X WORLD CUP (FRG 1974)

QUALIFYING STAGE

(From 14-11-1971 to 13-02-1974)

 

ENTRANTS: 96 teams from 5 continents

CONTINENTAL ZONES: 5

CONFEDERATIONS: 6

EUROPE - UEFA (33): Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, Finland, France, FRG, GDR, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Wales, Yugoslavia.

SOUTH AMERICA - CONMEBOL (10): Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela.

NORTH & CENTRAL AMERICA - CONCACAF (14): Antigua, Canada, Costa Rica, Dutch Antilles, Dutch Guyana, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, USA.

AFRICA - CAF (24): Algeria, Cameroon, Congo, Dahomey, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mauritius, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Zaire, Zambia.

ASIA - AFC (12) / ASIA (1) / OCEANIA - OFC (2): Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, North Korea, South Korea, South Vietnam, Syria, Thailand / Israel / Australia, New Zealand.

 

 

GROUP 1 - EUROPE

 

GROUP 2 - EUROPE

14-11-71

Malta - Hungary (Valletta)

0-2 (0-1)

7-10-72

Luxembourg - Italy (Luxembourg)

0-4 (0-3)

30-04-72

Austria - Malta (Wien)

4-0 (3-0)

21-10-72

Switzerland - Italy (Bern)

0-0 (0-0)

6-05-72

Hungary - Malta (Budapest)

3-0 (1-0)

22-10-72

Luxembourg - Turkey (Luxembourg)

2-0 (2-0)

25-05-72

Sweden - Hungary (Stockholm)

0-0 (0-0)

10-12-72

Turkey - Luxembourg (İstanbul)

3-0 (2-0)

10-06-72

Austria - Sweden (Wien)

2-0 (0-0)

13-01-73

Italy - Turkey (Napoli)

0-0 (0-0)

15-10-72

Austria - Hungary (Wien)

2-2 (0-2)

25-02-73

Turkey - Italy (İstanbul)

0-1 (0-1)

15-10-72

Sweden - Malta (Göteborg)

7-0 (5-0)

31-03-73

Italy - Luxembourg (Genova)

5-0 (2-0)

25-11-72

Malta - Austria (Valletta)

0-2 (0-0)

8-04-73

Luxembourg - Switzerland (Luxemb.)

0-1 (0-1)

29-04-73

Hungary - Austria (Budapest)

2-2 (1-2)

9-05-73

Switzerland - Turkey (Basel)

0-0 (0-0)

23-05-73

Sweden - Austria (Göteborg)

3-2 (1-0)

26-09-73

Switzerland - Luxembourg (Luzern)

1-0 (1-0)

13-06-73

Hungary - Sweden (Budapest)

3-3 (1-1)

20-10-73

Italy - Switzerland (Roma)

2-0 (1-0)

11-11-73

Malta - Sweden (Valletta)

1-2 (1-2)

18-11-73

Turkey - Switzerland (İzmir)

2-0 (0-0)

Austria and Sweden finished the group stage with the same points (8) and goal difference (+7), so they had to play a tie-break in order to decide the qualifying berth.

QUALIFIED: Italy.

 

PLAY-OFF

27-11-73

Sweden - Austria (Gelsenkirchen)

2-1 (2-1)

QUALIFIED: Sweden.

 

 

GROUP 3 - EUROPE

 

GROUP 4 - EUROPE

18-05-72

Belgium - Iceland (Liège)

4-0 (2-0)

21-06-72

Finland - Albania (Helsinki)

1-0 (1-0)

22-05-72

Iceland - Belgium (Brugge)

0-4 (0-2)

20-09-72

Finland - Romania (Helsinki)

1-1 (0-0)

3-08-72

Norway - Iceland (Stavanger)

4-1 (0-0)

7-10-72

GDR - Finland (Dresden)

5-0 (0-0)

4-10-72

Norway - Belgium (Oslo)

0-2 (0-0)

29-10-72

Romania - Albania (Bucureşti)

2-0 (2-0)

1-11-72

Netherlands - Norway (Rotterdam)

9-0 (1-0)

8-04-73

GDR - Albania (Magdeburg)

2-0 (0-0)

19-11-72

Belgium - Netherlands (Antwerpen)

0-0 (0-0)

6-05-73

Albania - Romania (Tiranë)

1-4 (0-2)

2-08-73

Iceland - Norway (Reykjavík)

0-4 (0-1)

27-05-73

Romania - GDR (Bucureşti)

1-0 (0-0)

22-08-73

Netherlands - Iceland (Amsterdam)

5-0 (4-0)

6-06-73

Finland - GDR (Tampere)

1-5 (0-3)

29-08-73

Iceland - Netherlands (Deventer)

1-8 (1-4)

26-09-73

GDR - Romania (Leipzig)

2-0 (1-0)

12-09-73

Norway - Netherlands (Oslo)

1-2 (0-1)

10-10-73

Albania - Finland (Tiranë)

1-0 (1-0)

31-10-73

Belgium - Norway (Bruxelles)

2-0 (1-0)

14-10-73

Romania - Finland (Bucureşti)

9-0 (5-0)

18-11-73

Netherlands - Belgium (Amsterdam)

0-0 (0-0)

3-11-73

Albania - GDR (Tiranë)

1-4 (1-2)

QUALIFIED: Netherlands.

QUALIFIED: GDR.

 

 

GROUP 5 - EUROPE

 

GROUP 6 - EUROPE

15-11-72

Wales - England (Cardiff)

0-1 (0-1)

29-03-72

Portugal - Cyprus (Lisboa)

4-0 (2-0)

24-01-73

England - Wales (London)

1-1 (1-1)

10-05-72

Cyprus - Portugal (Levkosía)

0-1 (0-0)

28-03-73

Wales - Poland (Cardiff)

2-0 (0-0)

18-10-72

Bulgaria - Northern Ireland (Sofija)

3-0 (1-0)

6-06-73

Poland - England (Chorzów)

2-0 (1-0)

19-11-72

Cyprus - Bulgaria (Lemesós)

0-4 (0-3)

26-09-73

Poland - Wales (Chorzów)

3-0 (2-0)

14-02-73

Cyprus - Northern Ireland (Levkosía)

1-0 (0-0)

17-10-73

England - Poland (London)

1-1 (0-0)

28-03-73

Northern Ireland - Portugal (Coventry)

1-1 (0-1)

QUALIFIED: Poland.

2-05-73

Bulgaria - Portugal (Sofija)

2-1 (1-0)

 

8-05-73

Northern Ireland - Cyprus (London)

3-0 (3-0)

26-09-73

Northern Ireland - Bulgaria (Sheffield)

0-0 (0-0)

13-10-73

Portugal - Bulgaria (Lisboa)

2-2 (0-0)

14-11-73

Portugal - Northern Ireland (Lisboa)

1-1 (1-0)

18-11-73

Bulgaria - Cyprus (Sofija)

2-0 (1-0)

QUALIFIED: Bulgaria.

 

 

GROUP 7 - EUROPE

 

GROUP 8 - EUROPE

19-10-72

Spain - Yugoslavia (Las Palmas)

2-2 (1-0)

18-10-72

Denmark - Scotland (København)

1-4 (1-2)

18-11-72

Yugoslavia - Greece (Beograd)

1-0 (1-0)

15-11-72

Scotland - Denmark (Glasgow)

2-0 (1-0)

17-01-73

Greece - Spain (Athína)

2-3 (0-1)

2-05-73

Denmark - Czechoslovakia (København)

1-1 (1-1)

21-02-73

Spain - Greece (Málaga)

3-1 (2-1)

6-06-73

Czechoslovakia - Denmark (Praha)

6-0 (0-0)

21-10-73

Yugoslavia - Spain (Zagreb)

0-0 (0-0)

26-09-73

Scotland - Czechoslovakia (Glasgow)

2-1 (1-1)

19-12-73

Greece - Yugoslavia (Athína)

2-4 (2-2)

17-10-73

Czechoslovakia - Scotland (Bratislava)

1-0 (1-0)

Spain and Yugoslavia finished the group stage with the same points (6) and goal difference (+3), so they had to play a tie-break in order to decide the qualifying berth.

QUALIFIED: Scotland.

 

PLAY-OFF

13-02-74

Yugoslavia - Spain (Frankfurt am Main)

1-0 (1-0)

QUALIFIED: Yugoslavia.

 

 

GROUP 9 - EUROPE

 

GROUP 10 - SOUTH AMERICA

13-10-72

France - Soviet Union (Paris)

1-0 (0-0)

21-06-73

Colombia - Ecuador (Bogotá)

1-1 (1-0)

18-10-72

Ireland - Soviet Union (Dublin)

1-2 (0-0)

24-06-73

Colombia - Uruguay (Bogotá)

0-0 (0-0)

15-11-72

Ireland - France (Dublin)

2-1 (1-0)

28-06-73

Ecuador - Colombia (Guayaquil)

1-1 (1-0)

13-05-73

Soviet Union - Ireland (Moskva)

1-0 (0-0)

1-07-73

Ecuador - Uruguay (Quito)

1-2 (1-1)

19-05-73

France - Ireland (Paris)

1-1 (0-0)

5-07-73

Uruguay - Colombia (Montevideo)

0-1 (0-0)

26-05-73

Soviet Union - France (Moskva)

2-0 (0-0)

8-07-73

Uruguay - Ecuador (Montevideo)

4-0 (3-0)

QUALIFIED: Soviet Union. (*)

QUALIFIED: Uruguay.

* The winner of this group advances to a UEFA / CONMEBOL Play-Off with the winner of South America Group 12 (see below).

 

 

 

GROUP 11 - SOUTH AMERICA

 

GROUP 12 - SOUTH AMERICA

2-09-73

Bolivia - Paraguay (La Paz)

1-2 (1-1)

29-04-73

Peru - Chile (Lima)

2-0 (1-0)

9-09-73

Argentina - Bolivia (Buenos Aires)

4-0 (2-0)

13-05-73

Chile - Peru (Santiago)

2-0 (0-0)

16-09-73

Paraguay - Argentina (Asunción)

1-1 (1-1)

Venezuela withdrew before the competition.

Chile and Peru finished the group stage with the same points (2) and goal difference (0), so they had to play a tie-break in order to decide the South American entrant in the UEFA / CONMEBOL Play-Off with the winner of the European Group 9.

23-09-73

Bolivia - Argentina (La Paz)

0-1 (0-1)

30-09-73

Paraguay - Bolivia (Asunción)

4-0 (3-0)

7-10-73

Argentina - Paraguay (Buenos Aires)

3-1 (1-1)

QUALIFIED: Argentina.

 

PLAY-OFF

5-08-73

Chile - Peru (Montevideo)

2-1 (1-1)

UEFA / CONMEBOL PLAY-OFF

26-09-73

Soviet Union - Chile (Moskva)

0-0 (0-0)

21-11-73

Chile - Soviet Union (Santiago)

(*)

QUALIFIED: Chile.

 

 

GROUP 13 - NORTH/CENTRAL AMERICA

 

GROUP 14 - AFRICA

SUBGROUP 1

FIRST ROUND

20-08-72

Canada - USA (St.John's)

3-2 (2-0)

19-11-72

Morocco - Senegal (Rabat)

0-0 (0-0)

24-08-72

Canada - Mexico (Toronto)

0-1 (0-0)

3-12-72

Senegal - Morocco (Dakar)

1-2 (1-1)

29-08-72

USA - Canada (Baltimore)

2-2 (2-1)

 

 

 

3-09-72

Mexico - USA (México D.F.)

3-1 (1-0)

2-03-72

Algeria - Guinea (Algiers)

1-0 (0-0)

6-09-72

Mexico - Canada (México D.F.)

2-1 (1-1)

12-03-72

Guinea - Algeria (Conakry)

5-1 (2-0)

10-09-72

USA - Mexico (Los Angeles)

1-2 (1-1)

 

 

 

SUBGROUP 2

8-12-72

Egypt - Tunisia (Cairo)

2-1 (1-0)

3-12-72

Guatemala - El Salvador (Guatemala)

1-0 (0-0)

17-12-72

Tunisia - Egypt (Tunis)

2-0 (1-0)

10-12-72

El Salvador - Guatemala (San Salvador)

0-1 (0-0)

 

 

 

SUBGROUP 3

15-10-72

Sierra Leone - Ivory Coast (Freetown)

0-1 (0-1)

3-12-72

Honduras - Costa Rica (Tegucigalpa)

2-1 (1-1)

29-10-72

Ivory Coast - Sierra Leone (Abidjan)

2-0 (1-0)

10-12-72

Costa Rica - Honduras (San José)

3-3 (1-0)

 

 

 

SUBGROUP 4

16-07-72

Kenya - Sudan (Nairobi)

2-0 (1-0)

Jamaica withdrew before the competition and Dutch Antilles qualified.

23-07-72

Sudan - Kenya (Khartoum)

1-0 (1-0)

SUBGROUP 5

 

 

 

15-04-72

Haiti - Puerto Rico (Port-au-Prince)

7-0 (5-0)

Madagascar withdrew before the competition and Mauritius qualified.

23-04-72

Puerto Rico - Haiti (San Juan)

0-5 (0-2)

 

 

 

SUBGROUP 6

25-11-72

Tanzania - Ethiopia (Dar es Salaam)

1-1 (0-1)

10-11-72

Trinidad&Tobago - Antigua (Pt. Spain)

11-1 (4-1)

3-12-72

Ethiopia - Tanzania (Addis Ababa)

0-0 (0-0)

19-11-72

Antigua - Trinidad&Tobago (St.John's)

1-2 (0-2)

Tie-Break

28-11-72

Trinidad&T. - Dutch Guyana (Pt. Spain)

2-1 (0-0)

10-12-72

Ethiopia - Tanzania (Addis Ababa)

3-0 (3-0)

30-11-72

D. Guyana - Trinidad&T. (S. Fernando)

1-1 (0-0)

 

 

 

3-12-72

Dutch Guyana - Antigua (St.John's)

6-0 (2-0)

30-04-72

Lesotho - Zambia (Maseru)

0-0 (0-0)

5-12-72

Antigua - Dutch Guyana (St.John's)

1-3 (1-2)

4-06-72

Zambia - Lesotho (Ndola)

6-1 (3-1)

FINAL STAGE (Port-au-Prince, HAITI)

 

 

 

29-11-73

Honduras - Trinidad and Tobago

2-1 (1-0)

5-08-72

Nigeria - Congo (Ibadan)

2-1 (1-0)

30-11-73

Mexico - Guatemala

0-0 (0-0)

15-08-72

Congo - Nigeria (Brazzaville)

1-1 (0-1)

1-12-73

Haiti - Dutch Antilles

3-0 (2-0)

 

 

 

3-12-73

Honduras - Mexico

1-1 (0-0)

18-06-72

Dahomey - Ghana (Cotonou)

0-5 (0-3)

4-12-73

Haiti - Trinidad and Tobago

2-1 (1-1)

2-07-72

Ghana - Dahomey (Kumasi)

5-1 (2-0)

5-12-73

Dutch Antilles - Guatemala

2-2 (1-1)

 

 

 

7-12-73

Honduras - Haiti

0-1 (0-0)

6-06-72

Togo - Zaire (Lomé)

0-0 (0-0)

8-12-73

Mexico - Dutch Antilles

8-0 (4-0)

20-06-72

Zaire - Togo (Kinshasa)

4-0 (2-0)

10-12-73

Trinidad and Tobago - Guatemala

1-0 (1-0)

 

 

 

12-12-73

Honduras - Dutch Antilles

2-2 (1-0)

Gabon withdrew before the competition and Cameroon qualified.

13-12-73

Haiti - Guatemala

2-1 (1-1)

SECOND ROUND

14-12-73

Trinidad and Tobago - Mexico

4-0 (2-0)

11-02-73

Guinea - Morocco (Conakry)

1-1 (1-1)

15-12-73

Guatemala - Honduras

1-1 (0-1)

25-02-73

Morocco - Guinea (Tétouan)

2-0 (0-0)

17-12-73

Trinidad and Tobago - Dutch Antilles

4-0 (2-0)

 

 

 

18-12-73

Mexico - Haiti

1-0 (1-0)

11-02-73

Tunisia - Ivory Coast (Tunis)

1-1 (0-1)

QUALIFIED: Haiti.

25-02-73

Ivory Coast - Tunisia (Abidjan)

2-1 (1-1)

 

 

 

 

10-12-72

Mauritius - Kenya (Curepipe)

1-3 (1-1)

17-12-72

Kenya - Mauritius (Nairobi)

2-2 (0-2)

 

 

 

1-04-73

Ethiopia - Zambia (Addis Ababa)

0-0 (0-0)

15-04-73

Zambia - Ethiopia (Lusaka)

4-2 (0-1)

 

 

 

10-02-73

Nigeria - Ghana (Lagos)

0-2 (*)

22-02-73

Ghana - Nigeria (Accra)

0-0 (0-0)

 

 

 

4-02-73

Cameroon - Zaire (Douala)

0-1 (0-1)

25-02-73

Zaire - Cameroon (Kinshasa)

0-1 (0-1)

Tie-Break

27-02-73

Zaire - Cameroon (Kinshasa)

2-0 (1-0)

THIRD ROUND

20-05-73

Ivory Coast - Morocco (Abidjan)

1-1 (0-1)

3-06-73

Morocco - Ivory Coast (Tétouan)

4-1 (2-0)

 

 

 

12-08-73

Zambia - Kenya (Ndola)

2-0 (1-0)

19-08-73

Kenya - Zambia (Nairobi)

2-2 (0-2)

 

 

 

5-08-73

Ghana - Zaire (Accra)

1-0 (1-0)

19-08-73

Zaire - Ghana (Kinshasa)

4-1 (2-0)

FINAL STAGE

21-10-73

Zambia - Morocco (Lusaka)

4-0 (2-0)

4-11-73

Zambia - Zaire (Lusaka)

0-2 (0-2)

18-11-73

Zaire - Zambia (Kinshasa)

2-1 (1-1)

25-11-73

Morocco - Zambia (Tétouan)

2-0 (1-0)

9-12-73

Zaire - Morocco (Kinshasa)

3-0 (0-0)

23-12-73

Morocco - Zaire (Tétouan)

0-2 (*)

QUALIFIED: Zaire.

 

 

GROUP 15 - ASIA/OCEANIA

GROUP A (Seoul, SOUTH KOREA)

Group Allocation Matches

16-05-73

Israel - Japan

2-1 (1-1)

16-05-73

South Vietnam - Thailand

1-0 (0-0)

17-05-73

Hong Kong - Malaysia

1-0 (0-0)

Subgroup A1

20-05-73

Japan - South Vietnam

4-0 (2-0)

22-05-73

Hong Kong - Japan

1-0 (0-0)

24-05-73

Hong Kong - South Vietnam

1-0 (0-0)

Subgroup A2

19-05-73

South Korea - Thailand

4-0 (0-0)

19-05-73

Israel - Malaysia

3-0 (0-0)

21-05-73

South Korea - Malaysia

0-0 (0-0)

21-05-73

Israel - Thailand

6-0 (1-0)

23-05-73

South Korea - Israel

0-0 (0-0)

23-05-73

Malaysia - Thailand

2-0 (0-0)

Semifinals

26-05-73

South Korea - Hong Kong

3-1 (1-1)

26-05-73

Israel - Japan

1-0 (0-0)

Final

28-05-73

South Korea - Israel

1-0 (0-0)

GROUP B

Subgroup B1 (AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND)

4-03-73

New Zealand - Australia (Auckland)

1-1 (0-0)

11-03-73

Australia - Iraq (Sydney)

3-1 (0-0)

11-03-73

Indonesia - New Zealand (Sydney)

1-1 (1-0)

13-03-73

Australia - Indonesia (Sydney)

2-1 (2-1)

13-03-73

Iraq - New Zealand (Sydney)

2-0 (2-0)

16-03-73

Iraq - Indonesia (Sydney)

1-1 (1-1)

16-03-73

Australia - New Zealand (Sydney)

3-3 (3-1)

18-03-73

Australia - Iraq (Melbourne)

0-0 (0-0)

18-03-73

Indonesia - New Zealand (Melbourne)

1-0 (1-0)

21-03-73

Iraq - Indonesia (Sydney)

3-2 (2-1)

24-03-73

Australia - Indonesia (Sydney)

6-0 (3-0)

24-03-73

Iraq - New Zealand (Sydney)

4-0 (3-0)

Subgroup B2 (Tehran, IRAN)

4-05-73

Iran - North Korea

0-0 (0-0)

4-05-73

Syria - Kuwait

2-1 (0-0)

6-05-73

Iran - Kuwait

2-1 (1-0)

6-05-73

North Korea - Syria

1-1 (0-0)

8-05-73

North Korea - Kuwait

0-0 (0-0)

8-05-73

Iran - Syria

1-0 (0-0)

11-05-73

Iran - North Korea

2-1 (1-0)

11-05-73

Syria - Kuwait

2-0 (1-0)

13-05-73

Iran - Kuwait

2-0 (0-0)

13-05-73

North Korea - Syria

3-0 (2-0)

15-05-73

Syria - Iran

1-0 (1-0)

15-05-73

Kuwait - North Korea

2-0 (1-0)

Final

18-08-73

Australia - Iran (Sydney)

3-0 (1-0)

24-08-73

Iran - Australia (Tehran)

2-0 (2-0)

FINAL

28-10-73

Australia - South Korea (Sydney)

0-0 (0-0)

10-11-73

South Korea - Australia (Seoul)

2-2 (2-1)

Tie-Break

13-11-73

Australia - South Korea (Hong Kong)

1-0 (0-0)

QUALIFIED: Australia.

 

 

BYES: FRG (host), Brazil (title holder).

 

 

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