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The 1978 FIFA World Cup was the 11th edition of the FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial international football world championship tournament among the men's senior national teams. It was held in Argentina between 1 and 25 June.
The 1978 FIFA World Cup UEFA–CONMEBOL qualification play-off was a two-legged home-and-away tie between the winners of UEFA Group 9, Hungary, and the last-placed team of the CONMEBOL final round, Bolivia. The matches were played on 29 October and 30 November 1977 in Budapest and La Paz, respectively. [1]
Football tournament FIFA World Cup final Founded 1930 ; 95 years ago (1930) Current champions Argentina (3rd title) Most successful team(s) Brazil (5 titles) The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship ...
A total of 107 teams entered the 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds, which began with the preliminary qualification draw on 20 November 1975 at Guatemala City. Argentina , as the hosts, and West Germany , as the defending champions, qualified automatically, leaving 14 spots open for competition.
Group 1 consisted of four of the 32 teams entered into the European zone: [1] Cyprus, Denmark, Poland, and Portugal.These four teams competed on a home-and-away basis for one of the 8.5 spots in the final tournament allocated to the European zone.
Argentina was runner-up in the 1930 FIFA World Cup held in Uruguay where the host country won the title 4–2. After that, the furthest Argentina had gone in a World Cup was the quarterfinals at the 1966 FIFA World Cup held in England when Argentina lost 0–1 against England when Antonio Ubaldo Rattín was sent off after insulting the referee despite the fact that he did not understand Spanish.
The knockout stage of 1978 FIFA World Cup was a single-elimination tournament involving the four teams that qualified from the second group stage of the tournament.There were two matches: a third place play-off contested by the group runners-up, and the final to decide the champions, contested by the group winners.
Football World Cup – Argentina wins 3-1 (after extra time) over the Netherlands; England - FA Cup – Ipswich Town win 1–0 over Arsenal; England - League – Nottingham Forest win the championship as well as the League Cup; La Liga won by Real Madrid; Primeira Liga won by FC Porto; Serie A won by Juventus; French Division 1 won by AS Monaco