1990 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 1

The 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group 1 was a UEFA qualifying group for the 1990 FIFA World Cup. The group comprised Bulgaria, Denmark, Greece and Romania.

The group was won by Romania, who qualified for the 1990 FIFA World Cup. Runners-up Denmark failed to qualify as their record was the worst of the runners-up from the groups containing only four teams.

Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Romania 6 4 1 1 10 5 +5 9  Denmark 6 3 2 1 15 6 +9 8  Greece 6 1 2 3 3 15 −12 4  Bulgaria 6 1 1 4 6 8 −2 3

Bulgaria  – 0–2 4–0 1–3 Denmark  1–1 – 7–1 3–0 Greece  1–0 1–1 – 0–0 Romania  1–0 3–1 3–0 –

19 October 1988

Greece	1–1	Denmark
Mitropoulos 41'	(Report)	Povlsen 56'

Olympic Stadium, Athens

Attendance: 19,349

Referee: Dušan Krchňák (Czechoslovakia)

19 October 1988

Bulgaria	1–3	Romania
Kolev 31'	(Report)	Mateuţ 25' Cămătaru 79', 89'

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Michał Listkiewicz (Poland)

2 November 1988

Romania	3–0	Greece
Mateuţ 26' Hagi 40' (pen.) Sabău 84'	(Report)

Steaua Stadium, Bucharest

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Hubert Forstinger (Austria)

2 November 1988

Denmark	1–1	Bulgaria
Elstrup 8'	(Report)	Sadakov 38'

Idrætsparken, Copenhagen

Attendance: 34,600

Referee: George Smith (Scotland)

26 April 1989

Greece	0–0	Romania
	(Report)

Olympic Stadium, Athens

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (West Germany)

26 April 1989

Bulgaria	0–2	Denmark
	(Report)	Povlsen 41' B. Laudrup 89'

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 37,000

Referee: Alain Delmer (France)

17 May 1989

Romania	1–0	Bulgaria
Popescu 35'	(Report)

Steaua Stadium, Bucharest

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Sergei Khusainov (Soviet Union)

17 May 1989

Denmark	7–1	Greece
B. Laudrup 25' Bartram 42' K. Nielsen 55' Povlsen 56' Vilfort 74' Andersen 85' M. Laudrup 90' (pen.)	(Report)	Mavridis 40'

Idrætsparken, Copenhagen

Attendance: 38,500

Referee: Keith Hackett (England)

11 October 1989

Bulgaria	4–0	Greece
Ivanov 72' Bankov 76' Iskrenov 79' Stoichkov 88'	(Report)

Yuri Gagarin Stadium, Varna

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Rolf Blattmann (Switzerland)

11 October 1989

Denmark	3–0	Romania
K. Nielsen 4' B. Laudrup 26' Povlsen 85'	(Report)

Idrætsparken, Copenhagen

Attendance: 45,400

Referee: Claude Bouillet (France)

15 November 1989

Greece	1–0	Bulgaria
Nioplias 49'	(Report)

Olympic Stadium, Athens

Attendance: 1,500

Referee: Zoran Petrović (Yugoslavia)

15 November 1989

Romania	3–1	Denmark
Balint 25', 61' Sabău 38'	(Report)	Povlsen 6'

Steaua Stadium, Bucharest

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Tulio Lanese (Italy)

There were 34 goals scored during the 12 games, an average of 2.83 goals per game.

5 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal