Football World Cup 1994 / Belgium

This article covers the Belgian national football team at the 1994 World Cup . It was Belgium's ninth participation in the finals of a football World Cup.

qualification

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Romania	29:12	15th
2	Belgium	16: 05	15th
3	Czechoslovakia	21: 09	13
4th	Wales	19:12	12
5	Cyprus	08:18	5
6th	Faroe Islands	01:38	0

Belgium	-	Cyprus	1-0
Faroe Islands	-	Belgium	0: 3
Czechoslovakia	-	Belgium	1: 3
Belgium	-	Romania	1-0
Belgium	-	Wales	2-0
Cyprus	-	Belgium	0: 3
Wales	-	Belgium	2-0
Belgium	-	Faroe Islands	3-0
Romania	-	Belgium	2: 1
Belgium	-	Czechoslovakia	0-0

Belgian contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Michel Preud'homme	KV Mechelen	01/24/1959	4th	0	0	0
12	Filip De Wilde	RSC Anderlecht	07/05/1964	0	0	0	0
20th	Dany Verlinden	Club Bruges	08/15/1963	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Dirk Medved	Club Bruges	06/15/1968	2	0	0	0
3	Vital Borkelmans	Club Bruges	06/01/1963	2	0	1	0
4th	Philippe Albert	RSC Anderlecht	08/10/1967	3	2	1	0
5	Rudy Smidts	Royal Antwerp	08/12/1963	4th	0	1	0
13	Georges Green	AC Parma	01/25/1962	3	1	1	0
14th	Michel De Wolf	RSC Anderlecht	01/19/1958	4th	0	0	0
19th	Eric Van Meir	Sporting Charleroi	02/28/1968	0	0	0	0
22nd	Pascal Renier	Club Bruges	08/03/1971	0	0	0	0
midfield player
6th	Lorenzo Staelens	Club Bruges	04/30/1964	4th	0	0	0
7th	Franky Van Der Elst	Club Bruges	04/30/1961	4th	0	0	0
10	Enzo Scifo	AS Monaco	02/19/1966	4th	0	1	0
15th	Marc Emmers	RSC Anderlecht	02/25/1966	3	0	0	0
16	Danny Boffin	RSC Anderlecht	07/10/1965	3	0	0	0
18th	Marc Wilmots	Standard Liege	02/22/1969	1	0	0	0
21st	Stéphane Van Der Heyden	Club Bruges	07/03/1969	0	0	0	0
striker
8th	Luc Nilis	RSC Anderlecht	05/25/1967	3	0	0	0
9	Marc Degryse	RSC Anderlecht	09/04/1965	3	1	0	0
11	Alexandre Czerniatynski	KV Mechelen	07/28/1960	1	0	0	0
17th	Josip Weber	Cercle Bruges	11/16/1964	4th	0	1	0
Trainer
	Paul Van Himst		10/02/1943

Belgian team matches

Preliminary round

→ Main article : Football World Cup 1994 / Group F

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Netherlands	3	2	0	1	004: 300	+1	06th
2.	Saudi Arabia	3	2	0	1	004: 300	+1	06th
3.	Belgium	3	2	0	1	002: 100	+1	06th
4th	Morocco	3	0	0	3	002: 500	−3	00

Sun., June 19, 1994, 12:30 p.m. in Orlando
Belgium	-	Morocco	1: 0 (1: 0)
Sat, June 25, 1994, 12:30 p.m. in Orlando
Belgium	-	Netherlands	1: 0 (0: 0)
Wed. June 29, 1994 at 12:30 p.m. in Washington, DC
Belgium	-	Saudi Arabia	0: 1 (0: 1)

In Group F, three teams took the first three places with equal points, each with two wins. All games ended with successes of one goal difference. With an identical point and goal difference, the Netherlands were first ahead of Saudi Arabia, which lost 1: 2 in a direct comparison against Oranje . Belgium moved into the round of 16 as the third team, beating their neighbors 1-0. Morocco did well in fourth place despite the three defeats, because they were extremely close with two 1: 2 and one 0: 1.

Round of 16

Saturday, July 2, 1994 in Chicago
Germany	-	Belgium	3: 2 (3: 1)

In Chicago, Belgium met the German team, which, thanks to Rudi Völler, scored the 1-0 after five minutes. Greens equalizer two minutes later, the Germans countered by Klinsmann (10th) to 2-1 again. When Völler made it 3-1 after 39 minutes, the game seemed decided. The Swiss referee Rüthlisberger did not punish a clear foul by Helmer on Weber and the Belgians 2: 3 only fell in the final minute, so that the Vogts-Elf reached the quarter-finals.