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1998 FIFA World Cup

Coupe du Monde – France 98
Tournament details
Host country	France
Dates	10 June – 12 July
Teams	32 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	10 (in 10 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	France (1st title)
Runners-up	Brazil
Third place	Croatia
Fourth place	Netherlands
Tournament statistics
Matches played	64
Goals scored	171 (2.67 per match)
Attendance	2,784,687 (43,511 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Davor Šuker (6 goals)
Best player(s)	Ronaldo
Best young player	Michael Owen
Best goalkeeper	Fabien Barthez
Fair play award	England France
← 1994

The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the 16th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's nationalassociation football teams. It was held in France from 10 June to 12 July 1998. The country was chosen as the host nation by FIFA for the second time in the history of the tournament, defeating Morocco in the bidding process. It was the second time that France staged the competition (the first was in 1938) and the ninth time that it was held in Europe. It was the first World Cup to be held under the presidency of Sepp Blatter.

Express chipset family driver update. Qualification for the finals 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 Stade de France, Saint-Denis.

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The tournament was won by host country France, who beat defending champions Brazil 3–0 in the final. France won their first title, becoming the seventh nation to win a World Cup, and the sixth (after Uruguay, Italy, England, West Germany and Argentina) to win the tournament on home soil. Croatia, Jamaica, Japan and South Africa made their first appearances in the finals.

• 1Host selection
• 2Qualification
• 4Innovations
• 8Results
  • 8.1Group stage
• 9Knockout stage
• 10Statistics
• 11Symbols
• 12Marketing
• 15References

Host selection[edit]

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France was awarded the 1998 World Cup on 2 July 1992 by the executive committee of FIFA during a general meeting in Zürich, Switzerland. They defeated Morocco by 12 votes to 7.^[1][2] 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 1986 and 1990 respectively. France previously hosted the third edition of the World Cup in 1938. England, who hosted the competition in 1966 and won it, were among the original applicants, but later withdrew their application in favour of an ultimately successful bid to host UEFA Euro 1996.

Voting results[3]
Country	Round 1
France	12
Morocco	7

Bribery and corruption investigations[edit]

On 4 June 2015, while co-operating with the FBI and the Swiss authorities, Chuck Blazer confirmed that he and other members of FIFA's executive committee were bribed during the 1998 and 2010 World Cups 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.^[4][5][6]

Qualification[edit]

The qualification draw for the 1998 World Cup finals took place in the Musée du Louvre, Paris on 12 December 1995.^[7] As tournament hosts, France was exempt from the draw as was defending champion Brazil. 174 teams from six confederations participated, 24 more than in the previous round. 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.^[8]CONMEBOL (South America) and CAF (Africa) were each given five spots in the final tournament, while three spots were contested between 30 CONCACAF 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.

Four nations qualified for the first time: Croatia, Jamaica, Japan and South Africa. The last team to qualify was Iran by virtue of beating Australia in a two-legged tie on 29 November 1997.^[9] This was Team Melli's first appearance in the finals since 1978, the last time Tunisia also qualified for the tournament. Chile 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 1994 tournament, with the Balkan team now appearing under the name of FR Yugoslavia. Among the teams who failed to qualify were two-time winners Uruguay (for the second successive tournament); Sweden, who finished third in 1994; Russia (who failed to qualify for the first time since 1978 after losing to Italy in the play-off round); and the Republic of Ireland, who had qualified for the previous two tournaments.^[10] As of 2018, this is the most recent time Austria, Scotland, Norway, Bulgaria, Romania, and Jamaica have qualified for a FIFA World Cup finals, as well as the last time Portugal missed out. The highest ranked team not to qualify was Czech Republic (ranked 3rd), while the lowest ranked team that did qualify was Nigeria (ranked 74th).

List of qualified teams[edit]

The following 32 teams, shown with final pre-tournament rankings,^[11] qualified for the final tournament.

AFC (4) Iran (42) Japan (12) Saudi Arabia (34) South Korea (20) CAF (5) Cameroon (49) Morocco (13) Nigeria (74) South Africa (24) Tunisia (21) OFC (0) None qualified

CONCACAF (3) Jamaica (30) Mexico (4) United States (11) CONMEBOL (5) Argentina (6) Brazil (1) Chile (9) Colombia (10) Paraguay (29)

UEFA (15) Austria (31) Belgium (36) Bulgaria (35) Croatia (19) Denmark (27) England (5) France (18) (hosts) Germany (2) Italy (14) Netherlands (25) Norway (7) Romania (22) Scotland (41) Spain (15) Yugoslavia (8)

Countries qualified for World Cup Countries that did not enter World Cup

Teams listed by FIFA ranking as of May 1998[12]
Country	Confederation	Rank
1	Brazil (1994 winner)	CONMEBOL	1
2	Germany	UEFA	2
3	Mexico	CONCACAF	4
4	England	UEFA	5
5	Argentina	CONMEBOL	6
6	Norway	UEFA	7
7	Yugoslavia	UEFA	8
8	Chile	CONMEBOL	9
9	Colombia	CONMEBOL	10
10	United States	CONCACAF	11
11	Japan	AFC	12
12	Morocco	CAF	13
13	Italy	UEFA	14
14	Spain	UEFA	15
15	France (host)	UEFA	18
16	Croatia	UEFA	19
17	South Korea	AFC	20
18	Tunisia	CAF	21
19	Romania	UEFA	22
20	South Africa	CAF	24
21	Netherlands	UEFA	25
22	Denmark	UEFA	27
23	Paraguay	CONMEBOL	29
24	Jamaica	CONCACAF	30
25	Austria	UEFA	31
26	Saudi Arabia	AFC	34
27	Bulgaria	UEFA	35
28	Belgium	UEFA	36
29	Scotland	UEFA	41
30	Iran	AFC	42
31	Cameroon	CAF	49
32	Nigeria	CAF	74

Venues[edit]

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.^[13] 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.^[13] 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.^[14] As Mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac successfully negotiated a deal with Prime Minister Édouard Balladur to bring the Stade de France – as it was named now, to the commune of Saint-Denis just north of the capital city.^[14] 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.^[15]

The choice of stadium locations was drafted from an original list of 14 cities.^[16] 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. Montpellier was the surprise inclusion from the final list of cities because of its low urban hierarchy in comparison to Strasbourg, 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 authories 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.^[17] Some of the venues used for this tournament were also used for the previous World Cup in France in 1938. 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.

10 stadiums in total 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 Paris Saint-Germain's Parc des Princes, 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.

Saint-Denis (Paris area)	Marseille	Paris	Lyon
Stade de France	Stade Vélodrome	Parc des Princes	Stade de Gerland
48°55′28″N2°21′36″E / 48.92444°N 2.36000°E	43°16′11″N5°23′45″E / 43.26972°N 5.39583°E	48°50′29″N2°15′11″E / 48.84139°N 2.25306°E	45°43′26″N4°49′56″E / 45.72389°N 4.83222°E
Capacity: 80,000	Capacity: 60,000	Capacity: 48,875	Capacity: 44,000
Lens
Stade Félix-Bollaert
50°25′58.26″N2°48′53.47″E / 50.4328500°N 2.8148528°E
Capacity: 41,300
Nantes
Stade de la Beaujoire
47°15′20.27″N1°31′31.35″W / 47.2556306°N 1.5253750°W
Capacity: 39,500
Toulouse	Saint-Étienne	Bordeaux	Montpellier
Stadium de Toulouse	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard	Parc Lescure	Stade de la Mosson
43°34′59.93″N1°26′2.57″E / 43.5833139°N 1.4340472°E	45°27′38.76″N4°23′24.42″E / 45.4607667°N 4.3901167°E	44°49′45″N0°35′52″W / 44.82917°N 0.59778°W	43°37′19.85″N3°48′43.28″E / 43.6221806°N 3.8120222°E
Capacity: 37,000	Capacity: 36,000	Capacity: 35,200	Capacity: 34,000

Innovations[edit]

Technologies[edit]

This was the first World Cup where fourth officials used electronic boards, instead of cardboard.^[18]

Rule changes[edit]

This was the first World Cup since the introduction of golden goals,^[18] banning of tackles from behind that endanger the safety of an opponent^[19] and allowance of three substitutions per game.^[20]

Match officials[edit]

34 referees and 33 assistants officiated in the 1998 World Cup.^[21] 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.^[21]

CAF (5) Said Belqola Gamal Al-Ghandour Lucien Bouchardeau Lim Kee Chong Ian McLeod AFC (4) Abdul Rahman Al-Zaid Ali Bujsaim Masayoshi Okada Pirom Un-Prasert

UEFA (15) Marc Batta Günter Benkö Pierluigi Collina Hugh Dallas Paul Durkin José María García-Aranda Bernd Heynemann Nikolai Levnikov Urs Meier Vítor Melo Pereira Kim Milton Nielsen Rune Pedersen László Vágner Mario van der Ende Ryszard Wójcik

CONCACAF (3) Esfandiar Baharmast Arturo Brizio Carter Ramesh Ramdhan OFC (1) Eddie Lennie CONMEBOL (6) Javier Castrilli Epifanio González Márcio Rezende de Freitas Mario Sánchez Yanten Alberto Tejada Noriega John Toro Rendón

Seeds[edit]

Pot A	Pot B	Pot C	Pot D
France (hosts) Brazil (1994 winner) Argentina Germany Italy Netherlands Romania Spain	Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Denmark England Scotland Yugoslavia Norway	Chile Colombia Iran Japan Paraguay Saudi Arabia South Korea	Cameroon Jamaica Mexico Morocco Nigeria South Africa Tunisia United States

Squads[edit]

As with the preceding tournament, 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.

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.^[22] 75 played their club football in England – five more than Italy and Spain. Barcelona of Spain was the club contributing to the most players in the tournament with 13 players on their side.^[22]

The average age of all teams was 27 years, 8 months – five months older than the previous tournament.^[23]Samuel Eto'o of Cameroon was the youngest player selected in the competition at 17 years, 3 months, while the oldest was Jim Leighton of Scotland at 39 years, 11 months.^[23]

Results[edit]

Runner-up

Fourth place

Round of 16

Group stage[edit]

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Key for tables
Pld = total games played W = total games won D = total games drawn (tied) L = total games lost GF = total goals scored (goals for) GA = total goals conceded (goals against) GD = goal difference (GF−GA) Pts = total points accumulated

Group A[edit]

Defending champions Brazil won Group A after only two matches as the nation achieved victories over Scotland (2–1) and Morocco (3–0). 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 12 minutes remaining to defeat Brazil 2–1, with Kjetil Rekdal scoring^[24] the winning penalty to send Norway into the knockout stage for the first time.

Norway's victory denied Morocco a chance at the Round of 16, despite winning 3–0 against Scotland. It was only Morocco's second ever victory at a World Cup, having recorded its only previous win 12 years earlier on 11 June 1986.

Scotland managed only one point, coming in a 1–1 draw against Norway, and failed to get out of the first round for an eighth time in the FIFA World Cup, a record that stands to this date.

Pos	Team [ ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Norway	3	1	2	0	5	4	+1	5
3	Morocco	3	1	1	1	5	5	0	4
4	Scotland	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1

10 June 1998
Brazil	2–1	Scotland	Stade de France, Saint-Denis
Morocco	2–2	Norway	Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier
16 June 1998
Scotland	1–1	Norway	Parc Lescure, Bordeaux
Brazil	3–0	Morocco	Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes
23 June 1998
Brazil	1–2	Norway	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille
Scotland	0–3	Morocco	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne

Group B[edit]

Italy and Chile progressed to the second round, while Austria failed to score any win for the first time since 1958 and Cameroon failed to get out of the group stage for the second time in a row.

Pos	Team [ ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	3	2	1	0	7	3	+4	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Chile	3	0	3	0	4	4	0	3
3	Austria	3	0	2	1	3	4	−1	2
4	Cameroon	3	0	2	1	2	5	−3	2

11 June 1998
Italy	2–2	Chile	Parc Lescure, Bordeaux
Cameroon	1–1	Austria	Stade de Toulouse, Toulouse
17 June 1998
Chile	1–1	Austria	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne
Italy	3–0	Cameroon	Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier
23 June 1998
Italy	2–1	Austria	Stade de France, Saint-Denis
Chile	1–1	Cameroon	Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes

Group C[edit]

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.

Pos	Team [ ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France(H)	3	3	0	0	9	1	+8	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Denmark	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
3	South Africa	3	0	2	1	3	6	−3	2
4	Saudi Arabia	3	0	1	2	2	7	−5	1

12 June 1998
Saudi Arabia	0–1	Denmark	Stade Félix-Bollaert, Lens
France	3–0	South Africa	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille
18 June 1998
South Africa	1–1	Denmark	Stade de Toulouse, Toulouse
France	4–0	Saudi Arabia	Stade de France, Saint-Denis
24 June 1998
France	2–1	Denmark	Stade de Gerland, Lyon
South Africa	2–2	Saudi Arabia	Parc Lescure, Bordeaux

Group D[edit]

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.

Pos	Team [ ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Nigeria	3	2	0	1	5	5	0	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Paraguay	3	1	2	0	3	1	+2	5
3	Spain	3	1	1	1	8	4	+4	4
4	Bulgaria	3	0	1	2	1	7	−6	1

12 June 1998
Paraguay	0–0	Bulgaria	Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier
13 June 1998
Spain	2–3	Nigeria	Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes
19 June 1998
Nigeria	1–0	Bulgaria	Parc des Princes, Paris
Spain	0–0	Paraguay	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne
24 June 1998
Nigeria	1–3	Paraguay	Stade de Toulouse, Toulouse
Spain	6–1	Bulgaria	Stade Félix-Bollaert, Lens

Group E[edit]

The Netherlands and Mexico advanced with the same record (The Netherlands placed first on goal difference); Belgium and eventual 2002 FIFA World Cup co-hosts South Korea failed to advance.

Pos	Team [ ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Netherlands	3	1	2	0	7	2	+5	5	Advance to knockout stage
2	Mexico	3	1	2	0	7	5	+2	5
3	Belgium	3	0	3	0	3	3	0	3
4	South Korea	3	0	1	2	2	9	−7	1

13 June 1998
South Korea	1–3	Mexico	Stade de Gerland, Lyon
Netherlands	0–0	Belgium	Stade de France, Saint-Denis
20 June 1998
Belgium	2–2	Mexico	Parc Lescure, Bordeaux
Netherlands	5–0	South Korea	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille
25 June 1998
Netherlands	2–2	Mexico	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne
Belgium	1–1	South Korea	Parc des Princes, Paris

Group F[edit]

Germany and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia advanced, each with 7 points (Germany took 1st through goal differential tiebreak). Iran and 1994 host United States failed to advance.

Pos	Team [ ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Germany	3	2	1	0	6	2	+4	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Yugoslavia	3	2	1	0	4	2	+2	7
3	Iran	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3
4	United States	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0

14 June 1998
Yugoslavia	1–0	Iran	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne
15 June 1998
Germany	2–0	United States	Parc des Princes, Paris
21 June 1998
Germany	2–2	Yugoslavia	Stade Félix-Bollaert, Lens
United States	1–2	Iran	Stade de Gerland, Lyon
25 June 1998
United States	0–1	Yugoslavia	Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes
Germany	2–0	Iran	Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier

Group G[edit]

Romania and England became Group G top finishers as Colombia and Tunisia were unable to reach the last 16, despite Colombia having one win.

Pos	Team [ ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Romania	3	2	1	0	4	2	+2	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	England	3	2	0	1	5	2	+3	6
3	Colombia	3	1	0	2	1	3	−2	3
4	Tunisia	3	0	1	2	1	4	−3	1

15 June 1998
England	2–0	Tunisia	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille
Romania	1–0	Colombia	Stade de Gerland, Lyon
22 June 1998
Colombia	1–0	Tunisia	Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier
Romania	2–1	England	Stade de Toulouse, Toulouse
26 June 1998
Colombia	0–2	England	Stade Félix-Bollaert, Lens
Romania	1–1	Tunisia	Stade de France, Saint-Denis

Group H[edit]

Argentina and World Cup debutants Croatia finished at the top of Group H while Jamaica (another debutant) and 2002 FIFA World Cup co-hosts Japan (another debutant) failed to advance.

Pos	Team [ ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Argentina	3	3	0	0	7	0	+7	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Croatia	3	2	0	1	4	2	+2	6
3	Jamaica	3	1	0	2	3	9	−6	3
4	Japan	3	0	0	3	1	4	−3	0

14 June 1998
Argentina	1–0	Japan	Stade de Toulouse, Toulouse
Jamaica	1–3	Croatia	Stade Félix-Bollaert, Lens
20 June 1998
Japan	0–1	Croatia	Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes
21 June 1998
Argentina	5–0	Jamaica	Parc des Princes, Paris
26 June 1998
Argentina	1–0	Croatia	Parc Lescure, Bordeaux
Japan	1–2	Jamaica	Stade de Gerland, Lyon

Knockout stage[edit]

The knockout stage 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 extra time; if scores were still level, there was a penalty shoot-out to determine who progressed to the next round. Golden goal comes into play if a team scores during extra time, thus becoming the winner which concludes the game.

Round of 16		Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final
27 June – Paris
		Brazil	4
3 July – Nantes
		Chile	1
Brazil	3
		28 June – Saint-Denis
Denmark	2
		Nigeria	1
7 July – Marseille
		Denmark	4
Brazil (p)	1 (4)
		29 June – Toulouse
Netherlands	1 (2)
		Netherlands	2
4 July – Marseille
		Yugoslavia	1
Netherlands	2
		30 June – Saint-Étienne
Argentina	1
		Argentina (p)	2 (4)
12 July – Saint-Denis
		England	2 (3)
Brazil	0
		27 June – Marseille
France	3
		Italy	1
3 July – Saint-Denis
		Norway	0
Italy	0 (3)
		28 June – Lens
France (p)	0 (4)
		France (asdet)	1
8 July – Saint-Denis
		Paraguay	0
France	2
		29 June – Montpellier
Croatia	1			Third place
		Germany	2
4 July – Lyon				11 July – Paris
		Mexico	1
Germany	0			Netherlands	1
		30 June – Bordeaux
Croatia	3			Croatia	2
		Romania	0
Croatia	1

Round of 16[edit]

Italy	1–0	Norway
Vieri18'	Report

Attendance: 55,000

Brazil	4–1	Chile
César Sampaio11', 27' Ronaldo45+1' (pen.), 70'	Report	Salas68'

Attendance: 45,500

France	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Paraguay
Blanc114'	Report

Attendance: 31,800

Nigeria	1–4	Denmark
Babangida78'	Report	Møller3' B. Laudrup12' Sand60' Helveg76'

Attendance: 77,000

Germany	2–1	Mexico
Klinsmann75' Bierhoff86'	Report	Hernández47'

Attendance: 29,800

Netherlands	2–1	Yugoslavia
Bergkamp38' Davids90+2'	Report	Komljenović48'

Attendance: 33,500

Romania	0–1	Croatia
Report	Šuker45+2' (pen.)

Attendance: 31,800

Argentina	2–2 (a.e.t.)	England
Batistuta6' (pen.) Zanetti45+1'	Report	Shearer10' (pen.) Owen16'
Penalties
Berti Crespo Verón Gallardo Ayala	4–3	Shearer Ince Merson Owen Batty

Attendance: 30,600

Quarter-finals[edit]

Italy	0–0 (a.e.t.)	France
Report
Penalties
R. Baggio Albertini Costacurta Vieri Di Biagio	3–4	Zidane Lizarazu Trezeguet Henry Blanc

Attendance: 77,000

Brazil	3–2	Denmark
Bebeto11' Rivaldo27', 60'	Report	Jørgensen2' B. Laudrup50'

Attendance: 35,500

Netherlands	2–1	Argentina
Kluivert12' Bergkamp90'	Report	López17'

Attendance: 55,000

Germany	0–3	Croatia
Report	Jarni45+3' Vlaović80' Šuker85'

Attendance: 39,100

Semi-finals[edit]

Brazil	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Netherlands
Ronaldo46'	Report	Kluivert87'
Penalties
Ronaldo Rivaldo Emerson Dunga	4–2	F. de Boer Bergkamp Cocu R. de Boer

Attendance: 54,000

France	2–1	Croatia
Thuram47', 69'	Report	Šuker46'

Attendance: 76,000

Third place play-off[edit]

Croatia beat the Netherlands to earn third place in the competition. Davor Šuker scored the winner in the 35th minute to secure the golden boot.^[25]

Netherlands	1–2	Croatia
Zenden21'	Report	Prosinečki13' Šuker35'

Attendance: 45,500

Final[edit]

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 Uruguay, Italy, England, West Germany and Argentina to win the tournament on their home soil. They also inflicted the second-heaviest World Cup defeat on Brazil,^[26] later to be topped by Brazil's 7–1 defeat by Germany in the semi-finals of the 2014 FIFA World Cup.^[27]

The pre-match build up was dominated by the omission of Brazilian striker Ronaldo from the starting lineup only to be reinstated 45 minutes before kick-off.^[28] 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 Fabien Barthez struggled to hold onto. France however took the lead after Brazilian defender Roberto Carlos 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 Marcel Desailly 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 Patrick Vieira set up his club teammate Petit in a counterattack to shoot low past goalkeeper Cláudio Taffarel.^[29]

French president Jacques Chirac was in attendance to congratulate and commiserate the winners and runners-up respectively after the match.^[30] Several days after the victory, winning manager Aimé Jacquet announced his resignation from the French team with immediate effect.^[31][32]

Brazil	0–3	France
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Attendance: 80,000

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Statistics[edit]

Goalscorers[edit]

Davor Šuker received the Golden Boot for scoring six goals. In total, 171 goals were scored by 112 players:

6 goals

• Davor Šuker

5 goals

• Gabriel Batistuta
• Christian Vieri

4 goals

• Ronaldo
• Marcelo Salas
• Luis Hernández

3 goals

• Bebeto
• César Sampaio
• Rivaldo
• Thierry Henry
• Oliver Bierhoff
• Jürgen Klinsmann
• Dennis Bergkamp

2 goals

• Ariel Ortega
• Marc Wilmots
• Robert Prosinečki
• Brian Laudrup
• Michael Owen
• Alan Shearer
• Emmanuel Petit
• Lilian Thuram
• Zinedine Zidane
• Roberto Baggio
• Theodore Whitmore
• Ricardo Peláez
• Salaheddine Bassir
• Abdeljalil Hadda
• Phillip Cocu
• Ronald de Boer
• Patrick Kluivert
• Viorel Moldovan
• Shaun Bartlett
• Fernando Hierro
• Fernando Morientes
• Slobodan Komljenović

1 goal

• Claudio López
• Mauricio Pineda
• Javier Zanetti
• Andreas Herzog
• Toni Polster
• Ivica Vastić
• Luc Nilis
• Emil Kostadinov
• Patrick M'Boma
• Pierre Njanka
• José Luis Sierra
• Léider Preciado
• Robert Jarni
• Mario Stanić
• Goran Vlaović
• Thomas Helveg
• Martin Jørgensen
• Michael Laudrup
• Peter Møller
• Allan Nielsen
• Marc Rieper
• Ebbe Sand
• Darren Anderton
• David Beckham
• Paul Scholes
• Laurent Blanc
• Youri Djorkaeff
• Christophe Dugarry
• Bixente Lizarazu
• David Trezeguet
• Andreas Möller
• Mehdi Mahdavikia
• Hamid Estili
• Luigi Di Biagio
• Robbie Earle
• Masashi Nakayama
• Cuauhtémoc Blanco
• Alberto García Aspe
• Mustapha Hadji
• Edgar Davids
• Marc Overmars
• Pierre van Hooijdonk
• Boudewijn Zenden
• Mutiu Adepoju
• Tijani Babangida
• Victor Ikpeba
• Sunday Oliseh
• Wilson Oruma
• Dan Eggen
• Håvard Flo
• Tore André Flo
• Kjetil Rekdal
• Celso Ayala
• Miguel Ángel Benítez
• José Cardozo
• Adrian Ilie
• Dan Petrescu
• Sami Al-Jaber
• Yousuf Al-Thunayan
• Craig Burley
• John Collins
• Benni McCarthy
• Ha Seok-ju
• Yoo Sang-chul
• Kiko
• Luis Enrique
• Raúl
• Skander Souayah
• Brian McBride
• Siniša Mihajlović
• Predrag Mijatović
• Dragan Stojković

Own goals

• Georgi Bachev (against Spain)
• Youssef Chippo (against Norway)
• Tom Boyd (against Brazil)
• Pierre Issa (against France)
• Andoni Zubizarreta (against Nigeria)
• Siniša Mihajlović (against Germany)

Awards[edit]

Golden Ball Award	Golden Shoe Award	Yashin Award	FIFA Fair Play Trophy	Most Entertaining Team
Ronaldo	Davor Šuker	Fabien Barthez	England France	France

Players who were red-carded during the tournament[edit]

• Ariel Ortega
• Gert Verheyen
• Anatoli Nankov
• Raymond Kalla
• Lauren
• Rigobert Song
• Miklos Molnar
• Morten Wieghorst
• David Beckham
• Laurent Blanc
• Marcel Desailly
• Zinedine Zidane
• Christian Wörns
• Darryl Powell
• Ha Seok-ju
• Pável Pardo
• Ramón Ramírez
• Patrick Kluivert
• Arthur Numan
• Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi
• Craig Burley
• Alfred Phiri

All-star team[edit]

The All-star team is a squad consisting of the 16 most impressive players at the 1998 World Cup, as selected by FIFA's Technical Study Group.^[33]

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Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
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Final standings[edit]

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.^[34]

R	Team	G	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts.
1	France	C	7	6	1	0	15	2	+13	19
2	Brazil	A	7	4	1	2	14	10	+4	13
3	Croatia	H	7	5	0	2	11	5	+6	15
4	Netherlands	E	7	3	3	1	13	7	+6	12
Eliminated in the quarter-finals
5	Italy	B	5	3	2	0	8	3	+5	11
6	Argentina	H	5	3	1	1	10	4	+6	10
7	Germany	F	5	3	1	1	8	6	+2	10
8	Denmark	C	5	2	1	2	9	7	+2	7
Eliminated in the round of 16
9	England	G	4	2	1	1	7	4	+3	7
10	Yugoslavia	F	4	2	1	1	5	4	+1	7
11	Romania	G	4	2	1	1	4	3	+1	7
12	Nigeria	D	4	2	0	2	6	9	−3	6
13	Mexico	E	4	1	2	1	8	7	+1	5
14	Paraguay	D	4	1	2	1	3	2	+1	5
15	Norway	A	4	1	2	1	5	5	0	5
16	Chile	B	4	0	3	1	5	8	−3	3
Eliminated in the group stage
17	Spain	D	3	1	1	1	8	4	+4	4
18	Morocco	A	3	1	1	1	5	5	0	4
19	Belgium	E	3	0	3	0	3	3	0	3
20	Iran	F	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3
21	Colombia	G	3	1	0	2	1	3	−2	3
22	Jamaica	H	3	1	0	2	3	9	−6	3
23	Austria	B	3	0	2	1	3	4	−1	2
24	South Africa	C	3	0	2	1	3	6	−3	2
25	Cameroon	B	3	0	2	1	2	5	−3	2
26	Tunisia	G	3	0	1	2	1	4	−3	1
27	Scotland	A	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1
28	Saudi Arabia	C	3	0	1	2	2	7	−5	1
29	Bulgaria	D	3	0	1	2	1	7	−6	1
30	South Korea	E	3	0	1	2	2	9	−7	1
31	Japan	H	3	0	0	3	1	4	−3	0
32	United States	F	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0

Symbols[edit]

Footix, the official mascot of the tournament

Mascot[edit]

The official mascot was Footix, a rooster first presented in May 1996.^[35] It was created by graphic designer Fabrice Pialot and selected from a shortlist of five mascots.^[36] 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.^[35] Footix, the name chosen by French television viewers, is a portmanteau of 'football' and the ending '-ix' from the popular Astérix comic strip.^[35] 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.

Official song[edit]

The official song of the 1998 FIFA World Cup was 'The Cup of Life,' aka 'La Copa de la Vida' recorded by Ricky Martin.^[37][38]

Match ball[edit]

The match ball for the 1998 World Cup, manufactured by Adidas was named the Tricolore, meaning 'three-coloured' in French.^[39] 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.^[40] The tricolour flag and cockerel, traditional symbols of France were used as inspiration for the design.^[40]

Marketing[edit]

Sponsorship[edit]

The sponsors of the 1998 FIFA World Cup are divided into two categories: FIFA World Cup Sponsors and France Supporters.^[41][42]

FIFA World Cup sponsors	France Supporters
Adidas[43][44] Canon[45][46] Casio[47] Coca-Cola[48][49] Fujifilm[44][50] Gillette[48][51] (Braun)[52] JVC[53][54] MasterCard[55][56] McDonald's[57][58] Opel[59][60] Philips[55][60] Snickers[44][61]	Crédit Agricole[62] France Telecom[63] La Poste[64]

Coca-Cola was one of the sponsors of FIFA World Cup 1998.

The absence of Budweiser (which was one of the sponsors in the previous two World Cups) is notable due to the Evin law, which forbids alcohol-related sponsorship in France, including in sports events (and thus, being replaced by Casio).^[65]

Broadcasting[edit]

FIFA, through several companies, sold the broadcasting rights for the 1998 FIFA World Cup to many broadcasters. In the UK BBC and ITV had the broadcasting rights.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.^[66]

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 TV commentators were present in the stand.^[67]

Video games[edit]

In most of the world, the official video game was, World Cup 98 released by EA Sports on 13 March 1998 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation, Nintendo 64 and the Game Boy. It was the first international football game developed by Electronic Arts since obtaining the rights from FIFA in 1997 and received mostly favourable reviews.^[68][69][70]

In Japan, Konami was granted the FIFA World Cup licence and produced two distinct video games: Jikkyou World Soccer: World Cup France 98 by KCEO for the Nintendo 64, and World Soccer Jikkyou Winning Eleven 3: World Cup France '98 by KCET for the PlayStation. These games were released in the rest of the world as International Superstar Soccer '98 and International Superstar Soccer Pro '98, without the official FIFA World Cup licence, branding or real player names.

Also in Japan, Sega was granted the FIFA World Cup licence to produce the Saturn video game World Cup '98 France: Road to Win.

Many other video games, including World League Soccer 98, Actua Soccer 2 and Neo Geo Cup '98: The Road to the Victory were released in the buildup to the 1998 World Cup and evidently were based on the tournament. FIFA: Road to World Cup 98, also by EA Sports focused on the qualification stage.

Legacy[edit]

Honorary FIFA President João Havelange 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'.^[71]Lennart Johansson, 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'.^[72]

Cour des Comptes, the quasi-judicial body of the French government released its report on the organisation of the 1998 World Cup in 2000.^[73]

See also[edit]

• Music of the World Cup: Allez! Ola! Ole! – The Official 1998 FIFA World Cup music album

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External links[edit]

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FIBA Basketball World Cup

Current season, competition or edition: 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup
Sport	Basketball
Founded	1950
Inaugural season	1950
No. of teams	32
Countries	FIBA members
Continent	FIBA (International)
Most recent champion(s)	Spain (2nd title)
Most titles	United States Yugoslavia (5 titles each)

The FIBA Basketball World Cup, also known as the FIBA World Cup of Basketball or simply the FIBA World Cup, between 1950 and 2010 known as the FIBA World Championship,^[1] is an international basketball competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), the sport's global governing body. It is considered the flagship event of FIBA.^[2]

The tournament structure is similar, but not identical, to that of the FIFA World Cup; both of these international competitions were played in the same year from 1970 through 2014. A parallel event for women's teams, now known as the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, is also held quadrennially. From 1986 through 2014, the men's and women's championships were held in the same year, though in different countries. The current format of the tournament involves 32 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation. The winning team receives the Naismith Trophy, first awarded in 1967. The current champions are Spain, who defeated Argentina in the final of the 2019 tournament.

Following the 2014 FIBA championships for men and women, the men's World Cup was scheduled on a new four-year cycle to avoid conflict with the FIFA World Cup. The men's World Cup was held in 2019, in the year following the FIFA World Cup. The women's championship, which was renamed from 'FIBA World Championship for Women' to 'FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup', after its 2014 edition, will remain on the previous four-year cycle, with championships in the same year as the FIFA World Cup.

The 1994 FIBA World Championship, which was held in Canada, was the first FIBA World Cup tournament in which currently active US NBA players, that had also already played in an official NBA regular season game, were allowed to participate. All FIBA World Championship/World Cup tournaments since then, are thus considered as fully professional level tournaments.

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History[edit]

World map depicting the number of times a country has hosted the World Cup. Dark blue: twice; light blue: once.

Fifa 1994 World Cup

The FIBA Basketball World Cup was conceived at a meeting of the FIBA World Congress at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.^[3] Long-time FIBA Secretary-General Renato William Jones urged FIBA to adopt a World Championship, similar to the FIFA World Cup, to be held in every four years between Olympiads. The FIBA Congress, seeing how successful the 23-team Olympic tournament was that year, agreed to the proposal, beginning with a tournament in 1950. Argentina was selected as host, largely because it was the only country willing to take on the task.^[4] Argentina took advantage of the host selection, winning all their games en route to becoming the first FIBA World Champion.

The first five tournaments were held in South America, and teams from the Americas dominated the tournament, winning eight of nine medals at the first three tournaments. By 1963, however, teams from Eastern Europe (the Soviet Union) and Southeast Europe (Yugoslavia), in particular – began to catch up to the teams from the American continents. Between 1963 and 1990, the tournament was dominated by the United States, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Brazil who together accounted for every medal at the tournament.

The 1994 FIBA World Championship held in Toronto marked the beginning of a new era, as currently active American NBA players participated in the tournament for the first time (prior to that only European and South American professionals were allowed to participate as they were still classified as amateurs^[5]),^[6] while the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia split into many new states. The United States dominated that year and won gold, while the former states of the USSR and Yugoslavia, Russia and Croatia, won silver and bronze. The 1998 FIBA World Championship, held in Greece (Athens and Piraeus), lost some of its luster when the 1998–99 NBA lockout prevented NBA players from participating. The new Yugoslavian team, now consisting of the former Yugoslav republics of Serbia and Montenegro, won the gold medal over Russia, while the USA, with professional basketball players playing in Europe and two college players, finished third.

In 2002, other nations eventually caught up to the four powerhouse countries and their successor states. FR Yugoslavia, led by Peja Stojaković of the Sacramento Kings and Dejan Bodiroga of FC Barcelona won the final game against Argentina, while Dirk Nowitzki, who was the tournament's MVP, led Germany to the bronze, its first ever World Championship medal. Meanwhile, the United States team, this time made up of NBA players, struggled to a sixth-place finish. This new era of parity convinced FIBA to expand the tournament to 24 teams for the 2006, 2010, and 2014 editions of the tournament.^[7][8]

In 2006, emerging powerhouse Spain beat Greece in the first appearance in the final for both teams. Spain became only the seventh team (Yugoslavia and FR Yugoslavia are counted separately in the FIBA records)^[9] to capture a World Championship gold. The USA, who lost to Greece in a semifinal, won against Argentina in the third place match and claimed bronze.

In the 2010 FIBA World Championship final, the USA defeated Turkey and won gold for the first time in 16 years, while Lithuania beat Serbia and won bronze. The United States became the third country to defend the championship, winning against Serbia at the 2014 edition of the tournament. France beat Lithuania in the bronze medal game.

After the 2014 edition, FIBA instituted significant changes to the World Cup. The final competition was expanded from 24 to 32 teams. Also, for the first time since 1967, the competition would no longer overlap with the FIFA World Cup. To accommodate this change, the 2014 FIBA World Cup will be followed by a 2019 edition in China,^[10] then followed by a 2023 edition in the Philippines, Japan, and Indonesia.^[11]

Qualification[edit]

World map depicting the number of times a national team participated in the World Cup.

The Basketball World Cup has used various forms of qualification throughout its history. The first five tournaments were held in South America and participation was dominated by teams from the Americas. At the first tournament, FIBA intended for the three Olympic medalists to compete, plus the host Argentina and two teams each from Europe, Asia, and South America. However, no Asian team was willing to travel to the event, so six of the ten teams were from the Americas (all three Olympic medalists were from the Americas, plus the zone received two continental berths and an Asia's berth). The former European powerhouse Soviet Union, later made their first tournament appearance in 1959, after missing the first two events.

In the tournament's early years, only Europe and South America had established continental tournaments, so participation in the tournament was largely by invitation. Later, Asia added a continental championship in 1960, followed by Africa in 1962, Central America in 1965, and Oceania in 1971, As a result of these changes, qualification became more formalized starting with the 1967 tournament. In that year, the Asian champion received an automatic berth in the tournament, joining the top European and South American teams. In 1970, the African and Oceanian champion each received a berth, while the Centrobasket champion and runner-up were each invited. For most of these years, the tournament host, defending World Champion, and top Olympic basketball tournament finishers also qualified for the event.

From 1970 through the 2014 World Cup, qualification continued to be based on the continental competitions and the Olympic tournament. The only major change came in the 1990 FIBA World Championship, when the tournament started taking qualifiers from the newly redesigned FIBA Americas Championship rather than from North, Central, and South America individually. After the tournament expanded to 24 teams in 2006, the tournament allocated qualification as follows:^[12]

• FIBA EuroBasket (Europe) – 6 berths
• FIBA AfroBasket (Africa) – 3 berths
• FIBA Asia Cup (Asia) – 3 berths
• FIBA AmeriCup (Americas) – 5 berths
• FIBA Oceania Championship (Oceania) – 2 berths
• Defending Olympic Champion – 1 berth, removed from the zone of the Olympic champion
• Host team – 1 berth
• FIBA-selected wild cards – 4 berths

Each of the five continental championships also served as qualification for the Olympics, so all were held every two years. The year immediately preceding the World Championship was used to determine the berths at the tournament. For example, all of the berths at the 2010 FIBA World Championship were determined by continental championships held in 2009. After the first 20 teams qualified, FIBA then selected four wild card teams, based on sporting, economic, and governance criteria, as well as a required registration fee from each team to be considered by the FIBA board.^[13] Of the four wild cards, only three could come from one continental zone. In each of the two tournaments that the wild card system was in place, FIBA selected the maximum three European teams to compete in the event.

FIBA instituted major changes to its competition calendar and the qualifying process for both the World Cup and Olympics in 2017.

First, the continental championships are now held once every four years, specifically in years that immediately follow the Summer Olympics. The continental championships no longer play a role in qualifying for either the World Cup or Olympics.^[14]

The 2019 World Cup qualifying process, which began in 2017, is the first under a new format. Qualifying takes place over a two-year cycle, involving six windows of play. Qualifying zones mirror the FIBA continental zones, except that FIBA Asia and FIBA Oceania are now combined into a single Asia-Pacific qualifying zone. In each qualifying zone, nations are divided into Division A and Division B, with promotion and relegation between the two. FIBA did not initially reveal full details of the new process, but announced that at least in opening phases, it would feature groups of three or four teams, playing home-and-away within the group.^[14] Below is the list of distribution of berths according to each FIBA qualifying zone.

• FIBA Europe – 12 berths
• FIBA Americas – 7 berths
• FIBA Africa – 5 berths
• Asia-Pacific (FIBA Asia and FIBA Oceania) – 7 berths
• Host team – 1 berth / 3 berths in 2023

Tournament format[edit]

The Basketball World Cup has existed in several different formats throughout the years, as it has expanded and contracted between 10 and 24 teams. The first tournament, in 1950, began with a ten-team double-elimination tournament, followed by a six-team round robin round to determine the champion. Between 1954 and 1974, each tournament started with a group stage preliminary round; the top teams in each preliminary round group then moved on to a final round robin group to determine the champion. In 1978, FIBA added a gold medal game between the top two finishers in the final group and a bronze medal game between the third and fourth place teams. In each year between 1959 and 1982, the host team received a bye into the final group. Of the seven host teams in this era, only three won medals, despite the head start. As a result, FIBA made the host team compete in the preliminary round starting in 1986.

In 1986, the tournament briefly expanded to 24 teams. Four groups of six teams each competed in the preliminary round group stage. The top three teams in each group then competed in the second group stage, followed by a four-team knockout tournament between the top two finishers in each group. The championship contracted back down to 16 teams for the 1990 tournament. The three tournaments between 1990 and 1998, each had two group stages followed by a four-team knockout tournament to determine the medalists. The 2002 tournament expanded the knockout round to eight teams.

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In 2006, FIBA made the decision to expand back to 24 teams and introduced the format that was in place through 2014.^[7] Under that format, the teams were divided into four preliminary round groups of six teams each.^[15]

In 2019, the final tournament will expand to 32 teams.^[14]
If the teams should be tied at the end of the preliminary round, the ties are broken by the following criteria in order:

1. Game results between tied teams
2. Goal average between games of the tied teams
3. Goal average for all games of the tied teams
4. Drawing of lots

The top two teams in each group then advance to a sixteen-team single-elimination knockout round. It begins with the eighth finals, where the top teams in each group play the fourth-placed teams in another group and the second and third-placed teams in each group face off. This is followed by the quarterfinals, semifinals, and final. The semifinal losers play in the bronze medal game, while the quarterfinal losers play in a consolation bracket to determine fifth through eighth places.

Naismith Trophy[edit]

Map of best finishes per team. Defunct countries are denoted by circles.

Since 1967, the champion of each tournament has been awarded the Naismith Trophy, named in honor of basketball's inventor, James Naismith. A trophy had been planned since the first World Championship in 1950, but did not come to fruition until FIBA finally commissioned a trophy in 1965, after receiving a US$1,000 donation. The original trophy was used from 1967 through 1994. An updated trophy was introduced for the 1998 FIBA World Championship and the original now sits at the Pedro Ferrándiz Foundation in Spain.^[16]

The second trophy is designed in an Egyptian-inspired lotus shape, upon which there are carved maps of the continents and precious stones symbolizing the five continents (FIBA Americas represents both North America and South America). Dr. Naismith's name is engraved on all four sides in Latin, Arabic, Chinese, and Egyptian hieroglyphs. The trophy stands 47 centimeters (18.5 inches) tall and weighs nine kilograms (twenty pounds).^[17]

The most recent Naismith Trophy design was revealed in the 2019 FIBA World Cup Qualifiers Draw Ceremonies, last May 7, 2017. The trophy, which stands about 60 centimeters high (13 cm. higher than the 1998 version), is made almost entirely out of gold, and features the names of the previous world cup champions at the base. FIBA's original name (Federation Internationale de Basketball Amateur) is also engraved at the trophy's 'hoop'. The trophy was designed by Radiant, and handcrafted by the silversmith Thomas Lyte.

Results[edit]

Edition	Year	Hosts	Gold Medal Game			Bronze Medal Game			Number of Teams
			Gold	Score	Silver	Bronze	Score	Fourth Place
1	1950	Argentina	Argentina	64–50 No playoffs[a]	United States	Chile	51-40 No playoffs[a]	Brazil	10
2	1954	Brazil	United States	62–41 No playoffs[a]	Brazil	Philippines	66–60 No playoffs[a]	France	12
3	1959	Chile	Brazil	81–67 No playoffs[a]	United States	Chile	86–85 No playoffs[a]	Formosa	13
4	1963	Brazil	Brazil	90-71 No playoffs[a]	Yugoslavia	Soviet Union	75-74 No playoffs[a]	United States	13
5	1967	Uruguay	Soviet Union	71-59 No playoffs[a]	Yugoslavia	Brazil	80-71 No playoffs[a]	United States	13
6	1970	Yugoslavia	Yugoslavia	80-55 No playoffs[a]	Brazil	Soviet Union	62-58 No playoffs[a]	Italy	13
7	1974	Puerto Rico	Soviet Union	79-82 No playoffs[a]	Yugoslavia	United States	83-70 No playoffs[a]	Cuba	14
8	1978	Philippines	Yugoslavia	82–81 (OT) Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	Soviet Union	Brazil	86–85 Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City	Italy	14
9	1982	Colombia	Soviet Union	95–94 Coliseo El Pueblo, Cali	United States	Yugoslavia	119–117 Coliseo El Pueblo, Cali	Spain	13
10	1986	Spain	United States	87–85 Palacio de Deportes, Madrid	Soviet Union	Yugoslavia	117–91 Palacio de Deportes, Madrid	Brazil	24
11	1990	Argentina	Yugoslavia	92–75 Estadio Luna Park, Buenos Aires	Soviet Union	United States	107–105 (OT) Estadio Luna Park, Buenos Aires	Puerto Rico	16
12	1994	Canada	United States	137–91 SkyDome, Toronto	Russia	Croatia	78–60 SkyDome, Toronto	Greece	16
13	1998	Greece	Yugoslavia	64–62 Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens	Russia	United States	84–61 Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens	Greece	16
14	2002	United States	Yugoslavia	84–77 (OT) Conseco Fieldhouse, Indianapolis	Argentina	Germany	117–94 Conseco Fieldhouse, Indianapolis	New Zealand	16
15	2006	Japan	Spain	70–47 Saitama Super Arena, Saitama	Greece	United States	96–81 Saitama Super Arena, Saitama	Argentina	24
16	2010	Turkey	United States	81–64 Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul	Turkey	Lithuania	99–88 Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul	Serbia	24
17	2014	Spain	United States	129–92 Palacio de Deportes, Madrid	Serbia	France	95–93 Palacio de Deportes, Madrid	Lithuania	24
18	2019	China	Spain	95–75 Wukesong Arena, Beijing	Argentina	France	67–59 Wukesong Arena, Beijing	Australia	32
19	2023	Philippines Japan Indonesia	Future event			Future event			32 (expected)

(OT): game decided after overtime.

Medal table[edit]

In the most current medal table released by FIBA as seen on the FIBA archive website, the 2014 championship is taken into account, and the records of SFR Yugoslavia and FR Yugoslavia are combined under 'Yugoslavia'.^[18]

Previously, FIBA had a medal table from 1950 to 2006,^[19] and another medal table that included results from 1950 to 2006,^[20] that separated the results of SFR Yugoslavia/FR Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro respectively into 'Yugoslavia' or 'Serbia and Montenegro'. The ranking of teams between the latter two medal tables are different, with the FIBA.com ranking by number of total medals, while the FIBA World Cup website's ranking is by number of gold medals. The number of medals won by the United States differs between the latter two medal tables, despite encompassing the same period. The latter two medal tables also do not include the results of the 2010 and 2014 championships.

Finally, a FIBA.com PDF linked from the FIBA.com history section that documents the championships from 1950 to 2002 also has a medal table that included tournaments from 1950 to 1998, which also separated pre-breakup Yugoslavia, called as 'Yusgoslavia' [sic] from the post-breakup Yugoslavia, called as 'Serbia and Montenegro', and ranked the teams by the number of total medals.^[21]

The FIBA archive also lists the achievements of each national team, separating it per IOC codes. The national team representing Serbia's first international tournament is listed as 2007,^[22] Serbia and Montenegro's tournament participation lasted from 2003 to 2006,^[23] and Yugoslavia's participation was from 1947 to 2002.^[24] Chinese Taipei was listed not to have participated in the World Cup, indeed its first participation in any FIBA tournament started in 1986;^[25] a team called 'Taiwan' participated from 1960 to 1973,^[26] and a 'Formosa' team joined from 1954 to 1959.^[27]

Below is the FIBA table as seen from the FIBA archive website, updated with results since 1998. The records of SFR Yugoslavia and FR Yugoslavia (counted together as 'Yugoslavia') are separated from records of Serbia and Serbia and Montenegro. In the case of the Soviet Union, their records also didn't carry over to Russia.^[28]

Italics indicates nations that no longer exist.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	5	3	4	12
2	Yugoslavia	5	3	2	10
3	Soviet Union	3	3	2	8
4	Brazil	2	2	2	6
5	Spain	2	0	0	2
6	Argentina	1	2	0	3
7	Russia	0	2	0	2
8	Greece	0	1	0	1
	Serbia	0	1	0	1
	Turkey	0	1	0	1
11	Chile	0	0	2	2
	France	0	0	2	2
13	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania	0	0	1	1
	Philippines	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 nations)		18	18	18	54

Records and statistics[edit]

Four players – Ubiratan Pereira Maciel and Marcel De Souza of Brazil, Phil Smyth of Australia and Luis Scola of Argentina – have appeared in five tournaments.^[29][30] Six different players have won medals in four tournaments.

Brazilian legend Oscar Schmidt is the runaway all-time leading scorer, scoring 906 career points in four tournaments, between 1978 and 1990. Nikos Galis of Greece, is the all-time leading scorer for a single tournament, averaging 33.7 points per game for the Greeks at the 1986 FIBA World Championship.

Serbian coach and former player Željko Obradović is the only person who won the title, both as a coach and a player. He was a member of the Yugoslavia team that won the 1990 FIBA World Championship and coached the Yugoslavia team that won the 1998 FIBA World Championship.

Awards[edit]

FIBA names a Most Valuable Player for each tournament. Since the tournament opened to NBA players at the 1994 tournament for the first time, NBA players have won six of the seven MVP trophies awarded – Shaquille O'Neal for the United States in 1994, Germany's Dirk Nowitzki at the 2002 tournament, Spain's Pau Gasol at the 2006 tournament, Kevin Durant for the United States at the 2010 tournament, Kyrie Irving for the United States at the 2014 tournament and Spain's Ricky Rubio at the 2019 tournament. The only exception was Dejan Bodiroga of FR Yugoslavia, who was the MVP of the 1998 tournament, when the NBA players were not able to participate, due to the 1998–99 NBA lockout.

Tournament growth[edit]

The 2010 FIBA World Championship reached a global TV audience of 800 million people, across 171 countries, with the official website having 30 million views during the tournament.^{[citation needed]} Both numbers broke the previous records set at the 2006 FIBA World Championship and at the EuroBasket 2009.^{[citation needed]} Three of the games involving Lithuania were among the highest rated programs in that country. In China, 65 million watched the Chinese national team's game against Greece, in the preliminary round.^[31] This was an improvement from the 2006 FIBA World Championship, which was held in Japan, and was shown in 150 countries. This meant that games aired in the morning in Europe and at night in the Americas; despite this, audiences broke records, with Italy's game against Slovenia achieving a 20% viewing share in Italy, Serbia's game against Nigeria netting a 33% share in Serbia, and a 600,000-audience in the United States for the US national team's game against Puerto Rico at 1 a.m.^[32]

Before the 2010 FIBA World Championship started in Turkey, FIBA had already sold 350,000 tickets, for a revenue of between US$8 to 10 million. The number of tickets sold was 10% higher than 2006, although the revenue was less than 2006's US$18 million, which was widely attributed to the strong Japanese yen. Meanwhile, FIBA got two-thirds of marketing rights revenue, of which one-third, or about US$8 million, went to the local organizers. FIBA had also successfully negotiated TV rights deals, which all went to FIBA, worth US$25 million, including a TV rights deal with ESPN.^[33] In 2006, the Japanese organizers were targeting to sell 180,000 tickets, mostly to a Japanese audience; as for the overseas audience, the Japanese organizers didn't 'expect them in great numbers'. This was seen as a big improvement from the 2002 tournament, which was a financial loss for USA Basketball and Indianapolis, in which all games were held in one city. This led to the Japanese organizers to hold games throughout the country, instead of just in a single city.^[34]

At the most recent world championship, which was re-branded as the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup, in Spain, FIBA reported impressive ratings from nations which were participating in the tournament during the first week of the group phase. Most games involving European teams had a market share of at least 20%, including a 40% market share in Finland, for the Finnish national team's game against the Dominican Republic.^[35] The TV ratings in the United States beat out the 2014 US Tennis Open, but some US sports media still described viewers in the US as not caring about the FIBA Basketball World Cup.^[36] In the Philippines, the entire tournament had an average reach of 67.8%.^[37]

See also[edit]

• FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup (formerly FIBA World Championship for Women)

Notes[edit]

1. ^ ^{abcdefghijklmn}No final was played; teams played each other once in the final group round-robin; the best team with the best record wins the championship.

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External links[edit]

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