West Germany v Austria (1982)
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| GK | 1 | Harald Schumacher Harald Schumacher Harald Anton Schumacher , commonly known as Toni Schumacher, is a German former football goalkeeper, and a member of the West German national team. He won the 1980 European Championship and lost two World Cup finals, in 1982 and 1986... |
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| DF | 2 | Hans-Peter Briegel Hans-Peter Briegel Hans-Peter Briegel is a former German football player and manager.One of the most popular players in his days, Hans-Peter Briegel's original sport was athletics, being successful in various events such as long jump , triple jump and specifically in heptathlon-forerunner pentathlon... |
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| DF | 3 | Paul Breitner Paul Breitner Paul Breitner is a former German football player. One of Germany's most controversial players, he was capped 48 times for his country.-Playing career:... |
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| DF | 4 | Karlheinz Förster Karlheinz Förster Karlheinz Helmut Förster is a former German footballer who played as a central defender.The younger brother of another football defender, Bernd Förster, he was regarded as one of the world's top man-markers at his peak, and played most of his career at VfB Stuttgart with Bernd... |
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| DF | 6 | Wolfgang Dremmler Wolfgang Dremmler Wolfgang Dremmler is a former German football player.A trained metalworker, Dremmler was part of the West Germany team that reached the 1982 FIFA World Cup final against Italy at Santiago Bernabeu... |
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| MF | 7 | Pierre Littbarski Pierre Littbarski Pierre Michael Littbarski is a German football manager and former player. He was mainly a winger or attacking midfielder and is best known for his brilliant dribbling abilities. He was a FIFA World Cup winner with West Germany in 1990. He was also runner–up twice in 1982 and 1986 with West Germany... |
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| FW | 9 | Horst Hrubesch Horst Hrubesch Horst Hrubesch is a retired German football player employed as a youth trainer at the German Football Association. His nickname was Das Kopfball-Ungeheuer for his heading skills.-Career:... |
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| FW | 11 | Karl-Heinz Rummenigge Karl-Heinz Rummenigge Karl-Heinz "Kalle" Rummenigge is a German former football player.He had his greatest career success with German club Bayern Munich, where he won the Intercontinental Cup, the European Cup, as well as two league titles and two domestic cups.A member of the German national team, Rummenigge won the... |
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| MF | 14 | Felix Magath Felix Magath Wolfgang-Felix Magath is a former German football central midfielder and current manager of VfL Wolfsburg.-Playing career:... |
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| MF | 15 | Uli Stielike Uli Stielike Ulrich "Uli" Stielike is a German football manager and former player.-Club career:Stielike was a West Germany youth international for hometown club SpVgg Ketsch when he got signed by UEFA Cup runner-up Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1973, first coming to action as a full back for the then two times... |
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| GK | 21 | Bernd Franke Bernd Franke Bernd Franke is a former German football player.Also an outfield player in his youth, young Bernd Franke made his steps towards the professional game following his impressiveness in the ranks of Saar 05 Saarbrücken. Their manager, Otto Knefler, remembered the young goalkeeper during his spell at... |
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| GK | 22 | Eike Immel Eike Immel Eike Immel is a former German football goalkeeper and manager.A leading youth international goalkeeper for West Germany in 1978, Eike Immel was still seventeen years of age when he succeeded Horst Bertram as Borussia Dortmund's first-choice... |
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| FW | 8 | Klaus Fischer Klaus Fischer Klaus Fischer is a German former football player and coach.-Career:Fischer was born in Kreuzstraßl, near Lindberg in the district of Regen.... |
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| MF | 10 | Hansi Müller Hansi Müller Hans-Peter "Hansi" Müller is a former German footballer.-Club career:Playing for his hometown side VfB Stuttgart, he took part to the UEFA Euro 1980 with West Germany, aged 22, after a brief taste of action at the 1978 FIFA World Cup, where started all four games. The tournament would prove to... |
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| DF | 12 | Wilfried Hannes Wilfried Hannes Wilfried Hannes is a former German football player and manager, known for achieving his career despite being visually impaired after a pupil-tumor had caused him to lose his sight in his right eye as a child.... |
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| FW | 13 | Uwe Reinders Uwe Reinders Uwe Reinders is a former German football player and manager.He played 206 times and scored 67 goals for Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga between 1977–1985. Abroad he played for FC Girondins de Bordeaux and Stade Rennais FC... |
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| FW | 16 | Thomas Allofs Thomas Allofs Thomas Allofs is a retired German footballer, who played as a striker.The younger brother of another footballer, Klaus Allofs, he was a prolific goalscorer, having scored nearly 200 overall goals as a professional, always playing in the German first division .-Club career:Allofs started his... |
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| MF | 17 | Stephan Engels Stephan Engels Stephan Engels is a former German football player and manager. Currently he is working as youth coordinator for 1. FC Köln.After retiring he worked as coach for 1. FC Köln and SBC Viktoria Köln .... |
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| MF | 18 | Lothar Matthäus Lothar Matthäus Lothar Herbert Matthäus , is a German football manager and former player.In 1990, he was named European Footballer of the Year and World Soccer Player of the Year after captaining West Germany to victory in the 1990 World Cup... |
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| DF | 19 | Holger Hieronymus Holger Hieronymus Holger Hieronymus is a former German football player.Hieronymus started his career with local side TuS Hamburg at the age of six and was a promising talent for the sweeper position when then Hamburger SV general manager Günter Netzer snapped him up from local counterpart FC St... |
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Friedrich Koncilia
Friedrich Koncilia is a former Austrian football goalkeeper.-Club career:Born in Klagenfurt, Koncilia made his debut for local side Austria Klagenfurt at 17, moving to SV Wattens in 1969. After two seasons there he enjoyed his longest and most successful spell at FC Wacker Innsbruck, staying there...
Bernd Krauss
Bernd Krauss is a retired German-Austrian football player and later a football manager.He most recently was the manager of Austrian club SK Schwadorf.-Club career:...
Erich Obermayer
Erich Obermayer is a former Austrian football player.-Club career:Obermayer came aged 16 from FC Wien and played 20 years for Austria Wien...
Josef Degeorgi
Josef Degeorgi is a former international Austrian footballer.-External links:* - National Football Teams* - Austria-archiv...
Bruno Pezzey
Bruno Edmund Pezzey was an Austrian footballer.-Club career:Regarded as one of Austria's greatest defenders of all time, Pezzey started his professional career at local side FC Vorarlberg and moved to FC Wacker Innsbruck after only one season, winning two league titles and a domestic cup...
Roland Hattenberger
Roland Hattenberger is a former Austrian footballer.-Club career:Born in Jenbach, Tyrol, Hattenberger started his professional career at lower league outfit Wattens, before moving to Austrian Football Bundesliga side SSW Innsbruck in 1971...
Walter Schachner
Walter "Schoko" Schachner is a football manager and former Austrian national player .As he always brought chocolate to the games when he was a boy, he got the nickname schoko...
Herbert Prohaska
Herbert Prohaska is a retired Austrian football player. He ranks among Austria's greatest football players of all time. Prohaska is currently working as a football pundit for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation . His nickname "Schneckerl", Viennese dialect for curly hair, derives from his curly...
Hans Krankl
Johann "Hans" Krankl is a retired Austrian footballer. He was last manager of LASK Linz.-Club career:A prolific striker, Krankl is regarded by many as the greatest ever Austrian player. He started his professional career at Rapid Wien and stayed there for 8 years, apart from a year at Wiener AC...
Reinhold Hintermaier
Reinhold Hintermaier is a former Austrian footballer.-Club career:Hintermaier started his professional career with SK VÖEST Linz and won the Austrian Football Bundesliga title in his first season. After six years he moved to Germany to play for 1. FC Nuremberg with whom he lost the German Cup...
Heribert Weber
Heribert Weber is a retired Austrian football player and later a football manager.-Club career:Born in Styria, Weber started his professional career at Sturm Graz and joined Vienna giants Rapid Wien after the World Cup in 1978...
Herbert Feurer
Herbert Feurer is a retired football goalkeeper from Austria.During his club career, Feurer played for 1. Wiener Neustädter SC and Rapid Wien. He also appeared 7 times for the Austria national team, featuring in the 1982 FIFA World Cup squad in Spain.-External links:* *...
Klaus Lindenberger
Klaus Lindenberger is a retired Austrian football goalkeeper and last manager of Austrian Bundesliga side LASK Linz.-Club career:...
Kurt Jara
Kurt Jara is a retired Austrian footballer.-Club career:Jara started his professional career with local side FC Wacker Innsbruck before moving to Spanish outfit Valencia CF in 1973. After two seasons in La Liga he joined German Bundesliga team MSV Duisburg where he spent 5 seasons and reached the...
Anton Pichler (footballer)
Anton Pichler is a retired football defender.During his club career, Pichler played for Sturm Graz for 13 seasons before finishing his career with SKN St. Pölten. He also made 11 appearances for the Austria national team, including the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain.-External links:* *...
Max Hagmayr
Maximilian "Max" Hagmayr is a retired football striker from Austria.During his club career, Hagmayr played for VÖEST Linz, Karlsruher, Rapid Wien and LASK Linz.-External links:* *...
Ernst Baumeister
Ernst Robert Baumeister is a former Austrian football player. He is currently manager of VfB Admira Wacker Mödling.-Club career:...
Johann Dihanich
Johann Dihanich is a retired Austrian football player.-Club career:A Rapid Wien fan by origin, Hansi Dihanich started his professional career at city rivals Austria Wien and played 8 seasons for them, split in two periods by a season at SS Wacker Innsbruck...
Gerald Messlender
Gerald Messlender is a retired football defender from Austria.During his club career, Messlender played for Admira Wacker Wien, Tirol Innsbruck and SC Austria Lustenau. He also featured in the Austria squad for the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain.-External links:**...
Johann Pregesbauer
Johann Pregesbauer is a retired football defender from Austria.Pregesbauer spent his whole club career with Rapid Wien and was also in the Austria squad for the 1982 FIFA World Cup.-External links:* *...
Gernot Jurtin
Gernot Jurtin was an Austrian football player, and a legend amongst Sturm Graz fans.- Club career :Jurtin joined Sturm Graz in the summer of 1974 under coach Karl Schlechta and immediately forced his way into the starting eleven...
Kurt Welzl
Kurt Welzl is a former international Austrian footballer.-External links:* - Weltfussball* - National Football Teams...
Austria Felix LatzkeFelix Latzke
Felix Latzke is an Austrian football former player and manager.Most notably he was co-manager of the Austria national football team in the 1982 FIFA World Cup, with Georg Schmidt, and was thus credited with infamy for the Shame of Gijón, a somewhat dubious 0-1 loss to West Germany.-External links:*...
& Georg Schmidt
Georg Schmidt (football coach)
Georg Schmidt is an Austrian football former manager.Most notably he was co-manager of the Austria national football team in the 1982 FIFA World Cup, with Felix Latzke, and was thus credited with infamy for the Shame of Gijón, a somewhat dubious 0-1 loss to West Germany.-External links:*...
Aftermath
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| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | −5 | 0 |
With West Germany's 1–0 victory, they joined Austria and Algeria with four points in three matches. The teams were separated by goal difference, with West Germany and Austria progressing to the next round of the tournament at the expense of Algeria.
It appears that this was a case of spontaneous match-fixing, in which Austria gave up its opportunity to be first in the group (by winning or drawing the match) in exchange for a sure opportunity to advance. The bargaining positions of the two teams was affected by Germany being in danger of elimination if it didn't win, but also being the higher-ability team.
The Algeria
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...
n football officials were furious and lodged an official protest. However no rules were technically broken as a result of the match, so FIFA declined to take any action or investigation and the outcome was allowed to stand. Both teams denied any collusion during the match.
The Germans made it to the final
1982 FIFA World Cup Final
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, where they lost to Italy
Italy national football team
The Italy National Football Team , represents Italy in association football and is controlled by the Italian Football Federation , the governing body for football in Italy. Italy is the second most successful national team in the history of the World Cup having won four titles , just one fewer than...
3–1. Austria fell at the next group stage, to the benefit of eventual fourth place finishers France
France national football team
The France national football team represents the nation of France in international football. It is fielded by the French Football Federation , the governing body of football in France, and competes as a member of UEFA, which encompasses the countries of Europe...
.
The direct consequence of the game was that from Euro 1984 and World Cup 1986
1986 FIFA World Cup
The 1986 FIFA World Cup, the 13th FIFA World Cup, was held in Mexico from 31 May to 29 June. The tournament was the second to feature a 24-team format. Colombia had been originally chosen to host the competition by FIFA but, largely due to economic reasons, was not able to do so and officially...
onward, the final pair of group matches in international tournaments always start at the same time.
The alleged 1982 match collusion came up again when Germany (considered the successor to the West Germany) and Austria met in their final Group B game of UEFA Euro 2008
UEFA Euro 2008 Group B
Group B of the 2008 UEFA European Championships was one of four groups of competing nations at UEFA Euro 2008. The first of the three rounds of matches were played on 8 June, and the final round was completed on 16 June. All six of the group's matches were played at venues in Austria, in Vienna and...
, however this time it was a must-win game for Austria to advance to the knockout stage. Germany won 1-0 in a match that saw managers Joachim Löw and Josef Hickersberger
Josef Hickersberger
Josef Hickersberger is a former professional football player and former coach of the Austria national football team and Austrian club side Rapid Wien.-Club career:...
sent to the stands for arguing with the fourth official.