Football World Cup 1994 / Greece

This article covers the Greek national soccer team at the 1994 soccer world cup in the USA . It was Greece's first participation in the finals of a football World Cup.

qualification

Greece qualified for the finals of a world championship for the first time as the winner of Europe Group 5. The following results were achieved in the qualification:

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Greece	10: 02	14th
2	Russia	15: 04	12
3	Iceland	07: 06	8th
4th	Hungary	06:11	5
5	Luxembourg	02:17	1

Greece	-	Iceland	1: 0 (1: 0)
Iceland	-	Greece	0: 1 (0: 0)
Greece	-	Hungary	0-0
Greece	-	Luxembourg	2: 0 (1: 0)
Hungary	-	Greece	0: 1 (0: 0)
Russia	-	Greece	1: 1 (0: 1)
Luxembourg	-	Greece	1: 3 (0: 1)
Greece	-	Russia	1: 0 (0: 0)

Greek contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Andonis Minou	Apollon Athens	05/04/1958	1	0	0	0
15th	Christos Karkamanis	Aris Thessaloniki	09/22/1969	1	0	0	0
20th	Ilias Atmatzidis	AEK Athens	04/24/1969	1	0	0	0
Defender
2	Efstratios Apostolakis	Panathinaikos Athens	05/11/1964	2	0	0	0
3	Thanasis Kolitsidakis	Panathinaikos Athens	11/21/1966	1	0	0	0
4th	Stelios Manolas	AEK Athens	07/13/1971	1	0	1	0
5	Ioannis Kalitzakis	Panathinaikos Athens	02/10/1966	2	0	1	0
13	Vaios Karagiannis	AEK Athens	06/25/1968	2	0	1	0
18th	Kiriakos Karataidis	Olympiacos Piraeus	07/04/1965	1	0	1	0
22nd	Alexandros Alexiou	PAOK Thessaloniki	09/08/1963	1	0	0	0
midfield player
6th	Panagiotis Tsalouchidis	Olympiacos Piraeus	03/30/1963	2	0	1	0
8th	Nikolaos Nioplias	Panathinaikos Athens	January 17, 1965	0	0	0	0
10	Tassos Mitropoulos	AEK Athens	08/23/1957	3	0	2	0
11	Nikos Tsiantakis	Olympiacos Piraeus	10/20/1963	2	0	0	0
12	Spyros Marangos	Panathinaikos Athens	02/20/1967	2	0	0	0
17th	Minas Hantzidis	Olympiacos Piraeus	07/04/1966	2	0	1	0
19th	Savvas Kofidis	Aris Thessaloniki	03/21/1961	3	0	0	0
striker
7th	Dimitrios Saravakos	Panathinaikos Athens	07/29/1961	1	0	0	0
9	Nikolaos Machlas	OFI Crete	06/16/1973	3	0	0	0
14th	Vasilis Dimitriadis	AEK Athens	02/01/1966	2	0	0	0
16	Alexis Alexoudis	OFI Crete	06/20/1972	1	0	1	0
21st	Alekos Alexandris	AEK Athens	10/21/1968	1	0	0	0
Trainer
	Alketas Panagoulias		05/30/1934

Greek games

Preliminary round

→ Main article : Football World Cup 1994 / Group D

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Nigeria	3	2	0	1	006: 200	+4	06th
2.	Bulgaria	3	2	0	1	006: 300	+3	06th
3.	Argentina	3	2	0	1	006: 300	+3	06th
4th	Greece	3	0	0	3	000:100	−10	00

Tue June 21, 1994 at 12:30 p.m. Foxborough
Argentina	-	Greece	4: 0 (2: 0)
Sun June 26, 1994, 12:30 p.m. in Chicago
Bulgaria	-	Greece	4: 0 (1: 0)
Thursday, June 30, 1994 at 7:30 p.m. in Foxborough
Greece	-	Nigeria	0: 2 (0: 1)

In Group D, Nigeria, Bulgaria and Argentina finished the group stage in that order with two wins and one loss each, and all reached the round of 16. Greece as the fourth team, arguably the weakest team in the tournament, went home after the preliminary round. The three leading teams had exciting encounters with each other, with Nigeria in particular making a positive impression and only suffering a 1: 2 defeat against Argentina. The Bulgarians, who, under the direction of Stoitchkov, Ivanov and Letchkov, defeated the Argentines 2-0, were also strong.