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Group 5 consisted of five of the 50 teams entered into the European zone: 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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bulgaria	8	6	0	2	18	9	+9	18	Qualification to 1998 FIFA World Cup		—	1–0	1–0	4–1	4–0
2	Russia	8	5	2	1	19	5	+14	17	Advance to second round		4–2	—	2–0	4–0	3–0
3	Israel	8	4	1	3	9	7	+2	13			2–1	1–1	—	2–0	1–0
4	Cyprus	8	3	1	4	10	15	−5	10			1–3	1–1	2–0	—	2–0
5	Luxembourg	8	0	0	8	2	22	−20	0			1–2	0–4	0–3	1–3	—

Matches

Israel	2–1	Bulgaria
Harazi 34' Banin 62' (pen.)	Report	Balakov 3' (pen.)

Russia	4–0	Cyprus
Nikiforov 8', 50' Kolyvanov 34' Beschastnykh 81'	Report

Luxembourg	1–2	Bulgaria
Langers 20'	Report	Balakov 14' (pen.) Kostadinov 37'

Israel	1–1	Russia
Brumer 65'	Report	Kolyvanov 82'

Luxembourg	0–4	Russia
	Report	Tikhonov 34' Kanchelskis 38' Beschastnykh 50' Karpin 77'

Cyprus	2–0	Israel
Gogić 9', 15' (pen.)	Report

Cyprus	1–3	Bulgaria
Pittas 29'	Report	Kostadinov 23' Balakov 34' Iliev 70'

Israel	1–0	Luxembourg
Ohana 39'	Report

Cyprus	1–1	Russia
Gogić 31'	Report	Simutenkov 32'

Luxembourg	0–3	Israel
	Report	Zohar 11', 79' Banin 56' (pen.)

Bulgaria	4–1	Cyprus
Borimirov 2' Kostadinov 35', 45' Yordanov 66'	Report	Okkas 62'

Russia	3–0	Luxembourg
Kechinov 20' Grishin 55' Simutenkov 58'	Report

Israel	2–0	Cyprus
Ohana 3', 72'	Report

Bulgaria	4–0	Luxembourg
Stoichkov 43' (pen.) Kostadinov 47' Balakov 50' (pen.) Lechkov 81'	Report

Russia	2–0	Israel
Radimov 8' Kosolapov 38'	Report

Bulgaria	1–0	Israel
Penev 65'	Report

Luxembourg	1–3	Cyprus
Amodio 14'	Report	Papavasiliou 6' Ioannou 55', 79'

Bulgaria	1–0	Russia
Ivanov 55'	Report

Russia	4–2	Bulgaria
Alenichev 13', 57' Kolyvanov 41' Yuran 52'	Report	Gruev 68' Kostadinov 78'

Cyprus	2–0	Luxembourg
Papavasiliou 79' Spoljaric 85'	Report

Goalscorers

There were 58 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 2.9 goals per match.

6 goals

• Emil Kostadinov

4 goals

• Krasimir Balakov

3 goals

• Siniša Gogić
• Eli Ohana
• Igor Kolyvanov

2 goals

• Yiannos Iouannou
• Nikodimos Papavasiliou
• Tal Banin
• Itzik Zohar
• Dmitri Alenichev
• Vladimir Beschastnykh
• Yuriy Nikiforov
• Igor Simutenkov

1 goal

• Daniel Borimirov
• Ilia Gruev
• Ilian Iliev
• Trifon Ivanov
• Yordan Lechkov
• Luboslav Penev
• Hristo Stoichkov
• Ivaylo Yordanov
• Ioannis Okkas
• Charalambos Pittas
• Milenko Špoljarić
• Gadi Brumer
• Ronen Harazi
• Paolo Amodio
• Robby Langers
• Sergey Grishin
• Andrei Kanchelskis
• Valeri Karpin
• Valery Kechinov
• Alexei Kosolapov
• Vladislav Radimov
• Andrey Tikhonov
• Sergei Yuran

Notes

1. Only 49 of the entered teams actually competed in the qualification tournament: France qualified for the World Cup automatically as host.

References

1. "FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) 1998, football - table and standings". soccer365.me. Retrieved 9 May 2024.

External links

• Group 5 Detailed Results at RSSSF

• 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)
• 1996–97 in Bulgarian football
• Bulgaria at the 1998 FIFA World Cup
• 1996–97 in Cypriot football
• 1997–98 in Cypriot football
• 1996–97 in Israeli football
• 1997–98 in Israeli football
• 1996–97 in Luxembourgian football
• 1997–98 in Luxembourgian football
• 1996 in Russian football
• 1997 in Russian football