</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Sini%C5%A1a_Mihajlovi%C4%87" title="Siniša Mihajlović">Mihajlović</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>73'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8735/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_Geoffroy-Guichard" title="Stade Geoffroy-Guichard">Stade Geoffroy-Guichard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint-%C3%89tienne" title="Saint-Étienne">Saint-Étienne</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 30,600</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Alberto_Tejada_Noriega" class="mw-redirect" title="Alberto Tejada Noriega">Alberto Tejada</a> (<a href="/wiki/Peruvian_Football_Federation" title="Peruvian Football Federation">Peru</a>)</div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">15 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Germany_national_football_team" title="Germany national football team">Germany</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">2–0</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States_men%27s_national_soccer_team" title="United States men's national soccer team">United States</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Andreas_M%C3%B6ller" title="Andreas Möller">Möller</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>9'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Klinsmann" title="Jürgen Klinsmann">Klinsmann</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>65'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8738/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Parc_des_Princes" title="Parc des Princes">Parc des Princes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 45,500</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Said_Belqola" title="Said Belqola">Said Belqola</a> (<a href="/wiki/Royal_Moroccan_Football_Federation" title="Royal Moroccan Football Federation">Morocco</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">21 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">14:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Germany_national_football_team" title="Germany national football team">Germany</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">2–2</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Serbia_and_Montenegro_national_football_team" title="Serbia and Montenegro national football team">FR Yugoslavia</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Sini%C5%A1a_Mihajlovi%C4%87" title="Siniša Mihajlović">Mihajlović</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>72' (<a href="/wiki/Own_goal#Association_football" title="Own goal">o.g.</a>)</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Bierhoff" title="Oliver Bierhoff">Bierhoff</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>78'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8753/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Predrag_Mijatovi%C4%87" title="Predrag Mijatović">Mijatović</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>13'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Dragan_Stojkovi%C4%87" title="Dragan Stojković">Stojković</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>52'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_F%C3%A9lix-Bollaert" class="mw-redirect" title="Stade Félix-Bollaert">Stade Félix-Bollaert</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lens,_Pas-de-Calais" title="Lens, Pas-de-Calais">Lens</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 38,100</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Kim_Milton_Nielsen" title="Kim Milton Nielsen">Kim Milton Nielsen</a> (<a href="/wiki/Danish_Football_Association" title="Danish Football Association">Denmark</a>)</div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/United_States_v_Iran_(1998_FIFA_World_Cup)" title="United States v Iran (1998 FIFA World Cup)">United States v Iran (1998 FIFA World Cup)</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">21 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/United_States_men%27s_national_soccer_team" title="United States men's national soccer team">United States</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">1–2</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/35px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/46px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="630" data-file-height="360" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Iran_national_football_team" title="Iran national football team">Iran</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Brian_McBride" title="Brian McBride">McBride</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>87'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8754/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Hamid_Reza_Estili" class="mw-redirect" title="Hamid Reza Estili">Estili</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>40'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Mehdi_Mahdavikia" title="Mehdi Mahdavikia">Mahdavikia</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>84'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_Gerland" title="Stade de Gerland">Stade de Gerland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lyon" title="Lyon">Lyon</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 39,100</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Urs_Meier" title="Urs Meier">Urs Meier</a> (<a href="/wiki/Swiss_Football_Association" title="Swiss Football Association">Switzerland</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">25 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Germany_national_football_team" title="Germany national football team">Germany</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">2–0</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/35px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/46px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="630" data-file-height="360" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Iran_national_football_team" title="Iran national football team">Iran</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Bierhoff" title="Oliver Bierhoff">Bierhoff</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>50'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Klinsmann" title="Jürgen Klinsmann">Klinsmann</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>57'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8767/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_la_Mosson" title="Stade de la Mosson">Stade de la Mosson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Montpellier" title="Montpellier">Montpellier</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 29,800</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Epifanio_Gonz%C3%A1lez" title="Epifanio González">Epifanio González</a> (<a href="/wiki/Paraguayan_Football_Association" title="Paraguayan Football Association">Paraguay</a>)</div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">25 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/United_States_men%27s_national_soccer_team" title="United States men's national soccer team">United States</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">0–1</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Serbia_and_Montenegro_national_football_team" title="Serbia and Montenegro national football team">FR Yugoslavia</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8768/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Slobodan_Komljenovi%C4%87" title="Slobodan Komljenović">Komljenović</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>4'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_la_Beaujoire" title="Stade de la Beaujoire">Stade de la Beaujoire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nantes" title="Nantes">Nantes</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 35,500</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Gamal_Al-Ghandour" title="Gamal Al-Ghandour">Gamal Al-Ghandour</a> (<a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Football_Association" title="Egyptian Football Association">Egypt</a>)</div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Group_G">Group G</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Group G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_G" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group G">1998 FIFA World Cup Group G</a></div> <p>Romania topped the group over England, while Colombia and Tunisia were unable to reach the last 16, despite Colombia having one win. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1011077906"> <span class="anchor" id="sports-table-standings"></span> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Position">Pos</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="200">Team<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini" style="float:right"><ul class="navbar-brackets"><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_G#sports-table-standings" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group G"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Talk:1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_G" title="Talk:1998 FIFA World Cup Group G"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_G#sports-table-standings" title="Special:EditPage/1998 FIFA World Cup Group G"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Played">Pld</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Won">W</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Drawn">D</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Lost">L</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Goals for">GF</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Goals against">GA</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Goal difference">GD</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Points">Pts</abbr> </th> <th scope="col">Qualification </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Romania_national_football_team" title="Romania national football team">Romania</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">4 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">+2 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:#BBF3BB;">7 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;" rowspan="2">Advance to <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_knockout_stage" title="1998 FIFA World Cup knockout stage">knockout stage</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/England_national_football_team" title="England national football team">England</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">5 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">+3 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:#BBF3BB;">6 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Colombia_national_football_team" title="Colombia national football team">Colombia</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">−2 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;" rowspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">4 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Tunisia_national_football_team" title="Tunisia national football team">Tunisia</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">4 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">−3 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">1 </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="sports-table-notes">Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/groups/index.html">FIFA</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">15 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">14:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/England_national_football_team" title="England national football team">England</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">2–0</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Tunisia_national_football_team" title="Tunisia national football team">Tunisia</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Alan_Shearer" title="Alan Shearer">Shearer</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>42'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Paul_Scholes" title="Paul Scholes">Scholes</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>89'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8740/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_V%C3%A9lodrome" title="Stade Vélodrome">Stade Vélodrome</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marseille" title="Marseille">Marseille</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 54,587</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Masayoshi_Okada" title="Masayoshi Okada">Masayoshi Okada</a> (<a href="/wiki/Japan_Football_Association" title="Japan Football Association">Japan</a>)</div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">15 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">17:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Romania_national_football_team" title="Romania national football team">Romania</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">1–0</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Colombia_national_football_team" title="Colombia national football team">Colombia</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Adrian_Ilie" title="Adrian Ilie">Ilie</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>45+1'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8739/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_Gerland" title="Stade de Gerland">Stade de Gerland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lyon" title="Lyon">Lyon</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 39,100</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Lim_Kee_Chong" title="Lim Kee Chong">Lim Kee Chong</a> (<a href="/wiki/Mauritius_Football_Association" title="Mauritius Football Association">Mauritius</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">22 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">17:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Colombia_national_football_team" title="Colombia national football team">Colombia</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">1–0</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Tunisia_national_football_team" title="Tunisia national football team">Tunisia</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9ider_Preciado" title="Léider Preciado">Preciado</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>83'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8755/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_la_Mosson" title="Stade de la Mosson">Stade de la Mosson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Montpellier" title="Montpellier">Montpellier</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 29,800</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Bernd_Heynemann" title="Bernd Heynemann">Bernd Heynemann</a> (<a href="/wiki/German_Football_Association" title="German Football Association">Germany</a>)</div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">22 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Romania_national_football_team" title="Romania national football team">Romania</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">2–1</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/England_national_football_team" title="England national football team">England</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Viorel_Moldovan" title="Viorel Moldovan">Moldovan</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>46'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Dan_Petrescu" title="Dan Petrescu">Petrescu</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>90'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8756/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Owen" title="Michael Owen">Owen</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>81'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stadium_de_Toulouse" title="Stadium de Toulouse">Stade de Toulouse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Toulouse" title="Toulouse">Toulouse</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 33,500</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Marc_Batta" title="Marc Batta">Marc Batta</a> (<a href="/wiki/French_Football_Federation" title="French Football Federation">France</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">26 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Colombia_national_football_team" title="Colombia national football team">Colombia</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">0–2</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/England_national_football_team" title="England national football team">England</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8770/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Darren_Anderton" title="Darren Anderton">Anderton</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>20'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/David_Beckham" title="David Beckham">Beckham</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>29'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_F%C3%A9lix-Bollaert" class="mw-redirect" title="Stade Félix-Bollaert">Stade Félix-Bollaert</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lens,_Pas-de-Calais" title="Lens, Pas-de-Calais">Lens</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 38,100</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Arturo_Brizio_Carter" title="Arturo Brizio Carter">Arturo Brizio Carter</a> (<a href="/wiki/Mexican_Football_Federation" title="Mexican Football Federation">Mexico</a>)</div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">26 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Romania_national_football_team" title="Romania national football team">Romania</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">1–1</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Tunisia_national_football_team" title="Tunisia national football team">Tunisia</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Viorel_Moldovan" title="Viorel Moldovan">Moldovan</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>71'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8769/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Skander_Souayah" title="Skander Souayah">Souayah</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>12' (<a href="/wiki/Penalty_kick_(association_football)" title="Penalty kick (association football)">pen.</a>)</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_France" title="Stade de France">Stade de France</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint-Denis,_Seine-Saint-Denis" title="Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis">Saint-Denis</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 77,000</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Lennie" title="Eddie Lennie">Eddie Lennie</a> (<a href="/wiki/Football_Federation_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="Football Federation Australia">Australia</a>)</div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Group_H">Group H</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Group H"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_H" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group H">1998 FIFA World Cup Group H</a></div> <p>Argentina finished at the top of Group H against three debutants. Croatia took the runners-up spot while Jamaica and Japan failed to advance. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1011077906"> <span class="anchor" id="sports-table-standings"></span> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Position">Pos</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="200">Team<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini" style="float:right"><ul class="navbar-brackets"><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_H#sports-table-standings" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group H"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Talk:1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_H" title="Talk:1998 FIFA World Cup Group H"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_H#sports-table-standings" title="Special:EditPage/1998 FIFA World Cup Group H"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Played">Pld</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Won">W</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Drawn">D</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Lost">L</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Goals for">GF</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Goals against">GA</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Goal difference">GD</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" width="28"><abbr title="Points">Pts</abbr> </th> <th scope="col">Qualification </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Argentina_national_football_team" title="Argentina national football team">Argentina</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">7 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">+7 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:#BBF3BB;">9 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;" rowspan="2">Advance to <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_knockout_stage" title="1998 FIFA World Cup knockout stage">knockout stage</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Croatia_national_football_team" title="Croatia national football team">Croatia</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">4 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:#BBF3BB;">+2 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:#BBF3BB;">6 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/23px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/35px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/46px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_national_football_team" title="Jamaica national football team">Jamaica</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">2 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">9 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">−6 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;" rowspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">4 </td> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/22px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/33px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/43px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Japan_national_football_team" title="Japan national football team">Japan</a></span> </th> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">0 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">3 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">1 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">4 </td> <td style="font-weight: normal;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">−3 </td> <td style="font-weight: bold;background-color:transparent; color: inherit;">0 </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="sports-table-notes">Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/groups/">FIFA</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">14 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">14:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Argentina_national_football_team" title="Argentina national football team">Argentina</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">1–0</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/22px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/33px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/43px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Japan_national_football_team" title="Japan national football team">Japan</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Batistuta" title="Gabriel Batistuta">Batistuta</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>28'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8734/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stadium_Municipal" class="mw-redirect" title="Stadium Municipal">Stade de Toulouse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Toulouse" title="Toulouse">Toulouse</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 33,500</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Mario_van_der_Ende" title="Mario van der Ende">Mario van der Ende</a> (<a href="/wiki/Royal_Dutch_Football_Association" title="Royal Dutch Football Association">Netherlands</a>)</div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">14 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_national_football_team" title="Jamaica national football team">Jamaica</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/23px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/35px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/46px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">1–3</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Croatia_national_football_team" title="Croatia national football team">Croatia</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Robbie_Earle" title="Robbie Earle">Earle</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>45'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8736/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Mario_Stani%C4%87" title="Mario Stanić">Stanić</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>27'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Robert_Prosine%C4%8Dki" title="Robert Prosinečki">Prosinečki</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>53'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Davor_%C5%A0uker" title="Davor Šuker">Šuker</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>69'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_F%C3%A9lix-Bollaert" class="mw-redirect" title="Stade Félix-Bollaert">Stade Félix-Bollaert</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lens,_Pas-de-Calais" title="Lens, Pas-de-Calais">Lens</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 38,100</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/V%C3%ADtor_Melo_Pereira" title="Vítor Melo Pereira">Vítor Melo Pereira</a> (<a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Football_Federation" title="Portuguese Football Federation">Portugal</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">20 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">14:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Japan_national_football_team" title="Japan national football team">Japan</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/22px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/33px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/43px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">0–1</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Croatia_national_football_team" title="Croatia national football team">Croatia</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8751/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Davor_%C5%A0uker" title="Davor Šuker">Šuker</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>77'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_la_Beaujoire" title="Stade de la Beaujoire">Stade de la Beaujoire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nantes" title="Nantes">Nantes</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 35,500</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Ramesh_Ramdhan" title="Ramesh Ramdhan">Ramesh Ramdhan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago_Football_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation">Trinidad and Tobago</a>)</div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">21 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">17:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Argentina_national_football_team" title="Argentina national football team">Argentina</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">5–0</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/23px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/35px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/46px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_national_football_team" title="Jamaica national football team">Jamaica</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Ariel_Ortega" title="Ariel Ortega">Ortega</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>32'</span>, <span>55'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Batistuta" title="Gabriel Batistuta">Batistuta</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>73'</span>, <span>78'</span>, <span>83' (<a href="/wiki/Penalty_kick_(association_football)" title="Penalty kick (association football)">pen.</a>)</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8752/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Parc_des_Princes" title="Parc des Princes">Parc des Princes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 45,500</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Rune_Pedersen_(referee)" title="Rune Pedersen (referee)">Rune Pedersen</a> (<a href="/wiki/Football_Association_of_Norway" class="mw-redirect" title="Football Association of Norway">Norway</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">26 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">16:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Argentina_national_football_team" title="Argentina national football team">Argentina</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">1–0</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Croatia_national_football_team" title="Croatia national football team">Croatia</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Mauricio_Pineda_(footballer,_born_1975)" title="Mauricio Pineda (footballer, born 1975)">Pineda</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>36'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8772/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_Chaban-Delmas" title="Stade Chaban-Delmas">Parc Lescure</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bordeaux" title="Bordeaux">Bordeaux</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 31,800</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Said_Belqola" title="Said Belqola">Said Belqola</a> (<a href="/wiki/Royal_Moroccan_Football_Federation" title="Royal Moroccan Football Federation">Morocco</a>)</div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">26 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">16:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Japan_national_football_team" title="Japan national football team">Japan</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/22px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/33px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/43px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">1–2</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/23px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/35px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/46px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_national_football_team" title="Jamaica national football team">Jamaica</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Masashi_Nakayama" title="Masashi Nakayama">Nakayama</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>74'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8771/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Whitmore" title="Theodore Whitmore">Whitmore</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>39'</span>, <span>54'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_Gerland" class="mw-redirect" title="Stade Gerland">Stade Gerland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lyon" title="Lyon">Lyon</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 39,100</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Benk%C3%B6" title="Günter Benkö">Günter Benkö</a> (<a href="/wiki/Austrian_Football_Association" title="Austrian Football Association">Austria</a>)</div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Knockout_stage">Knockout stage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Knockout stage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_knockout_stage" title="1998 FIFA World Cup knockout stage">1998 FIFA World Cup knockout stage</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Single-elimination_tournament" title="Single-elimination tournament">knockout stage</a> comprised the 16 teams that advanced from the group stage of the tournament. For each game in the knockout stage, any draw at 90 minutes was followed by 30 minutes of <a href="/wiki/Extra_time" class="mw-redirect" title="Extra time">extra time</a>; if scores were still level, there was a <a href="/wiki/Penalty_shoot-out_(association_football)" title="Penalty shoot-out (association football)">penalty shoot-out</a> to determine who progressed to the next round. The <a href="/wiki/Golden_goal" title="Golden goal">Golden goal rule</a> was also used, whereby if a team scored during extra time, they would immediately win the game. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bracket">Bracket</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Bracket"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first games were played on 27 June 1998, and the <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_final" title="1998 FIFA World Cup final">final</a> took place on 12 July 1998 in <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>. </p> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin:.9em 2em 1em 1em;border:0;font-size:90%;border-collapse:separate;"><tbody><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td colspan="2" style="background-color:#f2f2f2;color:#202122;text-align:center;border:1px solid #aaa"><a href="#Round_of_16">Round of 16</a></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" style="background-color:#f2f2f2;color:#202122;text-align:center;border:1px solid #aaa"><a href="#Quarter-finals">Quarter-finals</a></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" style="background-color:#f2f2f2;color:#202122;text-align:center;border:1px solid #aaa"><a href="#Semi-finals">Semi-finals</a></td><td colspan="2"></td><td colspan="2" style="background-color:#f2f2f2;color:#202122;text-align:center;border:1px solid #aaa"><a href="#Final">Final</a></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td width="170"> </td><td width="40"> </td><td width="15"> </td><td width="20"> </td><td width="170"> </td><td width="40"> </td><td width="15"> </td><td width="20"> </td><td width="170"> </td><td width="40"> </td><td width="15"> </td><td width="20"> </td><td width="170"> </td><td width="40"> </td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="2">27 June – <a href="/wiki/Parc_des_Princes" title="Parc des Princes">Paris</a></td><td rowspan="4"></td><td rowspan="7"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="3"></td><td rowspan="7"></td><td rowspan="13"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="9"></td><td rowspan="13"></td><td rowspan="25"></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><b><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" title="Brazil national football team">Brazil</a></span></b></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center"><b>4</b></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="2">3 July – <a href="/wiki/Stade_de_la_Beaujoire" title="Stade de la Beaujoire">Nantes</a></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/23px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/35px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/45px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Chile_national_football_team" title="Chile national football team">Chile</a></span></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center">1 </td><td rowspan="6" style="border:3px solid;border-left:0"></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><b><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" title="Brazil national football team">Brazil</a></span></b></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center"><b>3</b></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="2">28 June – <a href="/wiki/Stade_de_France" title="Stade de France">Saint-Denis</a></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="12" style="border-width:3px 0 3px;border-style:solid"></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/31px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/40px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Denmark_national_football_team" title="Denmark national football team">Denmark</a></span></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center">2 </td><td rowspan="12" style="border:3px solid;border-left:0"></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Nigeria_national_football_team" title="Nigeria national football team">Nigeria</a></span></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center">1</td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="6"></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="2">7 July – <a href="/wiki/Stade_V%C3%A9lodrome" title="Stade Vélodrome">Marseille</a></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><b><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/31px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/40px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Denmark_national_football_team" title="Denmark national football team">Denmark</a></span></b></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center"><b>4</b> </td><td rowspan="6"></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><b><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" title="Brazil national football team">Brazil</a></span></b> (<a href="/wiki/Penalty_shoot-out_(association_football)" title="Penalty shoot-out (association football)">p</a>)</td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center"><b>1 (4)</b></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="2">29 June – <a href="/wiki/Stade_de_Toulouse" class="mw-redirect" title="Stade de Toulouse">Toulouse</a></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="24" style="border-width:3px 0 3px;border-style:solid"></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_national_football_team" title="Netherlands national football team">Netherlands</a></span></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center">1 (2) </td><td rowspan="24" style="border:3px solid;border-left:0"></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><b><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_national_football_team" title="Netherlands national football team">Netherlands</a></span></b></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center"><b>2</b></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="2">4 July – <a href="/wiki/Stade_V%C3%A9lodrome" title="Stade Vélodrome">Marseille</a></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="18"></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Serbia_and_Montenegro_national_football_team" title="Serbia and Montenegro national football team">FR Yugoslavia</a></span></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center">1 </td><td rowspan="6" style="border:3px solid;border-left:0"></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><b><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_national_football_team" title="Netherlands national football team">Netherlands</a></span></b></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center"><b>2</b></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="2">30 June – <a href="/wiki/Stade_Geoffroy-Guichard" title="Stade Geoffroy-Guichard">Saint-Étienne</a></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="12"></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Argentina_national_football_team" title="Argentina national football team">Argentina</a></span></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center">1 </td><td rowspan="12"></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><b><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Argentina_national_football_team" title="Argentina national football team">Argentina</a></span></b> (<a href="/wiki/Penalty_shoot-out_(association_football)" title="Penalty shoot-out (association football)">p</a>)</td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center"><b>2 (4)</b></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="6"></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="2">12 July – <a href="/wiki/Stade_de_France" title="Stade de France">Saint-Denis</a></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/England_national_football_team" title="England national football team">England</a></span></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center">2 (3) </td><td rowspan="6"></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" title="Brazil national football team">Brazil</a></span></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center">0</td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="2">27 June – <a href="/wiki/Stade_V%C3%A9lodrome" title="Stade Vélodrome">Marseille</a></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="23" style="border-width:3px 0 0;border-style:solid"></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><b><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a></span></b></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center"><b>3</b> </td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><b><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Italy_national_football_team" title="Italy national football team">Italy</a></span></b></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center"><b>1</b></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="2">3 July – <a href="/wiki/Stade_de_France" title="Stade de France">Saint-Denis</a></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="10"></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/21px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/32px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/41px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="372" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Norway_national_football_team" title="Norway national football team">Norway</a></span></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center">0 </td><td rowspan="6" style="border:3px solid;border-left:0"></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Italy_national_football_team" title="Italy national football team">Italy</a></span></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center">0 (3)</td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="2">28 June – <a href="/wiki/Stade_F%C3%A9lix-Bollaert" class="mw-redirect" title="Stade Félix-Bollaert">Lens</a></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="12" style="border-width:3px 0 3px;border-style:solid"></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><b><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a></span></b> (<a href="/wiki/Penalty_shoot-out_(association_football)" title="Penalty shoot-out (association football)">p</a>)</td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center"><b>0 (4)</b> </td><td rowspan="12" style="border:3px solid;border-left:0"></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><b><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a></span></b> (<a href="/wiki/Sudden_death_(sport)#Association_football" title="Sudden death (sport)">a.s.d.e.t.</a>)</td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center"><b>1</b></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="6"></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="2">8 July – <a href="/wiki/Stade_de_France" title="Stade de France">Saint-Denis</a></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="540" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Paraguay_national_football_team" title="Paraguay national football team">Paraguay</a></span></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center">0 </td><td rowspan="6"></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><b><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a></span></b></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center"><b>2</b></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="2">29 June – <a href="/wiki/Stade_de_la_Mosson" title="Stade de la Mosson">Montpellier</a></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="11"></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Croatia_national_football_team" title="Croatia national football team">Croatia</a></span></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center">1 </td><td rowspan="11"></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="background-color:#f2f2f2;color:#202122;text-align:center;border:1px solid #aaa"><a href="#Third_place_play-off">Third place play-off</a></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><b><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Germany_national_football_team" title="Germany national football team">Germany</a></span></b></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center"><b>2</b></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="2">4 July – <a href="/wiki/Stade_de_Gerland" title="Stade de Gerland">Lyon</a></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="18"></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="2">11 July – <a href="/wiki/Parc_des_Princes" title="Parc des Princes">Paris</a></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/46px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="980" data-file-height="560" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Mexico_national_football_team" title="Mexico national football team">Mexico</a></span></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center">1 </td><td rowspan="6" style="border:3px solid;border-left:0"></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Germany_national_football_team" title="Germany national football team">Germany</a></span></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center">0</td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_national_football_team" title="Netherlands national football team">Netherlands</a></span></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center">1</td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="2">30 June – <a href="/wiki/Parc_Lescure" class="mw-redirect" title="Parc Lescure">Bordeaux</a></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="5"></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><b><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Croatia_national_football_team" title="Croatia national football team">Croatia</a></span></b></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center"><b>3</b> </td><td rowspan="5"></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><b><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Croatia_national_football_team" title="Croatia national football team">Croatia</a></span></b></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center"><b>2</b> </td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Romania_national_football_team" title="Romania national football team">Romania</a></span></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center">0</td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="6"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="10"></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;padding:0 .6ex"><b><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Croatia_national_football_team" title="Croatia national football team">Croatia</a></span></b></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;color:#202122;text-align:center"><b>1</b> </td><td rowspan="2"></td></tr><tr><td><div style="height:1ex;overflow:hidden"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Round_of_16">Round of 16</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Round of 16"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">27 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">16:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Italy_national_football_team" title="Italy national football team">Italy</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">1–0</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/21px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/32px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/41px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="372" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Norway_national_football_team" title="Norway national football team">Norway</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Christian_Vieri" title="Christian Vieri">Vieri</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>18'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8774/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_V%C3%A9lodrome" title="Stade Vélodrome">Stade Vélodrome</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marseille" title="Marseille">Marseille</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 55,000</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Bernd_Heynemann" title="Bernd Heynemann">Bernd Heynemann</a> (<a href="/wiki/German_Football_Association" title="German Football Association">Germany</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">27 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" title="Brazil national football team">Brazil</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">4–1</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/23px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/35px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/45px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Chile_national_football_team" title="Chile national football team">Chile</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Sampaio" title="César Sampaio">Sampaio</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>11'</span>, <span>26'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Ronaldo_(Brazilian_footballer)" title="Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)">Ronaldo</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>45+3' (<a href="/wiki/Penalty_kick_(association_football)" title="Penalty kick (association football)">pen.</a>)</span>, <span>72'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8773/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Marcelo_Salas" title="Marcelo Salas">Salas</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>70'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Parc_des_Princes" title="Parc des Princes">Parc des Princes</a>, Paris</span></div><div>Attendance: 45,500</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Marc_Batta" title="Marc Batta">Marc Batta</a> (<a href="/wiki/French_Football_Federation" title="French Football Federation">France</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">28 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">16:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">1–0 (<a href="/wiki/Overtime_(sports)#Association_football" title="Overtime (sports)">a.e.t.</a>/<a href="/wiki/Golden_goal#Association_football" title="Golden goal">g.g.</a>)</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="540" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Paraguay_national_football_team" title="Paraguay national football team">Paraguay</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Laurent_Blanc" title="Laurent Blanc">Blanc</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Golden goal"><img alt="gold-colored soccer ball" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Soccerball_shade_gold.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade_gold.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Soccerball_shade_gold.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade_gold.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Soccerball_shade_gold.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade_gold.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span> <span>114'</span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8776/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_F%C3%A9lix-Bollaert" class="mw-redirect" title="Stade Félix-Bollaert">Stade Félix-Bollaert</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lens,_Pas-de-Calais" title="Lens, Pas-de-Calais">Lens</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 31,800</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Ali_Bujsaim" title="Ali Bujsaim">Ali Bujsaim</a> (<a href="/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates_Football_Association" title="United Arab Emirates Football Association">United Arab Emirates</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">28 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Nigeria_national_football_team" title="Nigeria national football team">Nigeria</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">1–4</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/31px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/40px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Denmark_national_football_team" title="Denmark national football team">Denmark</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Tijani_Babangida" title="Tijani Babangida">Babangida</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>77'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8775/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Peter_M%C3%B8ller" title="Peter Møller">Møller</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>3'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Brian_Laudrup" title="Brian Laudrup">B. Laudrup</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>12'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Ebbe_Sand" title="Ebbe Sand">Sand</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>58'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Helveg" title="Thomas Helveg">Helveg</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>76'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_France" title="Stade de France">Stade de France</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint-Denis,_Seine-Saint-Denis" title="Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis">Saint-Denis</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 77,000</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Urs_Meier" title="Urs Meier">Urs Meier</a> (<a href="/wiki/Swiss_Football_Association" title="Swiss Football Association">Switzerland</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">29 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">16:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Germany_national_football_team" title="Germany national football team">Germany</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">2–1</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/46px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="980" data-file-height="560" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Mexico_national_football_team" title="Mexico national football team">Mexico</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Klinsmann" title="Jürgen Klinsmann">Klinsmann</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>74'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Bierhoff" title="Oliver Bierhoff">Bierhoff</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>86'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8777/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Luis_Hern%C3%A1ndez_(footballer,_born_1968)" title="Luis Hernández (footballer, born 1968)">Hernández</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>47'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_la_Mosson" title="Stade de la Mosson">Stade de la Mosson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Montpellier" title="Montpellier">Montpellier</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 29,800</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/V%C3%ADtor_Melo_Pereira" title="Vítor Melo Pereira">Vítor Melo Pereira</a> (<a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Football_Federation" title="Portuguese Football Federation">Portugal</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">29 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_national_football_team" title="Netherlands national football team">Netherlands</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">2–1</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Serbia_and_Montenegro_national_football_team" title="Serbia and Montenegro national football team">FR Yugoslavia</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Bergkamp" title="Dennis Bergkamp">Bergkamp</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>38'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Davids" title="Edgar Davids">Davids</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>90+2'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8778/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Slobodan_Komljenovi%C4%87" title="Slobodan Komljenović">Komljenović</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>48'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stadium_Municipal" class="mw-redirect" title="Stadium Municipal">Stade de Toulouse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Toulouse" title="Toulouse">Toulouse</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 33,500</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mar%C3%ADa_Garc%C3%ADa-Aranda" title="José María García-Aranda">José María García-Aranda</a> (<a href="/wiki/Royal_Spanish_Football_Federation" title="Royal Spanish Football Federation">Spain</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">30 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">16:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Romania_national_football_team" title="Romania national football team">Romania</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">0–1</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Croatia_national_football_team" title="Croatia national football team">Croatia</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8780/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Davor_%C5%A0uker" title="Davor Šuker">Šuker</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>45+2' (<a href="/wiki/Penalty_kick_(association_football)" title="Penalty kick (association football)">pen.</a>)</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_Chaban-Delmas" title="Stade Chaban-Delmas">Parc Lescure</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bordeaux" title="Bordeaux">Bordeaux</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 31,800</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Javier_Castrilli" title="Javier Castrilli">Javier Castrilli</a> (<a href="/wiki/Argentine_Football_Association" title="Argentine Football Association">Argentina</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">30 June 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Argentina_national_football_team" title="Argentina national football team">Argentina</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">2–2 (<a href="/wiki/Overtime_(sports)#Association_football" title="Overtime (sports)">a.e.t.</a>)</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/England_national_football_team" title="England national football team">England</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Batistuta" title="Gabriel Batistuta">Batistuta</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>5' (<a href="/wiki/Penalty_kick_(association_football)" title="Penalty kick (association football)">pen.</a>)</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Javier_Zanetti" title="Javier Zanetti">Zanetti</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>45+1'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8779/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Alan_Shearer" title="Alan Shearer">Shearer</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>9' (<a href="/wiki/Penalty_kick_(association_football)" title="Penalty kick (association football)">pen.</a>)</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Michael_Owen" title="Michael Owen">Owen</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>16'</span></span></td> </tr><tr><th colspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Penalty_shoot-out_(association_football)" title="Penalty shoot-out (association football)">Penalties</a></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Sergio_Berti" title="Sergio Berti">Berti</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty scored"><img alt="soccer ball with check mark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/13px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/20px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/26px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Crespo" title="Hernán Crespo">Crespo</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty missed"><img alt="soccer ball with red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Soccerball_shade_cross.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade_cross.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Soccerball_shade_cross.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade_cross.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Soccerball_shade_cross.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade_cross.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Juan_Sebasti%C3%A1n_Ver%C3%B3n" title="Juan Sebastián Verón">Verón</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty scored"><img alt="soccer ball with check mark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/13px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/20px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/26px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Marcelo_Gallardo" title="Marcelo Gallardo">Gallardo</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty scored"><img alt="soccer ball with check mark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/13px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/20px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/26px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Roberto_Ayala" title="Roberto Ayala">Ayala</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty scored"><img alt="soccer ball with check mark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/13px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/20px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/26px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span></td> <th>4–3</th> <td class="fagoal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty scored"><img alt="soccer ball with check mark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/13px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/20px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/26px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Alan_Shearer" title="Alan Shearer">Shearer</a><br /><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty missed"><img alt="soccer ball with red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Soccerball_shade_cross.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade_cross.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Soccerball_shade_cross.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade_cross.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Soccerball_shade_cross.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade_cross.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Paul_Ince" title="Paul Ince">Ince</a><br /><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty scored"><img alt="soccer ball with check mark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/13px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/20px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/26px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Paul_Merson" title="Paul Merson">Merson</a><br /><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty scored"><img alt="soccer ball with check mark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/13px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/20px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/26px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Michael_Owen" title="Michael Owen">Owen</a><br /><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty missed"><img alt="soccer ball with red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Soccerball_shade_cross.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade_cross.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Soccerball_shade_cross.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade_cross.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Soccerball_shade_cross.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade_cross.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/David_Batty" title="David Batty">Batty</a></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_Geoffroy-Guichard" title="Stade Geoffroy-Guichard">Stade Geoffroy-Guichard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint-%C3%89tienne" title="Saint-Étienne">Saint-Étienne</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 30,600</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Kim_Milton_Nielsen" title="Kim Milton Nielsen">Kim Milton Nielsen</a> (<a href="/wiki/Danish_Football_Association" title="Danish Football Association">Denmark</a>)</div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Quarter-finals">Quarter-finals</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Quarter-finals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">3 July 1998</div><div class="ftime">16:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Italy_national_football_team" title="Italy national football team">Italy</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">0–0 (<a href="/wiki/Overtime_(sports)#Association_football" title="Overtime (sports)">a.e.t.</a>)</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8781/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"></td> </tr><tr><th colspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Penalty_shoot-out_(association_football)" title="Penalty shoot-out (association football)">Penalties</a></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Roberto_Baggio" title="Roberto Baggio">R. Baggio</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty scored"><img alt="soccer ball with check mark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/13px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/20px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/26px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Demetrio_Albertini" title="Demetrio Albertini">Albertini</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty missed"><img alt="soccer ball with red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Soccerball_shade_cross.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade_cross.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Soccerball_shade_cross.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade_cross.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Soccerball_shade_cross.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade_cross.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Alessandro_Costacurta" title="Alessandro Costacurta">Costacurta</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty scored"><img alt="soccer ball with check mark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/13px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/20px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/26px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Christian_Vieri" title="Christian Vieri">Vieri</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty scored"><img alt="soccer ball with check mark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/13px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/20px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/26px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Luigi_Di_Biagio" title="Luigi Di Biagio">Di Biagio</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty missed"><img alt="soccer ball with red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Soccerball_shade_cross.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade_cross.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Soccerball_shade_cross.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade_cross.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Soccerball_shade_cross.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade_cross.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span></td> <th>3–4</th> <td class="fagoal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty scored"><img alt="soccer ball with check mark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/13px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/20px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/26px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Zinedine_Zidane" title="Zinedine Zidane">Zidane</a><br /><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty missed"><img alt="soccer ball with red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Soccerball_shade_cross.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade_cross.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Soccerball_shade_cross.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade_cross.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Soccerball_shade_cross.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade_cross.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Bixente_Lizarazu" title="Bixente Lizarazu">Lizarazu</a><br /><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty scored"><img alt="soccer ball with check mark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/13px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/20px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/26px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/David_Trezeguet" title="David Trezeguet">Trezeguet</a><br /><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty scored"><img alt="soccer ball with check mark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/13px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/20px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/26px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Thierry_Henry" title="Thierry Henry">Henry</a><br /><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty scored"><img alt="soccer ball with check mark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/13px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/20px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/26px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Laurent_Blanc" title="Laurent Blanc">Blanc</a></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_France" title="Stade de France">Stade de France</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint-Denis,_Seine-Saint-Denis" title="Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis">Saint-Denis</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 77,000</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Dallas" title="Hugh Dallas">Hugh Dallas</a> (<a href="/wiki/Scottish_Football_Association" title="Scottish Football Association">Scotland</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">3 July 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" title="Brazil national football team">Brazil</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">3–2</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/31px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/40px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Denmark_national_football_team" title="Denmark national football team">Denmark</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Bebeto" title="Bebeto">Bebeto</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>10'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Rivaldo" title="Rivaldo">Rivaldo</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>25'</span>, <span>59'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8782/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Martin_J%C3%B8rgensen" title="Martin Jørgensen">M. Jørgensen</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>2'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Brian_Laudrup" title="Brian Laudrup">B. Laudrup</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>50'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_la_Beaujoire" title="Stade de la Beaujoire">Stade de la Beaujoire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nantes" title="Nantes">Nantes</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 35,500</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Gamal_Al-Ghandour" title="Gamal Al-Ghandour">Gamal Al-Ghandour</a> (<a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Football_Association" title="Egyptian Football Association">Egypt</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">4 July 1998</div><div class="ftime">16:30 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_national_football_team" title="Netherlands national football team">Netherlands</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">2–1</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Argentina_national_football_team" title="Argentina national football team">Argentina</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Kluivert" title="Patrick Kluivert">Kluivert</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>12'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Bergkamp" title="Dennis Bergkamp">Bergkamp</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>90'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8784/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Claudio_L%C3%B3pez_(footballer)" title="Claudio López (footballer)">López</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>17'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_V%C3%A9lodrome" title="Stade Vélodrome">Stade Vélodrome</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marseille" title="Marseille">Marseille</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 55,000</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Arturo_Brizio_Carter" title="Arturo Brizio Carter">Arturo Brizio Carter</a> (<a href="/wiki/Mexican_Football_Federation" title="Mexican Football Federation">Mexico</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">4 July 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Germany_national_football_team" title="Germany national football team">Germany</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">0–3</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Croatia_national_football_team" title="Croatia national football team">Croatia</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/match/8783/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Jarni" title="Robert Jarni">Jarni</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>45+3'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Goran_Vlaovi%C4%87" title="Goran Vlaović">Vlaović</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>80'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Davor_%C5%A0uker" title="Davor Šuker">Šuker</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>85'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_Gerland" title="Stade de Gerland">Stade de Gerland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lyon" title="Lyon">Lyon</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 39,100</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Rune_Pedersen_(referee)" title="Rune Pedersen (referee)">Rune Pedersen</a> (<a href="/wiki/Football_Association_of_Norway" class="mw-redirect" title="Football Association of Norway">Norway</a>)</div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Semi-finals">Semi-finals</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Semi-finals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">7 July 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" title="Brazil national football team">Brazil</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">1–1 (<a href="/wiki/Overtime_(sports)#Association_football" title="Overtime (sports)">a.e.t.</a>)</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_national_football_team" title="Netherlands national football team">Netherlands</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Ronaldo_(Brazilian_footballer)" title="Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)">Ronaldo</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>46'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/fifaplus/en/match-centre/match/17/1013/1026/8785?date=1998-07-07/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Kluivert" title="Patrick Kluivert">Kluivert</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>87'</span></span></td> </tr><tr><th colspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Penalty_shoot-out_(association_football)" title="Penalty shoot-out (association football)">Penalties</a></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Ronaldo_(Brazilian_footballer)" title="Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)">Ronaldo</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty scored"><img alt="soccer ball with check mark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/13px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/20px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/26px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Rivaldo" title="Rivaldo">Rivaldo</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty scored"><img alt="soccer ball with check mark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/13px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/20px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/26px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Emerson_(footballer,_born_1976)" title="Emerson (footballer, born 1976)">Emerson</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty scored"><img alt="soccer ball with check mark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/13px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/20px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/26px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Dunga" title="Dunga">Dunga</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty scored"><img alt="soccer ball with check mark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/13px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/20px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/26px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span></td> <th>4–2</th> <td class="fagoal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty scored"><img alt="soccer ball with check mark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/13px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/20px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/26px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Frank_de_Boer" title="Frank de Boer">F. de Boer</a><br /><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty scored"><img alt="soccer ball with check mark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/13px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/20px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Soccerball_shad_check.svg/26px-Soccerball_shad_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Bergkamp" title="Dennis Bergkamp">Bergkamp</a><br /><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty missed"><img alt="soccer ball with red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Soccerball_shade_cross.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade_cross.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Soccerball_shade_cross.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade_cross.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Soccerball_shade_cross.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade_cross.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Phillip_Cocu" title="Phillip Cocu">Cocu</a><br /><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Penalty missed"><img alt="soccer ball with red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Soccerball_shade_cross.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade_cross.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Soccerball_shade_cross.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade_cross.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Soccerball_shade_cross.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade_cross.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="313" data-file-height="313" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Ronald_de_Boer" title="Ronald de Boer">R. de Boer</a></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_V%C3%A9lodrome" title="Stade Vélodrome">Stade Vélodrome</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marseille" title="Marseille">Marseille</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 54,000</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Ali_Bujsaim" title="Ali Bujsaim">Ali Bujsaim</a> (<a href="/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates_Football_Association" title="United Arab Emirates Football Association">United Arab Emirates</a>)</div></div></div> <hr /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">8 July 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">2–1</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Croatia_national_football_team" title="Croatia national football team">Croatia</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Lilian_Thuram" title="Lilian Thuram">Thuram</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>47'</span>, <span>70'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/fifaplus/en/match-centre/match/17/1013/1026/8786?date=1998-07-08">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Davor_%C5%A0uker" title="Davor Šuker">Šuker</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>46'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_France" title="Stade de France">Stade de France</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint-Denis,_Seine-Saint-Denis" title="Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis">Saint-Denis</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 76,000</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mar%C3%ADa_Garc%C3%ADa-Aranda" title="José María García-Aranda">José María García-Aranda</a> (<a href="/wiki/Royal_Spanish_Football_Federation" title="Royal Spanish Football Federation">Spain</a>)</div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Third_place_play-off">Third place play-off</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Third place play-off"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Croatia beat the Netherlands to earn third place in the competition. <a href="/wiki/Davor_%C5%A0uker" title="Davor Šuker">Davor Šuker</a> scored the winner in the 36th minute to secure the golden boot.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">11 July 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+1</a>)</div></time></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_national_football_team" title="Netherlands national football team">Netherlands</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">1–2</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Croatia_national_football_team" title="Croatia national football team">Croatia</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"><a href="/wiki/Boudewijn_Zenden" title="Boudewijn Zenden">Zenden</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>22'</span></span></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/fifaplus/en/match-centre/match/17/1013/1028/8787?date=1998-07-11/">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Prosine%C4%8Dki" title="Robert Prosinečki">Prosinečki</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>14'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Davor_%C5%A0uker" title="Davor Šuker">Šuker</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>36'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Parc_des_Princes" title="Parc des Princes">Parc des Princes</a>, Paris</span></div><div>Attendance: 45,500</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Epifanio_Gonz%C3%A1lez" title="Epifanio González">Epifanio González</a> (<a href="/wiki/Paraguayan_Football_Association" title="Paraguayan Football Association">Paraguay</a>)</div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Final">Final</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Final"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_final" title="1998 FIFA World Cup final">1998 FIFA World Cup final</a></div> <p>The final was held on 12 July 1998 at the Stade de France, Saint-Denis. France defeated holders Brazil 3–0, with two goals from Zinedine Zidane and a stoppage time strike from Emmanuel Petit. The win gave France their first World Cup title, becoming the sixth national team after <a href="/wiki/Uruguay_national_football_team" title="Uruguay national football team">Uruguay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italy_national_football_team" title="Italy national football team">Italy</a>, <a href="/wiki/England_national_football_team" title="England national football team">England</a>, <a href="/wiki/Germany_national_football_team" title="Germany national football team">West Germany</a> and <a href="/wiki/Argentina_national_football_team" title="Argentina national football team">Argentina</a> to win the tournament on their home soil. They also inflicted the second-heaviest World Cup defeat on Brazil,<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> later to be topped by Brazil's <a href="/wiki/Brazil_v_Germany_(2014_FIFA_World_Cup)" title="Brazil v Germany (2014 FIFA World Cup)">7–1 defeat by Germany</a> in the semi-finals of the <a href="/wiki/2014_FIFA_World_Cup" title="2014 FIFA World Cup">2014 FIFA World Cup</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The pre-match build up was dominated by the omission of Brazilian striker <a href="/wiki/Ronaldo_(Brazilian_footballer)" title="Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)">Ronaldo</a> from the starting lineup only to be reinstated 45 minutes before kick-off.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He managed to create the first open chance for Brazil in the 22nd minute, dribbling past defender Thuram before sending a cross out on the left side that goalkeeper <a href="/wiki/Fabien_Barthez" title="Fabien Barthez">Fabien Barthez</a> struggled to hold onto. France however took the lead after Brazilian defender <a href="/wiki/Roberto_Carlos" title="Roberto Carlos">Roberto Carlos</a> conceded a corner from which Zidane scored via a header. Three minutes before half-time, Zidane scored his second goal of the match, similarly another header from a corner. The tournament hosts went down to ten men in the 68th minute as <a href="/wiki/Marcel_Desailly" title="Marcel Desailly">Marcel Desailly</a> was sent off for a second bookable offence. Brazil reacted to this by making an attacking substitution and although they applied pressure France sealed the win with a third goal: substitute <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Vieira" title="Patrick Vieira">Patrick Vieira</a> set up his club teammate Petit in a counterattack to shoot low past goalkeeper <a href="/wiki/Cl%C3%A1udio_Taffarel" title="Cláudio Taffarel">Cláudio Taffarel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>French president Jacques Chirac was in attendance to congratulate the winners and commiserate the runners-up after the match.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several days after the victory, winning manager <a href="/wiki/Aim%C3%A9_Jacquet" title="Aimé Jacquet">Aimé Jacquet</a> announced his resignation from the French team with immediate effect.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r997937747"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent" class="footballbox"> <div class="ftitle">1998 FIFA World Cup</div><div class="fleft"><time><div class="fdate">12 July 1998</div><div class="ftime">21:00 <a href="/wiki/Central_European_Summer_Time" title="Central European Summer Time">CEST</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B02:00" title="UTC+02:00">UTC+2</a>)</div></time><div class="frnd">Final</div></div><table class="fevent"><tbody><tr itemprop="name"> <th class="fhome" itemprop="homeTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><a href="/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" title="Brazil national football team">Brazil</a><span class="flagicon"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span></span></span></th><th class="fscore">0–3</th><th class="faway" itemprop="awayTeam" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam"><span itemprop="name"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a></span></span></th></tr><tr class="fgoals"> <td class="fhgoal"></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fifa.com/fifaplus/en/match-centre/match/17/1013/1027/8788?date=1998-07-12">Report</a></td> <td class="fagoal"><a href="/wiki/Zinedine_Zidane" title="Zinedine Zidane">Zidane</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>27'</span>, <span>45+1'</span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Emmanuel_Petit" title="Emmanuel Petit">Petit</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1194938686"><span class="fb-goal"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Goal"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/13px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/20px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Soccerball_shade.svg/26px-Soccerball_shade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="333" /></span></span> <span>90+3'</span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="fright"><div itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name address"><a href="/wiki/Stade_de_France" title="Stade de France">Stade de France</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint-Denis,_Seine-Saint-Denis" title="Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis">Saint-Denis</a></span></div><div>Attendance: 75,000</div><div>Referee: <a href="/wiki/Said_Belqola" title="Said Belqola">Said Belqola</a> (<a href="/wiki/Royal_Moroccan_Football_Federation" title="Royal Moroccan Football Federation">Morocco</a>)</div></div></div> <p><br /> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Statistics">Statistics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Statistics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Goalscorers">Goalscorers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Goalscorers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Davor Šuker received the <a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_awards#Golden_Boot" title="FIFA World Cup awards">Golden Boot</a> for scoring six goals. In total, 171 goals were scored by 112 players: </p> <dl><dt>6 goals</dt></dl> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Croatia" title="Croatia"><img alt="Croatia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Davor_%C5%A0uker" title="Davor Šuker">Davor Šuker</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>5 goals</dt></dl> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina"><img alt="Argentina" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Batistuta" title="Gabriel Batistuta">Gabriel Batistuta</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy"><img alt="Italy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Christian_Vieri" title="Christian Vieri">Christian Vieri</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>4 goals</dt></dl> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil"><img alt="Brazil" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Ronaldo_(Brazilian_footballer)" title="Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)">Ronaldo</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Chile" title="Chile"><img alt="Chile" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/23px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/35px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/45px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Marcelo_Salas" title="Marcelo Salas">Marcelo Salas</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico"><img alt="Mexico" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/46px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="980" data-file-height="560" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Luis_Hern%C3%A1ndez_(footballer,_born_1968)" title="Luis Hernández (footballer, born 1968)">Luis Hernández</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>3 goals</dt></dl> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil"><img alt="Brazil" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Bebeto" title="Bebeto">Bebeto</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil"><img alt="Brazil" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Sampaio" title="César Sampaio">César Sampaio</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil"><img alt="Brazil" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Rivaldo" title="Rivaldo">Rivaldo</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/France" title="France"><img alt="France" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Thierry_Henry" title="Thierry Henry">Thierry Henry</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany"><img alt="Germany" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Bierhoff" title="Oliver Bierhoff">Oliver Bierhoff</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany"><img alt="Germany" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Klinsmann" title="Jürgen Klinsmann">Jürgen Klinsmann</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands"><img alt="Netherlands" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Bergkamp" title="Dennis Bergkamp">Dennis Bergkamp</a></li></ul> </div> <dl><dt>2 goals</dt></dl> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina"><img alt="Argentina" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Ariel_Ortega" title="Ariel Ortega">Ariel Ortega</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium"><img alt="Belgium" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Marc_Wilmots" title="Marc Wilmots">Marc Wilmots</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Croatia" title="Croatia"><img alt="Croatia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Robert_Prosine%C4%8Dki" title="Robert Prosinečki">Robert Prosinečki</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark"><img alt="Denmark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/31px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/40px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Brian_Laudrup" title="Brian Laudrup">Brian Laudrup</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/England" title="England"><img alt="England" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Michael_Owen" title="Michael Owen">Michael Owen</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/England" title="England"><img alt="England" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Alan_Shearer" title="Alan Shearer">Alan Shearer</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/France" title="France"><img alt="France" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Emmanuel_Petit" title="Emmanuel Petit">Emmanuel Petit</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/France" title="France"><img alt="France" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Lilian_Thuram" title="Lilian Thuram">Lilian Thuram</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/France" title="France"><img alt="France" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Zinedine_Zidane" title="Zinedine Zidane">Zinedine Zidane</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy"><img alt="Italy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/45px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_(footballer)" title="Raúl (footballer)">Raúl</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Tunisia" title="Tunisia"><img alt="Tunisia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Skander_Souayah" title="Skander Souayah">Skander Souayah</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States"><img alt="United States" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Brian_McBride" title="Brian McBride">Brian McBride</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia" title="Federal Republic of Yugoslavia"><img alt="Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Sini%C5%A1a_Mihajlovi%C4%87" title="Siniša Mihajlović">Siniša Mihajlović</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia" title="Federal Republic of Yugoslavia"><img alt="Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Predrag_Mijatovi%C4%87" title="Predrag Mijatović">Predrag Mijatović</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia" title="Federal Republic of Yugoslavia"><img alt="Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Dragan_Stojkovi%C4%87" title="Dragan Stojković">Dragan Stojković</a></li></ul> </div> <dl><dt>Own goals</dt></dl> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria"><img alt="Bulgaria" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Georgi_Bachev" title="Georgi Bachev">Georgi Bachev</a> (against Spain)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Morocco" title="Morocco"><img alt="Morocco" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/23px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/35px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/45px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Youssef_Chippo" title="Youssef Chippo">Youssef Chippo</a> (against Norway)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland"><img alt="Scotland" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Tom_Boyd_(Scottish_footballer)" title="Tom Boyd (Scottish footballer)">Tom Boyd</a> (against Brazil)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa"><img alt="South Africa" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Issa" title="Pierre Issa">Pierre Issa</a> (against France)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain"><img alt="Spain" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/45px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Andoni_Zubizarreta" title="Andoni Zubizarreta">Andoni Zubizarreta</a> (against Nigeria)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia" title="Federal Republic of Yugoslavia"><img alt="Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Sini%C5%A1a_Mihajlovi%C4%87" title="Siniša Mihajlović">Siniša Mihajlović</a> (against Germany)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Awards">Awards</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="margin:0 auto"> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Golden_Ball_(FIFA)" class="mw-redirect" title="Golden Ball (FIFA)">Golden Ball Award</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Adidas_Golden_Shoe" class="mw-redirect" title="Adidas Golden Shoe">Golden Shoe Award</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Yashin_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Yashin Award">Yashin Award</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_Fair_Play_Trophy" class="mw-redirect" title="FIFA World Cup Fair Play Trophy">FIFA Fair Play Trophy</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_awards#Most_Entertaining_Team" title="FIFA World Cup awards">Most Entertaining Team</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil"><img alt="Brazil" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Ronaldo_(Brazilian_footballer)" title="Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)">Ronaldo</a> </td> <td align="center"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Croatia" title="Croatia"><img alt="Croatia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Davor_%C5%A0uker" title="Davor Šuker">Davor Šuker</a> </td> <td align="center"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/France" title="France"><img alt="France" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Fabien_Barthez" title="Fabien Barthez">Fabien Barthez</a> </td> <td align="center"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/England_national_football_team" title="England national football team">England</a></span><br /><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a></span> </td> <td align="center"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Players_who_were_red-carded_during_the_tournament">Players who were red-carded during the tournament</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Players who were red-carded during the tournament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina"><img alt="Argentina" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Ariel_Ortega" title="Ariel Ortega">Ariel Ortega</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium"><img 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World Cup, as selected by FIFA's Technical Study Group.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="margin:0 auto"> <tbody><tr> <th>Goalkeepers </th> <th>Defenders </th> <th>Midfielders </th> <th>Forwards </th></tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <p><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/France" title="France"><img alt="France" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Fabien_Barthez" title="Fabien Barthez">Fabien Barthez</a> <br /> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Paraguay" title="Paraguay"><img alt="Paraguay" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="540" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Luis_Chilavert" title="José Luis Chilavert">José Luis Chilavert</a> </p> </td> <td align="left" valign="top"> <p><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil"><img alt="Brazil" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Roberto_Carlos" title="Roberto Carlos">Roberto Carlos</a> <br /> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/France" title="France"><img alt="France" 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/></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Gamarra" title="Carlos Gamarra">Carlos Gamarra</a> </p> </td> <td align="left" valign="top"> <p><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil"><img alt="Brazil" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Dunga" title="Dunga">Dunga</a><br /> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil"><img alt="Brazil" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" 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title="Michael Laudrup">Michael Laudrup</a> <br /> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/France" title="France"><img alt="France" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Zinedine_Zidane" title="Zinedine Zidane">Zinedine Zidane</a><br /> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands"><img alt="Netherlands" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Davids" title="Edgar Davids">Edgar Davids</a> </p> </td> <td align="left" valign="top"> <p><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil"><img alt="Brazil" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Ronaldo_(Brazilian_footballer)" title="Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)">Ronaldo</a> <br /> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Croatia" title="Croatia"><img alt="Croatia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Davor_%C5%A0uker" title="Davor Šuker">Davor Šuker</a><br /> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark"><img alt="Denmark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/31px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/40px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Brian_Laudrup" title="Brian Laudrup">Brian Laudrup</a><br /> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands"><img alt="Netherlands" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Bergkamp" title="Dennis Bergkamp">Dennis Bergkamp</a> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Final_standings">Final standings</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Final standings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the tournament, FIFA published a ranking of all teams that competed in the 1998 World Cup finals based on progress in the competition and overall results.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;text-align:center"> <tbody><tr> <th width="25"><abbr title="Final Ranking">R</abbr> </th> <th width="165">Team </th> <th width="25"><abbr title="Group">G</abbr> </th> <th width="25"><abbr title="Played">P</abbr> </th> <th width="25"><abbr title="Win">W</abbr> </th> <th width="25"><abbr title="Draw">D</abbr> </th> <th width="25"><abbr title="Lose">L</abbr> </th> <th width="25"><abbr title="Goals For">GF</abbr> </th> <th width="25"><abbr title="Goals against">GA</abbr> </th> <th width="25"><abbr title="Goal Difference">GD</abbr> </th> <th width="25"><abbr title="Points">Pts.</abbr> </th></tr> <tr style="background:gold"> <td>1</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_France_%281976%E2%80%932020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_C" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group C">C</a></td> <td>7</td> <td>6</td> <td>1</td> <td>0</td> <td>15</td> <td>2</td> <td>+13</td> <td>19 </td></tr> <tr style="background:silver"> <td>2</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" title="Brazil national football team">Brazil</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_A" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group A">A</a></td> <td>7</td> <td>4</td> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> <td>14</td> <td>10</td> <td>+4</td> <td>13 </td></tr> <tr style="background:#c96"> <td>3</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Croatia_national_football_team" title="Croatia national football team">Croatia</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_H" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group H">H</a></td> <td>7</td> <td>5</td> <td>0</td> <td>2</td> <td>11</td> <td>5</td> <td>+6</td> <td>15 </td></tr> <tr style="background:gray"> <td>4</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_national_football_team" title="Netherlands national football team">Netherlands</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_E" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group E">E</a></td> <td>7</td> <td>3</td> <td>3</td> <td>1</td> <td>13</td> <td>7</td> <td>+6</td> <td>12 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="11"><b>Eliminated in the quarter-finals</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td>5</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Italy_national_football_team" title="Italy national football team">Italy</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_B" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group B">B</a></td> <td>5</td> <td>3</td> <td>2</td> <td>0</td> <td>8</td> <td>3</td> <td>+5</td> <td>11 </td></tr> <tr> <td>6</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Argentina_national_football_team" title="Argentina national football team">Argentina</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_H" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group H">H</a></td> <td>5</td> <td>3</td> <td>1</td> <td>1</td> <td>10</td> <td>4</td> <td>+6</td> <td>10 </td></tr> <tr> <td>7</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Germany_national_football_team" title="Germany national football team">Germany</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_F" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group F">F</a></td> <td>5</td> <td>3</td> <td>1</td> <td>1</td> <td>8</td> <td>6</td> <td>+2</td> <td>10 </td></tr> <tr> <td>8</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/31px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/40px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Denmark_national_football_team" title="Denmark national football team">Denmark</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_C" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group C">C</a></td> <td>5</td> <td>2</td> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> <td>9</td> <td>7</td> <td>+2</td> <td>7 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="11"><b>Eliminated in the round of 16</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td>9</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/England_national_football_team" title="England national football team">England</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_G" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group G">G</a></td> <td>4</td> <td>2</td> <td>1</td> <td>1</td> <td>7</td> <td>4</td> <td>+3</td> <td>7 </td></tr> <tr> <td>10</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Serbia_and_Montenegro_national_football_team" title="Serbia and Montenegro national football team">FR Yugoslavia</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_F" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group F">F</a></td> <td>4</td> <td>2</td> <td>1</td> <td>1</td> <td>5</td> <td>4</td> <td>+1</td> <td>7 </td></tr> <tr> <td>11</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Romania_national_football_team" title="Romania national football team">Romania</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_G" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group G">G</a></td> <td>4</td> <td>2</td> <td>1</td> <td>1</td> <td>4</td> <td>3</td> <td>+1</td> <td>7 </td></tr> <tr> <td>12</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Nigeria_national_football_team" title="Nigeria national football team">Nigeria</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_D" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group D">D</a></td> <td>4</td> <td>2</td> <td>0</td> <td>2</td> <td>6</td> <td>9</td> <td>−3</td> <td>6 </td></tr> <tr> <td>13</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/46px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="980" data-file-height="560" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Mexico_national_football_team" title="Mexico national football team">Mexico</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_E" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group E">E</a></td> <td>4</td> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> <td>1</td> <td>8</td> <td>7</td> <td>+1</td> <td>5 </td></tr> <tr> <td>14</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="540" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Paraguay_national_football_team" title="Paraguay national football team">Paraguay</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_D" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group D">D</a></td> <td>4</td> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> <td>1</td> <td>3</td> <td>2</td> <td>+1</td> <td>5 </td></tr> <tr> <td>15</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/21px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/32px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/41px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="372" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Norway_national_football_team" title="Norway national football team">Norway</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_A" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group A">A</a></td> <td>4</td> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> <td>1</td> <td>5</td> <td>5</td> <td>0</td> <td>5 </td></tr> <tr> <td>16</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/23px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/35px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/45px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Chile_national_football_team" title="Chile national football team">Chile</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_B" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group B">B</a></td> <td>4</td> <td>0</td> <td>3</td> <td>1</td> <td>5</td> <td>8</td> <td>−3</td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="11"><b>Eliminated in the group stage</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td>17</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/45px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Spain_national_football_team" title="Spain national football team">Spain</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_D" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group D">D</a></td> <td>3</td> <td>1</td> <td>1</td> <td>1</td> <td>8</td> <td>4</td> <td>+4</td> <td>4 </td></tr> <tr> <td>18</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/23px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/35px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/45px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Morocco_national_football_team" title="Morocco national football team">Morocco</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_A" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group A">A</a></td> <td>3</td> <td>1</td> <td>1</td> <td>1</td> <td>5</td> <td>5</td> <td>0</td> <td>4 </td></tr> <tr> <td>19</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Belgium_national_football_team" title="Belgium national football team">Belgium</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_E" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group E">E</a></td> <td>3</td> <td>0</td> <td>3</td> <td>0</td> <td>3</td> <td>3</td> <td>0</td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td>20</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/35px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/46px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="630" data-file-height="360" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Iran_national_football_team" title="Iran national football team">Iran</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_F" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group F">F</a></td> <td>3</td> <td>1</td> <td>0</td> <td>2</td> <td>2</td> <td>4</td> <td>−2</td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td>21</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Colombia_national_football_team" title="Colombia national football team">Colombia</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_G" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group G">G</a></td> <td>3</td> <td>1</td> <td>0</td> <td>2</td> <td>1</td> <td>3</td> <td>−2</td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td>22</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/23px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/35px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/46px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_national_football_team" title="Jamaica national football team">Jamaica</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_H" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group H">H</a></td> <td>3</td> <td>1</td> <td>0</td> <td>2</td> <td>3</td> <td>9</td> <td>−6</td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td>23</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/45px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Austria_national_football_team" title="Austria national football team">Austria</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_B" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group B">B</a></td> <td>3</td> <td>0</td> <td>2</td> <td>1</td> <td>3</td> <td>4</td> <td>−1</td> <td>2 </td></tr> <tr> <td>24</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Africa_national_soccer_team" title="South Africa national soccer team">South Africa</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_C" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group C">C</a></td> <td>3</td> <td>0</td> <td>2</td> <td>1</td> <td>3</td> <td>6</td> <td>−3</td> <td>2 </td></tr> <tr> <td>25</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/23px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/35px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/45px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Cameroon_national_football_team" title="Cameroon national football team">Cameroon</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_B" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group B">B</a></td> <td>3</td> <td>0</td> <td>2</td> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> <td>5</td> <td>−3</td> <td>2 </td></tr> <tr> <td>26</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Tunisia_national_football_team" title="Tunisia national football team">Tunisia</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_G" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group G">G</a></td> <td>3</td> <td>0</td> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> <td>1</td> <td>4</td> <td>−3</td> <td>1 </td></tr> <tr> <td>27</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Scotland_national_football_team" title="Scotland national football team">Scotland</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_A" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group A">A</a></td> <td>3</td> <td>0</td> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> <td>2</td> <td>6</td> <td>−4</td> <td>1 </td></tr> <tr> <td>28</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia_national_football_team" title="Saudi Arabia national football team">Saudi Arabia</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_C" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group C">C</a></td> <td>3</td> <td>0</td> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> <td>2</td> <td>7</td> <td>−5</td> <td>1 </td></tr> <tr> <td>29</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Bulgaria_national_football_team" title="Bulgaria national football team">Bulgaria</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_D" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group D">D</a></td> <td>3</td> <td>0</td> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> <td>1</td> <td>7</td> <td>−6</td> <td>1 </td></tr> <tr> <td>30</td> <td style="text-align:left"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" 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class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States_men%27s_national_soccer_team" title="United States men's national soccer team">United States</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_F" title="1998 FIFA World Cup Group F">F</a></td> <td>3</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>3</td> <td>1</td> <td>5</td> <td>−4</td> <td>0 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Marketing">Marketing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Marketing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tournoi_de_France">Tournoi de France</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Tournoi de France"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/1997_Tournoi_de_France" title="1997 Tournoi de France">1997 Tournoi de France</a></div> <p>A year before the tournament, a small, invitation-only tournament named the <a href="/wiki/Tournoi_de_France" title="Tournoi de France">Tournoi de France</a> was held in France, with <a href="/wiki/Italy_national_football_team" title="Italy national football team">Italy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" title="Brazil national football team">Brazil</a>, <a href="/wiki/England_national_football_team" title="England national football team">England</a>, and hosts <a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a> participating.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Broadcasting">Broadcasting</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Broadcasting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/1998_FIFA_World_Cup" title="Special:EditPage/1998 FIFA World Cup">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">October 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Through several companies, FIFA sold the broadcasting rights for the 1998 FIFA World Cup to many broadcasters. <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> and <a href="/wiki/ITV_(TV_network)" title="ITV (TV network)">ITV</a> had the broadcasting rights in the United Kingdom. The pictures and audio of the competition were supplied to the TV and radio channels by the company TVRS 98, the broadcaster of the tournament.<sup id="cite_ref-Label_France,_31,_Un_véritable_enjeu_médiatique_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Label_France,_31,_Un_véritable_enjeu_médiatique-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The World Cup matches were broadcast in 200 countries. 818 photographers were credited for the tournament. In every match, a stand was reserved for the press. The number of places granted to them reached its maximum in the final, when 1,750 reporters and 110 <a href="/wiki/Sports_commentator" title="Sports commentator">TV commentators</a> were present in the stand.<sup id="cite_ref-fifa1998_p.128,129_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fifa1998_p.128,129-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable" border="1"> <tbody><tr> <th>Country </th> <th>Broadcaster </th> <th>Television </th></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Flag_of_Albania.svg/21px-Flag_of_Albania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Flag_of_Albania.svg/32px-Flag_of_Albania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Flag_of_Albania.svg/42px-Flag_of_Albania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Albania" title="Albania">Albania</a> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Radio_Televizioni_Shqiptar" class="mw-redirect" title="Radio Televizioni Shqiptar">TVSH</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a> </td> <td>Artear, Televisión Federal, Grupo América, Telearte, SNMP, Teletreinta, Argentina Televisión, Lujan Cable Visión S.A., Holding Córdoba de radio y televisión </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Eltrece" class="mw-redirect" title="Eltrece">Eltrece</a>, <a href="/wiki/Telefe" title="Telefe">Telefe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Am%C3%A9rica_TV" title="América TV">América TV</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Canal_30_(Argentina)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Canal 30 (Argentina) (page does not exist)">Channel 30</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Argenvisi%C3%B3n&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Argenvisión (page does not exist)">Argenvisión</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Cable_Visi%C3%B3n_Lujan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cable Visión Lujan (page does not exist)">Channel 23</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=The_CW_(Argentine_Pay_TV_channel)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The CW (Argentine Pay TV channel) (page does not exist)">El CW</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Special_Broadcasting_Service" title="Special Broadcasting Service">SBS</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/45px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/ORF_(broadcaster)" title="ORF (broadcaster)">ORF</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/ORF_eins" class="mw-redirect" title="ORF eins">ORF eins</a> and <a href="/wiki/ORF_2" title="ORF 2">ORF 2</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Flag_of_the_Arab_League.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Arab_League.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Flag_of_the_Arab_League.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Arab_League.svg.png 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a> </td> <td><small><a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a>:</small><br /><a href="/wiki/Vlaamse_Radio-_en_Televisieomroeporganisatie" class="mw-redirect" title="Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie">VRT</a> </td> <td><small><a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a>:</small><br /><a href="/wiki/E%C3%A9n" class="mw-redirect" title="Eén">Eén</a> and <a href="/wiki/VRT_Canvas" title="VRT Canvas">Canvas</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><small><a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>:</small><br /><a href="/wiki/RTBF" title="RTBF">RTBF</a> </td> <td><small><a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>:</small><br /><a href="/wiki/La_Une" title="La Une">La Une</a> and <a href="/wiki/La_Deux" class="mw-redirect" title="La Deux">La Deux</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Bangladesh_Television" title="Bangladesh Television">BTV</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Flag_of_Bolivia.svg/22px-Flag_of_Bolivia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Flag_of_Bolivia.svg/34px-Flag_of_Bolivia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Flag_of_Bolivia.svg/44px-Flag_of_Bolivia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1100" data-file-height="750" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Bolivia" title="Bolivia">Bolivia</a> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/TV_Boliviana" class="mw-redirect" title="TV Boliviana">TVB</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bolivisi%C3%B3n" title="Bolivisión">Bolivisión</a>, <a href="/wiki/Unitel_Bolivia" title="Unitel Bolivia">Unitel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Red_Uno_de_Bolivia" title="Red Uno de Bolivia">Unovisión</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Rede_Globo" class="mw-redirect" title="Rede Globo">Globo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sistema_Brasileiro_de_Televis%C3%A3o" title="Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão">SBT</a>, <a href="/wiki/RecordTV" class="mw-redirect" title="RecordTV">RecordTV</a>, <a href="/wiki/SporTV" title="SporTV">SporTV</a> and <a href="/wiki/ESPN_Brasil" class="mw-redirect" title="ESPN Brasil">ESPN Brasil</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Brunei.svg/23px-Flag_of_Brunei.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Brunei.svg/35px-Flag_of_Brunei.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Brunei.svg/46px-Flag_of_Brunei.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1440" data-file-height="720" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Brunei" title="Brunei">Brunei</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Radio_Televisyen_Brunei" class="mw-redirect" title="Radio Televisyen Brunei">RTB</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/RTB_Perdana" title="RTB Perdana">RTB Perdana</a>, <a href="/wiki/RTB_Aneka" title="RTB Aneka">RTB Aneka</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_National_Television" title="Bulgarian National Television">BNT</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/BNT_1" title="BNT 1">Channel 1</a> and <a href="/wiki/BNT_2" title="BNT 2">Efir 2</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Flag_of_Cambodia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Cambodia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Flag_of_Cambodia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Cambodia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Flag_of_Cambodia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Cambodia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="640" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Television_of_Kampuchea" class="mw-redirect" title="National Television of Kampuchea">TVK</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Television_of_Kampuchea" class="mw-redirect" title="National Television of Kampuchea">Channel 7</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> </td> <td><small><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>:</small><br /><a href="/wiki/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Canadian Broadcasting Corporation">CBC</a> </td> <td><small><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>:</small><br /><a href="/wiki/CBC_Television" title="CBC Television">CBC Television</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><small><a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>:</small><br /><a href="/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_Radio-Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Société Radio-Canada">Société Radio-Canada</a> </td> <td><small><a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>:</small><br /><a href="/wiki/Ici_Radio-Canada_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9" title="Ici Radio-Canada Télé">Télévision de Radio-Canada</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/23px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/35px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/45px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Chile" title="Chile">Chile</a> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Televisi%C3%B3n_Nacional_de_Chile" title="Televisión Nacional de Chile">TVN</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chilevisi%C3%B3n" title="Chilevisión">Chilevisión</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canal_13_(Chile)" class="mw-redirect" title="Canal 13 (Chile)">UCTV</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mega_(Chilean_TV_channel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mega (Chilean TV channel)">Megavisión</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/China_Central_Television" title="China Central Television">CCTV</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/CCTV-1" title="CCTV-1">CCTV-1</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombia</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Inravisi%C3%B3n" title="Inravisión">Inravisión</a> </td> <td><small><a href="/wiki/Canal_1" title="Canal 1">Canal Uno</a>:</small><br /><a href="/wiki/Producciones_PUNCH" title="Producciones PUNCH">PUNCH</a> and <a href="/wiki/Producciones_JES" title="Producciones JES">JES</a><br /><small><a href="/wiki/Canal_Institucional" title="Canal Institucional">Canal A</a>:</small><br /><a href="/wiki/RTI_Producciones" title="RTI Producciones">RTI</a> and <a href="/wiki/Datos_y_Mensajes" title="Datos y Mensajes">Datos y Mensajes</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Caracol_Televisi%C3%B3n" title="Caracol Televisión">Caracol Televisión</a> and <a href="/wiki/RCN_Televisi%C3%B3n" title="RCN Televisión">RCN Televisión</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Flag_of_Corsica.svg/23px-Flag_of_Corsica.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Flag_of_Corsica.svg/35px-Flag_of_Corsica.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Flag_of_Corsica.svg/46px-Flag_of_Corsica.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="450" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Corsica" title="Corsica">Corsica</a><sup class="plainlinks nourlexpansion citation" id="ref_n2"><a href="#endnote_n2">2</a></sup> </td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/France" title="France"><img alt="France" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/45px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/TF1" title="TF1">TF1</a>, <a href="/wiki/France_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9visions" title="France Télévisions">1998 FIFA World Cup TV</a><sup class="plainlinks nourlexpansion citation" id="ref_n2"><a href="#endnote_n2">2</a></sup><br /><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy"><img alt="Italy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/RAI" title="RAI">RAI</a> </td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/France" title="France"><img alt="France" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/45px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/TF1" title="TF1">TF1</a>, <a href="/wiki/France_2" title="France 2">1998 FIFA World Cup TV2</a> and <a href="/wiki/France_3" title="France 3">1998 FIFA World Cup TV3</a><sup class="plainlinks nourlexpansion citation" id="ref_n2"><a href="#endnote_n2">2</a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Czech_Republic" title="Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Czech_Television" title="Czech Television">Czech Television</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/%C4%8CT1" title="ČT1">ČT1</a> and <a href="/wiki/%C4%8CT2" title="ČT2">ČT2</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/31px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/40px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/DR_(broadcaster)" title="DR (broadcaster)">DR</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/DR1" title="DR1">DR1</a> and <a href="/wiki/DR2" title="DR2">DR2</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Flag_of_Estonia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Estonia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Flag_of_Estonia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Estonia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Flag_of_Estonia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Estonia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="990" data-file-height="630" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Estonia" title="Estonia">Estonia</a> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Eesti_Televisioon" title="Eesti Televisioon">ETV</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Flag_of_Finland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Finland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Flag_of_Finland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Finland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Flag_of_Finland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Finland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="1100" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finland</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Yleisradio" class="mw-redirect" title="Yleisradio">YLE</a>, <a href="/wiki/MTV3" title="MTV3">MTV3</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Yle_TV2" title="Yle TV2">YLE TV2</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/45px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a><sup class="plainlinks nourlexpansion citation" id="ref_n2"><a href="#endnote_n2">2</a></sup> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/TF1" title="TF1">TF1</a>, <a href="/wiki/France_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9visions" title="France Télévisions">1998 FIFA World Cup TV</a><sup class="plainlinks nourlexpansion citation" id="ref_n2"><a href="#endnote_n2">2</a></sup> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/TF1" title="TF1">TF1</a>, <a href="/wiki/France_2" title="France 2">1998 FIFA World Cup TV2</a>, <a href="/wiki/France_3" title="France 3">1998 FIFA World Cup TV3</a>, <a href="/wiki/France_4" title="France 4">1998 FIFA World Cup TV4</a>, <a href="/wiki/TV5Monde" title="TV5Monde">1998 FIFA World Cup TV International</a> and <a href="/wiki/France_%C3%94" title="France Ô">1998 FIFA World Cup TV News</a><sup class="plainlinks nourlexpansion citation" id="ref_n2"><a href="#endnote_n2">2</a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Flag_of_Georgia_%281990%E2%80%932004%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Georgia_%281990%E2%80%932004%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Flag_of_Georgia_%281990%E2%80%932004%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Georgia_%281990%E2%80%932004%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Flag_of_Georgia_%281990%E2%80%932004%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Georgia_%281990%E2%80%932004%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgian_Public_Broadcasting" class="mw-redirect" title="Georgian Public Broadcasting">GPB</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/First_Channel_(Georgian_TV_channel)" title="First Channel (Georgian TV channel)">1TV</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/ARD_(broadcaster)" title="ARD (broadcaster)">ARD</a> and <a href="/wiki/ZDF" title="ZDF">ZDF</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Das_Erste" title="Das Erste">Das Erste</a> and <a href="/wiki/ZDF" title="ZDF">ZDF</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Greece.svg/23px-Flag_of_Greece.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Greece.svg/35px-Flag_of_Greece.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Greece.svg/45px-Flag_of_Greece.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hellenic_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation">ERT</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/ERT1" title="ERT1">ET1</a>, <a href="/wiki/ERT2" title="ERT2">NET</a> and <a href="/wiki/ERT3" title="ERT3">ET3</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_Hungary.svg/23px-Flag_of_Hungary.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_Hungary.svg/35px-Flag_of_Hungary.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_Hungary.svg/46px-Flag_of_Hungary.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungary</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Magyar_Telev%C3%ADzi%C3%B3" title="Magyar Televízió">MTV</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/M1_(TV_channel)" title="M1 (TV channel)">MTV1</a> and <a href="/wiki/M2_(TV_channel)" title="M2 (TV channel)">MTV2</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_Vatican_City_%282001%E2%80%932023%29.svg/15px-Flag_of_Vatican_City_%282001%E2%80%932023%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_Vatican_City_%282001%E2%80%932023%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Vatican_City_%282001%E2%80%932023%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_Vatican_City_%282001%E2%80%932023%29.svg/30px-Flag_of_Vatican_City_%282001%E2%80%932023%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Holy_See" title="Holy See">Holy See</a> </td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy"><img alt="Italy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/RAI" title="RAI">RAI</a> </td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy"><img alt="Italy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/RAI_1" class="mw-redirect" title="RAI 1">RAI 1</a>, <a href="/wiki/RAI_2" class="mw-redirect" title="RAI 2">RAI 2</a> and <a href="/wiki/RAI_3" class="mw-redirect" title="RAI 3">RAI 3</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg/23px-Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg/35px-Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg/45px-Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Television_Broadcasts_Limited" class="mw-redirect" title="Television Broadcasts Limited">TVB</a> </td> <td><small><a href="/wiki/Cantonese_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Cantonese language">Cantonese</a>:</small><br /><a href="/wiki/TVB_Jade" title="TVB Jade">TVB Jade</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><small><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>:</small><br /><a href="/wiki/TVB_Pearl" title="TVB Pearl">TVB Pearl</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Doordarshan" title="Doordarshan">Doordarshan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/DD_National" title="DD National">Doordarshan National Channel</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Flag_of_Indonesia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Indonesia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Flag_of_Indonesia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Indonesia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Flag_of_Indonesia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Indonesia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a><sup class="plainlinks nourlexpansion citation" id="ref_n1"><a href="#endnote_n1">1</a></sup> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/TVRI" title="TVRI">TVRI</a> (<a href="/wiki/TVRI_(TV_channel)" title="TVRI (TV channel)">Programme 1</a>), <a href="/wiki/RCTI" title="RCTI">RCTI</a>, <a href="/wiki/SCTV_(TV_network)" title="SCTV (TV network)">SCTV</a>, <a href="/wiki/MNCTV" title="MNCTV">TPI</a>, <a href="/wiki/ANTV" title="ANTV">ANteve</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Indosiar" title="Indosiar">Indosiar</a> (all <a href="/wiki/Matches" class="mw-redirect" title="Matches">matches</a> in <a href="/wiki/Live_television" title="Live television">live television</a>)<sup class="plainlinks nourlexpansion citation" id="ref_n1"><a href="#endnote_n1">1</a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/35px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/46px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="630" data-file-height="360" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Iran_Broadcasting" title="Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting">IRIB</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Channel_1_(Iran)" class="mw-redirect" title="Channel 1 (Iran)">Channel 1</a> and <a href="/wiki/Channel_2_(Iran)" class="mw-redirect" title="Channel 2 (Iran)">Channel 2</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Flag_of_Ireland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ireland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Flag_of_Ireland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ireland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Flag_of_Ireland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Ireland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Ireland</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/RT%C3%89" title="RTÉ">RTÉ</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/RT%C3%89_One" title="RTÉ One">RTÉ One</a> and <a href="/wiki/RT%C3%89_Two" class="mw-redirect" title="RTÉ Two">RTÉ Two</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_Israel.svg/21px-Flag_of_Israel.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_Israel.svg/32px-Flag_of_Israel.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_Israel.svg/41px-Flag_of_Israel.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1100" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Israel_Broadcasting_Authority" title="Israel Broadcasting Authority">IBA</a> </td> <td><small><a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a>:</small><br /><a href="/wiki/Channel_1_(Israel)" title="Channel 1 (Israel)">Channel 1</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><small><a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>:</small><br /><a href="/wiki/Channel_33_(Israel)" title="Channel 33 (Israel)">Channel 33</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/RAI" title="RAI">RAI</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/RAI_1" class="mw-redirect" title="RAI 1">RAI 1</a>, <a href="/wiki/RAI_2" class="mw-redirect" title="RAI 2">RAI 2</a> and <a href="/wiki/RAI_3" class="mw-redirect" title="RAI 3">RAI 3</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/22px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/33px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/43px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/NHK" title="NHK">NHK</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fuji_Television" title="Fuji Television">Fuji Television</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tokyo_Broadcasting_System" class="mw-redirect" title="Tokyo Broadcasting System">TBS</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nippon_Television" title="Nippon Television">Nippon Television</a>, <a href="/wiki/TV_Asahi" title="TV Asahi">TV Asahi</a> and <a href="/wiki/TV_Tokyo" title="TV Tokyo">TV Tokyo</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/NHK_General_TV" title="NHK General TV">NHK General TV</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fuji_Television" title="Fuji Television">Fuji Television</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tokyo_Broadcasting_System" class="mw-redirect" title="Tokyo Broadcasting System">TBS Television</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nippon_Television" title="Nippon Television">Nippon Television</a>, <a href="/wiki/TV_Asahi" title="TV Asahi">TV Asahi</a> and <a href="/wiki/TV_Tokyo" title="TV Tokyo">TV Tokyo</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Flag_of_Laos.svg/23px-Flag_of_Laos.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Flag_of_Laos.svg/35px-Flag_of_Laos.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Flag_of_Laos.svg/45px-Flag_of_Laos.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Laos" title="Laos">Laos</a> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Lao_National_Television" title="Lao National Television">LNTV</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/23px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/35px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/45px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Macau" title="Macau">Macau</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Television_Broadcasts_Limited" class="mw-redirect" title="Television Broadcasts Limited">TVB</a> </td> <td><small><a href="/wiki/Cantonese_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Cantonese language">Cantonese</a>:</small><br /><a href="/wiki/TVB_Jade" title="TVB Jade">TVB Jade</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><small><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>:</small><br /><a href="/wiki/TVB_Pearl" title="TVB Pearl">TVB Pearl</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Latin America </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bein_TV&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bein TV (page does not exist)">Bein TV</a>, <a href="/wiki/DirecTV" title="DirecTV">DirecTV</a> </td> <td>Channels 530 and 532 of Bein TV<br />Channels 610 and 612 of DirecTV </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Flag_of_Malaysia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Malaysia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Flag_of_Malaysia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Malaysia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Flag_of_Malaysia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Malaysia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a><sup class="plainlinks nourlexpansion citation" id="ref_n2"><a href="#endnote_n2">2</a></sup> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Radio_Televisyen_Malaysia" title="Radio Televisyen Malaysia">RTM</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sistem_Televisyen_Malaysia_Berhad" class="mw-redirect" title="Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Berhad">STMB</a>, <a href="/wiki/NTV7" title="NTV7">NTV7</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/TV1_(Malaysian_TV_network)" title="TV1 (Malaysian TV network)">TV1</a>, <a href="/wiki/TV2_(Malaysian_TV_network)" title="TV2 (Malaysian TV network)">TV2</a>, <a href="/wiki/TV3_(Malaysia)" class="mw-redirect" title="TV3 (Malaysia)">TV3</a>, <a href="/wiki/NTV7" title="NTV7">NTV7</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/46px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="980" data-file-height="560" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Televisa" title="Televisa">Televisa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Azteca_(multimedia_conglomerate)" class="mw-redirect" title="Azteca (multimedia conglomerate)">TV Azteca</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Canal_de_las_Estrellas" class="mw-redirect" title="Canal de las Estrellas">Canal de las Estrellas</a>, <a href="/wiki/XHDF-TDT" title="XHDF-TDT">XHDF-TDT</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Flag_of_Monaco.svg/19px-Flag_of_Monaco.svg.png" decoding="async" width="19" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Flag_of_Monaco.svg/29px-Flag_of_Monaco.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Flag_of_Monaco.svg/38px-Flag_of_Monaco.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Monaco" title="Monaco">Monaco</a><sup class="plainlinks nourlexpansion citation" id="ref_n2"><a href="#endnote_n2">2</a></sup> </td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/France" title="France"><img alt="France" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/45px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/TF1" title="TF1">TF1</a>, <a href="/wiki/France_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9visions" title="France Télévisions">1998 FIFA World Cup TV</a><sup class="plainlinks nourlexpansion citation" id="ref_n2"><a href="#endnote_n2">2</a></sup><br /><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy"><img alt="Italy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/La7#Telemontecarlo" title="La7">Telemontecarlo</a> </td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/France" title="France"><img alt="France" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/45px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/TF1" title="TF1">TF1</a>, <a href="/wiki/France_2" title="France 2">1998 FIFA World Cup TV2</a>, <a href="/wiki/France_3" title="France 3">1998 FIFA World Cup TV3</a>, <a href="/wiki/France_4" title="France 4">1998 FIFA World Cup TV4</a>, <a href="/wiki/TV5Monde" title="TV5Monde">1998 FIFA World Cup TV International</a> and <a href="/wiki/France_%C3%94" title="France Ô">1998 FIFA World Cup TV News</a> (all <a href="/wiki/Matches" class="mw-redirect" title="Matches">matches</a> of <a href="/wiki/International_broadcast" class="mw-redirect" title="International broadcast">international broadcast</a> signal)<sup class="plainlinks nourlexpansion citation" id="ref_n2"><a href="#endnote_n2">2</a></sup><br /><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy"><img alt="Italy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/La7#Telemontecarlo" title="La7">Telemontecarlo</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Myanmar_%281974%E2%80%932010%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Myanmar_%281974%E2%80%932010%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Myanmar_%281974%E2%80%932010%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Myanmar_%281974%E2%80%932010%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Myanmar_%281974%E2%80%932010%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Myanmar_%281974%E2%80%932010%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Myanmar" title="Myanmar">Myanmar</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Myanmar_Radio_and_Television" title="Myanmar Radio and Television">MRTV</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Myanmar_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="Myanmar Television">Channel 5</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_Public_Broadcasting" class="mw-redirect" title="Netherlands Public Broadcasting">NPO</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nederland_1" class="mw-redirect" title="Nederland 1">Nederland 1</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nederland_2" class="mw-redirect" title="Nederland 2">Nederland 2</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nederland_3" class="mw-redirect" title="Nederland 3">Nederland 3</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/23px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/35px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/46px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Television_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Television New Zealand">TVNZ</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/TV1_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="TV1 (New Zealand)">TV1</a> and <a href="/wiki/TV2_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="TV2 (New Zealand)">TV2</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/21px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/32px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/41px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="372" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Norwegian_Broadcasting_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation">NRK</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/NRK1" title="NRK1">NRK1</a> and <a href="/wiki/NRK2" title="NRK2">NRK2</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="540" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Paraguay" title="Paraguay">Paraguay</a> </td> <td>TV Acción, TV Cerro Corá, Tevedos, Teledifusora Paraguaya, SICOM TV, Hispanoamérica TV, Canal 5 TV Color, Caacupé Cable Visión S.A., Holding Paraná de radio y televisión </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Telefuturo" title="Telefuturo">Telefuturo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sistema_Nacional_de_Televisi%C3%B3n_(Paraguay)" title="Sistema Nacional de Televisión (Paraguay)">SNT</a>, <a href="/wiki/Red_Guaran%C3%AD" title="Red Guaraní">Red Guaraní</a> <a href="/wiki/Canal_13_(Paraguay)" class="mw-redirect" title="Canal 13 (Paraguay)">Canal 13</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paraguay_TV" title="Paraguay TV">Paraguay TV</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=LaTele_(Paraguay)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="LaTele (Paraguay) (page does not exist)">La Tele</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paravisi%C3%B3n" title="Paravisión">Paravisión</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Cable_Visi%C3%B3n_Caacup%C3%A9&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cable Visión Caacupé (page does not exist)">Canal 25</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=RTV_Paraguay&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="RTV Paraguay (page does not exist)">RTV</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Flag_of_Peru.svg/23px-Flag_of_Peru.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Flag_of_Peru.svg/35px-Flag_of_Peru.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Flag_of_Peru.svg/45px-Flag_of_Peru.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Peru" title="Peru">Peru</a> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Am%C3%A9rica_Televisi%C3%B3n" title="América Televisión">América Televisión</a> and <a href="/wiki/Panamericana_Televisi%C3%B3n" title="Panamericana Televisión">Panamericana Televisión</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/GMA_Network" title="GMA Network">GMA Network</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sky_Cable" title="Sky Cable">Sky Cable</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Telewizja_Polska" title="Telewizja Polska">TVP</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/TVP1" title="TVP1">TVP1</a> and <a href="/wiki/TVP2" title="TVP2">TVP2</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/23px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/35px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/45px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portugal</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/R%C3%A1dio_e_Televis%C3%A3o_de_Portugal" title="Rádio e Televisão de Portugal">RTP</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/RTP1" title="RTP1">RTP1</a> and <a href="/wiki/RTP2" title="RTP2">RTP2</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/All-Russian_State_Television_and_Radio_Broadcasting_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company">VGTRK</a>, ORT </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rossiya_1" class="mw-redirect" title="Rossiya 1">Rossiya 1</a>, <a href="/wiki/Channel_One_Russia" title="Channel One Russia">Channel One Russia</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Flag_of_San_Marino_%28pre-2011%29.svg/20px-Flag_of_San_Marino_%28pre-2011%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Flag_of_San_Marino_%28pre-2011%29.svg/31px-Flag_of_San_Marino_%28pre-2011%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Flag_of_San_Marino_%28pre-2011%29.svg/40px-Flag_of_San_Marino_%28pre-2011%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/San_Marino" title="San Marino">San Marino</a> </td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy"><img alt="Italy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/RAI" title="RAI">RAI</a> </td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy"><img alt="Italy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/RAI_1" class="mw-redirect" title="RAI 1">RAI 1</a>, <a href="/wiki/RAI_2" class="mw-redirect" title="RAI 2">RAI 2</a> and <a href="/wiki/RAI_3" class="mw-redirect" title="RAI 3">RAI 3</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Flag_of_Singapore.svg/23px-Flag_of_Singapore.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Flag_of_Singapore.svg/35px-Flag_of_Singapore.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Flag_of_Singapore.svg/45px-Flag_of_Singapore.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Singapore</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mediacorp" title="Mediacorp">Singapore International Media</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Central_(TV_channel)" title="Central (TV channel)">Premiere 12</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_Slovakia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Slovakia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_Slovakia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Slovakia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_Slovakia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Slovakia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Slovakia" title="Slovakia">Slovakia</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Slovensk%C3%A1_telev%C3%ADzia" title="Slovenská televízia">STV</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jednotka" title="Jednotka">STV1</a> and STV2 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/South_African_Broadcasting_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="South African Broadcasting Corporation">SABC</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/SABC_1" title="SABC 1">SABC 1</a>, <a href="/wiki/SABC_2" title="SABC 2">SABC 2</a> and <a href="/wiki/SABC_3" title="SABC 3">SABC 3</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korea</a> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Korean_Broadcasting_System" title="Korean Broadcasting System">KBS</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/45px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/RTVE" title="RTVE">RTVE</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Televisi%C3%B3n_Espa%C3%B1ola" title="Televisión Española">TVE</a> (<a href="/wiki/La_1_(Spain)" class="mw-redirect" title="La 1 (Spain)">TV1</a> and <a href="/wiki/La_2_(Spain)" class="mw-redirect" title="La 2 (Spain)">TV2</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/23px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/35px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/46px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Sweden</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sveriges_Television" title="Sveriges Television">SVT</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/SVT1" title="SVT1">SVT1</a> and <a href="/wiki/SVT2" title="SVT2">SVT2</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/16px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/24px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/32px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></span></span>  </span><a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/SRG_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="SRG SSR">SRG SSR</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/SF_1" class="mw-redirect" title="SF 1">SF 1</a> (<a href="/wiki/Swiss_German" title="Swiss German">German</a>), <a href="/wiki/TSR_2" class="mw-redirect" title="TSR 2">TSR 2</a> (<a href="/wiki/Swiss_French" title="Swiss French">French</a>) and <a href="/wiki/TSI_2" class="mw-redirect" title="TSI 2">TSI 2</a> (<a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Taiwan_Television" title="Taiwan Television">TTV</a>, <a href="/wiki/China_Television" title="China Television">CTV</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Television_System" title="Chinese Television System">CTS</a> and <a href="/wiki/Formosa_Television" title="Formosa Television">FTV</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_Thailand.svg/23px-Flag_of_Thailand.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_Thailand.svg/35px-Flag_of_Thailand.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_Thailand.svg/45px-Flag_of_Thailand.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thailand</a> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Television_Pool_of_Thailand" title="Television Pool of Thailand">Television Pool of Thailand</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/23px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/35px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/45px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Turkish_Radio_and_Television_Corporation" title="Turkish Radio and Television Corporation">TRT</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/TRT_1" title="TRT 1">TRT 1</a>, <a href="/wiki/TRT_2" title="TRT 2">TRT 2</a> and <a href="/wiki/TRT_3" title="TRT 3">TRT 3</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/British_Broadcasting_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="British Broadcasting Corporation">BBC</a> and <a href="/wiki/ITV_(TV_network)" title="ITV (TV network)">ITV</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/BBC_One" title="BBC One">BBC One</a> and <a href="/wiki/ITV_(TV_network)" title="ITV (TV network)">ITV</a><sup class="plainlinks nourlexpansion citation" id="ref_n3"><a href="#endnote_n3">3</a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a>, <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a> (<a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Univision" title="Univision">Univision</a> (<a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/45px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Suspilne" title="Suspilne">UT-1</a> and <a href="/wiki/1%2B1_(TV_channel)" title="1+1 (TV channel)">1+1</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Uruguay.svg/23px-Flag_of_Uruguay.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Uruguay.svg/35px-Flag_of_Uruguay.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Uruguay.svg/45px-Flag_of_Uruguay.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="341" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Uruguay" title="Uruguay">Uruguay</a> </td> <td>Tevetres, Monte Carlo Televisión, Sociedad Anónima Emisora de Televisión y Anexos, Sociedad Televisora Larrañaga, SODRE, Franco-Hispano TV, Canal 8 TV Color, Canelones Cable Visión S.A., Holding Rivera de radio y televisión </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Channel_3_(Uruguay)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Channel 3 (Uruguay) (page does not exist)">Channel 3</a>, <a href="/wiki/Monte_Carlo_TV" class="mw-redirect" title="Monte Carlo TV">Channel 4</a>, <a href="/wiki/Channel_10_(Uruguay)" class="mw-redirect" title="Channel 10 (Uruguay)">Channel 10</a>, <a href="/wiki/Teledoce" title="Teledoce">Teledoce</a>, <a href="/wiki/Televisi%C3%B3n_Nacional_Uruguay" class="mw-redirect" title="Televisión Nacional Uruguay">UTC</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Uruvisi%C3%B3n&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Uruvisión (page does not exist)">Uruvisión</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Cable_Visi%C3%B3n_Canelones&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cable Visión Canelones (page does not exist)">Canal 27</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=STV_(Uruguay)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="STV (Uruguay) (page does not exist)">STV</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Vietnam.svg/23px-Flag_of_Vietnam.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Vietnam.svg/35px-Flag_of_Vietnam.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Vietnam.svg/45px-Flag_of_Vietnam.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vietnam_Television" title="Vietnam Television">Vietnam Television</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh_City_Television" title="Ho Chi Minh City Television">Ho Chi Minh City Television</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/VTV1" title="VTV1">VTV1</a>, <a href="/wiki/VTV3" title="VTV3">VTV3</a>, <a href="/wiki/HTV7" title="HTV7">HTV7</a>, <a href="/wiki/HTV9" class="mw-redirect" title="HTV9">HTV9</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/State_flag_of_Venezuela_%281954%E2%80%932006%29.svg/23px-State_flag_of_Venezuela_%281954%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/State_flag_of_Venezuela_%281954%E2%80%932006%29.svg/35px-State_flag_of_Venezuela_%281954%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/State_flag_of_Venezuela_%281954%E2%80%932006%29.svg/45px-State_flag_of_Venezuela_%281954%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Venevisi%C3%B3n" title="Venevisión">Venevisión</a>, <a href="/wiki/RCTV" title="RCTV">RCTV</a>, <a href="/wiki/Venezolana_de_Televisi%C3%B3n" title="Venezolana de Televisión">VTV</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sponsorship">Sponsorship</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Sponsorship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coca_cola_world_cup_1998.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Coca_cola_world_cup_1998.jpg/220px-Coca_cola_world_cup_1998.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Coca_cola_world_cup_1998.jpg/330px-Coca_cola_world_cup_1998.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Coca_cola_world_cup_1998.jpg/440px-Coca_cola_world_cup_1998.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3888" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Coca-Cola" title="Coca-Cola">Coca-Cola</a> was one of the <a href="/wiki/Sponsor_(commercial)" title="Sponsor (commercial)">sponsors</a> of FIFA World Cup 1998.</figcaption></figure> <p>The sponsors of the 1998 FIFA World Cup are divided into two categories: <a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup" title="FIFA World Cup">FIFA World Cup</a> Sponsors and <a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a> Supporters.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup" title="FIFA World Cup">FIFA World Cup</a> sponsors</th> <th><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">France</a> Supporters </th></tr> <tr> <td> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adidas" title="Adidas">Adidas</a><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-gettyimages.nl_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gettyimages.nl-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Budweiser" title="Budweiser">Budweiser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canon_Inc." title="Canon Inc.">Canon</a><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Casio" title="Casio">Casio</a><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Coca-Cola_Company" title="The Coca-Cola Company">Coca-Cola</a><sup id="cite_ref-gettyimages.nl1_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gettyimages.nl1-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fujifilm" title="Fujifilm">Fujifilm</a><sup id="cite_ref-gettyimages.nl_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gettyimages.nl-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gillette_(brand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gillette (brand)">Gillette</a><sup id="cite_ref-gettyimages.nl1_51-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gettyimages.nl1-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<a href="/wiki/Braun_(company)" title="Braun (company)">Braun</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/JVC" title="JVC">JVC</a><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MasterCard" class="mw-redirect" title="MasterCard">MasterCard</a><sup id="cite_ref-gettyimages.nl2_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gettyimages.nl2-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonald%27s" title="McDonald's">McDonald's</a><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opel" title="Opel">Opel</a><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-gettyimages.nl3_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gettyimages.nl3-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philips" title="Philips">Philips</a><sup id="cite_ref-gettyimages.nl2_58-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gettyimages.nl2-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-gettyimages.nl3_63-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gettyimages.nl3-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snickers" title="Snickers">Snickers</a><sup id="cite_ref-gettyimages.nl_47-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gettyimages.nl-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Air_France" title="Air France">Air France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn" title="Citroën">Citroën</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cr%C3%A9dit_Agricole" title="Crédit Agricole">Crédit Agricole</a><sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danone" title="Danone">Danone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orange_S.A." title="Orange S.A.">France Telecom</a><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Poste_(France)" title="La Poste (France)">La Poste</a><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peugeot" title="Peugeot">Peugeot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renault" title="Renault">Renault</a></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The absence of <a href="/wiki/Budweiser_(Anheuser-Busch)" class="mw-redirect" title="Budweiser (Anheuser-Busch)">Budweiser</a> on pitch side advertising hoardings is notable due to the <a href="/wiki/Evin_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Evin law">Evin law</a>, which forbids alcohol-related sponsorship in France, including in sports events.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Video_games">Video games</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Video games"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In most of the world, the official video game was, <i><a href="/wiki/World_Cup_98_(video_game)" title="World Cup 98 (video game)">World Cup 98</a></i> released by <a href="/wiki/EA_Sports" title="EA Sports">EA Sports</a> on 13 March 1998 for <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a>, <a href="/wiki/PlayStation_(console)" title="PlayStation (console)">PlayStation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nintendo_64" title="Nintendo 64">Nintendo 64</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Game_Boy" title="Game Boy">Game Boy</a>. It was the first international football game developed by Electronic Arts since obtaining the rights from FIFA in 1997 and received mostly favourable reviews.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Japan, <a href="/wiki/Konami" title="Konami">Konami</a> was granted the FIFA World Cup licence and produced two distinct video games: <i><a href="/wiki/International_Superstar_Soccer_98" title="International Superstar Soccer 98">Jikkyou World Soccer: World Cup France 98</a></i> by KCEO for the Nintendo 64, and <i><a href="/wiki/International_Superstar_Soccer_Pro_98" title="International Superstar Soccer Pro 98">World Soccer Jikkyou Winning Eleven 3: World Cup France '98</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Konami#Konami_Computer_Entertainment_Tokyo" title="Konami">KCET</a> for the PlayStation. These games were released in the rest of the world as <i>International Superstar Soccer '98</i> and <i>International Superstar Soccer Pro '98</i>, without the official FIFA World Cup licence, branding or real player names.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Also in Japan, <a href="/wiki/Sega" title="Sega">Sega</a> was granted the FIFA World Cup licence to produce the <a href="/wiki/Sega_Saturn" title="Sega Saturn">Saturn</a> video game <i>World Cup '98 France: Road to Win</i>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Many other video games, including <i><a href="/wiki/World_League_Soccer_98" class="mw-redirect" title="World League Soccer 98">World League Soccer 98</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Actua_Soccer" title="Actua Soccer">Actua Soccer</a> 2</i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Neo_Geo_Cup_%2798:_The_Road_to_the_Victory" title="Neo Geo Cup '98: The Road to the Victory">Neo Geo Cup '98: The Road to the Victory</a></i> were released in the buildup to the 1998 World Cup and evidently were based on the tournament. <i><a href="/wiki/FIFA:_Road_to_World_Cup_98" title="FIFA: Road to World Cup 98">FIFA: Road to World Cup 98</a></i>, also by EA Sports focused on the qualification stage.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Symbols">Symbols</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Symbols"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:France98mascot.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fa/France98mascot.png/170px-France98mascot.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="201" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fa/France98mascot.png/255px-France98mascot.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fa/France98mascot.png 2x" data-file-width="290" data-file-height="343" /></a><figcaption>Footix, the official <a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_mascots" class="mw-redirect" title="FIFA World Cup mascots">mascot</a> of the tournament</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mascot">Mascot</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Mascot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_official_mascots" title="List of FIFA World Cup official mascots">official mascot</a> was <i>Footix</i>, a <a href="/wiki/Rooster" class="mw-redirect" title="Rooster">rooster</a> first presented in May 1996.<sup id="cite_ref-Footix_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Footix-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was created by graphic designer Fabrice Pialot and selected from a shortlist of five mascots.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Research carried out about the choice of having a cockerel as a mascot was greatly received: 91% associated it immediately with France, the traditional symbol of the nation.<sup id="cite_ref-Footix_72-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Footix-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Footix, the name chosen by French television viewers, is a <a href="/wiki/Portmanteau" class="mw-redirect" title="Portmanteau">portmanteau</a> of "football" and the ending "-ix" from the popular <i><a href="/wiki/Ast%C3%A9rix" class="mw-redirect" title="Astérix">Astérix</a></i> comic strip.<sup id="cite_ref-Footix_72-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Footix-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The mascot's colours reflect those of the host nation's flag and home strip – blue for the jump suit, a red crest and with the words 'France 98' coloured in white. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Match_ball">Match ball</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Match ball"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Adidas_Tricolore" title="Adidas Tricolore">Adidas Tricolore</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_official_match_balls" title="List of FIFA World Cup official match balls">official match ball</a> for the 1998 World Cup, manufactured by <a href="/wiki/Adidas" title="Adidas">Adidas</a> was named the <i>Tricolore</i>, meaning 'three-coloured' in French.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was the eighth World Cup match ball made for the tournament by the German company and was the first in the series to be multi-coloured.<sup id="cite_ref-Tricolore_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tricolore-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The tricolour flag and cockerel, traditional symbols of France, were used as inspiration for the design.<sup id="cite_ref-Tricolore_75-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tricolore-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Music">Music</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Music_of_the_World_Cup:_Allez!_Ola!_Ole!" title="Music of the World Cup: Allez! Ola! Ole!">Music of the World Cup: Allez! Ola! Ole!</a></div> <p>The official song of the 1998 FIFA World Cup was "<a href="/wiki/The_Cup_of_Life" title="The Cup of Life">The Cup of Life</a>", also known as "La Copa de la Vida", recorded by <a href="/wiki/Ricky_Martin" title="Ricky Martin">Ricky Martin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The official anthem was "<a href="/wiki/La_Cour_des_Grands_(Do_You_Mind_If_I_Play)" title="La Cour des Grands (Do You Mind If I Play)">La Cour des Grands (Do You Mind If I Play)</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Youssou_N%27Dour" title="Youssou N'Dour">Youssou N'Dour</a> and <a href="/wiki/Axelle_Red" title="Axelle Red">Axelle Red</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Honorary FIFA President <a href="/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Havelange" title="João Havelange">João Havelange</a> praised France's hosting of the World Cup, describing the tournament as one that would "remain with me forever, as I am sure they will remain with everyone who witnessed this unforgettable competition".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFIFA4_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFIFA4-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Lennart_Johansson" title="Lennart Johansson">Lennart Johansson</a>, the chairman of the organising committee for the World Cup and President of UEFA added that France provided "subject matter of a quality that made the world hold its breath".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFIFA6_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFIFA6-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Cour_des_Comptes" class="mw-redirect" title="Cour des Comptes">Cour des Comptes</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Quasi-judicial_body" title="Quasi-judicial body">quasi-judicial body</a> of the <a href="/wiki/French_government" class="mw-redirect" title="French government">French government</a>, released its report on the organisation of the 1998 World Cup in 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_FIFA_World_Cup&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_national_football_team" title="Netherlands national football team">Netherlands</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:gold;;width:1%">Quarter-finals</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Argentina_national_football_team" title="Argentina national football team">Argentina</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/31px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/40px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Denmark_national_football_team" title="Denmark national football team">Denmark</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Germany_national_football_team" title="Germany national football team">Germany</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Italy_national_football_team" title="Italy national football team">Italy</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:gold;;width:1%">Round of 16</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/23px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/35px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/45px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Chile_national_football_team" title="Chile national football team">Chile</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/England_national_football_team" title="England national football team">England</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/46px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="980" data-file-height="560" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Mexico_national_football_team" title="Mexico national football team">Mexico</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Nigeria_national_football_team" title="Nigeria national football team">Nigeria</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/21px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/32px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/41px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="372" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Norway_national_football_team" title="Norway national football team">Norway</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Paraguay_%281990%E2%80%932013%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="540" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Paraguay_national_football_team" title="Paraguay national football team">Paraguay</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Romania_national_football_team" title="Romania national football team">Romania</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_%281992%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Serbia_and_Montenegro_national_football_team" title="Serbia and Montenegro national football team">FR Yugoslavia</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:gold;;width:1%">Group stage</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/45px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Austria_national_football_team" title="Austria national football team">Austria</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Belgium_national_football_team" title="Belgium national football team">Belgium</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Bulgaria_national_football_team" title="Bulgaria national football team">Bulgaria</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/23px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/35px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flag_of_Cameroon.svg/45px-Flag_of_Cameroon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Cameroon_national_football_team" title="Cameroon national football team">Cameroon</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Colombia_national_football_team" title="Colombia national football team">Colombia</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/35px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/46px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="630" data-file-height="360" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Iran_national_football_team" title="Iran national football team">Iran</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/23px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/35px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/46px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_national_football_team" title="Jamaica national football team">Jamaica</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/22px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/33px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg/43px-Flag_of_Japan_%281870%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Japan_national_football_team" title="Japan national football team">Japan</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/23px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/35px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/45px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Morocco_national_football_team" title="Morocco national football team">Morocco</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia_national_football_team" title="Saudi Arabia national football team">Saudi Arabia</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Scotland_national_football_team" title="Scotland national football team">Scotland</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Africa_national_soccer_team" title="South Africa national soccer team">South Africa</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Korea_%281997%E2%80%932011%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Korea_national_football_team" title="South Korea national football team">South Korea</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/45px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Spain_national_football_team" title="Spain national football team">Spain</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Tunisia_%281959%E2%80%931999%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Tunisia_national_football_team" title="Tunisia national football team">Tunisia</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, 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title="1954 FIFA World Cup final">1954</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1958_FIFA_World_Cup_final" title="1958 FIFA World Cup final">1958</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1962_FIFA_World_Cup_final" title="1962 FIFA World Cup final">1962</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_FIFA_World_Cup_final" title="1966 FIFA World Cup final">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_FIFA_World_Cup_final" title="1970 FIFA World Cup final">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_FIFA_World_Cup_final" title="1974 FIFA World Cup final">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1978_FIFA_World_Cup_final" title="1978 FIFA World Cup final">1978</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_FIFA_World_Cup_final" title="1982 FIFA World Cup final">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_FIFA_World_Cup_final" title="1986 FIFA World Cup final">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_FIFA_World_Cup_final" title="1990 FIFA World Cup final">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_FIFA_World_Cup_final" title="1994 FIFA World Cup final">1994</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_final" title="1998 FIFA World Cup final">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002_FIFA_World_Cup_final" title="2002 FIFA World Cup final">2002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_FIFA_World_Cup_final" title="2006 FIFA World Cup final">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_FIFA_World_Cup_final" title="2010 FIFA World Cup final">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_FIFA_World_Cup_final" title="2014 FIFA World Cup final">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup_final" title="2018 FIFA World Cup final">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup_final" title="2022 FIFA World Cup final">2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2026_FIFA_World_Cup_final" title="2026 FIFA World Cup final">2026</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:gold;;width:1%">Squads</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1930_FIFA_World_Cup_squads" title="1930 FIFA World Cup squads">1930</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1934_FIFA_World_Cup_squads" title="1934 FIFA World Cup squads">1934</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1938_FIFA_World_Cup_squads" title="1938 FIFA World Cup squads">1938</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1950_FIFA_World_Cup_squads" title="1950 FIFA World Cup squads">1950</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1954_FIFA_World_Cup_squads" title="1954 FIFA World Cup squads">1954</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1958_FIFA_World_Cup_squads" title="1958 FIFA World Cup squads">1958</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1962_FIFA_World_Cup_squads" title="1962 FIFA World Cup squads">1962</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_FIFA_World_Cup_squads" title="1966 FIFA World Cup squads">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_FIFA_World_Cup_squads" title="1970 FIFA World Cup squads">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_FIFA_World_Cup_squads" title="1974 FIFA World Cup squads">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1978_FIFA_World_Cup_squads" title="1978 FIFA World Cup squads">1978</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_FIFA_World_Cup_squads" title="1982 FIFA World Cup squads">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_FIFA_World_Cup_squads" title="1986 FIFA World Cup squads">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_FIFA_World_Cup_squads" title="1990 FIFA World Cup squads">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_FIFA_World_Cup_squads" title="1994 FIFA World Cup squads">1994</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_squads" title="1998 FIFA World Cup squads">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002_FIFA_World_Cup_squads" title="2002 FIFA World Cup squads">2002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_FIFA_World_Cup_squads" title="2006 FIFA World Cup squads">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_FIFA_World_Cup_squads" title="2010 FIFA World Cup squads">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_FIFA_World_Cup_squads" title="2014 FIFA World Cup squads">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup_squads" title="2018 FIFA World Cup squads">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup_squads" title="2022 FIFA World Cup squads">2022</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:gold;;width:1%">Final draw</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_seeding" title="1998 FIFA World Cup seeding">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002_FIFA_World_Cup_seeding" title="2002 FIFA World Cup seeding">2002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_FIFA_World_Cup_seeding" title="2006 FIFA World Cup seeding">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_FIFA_World_Cup_seeding" title="2010 FIFA World Cup seeding">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_FIFA_World_Cup_seeding" title="2014 FIFA World Cup seeding">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup_seeding" title="2018 FIFA World Cup seeding">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup_seeding" title="2022 FIFA World Cup seeding">2022</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:gold;;width:1%">Broadcasters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_broadcasting_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="1998 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002_FIFA_World_Cup_broadcasting_rights" title="2002 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights">2002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_FIFA_World_Cup_broadcasting_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_FIFA_World_Cup_broadcasting_rights" title="2010 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_FIFA_World_Cup_broadcasting_rights" title="2014 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup_broadcasting_rights" title="2018 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup_broadcasting_rights" title="2022 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights">2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2026_FIFA_World_Cup_broadcasting_rights" title="2026 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights">2026</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:gold;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_hosts" title="FIFA World Cup hosts">Bids</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2014_FIFA_World_Cup_bids" title="2014 FIFA World Cup bids">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_and_2022_FIFA_World_Cup_bids" title="2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_and_2022_FIFA_World_Cup_bids" title="2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids">2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2026_FIFA_World_Cup_bids" title="2026 FIFA World Cup bids">2026</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2030_FIFA_World_Cup_bids" title="2030 FIFA World Cup bids">2030</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2034_FIFA_World_Cup_bids" title="2034 FIFA World Cup bids">2034</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:gold;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_referees" title="FIFA World Cup referees">Officials</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2010_FIFA_World_Cup_officials" title="2010 FIFA World Cup officials">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_FIFA_World_Cup_officials" title="2014 FIFA World Cup officials">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup_officials" title="2018 FIFA World Cup officials">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup_officials" title="2022 FIFA World Cup officials">2022</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:gold;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/National_team_appearances_in_the_FIFA_World_Cup" title="National team appearances in the FIFA World Cup">Team appearances</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asian_nations_at_the_FIFA_World_Cup" title="Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup">AFC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/African_nations_at_the_FIFA_World_Cup" title="African nations at the FIFA World Cup">CAF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North,_Central_American_and_Caribbean_nations_at_the_FIFA_World_Cup" title="North, Central American and Caribbean nations at the FIFA World Cup">CONCACAF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_American_nations_at_the_FIFA_World_Cup" title="South American nations at the FIFA World Cup">CONMEBOL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oceanian_nations_at_the_FIFA_World_Cup" title="Oceanian nations at the FIFA World Cup">OFC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_nations_at_the_FIFA_World_Cup" title="European nations at the FIFA World Cup">UEFA</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:gold;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_records_and_statistics" title="FIFA World Cup records and statistics">Overall records</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Player records <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_winning_players" title="List of FIFA World Cup winning players">winners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_players_who_have_appeared_in_the_most_FIFA_World_Cups" title="List of players who have appeared in the most FIFA World Cups">top appearances</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_red_cards" title="List of FIFA World Cup red cards">red cards</a></li></ul></li> <li>Goalscorer records <ul><li><a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_top_goalscorers" title="FIFA World Cup top goalscorers">top</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_final_goalscorers" title="List of FIFA World Cup final goalscorers">finals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_hat-tricks" title="List of FIFA World Cup hat-tricks">hat-tricks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_own_goals" title="List of FIFA World Cup own goals">own goals</a></li></ul></li> <li>Manager records <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_winning_managers" title="List of FIFA World Cup winning managers">winners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_managers_at_the_FIFA_World_Cup" title="List of managers at the FIFA World Cup">all appearances</a></li></ul></li> <li>Match records <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_opening_matches" title="List of FIFA World Cup opening matches">opening</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_penalty_shoot-outs" title="List of FIFA World Cup penalty shoot-outs">penalty shoot-outs</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:gold;;width:1%">Miscellaneous</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_awards" title="FIFA World Cup awards">Awards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_official_match_balls" title="List of FIFA World Cup official match balls">Balls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:FIFA_World_Cup_controversies" title="Category:FIFA World Cup controversies">Controversies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economics_of_the_FIFA_World_Cup" title="Economics of the FIFA World Cup">Economics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FIFA_Fan_Festival" title="FIFA Fan Festival">Fan Festival</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_official_films" title="List of FIFA World Cup official films">Films</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_FIFA_World_Cup" title="History of the FIFA World Cup">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_official_mascots" title="List of FIFA World Cup official mascots">Mascots</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_songs_and_anthems" title="List of FIFA World Cup songs and anthems">Music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:FIFA_World_Cup_matches" title="Category:FIFA World Cup matches">Notable matches</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_matches" title="Category:FIFA World Cup qualification matches">qualifying</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_referees" title="FIFA World Cup referees">Referees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_stadiums" title="List of FIFA World Cup stadiums">Stadiums</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_final_stadiums" title="List of FIFA World Cup final stadiums">finals</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_Trophy" title="FIFA World Cup Trophy">Trophy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_video_games" title="FIFA World Cup video games">Video games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_World_Champions%27_Gold_Cup" title="1980 World Champions' Gold Cup">World Champions Cup</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="2" style="background:gold;"><div> <ul><li><sup>1</sup> Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay will host the inaugural games</li> <li><sup>2</sup> There was no qualification for the 1930 World Cup as places were given by invitation only.</li> <li><sup>3</sup> No final held; the article is about the decisive match of the final group stage.</li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Category"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/16px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" 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class="navbox-group" style="width:6em">Metropolitan</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Men's <ul><li><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team" title="France national football team">Senior</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_France_national_football_team" title="History of the France national football team">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team_manager" title="France national football team manager">Managers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_team_all-time_record" title="France national football team all-time record">All-time record</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/France_at_the_FIFA_World_Cup" title="France at the FIFA World Cup">At the FIFA World Cup</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/France_national_football_B_team" title="France national football B team">B team</a></li></ul></li> <li>Women's <ul><li><a href="/wiki/France_women%27s_national_football_team" title="France women's national football team">Senior</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/France_women%27s_national_under-19_football_team" title="France women's national under-19 football team">Under-19</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/France_women%27s_national_under-17_football_team" title="France women's national under-17 football team">Under-17</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/France_national_youth_football_team" title="France national youth football team">Youth</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/France_Olympic_football_team" title="France Olympic football team">Olympic team</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/France_national_under-21_football_team" title="France national under-21 football team">Under-21</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/France_national_under-20_football_team" title="France national under-20 football team">Under-20</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/France_national_under-19_football_team" title="France national under-19 football team">Under-19</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/France_national_under-18_football_team" title="France national under-18 football team">Under-18</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/France_national_under-17_football_team" title="France national under-17 football team">Under-17</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/France_national_under-16_football_team" title="France national under-16 football team">Under-16</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em">Overseas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/French_Guiana_national_football_team" title="French Guiana national football team">French Guiana</a></li> <li>Guadeloupe <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Guadeloupe_national_football_team" title="Guadeloupe national football team">Men's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guadeloupe_women%27s_national_football_team" title="Guadeloupe women's national football team">Women's</a></li></ul></li> <li>Martinique <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martinique_national_football_team" title="Martinique national football team">Men's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martinique_women%27s_national_football_team" title="Martinique women's national football team">Women's</a></li></ul></li> <li>Mayotte <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mayotte_national_football_team" title="Mayotte national football team">Men's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mayotte_women%27s_national_football_team" title="Mayotte women's national football team">Women's</a></li></ul></li> <li>New Caledonia <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_Caledonia_national_football_team" title="New Caledonia national football team">Men's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Caledonia_women%27s_national_football_team" title="New Caledonia women's national football team">Women's</a></li></ul></li> <li>Réunion <ul><li><a href="/wiki/R%C3%A9union_national_football_team" title="Réunion national football team">Men's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R%C3%A9union_women%27s_national_football_team" title="Réunion women's national football team">Women's</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Barth%C3%A9lemy_national_football_team" title="Saint Barthélemy national football team">Saint Barthélemy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Martin_national_football_team" title="Saint Martin national football team">Saint Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon_national_football_team" title="Saint Pierre and Miquelon national football team">Saint Pierre and Miquelon</a></li> <li>Tahiti <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tahiti_national_football_team" title="Tahiti national football team">Men's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tahiti_women%27s_national_football_team" title="Tahiti women's national football team">Women's</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wallis_and_Futuna_national_football_team" title="Wallis and Futuna national football team">Wallis and Futuna</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em">Unofficial</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brittany_national_football_team" title="Brittany national football team">Brittany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corsica_national_football_team" title="Corsica national football team">Corsica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_of_Nice_national_football_team" title="County of Nice national football team">Nice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occitania_national_football_team" title="Occitania national football team">Occitania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Provence_football_team" title="Provence football team">Provence</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/French_football_league_system" title="French football league system">League system</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em">Metropolitan</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Men's <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ligue_1" title="Ligue 1">Ligue 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ligue_2" title="Ligue 2">Ligue 2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Championnat_National" title="Championnat National">National</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Championnat_National_2" title="Championnat National 2">National 2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Championnat_National_3" title="Championnat National 3">National 3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R%C3%A9gional_1" title="Régional 1">Régional 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_football_league_system#Regional_leagues" title="French football league system">Lower Regional</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_football_league_system#Departmental_leagues" title="French football league system">Departmental</a></li></ul></li> <li>Women's <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Premi%C3%A8re_Ligue" title="Première Ligue">Première Ligue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seconde_Ligue" title="Seconde Ligue">Seconde Ligue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Division_3_F%C3%A9minine" title="Division 3 Féminine">Division 3 Féminine</a></li></ul></li> <li>Youth leagues <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Championnat_National_U19" title="Championnat National U19">Under-19</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Championnat_National_U17" title="Championnat National U17">Under-17</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em">Overseas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/French_Guiana_R%C3%A9gional_1" title="French Guiana Régional 1">French Guiana Régional 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martinique_Championnat_National" title="Martinique Championnat National">Martinique Championnat National</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guadeloupe_Division_of_Honor" class="mw-redirect" title="Guadeloupe Division of Honor">Guadeloupe Division of Honor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Caledonia_Super_Ligue" title="New Caledonia Super Ligue">New Caledonia Super Ligue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ligue_des_Antilles" title="Ligue des Antilles">Ligue des Antilles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R%C3%A9gional_1_Mayotte" title="Régional 1 Mayotte">Régional 1 Mayotte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R%C3%A9union_Premier_League" title="Réunion Premier League">Réunion Premier League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint-Barthelemy_Championships" title="Saint-Barthelemy Championships">Saint-Barthelemy Championships</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint-Martin_Senior_League" title="Saint-Martin Senior League">Saint-Martin Senior League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ligue_de_Football_de_Saint_Pierre_et_Miquelon" class="mw-redirect" title="Ligue de Football de Saint Pierre et Miquelon">Saint Pierre and Miquelon Championnat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tahiti_Ligue_1" title="Tahiti Ligue 1">Tahiti Ligue 1</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Domestic cups</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em">Metropolitan</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Men's <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coupe_de_France" title="Coupe de France">Coupe de France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coupe_de_la_Ligue" title="Coupe de la Ligue">Coupe de la Ligue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Troph%C3%A9e_des_Champions" title="Trophée des Champions">Trophée des Champions</a></li></ul></li> <li>Women's <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coupe_de_France_f%C3%A9minine" title="Coupe de France féminine">Coupe de France féminine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Troph%C3%A9e_des_Championnes" title="Trophée des Championnes">Trophée des Championnes</a></li></ul></li> <li>Youth <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coupe_Gambardella" title="Coupe Gambardella">Coupe Gambardella</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_des_Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9s_Fran%C3%A7aises_de_Sports_Athl%C3%A9tiques" title="Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques">Coupe Nationale</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em">Overseas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coupe_de_Cal%C3%A9donie" title="Coupe de Calédonie">Coupe de Calédonie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coupe_de_Guadeloupe" title="Coupe de Guadeloupe">Coupe de Guadeloupe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coupe_de_Guyane" title="Coupe de Guyane">Coupe de Guyane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coupe_de_la_Martinique" title="Coupe de la Martinique">Coupe de la Martinique</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coupe_de_Mayotte" title="Coupe de Mayotte">Coupe de Mayotte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coupe_de_la_R%C3%A9union" title="Coupe de la Réunion">Coupe de la Réunion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coupe_de_l%27Outre-Mer" title="Coupe de l'Outre-Mer">Coupe de l'Outre-Mer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tahiti_Cup" title="Tahiti Cup">Tahiti Cup</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other competitions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coupe_Manier" title="Coupe Manier">Coupe Manier</a> (1897–1911)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coupe_des_Alli%C3%A9s" title="Coupe des Alliés">Coupe des Alliés</a> (1915–18)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Championnat_de_France_Amateur_(1935%E2%80%931971)" title="Championnat de France Amateur (1935–1971)">CFA (1935–1971)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coupe_Charles_Drago" title="Coupe Charles Drago">Coupe Charles Drago</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_Division_3_(1971%E2%80%931993)" title="French Division 3 (1971–1993)">Division 3 (1971–1993)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_Division_4_(1978%E2%80%931993)" title="French Division 4 (1978–1993)">Division 4 (1978–1993)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lafarge_Foot_Avenir" title="Lafarge Foot Avenir">Lafarge Foot Avenir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montaigu_Tournament" title="Montaigu Tournament">Montaigu Tournament</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Revello_Tournament" title="Maurice Revello Tournament">Maurice Revello Tournament</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Challenge_Espoirs" title="Challenge Espoirs">Challenge Espoirs</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Organizations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Union_of_Professional_Footballers" class="mw-redirect" title="National Union of Professional Footballers">UNFP</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Troph%C3%A9es_UNFP_du_football" title="Trophées UNFP du football">Awards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UNFP_Player_of_the_Month" title="UNFP Player of the Month">Player of the Month</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Direction_Nationale_du_Contr%C3%B4le_de_Gestion" title="Direction Nationale du Contrôle de Gestion">DNCG</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federation_of_Athletic_Societies_of_France" title="Federation of Athletic Societies of France">FSAF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_Amateur_Cycling_Federation" title="French Amateur Cycling Federation">FCAF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_des_Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9s_Fran%C3%A7aises_de_Sports_Athl%C3%A9tiques" title="Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques">USFSA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ligue_de_Football_Association" title="Ligue de Football Association">LFA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_Interfederal_Committee" title="French Interfederal Committee">CFI</a></li> <li>Academies <ul><li><a href="/wiki/INF_Clairefontaine" title="INF Clairefontaine">INF Clairefontaine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CNFE_Clairefontaine" title="CNFE Clairefontaine">CNFE Clairefontaine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PEF_Ploufragan" title="PEF Ploufragan">Ploufragan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PEF_Saint-S%C3%A9bastien-sur-Loire" title="PEF Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire">Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/INF_Vichy" title="INF Vichy">INF Vichy</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lists / statistics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Football_records_in_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Football records in France">Football records in France</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Ligue_1_records_and_statistics" title="List of Ligue 1 records and statistics">Ligue 1 records and statistics</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Ligue_1_clubs" title="List of Ligue 1 clubs">Ligue 1 clubs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_French_football_champions" title="List of French football champions">Champions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_French_second_division_champions" title="List of French second division champions">Second division champions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_French_women%27s_football_champions" title="List of French women's football champions">Women's football champions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Coupe_de_France_finals" title="List of Coupe de France finals">Coupe de France winners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Coupe_de_la_Ligue_finals" title="List of Coupe de la Ligue finals">Coupe de la Ligue winners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_foreign_Ligue_1_players" title="List of foreign Ligue 1 players">Foreign Ligue 1 players</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_football_stadiums_in_France" title="List of football stadiums in France">Stadia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_football_clubs_in_international_competitions" title="French football clubs in international competitions">Clubs in international competition (men)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_women%27s_football_clubs_in_international_competitions" title="French women's football clubs in international competitions">Clubs in international competition (women)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Football_derbies_in_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Football derbies in France">Rivalries</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By city</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Football_in_Paris" title="Football in Paris">Paris</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="1998_in_Japanese_football" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a 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style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Template:1999_in_Japanese_football" title="Template:1999 in Japanese football">1999</a></span> » </div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">League competitions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Men</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1998_J.League" title="1998 J.League">J.League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Japan_Football_League" title="1998 Japan Football League">Japan Football League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Japanese_Regional_Leagues" title="1998 Japanese Regional Leagues">Regional Leagues</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Women</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1998_L.League" title="1998 L.League">L.League</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Cup competitions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Men</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1998_Emperor%27s_Cup" title="1998 Emperor's Cup">Emperor's Cup</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/1998_Emperor%27s_Cup_final" title="1998 Emperor's Cup final">Final</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_J.League_Cup" title="1998 J.League Cup">J.League Cup</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/1998_J.League_Cup_final" title="1998 J.League Cup final">Final</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Japanese_Super_Cup" title="1998 Japanese Super Cup">Super Cup</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Women</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1998_Empress%27s_Cup" title="1998 Empress's Cup">Empress's Cup</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/1998_Empress%27s_Cup_final" title="1998 Empress's Cup final">Final</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_L.League_Cup" title="1998 L.League Cup">L.League Cup</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/1998_L.League_Cup_final" title="1998 L.League Cup final">Final</a>)</small></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Asian_Football_Confederation" title="Asian Football Confederation">AFC</a> competitions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Men</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Asian Club Championship <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1997%E2%80%9398_Asian_Club_Championship" title="1997–98 Asian Club Championship">1997–98</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998%E2%80%9399_Asian_Club_Championship" title="1998–99 Asian Club Championship">1998–99</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Asian_Cup_Winners_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="1998 Asian Cup Winners Cup">Asian Cup Winners Cup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Asian_Super_Cup" title="1998 Asian Super Cup">Asian Super Cup</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related to national teams</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Japan_national_football_team" title="Japan national football team">Men</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1998_Japan_national_football_team" title="1998 Japan national football team">Summary</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">FIFA World Cup</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Japan_women%27s_national_football_team" title="Japan women's national football team">Women</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1998_Japan_women%27s_national_football_team" title="1998 Japan women's national football team">Summary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Football_at_the_1998_Asian_Games" title="Football at the 1998 Asian Games">Asian Games</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div id="Club_seasons"><b>Club seasons</b></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/1998_J.League" title="1998 J.League">J.League</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1998_Consadole_Sapporo_season" title="1998 Consadole Sapporo season">Consadole Sapporo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Kashima_Antlers_season" title="1998 Kashima Antlers season">Kashima Antlers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Urawa_Red_Diamonds_season" title="1998 Urawa Red Diamonds season">Urawa Red Diamonds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_JEF_United_Ichihara_season" title="1998 JEF United Ichihara season">JEF United Ichihara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Kashiwa_Reysol_season" title="1998 Kashiwa Reysol season">Kashiwa Reysol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Verdy_Kawasaki_season" title="1998 Verdy Kawasaki season">Verdy Kawasaki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Yokohama_Marinos_season" title="1998 Yokohama Marinos season">Yokohama Marinos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Yokohama_Fl%C3%BCgels_season" title="1998 Yokohama Flügels season">Yokohama Flügels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Bellmare_Hiratsuka_season" title="1998 Bellmare Hiratsuka season">Bellmare Hiratsuka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Shimizu_S-Pulse_season" title="1998 Shimizu S-Pulse season">Shimizu S-Pulse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_J%C3%BAbilo_Iwata_season" title="1998 Júbilo Iwata season">Júbilo Iwata</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Nagoya_Grampus_Eight_season" title="1998 Nagoya Grampus Eight season">Nagoya Grampus Eight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Kyoto_Purple_Sanga_season" title="1998 Kyoto Purple Sanga season">Kyoto Purple Sanga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Gamba_Osaka_season" title="1998 Gamba Osaka season">Gamba Osaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Cerezo_Osaka_season" title="1998 Cerezo Osaka season">Cerezo Osaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Vissel_Kobe_season" title="1998 Vissel Kobe season">Vissel Kobe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Sanfrecce_Hiroshima_season" title="1998 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