1998 FIFA World Cup France ™ Preliminaries
First stage
Bulgaria - Russia
1:0 (0:0)
Match | Date | Venue / Stadium | Time | Attendance |
| 18 | 10 September 1997 | Sofia / Vasilij Levski | 01:00 | 12000 |
- Trifon IVANOV (BUL) 55'
Goals scored
Bulgaria
- Zdravko ZDRAVKOV
- Radostin KISHISHEV
- Trifon IVANOV
- Milen PETKOV
- Zlatko YANKOV
- Emil KOSTADINOV (-73')
- Hristo STOICHKOV (-84')
- Luboslav PENEV
- Krassimir BALAKOV
- Iordan LECHKOV
- Gosho GINCHEV
Line-up
- Ivaylo YORDANOV
- Dimitar POPOV
- Ilian ILIEV
- Ivaylo PETKOV
- Georgi ANTONOV
- Georgi MARKOV
- Ilian GRUEV
Substitute(s)
Russia
- Sergei OVCHINIKOV
- Yuri KOVTUN
- Yuri NIKIFOROV
- Aleksei KOSOLAPOV (+45')(-45')
- Igor YANOVSKI
- Akhrik TSVEIBA
- Viktor ONOPKO
- Andrei KANCHELSKIS
- Dmitry ALENICHEV
- Igor KOLYVANOV
- Igor SIMUTENKOV (+76')(-76')
Line-up
- Igor CHUGAINOV
- Alexander FILIMONOV
- Dmitry KHOKHLOV (+73')
- Vladislav RADIMOV (+84')
- Dmitri CHERICHEV
- Andrei TIKHONOV
- Dmitri KHLESTOV
Substitute(s)
- Yuri NIKIFOROV (RUS) 21'
- , Aleksei KOSOLAPOV (RUS) 32'
- , Igor YANOVSKI (RUS) 58'
- , Gosho GINCHEV (BUL) 61'
- , Zdravko ZDRAVKOV (BUL) 81'
- , Yuri KOVTUN (RUS) 89'
Cautions
Sent off
Match Officials
Referee Vaclav KRONDL (CZE) | |
| 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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