1998 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 2

Football tournament qualifying stage July 2026 Group 2 consisted of five of the 50 teams entered into the European zone:Only 49 of the entered teams actually competed in the qualification tournament: France qualified for the World Cup automatically as host. England, Georgia, Italy, Moldova, and Poland. These five teams competed on a home-and-away basis for two of the 15 spots in the final tournament allocated to the European zone, with the group's winner and runner-up claiming those spots. Standings main WDL Q ENG ENG ITA ITA POL POL GEO GEO 1990 MDA MDA 1990 6 1 1 15 2 5 3 0 11 1 3 1 4 10 12 3 1 4 7 9 0 0 8 2 21 WC WCPO green1 Qualification to 1998 FIFA World Cup blue1 Advance to second round y flag 2–0 0–1 4–0 2–1 0–2 0–0 2–0 3–0 0–0 1–0 3–0 3–0 0–3 0–1 1–3 0–3 0–2 4–1 0–0 2–1 complete FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) 1998, football - table and standings https://soccer365.me/competitions/739/1998/ soccer365.me 9 May 2024 15 December 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20241215135348/https://soccer365.me/competitions/739/1998/ dead Matches "Moldova v England" 1 September 1996 18:00 UTC+3 MDA 1990 0–3 Report ENG Barmby 24Gascoigne 26Shearer 61 Republican Stadium, Chişinău 9,500 Ilkka Koho (Finland) "Moldova v Italy" 5 October 1996 21:15 UTC+3 MDA 1990 1–3 Report ITA Curtianu 12 Ravanelli 8 87Casiraghi 67 Republican Stadium, Chişinău 4,085 Gerd Grabher (Austria) "England v Poland" 9 October 1996 20:00 UTC+1 ENG 2–1 Report POL Shearer 25 38 Citko 7 Wembley, London 74,663 Hellmut Krug (Germany) "Italy v Georgia" 9 October 1996 20:30 UTC+2 ITA 1–0 Report GEO 1990 Ravanelli 43 Stadio Renato Curi, Perugia 14,012 Eric Blareau (Belgium) "Georgia v England" 9 November 1996 16:00 UTC+4 GEO 1990 0–2 Report ENG Sheringham 15Ferdinand 37 Boris Paichadze Stadium, Tbilisi 48,000 Jorge Monteiro Coroado (Portugal) "Poland v Moldova" 10 November 1996 20:15 UTC+2 POL 2–1 Report MDA 1990 Bałuszyński 4K. Warzycha 77 pen. Cleşcenco 83 pen. GKS Stadium, Katowice 8,000 Sotirios Vorgias (Greece) "England v Italy" 12 February 1997 20:00 UTC ENG 0–1 Report ITA Zola 19 Wembley, London 75,056 Sándor Puhl (Hungary) "Italy v Moldova" 29 March 1997 20:45 UTC+1 ITA 3–0 Report MDA 1990 Maldini 24Zola 45Vieri 50 Nereo Rocco Stadium, Trieste 17,677 Gilles Veissière (France) "Poland v Italy" 2 April 1997 20:30 UTC+2 POL 0–0 Report ITA Silesian Stadium, Chorzów 32,000 Kim Milton Nielsen (Denmark) "England v Georgia" 30 April 1997 20:00 UTC+1 ENG 2–0 Report GEO 1990 Sheringham 42Shearer 90+1 Wembley, London 71,208 Rémi Harrel (France) "Italy v Poland" 30 April 1997 20:30 UTC+2 ITA 3–0 Report POL Di Matteo 24Maldini 36R.Baggio 62 San Paolo, Naples 35,237 José María García-Aranda (Spain) "Poland v England" 31 May 1997 20:30 UTC+2 POL 0–2 Report ENG Shearer 5Sheringham 90 Silesian Stadium, Chorzów 25,000 Urs Meier (Switzerland) "Georgia v Moldova" 7 June 1997 19:15 UTC+4 GEO 1990 2–0 Report MDA 1990 S. Arveladze 27Kinkladze 51 Central Stadium, Batumi 12,500 Charles Agius (Malta) "Poland v Georgia" 14 June 1997 20:30 UTC+2 POL 4–1 Report GEO 1990 Ledwoń 32Trzeciak 34Bukalski 74 pen.K. Nowak 90 S. Arveladze 24 GKS Stadium, Katowice 1,022 Günter Benkö (Austria) "England v Moldova" 10 September 1997 20:00 UTC+1 ENG 4–0 Report MDA 1990 Scholes 29Wright 46 90Gascoigne 81 Wembley, London 74,102 Karl-Erik Nilsson (Sweden) "Georgia v Italy" 10 September 1997 21:00 UTC+4 GEO 1990 0–0 Report ITA Boris Paichadze Stadium, Tbilisi 51,117 Rune Pedersen (Norway) "Moldova v Georgia" 24 September 1997 19:00 UTC+3 MDA 1990 0–1 Report GEO 1990 Ketsbaia 10 Republican Stadium, Chişinău 5,300 Dani Koren (Israel) "Moldova v Poland" 7 October 1997 19:00 UTC+3 MDA 1990 0–3 Report (incorrect substitutions) Report POL Juskowiak 23 56 60 Republican Stadium, Chişinău 8,000 Metin Tokat (Turkey) "Italy v England" 11 October 1997 20:45 UTC+2 ITA 0–0 Report ENG Stadio Olimpico, Rome 65,892 Mario van der Ende (Netherlands) "Georgia v Poland" 11 October 1997 16:00 UTC+4 GEO 1990 3–0 Report (incorrect substitutions) Report POL A. Arveladze 55Tskhadadze 68Ketsbaia 74 Boris Paichadze Stadium, Tbilisi 15,000 Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia) Goalscorers 45 20 ENG Alan Shearer ENG Teddy Sheringham ITA Fabrizio Ravanelli POL Andrzej Juskowiak ENG Paul Gascoigne ENG Ian Wright GEO 1990 Shota Arveladze GEO 1990 Temuri Ketsbaia ITA Paolo Maldini ITA Gianfranco Zola ENG Nick Barmby ENG Les Ferdinand ENG Paul Scholes GEO 1990 Archil Arveladze GEO 1990 Georgi Kinkladze GEO 1990 Kakhaber Tskhadadze ITA Roberto Baggio ITA Pierluigi Casiraghi ITA Roberto Di Matteo ITA Christian Vieri MDA 1990 Serghei Cleşcenco MDA 1990 Alexandru Curtianu POL Henryk Bałuszyński POL Krzysztof Bukalski POL Marek Citko POL Adam Ledwoń POL Krzysztof Nowak POL Mirosław Trzeciak POL Krzysztof Warzycha Notes References External links Group 2 Detailed Results at RSSSF 1 Category:1996–97 in English football Category:England at the 1998 FIFA World Cup Category:1996–97 in Georgian football Category:1997–98 in Georgian football Category:1996–97 in Italian football Category:Italy at the 1998 FIFA World Cup Category:1996–97 in Moldovan football Category:1997–98 in Moldovan football Category:1996–97 in Polish football Category:1997–98 in Polish football