1998 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 5

Football tournament qualifying stage Group 5 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. Bulgaria, Cyprus, Israel, Luxembourg, and Russia. 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 BUL BUL RUS RUS ISR ISR CYP CYP 1960 LUX LUX 6 0 2 18 9 5 2 1 19 5 4 1 3 9 7 3 1 4 10 15 0 0 8 2 22 WC WCPO green1 Qualification to 1998 FIFA World Cup blue1 Advance to second round y flag 4–1 1–0 4–0 1–0 1–3 2–0 2–0 1–1 2–1 2–0 1–0 1–1 1–2 1–3 0–3 0–4 4–2 4–0 2–0 3–0 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 "Luxembourg v Israel" 1 September 1996 18:00 UTC+3 ISR 2–1 Report BUL Harazi 34Banin 62 pen. Balakov 3 pen. Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan 13,200 Alfredo Trentalange (Italy) "Russia v Cyprus" 1 September 1996 19:00 UTC+3 RUS 4–0 Report CYP 1960 Nikiforov 8 50Kolyvanov 34Beschastnykh 81 Dinamo Stadium, Moscow 8,500 Karl-Erik Nilsson (Sweden) "Luxembourg v Bulgaria" 8 October 1996 20:00 UTC+2 LUX 1–2 Report BUL Langers 20 Balakov 14 pen.Kostadinov 37 Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City 3,775 Yevi Kollari (Albania) "Israel v Russia" 9 October 1996 18:00 UTC+3 ISR 1–1 Report RUS Brumer 65 Kolyvanov 82 Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan 32,000 Marc Batta (France) "Luxembourg v Russia" 10 November 1996 17:00 UTC+1 LUX 0–4 Report RUS Tikhonov 34Kanchelskis 38Beschastnykh 50Karpin 77 Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City 5,660 Juha Hirviniemi (Finland) "Cyprus v Israel" 10 November 1996 18:00 UTC+2 CYP 1960 2–0 Report ISR Gogić 9 15 pen. Tsirion Stadium, Limassol 10,500 Gheorghe Constantin (Romania) "Cyprus v Bulgaria" 14 December 1996 16:00 UTC+2 CYP 1960 1–3 Report BUL Pittas 29 Kostadinov 23Balakov 34Iliev 70 Tsirion Stadium, Limassol 6,500 John Rowbotham (Scotland) "Israel v Luxembourg" 15 December 1996 18:00 UTC+2 ISR 1–0 Report LUX Ohana 39 Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan 24,400 John Ashman (Wales) "Cyprus v Russia" 29 March 1997 18:30 UTC+2 CYP 1960 1–1 Report RUS Gogić 31 Simutenkov 32 Dimotiko, Paralimni 3,199 Juan Ansuátegui Roca (Spain) "Luxembourg v Israel" 31 March 1997 17:00 UTC+2 LUX 0–3 Report ISR Zohar 11 79Banin 56 pen. Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City 6,607 René Temmink (Netherlands) "Bulgaria v Cyprus" 2 April 1997 18:00 UTC+3 BUL 4–1 Report CYP 1960 Borimirov 2Kostadinov 35 45Yordanov 66 Okkas 62 Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia 33,000 Serge Muhmenthaler (Switzerland) "Russia v Luxembourg" 30 April 1997 19:00 UTC+3 RUS 3–0 Report LUX Kechinov 20Grishin 55Simutenkov 58 Dinamo Stadium, Moscow 9,200 John Rowbotham (Scotland) "Israel v Cyprus" 30 April 1997 18:00 UTC+3 ISR 2–0 Report CYP 1960 Ohana 3 72 Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan 32,000 Vasyl Melnychuk (Ukraine) "Bulgaria v Luxembourg" 8 June 1997 20:00 UTC+3 BUL 4–0 Report LUX Stoichkov 43 pen.Kostadinov 47Balakov 50 pen.Lechkov 81 Neftochimik Stadium, Burgas 19,000 Lucílio Batista (Portugal) "Russia v Israel" 8 June 1997 19:00 UTC+3 RUS 2–0 Report ISR Radimov 8Kosolapov 38 Dinamo Stadium, Moscow 22,000 Gerd Grabher (Austria) "Bulgaria v Israel" 20 August 1997 20:00 UTC+3 BUL 1–0 Report ISR Penev 65 Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia 32,000 Sándor Piller (Hungary) "Luxembourg v Cyprus" 7 September 1997 17:00 UTC+2 LUX 1–3 Report CYP 1960 Amodio 14 Papavasiliou 6Ioannou 55 79 Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City 3,022 Gylfi Thor Orrason (Iceland) "Bulgaria v Russia" 10 September 1997 19:30 UTC+3 BUL 1–0 Report RUS Ivanov 55 Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia 55,000 Václav Krondl (Czech Republic) "Russia v Bulgaria" 11 October 1997 19:00 UTC+3 RUS 4–2 Report BUL Alenichev 13 57Kolyvanov 41Yuran 52 Gruev 68Kostadinov 78 Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow 19,000 Pierluigi Pairetto (Italy) "Cyprus v Luxembourg" 11 October 1997 19:00 UTC+3 CYP 1960 2–0 Report LUX Papavasiliou 79Spoljaric 85 Tsirion Stadium, Limassol 4,000 Bujar Pregja (Albania) Goalscorers 58 20 BUL Emil Kostadinov BUL Krasimir Balakov CYP 1960 Siniša Gogić ISR Eli Ohana RUS Igor Kolyvanov CYP 1960 Yiannos Iouannou CYP 1960 Nikodimos Papavasiliou ISR Tal Banin ISR Itzik Zohar RUS Dmitri Alenichev RUS Vladimir Beschastnykh RUS Yuriy Nikiforov RUS Igor Simutenkov BUL Daniel Borimirov BUL Ilia Gruev BUL Ilian Iliev BUL Trifon Ivanov BUL Yordan Lechkov BUL Luboslav Penev BUL Hristo Stoichkov BUL Ivaylo Yordanov CYP 1960 Ioannis Okkas CYP 1960 Charalambos Pittas CYP 1960 Milenko Špoljarić ISR Gadi Brumer ISR Ronen Harazi LUX Paolo Amodio LUX Robby Langers RUS Sergey Grishin RUS Andrei Kanchelskis RUS Valeri Karpin RUS Valery Kechinov RUS Alexei Kosolapov RUS Vladislav Radimov RUS Andrey Tikhonov RUS Sergei Yuran Notes References External links Group 5 Detailed Results at RSSSF 5 Category:1996–97 in Bulgarian football Qual Category:1996–97 in Cypriot football Category:1997–98 in Cypriot football Category:1996–97 in Israeli football Category:1997–98 in Israeli football Category:1996–97 in Luxembourgian football Category:1997–98 in Luxembourgian football Category:1996 in Russian football Category:1997 in Russian football