Eligible	Smederevska Palanka	Tuzla
Players ranked 3-8 in 1986 candidates (6)	Litynskaya, Levitina, Wu Mingqian	Cramling (decided not to play), Semenova, Brustman
From West European zonal 1A (1)	Arkell
From West European zonal 1B (1)		Lebel-Arias
From West European zonal 1C (1)		Canela Giménez
From Central European zonal 2 (2)	Lematschko (did not arrive)	Trabert
From East European zonal 3 (4)	Richtrová-Klímová, Voiska, Mádl	Ivánka
From Soviet zonal 4 (6)	Lelchuk, Gurieli (did not play; why?)	Ioseliani, Arakhamia, Matveeva, Sakhatova
From Mediterranean zonal 5 (1)		Maksimović
From US zonal 6 (1)	Izrailov
From Canadian zonal 7 (1)	Shterenberg (did not arrive)
From Central American zonal 8 (2)	De Armas Pérez	Frómeta Castillo
From South American zonal 9 (1)	Chaves
From West Asian zonal 10 (1)		R.Khadilkar
From South-East Asian zonal 11 (2)	An Yangfeng	Liu Shilan
From North African zonal 12 (1)	not played
From African zonal 13 (1)	not played
From Nordic zonal 14 (2)	Nyberg	Høiberg
Home player (2)	Marković-Jovanović	Nikolin
Nominated by FIDE
Replacements	Gaprindashvili (instead of Gurieli), Marić (taking Africa spot)	Verőci-Petronić (replaced Cramling), Petrović (taking Africa spot)