The final round of the 1998 soccer world championship was part of the 16th men's soccer world championship in France from June 27 to July 12, 1998 . This article covers the individual games in this final round and their results.
Overview
Qualified teams
Due to their results in the group stage of the Soccer World Cup in France, 16 teams had qualified for the final round:
Final round
Round of 16
Quarter finals
Semifinals
final
A1: Brazil Brazil
4th
B2: Chile
Chile
1
Brazil Brazil
3
Denmark Denmark
2
D1: Nigeria
Nigeria
1
C2: Denmark Denmark
4th
Brazil Brazil
2 1 (4) 2
Netherlands Netherlands
1 (2)
E1: Netherlands Netherlands
2
Q2: Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992
1
Netherlands Netherlands
2
Argentina Argentina
1
H1: Argentina Argentina
2 2 (4) 2
G2: England
England
2 (3)
Brazil Brazil
0
France France
3
B1: Italy Italy
1
A2: Norway
Norway
0
Italy Italy
0 (3)
France France
2 0 (4) 2
C1: France France
1 1 1
D2: Paraguay
Paraguay 1990
0
France France
2
Croatia Croatia
1
3rd place match
F1: Germany Germany
2
E2: Mexico
Mexico
1
Germany Germany
0
Netherlands Netherlands
1
Croatia Croatia
3
Croatia Croatia
2
G1: Romania
Romania
0
H2: Croatia Croatia
1
1 win after golden goal 2 win on penalties
Round of 16
Italy - Norway 1: 0 (1: 0)
Italy
Norway
Italy
Norway
Gianluca Pagliuca - Alessandro Costacurta , Giuseppe Bergomi , Fabio Cannavaro , Paolo Maldini - Francesco Moriero (63rd Angelo Di Livio ), Demetrio Albertini (73rd Gianluca Pessotto ), Luigi Di Biagio , Dino Baggio - Alessandro Del Piero (78th Enrico Chiesa ) , Christian Vieri Coach: Cesare Maldini (C)
Frode Grodås - Henning Berg , Dan Eggen , Ronny Johnsen , Stig Inge Bjørnebye - Erik Mykland , Kjetil Rekdal , Vidar Riseth - Håvard Flo (73rd Ole Gunnar Solskjær ), Øyvind Leonhardsen (13th Roar Strand ) - Tore André Flo Trainer: Egil Olsen (C)
1-0 Vieri (18th)
Maldini, Di Biagio, Moriero
Rekdal, Mykland, H. Flo
Brazil - Chile 4: 1 (3: 0)
Brazil
Chile
Brazil
Chile
Cláudio Taffarel - Cafu , Júnior Baiano , Aldair (77th Gonçalves ), Roberto Carlos - Leonardo , Carlos Dunga , César Sampaio , Rivaldo - Ronaldo , Bebeto (65th Denílson ) Coach: Mário Zagallo (C)
Nelson Tapia - Pedro Reyes , Ronald Fuentes , Javier Margas - Fernando Cornejo , Clarence Acuña (80th Luis Musrri ), Miguel Ramírez (46th Marcelo Vega ), Mauricio Aros - José Luis Sierra (46th Fabián Estay ) - Iván Zamorano , Marcelo Sala's coach: Nelson Acosta (C)
1-0 César Sampaio (12th) 2-0 César Sampaio (27th) 3-0 Ronaldo (45th, penalty kick) 4-1 Ronaldo (70th)
3: 1 Salas (68.)
Cafu, Leonardo
Tapia, Fuentes
France - Paraguay 1-0 n.GG
France
Paraguay
France
Paraguay
Fabien Barthez - Lilian Thuram , Marcel Desailly , Laurent Blanc , Bixente Lizarazu - Didier Deschamps , Emmanuel Petit (69th Alain Boghossian ) - Thierry Henry (65th Robert Pires ), Youri Djorkaeff , Bernard Diomède (76th Stéphane Guivarc'h ) - David Trezeguet Coach: Aimé Jacquet (C)
José Luis Chilavert - Francisco Arce , Carlos Gamarra , Celso Ayala , Pedro Sarabia - Roberto Acuña , Julio César Enciso , Carlos Paredes (74th Denis Caniza ) - Miguel Angel Benítez , Jorge Luis Campos (55th Julio César Yegros ) - José Cardozo ( 91. Arístides Rojas ) Coach: Paulo César Carpegiani (C)
1: 0 Blanc (114th, Golden Goal)
Chilavert, Arce, Enciso, Rojas, Benítez
Nigeria - Denmark 1: 4 (0: 2)
Nigeria
Denmark
Nigeria
Denmark
Peter Rufai - Mutiu Adepoju , Uche Okechukwu , Taribo West , Celestine Babayaro - Sunday Oliseh - Finidi George , Jay-Jay Okocha , Garba Lawal (73rd Tijani Babangida ) - Nwankwo Kanu (65th Rashidi Yekini ), Victor Ikpeba Trainer: Bora Milutinović (C)
Peter Schmeichel - Søren Colding , Marc Rieper , Jes Høgh , Jan Heintze - Martin Jørgensen , Thomas Helveg , Allan Nielsen - Michael Laudrup (84th Per Frandsen ) - Brian Laudrup (78th Morten Wieghorst ), Peter Møller (59th Ebbe Sand ) Coach: Bo Johansson (C)
1: 4 Babangida (78th)
0: 1 Møller (3rd) 0: 2 B. Laudrup (12th) 0: 3 Sand (60th) 0: 4 Helveg (76th)
Okocha
Rieper
Germany - Mexico 2: 1 (0: 0)
Germany
Mexico
Germany
Mexico
Andreas Köpke - Christian Wörns , Lothar Matthäus , Markus Babbel - Jörg Heinrich (58th Andreas Möller ), Dietmar Hamann , Thomas Helmer (38th Christian Ziege ), Michael Tarnat - Thomas Häßler (74th Ulf Kirsten ) - Jürgen Klinsmann , Oliver Bierhoff Trainer: Berti Vogts (C)
Jorge Campos - Pável Pardo , Claudio Suárez , Duilio Davino , Raúl Lara - Marcelino Bernal (46th Salvador Carmona ), Alberto García Aspe (86th Ricardo Peláez ), Germán Villa - Francisco Palencia (53rd Jesús Arellano ) - Luis Hernández , Cuauhtémoc Blanco coach: Manuel Lapuente (C)
1: 1 Klinsmann (75th) 2: 1 Bierhoff (86th)
0-1 Hernández (47.)
Babbel, Matthäus, Tarnat, Hamann
Davino, Blanco
Netherlands - Yugoslavia 2: 1 (1: 0)
Netherlands
Yugoslavia
Netherlands
Yugoslavia
Edwin van der Sar - Michael Reiziger , Jaap Stam , Frank de Boer , Arthur Numan - Clarence Seedorf , Edgar Davids , Phillip Cocu - Ronald de Boer , Dennis Bergkamp , Marc Overmars Trainer: Guus Hiddink (C)
Ivica Kralj - Zoran Mirkovic , Goran Đorović , Siniša Mihajlović (78th Niša Saveljić ), Željko Petrović - Branko Brnović , Slobodan Komljenović , Slaviša Jokanović , Vladimir Jugović - Dragan Stojković (57. Dejan Savićević ) - Predrag Mijatović Coach: Slobodan Santrač (C)
1: 0 Bergkamp (38th) 2: 1 Davids (90th + 2 ')
1: 1 Komljenović (48th)
Djorović, Stojković, Mirković
Mijatović shoots a penalty against the crossbar (52.)
Romania - Croatia 0: 1 (0: 1)
Romania
Croatia
Romania
Croatia
Bogdan Stelea - Iulian Filipescu , Gheorghe Popescu , Liviu Ciobotariu - Dan Petrescu (76th Lucian Marinescu ), Gabriel Popescu (61 Radu Niculescu ), Constantin Gâlcă , Dorinel Munteanu - Gheorghe Hagi (57. Gheorghe Craioveanu ) - Viorel Moldovan , Adrian Ilie Coach: Anghel Iordănescu (C)
Dražen Ladić - Slaven Bilić , Igor Štimac , Dario Šimić - Mario Stanić (83rd Igor Tudor ), Krunoslav Jurčić , Aljoša Asanović , Robert Jarni - Zvonimir Boban - Goran Vlaović (77th Petar Krpan ), Davor Šuker Coach: Miroslav Blažević (C)
0: 1 Šuker (45th + 2 ', penalty kick)
Ilie, Petrescu, Gh. Popescu
Boban, Bilic
Argentina - England 2: 2 aet (2: 2, 2: 2), 4: 3 i. E.
Argentina
England
Argentina
England
Carlos Roa - Nelson Vivas , Roberto Ayala , José Chamot - Javier Zanetti , Juan Sebastián Verón , Matías Almeyda , Diego Simeone (91st Sergio Berti ) - Ariel Ortega - Gabriel Batistuta (68th Hernán Crespo ), Claudio López (68th Marcelo Gallardo ) Trainer: Daniel Passarella (C)
David Seaman - Gary Neville , Tony Adams , Sol Campbell - Darren Anderton (97th David Batty ), Paul Ince , David Beckham , Graeme Le Saux (71st Gareth Southgate ) - Paul Scholes (78th Paul Merson ) - Alan Shearer , Michael Owen Trainer: Glenn Hoddle (C)
1-0 Batistuta (6th, penalty kick) 2-2 Zanetti (45th)
1: 1 Shearer (10th, penalty kick) 1: 2 Owen (16th)
penalties shoot
1-0 Berti Seaman holds against Crespo 2-1 Verón 3-2 Gallardo 4-3 Ayala
1: 1 Shearer 1: 1 Roa holds against Ince 2: 2 Merson 3: 3 Owen Roa holds against Batty
Roa, Almeyda, Verón, Simeone
Seaman, Ince
Beckham (47th, assault)
Quarter finals
Italy - France 0-0 aet, 3-4 i. E.
Italy
France
Italy
France
Gianluca Pagliuca - Alessandro Costacurta , Giuseppe Bergomi , Fabio Cannavaro , Paolo Maldini - Francesco Moriero , Luigi Di Biagio , Dino Baggio (52nd Demetrio Albertini ), Gianluca Pessotto (90th Angelo Di Livio ) - Alessandro Del Piero (67th Roberto Baggio ) , Christian Vieri Coach: Cesare Maldini (C)
Fabien Barthez - Lilian Thuram , Marcel Desailly , Laurent Blanc , Bixente Lizarazu - Christian Karembeu (65th Thierry Henry ), Didier Deschamps , Emmanuel Petit - Youri Djorkaeff , Zinédine Zidane - Stéphane Guivarc'h (65th David Trezeguet ) Trainer: Aimé Jacquet (C)
penalties shoot
1: 1 R. Baggio Barthez saves against Albertini 2: 2 Costacurta 3: 3 Vieri Di Biagio shoots the crossbar
0: 1 Zidane Pagliuca holds against Lizarazu 1: 2 Trezeguet 2: 3 Henry 3: 4 Blanc
Bergomi, Costacurta, Del Piero
Deschamps, Guivarc'h
Brazil - Denmark 3: 2 (2: 1)
Brazil
Denmark
Brazil
Denmark
Cláudio Taffarel - Cafu , Júnior Baiano , Aldair , Roberto Carlos - Leonardo (72nd Emerson ), Carlos Dunga , César Sampaio , Rivaldo (88th Zé Roberto ) - Ronaldo , Bebeto (64th Denílson ) Coach: Mário Zagallo (C)
Peter Schmeichel - Søren Colding , Marc Rieper , Jes Høgh , Jan Heintze - Martin Jørgensen , Thomas Helveg (88th Michael Schjønberg ), Allan Nielsen (46th Stig Tøfting ) - Michael Laudrup (84th Per Frandsen ) - Brian Laudrup (78th ) Morten Wieghorst ), Peter Møller (67th Ebbe Sand ) coach: Bo Johansson (C)
1: 1 Bebeto (10th) 2: 1 Rivaldo (25th) 3: 2 Rivaldo (59th)
0: 1 Jørgensen (2nd) 2: 2 B. Laudrup (50th)
Cafu (2nd / closed), Roberto Carlos, Aldair
Helveg, Colding, Töfting
Netherlands - Argentina 2: 1 (1: 1)
Netherlands
Argentina
Netherlands
Argentina
Edwin van der Sar - Michael Reiziger , Jaap Stam , Frank de Boer , Arthur Numan - Ronald de Boer (64th Marc Overmars ), Wim Jonk , Edgar Davids , Phillip Cocu - Dennis Bergkamp , Patrick Kluivert Trainer: Guus Hiddink (C)
Carlos Roa - Roberto Néstor Sensini , Roberto Ayala , José Chamot (89th Abel Balbo ) - Javier Zanetti , Juan Sebastián Verón , Matías Almeyda (67th Hector Pineda ), Diego Simeone - Ariel Ortega - Gabriel Batistuta , Claudio López Trainer: Daniel Passarella (C)
1: 0 Kluivert (12th) 2: 1 Bergkamp (90th)
1: 1 López (17.)
Stam
Ortega, Sensini, Chamot
Numan (76.)
Ortega (87th, gross foul)
Germany - Croatia 0: 3 (0: 1)
Germany
Croatia
Germany
Croatia
Andreas Köpke - Christian Wörns , Lothar Matthäus , Jürgen Kohler - Jörg Heinrich , Dietmar Hamann (79th Olaf Marschall ), Jens Jeremies , Michael Tarnat - Thomas Häßler (69th Ulf Kirsten ) - Jürgen Klinsmann , Oliver Bierhoff Trainer: Berti Vogts (C)
Dražen Ladić - Slaven Bilić , Igor Štimac , Dario Šimić - Mario Stanić , Zvonimir Soldo , Aljoša Asanović , Robert Jarni - Zvonimir Boban - Goran Vlaović (83rd Silvio Marić ), Davor Šuker Coach: Miroslav Blažević (C)
0: 1 Jarni (45th + 3 ') 0: 2 Vlaović (80th) 0: 3 Šuker (85th)
Tarnat, Heinrich
Šuker, Šimić
Wörns (40th, emergency brake )
Semifinals
Brazil - Netherlands 1: 1 aet, (1: 1, 0: 0), 4: 2 p. E.
Brazil
Netherlands
Brazil
Netherlands
Cláudio Taffarel - Zé Carlos , Júnior Baiano , Aldair , Roberto Carlos - Leonardo (85th Emerson ), Carlos Dunga , César Sampaio , Rivaldo - Ronaldo , Bebeto (70th Denílson ) Coach: Mário Zagallo (C)
Edwin van der Sar - Michael Reiziger (57th Aron Winter ), Jaap Stam , Frank de Boer , Phillip Cocu - Ronald de Boer , Wim Jonk (111th Clarence Seedorf ), Edgar Davids , Boudewijn Zenden (75th Pierre van Hooijdonk ) - Dennis Bergkamp , Patrick Kluivert Trainer: Guus Hiddink (C)
1-0 Ronaldo (46.)
1: 1 Kluivert (87th)
penalties shoot
1-0 Ronaldo 2-1 Rivaldo 3-2 Emerson 4-2 Dunga
1: 1 F. de Boer 2: 2 Bergkamp Taffarel holds against Cocu Taffarel holds against R. de Boer
Zé Carlos, César Sampaio
Reiziger, Davids, Seedorf, von Hooijdonk
France - Croatia 2: 1 (0: 0)
France
Croatia
France
Croatia
Fabien Barthez - Lilian Thuram , Marcel Desailly , Laurent Blanc , Bixente Lizarazu - Christian Karembeu (31st Thierry Henry ), Didier Deschamps , Emmanuel Petit - Youri Djorkaeff (75th Frank Leboeuf ), Zinédine Zidane - Stéphane Guivarc'h (69th David Trezeguet ) Trainer: Aimé Jacquet (C)
Dražen Ladić - Slaven Bilić , Igor Štimac , Dario Šimić - Mario Stanić (89th Robert Prosinečki ), Zvonimir Soldo , Aljoša Asanović , Robert Jarni - Zvonimir Boban (65th Silvio Marić ) - Goran Vlaović , Davor Šuker Coach: Miroslav Blažević (C)
1: 1 Thuram (47th) 2: 1 Thuram (70th)
0: 1 Šuker (46.)
Stanić, Šimić, Asanović
Blanc (76th, gross foul)
3rd place match
Netherlands - Croatia 1: 2 (1: 2)
Netherlands
Croatia
Netherlands
Croatia
Edwin van der Sar - Jaap Stam , Frank de Boer , Arthur Numan - Clarence Seedorf , Wim Jonk , Edgar Davids , Phillip Cocu (46th Marc Overmars ) - Dennis Bergkamp (58th Pierre van Hooijdonk ), Boudewijn Zenden - Patrick Kluivert Trainer: Guus Hiddink (C)
Dražen Ladić - Slaven Bilić , Zvonimir Soldo , Igor Štimac - Robert Prosinečki (78th Goran Vlaović ), Krunoslav Jurčić , Aljoša Asanović , Robert Jarni - Zvonimir Boban (87th Igor Tudor ) - Mario Stanić , Davor Šuker Coach: Miroslav Blažević (C)
1: 1 Zenden (22.)
0: 1 Prosinecki (14th) 1: 2 Šuker (36th)
Jonk, Davids
Štimac, Jurcic, Stanić (2nd, suspended), Asanović (2nd, suspended)
final
Brazil - France 0: 3 (0: 2)
Brazil
France
Lineup
Brazil
France
Cláudio Taffarel - Cafu , Júnior Baiano , Aldair , Roberto Carlos - Leonardo (46th Denílson ), Carlos Dunga , César Sampaio (74th Edmundo ), Rivaldo - Ronaldo , Bebeto Coach: Mário Zagallo (C)
Fabien Barthez - Lilian Thuram , Marcel Desailly , Frank Leboeuf , Bixente Lizarazu - Christian Karembeu (57th Alain Boghossian ), Didier Deschamps , Emmanuel Petit - Youri Djorkaeff (76th Patrick Vieira ), Zinédine Zidane - Stéphane Guivarc'h (66th Christophe Dugarry ) Trainer: Aimé Jacquet (C)
0: 1 Zidane (27th) 0: 2 Zidane (45th + 1 ') 0: 3 Petit (90th + 3')
J. Baiano
Karembeu, Deschamps
Desailly (68.)
Player of the Match: Zinedine Zidane
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