1998 FIFA World Cup France ™ Preliminaries
First stage
Bulgaria - Luxembourg
4:0 (1:0)
Match | Date | Venue / Stadium | Time | Attendance |
| 223 | 08 June 1997 | Burgas / Neftochimik Stadium | 01:00 | 19000 |
- Hristo STOICHKOV (BUL) 41' Penalty goal,
- Emil KOSTADINOV (BUL) 47',
- Krassimir BALAKOV (BUL) 49' Penalty goal,
- Iordan LECHKOV (BUL) 70'
Goals scored
Bulgaria
- Zdravko ZDRAVKOV (GK)
- Anatoli NANKOV
- Trifon IVANOV
- Ivaylo PETKOV
- Ivaylo YORDANOV
- Zlatko YANKOV (-57')
- Emil KOSTADINOV
- Hristo STOICHKOV
- Luboslav PENEV (-67')
- Krassimir BALAKOV
- Ilian ILIEV (-84')
Line-up
- Dimitar POPOV
- Georgi ANTONOV
- Iordan LECHKOV (+57')
- Tsanko TSVETANOV
- Georgi DONKOV
- Mitko TRENDAFILOV (+84')
- Daniel BORIMIROV (+67')
Substitute(s)
Luxembourg
- Paul KOCH (GK)
- Jean VANEK
- Frank DEVILLE
- Marc BIRSENS
- Luc HOLTZ (-72')
- Claude GANSER (-83')
- Guy HELLERS
- Carlo WEIS
- Robert LANGERS (-85')
- Manuel CARDONI
- Daniel THEIS
Line-up
- Serge ROHMANN
- Serge THILL (+72')
- Serge THITT
- Ralph FERRON
- Patrick POSING (+85')
- Nicolas FUNCK
- Paolo AMODIO (+83')
- Patrick MOROCUTTI
Substitute(s)
- Daniel THEIS (LUX) 10'
- , Frank DEVILLE (LUX) 31'
- , Robert LANGERS (LUX) 39'
- , Carlo WEIS (LUX) 42'
- , Marc BIRSENS (LUX) 48'
- , Ilian ILIEV (BUL) 53'
- , Guy HELLERS (LUX) 63'
- , Jean VANEK (LUX) 79'
Cautions
Sent off
Match Officials
Referee Lucilio CARDOSO BATISTA (POR) | |
| a.e.t.: | After extra time | (C): | Captain | PSO: | Penalty Shoot-out |
| GK: | Goalkeeper | N: | Not eligible to play | I: | Injured |
| Y: | Misses next match if booked | Pos: | Positions | A: | Absent |
| DF: | Defender | MF: | Midfielder | MinP: | Minutes played |
| GF: | Goals for | GA: | Goals against | PK (PG/PS): | Penalty Kicks (Goals/Shots) |
| FC: | Fouls Committed | FS: | Fouls Suffered | R: | Red Cards |
| FW: | Forward | SOG/S: | Shots on Target | Y: 2YC: | Yellow cards Second yellow card and red card |
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