Football World Cup 1990

Venues

• Stadio Olimpico, Roma - 81,000 matches
• Stadio San Paolo, Napoli - 74,000 matches
• Stadio Delle Alpi, Torino - 68,000 matches
• Stadio San Nicola, Bari - 56,000 matches
• Stadio Artemio Franchi, Firenze - 41,000 matches
• Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milano - 75,000 matches
• Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genova - 35,000 matches
• Stadio Renato Dall'Ara, Bologna - 39,000 matches
• Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi, Verona - 42,000 matches
• Stadio Friuli, Udine - 38,000 matches
• Stadio Sant'Elia, Cagliari - 40,000 matches
• Stadio Della Favorita Palermo - 36,000 matches

First round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Round of sixteen

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Third place match

Final

Firsts

• For the first time, both World Cup semifinals had been decided by penalty shootouts.
• The tournament marks the first time a World Cup tournament has ever hit such a low goals-per-game average. There were 115 goals, and, taking account of extra time when applicable, 4920 minutes of play - which means 1 goal every 42.7 minutes, or only 2.1 goals for every 90-minute game.
• First appearance of the United Arab Emirates, and first appearance of the United States after a 40-year absence. Both teams were dismissed in group play.

• For the first time a team reached three World Cup finals in a row: Germany had already lost the finals in 1982 and 1986. This feat was later repeated by Brazil in 1994, 1998 and 2002 with better results: Two titles out of three finals.
• It was the first rematch of a preceding final: The World Cup 1986 already saw Argentina and Germany in the final, only with a different winner.
• It was the first World Cup final that had more than one player of a team sent off: Two Argentinian players saw the red card.
• For the first time, the losing team did not score a goal: Germany won by a penalty in the 85th minute shot by Andreas Brehme after a heavily disputed foul on Rudi Vller.

Lasts

• This would be the last World Cup in which goalkeepers were allowed to pick up direct backpasses from teammates. The backpass rule was in use from the 1994 tournament in order to make it harder for teams to time-waste.
• This was the last World Cup in which four teams' countries existed as political entities: West Germany joined with East Germany shortly after the tournament, Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Yugoslavia dissolved into the nations Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Serbia and Montenegro (which retained the name Yugoslavia until 2002), and the USSR, which split into Russia and fourteen smaller states with the fall of the Communist regime, although the former Soviet states fielded a CIS team through the 1992 European Championship.

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