enlargement of UEFA (from 30 to 52)

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1954: (30)
Albania
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
East Germany
England
Finland
France
Greece
Holland
Hungary
Iceland
Italy
Luxembourg
Northern Ireland
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Republic of Ireland
Romania
Scotland
Soviet Union
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Wales
West Germany
Yugoslavia

1960: (31)
Malta

1962: (33)
Cyprus
Malta

1974: (34)
Liechtenstein

1988: (35)
San Marino

1990: (35)
Faroe Islands
(- East Germany)

1992: (48)
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
(Soviet Union -> C.I.S. -> Russia)

1993: (45)
Armenia
Belarus
Croatia
Georgia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Ukraine
(Czechoslovakia -> Czech Republic)

1994: (49)
Azerbaijan
Israel
Macedonia
Moldova

1996: (50)
Andorra

1998: (51)
Bosnia-Herzegovina

2002: (52)
Kazakhstan

2003: (52)
(Yugoslavia -> Serbia and Montenegro)

2006: (52)
(Serbia and Montenegro -> Serbia)

2007: (53)
Montenegro

[IASocFan]

...
1960: (31)
Malta

1962: (33)
Cyprus
Malta

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Great table. But which Malta is which? ;)

[Sagy]

1954: (30)
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1960: (31)
Malta

1962: (33)
Cyprus
Malta

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Great table. But which Malta is which? ;)Malta's seems to have joined UEFA (http://www.uefa.com/uefa/aboutuefa/matchassociations/association=88.html) in 1960.

Turkey seems to be missing from the original list. Joined UEFA (http://www.uefa.com/uefa/aboutuefa/matchassociations/association=135.html) in 1962 (they were a FIFA member since 1923)

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OK!

1954: (30)
Albania
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
East Germany
England
Finland
France
Greece
Holland
Hungary
Iceland
Italy
Luxembourg
Northern Ireland
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Republic of Ireland
Romania
Scotland
Soviet Union
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Wales
West Germany
Yugoslavia

1960: (31)
Malta

1962: (33)
Cyprus
Turkey

1974: (34)
Liechtenstein

1988: (35)
San Marino

1990: (35)
Faroe Islands
(- East Germany)

1992: (48)
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
(Soviet Union -> C.I.S. -> Russia)

1993: (45)
Armenia
Belarus
Croatia
Georgia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Ukraine
(Czechoslovakia -> Czech Republic)

1994: (49)
Azerbaijan
Israel
Macedonia
Moldova

1996: (50)
Andorra

1998: (51)
Bosnia-Herzegovina

2002: (52)
Kazakhstan

2003: (52)
(Yugoslavia -> Serbia and Montenegro)

2006: (52)
(Serbia and Montenegro -> Serbia)

2007: (53)
Montenegro

[The Natural]

Wow the table shows how UEFA expanded to include more and more minnows. Only about 3 of the newer national teams save themselves from that title.

[RichardL]

Wow the table shows how UEFA expanded to include more and more minnows. Only about 3 of the newer national teams save themselves from that title.
when previously joined nations split into smaller parts, that's kind of an inevitable result. The only opposite was East & West Germany becoming one, removing the invariably poor East Germany from the qualifying groups.

there are also a few nations such as San Marino and Liechtenstein that have only bothered putting a team out relatively recently, even though there wasn't really anything stopping them in the past.

[The Natural]

when previously joined nations split into smaller parts, that's kind of an inevitable result. The only opposite was East & West Germany becoming one, removing the invariably poor East Germany from the qualifying groups.

there are also a few nations such as San Marino and Liechtenstein that have only bothered putting a team out relatively recently, even though there wasn't really anything stopping them in the past.

East Germany wasn't on my mind since they no longer exist as a national team. I also regard them as being a successful in Olympic football which counts for something.

Can't say the same for Malta, Cyprus, Faroe Islands, Andorra, Liechenstein, and San Marino that you mentioned.

Things won't get any better once Monaco comes into the fold.

["Eisenfuß" Eilts]

East Germany wasn't on my mind since they no longer exist as a national team. I also regard them as being a successful in Olympic football which counts for something.

East Germany was always relative sucessfull at the Olympics.
That had to do with the fact, that they had like most communistic states good scientifics and no doping tests.

Interesting statistics btw.

[goliath74]

East Germany were quite a decent team which were certainly not "invariably poor". Their Western cousins have had a couple reasons to be pissed at them, that's for sure.

Ukraine, Slovenia, Croatia, and Latvia are 4 of the newer teams that have made it to the final competitions. Slovakia and Israel have had narrow misses.

[Drake44444]

Can any country that just barely has a tiny bit of land in Europe join UEFA?