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Belgium national football team results (1990–1999)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ23019817 ↗
Source-derived summary

In the 1990s, the Belgium national football team played at all three World Cups, but missed out on Euro 1992 and Euro 1996. They also appeared at three minor tournaments.

The overall match balance is positive with 36 wins versus 30 losses (and 23 draws).

Results

89 matches played:

* Friendly tournament; in 1998 Belgium participated at the King Hassan II Tournament, in February 1999 at the Cyprus Tournament and in May and June 1999 at the Kirin Cup.

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The public source identifies “Belgium national football team results (1990–1999)” as wikimedia list article. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Belgium, national and football.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 1996, 1998, 1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Belgium, national and football providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q23019817. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1992, 1996, 1998 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Belgium national football team results (1990–1999)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.