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The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the 16th edition of the World Cup, FIFA's football competition for men's national teams, held in France between 10 June and 12 July 1998. [1] [2] The finals featured 32 teams for the first time, up from 24 in the 1994 World Cup. [3]
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, [32] later to be topped by Brazil's 7–1 defeat by Germany in the semi-finals of the 2014 FIFA ...
Football tournament FIFA World Cup final Founded 1930 ; 95 years ago (1930) Current champions Argentina (3rd title) Most successful team(s) Brazil (5 titles) The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship ...
As of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, 80 national teams have competed at the finals of the FIFA World Cup. [1] Brazil is the only team to have appeared in all 22 tournaments to date, with Germany having participated in 20, Italy and Argentina in 18 and Mexico in 17. [2] Eight nations have won the tournament.
The 1998 FIFA World Cup knockout stage covers the games from the second round through to the final at the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France. The top two teams from each of the eight groups qualified for the knockout stage.
David Beckham was a huge name in soccer, and people want to know if he ever actually won a World Cup. His docuseries, 'Beckham,' breaks it down. David Beckham's 1998 World Cup Run Was Really Brutal
1998 FIFA World Cup – France wins 3–0 over Brazil in Saint-Denis, France, winning their first cup. More than one million delirious fans jammed the Champs-Élysées, dancing through the night. UEFA Champions League: Real Madrid won 1–0 in the final against Juventus. This was Real Madrid's seventh European Cup title.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 February 2025. This article is about the year 1998. For the BBC Radio 4 comedy series, see Nineteen Ninety-Eight. For other uses, see 1998 (disambiguation). 1998 January February March April May June July August September October November December Clockwise from top-left: the 1998 Winter Olympics are ...