1984 UEFA European Football Championship qualifying

The qualifying round for the 1984 European Football Championship consisted of 32 teams divided into seven groups; three of four teams and four of five teams. The qualifying round was played at various times between May 1982 and December 1983, with some groups concluding earlier than others.

Summary

There were a number of extremely close finishes in some of the qualifying groups. In Group 2, Portugal

Portugal national football team

The Portugal national football team represents Portugal in association football and is controlled by the Portuguese Football Federation, the governing body for football in Portugal. Portugal's home ground is Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, and their head coach is Paulo Bento...

edged out the USSR

USSR national football team

The Soviet Union National Football Team was the national football team of the Soviet Union. It ceased to exist after the break up of the Union...

by beating them narrowly 1–0 on a penalty by Rui Jordão

Rui Jordão

Rui Manuel Trindade Jordão is a retired Portuguese footballer.One of the most prolific strikers in the history of Portuguese football, his career was mainly associated with two of the biggest clubs in the country, Benfica and Sporting, winning the Silver Ball award twice, once with each...

in Lisbon on the final day. Meanwhile, in Group 5, again on the final day, Romania

Romania national football team

The Romania national football team is the national football team of Romania and is controlled by the Romanian Football Federation.Romania is one of only four national teams, the other three being Brazil, France, and Belgium, that took part in the first three World Cups.However, after that...

managed to hold on for a tense 1–1 draw in Bratislava

Bratislava

Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 431,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two independent countries.Bratislava...

and qualify at the expense of Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia national football team

The Czechoslovakia national football team was the national association football team of Czechoslovakia from 1922 to 1993. At the dissolution of Czechoslovakia at the end of 1992, the team was participating in UEFA qualifying Group 4 for the 1994 World Cup; it completed this campaign under the name...

. A major surprise in this group was the poor performance of then-World Cup holders Italy

Italy national football team

The Italy National Football Team , represents Italy in association football and is controlled by the Italian Football Federation , the governing body for football in Italy. Italy is the second most successful national team in the history of the World Cup having won four titles , just one fewer than...

, who were rebuilding after the retirement of many of their 1982 heroes and quickly dropped out of contention.

Another surprise was the qualification of Denmark

Denmark national football team

The Denmark national football team represents Denmark in association football and is controlled by the Danish Football Association , the governing body for the football clubs which are organized under DBU...

in Group 3 at the expense of England

England national football team

The England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...

. Having conceded a 2–2 draw at home against the Three Lions, the hitherto unknown Danes performed well in their other qualifiers and capped their impressive campaign with a 1–0 win at Wembley, while England dropped a point at home against Greece

Greece national football team

The Greece national football team represents Greece in association football and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation, the governing body for football in Greece. Greece's home ground is Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus and their head coach is Fernando Santos...

that ultimately cost them the qualifying berth.

There was also heartbreak for Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland national football team

The Northern Ireland national football team represents Northern Ireland in international association football. Before 1921 all of Ireland was represented by a single side, the Ireland national football team, organised by the Irish Football Association...

in Group 6. After managing to beat hot favourites West Germany

Germany national football team

The Germany national football team is the football team that has represented Germany in international competition since 1908. It is governed by the German Football Association , which was founded in 1900....

both home and away earlier in the campaign, they came within 11 minutes of making it to France, but could only look on as Gerd Strack scored a crucial late winning goal for the West Germans in their own final fixture at home to Albania

Albania national football team

The Albania national association football team is the national association football team of Albania and is controlled by the Football Association of Albania...

.

In Group 7, The Netherlands

Netherlands national football team

The Netherlands National Football Team represents the Netherlands in association football and is controlled by the Royal Dutch Football Association , the governing body for football in the Netherlands...

thought they had done enough to qualify, given that their closest rivals Spain

Spain national football team

The Spain national football team represents Spain in international association football and is controlled by the Royal Spanish Football Federation, the governing body for football in Spain. The current head coach is Vicente del Bosque...

went into the very last match needing to beat Malta

Malta national football team

The Malta national football team is the national football team of Malta and is controlled by the Malta Football Association. Malta played its first international game in February 1957, and began competing for qualification to major tournaments in 1962. The side's first competitive victory came in...

by eleven goals in order to qualify. And when Spain went in at half-time in Seville

Seville

Seville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...

leading the Maltese minnows by a margin of only 3–1, the Dutch could have been forgiven for assuming they were home and dry. Spain, incredibly, then proceeded to score nine more goals in the second half, the last of them coming in the 86th minute from Juan Señor

Juan Antonio Señor

Juan Antonio Señor Gómez is a retired Spanish footballer who played as a central midfielder.During his professional career, he played mainly for Zaragoza, amassing nearly 400 official appearances in nine years...

, to book an unlikely passage to the finals. UEFA has since changed its rules: all teams now play their final game at exactly the same time and date, so that none of the teams has an advantage. Also, overall goal difference is now de-emphasized in the tie-breakers in favour of head-to-head results.

Things were tightest of all in Group 4, where Wales

Wales national football team

The Wales national football team represents Wales in international football. It is controlled by the Football Association of Wales , the governing body for football in Wales, and the third oldest national football association in the world. The team have only qualified for a major international...

, Bulgaria

Bulgaria national football team

The FIFA Bulgaria national football team is an association football team fielded by the Bulgarian Football Union, a member association of UEFA. The team's home ground is Vasil Levski in Sofia and Luboslav Penev is in charge manager after replacement of Lothar Matthäus...

and Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia national football team

The Yugoslavia national football team represented the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in association football. It enjoyed a modicum of success in international competition. In 1992, during the Yugoslav wars, the team was suspended from international...

were all in contention until the final few seconds of the last match in the group, between the latter two teams in Split

Split (city)

Split is a Mediterranean city on the eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea, centered around the ancient Roman Palace of the Emperor Diocletian and its wide port bay. With a population of 178,192 citizens, and a metropolitan area numbering up to 467,899, Split is by far the largest Dalmatian city and...

. A draw would have put the onlooking Welsh through to the finals, but just moments after Bulgaria had squandered a glorious chance to score the winning goal and seal their own qualification, Yugoslavian defender Ljubomir Radanović wrote himself into Balkan footballing history with the 90th-minute header that sent him and his team-mates to France.

Format

Four groups of five teams and three groups of four teams competed for qualification for UEFA Euro 1984. The teams played home and away matches against the other teams nations in their group. The seven teams that acquired the most points to win their respective group qualified for the main tournament, joining the host nation France

France national football team

The France national football team represents the nation of France in international football. It is fielded by the French Football Federation , the governing body of football in France, and competes as a member of UEFA, which encompasses the countries of Europe...

Group 1

EWLINE

4
Team
	6	4	1	1	12	8
9
	6	2	2	2	7	9	−2	6
	6	2	1	3	7	7	0	5
	6	1	2	3	8	10	−2	4

EWLINE


–	2–1	3–2	3–0
1–2	–	2–1	3–0
1–1	1–0	–	2–2
3–1	0–0	2–0	–

Group 2

EWLINE

5
Team
	6	5	0	1	11	6
10
	6	4	1	1	11	2
9
	6	1	2	3	6	9	−3	4
	6	0	1	5	3	14	−11	1

EWLINE


–	2–3	0–2	0–1
1–1	–	0–1	1–1
5–0	2–1	–	1–0
2–0	2–0	5–0	–

Group 3

EWLINE

12
Team
	8	6	1	1	17	5
13
	8	5	2	1	23	3
12
	8	3	2	3	8	10	−2	8
	8	3	1	4	18	17
7
	8	0	0	8	5	36	−31	0

EWLINE


–	2–2	1–0	3–1	6–0
0–1	–	0–0	2–0	9–0
0–2	0–3	–	2–2	1–0
1–0	0–3	2–3	–	6–2
1–2	0–4	0–2	2–6	–

Group 4

EWLINE

1
Team
	6	3	2	1	12	11
8
	6	2	3	1	7	6
7
	6	2	1	3	7	8	−1	5
	6	1	2	3	7	8	−1	4

EWLINE


–	2–2	1–0	0–1
1–2	–	0–0	3–1
1–0	1–0	–	1–1
3–2	2–1	4–4	–

Group 5

EWLINE

4
Team
	8	5	2	1	9	3
12
	8	5	1	2	14	5
11
	8	3	4	1	15	7
10
	8	1	3	4	6	12	−6	5
	8	0	2	6	4	21	−17	2

EWLINE


–	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–1
6–0	–	2–0	1–1	2–2
3–1	2–2	–	0–0	0–3
3–1	0–1	1–0	–	2–0
5–0	1–0	2–0	0–1	–

Group 6

EWLINE

10
Team
	8	5	1	2	15	5
11
	8	5	1	2	8	5
11
	8	4	1	3	15	10
9
	8	3	1	4	8	16	−8	7
	8	0	2	6	4	14	−10	2

EWLINE


–	1–2	0–0	1–1	1–2
5–0	–	2–0	4–0	0–0
1–0	3–1	–	2–1	1–0
1–0	3–1	1–0	–	0–3
2–1	3–0	0–1	5–1	–

Group 7

EWLINE

16
Team
	8	6	1	1	24	8
13
	8	6	1	1	22	6
13
	8	4	1	3	20	10
9
	8	1	1	6	3	13	−10	3
	8	1	0	7	5	37	−32	2

EWLINE


–	1–0	1–1	0–3	0–1
2–1	–	0–6	0–1	2–3
3–0	5–0	–	2–1	2–1
2–0	8–0	2–3	–	3–3
1–0	12–1	1–0	2–0	–

Qualified nations

Goalscorers

During the qualification stage, 341 goals were scored over 116 matches, for an average of 2.94 goals per game.

7 goals

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

Karl-Heinz "Kalle" Rummenigge is a German former football player.He had his greatest career success with German club Bayern Munich, where he won the Intercontinental Cup, the European Cup, as well as two league titles and two domestic cups.A member of the German national team, Rummenigge won the...

6 goals

Santillana
5 goals

Walter Schachner

Walter Schachner

Walter "Schoko" Schachner is a football manager and former Austrian national player .As he always brought chocolate to the games when he was a boy, he got the nickname schoko...

Nikos Anastopoulos

Nikos Anastopoulos is a Greek former football player, one of the most prolific strikers in the Greek league during the late 1970s and the 1980s. With 29 goals he is the all time highest scorer for the Greek national football team. Since retiring as a player he has become a football manager...

Tibor Nyilasi

Tibor Nyilasi is a retired Hungarian football player and manager. He signed with Ferencvaros in 1972 and played there until transferring to Austria Vienna in 1983. For the Hungarian National Football Team he made 70 appearances from 1975 to 1985, scoring 32 goals...

Ruud Gullit

OON is a Dutch football manager and former football player, who played professionally in the 1980s and 1990s. He was the captain of the Netherlands national team that was victorious at Euro 88 and was also a member of the squad for the 1990 World Cup. He was named the European Footballer of the...

Frank Stapleton

Francis Anthony "Frank" Stapleton is an Irish former football player and manager. He is best remembered for his time at Arsenal, Manchester United and as a pivotal player for the Republic of Ireland...

Rudi Völler

Rudolf 'Rudi' Völler is a German former international football striker, and a former manager of the German national team...

4 goals

Erwin Vandenbergh

Erwin Vandenbergh

Erwin Vandenbergh was a Belgian footballer. Between 1981 and 1991, he finished six times topscorer of the Belgian First Division, with three different clubs . In 1981 he was European topscorer with 39 goals out of 34 games...

Preben Elkjær Allan Simonsen

Allan Simonsen

Allan Rodenkam Simonsen is a former Danish footballer and manager. He most prominently played for German team Borussia Mönchengladbach, winning the 1975 and 1979 UEFA Cups, as well as for Barcelona from Spain, winning the 1982 Cup WInners' Cup...

Joachim Streich

Joachim Streich is a former East German footballer, who won the bronze medal with East Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich....

Dick Schoenaker

Dirk "Dick" Hendricus Schoenaker is a retired football midfielder from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina, wearing the number three jersey.- Career :...

Antonio Maceda

Antonio Maceda Francés is a retired Spanish footballer.Though a central defender by trade, he was known for his timely and predatorial goal-scoring in addition to his superb aerial ability....

Poli Rincón Dan Corneliusson

Dan Corneliusson

Dan Corneliusson is a former Swedish footballer. He had a major part in IFK Göteborg winning the 1982 UEFA Cup. The same year he became the top goal scorer in Allsvenskan....

3 goals

François Van Der Elst

François Van Der Elst

François J. C. van der Elst is a former Belgian footballer, who played as a striker.Nicknamed Swat, his younger brother, Leo, was also a professional footballer. Both were Belgian internationals.-Football career:...

Ladislav Vízek

Ladislav Vízek is a Czech football player. He played 55 matches for Czechoslovakia and scored 13 goals....

Michael Laudrup

Michael Laudrup is a retired Danish footballer, who works as a manager and last coached La Liga side RCD Mallorca. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of football. His most prominent run of football came with Spanish club Barcelona, with whom he won four straight La...

Luther Blissett

Luther Loide Blissett is a former professional footballer and manager, who is currently a first-team coach at Hemel Hempstead Town. Blissett played as a striker, and is best known for his time at Watford, whom he helped win promotion from the Fourth Division to the First Division...

Trevor Francis

Trevor John Francis , is a former footballer who won the European Cup with Nottingham Forest and played for England 52 times. He was England's first £1 million player...

Tony Woodcock

Anthony Stewart "Tony" Woodcock is a retired English international footballer who played professionally in both England and Germany as a striker. He won the European Cup in 1979 with Nottingham Forest.-Early career:...

József Póczik Peter Houtman

Peter Houtman

Peter Houtman is a retired football striker from the Netherlands, who obtained eight caps for the Dutch national team in the 1980s, scoring seven goals....

Laszlo Bölöni Juan Antonio Señor

Juan Antonio Señor

Safet Sušić

Safet Sušic

Safet "Pape" Sušić is a Bosnian former footballer and current manager of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team. In his playing days, he operated as playmaking attacking midfielder...

2 goals

Muhedin Targaj

Muhedin Targaj

Muhedin Targaj is a retired Albanian football player and manager.Targaj played for KS Dinamo Tirana from 1973 to 1987, winning five Albanian Superliga championships....

Felix Gasselich

Felix Gasselich is a retired Austrian association football player who played for Austria Wien, Ajax, LASK Linz, Wiener SC, Grazer AK, Kremser SC and SR Donaufeld Wien, as well as for the Austrian national side....

Max Hagmayr

Maximilian "Max" Hagmayr is a retired football striker from Austria.During his club career, Hagmayr played for VÖEST Linz, Karlsruher, Rapid Wien and LASK Linz.-External links:* *...

Ludo Coeck

Ludovic Coeck was a Flemish-Belgian footballer who played as left winger or central midfielder. His clubs included Berchem Sport, Anderlecht, Internazionale and Ascoli Calcio...

Václav Daněk

Václav Danek

Václav Daněk is a retired Czech football player. He played 22 matches for Czechoslovakia and scored 9 goals. In total, he scored 197 league goals in 402 games ....

Petr Janečka

Petr Janecka

Petr Janečka is a former Czechoslovak footballer.He played 39 matches for the Czechoslovakia national team and participated in the 1982 FIFA World Cup.-References:...

Petr Rada

Petr Rada is a Czech football coach, currently in charge of FK Teplice. He previously coached the Czech Republic national team....

Glenn Hoddle

Glenn Hoddle is an English former footballer and manager who played as an attacking midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur, AS Monaco, Chelsea and Swindon Town and at international level for England....

Sammy Lee

Sammy Lee (footballer)

Samuel "Sammy" Lee is an English football coach and former player. He played most of his career for hometown club Liverpool during the 1970s and 1980s as a midfielder, and also represented England fourteen times....

Paul Mariner

Paul Mariner is an English football coach, manager, and retired player, who is currently with Toronto FC.A striker during his playing days, Mariner began his career with Chorley. He became a professional player in 1973 with Plymouth Argyle, where he scored 61 goals in 155 appearances and is...

Bryan Robson

Bryan Robson OBE is an English football manager and a former player. He is best known for playing in midfield for Manchester United, where he was the longest serving captain in club history. He was the manager of Sheffield United, being relieved of his first team duties at the club in February 2008...

Gyula Hajszán

Gyula Hajszán , is a retired Hungarian football player.He made his debut for the Hungarian national team in 1982, and got 37 caps and 4 goals until 1994. He was a participant at the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, where Hungary failed to progress from the group stage.- External links :...

László Kiss

László Kiss (footballer)

László Kiss is a Hungarian football coach and former forward.Kiss was born at Taszár. He played for the Hungary national team in the 1982 World Cup, where he gained notability after becoming the first substitute player to score three goals in a World Cup match.-External links:...

Atli Eðvaldsson

Atli Eðvaldsson is a former Icelandic footballer who played as a midfielder. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential players to come from Iceland. After retiring he became a well-known manager....

Alessandro Altobelli

Alessandro Altobelli is a former professional Italian footballer.Nicknamed Spillo for his slender build. Altobelli was one of the most effective Italian forwards of the late 1970s and 1980s...

Jeannot Reiter

Jeannot Reiter is a retired football striker.During his club career, Reiter played for FC Etzella Ettelbruck, FC Chalon, Guingamp, FC Montceau Bourgogne and Spora Luxembourg. He also amassed 46 caps for the Luxembourg national team, scoring 6 goals.-External links:...

Carmel Busuttil

Carmel Busuttil is one of Malta's most experienced football players. Now retired from playing, he is assistant coach of the Malta national football team.-Career:...

Frank Rijkaard

Franklin Edmundo Rijkaard is a Dutch football manager of Dutch and Surinamese descent and former player. Rijkaard has played for Ajax, Real Zaragoza and Milan, and represented his national side 73 times, scoring 10 goals. In his coaching career, he has been at the helm of the Dutch national side,...

Kees van Kooten

Kees van Kooten is a Dutch former international football striker. After his career he became a football manager.-References:* * *...

Martin O'Neill

Martin Hugh Michael O'Neill, OBE, is a Northern Irish football manager and former player.Until resigning the post on 9 August 2010, he was manager of Aston Villa. Starting his career in his native Northern Ireland, O'Neill moved to England where he spent most of his playing career with Nottingham...

Ian Stewart Norman Whiteside

Norman Whiteside

Norman Whiteside is a former Northern Ireland international footballer who played in two World Cups.He appeared for Manchester United and Everton, before his career was ended by injury at the age of 26. He won the FA Cup twice during his time playing for Manchester United, in 1983 and 1985...

Åge Hareide

Åge Fridtjof Hareide is a Norwegian football manager and former player. He is currently the manager of Viking FK.-Playing career:During his playing career, Hareide played for Hødd, Molde, Manchester City and Norwich City....

Arne Larsen Økland

Arne Larsen Økland is a former Norwegian football player and coach.Økland was a striker, and he is regarded as one of the best Norwegian players of his generation...

Hallvar Thoresen

Hallvar Thoresen is a former Norwegian footballer. The son of former Norwegian international Gunnar Thoresen, Hallvar Thoresen was central in 1980s Norwegian football....

Włodzimierz Smolarek Rui Jordão

Rui Jordão

Carlos Manuel

Carlos Manuel Correia dos Santos , known as Carlos Manuel, is a retired Portuguese footballer who played as a central midfielder, and a current manager....

Nené

Nene

Nene may refer to:*River Nene, a river in England*Rolls-Royce Nene, a jet engine*Nene , also called Nēnē and Hawaiian Goose, Branta sandvicensis, a rare goose*Nene , a Seminole Indian word meaning "street"...

Toni

Toni is a given name. In English, it is often female, the male version being Tony. In Finnish, it is a male name, a form of Anttoni. In Bulgarian, Toni [Тони] may refer to either a male or a female. Tony and Toni have no separate equivalents in Bulgarian since the Cyrillic alphabet has one letter...

Liam Brady

Liam Brady is a former Irish association football player, and former assistant manager of the Republic of Ireland national football team....

Gerry Daly

Gerard Anthony Daly was an Irish football player.Daly started his football career in Drumcondra with the famous schoolboy nursery Stella Maris...

Mark Lawrenson

Mark Thomas Lawrenson is a former professional football player, a defender in the Liverpool and Irish football teams of the 1980s; he since became a radio, television and internet pundit for the BBC and Today FM. He was born in England, but played for the Republic of Ireland because his...

Kevin Sheedy
Gary Waddock

Gary Waddock

Gary Patrick Waddock is a former professional and international footballer. He is currently manager at League One club Wycombe Wanderers. He formerly managed Queens Park Rangers and Aldershot Town...

Rodion Cămătaru

Rodion Camataru

Rodion Gorun Cămătaru is a retired Romanian footballer, who played as a striker.-Club career:He was born in Strehaia and debuted in Divizia A with Universitatea Craiova in 1974. He spent twelve seasons with Universitatea, winning the league titles in 1980 and 1981...

Kenny Dalglish

Kenneth Mathieson "Kenny" Dalglish MBE is a Scottish former footballer and the current manager of Liverpool F.C.. In a 22-year playing career, he played for two club teams, Celtic and Liverpool, winning numerous honours with both. He is the most capped Scottish player, with 102 appearances, and...

Charlie Nicholas John Wark

John Wark

John Wark is a Scottish former footballer who spent most of his playing time with Ipswich Town. He won a record four Player of the Year awards before becoming one of the four inaugural members of the club's Hall of Fame...

Rafael Gordillo

Rafael Gordillo Vázquez is a retired Spanish footballer.A tremendously offensive left wingback, equally at ease as defender and midfielder and with a good effort rate, he had an unmistakable style of playing with his socks down, he represented with individual and team success Betis and Real...

Andy Egli Ulf Eriksson

Ulf Eriksson

Ulf Eriksson is a retired football referee from Sollefteå, Sweden and a former football player. He was a referee officiating at the 1978 FIFA World Cup, including the match between Argentina and Poland.-References:...

Robert Prytz

Robert Prytz is a Swedish former footballer who played as a midfielder from the late 1970s until the early 2000s. He earned 56 caps for the Swedish national team and is best known for his time at Hellas Verona, Malmö FF and Rangers...

Glenn Strömberg

Glenn Peter Strömberg is a Swedish former footballer. He won the 1982 UEFA Cup with IFK Göteborg. Apart from Göteborg, he has also played for Benfica and Atalanta. He was voted Swedish footballer of the year, winning Guldbollen 1985. For his majestic way of playing in the midfield he was nicknamed...

Hasan Şengün Selçuk Yula

Selçuk Yula

Selçuk Yula, born on November 8, 1959 in Ankara, is a Turkish football player and topscorer.Yula started his career in the Ankara club Şekerspor...

Oleg Blokhin

Oleh Volodymyrovych "Oleg" Blokhin is a Ukrainian football coach and current head coach of the Ukrainian national team. Blokhin was formerly a standout striker for Dynamo Kyiv and the Soviet national team...

Fyodor Cherenkov

Fyodor Fyodorovich Cherenkov is a Soviet and Russian football midfielder who played for Spartak Moscow and Red Star Football Club ....

Anatoliy Demyanenko Robbie James

Robbie James

Robert "Robbie" Mark James was a Welsh international footballer who played for many teams including Swansea City, Stoke City and Queens Park Rangers...

Ian Rush

Ian James Rush, MBE, is a retired football player from Flint, Wales. He is best remembered as a player for Liverpool, where he was among the top strikers in the English game in the 1980s and 1990s. He also had spells playing at Chester City, Juventus, Leeds United, Newcastle United, Sheffield...

1 goal

Genc Tomori Ernst Baumeister

Ernst Baumeister

Ernst Robert Baumeister is a former Austrian football player. He is currently manager of VfB Admira Wacker Mödling.-Club career:...

Karl Brauneder

Karl Brauneder is a retired football defender.During his club career, Brauneder played for Wiener Sport-Club, Rapid Wien and Stahl Linz.-External links:*...

Agustin Kola

Agustin Kola is a former Albanian footballer. His former teams are SK Tirana, where he played all but one season of his career with SK Tirana as he has one season in Greece with Egaleo F.C. in the 1991-1992 season...

Bruno Pezzey

Bruno Edmund Pezzey was an Austrian footballer.-Club career:Regarded as one of Austria's greatest defenders of all time, Pezzey started his professional career at local side FC Vorarlberg and moved to FC Wacker Innsbruck after only one season, winning two league titles and a domestic cup...

Toni Polster Herbert Prohaska

Herbert Prohaska

Herbert Prohaska is a retired Austrian football player. He ranks among Austria's greatest football players of all time. Prohaska is currently working as a football pundit for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation . His nickname "Schneckerl", Viennese dialect for curly hair, derives from his curly...

Jan Ceulemans

Jan Anna Gumaar Ceulemans is a Belgian former football player who played as a midfielder.He is his country's most capped player with 96 international appearances. Most of his time with Belgium took place under the guidance of Guy Thys...

Heinz Lüdi

Heinz Lüdi is a retired football defender.During his club career, Lüdi played for FC Grenchen, FC Zürich, Neuchâtel Xamax and FC Baden. He also represented the Switzerland national football team....

Franky Vercauteren

François Vercauteren , nicknamed "The Little Prince", is a former Belgian football left winger and is now a football manager, who is currently working for Al Jazira Club.- Career :...

Georgi Dimitrov

Georgi Dimitrov (footballer)

Georgi Dimitrov is a former Bulgarian football defender. He was capped 77 times for Bulgaria, scoring 6 goals.-External links:* *...

Plamen Nikolov

Plamen Nikolov (footballer born 1957)

Plamen Nikolov is a former Bulgarian football defender.In his career Nikolov played mostly for PFC Levski Sofia. In 1984 he was named Bulgarian Footballer of the Year. For Bulgaria national football team, Nikolov was capped 55 times. He was a successful player in the Swedish top division when...

Rusi Gochev

Rusi Gochev is a retired football striker.During his club career, Gochev played for Chernomorets Burgas, Levski Sofia and LASK Linz. He also amassed 33 caps for the Bulgaria national team, scoring 3 goals. From July 2011 he is the director of Chernomorets Burgas's youth academy.-External links:...

Bozhidar Iskrenov

Bozidar Georgiev Iskrenov , nicknamed Gibona and Gibi , is a former Bulgarian footballer who spent most of his career playing for Levski Sofia as a forward.Iskrenov also had a brief film career...

Stoycho Mladenov

Stoycho Mladenov is a Bulgarian former football player and as of recently the manager of ENPPI Club.-Career:...

Nasko Sirakov

Nasko Petkov Sirakov is a retired Bulgarian footballer who played mainly as a striker.Part of the Bulgarian team at the 1994 FIFA World Cup as it finished fourth, he was one of the most important footballers in the country in the 80's/90's, being a legend at Levski Sofia, a club he represented in...

Boycho Velichkov

Boycho Petrov Velichkov is a retired football forward.For the Bulgarian national team Velichkov featured in 45 games and scored 23 goals, and played at the 1986 World Cups....

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Premysl Bicovský

Přemysl Bičovský is a Czech football player. He played 45 matches for Czechoslovakia.He was a participant in the 1982 FIFA World Cup.He played for FK Teplice and later spent his best football years at Bohemians Praha....

Pavel Chaloupka

Pavel Chaloupka is a former Czech football player.Chaloupka played for several clubs, including Dukla Prague , Bohemians Praha and Fortuna Düsseldorf ....

Ladislav Jurkemik

Ladislav Jurkemik is a former Slovak football player and later a football manager. He played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 57 matches and scored 3 goals....

Milan Luhový

Milan Luhový is a former football player. He played 31 matches for Czechoslovakia and scored seven goals.In his club career he played for Slovan Bratislava, Dukla Prague, Sporting Gijón, AS Saint-Étienne, PAOK Salonika and K. Sint-Truidense V.V.. He won twice the Czechoslovak Cup, in 1982 with...

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Klaus Berggreen

Klaus Berggreen is a Danish former football player, who most prominently played for Italian clubs Pisa and A.S. Roma. He played 46 matches and scored five goals for the Danish national team, and he represented his country at the 1986 World Cup and two European Championship...

Søren Busk

Søren Thomas Busk is a former Danish football defender, who played professionally for a number of European clubs, and helped K.A.A. Gent win the Belgian Cup. He played 61 games and scored two goals for the Denmark national football team, and represented Denmark at the Euro 1984, 1986 World Cup,...

Allan Hansen

Allan Hansen is a Danish former football player who most notably played professionally for German team Hamburger SV, with whom he won the 1983 Fußball-Bundesliga and European Cup trophies...

Søren Lerby

Søren Lerby, is a Danish former football player, manager, and licensed agent. As a player, he spent the bulk of his career in Dutch football, winning five Eredivisie championships with Ajax Amsterdam as well as the 1988 European Cup and two further Eredivise titles with PSV Eindhoven...

Jesper Olsen

Jesper Olsen is a Danish former footballer who most notably played for Ajax of the Netherlands and Manchester United of England. Olsen was a regular left winger for the Danish national team, scoring five goals in 43 matches...

Morten Olsen

Morten Per Olsen is a Danish football manager and former football player. He has been the head coach of the Danish national team since 2000, guiding Denmark to the 2002 FIFA World Cup, 2004 European Championship and 2010 FIFA World Cup...

Rainer Ernst

Rainer Ernst is a former German footballer who amassed 56 caps for East Germany.-Career:Until the age of 14, Ernst played in the Dynamo Neutrelitz youth side. He then transferred to BFC Dynamo, where he played in 203 league games, scoring 88 goals, until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990, when...

Ronald Kreer

Ronald Kreer is a former German professional footballer.Kreer began his career playing for the youth side of BSG Lokomotive Delitzsch and then 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig. After being promoted to the Leipzig senior squad, Kreer played 241 games in the DDR-Oberliga for the club, scoring 10 goals...

Hans Richter

Hans Richter (footballer)

Hans Richter is a retired football forward.During his club career, Richter played for FC Karl-Marx-Stadt, Lokomotive Leipzig and Kickers Offenbach. He played 15 times for the East Germany national team, scoring 4 goals.-External links:*...

Terry Butcher

Terence Ian "Terry" Butcher is an English football manager and former player. He was a highly successful football player and made his name as an uncompromising defender with Ipswich Town and Rangers in the 1980s. He was also a captain of England and won 77 caps in a ten-year international career...

Steve Coppell

Stephen James "Steve" Coppell is an English former footballer and manager, currently without a club.As a player, he was a highly regarded right winger known for his speed and work rate. He won domestic honours with Manchester United and represented England at the World Cup...

Mark Chamberlain

Mark Valentine Chamberlain is an English retired international footballer. He is the younger brother of Neville Chamberlain, and the father of Arsenal and England U21 player Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain....

Phil Neal

Philip George "Phil" Neal is a former footballer who was, at one time, the most successful player in English football history. He played for Liverpool 650 times over an eleven year period and is the only player to have appeared in the first five of their European Cup finals, winning four of them...

Peter Withe

Peter Withe is a much-travelled English footballer who played as a striker, between 1971 and 1990...

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Ari Valvee

Ari Valvee is a retired football striker.During his club career, Valvee played for Haka, Vasalunds, HJK Helsinki and Pallo-Iirot.-External links:*...

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Béla Bodonyi

Béla Bodonyi is a Hungarian former footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a striker.-Career:...

Győző Burcsa

Gyozo Burcsa

Gyõzõ Burcsa is a Hungarian football player.He was a participant in the 1986 FIFA World Cup where Hungary was eliminated in the first round...

Péter Hannich

Péter Hannich is Hungarian footballer.He played for Győri ETO FC in the 1980s, winning two Hungarian championships in 1982 and 1983. He was the league's top scorer with 22 goals in the 1981-82 season...

József Kardos

József Kardos is a retired Hungarian football player.He made his debut for the Hungarian national team in 1980, and got 33 caps and 3 goals until 1987. He was a participant at the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, where Hungary failed to progress from the group stage.Kardos was a player of Újpesti...

Gábor Pölöskei

Gábor Pölöskei is a retired Hungarian football player and current manager.He scored two goals for the Hungary national football team in the 1982 FIFA World Cup, one against El Salvador and another against Argentina.-References:...

Lázár Szentes

Lázár Szentes is a former Hungarian football player of the 1970s and 1980s. He appeared at the 1982 FIFA World Cup with the Hungarian national team. Between 1982 and 1983 he played 6 games and scored 3 goals for Hungary....

Antonio Cabrini

Antonio Cabrini is an Italian football former player. He played left-back, mainly with Juventus. He won the 1982 FIFA World Cup with the Italian national team....

Francesco Graziani

Francesco "Ciccio" Graziani is an Italy football manager and former player.-Playing career:Graziani was born in Subiaco, in the province of Rome....

Paolo Rossi

Paolo Rossi is an Italian former football striker. In 1982, he led Italy to the 1982 FIFA World Cup title, scoring six goals to win the Golden Boot/top scorer honors, and the Golden Ball. After his performance at the 1982 FIFA World Cup he became a hero in the hearts of all Italians...

Marteinn Geirsson

Marteinn Geirsson is a retired footballer who was capped 67 times for Iceland between 1971 and 1982, scoring 8 goals....

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Théo Malget

Théo Malget is a Luxembourger former international footballer who played club football for FC Wiltz 71 and FC Avenir Beggen, as a midfielder.-External links:...

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Emanuel Fabri

Emanuel "Leli" Fabri is a retired football midfielder from the Malta.-Playing career:During his club career, Fabri played for Luqa St. Andrew's, Qormi and Sliema Wanderers. He also played for the Malta national football team, scoring 3 times.-External links:* *...

Ernest Spiteri Gonzi

Ernest Spiteri-Gonzi is a retired football striker.-Club career:During his club career, Spiteri-Gonzi played for Hibernians. He twice became Maltese top goalscorer, in the 1980/81 and 1981/82 seasons...

Bud Brocken

Bud Brocken is a retired Dutch football player who played for Willem II, FC Groningen and FC Den Bosch in the Netherlands, as well as with Birmingham City in England. He also won five caps for the Dutch national side....

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Ronald Koeman

Ronald Koeman is a former Dutch footballer, and the current manager of Feyenoord. He is the younger brother of former Feyenoord coach Erwin Koeman and the son of former Dutch international Martin Koeman...

Edo Ophof

Edo Ophof is a retired football defender from the Netherlands.During his club career, Ophof played for NEC, Ajax, AZ and Utrecht.-External links:* *...

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Ben Wijnstekers

Ben Wijnstekers is a retired Dutch footballer who was active as a defender. Wijnstekers made his professional debut at Feyenoord Rotterdam, but also played for K.R.C...

Billy Hamilton

Billy Hamilton (footballer)

William Robert Hamilton is a former Northern Ireland international footballer who played as a forward.At club level, Billy played for Linfield, QPR, Burnley, Oxford United, Limerick, Sligo Rovers, Coleraine and Distillery...

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Tom Lund

Tom Lund is a former Norwegian football coach and striker, he is considered as perhaps Norway's greatest football player of all time....

Zbigniew Boniek

Zbigniew "Zibì" Kazimierz Boniek is a former Polish footballer and coach. He first played at Zawisza Bydgoszcz and later at Widzew Łódź. Boniek was named by Pelé as one of the 125 Greatest Living Footballers and by FIFA as one of the 100 best-ever players. On 12 October 2009 he received a Golden...

Dariusz Dziekanowski

Dariusz Paweł Dziekanowski is a Polish football trainer and former player. He started his career at Polonia Warsaw, between 1973–79, throughout the youth set-up and into a very young first team, but went to ŁKS Łódź from 1979-83.Having not impressed the coach during his final season he moved to...

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Janusz Kupcewicz

Janusz Bogdan Kupcewicz is a retired Polish football player.He played for clubs such as Stomil Olsztyn, Arka Gdynia, Lech Poznań, AS Saint-Etienne, Larissa, Lechia Gdańsk and Adanaspor...

Fernando Gomes José Luis

José Luis

José Luis Lopes Costa e Silva , known as José Luís, is a retired Portuguese footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.-Club career:...

Tony Grealish

Tony Grealish is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He represented the Republic of Ireland 45 times, through his Irish ancestry.-Football career:Grealish was born in Paddington, London....

Ashley Grimes

Ashley Grimes (Irish footballer)

Augustine Ashley Grimes is an Irish former footballer. He won 18 caps for the Republic of Ireland and scored one goal, a spectacular long-range strike against Spain in a Euro 84 qualifier at Lansdowne Road in November 1982....

Kevin O'Callaghan

Kevin O'Callaghan is a former Irish footballer, who played as a left winger.-Early Years:O'Callaghan was born in Havering on the 19th October 1961 to Paddy and Barbara O'Callaghan.A playful youngster, he frequently felt the crack of the headmaster's cane at St Bonaventures Catholic School...

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Mickey Walsh

Michael Anthony "Mickey" Walsh is an English-born Irish former professional footballer and current football agent.-Club career:...

Ioan Andone

Ioan Andone is a Romanian football coach and former player.-Career:He made his Divizia A debut with Corvinul Hunedoara in 1979. He later went to Dinamo Bucureşti where he helped win the league title in 1984 and 1990 and the cup title in 1984, 1986 and 1990. In 1990 he was bought by Spanish team...

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Eamonn Bannon

Eamonn John Bannon is a former Scottish football player, who played in midfield for Hearts, Chelsea, Dundee United and Scotland.-Career:...

Paul Sturrock

Paul Whitehead Sturrock is a Scottish football manager who, since July 2010, is the manager of Southend United. Until this appointment, Sturrock had most recently been at English League 1 club Plymouth Argyle in a business support role, having been relieved of his managerial duties, until he quit...

Francisco José Carrasco

Francisco José Carrasco Hidalgo is a retired Spanish footballer who played as a winger, and currently a coach.-Club career:...

Juanito

Juan Gómez González

Juan Gómez González , or simply known as Juanito, was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward.A player with tremendous dribbling ability whose career was overshadowed by a fierce character, Juanito was best known for his Real Madrid years...

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Manuel Sarabia

Manuel Sarabia López is a former Spanish footballer, who played as a left-footed striker.-Club career:...

Jean-Paul Brigger

Jean-Paul Brigger is a retired football striker.During his club career, Brigger played for FC Sion and Servette, also representing the Swiss national team...

Alain Geiger

Alain Geiger is a retired Swiss international football defender and current manager. He is currently the head coach manager of Al-Masry in the Egyptian Premier League....

Heinz Hermann

Heinz Hermann is a former Swiss international footballer.On 1 July 1977 Heinz Hermann changed from FC Seefeld Zürich to Grasshopper-Club Zürich, where he became Swiss league champion four times and cup champion once. At the end of the season 1984/1985 he changed to Neuchâtel Xamax, and he later...

Marco Schällibaum

Marco Schällibaum is a Swiss football manager, last in charge of AC Bellinzona in the Swiss Super League.-External links:...

Claudio Sulser

Claudio Sulser is a retired football striker.During his club career, Sulser played for FC Mendrisio-Stabio, FC Vevey Sports 05, Grasshoppers Zürich and FC Lugano...

Glenn Hysén

Glenn Ingvar Hysén is a football manager and former player who played for leading Dutch, Italian and English clubs and won 68 caps for Sweden...

Mats Jingblad

Mats Jingblad is a retired football striker. He is now a football coach.During his club career, Jingblad played for BK Astrio and Halmstads BK...

Andreas Ravelli

Andreas Ravelli is a retired Swedish footballer who played as a central defender.-Football career:Born in Vimmerby, Ravelli started playing professionally for Östers IF, lasting ten seasons with the club and winning three Allsvenskan titles, before signing for IFK Göteborg.At age 31, he moved to...

Thomas Sunesson

Thomas Sunesson is a retired Swedish football player.Sunesson began his career with Kalmar FF. He joined Djurgårdens IF in 1986. He also had a brief spell with S.C. Beira-Mar in the Portuguese Liga....

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Metin Tekin

Metin Tekin is a retired Turkish professional football player. His parents are Tarık and İnci Tekin. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in business. He married to Şevval Sam in 1993...

Fatih Terim

Fatih Terim, Commendatore OSSI, is a Turkish football former player and manager. Terim was born in Adana, Turkey to Nuriye and Talat Terim. His father, Talat, is a Turkish Cypriot who emigrated to Turkey....

İlyas Tüfekçi

Ilyas Tüfekci is a retired football striker.During his club career, Tüfekci played in Germany and Turkey for Stuttgart, Schalke, Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray and Zeytinburnuspor.-External links:* *...

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Sergei Pavlovich Baltacha

Sergei Pavlovich Baltacha is a former professional football player who won 45 full caps for the Soviet Union and made nearly 300 appearances for Dynamo Kiev....

Nikolay Larionov

Nikolay Yevgeniyevich Larionov is a former football player and current manager. As of 2009, he is an assistant coach with the reserves team of FC Zenit St. Petersburg.-International career:...

Sergey Rodionov

Sergei Yurievich Rodionov is a Russian football coach. Previously, he was a footballer who played most of his career as a striker for Spartak Moscow....

Jeremy Charles

Jeremy Melvyn Charles is a Welsh former professional footballer and Wales international. Normally a centre-forward, he was equally adept as a centre-half. He played for Oxford United, Swansea City and Queens Park Rangers...

Brian Flynn

Brian Flynn, is a Welsh football manager and former Welsh international player.On 13 September 2010 Flynn was confirmed caretaker manager of the Wales national football team after John Toshack stepped down...

Joey Jones

For other persons named Joey Jones, see Joey Jones.For other similarly named people, see Joseph Jones or Joe Jones.Joseph Patrick "Joey" Jones is a former Wales international football full-back who played for Liverpool for three seasons, including the 1977 season, in which they chased "the...

Wolfgang Dremmler

Wolfgang Dremmler is a former German football player.A trained metalworker, Dremmler was part of the West Germany team that reached the 1982 FIFA World Cup final against Italy at Santiago Bernabeu...

Uli Stielike

Ulrich "Uli" Stielike is a German football manager and former player.-Club career:Stielike was a West Germany youth international for hometown club SpVgg Ketsch when he got signed by UEFA Cup runner-up Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1973, first coming to action as a full back for the then two times...

Gerhard Strack

Gerhard "Gerd" Strack is a retired German footballer.He earned 10 caps and scored one goal for West Germany from 1982 to 1983, and was included in the West German team for the 1984 UEFA European Football Championship, but did not play....

Mehmed Baždarević

Mehmed Baždarevic

Mehmed Baždarević is a Bosnian football manager and former football midfielder. He is the current manager of the French Ligue 1 club Sochaux-Montbéliard. Baždarević played for Bosnian side Željezničar Sarajevo and Sochaux-Montbéliard, among others...

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Miodrag Ješic

Miodrag Ješić is a Serbian football manager and a former footballer. He is the current Head coach of Shahrdari Tabriz.-Playing:...

Zlatko Kranjčar

Zlatko Kranjcar

Zlatko "Cico" Kranjcar is a Croatian football manager and former striker. He is the currently head coach of Sepahan in Iran Pro League.-Club career:...

Ljubomir Radanović

Ljubomir Radanovic

Ljubomir Radanović is a Montenegrin defender who played at Euro 1984 for SFR Yugoslavia.He is remembered with fondness by Yugoslavian football fans for his last-minute headed goal against Bulgaria in Split on 21 December 1983, which sent Yugoslavia to the finals of Euro 84 ahead of their opponents...

Dušan Savić

Dušan Savic

Dušan "Dule" Savić is a Serbian former football player.He started playing football in the local side Jedinstvo Ub in his home town.-Club career:...

Nenad Stojković

Nenad Stojkovic

Nenad Stojković is a Serbian defender who played at FIFA World Cup 1982 for SFR Yugoslavia.Following his playing career, Stojković had a brief spell as the manager of AS Cannes....

Zlatko Vujović

Zlatko Vujovic

Zlatko Vujović is a retired Bosnian Croat footballer who played as a striker....

Zvonko Živković

Zvonko Živkovic

Zvonko Živković was a top Serbian footballer of the late 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, and now one of the most primising and respected Serbian football coaches....

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Ján Kapko

Ján Kapko

Ján Kapko is a former Slovak footballer who played for DAC Dunajská Streda, Jednota Trenčín and Dukla Prague.-International career:Kapko made three appearances for the full Czechoslovakia national football team.-External links:...

(for Italy) Jukka Ikäläinen

Jukka Ikäläinen

Jukka Ikäläinen is a retired football midfielder.During his club career, Ikäläinen played for Kemin Into, Örgryte IS, GIF Sundsvall, Kiruna FF and Kemin Palloseura. He also played international football for the Finland national team.He was the Finnish Football Association footballer of the year in...

(for Portugal) Marcel Bossi for England)
Paweł Janas (for Finland) Roman Wójcicki

Roman Wójcicki

Roman Mirosław Wójcicki is a retired Polish football player.He played for a few clubs, including Odra Opole, Śląsk Wrocław, Widzew Łódź, FC Homburg and Hannover 96 ....

(for USSR) Mick Martin

Mick Martin

Michael Paul "Mick" Martin was an Irish soccer player during the 1970s and 1980s.Born in Dublin, he played for Bohemians, Manchester United, Newcastle United, West Bromwich Albion, Vancouver Whitecaps, Cardiff City, Preston North End, Peterborough United, Rotherham United and the Republic of...

(for Spain)
Raşit Çetiner

Rasit Çetiner

Raşit Çetiner is a Turkish football coach and a former player of Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe SK . He also played for Kocaelispor between 1974-1978. In 1978 , when playing for Kocaelispor he has become the top goal-scorer in TFF First League and awarded as the Player of the Year. In 1982 and 1985...

(for Albania)

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