1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)

1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) 22 April 1992 – 17 November 1993 36 1 182 500 ROU Florin Răducioiu(9 goals) 1990 1998 June 2018 FIFA A total of 39 UEFA teams entered qualification for the 1994 FIFA World Cup. However, Liechtenstein withdrew before the draw was made. The CIS, then Russia took the Soviet Union's spot after the Soviet Union dissolved while FIFA suspended Yugoslavia due to United Nations sanctions stemming from the Yugoslav wars. The European zone was allocated 13 from 24 places in the final tournament. Germany, the defending champions, qualified automatically, leaving 12 spots open for competition between 37 teams. The 37 teams were divided into six groups, five of six teams each and one of seven teams (though Group 5 ended up with just five teams following Yugoslavia's suspension). The teams would play against each other on a home-and-away basis with the group winners and runners-up qualifying for the final tournament. San Marino and Faroe Islands competed in World Cup qualifiers for the first time, and Israel moved to UEFA after competing in Oceanian zone for 1986 and 1990 qualification, while Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia competed separately after playing as a part of the Soviet Union from 1958 to 1990. Greece qualified for the first time,WORLD CUP '94; Greeks Get the Cheers but Not the Goals (Published 1994) The New York Times 27 June 1994 https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/27/sports/world-cup-94-greeks-get-the-cheers-but-not-the-goals.html while England and France, traditionally two of Europe's strongest teams, both failed to qualify.https://welshgull.wordpress.com/2018/02/01/world-cup-teams-that-never-were-1994/ World Cup Teams That Never Were: 1994 The Welsh Gull Blog 1 February 2018 Seedings The draw was made on 8 December 1991.New York Times, 8 December 1991, Nations Lining Up for the Big Drawing Pot 1 ITA ENG ESP BEL URS FRA 1974 Pot 2 YUG TCH NED SCO AUT IRL Pot 3 ROU DEN POL HUN POR SWE Pot 4 NIR BUL SUI NOR GRE WAL Pot 5 TUR ISL FIN ALB 1946 MLT CYP 1960 Pot 6 LUX SMR 1862 FRO ISR EST LVA LTU 1988 Summary #ccffcc Winner and runner-up of each group qualified directly for the 1994 FIFA World Cup #ffcccc Other teams were eliminated #bbbbbb Suspended due to UN Sanctions Group 1Group 2Group 3Group 4Group 5Group 6ITA 1946SUINORNEDESPIRLROUBELGRERUS 1991SWEBULPORSCOMLTESTENGPOLTURSMR 1862DENNIRLTU 1988LATALBTCHWALCYP 1960FROISLHUNLUXFRA 1974AUTFINISRSCG FR Yugoslavia Groups Group 1 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 1 Group 2 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 2 Group 3 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 3 Group 4 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 4 Group 5 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 5 Group 6 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 6 Qualified teams The following 13 teams from UEFA qualified for the final tournament. Team Qualified as Qualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA World Cup1 GER 0 Defending champions 8 July 1990 2 12 (1934, 1938, 19542, 19582, 19622, 19662, 19702, 19742, 19782, 19822, 19862, 19902) ITA 1 Group 1 winners 17 November 1993 1 12 (1934, 1938, 1950, 1954, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990) SUI 2 Group 1 runners-up 17 November 1993 6 (1934, 1938, 1950, 1954, 1962, 1966) NOR 3 Group 2 winners 13 October 1993 2 1 (1938) NED 4 Group 2 runners-up 17 November 1993 5 (1934, 1938, 1974, 1978, 1990) ESP 5 Group 3 winners 17 November 1993 8 (1934, 1950, 1962, 1966, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990) IRL 6 Group 3 runners-up 17 November 1993 1 1 (1990) ROU 7 Group 4 winners 17 November 1993 5 (1930, 1934, 1938, 1970, 1990) BEL 8 Group 4 runners-up 17 November 1993 1 8 (1930, 1934, 1938, 1954, 1970, 1982, 1986, 1990) GRE 9 Group 5 winners 23 May 1993 1 0 (debut) RUS 10 Group 5 runners-up 2 June 1993 7 (19583, 19623, 19663, 19703, 19823, 19863, 19903) SWE 11 Group 6 winners 10 November 1993 8 (1934, 1938, 1950, 1958, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1990) BUL 12 Group 6 runners-up 17 November 1993 5 (1962, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1986) 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year. 2 Competed as West Germany. A separate team for East Germany also participated in qualifications during this time, having only competed in 1974. 3 Competed as Soviet Union. Goalscorers 9 goals 20em yes ROU Florin Răducioiu 8 goals 20em yes WAL Ian Rush 7 goals 20em yes ENG David Platt ESP Julio Salinas SWE Martin Dahlin 6 goals 20em yes TCH Peter Dubovský FRA 1974 Eric Cantona IRL John Aldridge NED Peter van Vossen SUI Stéphane Chapuisat 5 goals 20em yes AUT Andreas Herzog BEL Marc Wilmots BUL Hristo Stoichkov ENG Ian Wright ITA Roberto Baggio NED Dennis Bergkamp NOR Kjetil Rekdal ROU Gheorghe Hagi SUI Adrian Knup 4 goals 20em yes BEL Enzo Scifo BUL Emil Kostadinov CYP 1960 Andreas Sotiriou DEN Frank Pingel ENG Paul Gascoigne FRA 1974 Jean-Pierre Papin ROU Ilie Dumitrescu ROU Gavril Balint RUS 1991 Sergei Kiriakov SUI Georges Bregy WAL Dean Saunders 3 goals 20em yes BUL Lyuboslav Penev TCH Pavel Kuka DEN Kim Vilfort ENG Les Ferdinand FRA 1974 Laurent Blanc HUN Kálmán Kovács IRL Steve Staunton ISR Ronen Harazi ITA Dino Baggio ITA Roberto Mancini ITA Giuseppe Signori LVA Ainārs Linards NED John Bosman NED Ronald de Boer NIR Kevin Wilson NOR Jostein Flo NOR Gunnar Halle NOR Gøran Sørloth POL Marek Leśniak POR Jorge Cadete ROU Ioan Lupescu RUS 1991 Sergei Yuran SCO Ally McCoist SCO Pat Nevin ESP Txiki Begiristain ESP Fernando Hierro SWE Tomas Brolin SUI Christophe Ohrel TUR Feyyaz Uçar TUR Hakan Şükür 2 goals 20em yes ALB Sokol Kushta AUT Dietmar Kühbauer AUT Heimo Pfeifenberger AUT Anton Polster BEL Philippe Albert BUL Krasimir Balakov BUL Nasko Sirakov TCH Radoslav Látal TCH Václav Němeček TCH Marek Poštulka DEN Brian Laudrup ENG Paul Ince ENG Stuart Pearce FIN Ari Hjelm FIN Aki Hyryläinen FRA 1974 Franck Sauzée GRE Stratos Apostolakis GRE Nikos Machlas GRE Tasos Mitropoulos HUN Lajos Détári ISL Arnór Guðjohnsen ISL Eyjólfur Sverrisson IRL Paul McGrath IRL Niall Quinn ISR Ronny Rosenthal ISR Itzik Zohar ITA Pierluigi Casiraghi ITA Stefano Eranio LTU 1988 Robertas Fridrikas NED John de Wolf NED Wim Jonk NED Ronald Koeman NED Rob Witschge NIR Jim Magilton NIR Jimmy Quinn NIR Gerry Taggart NOR Lars Bohinen NOR Jan Åge Fjørtoft NOR Mini Jakobsen NOR Roger Nilsen POL Wojciech Kowalczyk POR Rui Águas POR Rui Barros POR Rui Costa POR Paulo Futre POR João Domingos Pinto SCO John Collins SCO Kevin Gallacher ESP José Mari Bakero ESP José Luis Caminero ESP Julen Guerrero ESP Míchel SWE Klas Ingesson SUI Ciriaco Sforza TUR Ertuğrul Sağlam WAL Ryan Giggs WAL Mark Hughes 1 goal 20em yes ALB Eduard Abazi ALB Sulejman Demollari ALB Ilir Kepa ALB Altin Rraklli AUT Andreas Ogris AUT Hannes Reinmayr AUT Peter Stöger AUT Michael Zisser BEL Alexandre Czerniatynski BEL Marc Degryse BEL Rudi Smidts BEL Lorenzo Staelens BUL Trifon Ivanov BUL Yordan Letchkov BUL Zlatko Yankov CYP 1960 Yiannos Ioannou CYP 1960 Nikos Papavasiliou CYP 1960 Pambos Pittas CYP 1960 Panayiotis Xiourouppas TCH Pavel Hapal TCH Ivan Hašek TCH Miroslav Kadlec TCH Ľubomír Moravčík TCH Tomáš Skuhravý TCH Petr Vrabec DEN John Jensen DEN Henrik Larsen DEN Peter Møller DEN Lars Olsen DEN Flemming Povlsen DEN Mark Strudal ENG John Barnes ENG Carlton Palmer ENG Alan Shearer EST Sergei Bragin FRO Uni Arge FIN Petri Järvinen FIN Jari Litmanen FIN Mika-Matti Paatelainen FIN Marko Rajamäki FIN Kim Suominen FRA 1974 David Ginola FRA 1974 Alain Roche GRE Vasilis Dimitriadis GRE Dimitris Saravakos GRE Panagiotis Sofianopoulos GRE Panagiotis Tsalouchidis HUN László Klausz ISL Haraldur Ingólfsson ISL Hörður Magnússon ISL Þorvaldur Örlygsson IRL Tony Cascarino IRL Alan Kernaghan IRL Alan McLoughlin IRL Kevin Sheedy IRL John Sheridan IRL Andy Townsend ISR Reuven Atar ISR Tal Banin ISR Eyal Berkovic ITA Roberto Donadoni ITA Paolo Maldini ITA Gianluca Vialli ITA Pietro Vierchowod LVA Oļegs Aleksejenko LTU 1988 Virginijus Baltušnikas LTU 1988 Stasys Baranauskas LTU 1988 Arminas Narbekovas LTU 1988 Eimantas Poderis LTU 1988 Viačeslavas Sukristovas LTU 1988 Andrėjus Tereškinas LUX Stefano Fanelli MLT Carmel Busuttil MLT Martin Gregory MLT Kristian Laferla NED Ruud Gullit NED Marc Overmars NED John van den Brom NIR Colin Clarke NIR Mal Donaghy NIR Iain Dowie NIR Phil Gray NIR Alan McDonald NOR Ronny Johnsen NOR Oyvind Leonhardsen NOR Erik Mykland POL Dariusz Adamczuk POL Marek Koźmiński POL Jan Furtok POL Tomasz Wałdoch POL Krzysztof Warzycha POR Fernando Couto POR Oceano da Cruz POR António Folha POR António Nogueira POR José Orlando Semedo ROU Ovidiu Hanganu ROU Marius Lăcătuș ROU Constantin Pană ROU Gheorghe Popescu RUS 1991 Aleksandr Borodiuk RUS 1991 Igor Dobrovolski RUS 1991 Andrei Kanchelskis RUS 1991 Igor Kolyvanov RUS 1991 Vasili Kulkov RUS 1991 Andrei Piatnitski RUS 1991 Dmitri Radchenko RUS 1991 Igor Shalimov SMR 1862 Davide Gualtieri SMR 1862 Nicola Bacciocchi SCO Scott Booth SCO Colin Hendry SCO Brian McClair SCO Billy McKinlay ESP Adolfo Aldana ESP Thomas Christiansen ESP Pep Guardiola ESP Cristóbal Parralo ESP Alfonso Pérez ESP Toni SWE Jan Eriksson SWE Stefan Landberg SWE Henrik Larsson SWE Anders Limpar SWE Håkan Mild SWE Stefan Pettersson SWE Pär Zetterberg SUI Thomas Bickel SUI Marc Hottiger SUI Kubilay Türkyilmaz TUR Bülent Korkmaz TUR Hami Mandıralı TUR Orhan Çıkırıkçı WAL Clayton Blackmore WAL Mark Bowen WAL Eric Young 1 own goal 20em yes TCH Jozef Chovanec (playing against Belgium) ISL Hlynur Birgisson (playing against Luxembourg) SMR 1862 Nicola Bacciocchi (playing against the Netherlands) See also 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC) 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF) 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF) 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL) 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC) Notes To date, this was the last time that England and France failed to qualify for a FIFA World Cup. References External links Detailed Match Results at RSSSF Complete Results at FIFA.com The forgotten story of 17 November 1993, Rob Smyth, The Guardian – article about the last qualifying matches for World Cup 1994 UEFA 1994 Category:1992 in European men's international football Category:1993 in European men's international football