Group 6 was one of six groups of national teams competing in the First group stage of the

1982 FIFA World Cup The 1982 FIFA World Cup was the 12th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial Association football, football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in Spain between 13 June and 11 July 1982. The tournament was won by Italy national foo ...

. Play began on 14 June and ended on 23 June 1982. The group consisted of four teams: Seeded team

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

, the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

and World Cup debutants

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. Brazil won the group with three consecutive victories and advanced to the second round, along with the Soviet Union, who finished ahead of Scotland by virtue of goal difference.

Standings

Matches

Brazil vs Soviet Union

Scotland vs New Zealand

Brazil vs Scotland

Soviet Union vs New Zealand

Soviet Union vs Scotland

Brazil vs New Zealand

References

External links

1982 FIFA World Cup archive

Spain 1982 FIFA Technical Report: Statistical Details of the Matches pp. 129-133
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