| Italy
W. Germany 3:1 |
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| Poland
France 3:2 |
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| Italy
Poland 2:0 |
W. Germany
France (1:1) 5:4 |
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| Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D |
| 1. Poland | 1. W. Germany | 1. Italy | 1. France |
| 2. U.S.S.R. | 2. England | 2. Brazil | 2. Austria |
| 3. Belgium | 3. Spain | 3. Argentina | 3. North. Ireland |
| Group I | Group II | Group III | Group IV | Group V | Group VI |
| 1. Poland | 1. W. Germany | 1. Belgium | 1. England | 1. North. Ireland | 1. Brazil |
| 2. Italy | 2. Austria | 2. Argentina | 2. France | 2. Spain | 2. U.S.S.R. |
| 3. Cameroon | 3. Algeria | 3. Hungary | 3. Czechoslovakia | 3. Yugoslavia | 3. Scotland |
| 4. Peru | 4. Chile | 4. Salvador | 4. Kuwait | 4. Honduras | 4. New Zealand |
| Statistics | Scorers |
| Games – 52 | Paolo Rossi (Italy) – 6 |
| Goals – 146 | Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (W. Germany) – 5 |
| Average resultivity – 2,81 | Zbignev Bonek (Poland) – 4 |
| Sending away – 5 | Zico (Brazil) – 4 |
| Spectators quantity – 1.842.250 | |
| Average attendance – 35.428 |