Australia Bicentenary Gold Cup

The 1988 Australian Bicentennial Gold Cup was a one-off association football tournament to celebrate the bincentennial of first settlement at Port Jackson by Captain Arthur Phillip in 1788. It was contested by 1988 AFC Asian Cup winners, Saudi Arabia, 1986 FIFA World Cup winners, Argentina, world number one ranked side, Brazil and host nation Australia.[1][2][3] The tournament was particularly notable for Australian fans for a remarkable extreme-long range goal scored by Charlie Yankos in Australia's unexpected 4-1 win over then World Champions Argentina.[4] Brazil were eventual winners, beating Australia 2-0 in the final.[5] Argentina took out 3rd place beating Saudi Arabia 2-0 in the 3rd place match.

Participants

Format

Teams played each other once in a round robin group stage. Each team was awarded 2 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. The top two teams from the group played in a final and the bottom two teams played in a 3rd place match.[6]

Summary

Group stage
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Brazil321051+45
 Australia320172+54
 Argentina302136−32
 Saudi Arabia301239−61
Argentina 2–2 Saudi Arabia
Díaz  27', 50' (pen.) Report Majed Abdullah  41'
Díaz  61' (o.g.)
Australia 0–1 Brazil
Report Romario  31'
Attendance: 11,214
Australia 3–0 Saudi Arabia
Ollerenshaw  6'
Farina  42', 81'		 Report
Brazil 0–0 Argentina
Report
Brazil 4–1 Saudi Arabia
Geovani  27' (pen.), 50' (pen.)
Jorginho  28'
Edmar  40'		 Report Majed Abdullah  65'
Australia 4–1 Argentina
Wade  2'
Yankos  42', 67' (pen.)
Bozinovski  80'		 Report Ruggeri  31'
Attendance: 18,985

Third place
Argentina 2–0 Saudi Arabia
Simeone  4'
Dertycia  23'		 Report

Final
Australia 0–2 Brazil
Report Romario  56'
Müller  67'
Attendance: 28,161

See also

References
  1. "The Forgotten Story of ... Australia's defeat to Fiji - Vince Rugari". The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  2. "The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper". Smh.com.au. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  4. "Yankos vs Argentina 4-1 Best Ever Goal". Youtube. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  5. "Socceroo 1988 Matches". Ozfootball.net. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  6. Miller, Toby; Lawrence, Geoffrey; McKay, Jim; Rowe, David (12 July 2001). Globalization and Sport. Google.com.au. ISBN 9780761959694. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
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