Listed below are the dates and results for the
1998 FIFA World Cup
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qualification
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Processes
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rounds for the South American zone (
CONMEBOL
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). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article ''
1998 FIFA World Cup qualification
The 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification competition was a series of tournaments organised by the six FIFA FIFA#Structure, confederations. Each confederation — the Asian Football Confederation, AFC (Asia), Confederation of African Football, CAF (Afr ...
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A total of 10 CONMEBOL teams entered the competition. The South American zone was allocated 5 places (out of 32) in the final tournament.
Brazil
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, the defending champions, qualified automatically, leaving 4 spots open for competition between 9 teams.
This was the first World Cup qualifying competition to involve all of the yet-unqualified teams in the confederation playing against each other home and away to decide places in the tournament, a format that was replicated for subsequent World Cup qualifying competitions between CONMEBOL members.
Standings
Matches
Matchday 1
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Matchday 2
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Matchday 3
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Matchday 4
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Matchday 5
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Matchday 6
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Matchday 7
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Matchday 8
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Matchday 9
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Matchday 10
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Matchday 11
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Matchday 12
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Matchday 13
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Matchday 14
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Matchday 15
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Matchday 16
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Matchday 17
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Matchday 18
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Qualified teams
The following five teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the final tournament.
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1 Bold indicates champions for that year. ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.
Goalscorers
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:1998 Fifa World Cup Qualification (Conmebol)
CONMEBOL
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FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)
World
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World
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