Football World Cup 1998 / final round

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:

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D	Group E	Group F.	Group G	Group H.
1. Brazil	1. Italy	1. France	1. Nigeria	1. Netherlands	1. Germany	1. Romania	1. Argentina
2. Norway	2. Chile	2. Denmark	2. Paraguay	2. Mexico	2. Yugoslavia	2. England	2. Croatia

Final round

	Round of 16				Quarter finals				Semifinals				final
	A1: Brazil	4th
	B2: Chile	1
					Brazil	3
					Denmark	2
	D1: Nigeria	1
	C2: Denmark	4th
									Brazil	21 (4) 2
									Netherlands	1 (2)
	E1: Netherlands	2
	Q2: Yugoslavia	1
					Netherlands	2
					Argentina	1
	H1: Argentina	22 (4) 2
	G2: England	2 (3)
													Brazil	0
													France	3
	B1: Italy	1
	A2: Norway	0
					Italy	0 (3)
					France	20 (4) 2
	C1: France	11 1
	D2: Paraguay	0
									France	2
									Croatia	1			3rd place match
	F1: Germany	2
	E2: Mexico	1
					Germany	0							Netherlands	1
					Croatia	3							Croatia	2
	G1: Romania	0
	H2: Croatia	1

¹ win after golden goal
² win on penalties

Round of 16

Italy - Norway 1: 0 (1: 0)

Italy		Norway
	1. Round of 16 June 27, 1998 at 4:30 p.m. in Marseille ( Stade Vélodrome ) Spectators: 55,000 Referee: Bernd Heynemann ( Germany )   Match report
	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	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
	1-0 Vieri (18th)
	Maldini, Di Biagio, Moriero	Rekdal, Mykland, H. Flo

Brazil - Chile 4: 1 (3: 0)

Brazil		Chile
	2nd round of 16 June 27, 1998 at 9:00 p.m. in Paris ( Parc des Princes ) Spectators: 45,500 Referee: Marc Batta ( France )   Match report
	Cláudio Taffarel - Cafu , Júnior Baiano , Aldair (77th Gonçalves ), Roberto Carlos - Leonardo , Carlos Dunga , César Sampaio , Rivaldo - Ronaldo , Bebeto (65th Denílson ) Coach: Mário Zagallo	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
	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
	3rd round of 16 June 28, 1998 at 4:30 p.m. in Lens ( Stade Félix Bollaert ) Spectators: 31,800 Referee: Ali Bujsaim ( United Arab Emirates )   Match report
	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	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
	1: 0 Blanc (114th, Golden Goal)
		Chilavert, Arce, Enciso, Rojas, Benítez

Nigeria - Denmark 1: 4 (0: 2)

Nigeria		Denmark
	4. Round of 16 June 28, 1998 at 9:00 p.m. in Paris / Saint-Denis ( Stade de France ) Spectators: 77,000 Referee: Urs Meier ( Switzerland )   Match report
	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	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
	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
	5th round of 16 29 June 1998 at 4:30 p.m. in Montpellier ( Stade de la Mosson ) Spectators: 29,800 Referee: Vitor Melo Pereira ( Portugal )   Match report
	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	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
	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
	6. Round of 16 29 June 1998 at 9:00 p.m. in Toulouse ( Stadium Municipal ) Spectators: 33,500 Referee: José María García Aranda ( Spain )   Match report
	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	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
	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
	7th round of 16 June 30, 1998 at 4:30 p.m. in Bordeaux ( Stade Chaban-Delmas ) Spectators: 31,800 Referee: Javier Castrilli ( Argentina )   Match report
	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	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
		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
	8. Round of 16 June 30, 1998 at 9:00 p.m. in Saint-Étienne ( Stade Geoffroy-Guichard ) Spectators: 30,600 Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen ( Denmark )   Match report
	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	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
	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
	1st quarter finals July 3, 1998 at 4:30 p.m. in Paris / Saint-Denis ( Stade de France ) Spectators: 77,000 Referee: Hugh Dallas ( Scotland )   Match report
	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	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
	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
	2nd quarter finals July 3, 1998 at 9:00 p.m. in Nantes ( Stade Louis-Fonteneau ) Spectators: 35,500 (sold out) Referee: Gamal Ghandour ( Egypt )   Match report
	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	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
	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
	3rd quarter finals 4th July 1998 at 4:30 p.m. in Marseille ( Stade Vélodrome ) Spectators: 55,000 Referee: Arturo Brizio Carter ( Mexico )   Match report
	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	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
	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
	4th quarter finals 4th July 1998 at 9:00 p.m. in Lyon ( Stade Gerland ) Spectators: 39,100 Referee: Rune Pedersen ( Norway )   Match report
	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	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
		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
	1st semifinals 7 July 1998 at 9:00 p.m. in Marseille ( Stade Vélodrome ) Spectators: 54,000 Referee: Ali Bujsaim ( United Arab Emirates )   Match report
	Cláudio Taffarel - Zé Carlos , Júnior Baiano , Aldair , Roberto Carlos - Leonardo (85th Emerson ), Carlos Dunga , César Sampaio , Rivaldo - Ronaldo , Bebeto (70th Denílson ) Coach: Mário Zagallo	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
	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
	2nd semifinals July 8, 1998 at 9:00 p.m. in Paris / Saint-Denis ( Stade de France ) Spectators: 76,000 Referee: José María García Aranda ( Spain )   Match report
	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	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
	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
	3rd place match July 11, 1998 at 9:00 p.m. in Paris ( Parc des Princes ) Spectators: 45,500 Referee: Epifanio González Chávez ( Paraguay )   Match report
	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	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
	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
	final July 12, 1998 at 9:00 p.m. in Paris / Saint-Denis ( Stade de France ) Spectators: 80,000 (sold out) Referee: Said Belqola ( Morocco )   Match report
	Cláudio Taffarel - Cafu , Júnior Baiano , Aldair , Roberto Carlos - Leonardo (46th Denílson ), Carlos Dunga , César Sampaio (74th Edmundo ), Rivaldo - Ronaldo , Bebeto Coach: Mário Zagallo	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
		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