"World Cup 1998 (qualifying tournament, UEFA, Group 5)"

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In the group 5 zone of UEFA were teams of the following countries: Russia, Bulgaria, Israel, Cyprus and Luxembourg. Matches in Group 5 took place from 1 September 1996 to 11 October 1997.

The group's winner, Bulgaria, made it straight to the final stage of the 1998 World Cup. Russia was among the top eight, who took second place, and came out in the play-offs.

Results

Bombardiers
6 balls

Emil Kostadinov

4 balls

Krasimir Balakov

3 balls

Eli Ohana.

Sinisha Gogic

Igor Kolyvanov

2 balls

Tal Banin
Itzik Zohar
Janos Ioannou

Nicodemos Papavasiliou
Dmitry Alenichev
Vladimir Beschastnykh

Yuri Nikiforov
Igor Simutenkov

1 ball

Daniel Borimirov
Ilia Gruev
Tryfon Ivanovo
Iliyan Iliev
Ivaylo Jordanov
Jordan Lechkov
Luboslav Penev
Christo Stoichkov

Gadi Brumer
Ronen Harazi
Jannis Okkas
Pambos Pittas
Milenko Spolarych
Paolo Amodio
Robbie Langers
Sergey Grishin

Andrei Kanchelskis
Valery Karpin
Valery Kechinov
Alexey Kosolapov
Vladislav Radimov
Andrei Tikhonov
Sergei Juran

Notes

References
Results at RSSSF

Qualifying tournament
Football in Europe in 1996
Football in Europe in 1997