February
West Germany finally won a match after being winless for six straight matches. They defeated Italy (2-1) away from home.
Spain defeated Belgium (3-0) in a high profile friendly. Poland and USSr toured Argentina and Mexico respectively.
Jean-Pierre Papin made his debut for France in a scoreless tie with Northern Ireland in Paris.
England defeated Israel (2-1) at Tel Aviv.
Date: February 1, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 45,000
Venue: Baghdad, Al-Shaab Stadium
Iraq 0-Denmark League XI 2 (Claus Nielsen 6, Jan Bartram 33)
Date: February 1, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 2,500
Venue: Doha,Qatar- El Kabir
Asia XI 0-Hungary 2 (Zoltan Peter 61 pen, Kalman Kovacs 80)
Date: February 2, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance:
Venue: Guadalajara
U.A. G. (Mexico) 0-Bulgaria 0
Date: February 2, 1986
Competition: Marlboro Cup
Attendance: 15,054
Venue: Miami, Florida- Orange Bowl, USA
Colombia 6-Jamaica 2 (Armando Osma (3 goals), Sergio Angulo , Carlos Enrique Estrada , Otero / Burgess, Davis)
Note: In some sources, Colombia is referred as Colombian club Asociacion Deportivo Cali and not the National team.
Date: February 2, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 2,000
Venue: Doha,Qatar-El Kabir
Qatar 0-Hungary 3 (Peter Hannich12, Jozef Kiprich 37, Lajos Detari 50)
Date: February 2, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 1,828
Venue: Pisa
Pisa (Italy) 0-Poland 2 (Dariusz Dziekanowski 36-, Ryszard Tarasiewicz 86)
Date: February 2, 1986
Competition: Marlboro Cup
Attendance: 15,054
Venue: Miami, Florida- Orange Bowl, USA
Uruguay 3-Canada 1 (Carlos Aguilera, Santiago Ostolaza, Jose Zalazar / Pakos pen)
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Photo From: Onze, Issue 123, March 1986 (February 2, 1986, Marlboro Cup, Uruguay 3-Canada 1) |
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Photo From: Onze, Issue 123, March 1986 (Canada squad with Pele, February 2, 1986, Marlboro Cup, Uruguay 3-Canada 1) |
Date: February 3, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 45,000
Venue: Baghdad, Al-Shaab Stadium
Iraq 2-Denmark League XI 0 (Hussein Saeed 45 pen , Natiq Hashim 63)
Date: February 4, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 17,000
Venue: Mar Del Plata
Boca Juniors (Argentina) 0-Poland 1 (Dariusz Dziekanowski 77)
Date: February 5, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 6,000
Venue: Monterrey
U.N. Nueva Leon (Mexico) 0-Bulgaria 2 (Stoicho Mladenov 11, Kolev 20)
Date: February 5, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 40,000
Venue: Avellino -Stadio Partenio
Italy 1-West Germany 2 (Aldo Serena 21 / Matthias Herget 37, Lothar Matthäus 75 pen)![]() |
Photo From: EL GRAFICO Nº 3462 (11-02-1986) (Giuseppe Baresi and Felix Magath, February 5, 1986, Italy 1-West Germany 2) |
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Photo From: EL GRAFICO Nº 3462 (11-02-1986) (Italy squad, February 5, 1986, Italy 1-West Germany 2) |
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Photo From: EL GRAFICO Nº 3462 (11-02-1986) (West Germany squad, February 5, 1986, Italy 1-West Germany 2) |
Date: February 5, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 6,000
Venue: Portimao-Estadio do Portinmonense
Portugal 2-Luxembourg 0 (Federico 3, Fernando Gomes 21)
Date: February 5, 1986
Competition: Marlboro Cup
Attendance: 5,182
Venue: Miami, Florida- Orange Bowl, USA
Paraguay 4-Jamaica 1 (Ramón Angel Hicks (2 goals), Francisco Alcaraz (2 goals) / Downer)
Date: February 5, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 23,492
Venue: Mar Del Plata
River Plate (Argentina) 5-Poland 4 (Norberto Alonso 37, Enzo Francescolli 51,83, 89, Centurion 88 / Dariusz Dziekanowski 49,53 pen, Roman Wojcicki 68, Andrzej Buncol 73)![]() |
Photo From: EL GRAFICO Nº 3462 (11-02-1986) (February 5, 1986, River Plate 5-Poland 4) |
Date: February 5, 1986
Competition: Marlboro Cup
Attendance: 5,182
Venue: Miami, Florida- Orange Bowl
USA 0-Canada 0
Date: February 7, 1986
Competition: Marlboro Cup
Attendance: 15,852
Venue: Miami, Florida- Orange Bowl, USA
Colombia 2-Paraguay 0 (Carlos Enrique Estrada , Carlos Mario Hoyos)
Note: In some sources, Colombia is referred as Colombian club Asociacion Deportivo Cali and not the National team.
Date: February 7, 1986
Competition: Marlboro Cup
Attendance: 15,852
Venue: Miami, Florida- Orange Bowl
USA 1-Uruguay 1 (Bruce Murray / Carlos Aguilera 79)
Date: February 9, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 5,000
Venue: Querétaro – Estadio La Corregidora,Mexico
Bulgaria 1-East Germany 2 (Atanes Pashev or Iliya Diakov85 / Matthias Liebers 63, Uwe Zötzsche 73 pen)
Date: February 9, 1986
Competition: Marlboro Cup-Final
Attendance: 16,561
Venue: Miami, Florida- Orange Bowl, USA
Uruguay 2-Colombia 0 (Mauricio Silvera or Escobar (own goal) 39, Enrique Báez 49)
Note: In some sources, Colombia is referred as Colombian club Asociacion Deportivo Cali and not the National team.
Date: February 11, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 10,000
Venue: Hong Kong
Hong Kong XI 1-Paraguay 1 (Juan Bautista Torales (Own Goal) 16 / Rogelio Delgado 55)
Date: February 12, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 5,000
Venue: Puebla
Puebla (Mexico) 0-East Germany 1 (Ralf Strässer 32)
Date: February 14, 1986
Competition: Chinese New Year Cup, Group Stage
Attendance:
Venue: Hong Kong - Hong Kong Stadium
South Korea 1-Paraguay 3 (Min-Gook Cho 77 / Adolfino Caněte 46, Isidro Sandoval 66, Vladimiro Schettina 89 pen)
Date: February 14, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 8,000
Venue: Bunos Aires-Velez Sarsfield
Racing Club (Argentina) 0-Poland 1 (Miroslav Okonski 51)
Date: February 14, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 6,000
Venue: Guadalajara
Atlas (Mexico) 0-USSR 3 (Sergei Dmitriev 13, Alexander Zavarov 20, 68)
Date: February 15, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 6,000
Venue: San José ,California- Spartans Stadium, USA
Mexico 1-East Germany 2 (Luis Flores 38 / Uwe Zötzsche 26 pen, 83)
Date: February 16, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 14,000
Venue: Djakarta
Indonesia 2-Paraguay 3 (Rusion 22, Jacob 72 / Ramón Angel Hicks 7, Cesar Zabala 14, Adolfino Caněte 83)
Date: February 16, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 44,000
Venue: Montevideo- Estadio Centenario
Uruguay 2-Poland 2 (Miguel Bossio 61, Jose Zalazar 78 / Krzysztof Baran 7,63)Date: February 19, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 25,000
Venue: Elche-Estadio Nuevo
Spain 3-Belgium 0 (Emilio Butragueno 3, Julio Salinas 41, Antonio Maceda 73)
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Photo From: Todo Sobre La Seleccion Espanola, Felix Martialay, 2006 (Spain squad, February 19, 1986, Spain 3-Belgium 0) |
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Photo From: (Magazine Source unknown) / Contribution From a blog viewer (Belgium squad, February 19, 1986, Spain 3-Belgium 0) |
Date: February 19, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 22,000
Venue: Rabat
Morocco 0-Bulgaria 0
Date: February 19, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 4,000
Venue: Athens-Olympiako Stadio Athinas 'Spyros Louis' (OAKA)
Greece 0-Cyprus 0
Date: February 19, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 30,000
Venue: Braga - Estadio Primeiro de Maio
Portugal 1-East Germany 3 (Fernando Gomes 63 pen / Andreas Thom 7, Ulf Kirsten 24, Rainer Ernst 33)Date: February 19, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 40,000
Venue: Mexico City –Estadio Azteca
Mexico 1-USSR 0 (Javier Aguirre 38)
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Photo From: Onze, Issue 123, March 1986 (Oleg Blokhin , February 19, 1986, Mexico 1-USSR 0) |
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Photo From: Onze, Issue 123, March 1986 (Oleg Blokhin, February 19, 1986, Mexico 1-USSR 0) |
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Photo From: Onze, Issue 123, March 1986 (both squads, February 19, 1986, Mexico 1-USSR 0) |
Date: February 19, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 6,000
Venue: Neuchâtel –Stade de la Maladiere
Neuchatel Xamax (Switzerland)- Switzerland 2 (Luthi 25, 43 / Claudio Sulser 11, Dominique Cina 85)
Date: February 21, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 2,000
Venue: Bahrain
Bahrain 0-Finland 0
Date: February 23, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 10,000
Venue: Split
Hajduk Split (Yugoslavia) 1-Czechoslovakia 1 (Zlatko Vujovic 47/ Vlastimil Lauda 14)
Date: February 23, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance:
Venue: Irapuato
Irapuato (Mexico) 0-USSR 2 (Georgiy Kondratiev 41, Oleg Blokhin 44)
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Photo From: Onze, Issue 123, March 1986 (Sergei Dmitriev, February 23, 1986, Irapuato 0-USSR 2) |
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Photo From: Onze, Hors serie 27, 1986 (USSR squad, February 23, 1986, Irapuato 0-USSR 2) |
Date: February 24, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 1,500
Venue: Bahrain
Bahrain 0-Finland 4 (Ari Valvee 38, Markus Törnvall 59, Jukka Ikäläinen 85, Pasi Rasimus 89)
Date: February 25, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 20,000
Venue: Dahran
Saudi Arabia 1-Wales 2 (Al-Thani 66 pen / Neil Slatter 47, Gordon Davies 60)
Date: February 26, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 30,000
Venue: Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan-National Stadium
Israel 1-England 2 (Eli Ohana 7 / Bryan Robson 51,86 pen)![]() |
Photo From: World Soccer, April 1986 (Chris Waddle, February 26, 1986, Israel 1-England 2) |
Date: February 26, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 28,909
Venue: Paris-Parc Des Princes
France 0-Northern Ireland 0![]() |
Photo From: Onze, Hors serie 27, 1986 (Jean-Pierre Papin, February 26, 1986, France 0-Northern Ireland 0) |
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Photo From: (Magazine Source unknown) / Contribution From a blog viewer (France squad, February 26, 1986, France 0-Northern Ireland 0) |
Date: February 26, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 4,000
Venue: St.George’s
Granada 1-Norway 2 (Drayton / Tom Sundby , Vegard Skogheim)
Date: February 26, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 3,000
Venue: Doha
Qatar 1-Paraguay 1 (Belai 39 / Rogelio Delgado 86)
Date: February 28, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 2,000
Venue: Sibenik
Sibenik (Yugoslavia) 1-Czechoslovakia 1 (Maretic 75 pen / Vlastimil Lauda 10)
Date: February 28, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 16,000
Venue: Damman
Saudi Arabia 0-Finland 1 (Kari Virtanen 38)
Date: February 28, 1986
Competition: Friendly
Attendance: 15,000
Venue: Alexandria, El-Iskandariya
Egypt 2-Romania 2 (Abu-Zeid 29, El-Khatib 62 pen / Marcel Coras 2, Gino Iorgulescu 50 pen)