West Germany v Austria (1982)
El Molinón held the match
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| Event | 1982 FIFA World Cup | ||||||
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| Date | 25 June 1982 | ||||||
| Venue | El Molinón, Gijón, Spain | ||||||
| Referee | Bob Valentine (Scotland) | ||||||
| Attendance | 41,000 | ||||||
The Disgrace of Gijón is the name given to a 1982 FIFA World Cup football match played between West Germany and Austria at the El Molinón stadium, Gijón, Spain, on 25 June 1982. The match was the last game of the first-round Group 2, with Algeria and Chile having played the day before. With the outcome of that match already decided, a win by one or two goals for West Germany would result in both them and Austria qualifying at the expense of Algeria, who had beaten West Germany in the first game. West Germany took the lead after 10 minutes, thereafter the remaining 80 minutes was characterized by few serious attempts by either side to score. Both sides were accused of match-fixing although FIFA ruled that neither team broke any rules.
As a result of this, and similar events at the previous World Cup in Argentina, FIFA revised the group system for future tournaments, so that the final two games in each group would be played simultaneously. In German, the match is known as Nichtangriffspakt von Gijón (lit. "Non-aggression pact of Gijón", but also "no-offense pact of Gijón") or Schande von Gijón (lit. "Disgrace of Gijón"), in Dutch it is known as Het bedrog van Gijón (lit. "The deceit of Gijón), while in Algeria and the rest of the non-English speaking world it is known as the Anschluss (in reference to the unification of Austria and Nazi Germany in 1938).
Algeria began their campaign by recording a shock 2–1 win over West Germany on the opening day, referred to as the "greatest World Cup upset since North Korea beat Italy in 1966" at the time, and retrospectively as "one of the biggest shocks in World Cup history". Algeria became the first African and Arab team to defeat a European team at the FIFA World Cup. They then went on to lose 0–2 to Austria before beating Chile 3–2 in their final match. Algeria's victory over Chile made them the first ever African and Arab team to win twice at a World Cup.
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