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Teams: 16
Date: 01 June 1978 to 25 June 1978
Final: 25 June 1978
Matches: 38
Goals Scored: 102 (average 2.7 per match)
Attendance: 1,546,151 (average 40,688)
Winner: Argentina
Runners-Up: Holland
Third: Brazil
Fourth: Italy
Golden Shoe: Mario KEMPES (Argentina)
Best Young Player Award: Antonio CABRINI (Italy)
FIFA Fair Play award: Argentina
FKS Publishers Ltd
The 1978 FIFA World Cup, the 11th staging of the FIFA World Cup, quadrennial international football world championship tournament, was held in Argentina between 1 and 25 June.
The 1978 World Cup was won by Argentina who beat the Netherlands 3–1 at River Plate's home stadium Estadio Monumental in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires after extra time in the final. This win was the first World Cup title for Argentina, who became the fifth team (after Uruguay, Italy, England and West Germany), to be both hosts and world champions. Argentina, the Netherlands and Brazil were the gold, silver and bronze medalists respectively. Iran and Tunisia made their first appearances in the finals. This was also the last World Cup tournament to use the original inclusion of 16 teams, only 15 teams (plus the host, who automatically qualified) had been allowed to qualify since the first World Cup in 1930 (the reigning title holders also received automatic qualification from 1934 through 2002); for the next World Cup in Spain, FIFA expanded that tournament to 24 teams.
Argentina 78
Coloured, numbered series of 300 stickers. Player portraits and flags from the competing countries in the World Cup 1978. Also included were some countries and players who missed out. FKS have learnt from their errors and now publish the biographies under the sticker spaces, so that you can still read it once the sticker is stuck in! Anonymous plain back.
Sold in envelopes containing six stickers. Album issued to accompany the series priced 10p.
Size: 64x45mm
Wrapper
271. Trevor Brooking - England
Album
POLY - BILDERDIENST (Germany)
Goldene Tore (Golden Goals)
Coloured, numbered series of 49 stickers. Album issued to accompany the series.
Size: 100x70mm
Bild 9. Geoff Hurst (England)
Bild 10. Geoff Hurst (West Ham)
PANINI Publishing Ltd
World Cup 78
Coloured, numbered series of 400 stickers. The album was known as 'World Cup 78' in the United Kingdom but
international releases were called 'Argentina 78'.
Size: 69x49mm
International Wrapper
359. Trevor Brooking - England
UK Album