1986 FIFA World Cup Group A#Bulgaria vs Italy

{{Short description|Football tournament group stage}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}}

Group A of the 1986 FIFA World Cup was one of six groups of national teams competing at the 1986 FIFA World Cup. The group's first round of matches began on 31 May and its last matches were played on 10 June. Most matches were played at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario in Mexico City or at the Estadio Cuauhtémoc in Puebla. Eventual champions Argentina topped the group, joined in the second round by 1982 champions Italy as well as Bulgaria. South Korea were making their first appearance in the tournament since 1954.

Standings

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|win_ITA=1 |draw_ITA=2 |loss_ITA=0 |gf_ITA=5 |ga_ITA=4

|win_BUL=0 |draw_BUL=2 |loss_BUL=1 |gf_BUL=2 |ga_BUL=4

|win_KOR=0 |draw_KOR=1 |loss_KOR=2 |gf_KOR=4 |ga_KOR=7

|name_ARG={{fb|ARG|1861}}

|name_KOR={{fb|KOR|1984}}

|name_BUL={{fb|BUL|1971}}

|name_ITA={{fb|ITA|1946}}

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|col_KO=green1 |text_KO=Advance to knockout stage

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Matches

=Bulgaria vs Italy=

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|date = 31 May 1986

|time = 12:00 CST

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|score = 1–1

|report = [https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/mexico1986/matches/match/459 Report]

|team2 = {{fb|ITA|1946}}

|goals1 = Sirakov {{goal|85}}

|goals2 = Altobelli {{goal|44}}

|stadium = Estadio Azteca, Mexico City

|attendance = 96,000

|referee = Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)

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GK1Borislav Mihaylov
DF3Nikolay Arabov
DF5Georgi Dimitrov (c)
DF13Aleksandar Markov{{yel|51}}
MF11Plamen Getov
MF10Zhivko Gospodinov{{suboff|74}}
MF8Ayan Sadakov
MF12Radoslav Zdravkov
MF2Nasko Sirakov
FW7Bozhidar Iskrenov{{suboff|65}}
FW9Stoycho Mladenov
colspan=3|Substitutions:
GK22Iliya Valov
DF4Petar Petrov
MF15Georgi Yordanov
FW20Kostadin Kostadinov{{subon|65}}
MF6Andrey Zhelyazkov{{subon|74}}
colspan=3|Manager:
colspan=3|{{flagicon|BUL|1971}} Ivan Vutsov

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GK1Giovanni Galli
DF2Giuseppe Bergomi{{yel|48}}
DF3Antonio Cabrini{{yel|64}}
DF6Gaetano Scirea (c)
DF8Pietro Vierchowod
MF14Antonio Di Gennaro
MF10Salvatore Bagni
MF13Fernando De Napoli
MF16Bruno Conti{{suboff|65}}
FW19Giuseppe Galderisi
FW18Alessandro Altobelli
colspan=3|Substitutions:
GK12Franco Tancredi
DF4Fulvio Collovati
MF11Giuseppe Baresi
MF15Marco Tardelli
FW17Gianluca Vialli{{subon|65}}
colspan=3|Manager:
colspan=4|{{flagicon|ITA|1946}} Enzo Bearzot

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Assistant referees:


Chris Bambridge (Australia)


Siegfried Kirschen (East Germany)

=Argentina vs South Korea=

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|date = 2 June 1986

|time = 12:00 CST

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|score = 3–1

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|team2 = {{fb|KOR|1984}}

|goals1 = Valdano {{goal|6||46}}
Ruggeri {{goal|18}}

|goals2 = Park Chang-Sun {{goal|73}}

|stadium = Estadio Olímpico Universitario, Mexico City

|attendance = 60,000

|referee = Victoriano Sánchez Arminio (Spain)

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GK18Nery Pumpido
DF5José Luis Brown
DF13Oscar Garré
DF8Néstor Clausen
DF19Oscar Ruggeri
MF2Sergio Batista{{suboff|75}}
MF14Ricardo Giusti
MF7Jorge Burruchaga
MF10Diego Maradona (c)
FW17Pedro Pasculli{{suboff|74}}
FW11Jorge Valdano
colspan=3|Substitutions:
MF20Carlos Daniel Tapia{{subon|74}}
MF16Julio Olarticoechea{{subon|75}}
colspan=3|Manager:
colspan=3|{{Flagicon|ARG|1861}} Carlos Bilardo

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GK21Oh Yun-Kyo
DF2Park Kyung-Hoon
DF5Chung Yong-Hwan
DF12Kim Pyung-Seok{{suboff|23}}
DF14Cho Min-Kook
DF20Kim Yong-Se{{suboff|46}}
MF17Huh Jung-Moo{{yel|44}}
MF16Kim Joo-Sung
MF10Park Chang-Sun (c){{yel|50}}
FW9Choi Soon-Ho
FW11Cha Bum-Kun
colspan=3|Substitutions:
MF4Cho Kwang-Rae{{subon|23}}
FW19Byun Byung-Joo{{subon|46}}
colspan=3|Manager:
colspan=4|{{Flagicon|KOR|1984}} Kim Jung-Nam

|}

Assistant referees:


Jesús Díaz (Colombia)


Gabriel González (Paraguay)

=Italy vs Argentina=

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|date = 5 June 1986

|time = 12:00 CST

|team1 = {{fb-rt|ITA|1946}}

|score = 1–1

|report = [https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/mexico1986/matches/match/394 Report]

|team2 = {{fb|ARG|1861}}

|goals1 = Altobelli {{goal|6|pen.}}

|goals2 = Maradona {{goal|34}}

|stadium = Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla

|attendance = 32,000

|referee = Jan Keizer (Netherlands)

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GK1Giovanni Galli
DF2Giuseppe Bergomi{{yel|54}}
DF3Antonio Cabrini
DF6Gaetano Scirea (c)
DF8Pietro Vierchowod
MF14Antonio Di Gennaro
MF10Salvatore Bagni
MF13Fernando De Napoli{{suboff|87}}
MF16Bruno Conti{{suboff|65}}
FW19Giuseppe Galderisi
FW18Alessandro Altobelli
colspan=3|Substitutions:
FW17Gianluca Vialli{{subon|65}}
MF11Giuseppe Baresi{{subon|87}}
colspan=3|Manager:
colspan=4|{{flagicon|ITA|1946}} Enzo Bearzot

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GK18Nery Pumpido
DF5José Luis Brown
DF13Oscar Garré{{yel|65}}
DF9José Luis Cuciuffo
DF19Oscar Ruggeri
MF2Sergio Batista{{suboff|59}}
MF14Ricardo Giusti{{yel|58}}
MF7Jorge Burruchaga
MF10Diego Maradona (c)
FW4Claudio Borghi{{suboff|74}}
FW11Jorge Valdano
colspan=3|Substitutions:
MF16Julio Olarticoechea{{subon|59}}
MF12Héctor Enrique{{subon|74}}
colspan=3|Manager:
colspan=3|{{flagicon|ARG|1861}} Carlos Bilardo

|}

Assistant referees:


Alan Snoddy (Northern Ireland)


Antonio Marquez Ramirez (Mexico)

=South Korea vs Bulgaria=

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|date = 5 June 1986

|time = 16:00 CST

|team1 = {{fb-rt|KOR|1984}}

|score = 1–1

|report = [https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/mexico1986/matches/match/460 Report]

|team2 = {{fb|BUL|1971}}

|goals1 = Kim Jong-Boo {{goal|70}}

|goals2 = Getov {{goal|11}}

|stadium = Estadio Olímpico Universitario, Mexico City

|attendance = 45,000

|referee = Fallaj Al Shanar (Saudi Arabia)

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GK21Oh Yun-Kyo
DF2Park Kyung-Hoon
DF5Chung Yong-Hwan
DF8Cho Young-Jeung{{yel|60}}
MF13Noh Soo-Jin{{suboff|46}}
MF4Cho Kwang-Rae{{suboff|72}}
MF17Huh Jung-Moo
MF16Kim Joo-Sung{{yel|31}}
MF10Park Chang-Sun (c)
FW19Byun Byung-Joo
FW11Cha Bum-Kun
colspan=3|Substitutions:
FW7Kim Jong-Boo{{subon|46}}
DF14Cho Min-Kook{{subon|72}}
colspan=3|Manager:
colspan=4|{{flagicon|KOR|1984}} Kim Jung-Nam

|valign="top" width="50%"|

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GK1Borislav Mihaylov
DF3Nikolay Arabov
DF5Georgi Dimitrov (c)
DF4Petar Petrov
MF11Plamen Getov{{suboff|58}}
MF10Zhivko Gospodinov{{yel|49}}
MF8Ayan Sadakov
MF12Radoslav Zdravkov
MF2Nasko Sirakov
FW7Bozhidar Iskrenov{{suboff|46}}
FW9Stoycho Mladenov
colspan=3|Substitutions:
FW20Kostadin Kostadinov{{subon|46}}
MF6Andrey Zhelyazkov{{subon|58}}
colspan=3|Manager:
colspan=3|{{Flagicon|BUL|1971}} Ivan Vutsov

|}

Assistant referees:


Valeri Butenko (Soviet Union)


Ioan Igna (Romania)

=South Korea vs Italy=

{{footballbox

|date = 10 June 1986

|time = 12:00 CST

|team1 = {{fb-rt|KOR|1984}}

|score = 2–3

|report = [https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/mexico1986/matches/match/643 Report]

|team2 = {{fb|ITA|1946}}

|goals2 = Altobelli {{goal|17||73}}
Cho Kwang-Rae {{goal|82|o.g.}}

|goals1 = Choi Soon-Ho {{goal|62}}
Huh Jung-Moo {{goal|89}}

|stadium = Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla

|attendance = 20,000

|referee = David Socha (United States)

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{| style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"

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GK21Oh Yun-Kyo
DF2Park Kyung-Hoon{{yel|35}}
DF5Chung Yong-Hwan
DF8Cho Young-Jeung
MF4Cho Kwang-Rae
MF17Huh Jung-Moo
MF16Kim Joo-Sung{{yel|17}}{{suboff|46}}
MF10Park Chang-Sun (c)
FW9Choi Soon-Ho
FW19Byun Byung-Joo{{suboff|70}}
FW11Cha Bum-Kun
colspan=3|Substitutions:
GK

|1

|Cho Byung-deuk

|

|

DF3Chung Jong-Soo{{yel|72}}{{subon|46}}
FW

|6

|Lee Tae-ho

|

|

FW

|20

|Kim Yong-se

|

|

FW7Kim Jong-Boo{{subon|70}}
colspan=3|Manager:
colspan=4|{{flagicon|KOR|1984}} Kim Jung-Nam

|valign="top" width="50%"|

style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"
width=25|width=25|
GK1Giovanni Galli
DF3Antonio Cabrini
DF4Fulvio Collovati
DF6Gaetano Scirea (c){{yel|65}}
DF8Pietro Vierchowod{{yel|70}}
MF14Antonio Di Gennaro
MF10Salvatore Bagni{{yel|31}}{{suboff|67}}
MF13Fernando De Napoli
MF16Bruno Conti
FW19Giuseppe Galderisi{{suboff|88}}
FW18Alessandro Altobelli
colspan=3|Substitutions:
GK

|12

|Franco Tancredi

|

|

DF

|5

|Sebastiano Nela

|

|

MF11Giuseppe Baresi{{subon|67}}
FW

|21

|Aldo Serena

|

|

FW17Gianluca Vialli{{subon|88}}
colspan=3|Manager:
colspan=4|{{flagicon|ITA|1946}} Enzo Bearzot

|}

=Argentina vs Bulgaria=

{{footballbox

|date = 10 June 1986

|time = 12:00 CST

|team1 = {{fb-rt|ARG|1861}}

|score = 2–0

|report = [https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/mexico1986/matches/match/389 Report]

|team2 = {{fb|BUL|1971}}

|goals1 = Valdano {{goal|4}}
Burruchaga {{goal|77}}

|stadium = Estadio Olímpico Universitario, Mexico City

|attendance = 65,000

|referee = Berny Ulloa Morera (Costa Rica)

}}

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GK18Nery Pumpido
DF5José Luis Brown
DF13Oscar Garré
DF9José Luis Cuciuffo{{yel|25}}
DF19Oscar Ruggeri
MF2Sergio Batista{{suboff|46}}
MF14Ricardo Giusti
MF7Jorge Burruchaga
MF10Diego Maradona (c)
FW4Claudio Borghi{{suboff|46}}
FW11Jorge Valdano
colspan=3|Substitutions:
MF16Julio Olarticoechea{{subon|46}}
MF12Héctor Enrique{{subon|46}}
colspan=3|Manager:
colspan=3|{{flagicon|ARG|1861}} Carlos Bilardo

|valign="top" width="50%"|

style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"
width=25|width=25|
GK1Borislav Mihaylov
DF4Petar Petrov
DF5Georgi Dimitrov (c)
MF11Plamen Getov
MF15Georgi Yordanov
MF6Andrey Zhelyazkov
MF8Ayan Sadakov
MF13Aleksandar Markov
MF2Nasko Sirakov{{suboff|71}}
FW14Plamen Markov
FW9Stoycho Mladenov{{suboff|52}}
colspan=3|Substitutions:
FW18Boycho Velichkov{{subon|52}}
MF12Radoslav Zdravkov{{subon|71}}
colspan=3|Manager:
colspan=3|{{flagicon|BUL|1971}} Ivan Vutsov

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See also