1990 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)

1990 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)
The European (UEFA) zone of qualification for the 1990 FIFA World Cup saw 32 teams competing for 13 places at the finals. UEFA members Italy qualified automatically as hosts of the finals. The qualification process started on 21 May 1988 and ended on 18 November 1989.
Format
Teams were drawn into seven groups, four groups of five teams and three of four teams. All seven group-winners qualified automatically, with the runners-up in the four groups containing five teams (Groups 3, 5, 6 and 7) also qualifying. The two best second-placed teams in the three groups containing only four teams also qualified (Groups 1, 2 and 4), and the second-placed team with the worst record was eliminated.
Draw
The draw for the qualifying groups took place in Zürich, Switzerland on 12 December 1987. During the draw teams were drawn from the 5 pots into the 7 groups. The seedings below were announced ten days before the draw. Teams qualified to the final tournament are in bold. The Seeded teams were the 5 European sides who reached the 1986 Quarter Finals plus Soviet Union and Denmark though there were still security issues with England due to their fan issues in the form of hooliganism which was a factor with all 3 of their away games in the 1990 qualifying campaign being televised live by the BBC
Summary
Results
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6
Group 7
Ranking of runners-up from groups of four
Goalscorers
7 goals
Marc Van Der Linden
6 goals
Mo Johnston
5 goals
Toni Polster
Flemming Povlsen
Manolo
Míchel
Kubilay Türkyilmaz
Tanju Çolak
4 goals
Michal Bílek
Tomáš Skuhravý
Andreas Thom
Rui Águas
Rudi Völler
3 goals
Marc Degryse
Brian Laudrup
Carmel Busuttil
Gøran Sørloth
Hennadiy Lytovchenko
Oleh Protasov
Emilio Butragueño
Rıdvan Dilmen
Feyyaz Uçar
Dejan Savićević
2 goals
Sokol Kushta
Andreas Herzog
Patrick Vervoort
Christos Kolliandris
Pambos Pittas
Kent Nielsen
Matthias Sammer
John Barnes
Peter Beardsley
Gary Lineker
Mika Lipponen
Didier Deschamps
Jean-Pierre Papin
Attila Pintér
István Vincze
Pétur Pétursson
John Aldridge
Tony Cascarino
Ray Houghton
John Bosman
Colin Clarke
Rune Bratseth
Jan Åge Fjørtoft
Kjetil Osvold
Ryszard Tarasiewicz
Vítor Paneira
Gavril Balint
Rodion Cămătaru
Dorin Mateuţ
Ioan Sabău
Ally McCoist
Richard Gough
Igor Dobrovolski
Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko
Johnny Ekström
Lothar Matthäus
Andreas Möller
Karl-Heinz Riedle
Faruk Hadžibegić
Srečko Katanec
Dragan Stojković
Zlatko Vujović
1 goal
Ylli Shehu
Heimo Pfeifenberger
Manfred Zsak
Jan Ceulemans
Bruno Versavel
Kalin Bankov
Bozhidar Iskrenov
Trifon Ivanov
Hristo Kolev
Anyo Sadkov
Hristo Stoichkov
Yiannos Ioannou
Floros Nicolaou
Jozef Chovanec
Stanislav Griga
Ivan Hašek
Milan Luhový
Ľubomír Moravčík
Henrik Andersen
Jan Bartram
Lars Elstrup
Michael Laudrup
Kim Vilfort
Thomas Doll
Rainer Ernst
Ulf Kirsten
Paul Gascoigne
Bryan Robson
Chris Waddle
Neil Webb
Mixu Paatelainen
Kari Ukkonen
Laurent Blanc
Eric Cantona
Jean-Philippe Durand
Christian Perez
Franck Sauzée
Daniel Xuereb
Kostas Mavridis
Tasos Mitropoulos
Nikos Nioplias
Imre Boda
György Bognár
József Kiprich
Kálmán Kovács
Atli Eðvaldsson
Sigurður Grétarsson
Ragnar Margeirsson
Guðmundur Torfason
Paul McGrath
Kevin Moran
Ronnie Whelan
Guy Hellers
Robby Langers
Théo Malget
Ruud Gullit
Wim Kieft
Erwin Koeman
Ronald Koeman
Graeme Rutjes
Marco van Basten
Michael O'Neill
Steve Penney
Jimmy Quinn
Norman Whiteside
Erland Johnsen
Krzysztof Warzycha
Jacek Ziober
Rui Barros
Paulo Futre
Fernando Gomes
João Pinto
Frederico Rosa
Gheorghe Hagi
Gheorghe Popescu
Gordon Durie
Paul McStay
Oleksandr Zavarov
Genar Andrinúa
Txiki Begiristain
Fernando
Juanito
Julio Salinas
Leif Engqvist
Hans Holmqvist
Klas Ingesson
Niclas Larsson
Peter Larsson
Roger Ljung
Mats Magnusson
Christophe Bonvin
Adrian Knup
Alain Sutter
Beat Sutter
Dario Zuffi
Oğuz Çetin
Malcolm Allen
Mark Bowen
Dean Saunders
Thomas Häßler
Jürgen Klinsmann
Pierre Littbarski
Darko Pančev
Predrag Spasić
Vujadin Stanojković
Safet Sušić
1 own goal
Alan McDonald (playing against Spain)
Anton Rogan (playing against Spain)
Gary Gillespie (playing against Yugoslavia)
Míchel (playing against Ireland)
Alain Geiger (playing against Belgium)
External links
European Zone at FIFA.com
UEFA Qualifier results with full game box scores at Scoreshelf.com
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