1982 FIFA World Cup

1982 FIFA World Cup

Copa del Mundo de Fútbol – España 82
1982 FIFA World Cup official logo
Tournament details
Host country	Spain
Dates	13 June – 11 July (29 days)
Teams	24 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	17 (in 14 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Italy (3rd title)
Runners-up	West Germany
Third place	Poland
Fourth place	France
Tournament statistics
Matches played	52
Goals scored	146 (2.81 per match)
Attendance	2,109,723 (40,572 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Paolo Rossi (6 goals)
Best player	Paolo Rossi
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The 1982 FIFA World Cup, the 12th FIFA World Cup, was held in Spain from 13 June to 11 July. The tournament was won by Italy, after defeating West Germany 3–1 in the final.

Host selection

Main article: FIFA World Cup hosts

Spain was chosen as the host nation by FIFA in London, England on July 6, 1966. Hosting rights for the 1974 and 1978 tournaments were awarded at the same time. West Germany agreed a deal with Spain by which Spain would support West Germany for the 1974 tournament, and in return West Germany would allow Spain to bid for the 1982 World Cup unopposed.

Qualification

Main article: 1982 FIFA World Cup qualification

  Countries qualified for World Cup

  Country failed to qualify

  Countries that did not enter World Cup

  Country not a FIFA member

For the first time, the World Cup finals expanded from 16 to 24 teams. This allowed more teams, especially from Africa and Asia, to participate.

Absent from the finals were 1974 and 1978 runners-up Netherlands (eliminated by Belgium and France) and 1974 and 1978 participant Sweden (eliminated by Scotland and Northern Ireland). Northern Ireland qualified for the first time since 1958. England, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, and the Soviet Union were back in the Finals after a 12-year absence. England had its first successful World Cup qualifying campaign in 20 years - the English team had qualified automatically as hosts in 1966 and as defending champions in 1970, then failed to qualify for the 1974 and 1978 tournaments. Yugoslavia were also back after missing the 1978 tournament. Algeria, Cameroon, Honduras, Kuwait, and New Zealand all participated in the World Cup for the first time.

Summary

Format

The 1982 competition used a unique format. The first round was a round-robin group stage containing six groups of four teams each. Two points were awarded for a win and one for a draw, with goal difference used to separate teams equal on points. The top two teams in each group advanced. In the second round, the twelve remaining teams were split into four groups of three teams each, with the winner of each group progressing to the knockout semi-final stage.

First round

In Group 1, newcomers Cameroon held both Poland and Italy to draws, and were denied a place in the next round on the basis of having scored fewer goals than Italy (the sides had an equal goal difference). Poland and Italy qualified over Cameroon and Peru. Italian journalists and tifosi criticised their team for their uninspired performances that managed three draws; the squad was reeling from the recent Serie A scandal, where national players were suspended for match fixing and illegal betting.

Group 2 saw one of the great World Cup upsets on the first day with the 2–1 victory of Algeria over reigning European Champions West Germany. In the final match in the group between West Germany and Austria, Algeria had already played their final group game the day before, and West Germany and Austria knew that a West German win by 1 or 2 goals would qualify them both, while a larger German victory would qualify Algeria over Austria, and a draw or an Austrian win would eliminate the Germans. After 10 minutes of all-out attack, West Germany scored through a goal by Horst Hrubesch. After the goal was scored, the two teams kicked the ball around aimlessly for the rest of the match. Chants of "Fuera, fuera" ("Out, out") were screamed by the Spanish crowd, while angry Algerian supporters waved banknotes at the players. This performance was widely deplored, even by the German and Austrian fans. One German fan was so upset by his team's display that he burned his German flag in disgust.^[1] Algeria protested to FIFA, who ruled that the result be allowed to stand; FIFA introduced a revised qualification system at subsequent World Cups in which the final two games in each group were played simultaneously.

Group 3, where the opening ceremony and first match of the tournament took place, saw Belgium beat defending champions Argentina 1–0. The Camp Nou stadium was the home of Barcelona, and many fans had wanted to see the club's new signing, Argentinian star Diego Maradona, who did not perform to expectations. Both Belgium and Argentina ultimately advanced at the expense of Hungary and El Salvador despite Hungary's 10–1 win over the Central American nation — which, with a total of 11 goals, is the second highest scoreline in a World Cup game (equal with Brazil's 6–5 victory over Poland in the 1938 tournament and Hungary's 8–3 victory over West Germany in the 1954 tournament).

Group 4 opened with England midfielder Bryan Robson's goal against France after only 27 seconds of play. England won 3–1 and qualified along with France over Czechoslovakia and Kuwait, though the tiny Gulf emirate held Czechoslovakia to a 1–1 draw. In the game between Kuwait and France, with France leading 3–1, France midfielder Alain Giresse scored a goal vehemently contested by the Kuwait team, who had stopped play after hearing a piercing whistle from the stands, which they thought had come from Soviet referee Miroslav Stupar. Play had not yet resumed when Sheikh Fahid Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, brother of the Kuwaiti Emir and president of the Kuwaiti Football Association, rushed onto the pitch to remonstrate with the referee. Stupar countermanded his initial decision and disallowed the goal to the fury of the French. Maxime Bossis scored another valid goal a few minutes later and France won 4–1. Stupar lost his international refereeing credentials as a result of this incident, and Al-Sabah received a $10,000 fine.^{[citation needed]}

In Group 5, Honduras held hosts Spain to a 1–1 draw. Northern Ireland won the group outright, eliminating Yugoslavia and beating hosts Spain 1–0; Northern Ireland had to play the majority of the second half with ten men after Mal Donaghy was dismissed. Spain scraped by thanks to a controversial penalty in the 2–1 victory over Yugoslavia. At 17 years and 41 days, Northern Ireland forward Norman Whiteside was the youngest player to appear in a World Cup match.

Brazil were in Group 6. With Zico, Sócrates, Falcão, Éder and fellows, they boasted an offensive firepower that promised a return to the glory days of 1970. They beat the USSR 2–1 thanks to a 20 metre Éder goal two minutes from time, then Scotland and New Zealand with four goals each. The Soviets took the group's other qualifying berth at the expense of the Scots.

Second round

Poland opened Group A with a 3–0 defeat of Belgium thanks to a Zbigniew Boniek hat-trick. The Soviet Union prevailed 1–0 in the next match over Belgium. The Poles edged out the USSR for the semi-final spot on the final day on goal difference thanks to a 0–0 draw in a politically charged match, as Poland's then-Communist government had imposed a martial law a few months earlier to quash internal dissent and forestall a Soviet invasion.

In Group B, a match between England and West Germany ended in a goalless draw. West Germany put the pressure on England in their second match by beating Spain 2–1. The home side drew 0–0 against England, denying Ron Greenwood's team a semi-final place and putting England in the same position as Cameroon, being eliminated without losing a game.

In Group C, with Brazil, Argentina and Italy, in the opener, Italy prevailed 2–1 over Diego Maradona's side after a game in which Italian defenders Gaetano Scirea and Claudio Gentile proved themselves equal to the task of stopping the Argentinian attack. Argentina now needed a win over Brazil on the second day, but lost 3–1 — Argentina only scoring in the last minute. Diego Maradona kicked Brazilian player Joao Batista and was sent off in the 85th minute.

Main article: Brazil vs Italy (1982)

The match between Brazil and Italy put Brazil's attack against Italy's defence, with the majority of the game played around the Italian area, with the Italian midfielders and defenders returning the repeated set volleys of Brazilian shooters such as Zico, Socrates and Falcao. Italian centre back Claudio Gentile was assigned to mark Brazilian striker Zico, earning a yellow card and a suspension for the following game against Poland. Enzo Bearzot's striker, Paolo Rossi, opened the scoring when he headed in Antonio Cabrini's cross with just five minutes played. Socrates equalised for Brazil twelve minutes later. In the twenty-fifth minute Rossi stepped past a Brazilian defender, intercepted a pass across the Brazilians' goal, and drilled the shot home. The Brazilians threw everything in search of another equaliser, while Italy defended bravely. On 68 minutes, Falcao collected a pass from Junior and fired home from 20 yards out to draw the match. Now Italy had gained the lead twice thanks to Rossi's goals, and Brazil had come back twice; At 2–2, Brazil would have been through on goal difference, but at the 74th minute, a poor clearance from an Italian corner kick went back to the Brazilian six-yard line where Rossi and Francesco Graziani were waiting. Both aimed at the same shot, Rossi connecting to get a hat trick and sending Italy into the lead for good.

In the last group, Group D, France dispatched Austria 1–0 in their opener, then beat Northern Ireland 4–1 for their first semifinal appearance since 1958.

Semi-finals, third-place match, and final

Italy beat Poland in the first semi-final through two goals from Paolo Rossi. In the game between France and West Germany, the Germans opened the scoring through a Pierre Littbarski strike in the 17th minute, and the French equalised nine minutes later with a Michel Platini penalty. In the second half a long through ball sent French defender Patrick Battiston racing clear towards the German goal. With both Battiston and the lone German defender trying to be the first to reach the ball, Battiston flicked it past German keeper Harald Schumacher from the edge of the German penalty area and Schumacher reacted by jumping up to block. Schumacher completely missed the ball, however, and clattered straight into the oncoming Battiston – which left the French player unconscious and knocked two of his teeth out. Schumacher's action has been described as "one of history's most shocking fouls".^[2] The ball went just wide of the post and Dutch referee Charles Corver deemed Schumacher's tackle on Battiston not to be a foul and awarded a goal kick. Play was interrupted for several minutes while Battiston, still unconscious and with a broken jaw, was carried off the field on a stretcher. After French defender Manuel Amoros had sent a 25-metre drive crashing onto the West German crossbar in the final minute, the match went into extra time. On 92 minutes, France's sweeper Marius Trésor fired a swerving volley under Schumacher's crossbar from ten metres out to make it 2–1. Six minutes later, an unmarked Alain Giresse drove in a 18-metre shot off the inside of the right post to finish off a counter-attack and put France up 3–1. But West Germany would not give up. In the 102nd minute a counter-attack culminated in a cross that recent substitute Karl-Heinz Rummenigge turned in at the near post from a difficult angle with the outside of his foot, reducing France's lead to 3–2. Then in the 108th minute Germany took a short corner and after France failed to clear, the ball was played by Germany to Littbarski whose cross to Horst Hrubesch was headed back to the centre towards Klaus Fischer, who was unmarked but with his back to goal. Fischer in turn volleyed the ball past French keeper Jean-Luc Ettori with a bicycle kick, levelling the scores at 3–3 and sending the match to penalties. This goal was voted the greatest goal in the history of German football by German supporters. Because the scores were level after extra time, France and West Germany participated in the first ever penalty shootout at a World Cup finals. Giresse, Manfred Kaltz, Manuel Amoros, Paul Breitner and Dominique Rocheteau all converted penalties until Uli Stielike was stopped by Ettori, giving France the advantage. But then Schumacher stepped forward, lifted the tearful Stielike from the ground, and saved Didier Six's shot. With Germany handed the lifeline they needed Littbarski converted his penalty, followed by Platini for France, and then Rummenigge for Germany as the tension mounted. France defender Maxime Bossis then had his kick parried by Schumacher who anticipated it, and Hrubesch stepped up to score and send Germany to the World Cup final yet again with a victory on penalties, 4–5.

In the final, after a scoreless first half during which Antonio Cabrini fired a penalty wide of goal, the fresher legs of the Italians and the confidence gained from their previous two victories began to make the difference between the teams. After a foul just outside the area by Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Italian central defender Claudio Gentile raced upfield to set the ball and initiate the quick restart, catching the German goalkeeper Schumacher out of position and the German defence unprepared. Paolo Rossi scored first for the third straight game by heading home Gentile's bouncing cross at close range. Exploiting the situation, Italy scored twice more on quick counter-strikes, all the while capitalising on their defence to hold the Germans. With Gentile and Gaetano Scirea holding the centre, the Italian strikers were free to counter-punch the weakened German defence. Marco Tardelli's shot from the edge of the area beat Schumacher first, and Alessandro Altobelli, the substitute for injured striker Francesco Graziani, made it 3–0 at the end of a solo sprint down the right side by the stand-out winger Bruno Conti. Italy's lead appeared secure, encouraging Italian president Sandro Pertini to wag his finger at the cameras in a playful "not going to catch us now" gesture. In the 83rd minute Paul Breitner scored a goal against Dino Zoff, but Italy claimed their first World Cup title in 44 years, and their third in total with a 3–1 victory.

In the third-place match, Poland edged the French side 3–2 which matched Poland's best ever performance at a World Cup previously achieved in 1974. France would go on to win the European Championship two years later.

Records

Italy became the first team to advance from the first round without winning a game, drawing all three (while Cameroon were eliminated in the same way), and also the only World Cup winner to draw or lose three matches at the Finals. By winning, Italy equalled Brazil's record of winning the World Cup three times. Italy's total of twelve goals scored in seven matches set a new low for average goals scored per game by a World Cup winning side (subsequently exceeded by Spain in 2010), while Italy's aggregate goal difference of +6 for the tournament remains a record low for a champion, equalled by Spain.

Italy's 40-year-old captain-goalkeeper Dino Zoff became the oldest-ever player to win the World Cup. This was the first World Cup in which teams from all six continental confederations participated in the finals, something that would not happen again until 2006.

Venues

17 stadiums in 14 cities hosted the tournament.

Madrid		Barcelona		Vigo	A Coruña
Santiago Bernabeu	Vicente Calderón	Camp Nou	Sarrià	Balaídos	Riazor
Capacity: 91,000	Capacity: 66,000	Capacity: 120,000	Capacity: 44,000	Capacity: 31,800	Capacity: 34,600
Gijón	Oviedo	Elche	Alicante	Bilbao	Valladolid
El Molinón	Carlos Tartiere	Nuevo	José Rico Pérez	San Mamés	José Zorrilla
Capacity: 47,000	Capacity: 23,000	Capacity: 40,000	Capacity: 38,000	Capacity: 47,000	Capacity: 30,000
Valencia	Zaragoza	Sevilla		Málaga
Luis Casanova	La Romareda	Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán	Benito Villamarín	La Rosaleda
Capacity: 55,000	Capacity: 42,000	Capacity: 68,000	Capacity: 50,000	Capacity: 44,000

A Coruña

Alicante

Barcelona

Bilbao

Elche

Gijón

Madrid

Málaga

Oviedo

Seville

Valencia

Valladolid

Vigo

Zaragoza

A map showing the locations of the venues used at the 1982 FIFA World Cup

Match officials

AFC Ibrahim Youssef Al-Doy Chan Tam Sun Abraham Klein CAF Benjamin Dwomoh Yousef El-Ghoul Belaid Lacarne CONCACAF Rómulo Méndez David Socha Luis Paulino Siles Mario Rubio Vázquez

CONMEBOL Gilberto Aristizábal Luis Barrancos Juan Daniel Cardellino Arnaldo Cézar Coelho Gastón Castro Arturo Ithurralde Enrique Labo Revoredo Héctor Ortiz UEFA Paolo Casarin Vojtech Christov Charles Corver Bogdan Dotchev Walter Eschweiler Erik Fredriksson Bruno Galler

Antonio Garrido Alojzy Jarguz Augusto Lamo Castillo Henning Lund-Sørensen Damir Matovinović Malcolm Moffatt Károly Palotai Alexis Ponnet Adolf Prokop Nicolae Rainea Miroslav Stupar Michel Vautrot Bob Valentine Clive White Franz Wöhrer OFC Tony Boskovic

Squads

For a list of all squads that appeared in the final tournament, see 1982 FIFA World Cup squads.

Seeding

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Spain (Hosts)  Argentina (Current Champions)  Brazil (1978 3rd Place)  Italy (1978 4th Place)  West Germany  England	Austria  Soviet Union  Hungary  Poland  Czechoslovakia  Yugoslavia	Belgium  Scotland  Northern Ireland  France  Chile  Peru	Algeria  Cameroon  Kuwait  El Salvador  Honduras  New Zealand

Results

Champion   Runner-up

Third place   Fourth place

Quarter-finals   Round of 16

Group stage

First round

Group 1

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Poland	3	1	2	0	5	1	+4	4
Italy	3	0	3	0	2	2	0	3
Cameroon	3	0	3	0	1	1	0	3
Peru	3	0	2	1	2	6	−4	2

14 June 1982 17:15 CEST	Italy	0–0	Poland	Estadio de Balaídos, Vigo Attendance: 33,000 Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)
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15 June 1982 17:15 CEST	Peru	0–0	Cameroon	Estadio de Riazor, A Coruña Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Franz Wöhrer (Austria)
		Report

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18 June 1982 17:15 CEST	Italy	1–1	Peru	Estadio de Balaídos, Vigo Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Walter Eschweiler (West Germany)
	Conti  18'	Report	Díaz  83'

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19 June 1982 17:15 CEST	Poland	0–0	Cameroon	Estadio de Riazor, A Coruña Attendance: 19,000 Referee: Alexis Ponnet (Belgium)
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22 June 1982 17:15 CEST	Poland	5–1	Peru	Estadio de Riazor, A Coruña Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Mario Rubio Vázquez (Mexico)
	Smolarek  55' Lato  58' Boniek  61' Buncol  68' Ciołek  76'	Report	La Rosa  83'

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23 June 1982 17:15 CEST	Italy	1–1	Cameroon	Estadio de Balaídos, Vigo Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Bogdan Dotchev (Bulgaria)
	Graziani  60'	Report	Mbida  61'

Group 2

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
West Germany	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	4
Austria	3	2	0	1	3	1	+2	4
Algeria	3	2	0	1	5	5	0	4
Chile	3	0	0	3	3	8	−5	0

16 June 1982 17:15 CEST	West Germany	1–2	Algeria	El Molinón, Gijón Attendance: 42,000 Referee: Enrique Labo Revoredo (Peru)
	Rummenigge  67'	Report	Madjer  54' Belloumi  68'

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17 June 1982 17:15 CEST	Chile	0–1	Austria	Estadio Carlos Tartiere, Oviedo Attendance: 22,500 Referee: Juan Daniel Cardellino (Uruguay)
		Report	Schachner  21'

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20 June 1982 17:15 CEST	West Germany	4–1	Chile	El Molinón, Gijón Attendance: 42,000 Referee: Bruno Galler (Switzerland)
	Rummenigge  9', 57', 66' Reinders  81'	Report	Moscoso  90'

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21 June 1982 17:15 CEST	Algeria	0–2	Austria	Estadio Carlos Tartiere, Oviedo Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Tony Boskovic (Australia)
		Report	Schachner  55' Krankl  67'

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24 June 1982 17:15 CEST	Algeria	3–2	Chile	Estadio Carlos Tartiere, Oviedo Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Rómulo Méndez (Guatemala)
	Assad  7', 31' Bensaoula  35'	Report	Neira  59' (pen.) Letelier  73'

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25 June 1982 17:15 CEST	West Germany	1–0	Austria	El Molinón, Gijón Attendance: 41,000 Referee: Bob Valentine (Scotland)
	Hrubesch  10'	Report

Group 3

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Belgium	3	2	1	0	3	1	+2	5
Argentina	3	2	0	1	6	2	+4	4
Hungary	3	1	1	1	12	6	+6	3
El Salvador	3	0	0	3	1	13	−12	0

13 June 1982 20:00 CEST	Argentina	0–1	Belgium	Camp Nou, Barcelona Attendance: 95,500 Referee: Vojtěch Christov (Czechoslovakia)
		Report	Vandenbergh  62'

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15 June 1982 21:00 CEST	Hungary	10–1	El Salvador	Nuevo Estadio, Elche Attendance: 23,000 Referee: Ibrahim Youssef Al-Doy (Bahrain)
	Nyilasi  4', 83' Pölöskei  11' Fazekas  23', 54' Tóth  50' L. Kiss  69', 72', 76' Szentes  72'	Report	Ramírez  64'

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18 June 1982 21:00 CEST	Argentina	4–1	Hungary	Estadio José Rico Pérez, Alicante Attendance: 32,093 Referee: Belaid Lacarne (Algeria)
	Bertoni  26' Maradona  28', 57' Ardiles  60'	Report	Pölöskei  76'

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19 June 1982 21:00 CEST	Belgium	1–0	El Salvador	Nuevo Estadio, Elche Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Malcolm Moffatt (Northern Ireland)
	Coeck  19'	Report

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22 June 1982 21:00 CEST	Belgium	1–1	Hungary	Nuevo Estadio, Elche Attendance: 37,000 Referee: Clive White (England)
	Czerniatynski  76'	Report	Varga  27'

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23 June 1982 21:00 CEST	Argentina	2–0	El Salvador	Estadio José Rico Pérez, Alicante Attendance: 32,500 Referee: Luis Barrancos (Bolivia)
	Passarella  22' (pen.) Bertoni  52'	Report

Group 4

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
England	3	3	0	0	6	1	+5	6
France	3	1	1	1	6	5	+1	3
Czechoslovakia	3	0	2	1	2	4	−2	2
Kuwait	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1

16 June 1982 17:15 CEST	England	3–1	France	Estadio San Mamés, Bilbao Attendance: 44,172 Referee: Antonio Garrido (Portugal)
	Robson  1', 67' Mariner  83'	Report	Soler  24'

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17 June 1982 17:15 CEST	Czechoslovakia	1–1	Kuwait	Estadio José Zorrilla, Valladolid Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Benjamin Dwomoh (Ghana)
	Panenka  21' (pen.)	Report	Al-Dakhil  57'

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20 June 1982 17:15 CEST	England	2–0	Czechoslovakia	Estadio San Mamés, Bilbao Attendance: 41,123 Referee: Charles Corver (Netherlands)
	Francis  62' Barmoš  66' (o.g.)	Report

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21 June 1982 17:15 CEST	France	4–1	Kuwait	Estadio José Zorrilla, Valladolid Attendance: 30,043 Referee: Miroslav Stupar (Soviet Union)
	Genghini  31' Platini  43' Six  48' Bossis  89'	Report	Al-Buloushi  75'

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24 June 1982 17:15 CEST	France	1–1	Czechoslovakia	Estadio José Zorrilla, Valladolid Attendance: 28,000 Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy)
	Six  66'	Report	Panenka  84' (pen.)

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25 June 1982 17:15 CEST	England	1–0	Kuwait	Estadio San Mamés, Bilbao Attendance: 39,700 Referee: Gilberto Aristizábal (Colombia)
	Francis  27'	Report

Group 5

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Northern Ireland	3	1	2	0	2	1	+1	4
Spain	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	3
Yugoslavia	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	3
Honduras	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2

16 June 1982 21:00 CEST	Spain	1–1	Honduras	Estadio Luis Casanova, Valencia Attendance: 49,562 Referee: Arturo Ithurralde (Argentina)
	López Ufarte  65' (pen.)	Report	Zelaya  8'

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17 June 1982 21:00 CEST	Yugoslavia	0–0	Northern Ireland	La Romareda, Zaragoza Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)
		Report

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20 June 1982 21:00 CEST	Spain	2–1	Yugoslavia	Estadio Luis Casanova, Valencia Attendance: 48,000 Referee: Henning Lund-Sørensen (Denmark)
	Juanito  14' (pen.) Saura  66'	Report	Gudelj  10'

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21 June 1982 21:00 CEST	Honduras	1–1	Northern Ireland	La Romareda, Zaragoza Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Chan Tam Sun (Hong Kong)
	Laing  60'	Report	Armstrong  10'

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24 June 1982 21:00 CEST	Honduras	0–1	Yugoslavia	La Romareda, Zaragoza Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Gastón Castro (Chile)
		Report	Petrović  88' (pen.)

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25 June 1982 21:00 CEST	Spain	0–1	Northern Ireland	Estadio Luis Casanova, Valencia Attendance: 49,562 Referee: Héctor Ortiz (Paraguay)
		Report	Armstrong  47'

Group 6

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	3	3	0	0	10	2	+8	6
Soviet Union	3	1	1	1	6	4	+2	3
Scotland	3	1	1	1	8	8	0	3
New Zealand	3	0	0	3	2	12	−10	0

14 June 1982 21:00 CEST	Brazil	2–1	Soviet Union	Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, Seville Attendance: 68,000 Referee: Augusto Lamo Castillo (Spain)
	Sócrates  75' Éder  87'	Report	Bal  34'

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15 June 1982 21:00 CEST	Scotland	5–2	New Zealand	Estadio La Rosaleda, Málaga Attendance: 36,000 Referee: David Socha (United States)
	Dalglish  18' Wark  30', 33' Robertson  73' Archibald  79'	Report	Sumner  54' Wooddin  65'

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18 June 1982 21:00 CEST	Brazil	4–1	Scotland	Estadio Benito Villamarín, Seville Attendance: 47,379 Referee: Luis Paulino Siles (Costa Rica)
	Zico  33' Oscar  49' Éder  65' Falcão  87'	Report	Narey  18'

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19 June 1982 21:00 CEST	Soviet Union	3–0	New Zealand	Estadio La Rosaleda, Málaga Attendance: 19,000 Referee: Yousef El-Ghoul (Libya)
	Gavrilov  25' Blokhin  48' Baltacha  69'	Report

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22 June 1982 21:00 CEST	Soviet Union	2–2	Scotland	Estadio La Rosaleda, Málaga Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania)
	Chivadze  60' Shengelia  84'	Report	Jordan  15' Souness  87'

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23 June 1982 21:00 CEST	Brazil	4–0	New Zealand	Estadio Benito Villamarín, Seville Attendance: 43,000 Referee: Damir Matovinović (Yugoslavia)
	Zico  28', 31' Falcão  55' Serginho  69'	Report

Second round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Poland	2	1	1	0	3	0	+3	3
Soviet Union	2	1	1	0	1	0	+1	3
Belgium	2	0	0	2	0	4	−4	0

28 June 1982 21:00 CEST	Poland	3–0	Belgium	Camp Nou, Barcelona Attendance: 65,000 Referee: Luis Paulino Siles (Costa Rica)
	Boniek  4', 26', 53'	Report

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1 July 1982 21:00 CEST	Belgium	0–1	Soviet Union	Camp Nou, Barcelona Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)
		Report	Oganesian  48'

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4 July 1982 21:00 CEST	Soviet Union	0–0	Poland	Camp Nou, Barcelona Attendance: 65,000 Referee: Bob Valentine (Scotland)
		Report

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
West Germany	2	1	1	0	2	1	+1	3
England	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
Spain	2	0	1	1	1	2	−1	1

29 June 1982 21:00 CEST	West Germany	0–0	England	Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid Attendance: 75,000 Referee: Arnaldo Cézar Coelho (Brazil)
		Report

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2 July 1982 21:00 CEST	West Germany	2–1	Spain	Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid Attendance: 90,089 Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy)
	Littbarski  50' Fischer  75'	Report	Zamora  82'

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5 July 1982 21:00 CEST	Spain	0–0	England	Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid Attendance: 75,000 Referee: Alexis Ponnet (Belgium)
		Report

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	2	2	0	0	5	3	+2	4
Brazil	2	1	0	1	5	4	+1	2
Argentina	2	0	0	2	2	5	−3	0

29 June 1982 17:15 CEST	Italy	2–1	Argentina	Estadio Sarriá, Barcelona Attendance: 43,000 Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania)
	Tardelli  55' Cabrini  67'	Report	Passarella  83'

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2 July 1982 17:15 CEST	Argentina	1–3	Brazil	Estadio Sarriá, Barcelona Attendance: 43,000 Referee: Mario Rubio Vázquez (Mexico)
	Díaz  89'	Report	Zico  11' Serginho  66' Júnior  75'

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5 July 1982 17:15 CEST	Brazil	2–3	Italy	Estadio Sarriá, Barcelona Attendance: 44,000 Referee: Abraham Klein (Israel)
	Sócrates  12' Falcão  68'	Report	Rossi  5', 25', 74'

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
France	2	2	0	0	5	1	+4	4
Austria	2	0	1	1	2	3	−1	1
Northern Ireland	2	0	1	1	3	6	−3	1

28 June 1982 17:15 CEST	Austria	0–1	France	Estadio Vicente Calderón, Madrid Attendance: 37,000 Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary)
		Report	Genghini  39'

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1 July 1982 17:15 CEST	Austria	2–2	Northern Ireland	Estadio Vicente Calderón, Madrid Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Adolf Prokop (East Germany)
	Pezzey  50' Hintermaier  68'	Report	Hamilton  27', 75'

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4 July 1982 17:15 CEST	Northern Ireland	1–4	France	Estadio Vicente Calderón, Madrid Attendance: 37,000 Referee: Alojzy Jarguz (Poland)
	Armstrong  75'	Report	Giresse  33', 80' Rocheteau  46', 68'

Knockout stage

	Semifinals				Final
	8 July – Barcelona
	Poland	0
	Italy	2
					11 July – Madrid
					Italy	3
					West Germany	1
					Third place
	8 July – Seville			10 July – Alicante
	West Germany (pen.)	3 (5)		Poland	3
	France	3 (4)			France	2

Semi-finals

8 July 1982 17:15 CEST	Poland	0–2	Italy	Camp Nou, Barcelona Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Juan Daniel Cardellino (Uruguay)
		Report	Rossi  22', 73'

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8 July 1982 21:00 CEST	West Germany	3 – 3 (a.e.t.)	France	Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, Seville Attendance: 63,000 Referee: Charles Corver (Netherlands)
	Littbarski  17' Rummenigge  102' Fischer  108'	Report	Platini  26' (pen.) Trésor  92' Giresse  98'
		Penalties
	Kaltz Breitner Stielike Littbarski Rummenigge Hrubesch	5–4	Giresse Amoros Rocheteau Six Platini Bossis

Third place match

10 July 1982 20:00 CEST	Poland	3–2	France	Estadio José Rico Pérez, Alicante Attendance: 28,000 Referee: Antonio Garrido (Portugal)
	Szarmach  40' Majewski  44' Kupcewicz  46'	Report	Girard  13' Couriol  72'

Final

Main article: 1982 FIFA World Cup Final

11 July 1982 20:00 CEST	Italy	3–1	West Germany	Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid Attendance: 90,000 Referee: Arnaldo Cézar Coelho (Brazil)
	Rossi  57' Tardelli  69' Altobelli  81'	Report	Breitner  83'

Statistics

Goalscorers

6 goals Paolo Rossi 5 goals Karl-Heinz Rummenigge 4 goals Zico Zbigniew Boniek 3 goals Falcão Alain Giresse László Kiss Gerry Armstrong 2 goals Salah Assad Daniel Bertoni Diego Maradona Daniel Passarella Walter Schachner Éder Serginho Sócrates Antonín Panenka Trevor Francis Bryan Robson Bernard Genghini Michel Platini Dominique Rocheteau Didier Six Klaus Fischer Pierre Littbarski László Fazekas Tibor Nyilasi Gábor Pölöskei Marco Tardelli Billy Hamilton John Wark

1 goal Lakhdar Belloumi Tedj Bensaoula Rabah Madjer Osvaldo Ardiles Ramón Díaz Reinhold Hintermaier Hans Krankl Bruno Pezzey Ludo Coeck Alexandre Czerniatynski Erwin Vandenbergh Júnior Oscar Grégoire Mbida Juan Carlos Letelier Gustavo Moscoso Miguel Ángel Neira Luis Ramírez Paul Mariner Maxime Bossis Alain Couriol René Girard Gérard Soler Marius Trésor Paul Breitner Horst Hrubesch Uwe Reinders Antonio Laing Héctor Zelaya Lázár Szentes József Tóth József Varga Alessandro Altobelli Antonio Cabrini Bruno Conti Francesco Graziani

Abdullah Al-Buloushi Faisal Al-Dakhil Steve Sumner Steve Wooddin Rubén Toribio Díaz Guillermo La Rosa Andrzej Buncol Włodzimierz Ciołek Janusz Kupcewicz Grzegorz Lato Stefan Majewski Włodzimierz Smolarek Andrzej Szarmach Steve Archibald Kenny Dalglish Joe Jordan David Narey John Robertson Graeme Souness Andriy Bal Sergei Baltacha Oleg Blokhin Aleksandr Chivadze Yuri Gavrilov Khoren Oganesian Ramaz Shengelia Juanito Roberto López Ufarte Enrique Saura Jesús María Zamora Ivan Gudelj Vladimir Petrović Own goals Jozef Barmoš (for England)

Awards

The Golden Ball, awarded to the tournament's best player, was handed out for the first time.

• Golden Ball: Paolo Rossi (Italy)
• Golden Boot: Paolo Rossi (Italy)

FIFA Retrospective Ranking

In 1986, FIFA published a report that ranked all teams in each World Cup up to and including 1986, based on progress in the competition, overall results and quality of the opposition.^[3] The rankings for the 1982 tournament were as follows:

Final

1.  Italy
2.  West Germany

3rd and 4th place

3.  Poland
4.  France

Eliminated at the second group stage

5.  Brazil
6.  England
7.  Soviet Union
8.  Austria
9.  Northern Ireland
10.  Belgium
11.  Argentina
12.  Spain

Eliminated at the first group stage

13.  Algeria
14.  Hungary
15.  Scotland
16.  Yugoslavia
17.  Cameroon
18.  Honduras
19.  Czechoslovakia
20.  Peru
21.  Kuwait
22.  Chile
23.  New Zealand
24.  El Salvador

Symbols

Mascot

The official mascot of this World Cup was Naranjito, an anthropomorphised orange, a typical fruit in Spain, wearing the kit of the host's national team. Its name comes from naranja, the Spanish word for orange, and the diminutive suffix "-ito".

Match ball

The match ball for 1982 World Cup, manufactured by Adidas, was the Tango España.

References

1. ^ Booth, Lawrence; Smyth, Rob (11 August 2004). "What's the dodgiest game in football history?". guardian.co.uk (Guardian News and Media). Archived from the original on 2011-10-06. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2004/aug/11/theknowledge.sport. Retrieved 25 February 2009. 
2. ^ "World's worst refereeing decisions", BBC, January 5, 2005 Archived 6 October 2011 at WebCite
3. ^ page 45

External links

• 1982 FIFA World Cup on FIFA.com
• Details at RSSSF
• History of the World Cup-1982
• Planet World Cup – Spain 1982
• FIFA Awards - World Cup 1982 "Golden Ball"
• 1982 Stadia on Estadios de Espana