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== The World Cup Archive ==

Welcome to the football World Cup archive, which started out in summer
1998 as a contribution to ‹RSSSF, see page nersssf›, a non-profit
organization for collecting football statistics
from all over the world. Below you find the intro
file I wrote explaining the contents of the archive. And here
are the ‹possible errors, see page differs.txt› that came up during
the verification phase.

You can view the archive online, with details for finals of
‹1930, see page 30full› |
‹1934, see page 34full› |
‹1938, see page 38full› |
‹1950, see page 50full› |
‹1954, see page 54full› |
‹1958, see page 58full› |
‹1962, see page 62full› |
‹1966, see page 66full› |
‹1970, see page 70full› |
‹1974, see page 74full› |
‹1978, see page 78full› |
‹1982, see page 82full› |
‹1986, see page 86full› |
‹1990, see page 90full› |
‹1994, see page 94full› |
‹1998, see page 98full› |
‹2002, see page 2002full› |
‹2006, see page 2006full› |
‹2010, see page 2010full› and
‹2014, see page 2014full›

You can also view full qualifying data here:
‹1934, see page 34qual› |
‹1938, see page 38qual› |
‹1950, see page 50qual› |
‹1954, see page 54qual› |
‹1958, see page 58qual› |
‹1962, see page 62qual› |
‹1966, see page 66qual› |
‹1970, see page 70qual› |
‹1974, see page 74qual› |
‹1978, see page 78qual› |
‹1982, see page 82qual› |
‹1986, see page 86qual› |
‹1990, see page 90qual› |
‹1994, see page 94qual› and
‹1998, see page 98qual›

These pages are prepared using a mixed encoding of ISO 8859-1 and
ISO 8859-2 (for example Høgh and Výtlaèil). If you see here junk
instead of o-slash, y-acute and c-caron, your browser is either badly
configured or just plain stupid (Netscape 4.x happens to be the latter,
unfortunately).

I have prepared the full documentation of the World Cup since 1930,
including the recent France '98 tournament, with the kind assistance
of Karel Stokkermans, Misha Miladinovich, Søren Elbech, Jean Michel
Cazal and other people who provided important corrections and details.

As a source I used the pages about WC history found at
‹http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Sideline/8601/›, which helped me a lot.
This was checked against "Encyklopedia Pilkarska [Football Encyclopedia]
FUJI", volumes 8, 11 and 9 (with respect to player names). ep FUJI is a series
of volumes issued by the GiA printhouse from Katowice, Poland, which also
produces excellent yearbooks. Unfortunately they don't have a web page or
even an e-mail :(

I cannot assure that the data is 100% correct, so standard disclaimer applies.
Particularly Brazillian and Iberoamerican names may differ sometimes from
other sources, because in those countries names and surnames are handled
differently than most Europeans are used to. Ditto for Arabian-speaking
countries. Korean names are traditionally a nuisance to Europeans.

LEGAL NOTICE: The statistical information found in this archive is PUBLIC
DOMAIN, as regulated by article 4 p. 4 of the Polish intellectual property
law from 2nd Feb 1994. Other non-statistical information is subject to
fair use as regulated by article 29 p. 1 of same.

The data format is as follows:

(date)  (hour) (city, stadium)

(result)

(attendance) (referees)

(line-ups with substitutions)

(goals in order of scoring)

(bookings & sent offs)

(additional notes)

Some explanatory remarks:

Date: in dd/mm/yy format, year is two digits (this will not create problems
until 2030).

Hour: local time when the match was scheduled to start (ie. for delayed
matches see additional notes). European countries use generally GMT+1,
with the exception of England and Spain (GMT). South American countries
use GMT-5 or GMT-6, Mexico uses GMT-8 and USA uses GMT-5 to GMT-8 depending
on place. Add/substract as needed to obtain the hour at which the match
started in your country. You need to take DST into account as well, which
makes converting older (pre-1960) times doubtful.

City, Stadium name: in local language if possible. However for Switzerland
the versions generally accepted in English have been adopted.

Result: teams, result, half-result with additional data on extra-time (ie.
the first result in parentheses is the one after 45 min, the second after
90 min, the third after 105 min). This could be simplified with the
introduction of the golden goal rule. Also the result of penalty shootout
if one occured (the British practice is to sum up goals from game and
shootout when giving result, which is NOT encouraged).

Attendance: in many cases approximate. Various sources make different guesses,
and reliable data just isn't available sometimes. Attendance has more than
often been calculated on the basis of tickets sold, not by counting spectators.

The + sign before the number means "more than", - means "less than" and ~
means "around, approximately, more or less".

Referees: the first one is the main referee, the two following are linesmen.
I have not included the technical referees who appeared at France '98,
despite FIFA treating them as part of the traditional trio when presenting
WC 98 stats on ‹www.fifa.com›.

Line ups: Captains are marked with (c). It was assumed that pre-war teams played
1-2-3-5, in the 50s this was changed to 1-3-2-5 (WM system), later to 1-2-4-4
(Brasil in 1962), 1-3-3-4, 1-4-3-3 and finally 1-4-4-2. Of course where there
was evidence that a team used a different style that the one widely adopted at
the time, this has been taken into account.

Goals: some sources may report the scorers differently, especially with
respect to own goals. Minutes are +/- 1 due to the way some sources count
them (ie. whether the first minute starts at kick-off or after 60 secs).
The letters after minutes mean: p - penalty kick goal, f - free kick goal,
h - header goal, o - own goal, c - corner goal. Penalties which were missed
are also noted. "Out" in this context means also a crossbar or goalpost.

Bookings: list of names from both teams, separated by a / (slash). The list
is ordered randomly and does not reflect actual booking order.

Additional notes: info on extraordinary occurances like a serious match delay,
match called off (SWE-AUT in 1938), jubilee (centenary) matches and some
other ‹trivia, see page trivia›. Also the method of calculating table positions was explained
whenever it differed from the one now accepted at WC.

I've also included a list of all scorers in a given tournament, ordered
alphabetically by ‹country codes, see page ccodes.txt› and then by player names. Own goals are
listed separately. Below that is found a summary.

The list of coaches includes team coaches, assistants, managers, directors,
selection commission members and similar (except for 1994 and 1998, where
only main team coaches are given). The first person on the list is always
the main coach. Reserve players are listed alphabetically. Note that
until 1962 (?) there was no fixed 22-men limit on squads.

Youngest and oldest includes: players (with goalkeepers), goalkeepers,
scorers, champions (from 1st team), finalists (from 1st-2nd team), medalists
(from 1st-4th team), coaches (the main coaches, not the helping persons
listed after them above) and referees. Due to problems with determining the
dates of birth in the more exotic countries some data may be inexact or
approximate.

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