1990 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 3 facts for kids

The 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 3 was a series of football matches where teams from Europe competed to earn a spot in the main 1990 FIFA World Cup tournament. In this specific group, two teams successfully qualified: the Soviet Union and Austria. They played against other teams in their group to see who would get to go to the big event.

Group 3: The Road to the 1990 World Cup

How the Teams Ranked

This table shows how each team in Group 3 performed during the qualification matches. It helps us see which teams won, lost, or drew their games, and how many goals they scored.

Understanding the Table

• Pld means Played: The total number of matches each team played.
• W means Won: The number of matches a team won.
• D means Drawn: The number of matches that ended in a tie.
• L means Lost: The number of matches a team lost.
• GF means Goals For: The total number of goals a team scored.
• GA means Goals Against: The total number of goals scored against a team.
• GD means Goal Difference: The difference between goals scored and goals against (GF - GA). A higher number is better!
• Pts means Points: Points earned from matches (usually 3 for a win, 1 for a draw, 0 for a loss). The teams with the most points qualify.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Soviet Union	8	4	3	1	11	4	+7	11
Austria	8	3	3	2	9	9	0	9
Turkey	8	3	1	4	12	10	+2	7
East Germany	8	3	1	4	9	13	–4	7
Iceland	8	1	4	3	6	11	–5	6

Top Goal Scorers

These are the players who scored the most goals during the qualification matches in Group 3. Scoring goals is super important in football, and these players were the best at it for their teams!

Players Who Found the Net Most Often

5 goals

• Toni Polster
• Tanju Çolak

4 goals

• Andreas Thom

3 goals

• Hennadiy Lytovchenko
• Oleh Protasov
• Rıdvan Dilmen
• Feyyaz Uçar