As a result, Pot B – which contained two South American teams – was initially drawn containing only the four Europeans, which were then to be immediately allocated to Groups 3 and 6 which contained the two South American seeds Argentina and Brazil. The tournament featured the first penalty shoot-out in World Cup competition.Spain was chosen as the host nation by FIFA in London on 6 July 1966.
Thus, the Group A winner played the Group C winner, and the Group B winner played the Group D winner. The winner of Group 6 was in Group C whilst the runner-up was in Group A. In 1950, there was no final; the article is about the decisive match of the final group stage.Stadium capacities, Panini official album to World Cup 1982. The winners of Groups 1 and 3 were in Group A whilst the runners-up were in Group C. The winners of Groups 2 and 4 were in Group B whilst the runners-up were in Group D. The winner of Group 5 was in Group D whilst the runner-up was in Group B. These regulations helped ensure that the final group games were of importance as no team could already have progressed to the semi-finals by the end of the second fixtures.The 43,000-capacity Sarria Stadium in Barcelona, used for the Group C round-robin matches between Italy, Argentina and Brazil was, unlike any of the other matches (except 1) in the other groups, severely overcrowded for all 3 matches. 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. As it turned out, Italy and Poland who were both in Group 1 in the first round, each won their second-round groups and played each other in a semifinal match.Group 2 saw one of the great World Cup upsets on the first day with the 2–1 victory of Group 3, where the opening ceremony and first match of the tournament took place, saw Poland opened Group A with a 3–0 defeat of Belgium thanks to a In Group B, a match between England and West Germany ended in a goalless draw. France would go on to win the Italy became the first team to advance from the first round without winning a game, drawing all three (while 17 stadiums in 14 cities hosted the tournament, a record that stood until the 2002 tournament, which was played 20 stadiums in two countries.This particular World Cup was organised in such a way that all of the matches of each of the six groups were assigned stadiums in cities near to each other, in order to reduce the stress of travel on the players and fans.
SCOTLAND - SOVIET UNION. Scotland World Cup Squad 1982 - We Have A Dream by Angel McLachlan. FIFA announced the six seeded teams on the day of the draw and allocated them in advance to the six groups; as had become standard, the host nation and the reigning champions were among the seeds.On 16 January 1982 the draw was conducted at the Palacio de Congresos in Madrid, where the teams were drawn out from the three pots to be placed with the seeded teams in their predetermined groups.The only stipulation of the draw was that no group could feature two South American teams.
There was some consideration given as to whether England, Northern Ireland, and Scotland should withdraw from the tournament because of the The following 24 teams qualified for the final tournament. Group stage matches in the milder northern cities like Bilbao or Gijon would start at 17:00, while the matches in the southern cities like Seville or Valencia would start at 21:00, in an attempt to avoid the intense southern Spanish summer heat, which has average temperatures in the 90s and 100s °F (32-38 °C). The second-round groups that mirrored each other (based on the first-round groupings) faced off against each other in the semifinals. Groups A and B were to include one team from each of Groups 1 through 6, and Groups C and D included the remaining six teams. The winners of each one of these groups would progress to the semi-finals. "Notes: There was no qualification for the 1930 World Cup as places were given by invitation only. The first round was a round-robin group stage containing six groups of four teams each.
For the first time, the World Cup finals expanded from 16 to 24 teams.
June 22nd 1982 (21:00) Malaga, Estadio La Rosaleda.