1982 AIAW National Division I Basketball Championship
This was the first season the NCAA sponsored a women's basketball tournament, and the two tournaments were held at the same time. Many schools, including defending champion Louisiana Tech, chose to participate in the NCAA tournament rather than in the AIAW tournament. Only three top 20 teams appeared in the AIAW tournament: Texas, Rutgers and Villanova. Sports Illustrated wrote at the time: "With the NCAA staging women's championships this year for the first time, the AIAW, the 11-year-old organization that put women's college sports on the map, finds itself barely clinging to life. So many of its members have fled to the NCAA that the AIAW's only realistic hope for survival is its pending antitrust suit against the NCAA in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C."  This would be the last AIAW basketball tournament.


1982 AIAW Slow-pitch Softball Tournament
The 1982 AIAW Women's College slow-pitch softball championship was held in Graham, North Carolina, near Raleigh, on May 13–15. Twelve college softball teams met in the second and last AIAW national slow-pitch softball tournament. The AIAW conducted only two slow-pitch softball national championships, in 1981 and 1982, as the NCAA sought to and eventually did vanquish the women's collegiate athletic organization. The Amateur Softball Association later held two collegiate slow-pitch championship tournaments in 1983 and 1984.


1982 AIAW Slow-pitch Softball Tournament, Teams
Top-seeded Florida State won its second consecutive national championship, winning all four of its games, including a win in the final over Florida, 9-4.


1982 AIAW Slow-pitch Softball Tournament, Bracket
Note: Except for Games 21–23, game numbers shown above do not necessarily indicate the order of the games' starting times.


1982 AIAW Women's College World Series
The 1982 AIAW Women's College World Series was held from May 20 through May 25 in Norman, Oklahoma. The final two games were postponed by rain for two days. Twelve Division I college softball teams met in what was to become the last AIAW softball tournament of that organization's history. After playing their way through the regular season and regional tournaments (and for Oklahoma State, a conference tournament), the 12 advancing teams met for the AIAW Division I college softball championship. Days later, Oklahoma State went on to participate also in the NCAA WCWS tournament in Omaha.


1982 AIAW Women's College World Series
In 1982, the Division I softball tournaments of both the AIAW and the NCAA were called "Women's College World Series." That moniker has been used for the annual topmost-level collegiate women's softball tournaments since the first one in 1969. Historian Bill Plummer III wrote, "With their 77-8 season record, Texas A&M could have been a contender in Omaha − maybe even the top seed − against perennial softball powers like UCLA and Fresno State. The Aggies had been invited to the NCAA's first national tournament, but chose not to go. A&M coach Bob Brock had high respect for the eleven-year-old AIAW, even as the NCAA began to overshadow it. Out of a sense of loyalty to the AIAW, Brock said, his school chose the 1982 Norman championship over the NCAA's first in Omaha."


1982 AIAW Women's College World Series, Teams
Texas A&M, Utah, Michigan and California were the top four seeds. Top-seeded Texas A&M lost its opener in an 8-inning perfect game by USIU pitcher Jenny Stallard. But the Aggies battled back through the losers' bracket to claim the title by defeating Oklahoma State, who was unbeaten in the tournament to that point, twice in the championship final. In the deciding "if-necessary" game, the Aggies went to bat in the last regulation inning trailing the Cowgirls by one run. A double and an outfield error scored the tying run for A&M, who went on to score twice in the extra inning for the 5-3 victory. Texas A&M compiled a record of 7-1 in the tournament to become the first Texas A&M women's varsity team to win a national championship.


1982 ARFU Asian Rugby Championship
The 1982 ARFU Asian Rugby Championship was the 8th edition of the tournament and was played in Singapore.


1982 ARFU Asian Rugby Championship
The 8 teams were divided in two pools with a final match between the winners from the two. South Korea won the tournament.


1982 ASFA Soccer League
The 1982 season of the ASFA Soccer League (now called the FFAS Senior League) was the second season of association football competition in American Samoa. Pago Eagles won the championship, their second consecutive title.


1982 ATP Challenger Series
The ATP Challenger Series is the second tier tour for professional tennis organised by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). The 1982 ATP Challenger Series calendar comprises 41 tournaments, with prize money ranging from $25,000 up to $50,000.


1982 ATP Challenger Series, Statistical information
These tables present the number of singles (S) and doubles (D) titles won by each player and each nation during the season, within all the tournament categories of the 1982 ATP Challenger Series. The players/nations are sorted by: 1) total number of titles (a doubles title won by two players representing the same nation counts as only one win for the nation); 2) a singles > doubles hierarchy; 3) alphabetical order (by family names for players).


1982 Adur District Council election
Elections to the Adur District Council were held on 6 May 1982, with one third of the council up for election. There was additional vacancies in the Mash Barn and Peverel wards, but no elections for the single-member ward St Marys and Residents stronghold, Marine, went uncontested. In the intervening years, the newly formed Alliance had gained three seats at the expense of the Conservatives. Overall turnout fell to 42.4%.


1982 Adur District Council election
The election resulted in the SDP-Liberal Alliance retaining control of the council.


1982 Adur District Council election, Ward results
+/- figures represent changes from the last time these wards were contested.


1982 Aerocondor DHC-4 Caribou accident
The 1982 Aerocondor DHC-4 Caribou accident happened on 1 September 1982 when a twin-engined de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou (registered in Ecuador as HC-BHZ) on an internal scheduled passenger flight operated by Aerolíneas Cóndor (Aerocondor) from Zumba Airport to Loja Airport collided with high ground in the Andes in bad weather. The terrain and weather hindered the search and rescue operations, and helicopters did not reach the accident site until 4 September 1982; all 44 on board were killed.


1982 Aerocondor DHC-4 Caribou accident, Aircraft
The aircraft was a de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou twin-engined piston transport that had been built in Canada in 1967.


1982 African Championships in Athletics
The 1982 African Championships in Athletics were held in Cairo, Egypt between 25 and 28 August.


1982 African Cup Winners' Cup
The 1982 season of the African Cup Winners' Cup football club tournament was won by El Mokawloon SC in two-legged final victory against Power Dynamos F.C. This was the eighth season that the tournament took place for the winners of each African country's domestic cup. thirty-three sides entered the competition, with Printing Agency withdrawing before the 1st leg of the first round and Gor Mahia withdrawing after the 1st leg of the same round.


1982 African Cup of Champions Clubs
The 1982 African Cup of Champions Clubs was the 18th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CAF region (Africa), the African Cup of Champions Clubs. It determined that year's club champion of association football in Africa.


1982 African Cup of Champions Clubs
The tournament was played by 36 teams and was used a playoff scheme with home and away matches. Al Ahly SC from Egypt won that final, and became for the first time CAF club champion.


1982 African Cup of Champions Clubs, Top scorers
The top scorers from the 1982 African Cup of Champions Clubs are as follows:


1982 African Cup of Nations
The 1982 African Cup of Nations was the 13th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the association football championship of African nations run by the CAF. It was hosted by Libya. Just like in 1980, there were eight teams, which were split into two groups of four. Ghana won its fourth championship, beating Libya on penalty kicks 7−6 after a 1−1 draw.


1982 African Cup of Nations, Venues
The competition was played in two venues in Tripoli and Benghazi.


1982 African Cup of Nations Final
The 1982 African Cup of Nations Final was a football match that took place on March 19, 1982, at the Stade de 11-Juin in Tripoli, Libya, to determine the winner of the 1982 African Cup of Nations. Ghana defeated Libya 7–6 on penalty kicks after regulation ended 1–1 with goals from George Alhassan for Ghana and from Ali Al-Beshari for Libya. This was Ghana's fourth and last continental title as of 2019.


1982 African Cup of Nations qualification
This page details the qualifying process for the 1982 African Cup of Nations in Libya. Libya, as hosts, and Nigeria, as title holders, qualified automatically.


1982 African Cup of Nations qualification, Qualifying tournament, Preliminary round
Madagascar won by away goals rule after 1–1 on aggregate.


1982 African Cup of Nations qualification, Qualifying tournament, Preliminary round
Liberia won by away goals rule after 1–1 on aggregate.


1982 African Cup of Nations qualification, Qualifying tournament, Preliminary round
Congo won by away goals rule after 1–1 on aggregate.


1982 African Cup of Nations qualification, Qualifying tournament, First round
Ethiopia won 4–3 on penalty shootout after 1–1 on aggregate.


1982 African Cup of Nations qualification, Qualifying tournament, Second round
Ethiopia won by away goals rule after 3–3 on aggregate.


1982 African Cup of Nations squads
Below is a list of squads used in the 1982 African Cup of Nations.


1982 Air Canada Cup
The 1982 Air Canada Cup was Canada's fourth annual national midget 'AAA' hockey championship, which was played April 13 – 18, 1982 at the Memorial Arena in Victoria, British Columbia. The Burnaby Winter Club Travellers defeated the Gouverneurs de Ste-Foy, who were led by future Hall of Famer Patrick Roy in goal, to win the gold medal. The bronze medal game between the Cape Breton Colonels and the South Ottawa Warriors ended in a 5-5 tie. Burnaby's Cliff Ronning led the tournament in scoring and was named Most Valuable Player.


1982 Air Canada Cup
Aside from Ronning and Roy, other future National Hockey League players competing were Wendel Clark, Sylvain Côté Russ Courtnall, Tony Hrkac, Grant Jennings, Bob Joyce, and Mike Millar.


1982 Air Canada Silver Broom
The 1982 Air Canada Silver Broom, the men's world curling championship, was held from March 29 to April 4 at the Olympic Eisstadion in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.


1982 Air Canada Silver Broom, Teams
Skip : Keith WendorfThird: Hans Dieter KieselSecond: Sven SalleLead: Heiner Martin


1982 Air Canada Silver Broom, Teams
Skip : Colin HamiltonThird: David RamsaySecond: W. Michael DickLead: Richard Pretsel


1982 Air Force Falcons football team
The 1982 Air Force Falcons football team represented the United States Air Force Academy in the 1982 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was led by fourth-year head coach Ken Hatfield and played its home games at Falcon Stadium. It finished the regular season with a 7–5 overall record and a 4–3 record in Western Athletic Conference games. The team was selected to play in the Hall of Fame Classic, in which it defeated Vanderbilt 36–28.


1982 Akron Zips football team
The 1982 Akron Zips football team represented Akron University in the 1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season as a member of the Ohio Valley Conference. Led by 10th-year head coach Jim Dennison, the Zips played their home games at the Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio. They finished the season with a record of 6–5 overall and 5–2 in OVC play to tie for second place.


1982 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
The 1982 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1982 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 88th overall and 49th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Bear Bryant, in his 25th and final year, and played their home games at Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa and Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. They finished season with eight wins and four losses (8–4 overall, 3–3 in the SEC) and with a victory over Illinois in the Liberty Bowl.


1982 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
Alabama was 5–0 after they defeated Penn State 42–21, with the decisive play coming when a Penn State player blocked his own team's punt. But after that it was all downhill. Paul Bryant's last season as Alabama football coach saw a nine-game winning streak against Auburn and eleven-game winning streaks against Tennessee and LSU all come to an end. The loss to Southern Miss was Alabama's first loss in Tuscaloosa since 1963, breaking a 57-game win streak in Bryant–Denny Stadium. Coach Bryant retired after Alabama's bowl victory against Illinois and died less than one month later, on January 26, 1983.


1982 Alabama gubernatorial election
The 1982 Alabama gubernatorial election included the last campaign and final electoral victory of George Wallace. The election occurred on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Governor Fob James declined to run for a second term, allowing for an open election in 1982. In the Democratic primary, Wallace received challenges from Lieutenant Governor George McMillan, Speaker of the State House Joe McCorquodale, former Governor Jim Folsom, and Reuben McKinley. Because Wallace did not receive a majority of the votes, he advanced to a run-off with McMillan and then narrowly won the Democratic nomination. Montgomery Mayor Emory Folmar went unchallenged for the Republican nomination.


1982 Alabama gubernatorial election
Wallace, formerly a notorious segregationist, renounced those views in 1979. On November 2, 1982, Wallace not only won the general election, but also over 90% of the black vote. Overall, Wallace received 650,538 (57.64%) votes against Folmar's 440,815 (39.06%) votes.


1982 Alabama gubernatorial election, Background
Incumbent Governor Fob James declined to seek a second term. Shortly after former Governor George Wallace survived an assassination attempt in 1972, he renounced his infamous segregationist past, especially when he stood in front of the school house door at the University of Alabama in 1963, noting that, "I was wrong. Those days are over, and they ought to be over." With Governor James retiring, Wallace decided to run for a fourth non-consecutive term in 1982.


1982 Alabama gubernatorial election, Democratic primary
Incumbent Democratic Governor Fob James decided to not seek a second term.


1982 Alabama gubernatorial election, Republican primary
Emory M. Folmar won the Republican Party primary without any opposition.


1982 Alan King Tennis Classic
The 1982 Alan King Tennis Classic, also known as the Alan King-Caesars Palace Tennis Classic, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, United States. It was the 11th edition of the event and was part of the 1982 Volvo Grand Prix circuit. The tournament was held from April 19 through April 25, 1982. First-seeded Jimmy Connors won the singles title and the accompanying $60,000 first-prize money after his opponent in the final, Gene Mayer, retired due tro a sprained ankle.. It was Connors' third singles title at the tournament after 1976 and 1977.


1982 Alan King Tennis Classic, Finals, Doubles
Ferdi Taygan /  Sherwood Stewart defeated  Carlos Kirmayr /  Van Winitsky 7–6, 6–4


1982 Alaska gubernatorial election
The 1982 Alaska gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1982, for the post of Governor of Alaska. To replace outgoing Republican governor Jay Hammond, Democratic nominee Bill Sheffield defeated three opponents: Republican nominee Tom Fink, Libertarian nominee Dick Randolph and Alaskan Independence Party nominee Joe Vogler. Hammond had endorsed his lieutenant governor, Terry Miller, who lost the Republican nomination to Fink in the primary election, as did Don Wright. Sheffield defeated Steve Cowper and former Lieutenant Governor H. A. Boucher for the Democratic nomination.


1982 Alaska gubernatorial election
Randolph was one of the few third party candidates in Alaska's history to have served in office, serving two terms as a Libertarian in the state house before running for governor. Randolph, as a member of a political party not recognized by the state, gained access to the ballot via a nominating petition. He garnered nearly fifteen percent of the vote, to date the highest percentage received by any Libertarian Party gubernatorial candidate. His running mate, Donnis Thompson, who was married to the mayor of the Kenai Peninsula Borough, was the only woman on a statewide ballot in this year's elections, as well as one of the first in Alaskan history.


1982 Albanian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in the People's Socialist Republic of Albania on 14 November 1982. The Democratic Front was the only party able to contest the elections, and subsequently won all 250 seats. Voter turnout was reported to be 100%.


1982 Alberta general election
The 1982 Alberta general election was held on November 2, 1982, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.


1982 Alberta general election
Less than four years had passed since the Progressive Conservatives won their landslide victory in 1979. Premier Peter Lougheed decided to call a snap election to catch fledgling new parties off guard, most notably the separatist Western Canada Concept which was capitalizing on anger over Lougheed's perceived weakness in dealings with the federal government, in particular his acceptance of the hugely unpopular National Energy Program. The WCC's Gordon Kesler had won a by-election earlier in the year, and Lougheed decided that it would be wise to stage a showdown with the WCC sooner rather than later.


1982 Alberta general election
Lougheed then proceeded to mount a campaign based largely on scare tactics, warning Albertans angry with Ottawa but yet uneasy with the WCC that they could end up with a separatist government by voting for a separatist party. Lougheed would also promise to sell the government owned airline Pacific Western Airlines, which the Lougheed government had purchased in 1974. The strategy worked for the Tories, who won their fourth consecutive term in government, and returned to the 62% popular vote level it had attained in the 1975 election. This netted the Tories 75 seats in the legislature—in terms of percentage of seats won, the second-largest majority government in the province's history. In the process, they reduced the opposition to only four MLAs in total.


1982 Alberta general election
The Alberta Liberal Party was punished in the wake of the NEP. Barely able to field candidates in a third of the ridings, it went down to one of its worst showings in party history.


1982 Alberta general election
The Social Credit Party bottomed out after spending a decade in the wilderness after losing power in 1971. In a harbinger of things to come, Socred leader Robert Curtis Clark returned to the backbench shortly after the 1979 election, and retired from politics in 1981. Clark's old seat of Olds-Didsbury was resoundingly lost to the WCC in the ensuing by-election, dropping the Socreds to only three seats, one short of official party status. In March 1982, Socred parliamentary leader Raymond Speaker announced the Socreds would sit out the election. A resolution was put forward to disband the party, but failed.


1982 Alberta general election
After the writs were issued for the 1982 election, two of the remaining three Socred MLAs, Speaker and Walt Buck, resigned from the party to run for reelection as independents. The third, Fred Mandeville, opted not to run for reelection. With no incumbents for the first time since 1935 and no full-time leader, the party's share of the popular vote fell from almost 20% to less than one percent. It was shut out of the legislature for the first time since 1935, never to return. Speaker and Buck, however, did win reelection, and later formed the Representative Party of Alberta after being denied opposition status.


1982 Alberta general election
The New Democratic Party, led by Grant Notley, became the official opposition when Ray Martin was elected to the legislature. Notley had been the sole NDP MLA for more than a decade.


1982 Alberta general election
The WCC, a party that advocated the separation of the four western provinces of Canada to form a new country, had surprised Canadians when Kesler won his by-election and took a seat in the Alberta legislature. Although Kesler lost his seat in this election after he changed electoral districts from Olds-Didsbury and ran in Highwood, the WCC won almost 12% of the popular vote.


1982 Alberta general election
The Alberta Reform Movement, a new party founded by ex-Progressive Conservative Tom Sindlinger was caught unaware when the election was called, and ended up losing its only seat in Calgary Buffalo.


1982 Alberta general election, Results
* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.


1982 Algerian legislative election
Member State of the African Union Member State of the Arab League


1982 Algerian legislative election
Parliamentary elections were held in Algeria on 5 March 1982. The country was a one-party state at the time, with the National Liberation Front (FLN) as the sole legal party. The FLN nominated 846 candidates for the 282 seats, with voters asked to express their preference by crossing out names on the ballot. Only 69 of the 136 incumbents who ran for re-election were successful. Voter turnout was 67.34%.


1982 All England Open Badminton Championships
The 1982 John Player All England Open was the 72nd edition of the All England Open Badminton Championships. It was held in 1982, in Wembley, London. During an International Badminton Federation meeting in London on March 23, 1981 it was agreed to re-elect the twenty members of the breakaway World Badminton Federation. This included China which consequently resulted in some of the world's top players returning to compete in the All England Championships.


1982 All-Big Eight Conference football team
The 1982 All-Big Eight Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Big Eight Conference teams for the 1982 NCAA Division I-A football season. The selectors for the 1982 season included the Associated Press (AP).


1982 All-Big Ten Conference football team
The 1982 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Big Ten Conference teams for the 1982 college football season.


1982 All-Big Ten Conference football team
Michigan receiver Anthony Carter was a first-team pick for the third consecutive year, a unanimous first-team selection by the conference coaches, and also a consensus All-American. Eight Michigan players were selected as a first-team players, including Carter, running back Lawrence Ricks, offensive guard Stefan Humphries, defensive back Keith Bostic. Ohio State and Wisconsin followed with five first-team players each.


1982 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key
Bold = Selected as a first-team player by both the media (AP) and coaches (UPI)


1982 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key
AP = Associated Press, "selected by a panel of sports writers and broadcasters throughout the Midwest"


1982 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key
UPI = United Press International, selected by the Big Ten Conference coaches


1982 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship
The 1982 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship was the 51st staging of the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament for boys under the age of 18.


1982 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship
Cork entered the championship as defending champions, however, they were defeated by Kerry in the Munster final.


1982 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship
On 19 September 1982, Dublin won the championship following a 1-11 to 1-5 defeat of Kerry in the All-Ireland final. This was their ninth All-Ireland title overall and their first in three championship seasons.


1982 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship
The 1982 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship was the 52nd staging of the All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1928.


1982 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship
Kilkenny entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were beaten by Galway in the All-Ireland semi-final.


1982 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship
On 5 September 1982 Tipperary won the championship following a 2-7 to 0-4 defeat of Galway in the All-Ireland final. This was their 15th All-Ireland title and their first in two championship seasons.


1982 All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship
The All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship of 1982 was the ninth staging of Ireland's secondary hurling knock-out competition. Antrim won the championship, beating London 2-16 to 2-14 in the final at the Emerald GAA Grounds, Ruislip.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship
The 1982 All Ireland Camogie Championship was won by Cork, beating Dublin by a single point in the final.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Early rounds
Edel Murphy scored 1-6 and Marion Conroy another goal as Dublin withstood a late Limerick comeback to win the semi-final by three points. Three first half goals by Val Fitzpatrick helped Cork draw with Kilkenny, for whom Angela Downey scored 1-10 and Bridie McGarry equalised from a sideline ball 25 yards from the left corner flag three minutes from the end, the third draw in the championship between the teams since 1974. Cathy Landers had to score a point from midfield to give Cork victory, just as Helena O'Neill had been faced with a similar free to equalise in 1974.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Early rounds
Helena succeeded, Cathy did not. The replay was attended by a large crowd (it was claimed that all three semi-finals had record attendances for this stage but records are incomplete) and finished Cork 5-4 to 3-10 before 20 minutes of extra time was required to separate the sides. Cork scored 2-4 to Kilkenny’s 0-2 in extra time. Their goals came from Mary Geaney and Pat Lenihan (two each), Mary O'Leary who scored 1-8, Marion McCarthy and Marion Sweeney.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Final
A dramatic point from a 50-yard free in the last minute by Mary O'Leary leaving Dublin lamenting their third defeat in a final in six years. It followed the decisive goal with five minutes to go when Mary O'Leary collected the ball 50 yards from goal and sent in a hard driven shot which dipped below the crossbar. O'Leary scored 1-6 in a fast paced game.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Final
Marion McCarthy scored a Dublin goal from the edge of the square after 54 seconds, Cork attacked from the restart and when Yvonne Redmond was slow to clear Pat Lenihan scored a Cork goal after just 90 seconds to complete the quickest two goals in All Ireland camogie history, Una Crowley then had Dublin's second goal after seven minutes and Dublin led 2-5 to 1-3 at half time.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final
The 1982 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final was the 51st All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1982 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, an inter-county camogie tournament for the top teams in Ireland.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
The 1982 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship final was a hurling match played at Croke Park on 16 May 1982 to determine the winners of the 1981–82 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, the 12th season of the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the champion clubs of the four provinces of Ireland. The final was contested by James Stephens of Kilkenny and Mount Sion of Waterford, with James Stephens winning by 3–13 to 3–8.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
In the first and only championship meeting between the two sides, the All-Ireland final produced a glut of goals. Billy Walton of James Stephens pointed after just two minutes when he converted a free after John Joe Cullen was fouled. Mick Crotty and Jim Greene exchanged a series of tit-for-tat points. Billy Walton then had two points but Mount Sion supporters were cheering when Anthony Cooney shot to the net before Jim Greene, who was in brilliant form, put on a point to leave the Waterford side in front by 1–5 to 0–6. Mount Sion piled on the pressure when John Dalton scored a goal before Cooney and Greene pointed to give them a 2–7 to 0–6 lead.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
What might be regarded as the turning point came when a good centre by Billy Walton, which appeared to be going wide, was tipped into the net by John McCormack. He quickly sent over a point to leave just the minimum between the teams. Mount Sion struck again when John Dalton had his second goal which left the Waterford side 3–7 to 1–9 in front. James Stephens hit back in style when Fan Larkin moved out to midfield to take a pass from Paddy Neary from a cut-in.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
His long delivery dropped in the Mount Sion goalmouth and McCormack tapped it home. Jim Greene put Mount Sion a point ahead but Ned Kelly tied the match for the fourth time. Greene subsequently tried to force his way through the James Stephens defence, however, the referee awarded a free out for an off-the-ball incident. Mick Crotty dispossessed Denis Shefflin and kicked the ball forward for John McCormack to finish to the net for his hat-trick. Billy Walton had two more points before the end to secure a five-point victory.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The 1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 96th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. The championship began on 9 May 1982 and ended on 19 September 1982.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
It was the last year to date that a Kilkenny team played in the Leinster championship.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Kerry were the defending champions and were hoping to win a record-breaking fifth successive championship title.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
On 19 September 1982, Offaly won the championship following a 1-15 to 0-17 defeat of Kerry in one of the most dramatic and iconic All-Ireland finals in the history of the championship. This was their 3rd All-Ireland title, their first in ten championship seasons. It remains their last All-Ireland victory.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Offaly's Matt Connor was the championship's top scorer with 0-34. Offaly's Martin Furlong was the choice for Texaco Footballer of the Year.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
The 1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 95th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The game, played at Croke Park in Dublin, culminated in one of the most famous goals of all time.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
Kerry entered the match heavy favourites to complete an unprecedented five consecutive All-Ireland Senior Football Championship titles, having won for the previous four years in a run stretching back to 1978. Their opponents Offaly had not won an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship title since 1972.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
Kerry and Offaly had met in the 1980 semi-final and the 1981 final, Kerry emerging as victors on both occasions. Indeed, Kerry had not lost a championship game since the 1977 semi-final. However, this time, a last-minute Séamus Darby goal — struck past the hapless Charlie Nelligan — deprived Kerry of their five-in-a-row dream. They had to put away their "Five in a Row" song, which had been prepared especially for the occasion.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match
The 1982 Offaly team had five sets of brothers: the Lowrys (Mick, Seán and Brendan), the Fitzgeralds (Mick and Pat), the Darbys (Séamus and Stephen) and two sets of Connors brothers (Liam and Thomas, Matt and Richie).


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match
Kerry had a one-point lead in the second half when referee P. J. McGrath awarded a penalty against Offaly. Mikey Sheehy stepped up to take the spot kick. He was facing the Canal End of Croke Park. Sheehy had been having a poor game, unable to detach himself from the attention of Mick Fitzgerald. Offaly goalkeeper Martin Furlong, playing his 56th championship match for his county, yelled at the Offaly backs to pay heed to a possible rebound. Furlong met Sheehy's strike, a ball hit about four feet high, with the palm of his hand. Pat Fitzgerald collected the rebound. Offaly were away, and Johnny Mooney scored a point to bring the teams level.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match
Soon, though, Kerry acquired a four-point lead. Offaly kept with Kerry, however. Eugene McGee and his selectors opted to send Séamus Darby onto the field of play as a substitute, with instructions to stay forward and try for a goal. Darby arrived onto the field as a replacement for John Guinan with seven minutes left to play. Kerry were winning by two points with two minutes to go. Eoin Liston conceded a free after knocking over Pat Fitzgerald in the middle of the field. Darby got behind his marker Tommy Doyle and caught a "high, lobbing, dropping ball". He struck the ball with his left foot past the hapless Charlie Nelligan into the goalkeeper's top left corner, scoring one of the most famous goals of all time. It was his only kick of the match.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match
The referee played 45 seconds of additional time. Tom Spillane ran along the Hogan Stand side of Croke Park only to lose the ball to Seán Lowry. Furlong ran to gather the ball and sent a handpass in the direction of Brendan Lowry. Sheehy got the ball instead, sending it across Furlong's goal. Seán Lowry, beneath it, awaited its descent. He later said: "I remember thinking if I catch it over my head and the Bomber [Liston] comes in and drives it into the back of the net, it's all for nothing. Imagine all these things came into my head.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match
I was catching it in my chest and just then, when it was still a good bit up, 'You're on your own Jack', someone behind me shouted. Paudie Lynch was nearby. Never came. Never jumped. Eoin Liston could have got there no problem. They were just shell shocked". Seán Lowry caught the ball. The referee blew the final whistle, with Lowry still in possession. Offaly had won by a single point on a scoreline of 1–15 to 0–17.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match
Martin Breheny interviewed the players from both teams in their dressing rooms. Journalists were permitted to do so at the time, though the practice would later cease. Breheny later recalled sitting next to Jack O'Shea as he tried to make sense of what had just occurred on the field.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match
This remains the last occasion on which Offaly won an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match
Kerry reached the 1983 Munster Senior Football Championship final, where opponents Cork denied them victory with another late goal, scored by Tadhg Murphy, meaning Kerry did not even make that year's All-Ireland semi-final. This appeared to signal the end for this Kerry team.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match
In 2005, RTÉ named Darby's goal as one of the Top 20 GAA Moments.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match
The expression "to do a Séamus Darby" has been used in other fields.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match
The match received renewed attention in 2010 when the Kilkenny hurlers were aiming to complete their own five-in-a-row, also never realised.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match
In 2018, Martin Breheny listed this as the greatest All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match
Radio Kerry played the Five in a Row song in 2018 when the minor team did what the 1982 side could not.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match
Loosehorse produced a documentary, Players of the Faithful, which debuted on RTÉ on 28 December 2018.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match
An episode of Laochra Gael focusing on Darby and titled "An Fear a Scóráil an Cúl" ("The Man Who Got the Goal") first aired on TG4 in 2019.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match
The match again received great attention in 2019 as Dublin prepared for their own attempt at a five-in-a-row, having — in 2018 — become the first team since Kerry in 1981 to win four consecutive titles. By coincidence, the golfer Shane Lowry — son of Brendan and nephew of Seán and Mick — won the 2019 Open Championship during that Championship season, doing so as the Munster and Ulster champions, Kerry and Donegal, played out an entertaining draw in Croke Park, a day after Dublin hammered Connacht champions Roscommon at the same venue.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match
After Dublin's successful five-in-a-row, Séamus Darby declared Dublin as superior to any of Mick O'Dwyer's Kerry teams, writing in the Sunday Independent: "Dublin played out the last 10 minutes [of the 2019 final replay] like the Harlem Globetrotters. It was exhibition stuff".


1982 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship of 1982 was the 96th staging of Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. Kilkenny won the championship, beating Cork 3–18 to 1–13 in the final at Croke Park, Dublin.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, Leinster championship
Quarter-finals: (2 matches) These are two lone matches between the first four teams drawn from the province of Leinster. Two teams are eliminated at this stage, while two teams advance to the semi-finals.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, Leinster championship
Semi-finals: (2 matches) The winners of the two quarter-finals join two other Leinster teams to make up the semi-final pairings. Two teams are eliminated at this stage, while two teams advance to the final.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, Leinster championship
Final: (1 match) The winners of the two semi-finals contest this game. One team is eliminated at this stage, while the winners advance to the All-Ireland semi-final.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, Munster championship
Quarter-final: (1 match) This is a lone match between the first two teams drawn from the province of Munster. One team is eliminated at this stage, while the winners advance to the semi-finals.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, Munster championship
Semi-finals: (2 matches) The winners of the lone quarter-final join the other three Munster teams to make up the semi-final pairings. Two teams are eliminated at this stage, while two teams advance to the final.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, Munster championship
Final: (1 match) The winners of the two semi-finals contest this game. One team is eliminated at this stage, while the winners advance directly to the All-Ireland final.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, All-Ireland Championship
Quarter-final: (1 match) This is a lone match between Galway and the All-Ireland 'B' champions. One team is eliminated at this stage, while the winners advance to the All-Ireland semi-final where they play the Leinster champions.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, All-Ireland Championship
Semi-final: (1 match) This is a lone match between the winners of the All-Ireland quarter-final and the Leinster champions. One team is eliminated at this stage, while the winners advance to the All-Ireland final.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, All-Ireland Championship
Final: (1 match) The winners of the lone semi-final winners will play the Munster champions in the All-Ireland final.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Broadcasting
The following matches were broadcast live on television in Ireland on RTÉ.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final
The 1982 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 95th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1982 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at Croke Park, Dublin, on 5 September 1982, between Kilkenny and Cork. The Munster champions lost to their Leinster opponents on a score line of 3-18 to 1-13.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final
The 1982 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final was the ninth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1982 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship, an inter-county ladies' Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.


1982 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final
Kerry won by six points in terrible weather. This was the first title of their nine-in-a-row.


1982 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship
The 1982 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship was the 19th staging of the All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1964.


1982 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship
Cork entered the championship as defending champions, however, they were defeated by Roscommon in the All-Ireland semi-final.


1982 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship
Donegal won the championship following an 0–8 to 0–5 defeat of Roscommon in the All-Ireland final. This was their fourth All-Ireland title overall and their second in successive seasons.


1982 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship
The following players won the Sam Maguire Cup with their county in 1992: Paul Carr, Matt Gallagher, Martin McHugh, Joyce McMullan, Sylvester Maguire, Anthony Molloy, Charlie Mulgrew and Donal Reid.


1982 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship
The 1982 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship was the 19th staging of the All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1964. The championship began on 23 April 1982 and ended on 12 September 1982.


1982 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship
Tipperary entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were beaten by Limerick in the Munster semi-final.


1982 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship
On 12 September 1982, Cork won the championship following a 0-12 to 0-11 defeat of Galway in the All-Ireland final. This was their eighth All-Ireland title overall and their first title since 1976.


1982 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship
Cork's Tony O'Sullivan was the championship's top scorer with 3-22.


1982 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final
The 1982 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship final was a hurling match that was played at St. Brendan's Park, Birr on 12 September 1982 to determine the winners of the 1982 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, the 19th season of the All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the champion teams of the four provinces of Ireland. The final was contested by Cork of Munster and Galway of Connacht, with Cork winning by 0-12 to 0-11.


1982 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final
The All-Ireland final between Cork and Galway was the eighth championship meeting between the two teams but their first in an All-Ireland final. Cork were appearing in their first final since defeat in 1977, while Galway were appearing in their first final since 1979.


1982 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final
Having lost the senior All-Ireland decider to Kilkenny the previous week, Cork's under-21 team featured three players - Ger Cunningham, Kevin Hennessy and Tony O'Sullivan - who had played in that game. Both defences were in complete control in the first ever goalless final. The game hung in the balance throughout, with Cork coming from behind in the closing stages to win by a long-range Kevin Hennessy point.


1982 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final
Cork's All-Ireland victory was their first since 1976. The win gave them their eighth All-Ireland title overall and further secured their position as first on the all time roll of honour.


1982 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final
Galway's All-Ireland defeat was their second since last winning the title in 1978.


1982 All-Pacific-10 Conference football team
The 1982 All-Pacific-10 Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Pacific-10 Conference teams for the 1982 NCAA Division I-A football season.


1982 All-Pro Team
The 1982 All-Pro Team is composed of the National Football League (NFL) players that were named to the Associated Press, Newspaper Enterprise Association, Pro Football Writers Association,  and Pro Football Weekly  in 1982. Both first- and second- teams are listed for the AP and NEA teams. These are the four teams that are included in Total Football II: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League. The Sporting News did not choose a 1982 All-Pro team due to the players' strike.


1982 All-Pro Team, Key
AP = Associated Press All-Pro team; AP-2 Associated Press Second-team All-Pro; PFWA = Pro Football Writers Association All-Pro team; NEA = Newspaper Enterprise Association All-Pro team. ; NEA-2 Newspaper Enterprise Association Second-team All-Pro ; PFW = Pro Football Weekly All-Pro team; TSN = The Sporting News All-Pro team; t = players tied in selection


1982 All-SEC football team
The 1982 All-SEC football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) chosen by various selectors for the 1982 college football season.


1982 All-SEC football team, Key
Bold = Consensus first-team selection by both AP and UPI


1982 Allan Cup
The 1982 Allan Cup was the Canadian national senior ice hockey championship for the 1981-82 Senior "A" season. The event was hosted by the Cranbrook Royals in Cranbrook, British Columbia. The 1982 playoff marked the 74th time that the Allan Cup has been awarded.


1982 Allsvenskan, Overview
The league was contested by 12 teams, with IFK Göteborg winning the league and the Swedish championship after the play-offs.


1982 Allsvenskan, 1982 Allsvenskan play-offs
The 1982 Allsvenskan play-offs was the first edition of the competition. The eight best placed teams from Allsvenskan  qualified to the competition. Allsvenskan champions IFK Göteborg won the competition and the Swedish championship after defeating league runners-up Hammarby IF.


1982 Aloha Bowl
The 1982 Aloha Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on December 25, 1982 at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. The inaugural Aloha Bowl game pitted the Washington Huskies and the Maryland Terrapins. This was the first bowl game played in Hawaii since the Pineapple Bowl in 1952.


1982 Aloha Bowl, Background
After a Rose Bowl championship the year prior, the Huskies began the season ranked #2 in the nation. They responded by winning their first seven games of the season while rising to #1 in the polls after the first week, though they slipped to #2 before a matchup with Stanford.


1982 Aloha Bowl, Background
A 43-31 loss to the Cardinal (who finished 5-6 that year) dropped them to #10, but they responded with wins over #9 UCLA and #3 Arizona State to get back to #5 heading into the final game of the year against Washington State in the Apple Cup, with a chance to win the conference title. However, they fell 24-20 to the Cougars (who finished 3-7-1), which dropped them to second in the Pacific-10 Conference behind UCLA (who had a 5-1-1 conference record).


1982 Aloha Bowl, Background
Despite this, the Huskies were invited to the Aloha Bowl, their fourth straight bowl game and fifth bowl game in six seasons. Maryland, in its first season with Bobby Ross as coach, rebounded from a 4-6-1 record the previous year to win eight games. Maryland began the season with two losses to ranked opponents (#7 Penn State and #17 West Virginia) by a combined total of nine points. They did not lose another game for two months, winning seven straight games (including a 31-24 win over #10 North Carolina), while rising to #19 in the polls. They lost to #11 Clemson two weeks later, though they did rebound with a win over Virginia in the regular season finale to rise to #16 in the polls while finishing 2nd in the Atlantic Coast Conference. This was their eighth bowl game in 10 seasons.


1982 Aloha Bowl, Game summary
Washington had 20 first downs (as opposed to 17 for Maryland) while having 63 rushing yards and 369 passing yards, with four fumbles recovered for turnovers. Maryland had 68 rushing yards and 251 passing yards while having two turnovers. Boomer Esiason went 19-of-32 for 251 yards, with two touchdowns and one interception (along with a 10 completed passes for 120 yards and 1 touchdown third quarter). With 3:39 left in the game, Jess Atkinson attempted a 32-yard field goal to try to put the Terrapins up by nine. However, the kick fell short. A touchdown with six seconds left in the game by Allen won the game for Washington, who won the arm of Tim Cowan, who threw 33-of-55 for 369 yards and three touchdowns.


1982 Aloha Bowl, Aftermath
The Huskies returned to the Aloha Bowl twice more, including the following year in 1983. They reached five more bowl games in the decade following their Aloha Bowl appearances. As for Maryland, they went to three more bowl games in the decade while never returning to the Aloha Bowl.


1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Combined, Final point standings
In Men's Combined World Cup 1981/82 all 5 results count.


1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Combined, Final point standings
In all races not all points were awarded (not enough finishers).


1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Combined, Men's Combined Team Results
Overall | Downhill | Giant Slalom | Slalom | Combined


1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Downhill, Final point standings
In Men's Downhill World Cup 1981/82 the best 5 results count. Deductions are given in (). The same tie-breaking rule in effect in 1977 were still in effect -- best sixth score. Thus, Canada's Steve Podborski was awarded the season title and discipline trophy over two-time winner Peter Müller by having a better sixth score (12, for a fourth-place finish, compared to 10, for a sixth-place finish).


1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Downhill, Men's Downhill Team Results
All points were shown including individuel deduction. bold indicate highest score - italics indicate race wins


1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Downhill, Men's Downhill Team Results
Overall | Downhill | Giant Slalom | Slalom | Combined


1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Giant Slalom, Final point standings
In Men's Giant Slalom World Cup 1981/82 the best 5 results count. Deductions are given in ().


1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Giant Slalom, Men's Giant Slalom Team Results
All points were shown including individuel deduction. bold indicate highest score - italics indicate race wins


1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Giant Slalom, Men's Giant Slalom Team Results
Overall | Downhill | Giant Slalom | Slalom | Combined


1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Overall, Final point standings
In Men's Overall World Cup 1981/82 the best five downhills, best five giant slaloms, best five slaloms and best three combined count. Deductions are given in ().


1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Overall, Final point standings
Overall | Downhill | Giant Slalom | Slalom | Combined


1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Slalom, Final point standings
In Men's Slalom World Cup 1981/82 the best 5 results count. Deductions are given in ().


1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Slalom, Men's Slalom Team Results
All points were shown including individuel deduction. bold indicate highest score - italics indicate race wins


1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Slalom, Men's Slalom Team Results
Overall | Downhill | Giant Slalom | Slalom | Combined


1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Combined, Final point standings
In Women's Combined World Cup 1981/82 all 4 results count.


1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Combined, Final point standings
Race 2 not all points were awarded (not enough finishers).


1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Combined, Final point standings
Overall | Downhill | Giant Slalom | Slalom | Combined


1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Downhill, Final point standings
In Women's Downhill World Cup 1981/82 the best 5 results count. Ten racers had a point deduction, which are given in ().


1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Downhill, Final point standings
Overall | Downhill | Giant Slalom | Slalom | Combined


1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Giant Slalom, Final point standings
In Women's Giant Slalom World Cup 1981/82 the best 5 results count. Deductions are given in ().


1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Giant Slalom, Final point standings
Overall | Downhill | Giant Slalom | Slalom | Combined


1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Slalom, Final point standings
In Women's Slalom World Cup 1981/82 the best 5 results count.


1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Slalom, Final point standings
Overall | Downhill | Giant Slalom | Slalom | Combined


1982 Amateur World Series
The 1982 Amateur World Series was the 27th Amateur World Series (AWS), an international men’s amateur baseball tournament. The tournament was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation (which titled it the Baseball World Cup as of the 1988 tournament). The tournament took place, for the only time, in South Korea, from 4 September to 14 September, and was won by South Korea in its first AWS victory.


1982 Amateur World Series, Awards
The IBAF announced the following awards at the completion of the tournament.


1982 American League Championship Series
The 1982 American League Championship Series was played between the Milwaukee Brewers and the California Angels from October 5 to 10, 1982. Milwaukee won the series three games to two to advance to the franchise's first World Series, where they would lose to the St. Louis Cardinals, four games to three. The 1982 ALCS was marked by a dramatic comeback by the Brewers, who lost the first two games of the series and were trailing late in the final game.


1982 American League Championship Series
The series was noteworthy as being the first to feature a matchup between two "expansion" teams (i.e., franchises not included among the 16 operating in the major leagues for most of the first half of the 20th century), for featuring two teams that had never before won a pennant, and for being the first time a team came from a 2–0 deficit to win the series.


1982 American League Championship Series
This was the first ALCS not to feature the Athletics, Orioles, or Yankees.


1982 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
Tuesday, October 5, 1982, at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim, California


1982 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
The Angels jumped to a 1–0 lead in the first when Brian Downing scored an unearned run on a sacrifice fly by Don Baylor. Milwaukee came back to take a 3–1 lead with a two-run homer by Gorman Thomas in the second and a run scored by Paul Molitor on a groundout in the third. But the Angels took back the lead for good in their half of the third with a four-run rally highlighted by Baylor's two-run triple.


1982 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
Baylor capped off a five-RBI game with a two-run single in the fourth, and the Angels got another run in the fifth when eventual series MVP Fred Lynn homered. California starter Tommy John, who lent his name to the famous surgical procedure, settled down after the third and gave the Brewers little over the final six innings on his way to a complete-game victory.


1982 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
Wednesday, October 6, 1982, at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim, California


1982 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
California got off to a 4–0 lead in Game 2 and never looked back. The Angels got two in the second on an RBI single from Tim Foli and a squeeze bunt by Bob Boone. California's Reggie Jackson homered in the third to make it 3–0, and Boone plated the Angels' fourth run with a sacrifice fly in the fourth. The Brewers made a game of it in the fifth on Paul Molitor's two-run inside-the-park homer, but could get no closer the rest of the way against the strong pitching of Bruce Kison. Those complete-game efforts helped produce the snappy 2:06 time of game. California was now up 2–0 in the series and needed only one more win for the franchise's first trip to the World Series.


1982 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
Friday, October 8, 1982, at County Stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin


1982 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
The series moved to Milwaukee and produced the Brewers' first win. Milwaukee opened the scoring in the fourth with three runs on an RBI double by Cecil Cooper, who would eventually get the series-winning hit, and sacrifice flies by Gorman Thomas and Don Money. Paul Molitor got two more runs for Milwaukee with a seventh-inning homer, this one over the fence. Brewers starter Don Sutton pitched strongly for the first seven innings but tired in the eighth, yielding three runs on a Bob Boone homer and doubles by Fred Lynn and Don Baylor. Pete Ladd came out of the Milwaukee bullpen to get the final four outs for the save.


1982 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
Saturday, October 9, 1982, at County Stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin


1982 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
The Brewers again staved off elimination and evened the series in a rather sloppy but high-scoring Game 4. The teams combined for five errors to allow three unearned runs. Milwaukee built a 6–0 lead with three-run rallies in the second and fourth. The Brewers got a lot of help from two California errors and three wild pitches by Angels starter Tommy John, who took the loss. The teams traded runs in the sixth: Fred Lynn doubled home Reggie Jackson for the Angels, and Jim Gantner singled home Mark Brouhard for the Brewers.


1982 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
Brouhard, who only appeared in 40 regular season games, was subbing for Ben Oglivie. Brouhard contributed 3 hits, 4 runs and 3 RBI's in this, the only postseason appearance of his career. California rallied for four runs in the eighth on a grand slam by Don Baylor to cut Milwaukee's lead to 7–5. But the Brewers bounced back with a two-run homer by Brouhard in the bottom of the inning to put the game away and level the series 2–2.


1982 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5
Sunday, October 10, 1982, at County Stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin


1982 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5
Game 5 proved to be the most dramatic of the series. The Angels got a quick 1–0 lead in the first on a double by Brian Downing and a single by Fred Lynn. But Milwaukee tied the game in the bottom of the inning when Paul Molitor doubled and eventually came home on a sacrifice fly by Ted Simmons. The Angels made it 2–1 in the third on an RBI single from Fred Lynn, and stretched the lead to 3–1 in the fourth on a run-scoring single from Bob Boone.


1982 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5
Milwaukee cut the lead to 3–2 in the bottom of the fourth on Ben Oglivie's homer. In the 5th inning, the Angels nearly threatened again, until Reggie Jackson was thrown out trying to reach third on a Fred Lynn single. The score remained unchanged until the bottom of the seventh, when disaster struck the Angels. Milwaukee loaded the bases on two singles and a walk. Cecil Cooper then cracked the series-winning hit, a two-run single that put the Brewers ahead 4–3.


1982 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5
The Milwaukee bullpen kept the Angels off the board in the final two innings, helped by a spectacular catch by reserve outfielder Marshall Edwards, robbing Don Baylor of extra bases. The Angels threatened again in the 9th with a runner on second, and Rod Carew at the plate. Pete Ladd got Carew to ground out to Robin Yount, and the Brewers took home the franchise's first and only American League pennant and its only World Series appearance to date.


1982 American League Championship Series, Aftermath
1982 would not be the closest the Angels got to winning a pennant in the 1980s. In 1986, the Angels were up 3-1 in the series, leading 5-2 in ninth inning, and within one strike of their first-ever AL pennant when Dave Henderson of the Red Sox caught hold of a Donnie Moore forkball and launched a home run into the left field seats to tie the game. The Red Sox would go on to win the game in extras and complete the 3-1 series comeback. It would not be until 2002 when the Angels won their first pennant, on their way to their first World Series in franchise history.


1982 American League Championship Series, Aftermath
On the 1986 Angels roster was Don Sutton, who was traded from Milwaukee to Oakland in 1985. He nearly retired upon being traded to Oakland, but continued pitching and was later traded to the California Angels at the 1985 trade deadline. Coming into the 1986 season, Sutton had 295 career victories. He struggled early in the season, but earned his 300th career win on June 18 that year, pitching a complete game against the Texas Rangers in which he allowed only three hits and one run while striking out Gary Ward for the final out of the game. Sutton was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998.


1982 American League Championship Series, Aftermath
This was the Milwaukee Brewers last and only AL pennant, as they moved to the National League in 1998. The Brewers have yet to win a pennant since moving to the NL.


1982 American Soccer League
Statistics of the American Soccer League II for the 1982 season.


1982 Amol uprising
The 1982 Amol uprising was an armed uprising against the government of Iran by the Maoist organisation Union of Iranian Communists (Sarbedaran).


1982 Amol uprising, Background
The Union of Iranian Communists (Sarbedaran) or UIC(S) for short, was a Maoist organisation that adopted people's war as its line of struggle. The Amol County was chosen by UIC(S) as a revolutionary base area.


1982 Amol uprising, History
1982 was an important year in the history of the UIC(S) and the history of Maoism in Iran in general. In this year the UIC(S) mobilised forces in forests around Amol and launched an armed campaign against the Islamic Republic. It organised an uprising on 25 January 1982, led by Siamak Zaim. The uprising was eventually a failure and many UIC(S) and Maoist leaders were shot. Zaim was arrested by the Revolutionary Guard after they retook Amol by force, and eventually executed in 1984 in spite of a pardon from death granted for helping end the firefight.


1982 Amol uprising, Aftermath
After the failure of the uprising the UIC(S) went through a difficult period with most of its leadership and members arrested or killed. It also experienced various theoretical and political crises.


1982 Amol uprising, In culture
The Little Black Fish (Persian: ماهی سیاه کوچولو) is a 2014 Iranian film by Majid Esmaeili Parsa about Amol uprising.


1982 Amstel Gold Race
The 1982 Amstel Gold Race was the 17th edition of the annual road bicycle race "Amstel Gold Race", held on Sunday April 24, 1982, in the Dutch province of Limburg. The race stretched 237 kilometres, with the start in Heerlen and the finish in Meerssen. There was a total of 152 competitors, and 39 cyclists finished the race.


1982 Amílcar Cabral Cup
The 1982 Amílcar Cabral Cup was held in Praia, Cape Verde.


1982 Ancona Open
The 1982 Ancona Open was an ATP men's tennis tournament that was part of the Grand Prix circuit and was held in Ancona, Italy. The tournament ran from 15 November until 21 November 1982, and was played on indoor carpet courts. Third-seeded Anders Järryd won his 8th career title and his 6th title of the year by defeating Mike De Palmer in the final.


1982 Ancona Open, Finals, Doubles
Anders Järryd /  Hans Simonsson defeated  Tim Gullikson /  Bernard Mitton 6–4, 6–3


1982 Ancona Open – Singles
Anders Järryd defeated Mike De Palmer 6–3, 6–2 in the final to secure the title.


1982 Ancona Open – Singles, Seeds
The text in italics indicates the round in which that seed exited the tournament.


1982 Andalusian regional election
The 1982 Andalusian regional election was held on Sunday, 23 May 1982, to elect the 1st Parliament of the autonomous community of Andalusia. All 109 seats in the Parliament were up for election.


1982 Andalusian regional election
The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia (PSOE–A) under incumbent regional president Rafael Escuredo won a landslide victory with 66 seats and 52.6% of the share, the best result obtained by any party in an Andalusian regional election to date.


1982 Andalusian regional election
The Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD), then in the Government of Spain, suffered from the effects of an ongoing economic crisis, internal party infighting and a massive unpopularity in the region over the party's handling of the 1980 autonomy initiative referendum and obtained just 15 seats and 13.0% of the vote, performing third behind the People's Alliance (AP) with 17.0% of the share and 17 seats. Both the Communist Party of Andalusia (PCA–PCE) and the Socialist Party of Andalusia–Andalusian Party (PSA–PA) performed poorly with 8 (8.5% of the vote) and 3 seats (5.4%), respectively.


1982 Andalusian regional election
After the election, Escuredo was re-elected as Andalusian president. This would be the last regional election to be contested by the UCD before its electoral meltdown in the 1982 Spanish general election and its subsequent dissolution in February 1983, as well as the only time—together with 2004—that a party would secure an absolute majority of the vote. The PSOE would go on to form the regional government uninterruptedly until 2018.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The Parliament of Andalusia was the devolved, unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of Andalusia, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution of 1978 and the regional Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a regional president.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Overview, Electoral system
Transitory Provision Fourth of the Statute established a specific electoral procedure for the first election to the Parliament of Andalusia, to be supplemented by the provisions within Royal Decree-Law 20/1977, of 18 March, and its related regulations. Voting for the Parliament was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered in Andalusia and in full enjoyment of their political rights.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The 109 members of the Parliament of Andalusia were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of three percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each constituency. Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the provinces of Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga and Seville, with each being allocated a fixed number of seats: 11 for Almería, 15 for Cádiz, 13 for Córdoba, 13 for Granada, 11 for Huelva, 13 for Jaén, 15 for Málaga and 18 for Seville.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The use of the D'Hondt method might result in a higher effective threshold, depending on the district magnitude.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Overview, Election date
The Provisional Regional Government of Andalusia, in agreement with the Government of Spain, was required to call an election to the Parliament of Andalusia within three months from the enactment of the Statute, with election day taking place within sixty days after the call. As a result, an election could not be held later than the 150th day from the date of enactment of the Statute of Autonomy. The Statute was published in the Official State Gazette on 11 January 1982, setting the latest possible election date for the Parliament on Thursday, 10 June 1982.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Overview, Election date
After the Statute's approval, negotiations ensued between the central and regional governments to determine the date of the election, resulting in the election being scheduled for late May 1982, with either 23 or 30 May as the most likely dates over a wish from political parties to prevent a high abstention rate. The vote was finally determined for Sunday, 23 May, with the election decree being published in the Official Gazette of the Regional Government of Andalusia on 26 March.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Background
The Andalusian autonomic process started in 1977 with the constitution of an Assembly of Parliamentarians and the establishment of a pre-autonomic regional government in April 1978.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Background
On 4 December 1978, all political parties signed the "Pact of Antequera" (Spanish: Pacto de Antequera), a commitment to achieving the greatest possible level of devolution for Andalusia in the shortest possible timeframe within the scope of the newly-approved Spanish Constitution, and shortly thereafter, Rafael Escuredo from the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) was elected as the new pre-autonomic regional president, initiating procedures for the region to apply to autonomy through the "fast-track route" set down in Article 151.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Background
Opposition from the governing Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) to the application of Article 151 for Andalusia led to an intensely fought campaign in the 1980 autonomy initiative referendum, which ultimately resulted in a major setback for the UCD. An inter-party agreement in October 1980 resulted in legal amendments allowing Andalusia to access autonomy through the "fast-track route", and in the drafting of a statute of autonomy which was ratified in a referendum on 20 October 1981, then by the Cortes Generales in December.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Background
Attempts to avoid similar political clashes in the future over the devolution issue had led to the so-called "rationalization" of the autonomic process, through the signing of the first autonomic pacts between UCD and PSOE on 31 July 1981, agreeing for a joint calendar of devolution for the remaining regions. This would be embodied through the approval, in 1982, of the Organic Law of Harmonization of the Autonomic Process (LOAPA).


1982 Andalusian regional election, Background
Concurrently with the 1981 referendum, a regional election was held in Galicia which saw the success of the People's Alliance (AP) and the political thesis of its leader, Manuel Fraga, on the right's "natural majority": the prospects of an UCD–AP alliance which would eventually see the right-of-centre electorate converging around a single political pole.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Background
Ever since the resignation of Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez and his replacement by Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, UCD had been slowly drifting rightwards amid an intensification of the political tensions between the various political families within the party—social-democrats, christian-democrats, moderates, liberals and conservatives—bringing the UCD ever close to the brink of internal rupture and leaving the political centre up for grabs by the PSOE. Shortly after the UCD's defeat in the Galician election, Calvo-Sotelo forced Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún's resignation as UCD leader to take himself the reins of the party, just as the UCD parliamentary groups in the Cortes Generales started to split up as a result of a number of defections.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Background
The election was held on the backdrop of the 23-F trial, the attempted military coup d'etat staged on 23 February 1981 by a group of Civil Guard officers led by Antonio Tejero during Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo's investiture as Prime Minister after Suárez's resignation and whose failure incidentally led to the decisive consolidation of democratic rule in Spain. The four main political parties in Spain—UCD, PSOE, PCE and AP—had agreed for a joint strategy on the issue so as to avoid any interference both in the trial's procedure and from its effects on Spanish political life.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Parties and candidates
The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within fifteen days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least one-thousandth of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election—with a compulsory minimum of 500 signatures—disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Parties and candidates
Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:


1982 Andalusian regional election, Parties and candidates
The PSOE kept incumbent president Rafael Escuredo as its leading candidate, after an agreement with PSOE–A secretary general and Escuredo's long-time rival José Rodríguez de la Borbolla. The UCD sought to present a renovated image after its fiasco in the 1980 referendum, its defeat in the Galician election and the party crisis in November 1981. Soledad Becerril, newly appointed culture minister in the Spanish government, was elected as the regional UCD's new leader, whereas former mayor of Málaga Luis Merino was chosen to lead the party into the election. The conservative AP, reinvigorated after its recent victory in the 1981 Galician election, did not field a candidate for the regional presidency as the regional party leader, Antonio Hernández Mancha, was a still relatively unknown political figure in Andalusia.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Parties and candidates
The Socialist Party of Andalusia–Andalusian Party (PSA–PA) had appointed incumbent mayor of Seville Luis Uruñuela as its leading candidate during the 1981 referendum campaign, with the party having joined forces with the Unified Andalusian Party–Party of Labour of Andalusia (PAU–PTA), aiming at securing the popular support from Andalusian nationalism and dispute President Escuredo's appeal within this electoral segment. Simultaneously, two UCD's splinter groups were the subject of speculation on whether they would contest the election and challenge their former party:


1982 Andalusian regional election, Parties and candidates
A total of 1,188 candidates from 17 political parties stood for election, with six candidacies running in all eight provinces: the main parties PSOE, UCD, PCE, PSA–PA and AP, as well as New Force (FN). No electoral alliances were formed ahead of the election.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Campaign, Positions
Opinion polls heading into the campaign predicted a wide lead from the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia (PSOE–A) over all other parties, with UCD, PCE, PSA and AP fighting for securing second place regionally. The election was perceived as a major electoral test on Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo's party and government ahead of the next general election. Among the main issues affecting Andalusia at the time of the election were the traditionally high unemployment in the region and the agrarian issue, with most farmlands being the property of a small number of landowners.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Campaign, Positions
The PSOE–A aimed at obtaining an absolute majority in the Parliament of Andalusia in order for avoiding post-election alliances that could prove troublesome for the party: an alliance with the PCE was seen as potentially damaging for the PSOE's new strategy of moderation, while allying with UCD seen as problematic due to its increasing unpopularity; alliances with AP and PSA were discarded outright out of ideological reasons.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Campaign, Positions
Controversy arose after a PSOE–PCE coalition was formed in Asturias in April 1982, being received both with dissatisfaction from the regional PSOE and criticism from other parties that such an arrangement would be mirrored by the Socialists in the Andalusian regional government. PSOE leader Felipe González argued against any such alliance in Andalusia on the grounds that "the creation of antagonistic [ideological] blocs is not good", and the party's official stance throughout the campaign was that it would govern alone, either if it secured a majority in parliament or if it became the largest minority.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Campaign, Positions
The UCD faced a difficult task, seeking both to recover its former popularity in the region as well as to confront the growing challenge posed by the conservative AP within its traditional electorate. While the party did not expect to win the election, it hoped to secure at least 20% of the votes. To further this, the UCD-led Spanish government had launched an unprecedented package of economic and investment plans in the region, as well as sending government ministers to host public events and infrastructure openings.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Campaign, Positions
Party leaders had sought to invite former prime minister Adolfo Suárez to campaign rallies, but these approachments were rejected amid the increasing political distance between Suárez and the UCD leadership. The UCD campaign was the most expensive—worth 600 million Pta—and included the establishment of a large image cabinet made of journalists, image technicians and consultants, as well as the use of three programmed robots to help spread the party's campaign manifesto.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Campaign, Positions
AP posed a significant threat to the UCD after its success in the Galician election as it concurrently secured financial support from the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE), but was hampered by a lack of territorial implantation in Andalusia and a historically negative perception of right-of-centre parties in the region. The party campaigned for AP being the tactical vote among centre-right voters, affirming to constitute "the only possible brake on a Socialist triumph in Spain", amid concerns that the UCD–AP competition could end up benefitting the PSOE as the largest party. As in Galicia, the party's campaign was dominated by the presence of party national leader Manuel Fraga, who kept warning of a possible post-election PSOE–UCD agreement as a reason for voters to choose AP over the UCD and foster his hypothesized "natural majority".


1982 Andalusian regional election, Campaign, Positions
Of the smaller parties, the Communist Party of Spain (PCE)'s organization in Andalusia was seen as amongst the most solid throughout Spain, but the party had been beset by internal struggles, expulsions and personal attacks among party members during the previous years, as well as strong electoral competition from both PSOE and the Socialist Party of Andalusia (PSA).


1982 Andalusian regional election, Campaign, Positions
The PCE hoped to maintain results from previous elections and secure a "kingmaker" position that forced the PSOE into the negotiating table, so as to allow the formation of a left-wing government in which the PCE's support came to prove essential, while asserting that the PSOE leadership's stance on not seeking an alliance with the PCE constituted evidence of the Socialists' moving to the right.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Campaign, Positions
Concurrently, PSA leaders adopted a stark Andalusian nationalist discourse and discarded joining any government not led by themselves, arguing that "under no circumstances shall [the PSA] participate in a coalition government with a centralist party" in reference to both UCD and PSOE, which became the focus of their main row of attacks.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Campaign, Events
The pre-campaign and campaign periods would unveil an intense political activity. In March, the PSOE-led regional government launched a campaign of support to King Juan Carlos I in response to the 23-F trial, which was received with criticism from pro-business associations over alleged "electoralism". In late April, the PSA had unsuccessfully attempted to challenge the PSOE's candidacies in all eight provinces over their use of the "Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia" label, arguing that such a name was not registered in the interior ministry.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Campaign, Events
The Spanish government was concurrently criticized over the perceived partisan use of the RTVE media, which was seen as leaning heavily in favour of the UCD. Electoral debates were proposed but none was held: on the one hand, a debate between President Escuredo and UCD candidate Luis Merino was rejected by the PSOE; on the other hand, a political debate over Andalusia between Calvo-Sotelo and Felipe González was ruled out by UCD. Bitter struggling and verbal aggressiveness between the two parties throughout the campaign—including accusations of aspersion-casting or of fostering physical attacks on the other—would remain frequent.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Campaign, Events
The main political confrontation would come over the alleged legitimacy of pro-business associations—especially from the CEOE—of actively supporting UCD and AP's campaigns while concurrently attacking any prospects of a PSOE-led government, under the umbrella of an institutional campaign to prompt voter turnout. This move would see much criticism from several organizations—including both PSOE and PCE—over the alleged lack of neutrality of such campaign.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Campaign, Events
Amid growing crossed accusations, on 13 May both the Central Electoral Commission (JEC) and the Provincial Electoral Commission of Seville forbid the CEOE from participating in the electoral campaign, on the grounds that such a partisan campaigning was constitutionally limited to organizations contesting the election. The ruling would be dubbed by both AP and the CEOE as "undemocratic" by transgressing their "freedom of speech", and several days later the Territorial Court of Seville ruled to suspend the effectiveness of the Provincial Commission's ruling—but not the JEC's one—leading the CEOE to announce the continuation of its campaign. A second, similarly-themed campaign was launched on the issue of education by the Spanish Confederation of Education and Training Centres, which accused left-wing parties' proposals of favouring public education of seeking to "eradicate the Christian religion from Andalusian schools".


1982 Andalusian regional election, Campaign, Events
The campaign ended with speculation on prime minister Calvo-Sotelo's future, amid expectations that an UCD electoral collapse in the regional election could lead to his resignation as either prime minister, party national president, or both, though this was ruled out by UCD members throughout the last days of campaigning.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Opinion polls
The tables below lists opinion polling results in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a given poll.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Opinion polls
The table below lists weighted voting intention estimates. When available, seat projections are also displayed below (or in place of) the voting estimates in a smaller font; 55 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Parliament of Andalusia.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Opinion polls
The table below lists opinion polling on the perceived likelihood of victory for each party in the event of a regional election taking place.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Aftermath, Analysis
The election resulted in a landslide majority for the PSOE, which at the time was at the helm of the Regional Government of Andalusia, securing 52.6% of the vote, 66 seats and outright majorities in all provinces but Almería and Córdoba. The PSOE became the first party obtaining an absolute majority in an election of any kind in Spain since the start of the country's transition to democracy.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Aftermath, Analysis
The UCD vote plummeted in the region compared to the 1979 general election, going from 31.8% to 13.0% of the share and 15 seats while being surpassed by AP, which became the second political party in Andalusia by securing 17.0% (up from 4.3%) and 17 seats.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Aftermath, Analysis
Results for the PCE and PSA were disappointing, as the former went from 13.3% to 8.5% in a region which had been seen as amongst the most favourable to them, whereas the PSA, which had obtained a spectacular result in the 1979 election with 11.1%, plummeted to score 5.4% of the vote and 3 seats; party secretary general Alejandro Rojas-Marcos—who was running as number two in party's list for the Seville constituency—not being able to get elected.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Aftermath, Analysis
While some analyses attributed the election results to the outcome of the 1980 autonomy initiative referendum—which had inflicted a severe political blow to the UCD's government in Spain—these only provided a partial justification of the major vote realignments that had taken place in Andalusia since 1979.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Aftermath, Analysis
The PSOE capitalized on tactical voting from a number of sources: on the one hand, the PCE was mauled as a result of internal infighting, splits and growing dissatisfaction with Santiago Carrillo's leadership style, hastening vote transfers to the Socialists amid a growing polarization of the vote; on the other hand, scaremongering tactics from the CEOE's aggressive campaign, supported by both UCD and AP, were said to have had the opposite effect of bringing a large number of former UCD voters into the PSOE's fold, as the latter was on its way to occupy the ideological's middle ground of Spanish politics after the UCD's growing attempts to lurch away from the centre to appeal to its conservative base.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Aftermath, Analysis
Commenting on the results, the prime minister and UCD leader Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo claimed that these did not correspond to the "great effort" made by his party in the region, nor with "the political importance that the centre option continues to have in Spain". Party members acknowledged that results were "very negative" and that they had lost a great deal of their votes to the ascending AP, whose result was also attributed by government ministers to the CEOE's campaign in favour of Fraga's party. The election outcome would leave the UCD's leadership bewildered, prompting calls for Calvo-Sotelo to resign as party leader and for a snap general election to be called, whereas some party members acknowledged that Fraga's "natural majority" thesis was disfiguring UCD's position by pulling the party into the right.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Aftermath, Analysis
The PSA's negative results were attributed to the party having lost the narrative on the autonomy issue to the PSOE, which was seen as having staunchly defended the application of Article 151 and as having succeeded in its pledge to bring full devolution to the region, coupled with a strong disapproval of PSA leader Alejandro Rojas-Marcos's policy of rapprochement to the UCD in September 1980, when he had attempted to marginalize the Andalusian government by unilaterally agreeing on a solution to the autonomy issue with the Spanish government. Rojas-Marcos would subsequently resign as party leader.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Aftermath, Government formation
Under Article 37 of the Statute, investiture processes to elect the president of the Regional Government of Andalusia required of an absolute majority—more than half the votes cast—to be obtained in the first ballot. If unsuccessful, a new ballot would be held 48 hours later requiring only of a simple majority—more affirmative than negative votes—to succeed. If the proposed candidate was not elected, successive proposals were to be transacted under the same procedure. In the event of the investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a two-month period from the first ballot, the candidate from the party with the highest number of seats was deemed to be automatically elected.


1982 Andalusian regional election, Aftermath, Government formation
On 15 July 1982, the Parliament of Andalusia elected Rafael Escuredo as regional president on the first ballot with an absolute majority of votes, with his government being sworn in on 21 July.


1982 Andorran electoral system referendum
A referendum on the electoral system was held in Andorra on 28 May 1982.


1982 Andorran electoral system referendum, Background
In December 1980, the Co-Princes agreed on reforms, including the establishment of an Executive Council and the holding of a referendum on the voting system. Voters were offered the options of a majority system, a proportional system (in which the parishes would serve as constituencies), or a mixed system, with candidates elected using the majority system at the national level and the proportional system in the parishes.


1982 Argentina rugby union tour of France and Spain
The 1982 Argentina rugby union tour of France and Spain was a series of eight matches played by the Argentina national rugby union team in October and November 1982.


1982 Argentina rugby union tour of France and Spain, Matches
Auvergne Seleccionado Regional: E.Bonebbal; L.Husson, T.Merlos, P, Rocacher, P.Bonal; P.Mathias, G.Ramon; M. Viatge P.Ruiz, J.P.Fauvel; J.J.Santos, D.Baby; Dales, Rizon: J. Brugiroux (P.Merocco),Argentina: E, Sanguinetti; M, C ampo, R, Madero, M.Loffreda, J.Palma; H. Porta (capt.) .Soares Cache; T.Petersen, R, Da Vedla, E.Ure; A.lachetti, G.Traveglini; S.Dengra, A.Caurreges, P.Devoto.


1982 Argentina rugby union tour of France and Spain, Matches
Drome-Ardeche: Tourlonies; Anne, Mesny, Lacazak, Melonse; D.Camberabero, G.Camberabero; J.Rives (capt. ), (Cecillon), Atcher, Buchet; Lorieux, Sales; Mareval, Fontbonne (Prox), Alabarbe. Argentina: E.Sanguinetti; N.Campo, R.Madero, M.Loffreda, S.Varone; A. Soares Gache, H. Porta (capt. ); T.Petersen, E.M.Ure, S.O' Connor: A.Ischetti, G.Travaglini; F.Moral, A.Courrages, P.Devoto.


1982 Argentina rugby union tour of France and Spain, Matches
French Army P.Tremouille; J.Bonnet, Lame E.Silva, P.Belín; (Otazo), J.M.Lescure, M.Mondar; T.Janeczeck, P.Roux, P.Dubois; G.Giraud, D.Defines; Lagrave, G.Tudela, Sauveterre. Argentina:  M. Campo  J.Palma, R.Madero, M.Loffreda, O.Cappelleti; H.Porta, J.Miguens, M.M.Tezanos Pinto, R. De Vadia, S.O' Connor; G.Travaglini, G.Milano; S.Dengra, L. De Chazal, E. Rodriguez


1982 Argentina rugby union tour of France and Spain, Matches
French Barbarians: M.Rase; Brunel, Merlos, Coderniu, Begú; Lescarboura, Vilquin; Lansaman, Nieucel, M.Mexted; Michel, Meleig; Stefanutti ; Dupont, Dubroce. Argentina:  E.Sanguinetti; M.Campo, R.Madero, M.Loffreda, G..Verano; H. Porta (capt. ), J.Miguens; R. De Vedia, T.Petersen, E.M.Ure; A.Iachetti, G.Travaglini; S.Dengre, A.Courreges, P.Devoto.


1982 Argentina rugby union tour of France and Spain, Matches
Poitou-Charente Desiré; Andrleu, Barboteau, Mothe, Lagisquet; Ch.Delego, Serrado; Gratton, Atcher, Fauvel; Guilleton, Mialot; Garat Bortolucci, Alabarbe Argentina: D.R.Baetti; J.Palma.M, Loffreda., M.Fijalkauskas, A.Cappellettl; G.Sanguinetti, J.Miguens; E.Ure, J. De Vedia, S.O' Connor: G.Travaglini, A.Iachetti; S.Dengra, L. De Chazal, E.Rodriguez.


1982 Argentine Primera División
The 1982 Primera División season was the 91st season of top-flight football in Argentina. Estudiantes (LP) won the Metropolitano (3rd title) while Ferro Carril Oeste (1st title) won the Nacional championship.


1982 Argentine motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1982 Argentine motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 1982 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 27–29 March 1982 at the Autódromo Municipal de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.


1982 Arizona State Sun Devils football team
The 1982 Arizona State Sun Devils football team was an American football team that represented Arizona State University in the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) during the 1982 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their third season under head coach Darryl Rogers, the Sun Devils compiled a 10–2 record (5–2 against Pac-10 opponents), finished in a tie for third place in the Pac-10, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 294 to 145.


1982 Arizona State Sun Devils football team
The team's statistical leaders included Todd Hons with 2,338 passing yards, Darryl Clack with 606 rushing yards, and Doug Allen with 424 receiving yards.


1982 Arizona Wildcats football team
The 1982 Arizona Wildcats football team represented the University of Arizona in the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) during the 1982 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their third season under head coach Larry Smith, the Wildcats compiled a 6–4–1 record (4–3–1 against Pac-10 opponents), finished in fifth place in the Pac-10, and outscored their opponents, 311 to 219. The team played its home games in Arizona Stadium in Tucson, Arizona.


1982 Arizona Wildcats football team
Despite a winning record, the Wildcats did not appear in a bowl game, perhaps due to very few bowl games available at the time and that the six wins were not good enough. Also, late-season losses to USC and Oregon may have been a factor in the Wildcats not earning a bowl berth.


1982 Arizona Wildcats football team
Memorable highlights of the season included a big road win at Notre Dame and a huge upset of rival Arizona State which denied ASU a chance to potentially play in the Rose Bowl.


1982 Arizona Wildcats football team
The team's statistical leaders included Tom Tunnicliffe with 2,520 passing yards, Vance Johnson with 443 rushing yards, and Brad Anderson with 870 receiving yards. Linebacker Ricky Hunley led the team with 173 total tackles.


1982 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Iowa
Arizona faced Iowa at home. The Wildcats defeated the Hawkeyes on the road in coach Smith's first season in 1980. A late Iowa field goal in the fourth quarter decided the game, and led to an Arizona loss.


1982 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, UCLA
Arizona visited UCLA and played at the Rose Bowl for the first time ever (UCLA began playing home games here this season after decades playing at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, sharing with USC). Both the Wildcats and Bruins fought tough and the game ultimately ended in a tie. The Bruins would go on to win the Pac-10 and play in the Rose Bowl at home.


1982 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Notre Dame
On the road at Notre Dame, the Wildcats and Irish battled back and forth and the game came down to the last play. With the score tied, Arizona got into Irish territory. Kicker Max Zendejas kicked a  48-yard field goal as time expired to win the game, and Smith and the Wildcats earned yet another win over a top-10 ranked team (Notre Dame was ranked ninth), as well as defeating the Irish for the first and only time in school history. To date, this remains the last time that both Arizona and Notre Dame would meet on the football field.


1982 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Notre Dame
Similar to the 1981 win over USC, fans greeted the Wildcats with celebrations at the Tucson airport when they returned home hours after the game concluded.


1982 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, USC
On homecoming weekend, the Wildcats hosted USC. Arizona had upset the Trojans in the previous year and were looking to make it two wins in a row against them. However, USC capitalized on the Wildcats’ mistakes throughout the game, including returning three interceptions for touchdowns, which set an NCAA record, and Arizona never recovered afterwards, despite rallying in the fourth quarter and ultimately coming up short as the Trojans held on for the win.


1982 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Arizona State
Going into the rivalry matchup against Arizona State, the Wildcats looked to spoil the Sun Devils’ chances for a possible Rose Bowl berth (ASU needed a win or tie against Arizona to punch their ticket to Pasadena). Arizona would blitz ASU all night, and the Wildcat defense recorded a pair of safeties and the offense connected on two long touchdown passes to help the Wildcats upset Arizona State and denied the Sun Devils a berth in the Rose Bowl.