1998 FIFA World Cup France ™ Preliminaries
Second stage
Japan - Kazakhstan
5:1 (3:0)
Match | Date | Venue / Stadium | Time | Attendance |
| 39 | 08 November 1997 | Tokyo / National Stadium (Olympic Stadium) | 01:00 | 56032 |
- Yutaka AKITA (JPN) 11',
- Hidetoshi NAKATA (JPN) 15',
- Masashi NAKAYAMA (JPN) 44',
- Masami IHARA (JPN) 66',
- Pavel YEVTEYEV (KAZ) 73',
- Takuya TAKAGI (JPN) 88'
Goals scored
Japan
- Akira NARAHASHI (-64')
- Naoki SOMA
- Masami IHARA
- Motohiro YAMAGUCHI
- Hidetoshi NAKATA
- Hiroshi NANAMI
- Tsuyoshi KITAZAWA (-83')
- Yutaka AKITA
- Shoji JO
- Yoshikatsu KAWAGUCHI
- Masashi NAKAYAMA (-64')
Line-up
- Nobuyuki KOJIMA
- Norio OMURA
- Takuya TAKAGI (+64')
- Hiroaki MORISHIMA
- Takashi HIRANO
- Takahiro SHIMOTAIRA
- Eisuke NAKANISHI (+64')
Substitute(s)
Kazakhstan
- Oirat SADUOV
- Vitali SPARYSHEV
- Alevtin OSSIPOV
- Ruslan BALTIYEV
- Konstantin KOTOV (+83')(-83')
- Vladimir LOGINOV
- Pavel YEVTEYEV
- Alexander FAMILTSEV
- Evgeni SVESHNIKOV (+73')(-73')
- Viktor ZUBAREV (-64')
- Yuri ISHUTIN
Line-up
- Nourken MAZBAEV
- Dmitri YURIST
- Andrei TETUSHKIN (+64')
- Almas KULSHINBAEV (+83')
- Naken KYRYKBAEV
Substitute(s)
- Akira NARAHASHI (JPN) 3'
- , Oirat SADUOV (KAZ) 10'
- , Vitali SPARYSHEV (KAZ) 75'
- , Nourken MAZBAEV (KAZ) 80'
Cautions
Sent off
Match Officials
Referee Mario VAN DER ENDE (NED) | |
| a.e.t.: | After extra time | (C): | Captain | PSO: | Penalty Shoot-out |
| GK: | Goalkeeper | N: | Not eligible to play | I: | Injured |
| Y: | Misses next match if booked | Pos: | Positions | A: | Absent |
| DF: | Defender | MF: | Midfielder | MinP: | Minutes played |
| GF: | Goals for | GA: | Goals against | PK (PG/PS): | Penalty Kicks (Goals/Shots) |
| FC: | Fouls Committed | FS: | Fouls Suffered | R: | Red Cards |
| FW: | Forward | SOG/S: | Shots on Target | Y: 2YC: | Yellow cards Second yellow card and red card |