1998 FIFA World Cup

The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the 16th FIFA World Cup, the football world championship for men's national teams. The finals tournament 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 (the first was in 1938), defeating Morocco in the bidding process. It was the ninth time that it was held in Europe. Spanning 32 days, it was the longest World Cup tournament ever held and with the most teams (32 teams in the competition finals) until 2026 (when the World Cup was expanded to 48 teams).

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 newly built Stade de France in the Parisian commune of Saint-Denis.

The tournament was won by host country France, who beat defending champions Brazil 3–0 in the final to win their first title. In doing so France became the seventh nation to win the World Cup, and the sixth (after Uruguay, Italy, England, West Germany and Argentina) to win the World Cup on home soil. As of 2026, they are the most recent team to win the tournament on home soil. Croatia, Jamaica, Japan and South Africa made their first appearances in the tournament.

Host selection

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. 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, were among the original applicants, but later withdrew their application in favour of an ultimately successful bid to host UEFA Euro 1996.

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! colspan="4" style="text-align:center"| Voting results

!Country

!Round 1

| France || 12

| Morocco || 7

Bribery and corruption investigations

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.

Qualification

The qualification draw for the 1998 World Cup finals took place in the Musée du Louvre, Paris on 12 December 1995. As tournament hosts, France was exempt from the draw as was defending champion Brazil, but it was also France's first World Cup since 1986. 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. 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. It marked their first appearance in the finals since 1978, 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.

The highest-ranked team that failed to qualify was the Czech Republic (ranked 3rd, mainly thanks to their runner-up campaign on UEFA Euro 1996), while the lowest-ranked team that did qualify was Nigeria (ranked 74th).

, this was the last time Romania and Bulgaria qualified for the World Cup finals, the only time Jamaica have qualified and the last time Portugal failed to qualify.

List of qualified teams

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

;AFC (4)

 (42)
 (debut) (12)
 (34)
 (20)

;CAF (5)

 (49)
 (13)
 (74)
 (debut) (24) 
 (21)

;OFC (0)

None qualified

;CONCACAF (3)

 (debut) (30)
 (4)
 (11)

;CONMEBOL (5)

 (6)
 (holders) (1)
 (9)
 (10)
 (29)

;UEFA (15)

 (31)
 (36)
 (35)
 (debut) (19)
 (27)
 (5)
 (18) (hosts)
 (2)
 (14)
 (25)
 (7)
 (22)
 (41)
 (15)
FR Yugoslavia (8)

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! colspan="4"| Teams listed by FIFA ranking as of May 1998 banning of tackles from behind that endanger the safety of an opponent and allowance of three substitutions per game.

Match officials

34 referees and 33 assistants officiated in the 1998 World Cup. 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.

For the draw, the 32 teams were allocated into four pots. The eight top-seeded teams were allocated in pot A and would be drawn/selected into the first position of the eight groups playing in the group stage. The remaining 24 unseeded teams were allocated into three pots based on geographical sections, with the: Nine European teams in pot B; four Asian teams and three South American teams in pot C; five African teams and three North American teams in pot D.

Organiser Michel Platini, who later became president of UEFA, admitted in 2018 that the draw for the group stage of the competition had been fixed so that France and Brazil were kept apart until the final, telling France Bleu Sport: "We did a bit of trickery. When we were organising the schedule. We did not spend six years organising the World Cup to not do some little shenanigans".

The statement from Platini referred to the fact that, shortly before the World Cup finals draw took place, the FIFA Organising Committee had met to finalise the draw process. At this meeting, the committee had approved the proposal to assign host nation France to group position C1 and defending champions Brazil to group position A1 ahead of the draw. As the tournament structure was also predetermined so that the winners of Groups A, D, E and H, and the runners-up of Groups B, C, F and G would be kept apart from the group winners of B, C, F and G, and the runners-up of Group A, D, E and H until the final; thus, France and Brazil could avoid meeting each other until the final if both teams finished in the same position in the top two of their respective groups.

Procedure for the draw:

Pot A was used to draw the remaining six top-seeded teams for the first position of groups B, D, E, F, G and H.
Pot D was used to draw one team to each of the eight groups (drawing in the alphabetic order from A to H).
Pot B was used to draw one team to each of the eight groups (drawing in the alphabetic order from A to H).
As per the FIFA rule of only allowing a maximum of two UEFA teams in each group, the remaining ninth team from Pot B, was subject to a second draw, to be put in either of the groups containing a top-seeded South American (CONMEBOL) team.
Pot C was used to draw one team to each of the seven groups with an empty spot (drawing in alphabetical order from A to H). However, as each group could only contain one South American (CONMEBOL) team, the first Asian (AFC) team drawn would not be drawn into a group in alphabetical order, but instead be drawn into the remaining open group with a top-seeded South American (CONMEBOL) team.
To decide the match schedules, the exact group position number for the un-seeded teams in each group (2, 3 or 4), were also drawn immediately from eight special group bowls, after each respective team had been drawn from pot D, B and C.

Draw results and group fixtures

The draw resulted in the following eight groups: 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. 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 first 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.

Group B

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

Group C

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. Saudi Arabia, after a good performance four years earlier, finished bottom with only one point. Debutant South Africa grabbed two points and also exited at the group stage.

Group D

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.

Group E

The Netherlands and Mexico advanced with the same record, with the former placing first on goal difference. Belgium and eventual 2002 FIFA World Cup co-hosts South Korea failed to advance, although Belgium were undefeated with three draws.

Group F

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

Group G

Romania topped the group over England, while Colombia and Tunisia were unable to reach the last 16, despite Colombia having one win.

Group H

Argentina finished at the top of Group H against three debutants. Croatia took the runners-up spot while Jamaica and Japan failed to advance.

Knockout stage

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. The Golden goal rule was also used, whereby if a team scored during extra time, they would immediately win the game.

Bracket

Round of 16

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Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Match for third place

Croatia beat the Netherlands to earn third place in the competition. Davor Šuker scored the winner in the 36th minute to secure the golden boot.

Final

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, later to be topped by Brazil's 7–1 defeat by Germany in the semi-finals of the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

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. 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.

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

Statistics

Goalscorers

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

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!Golden Ball Award

!Golden Shoe Award

!Yashin Award

!FIFA Fair Play Trophy

!Most Entertaining Team

|align=center| Ronaldo

|align=center| Davor Šuker

|align=center| Fabien Barthez

|align=center|

|align=center|

Players who were red-carded during the tournament

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

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.

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!Goalkeepers

!Defenders

!Midfielders

!Forwards

|align=left valign=top|

Fabien Barthez

José Luis Chilavert

|align=left valign=top|

Roberto Carlos

Marcel Desailly

Lilian Thuram

Frank de Boer

Carlos Gamarra

|align=left valign=top|

Dunga

Rivaldo

Michael Laudrup

Zinedine Zidane

Edgar Davids

|align=left valign=top|

Ronaldo

Davor Šuker

Brian Laudrup

Dennis Bergkamp

Final standings

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.

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;text-align:center"

!width=25|

!width=165| Team

!width=25|

|- style="background:gold"

| 1 || style="text-align:left"| || C || 7 || 6 || 1 || 0 || 15 || 2 || +13 || 19

|- style="background:silver"

| 2 || style="text-align:left"| || A || 7 || 4 || 1 || 2 || 14 || 10 || +4 || 13

|- style="background:#c96"

| 3 || style="text-align:left"| || H || 7 || 5 || 0 || 2 || 11 || 5 || +6 || 15

|- style="background:gray"

| 4 || style="text-align:left"| || E || 7 || 3 || 3 || 1 || 13 || 7 || +6 || 12

| colspan="11"| Eliminated in the quarter-finals

| 5 || style="text-align:left"| || B || 5 || 3 || 2 || 0 || 8 || 3 || +5 || 11

| 6 || style="text-align:left"| || H || 5 || 3 || 1 || 1 || 10 || 4 || +6 || 10

| 7 || style="text-align:left"| || F || 5 || 3 || 1 || 1 || 8 || 6 || +2 || 10

| 8 || style="text-align:left"| || C || 5 || 2 || 1 || 2 || 9 || 7 || +2 || 7

| colspan="11"| Eliminated in the round of 16

| 9 || style="text-align:left"| || G || 4 || 2 || 1 || 1 || 7 || 4 || +3 || 7

| 10 || style="text-align:left"| || F || 4 || 2 || 1 || 1 || 5 || 4 || +1 || 7

| 11 || style="text-align:left"| || G || 4 || 2 || 1 || 1 || 4 || 3 || +1 || 7

| 12 || style="text-align:left"| || D || 4 || 2 || 0 || 2 || 6 || 9 || −3 || 6

| 13 || style="text-align:left"| || E || 4 || 1 || 2 || 1 || 8 || 7 || +1 || 5

| 14 || style="text-align:left"| || D || 4 || 1 || 2 || 1 || 3 || 2 || +1 || 5

| 15 || style="text-align:left"| || A || 4 || 1 || 2 || 1 || 5 || 5 || 0 || 5

| 16 || style="text-align:left"| || B || 4 || 0 || 3 || 1 || 5 || 8 || −3 || 3

| colspan="11"| Eliminated in the group stage

| 17 || style="text-align:left"| || D || 3 || 1 || 1 || 1 || 8 || 4 || +4 || 4

| 18 || style="text-align:left"| || A || 3 || 1 || 1 || 1 || 5 || 5 || 0 || 4

| 19 || style="text-align:left"| || E || 3 || 0 || 3 || 0 || 3 || 3 || 0 || 3

| 20 || style="text-align:left"| || F || 3 || 1 || 0 || 2 || 2 || 4 || −2 || 3

| 21 || style="text-align:left"| || G || 3 || 1 || 0 || 2 || 1 || 3 || −2 || 3

| 22 || style="text-align:left"| || H || 3 || 1 || 0 || 2 || 3 || 9 || −6 || 3

| 23 || style="text-align:left"| || B || 3 || 0 || 2 || 1 || 3 || 4 || −1 || 2

| 24 || style="text-align:left"| || C || 3 || 0 || 2 || 1 || 3 || 6 || −3 || 2

| 25 || style="text-align:left"| || B || 3 || 0 || 2 || 1 || 2 || 5 || −3 || 2

| 26 || style="text-align:left"| || G || 3 || 0 || 1 || 2 || 1 || 4 || −3 || 1

| 27 || style="text-align:left"| || A || 3 || 0 || 1 || 2 || 2 || 6 || −4 || 1

| 28 || style="text-align:left"| || C || 3 || 0 || 1 || 2 || 2 || 7 || −5 || 1

| 29 || style="text-align:left"| || D || 3 || 0 || 1 || 2 || 1 || 7 || −6 || 1

| 30 || style="text-align:left"| || E || 3 || 0 || 1 || 2 || 2 || 9 || −7 || 1

| 31 || style="text-align:left"| || H || 3 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 1 || 4 || −3 || 0

| 32 || style="text-align:left"| || F || 3 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 1 || 5 || −4 || 0

Marketing

Tournoi de France

A year before the tournament, a small, invitation-only tournament named the Tournoi de France was held in France, with Italy, Brazil, England, and hosts France participating.

Broadcasting

Through several companies, FIFA sold the broadcasting rights for the 1998 FIFA World Cup to many broadcasters. BBC and ITV had the broadcasting rights in the United Kingdom. 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.

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.

{| class="wikitable" border="1"

!Country

!Broadcaster

!Television

|colspan=2|TVSH

|Artear, Televisión Federal, Grupo América, Telearte, SNMP, Teletreinta, Argentina Televisión, Lujan Cable Visión S.A., Holding Córdoba de radio y televisión

|Eltrece, Telefe, América TV, Canal 9, ATC, Channel 30, Argenvisión, Channel 23, El CW

|colspan=2|SBS

|ORF

|ORF eins and ORF 2

|Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU), Orbit Network

|Orbit ESPN

|rowspan=2|

|Dutch: VRT

|Dutch: Eén and Canvas

|French: RTBF

|French: La Une and La Deux

|colspan=2|BTV

|colspan=2|TVB, Bolivisión, Unitel and Unovisión

|colspan="2"|Globo, SBT, RecordTV, Manchete, SporTV and ESPN Brasil

|RTB

|RTB Perdana, RTB Aneka

|BNT

|Channel 1 and Efir 2

|TVK

|Channel 7

|rowspan=2|

|English: CBC

|English: CBC Television

|French: Société Radio-Canada

|French: Télévision de Radio-Canada

|colspan=2|TVN, Chilevisión, UCTV and Megavisión

|CCTV

|CCTV-1

|rowspan=2|

|Inravisión

|Canal Uno: PUNCH and JES Canal A: RTI and Datos y Mensajes

|colspan=2|Caracol Televisión and RCN Televisión

| TF1, 1998 FIFA World Cup TV RAI

| TF1, 1998 FIFA World Cup TV2 and 1998 FIFA World Cup TV3

|Czech Television

|ČT1 and ČT2

|DR

|DR1 and DR2

|colspan=2|ETV

|YLE, MTV3

|YLE TV2

|TF1, 1998 FIFA World Cup TV

|TF1, 1998 FIFA World Cup TV2, 1998 FIFA World Cup TV3, 1998 FIFA World Cup TV4, 1998 FIFA World Cup TV International and 1998 FIFA World Cup TV News

|GPB

|1TV

|ARD and ZDF

|Das Erste and ZDF

|ERT

|ET1, NET and ET3

|MTV

|MTV1 and MTV2

| RAI

| RAI 1, RAI 2 and RAI 3

|rowspan=2|

|rowspan=2|TVB

|Cantonese: TVB Jade

|English: TVB Pearl

|Doordarshan

|Doordarshan National Channel

|colspan=2| TVRI (Programme 1), RCTI, SCTV, TPI, ANteve, and Indosiar (all matches in live television)

|IRIB

|Channel 1 and Channel 2

|RTÉ

|RTÉ One and RTÉ Two

|rowspan=2|

|rowspan=2|IBA

|Hebrew: Channel 1

|Arabic: Channel 33

|RAI

|RAI 1, RAI 2 and RAI 3

|NHK, Fuji Television, TBS, Nippon Television, TV Asahi and TV Tokyo

|NHK General TV, Fuji Television, TBS Television, Nippon Television, TV Asahi and TV Tokyo

|colspan=2|LNTV

|rowspan=2|

|rowspan=2|TVB

|Cantonese: TVB Jade

|English: TVB Pearl

|Latin America

|Bein TV, DirecTV

|Channels 530 and 532 of Bein TV Channels 610 and 612 of DirecTV

|RTM, STMB, NTV7

|TV1, TV2, TV3, NTV7

|Televisa, TV Azteca

|Canal de las Estrellas, XHDF-TDT

| TF1, 1998 FIFA World Cup TV Telemontecarlo

| TF1, 1998 FIFA World Cup TV2, 1998 FIFA World Cup TV3, 1998 FIFA World Cup TV4, 1998 FIFA World Cup TV International and 1998 FIFA World Cup TV News (all matches of international broadcast signal) Telemontecarlo

|MRTV

|Channel 5

|NPO

|Nederland 1, Nederland 2 and Nederland 3

|TVNZ

|TV1 and TV2

|NRK

|NRK1 and NRK2

|TV Acción, TV Cerro Corá, Tevedos, Teledifusora Paraguaya, SICOM TV, Hispanoamérica TV, Canal 5 TV Color, Caacupé Cable Visión S.A., Holding Paraná de radio y televisión

|colspan="2"|Telefuturo, SNT, Red Guaraní Canal 13, Paraguay TV, La Tele, Paravisión, Canal 25, RTV

|colspan=2|América Televisión and Panamericana Televisión.

|colspan=2|GMA Network and Sky Cable

|TVP

|TVP1 and TVP2

|RTP

|RTP1 and RTP2

|VGTRK, ORT

|Rossiya 1, Channel One Russia

| RAI

| RAI 1, RAI 2 and RAI 3

|Singapore International Media

|Premiere 12

|STV

|STV1 and STV2

|SABC

|SABC 1, SABC 2 and SABC 3

|colspan=2|KBS

|RTVE

|TVE (TV1 and TV2)

|SVT

|SVT1 and SVT2

|SRG SSR

|SF 1 (German), TSR 2 (French) and TSI 2 (Italian)

|colspan=2|TTV, CTV, CTS and FTV

|colspan=2|Television Pool of Thailand

|TRT

|TRT 1, TRT 2 and TRT 3

|BBC and ITV

|BBC One and ITV

|colspan=2|ABC, ESPN (English) and Univision (Spanish)

|colspan=2|UT-1 and 1+1

|Tevetres, Monte Carlo Televisión, Sociedad Anónima Emisora de Televisión y Anexos, Sociedad Televisora Larrañaga, SODRE, Franco-Hispano TV, Canal 8 TV Color, Canelones Cable Visión S.A., Holding Rivera de radio y televisión

|colspan="2"|Channel 3, Channel 4, Channel 10, Teledoce, UTC, Uruvisión, Canal 27, STV

|Vietnam Television, Ho Chi Minh City Television

|VTV1, VTV3, HTV7, HTV9

|colspan=2|Venevisión, RCTV, VTV

Sponsorship

thumb|[[Coca-Cola was one of the sponsors of FIFA World Cup 1998.]]

The sponsors of the 1998 FIFA World Cup are divided into two categories: FIFA World Cup Sponsors and France Supporters.

{| class="wikitable"

! FIFA World Cup sponsors !! France Supporters

Adidas
Budweiser
Canon
Casio
Coca-Cola
Fujifilm
Gillette (Braun)
JVC
MasterCard
McDonald's
Opel
Philips

Air France
Citroën
Crédit Agricole
Danone
France Telecom
La Poste
Peugeot
Renault
Vauxhall

The absence of Budweiser on pitch side advertising hoardings is notable due to the Evin law, which forbids alcohol-related sponsorship in France, including in sports events.

Video games

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.

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.

Symbols

thumb|upright|Footix, the official [[FIFA World Cup mascots|mascot of the tournament]]

Mascot

The official mascot was Footix, a rooster first presented in May 1996. It was created by graphic designer Fabrice Pialot and selected from a shortlist of five mascots. 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. 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. The tricolour flag and cockerel, traditional symbols of France, were used as inspiration for the design.

The official anthem was "La Cour des Grands (Do You Mind If I Play)" by Youssou N'Dour and Axelle Red.

Legacy

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". 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".

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

1998 FIFA World Cup

Host selection

Bribery and corruption investigations

Qualification

List of qualified teams

Match officials

Draw results and group fixtures

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Knockout stage

Bracket

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Match for third place

Final

Statistics

Goalscorers

Awards

Players who were red-carded during the tournament

All-star team

Final standings

Marketing

Tournoi de France

Broadcasting

Sponsorship

Video games

Symbols

Mascot

Legacy

See also

References

Reports

Sources

External links