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1998 FIFA World Cup France ™
- Teams: 32
- When: 10 June 1998 to 12 July 1998
- Final: 12 July 1998
- Matches: 64
- Goals Scored: 171 (average 2.7 per match)
- Attendance: 2785100 (average 43517)
- Winner: France
- Runners-Up: Brazil
- Third: Croatia
- Fourth: Netherlands
- adidas Golden Ball: RONALDO (BRA)
- adidas Golden Shoe: Davor SUKER (CRO)
- Yashin Award for the Best Goalkeeper: Fabien BARTHEZ (FRA)
- FIFA Fair Play award: England, France
- FIFA Award for the Most Entertaining Team: France
Did You Know?
- Twelve years and 16 days after his first finals goal, Dane Michael Laudrup was on target for the second and last time in a 2-1 loss to France.
- Denmark's Ebbe Sand scored the fastest ever FIFA World Cup™ finals goal by a substitute in a 4-1 win over Nigeria, 16 seconds after his introduction.
- Following two successive losses, Saudi Arabia, Korea Republic and Tunisia changed their coaches ahead of their last group match, which they all drew.
- Austria scored in second half injury time in each of their three games, late goals earning them successive 1-1 draws and a consolation against Italy.
- Argentine Gabriel Batistuta became the only man to net hat-tricks in two tournaments against Jamaica, exactly four years after his treble sunk Greece.
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