1998 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 5
Group 5 consisted of five of the 50 teams entered into the European zone:[1] 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
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Group winners and one best runner-up among all groups directly qualified for the finals |
Remaining group runners-up advanced to the play-offs |
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Results
Luxembourg | 1–2 | |
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Langers |
Report | Balakov Kostadinov |
Luxembourg | 0–4 | |
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Report | Tikhonov Kanchelskis Beschastnykh Karpin |
Israel | 1–0 | |
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Ohana |
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Cyprus | 1–1 | |
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Gogić |
Report | Simutenkov |
Russia | 3–0 | |
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Kechinov Grishin Simutenkov |
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Bulgaria | 4–0 | |
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Stoichkov Kostadinov Balakov Lechkov |
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Luxembourg | 1–3 | |
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Amodio |
Report | Papavasiliou Ioannou |
Cyprus | 2–0 | |
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Papavasiliou Spoljaric |
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Notes
- Only 49 of the entered teams actually competed in the qualification tournament: France qualified for the World Cup automatically as host.
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