1986 FIFA World Cup final

1986 FIFA World Cup Final

The teams enter the field at the Estadio Azteca
Event	1986 FIFA World Cup
Argentina West Germany 3 2
Date	29 June 1986
Venue	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City
Referee	Romualdo Arppi Filho (Brazil)
Attendance	114,600

The 1986 FIFA World Cup Final was the final and deciding game of the 1986 FIFA World Cup, held in Mexico. The match was held at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City on 29 June 1986 and had an attendance of 114,600. It was contested by Argentina and West Germany. Argentina won the match 3–2 in normal time.

Route to the final

Argentina		Round	West Germany
Opponent	Result	First round	Opponent	Result
South Korea	3–1	Match 1	Uruguay	1–1
Italy	1–1	Match 2	Scotland	2–1
Bulgaria	2–0	Match 3	Denmark	0–2
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Argentina 3 2 1 0 6 2 +4 5 Italy 3 1 2 0 5 4 +1 4 Bulgaria 3 0 2 1 2 4 −2 2 South Korea 3 0 1 2 4 7 −3 1		Final standing	Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Denmark 3 3 0 0 9 1 +8 6 West Germany 3 1 1 1 3 4 −1 3 Uruguay 3 0 2 1 2 7 −5 2 Scotland 3 0 1 2 1 3 −2 1
Opponent	Result	Knockout stage	Opponent	Result
Uruguay	1–0	Round of 16	Morocco	1–0
England	2–1	Quarter-finals	Mexico	0–0 (aet) (4–1 pen.)
Belgium	2–0	Semifinals	France	2–0

Match

Summary

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Jorge Burruchaga scoring the third goal for the Argentine win

This was an exciting and memorable World Cup final. José Luis Brown opened the scoring for Argentina in the 23rd minute with a header after a free-kick from the right and it stayed at 1–0 until half-time. 10 minutes into the second half, Jorge Valdano doubled Argentina's lead with a low side foot finish after cutting in from the left past the advancing goalkeeper. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge pulled a goal back in the 74th minute from close range for West Germany, his first goal in the tournament. West Germany then equalised in the 83rd minute, with Rudi Völler scoring with a header from close range to seemingly salvage the game. Although Diego Maradona was heavily marked by Lothar Matthäus the entire game, his superb pass to Jorge Burruchaga in the 86th minute allowed Argentina to regain the lead at 3–2 when he slid the ball past the advancing goalkeeper from the right and into the corner of the net.

Six yellow cards were issued in this match, which was a record number until the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final. Two of them were issued because of time wasting from Argentine players. As the clock expired, Argentina celebrated their second World Cup victory in three tournaments after having won the 1978 World Cup on home soil.

Details

29 June 1986

12:00 CST

Argentina	3–2	West Germany
Brown 23' Valdano 56' Burruchaga 86'	Report	Rummenigge 74' Völler 83'

Estadio Azteca, Mexico City

Attendance: 114,600

Referee: Romualdo Arppi Filho (Brazil)

Argentina

West Germany

GK 18 Nery Pumpido  85' SW 5 José Luis Brown CB 9 José Luis Cuciuffo CB 19 Oscar Ruggeri RWB 14 Ricardo Giusti LWB 16 Julio Olarticoechea  77' DM 2 Sergio Batista CM 7 Jorge Burruchaga  90' CM 12 Héctor Enrique  81' SS 10 Diego Maradona (c)  17' CF 11 Jorge Valdano Substitutions: MF 21 Marcelo Trobbiani  90' Manager: Carlos Bilardo

GK 1 Harald Schumacher SW 17 Ditmar Jakobs CB 4 Karlheinz Förster CB 2 Hans-Peter Briegel  62' RWB 14 Thomas Berthold LWB 3 Andreas Brehme CM 6 Norbert Eder CM 8 Lothar Matthäus  21' AM 10 Felix Magath  62' CF 11 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (c) CF 19 Klaus Allofs  46' Substitutions: FW 9 Rudi Völler  46' FW 20 Dieter Hoeneß  62' Manager: Franz Beckenbauer

Assistant referees: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden) Berny Ulloa Morera (Costa Rica)

Match rules: 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary Penalty shoot-out if scores still level Five substitutes named, of which two may be used

Aftermath

Diego Maradona (with the World Cup) and other players celebrating the title

The second World Cup won by Argentina is regarded by many as the most important victory for an Argentine side. Four years after Argentina's victory over West Germany, both teams met again on the final of the subsequent World Cup, with West Germany winning the match 1–0 via a penalty kick. This marked the first time two World Cup finalists met twice, a record shared with Brazil and Italy, the latter two having met in the 1970 and 1994 World Cup finals. Argentina and Germany met again in the 2014 final for a record-breaking third time in which Germany won their fourth championship.

With the 1986 defeat, German manager Franz Beckenbauer (who had played in West Germany's defeat in 1966) gained the rather unwanted distinction of having lost a World Cup final as both a player and a manager. However, he led Germany to the said 1990 victory and became a winner of the World Cup as player and as manager, as he also won as the former in 1974.

The games are won by the players on the field, but behind it there must be a machinery that works. There I include players, coaching staff and leaders. If you throw all in the same direction, you can think of titles. That's what happened in Mexico '86.

— Carlos Bilardo, manager of Argentina