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THE QUALIFICATION ROUNDS
Participating countries 56 Total matches 92
Total goals 325 Goals per game average 3.53
Europe
(UEFA Group 1)
19.Oct 60 Stockholm Sweden 2-0 Belgium
20.Nov 60 Brussels Belgium 2-4 Switzerland
20.May 61 Lausanne Switzerland 2-1 Belgium
28.May 61 Stockholm Sweden 4-0 Switzerland
04.Oct 61 Brussels Belgium 0-2 Sweden
29.Oct 61 Berne Switzerland 3-2 Sweden
P W D L Gls Pts
1.Sweden 4 3 0 1 10- 3 6
Switzerland 4 3 0 1 9- 9 6
3.Belgium 4 0 0 4 3-10 0
Play-off
12.Nov 61 Berlin Switzerland 2-1 Sweden
(UEFA Group 2)
25.Sep 60 Helsinki Finland 1-2 France
11.Dec 60 Paris France 3-0 Bulgaria
16.Jun 61 Helsinki Finland 0-2 Bulgaria
28.Sep 61 Paris France 5-1 Finland
29.Oct 61 Sofia Bulgaria 3-1 Finland
12.Nov 61 Sofia Bulgaria 1-0 France
P W D L Gls Pts
1.France 4 3 0 1 10- 3 6
Bulgaria 4 3 0 1 6- 4 6
3.Finland 4 0 0 4 3-12 0
Play-off
16.Dec 61 Milan Bulgaria 1-0 France
(UEFA Group 3)
26.Oct 60 Belfast Northern Ireland 3-4 West Germany
20.Nov 60 Athens Greece 0-3 West Germany
03.May 61 Athens Greece 2-1 Northern Ireland
10.May 61 Berlin West Germany 2-1 Northern Ireland
17.Oct 61 Belfast Northern Ireland 2-0 Greece
22.Oct 61 Hamburg West Germany 2-1 Greece
P W D L Gls Pts
1.West Germany 4 4 0 0 11- 5 8
2.Northern Ireland 4 1 0 3 7- 8 2
3.Greece 4 1 0 3 3- 8 2
(UEFA Group 4)
16.Apr 61 Budapest Hungary 2-0 East Germany
30.Apr 61 Rotterdam Netherlands 0-3 Hungary
14.May 61 Leipzig East Germany 1-1 Netherlands
10.Sep 61 Berlin East Germany 2-3 Hungary
01.Oct 61 Netherlands x-x East Germany
(not played due to visa problems.)
22.Oct 61 Budapest Hungary 3-3 Netherlands
P W D L Gls Pts
1.Hungary 4 3 1 0 11- 5 7
2.Netherlands 3 0 2 1 4- 7 2
3.East Germany 3 0 1 2 3- 6 1
(UEFA Group 5)
01.Jun 61 Oslo Norway 0-1 Turkey
18.Jun 61 Moscow Soviet Union 1-0 Turkey
01.Jul 61 Moscow Soviet Union 5-2 Norway
23.Aug 61 Oslo Norway 0-3 Soviet Union
29.Oct 61 Ankara Turkey 2-1 Norway
12.Nov 61 Istanbul Turkey 1-2 Soviet Union
P W D L Gls Pts
1.Soviet Union 4 4 0 0 11- 3 8
2.Turkey 4 2 0 2 4- 4 4
3.Norway 4 0 0 4 3-11 0
(UEFA Group 6)
19.Oct 60 Luxembourg Luxembourg 0-9 England
19.Mar 61 Lisbon Portugal 6-0 Luxembourg
21.May 61 Lisbon Portugal 1-1 England
28.Sep 61 London England 4-1 Luxembourg
08.Oct 61 Luxembourg Luxembourg 4-2 Portugal
25.Oct 61 London England 2-0 Portugal
P W D L Gls Pts
1.England 4 3 1 0 16- 2 7
2.Portugal 4 1 1 2 9- 7 3
3.Luxembourg 4 1 0 3 5-21 2
(UEFA Group 7)
Sub-group A
Romania withdrew so Italy had a walkover.
Sub-group B
1st round
13.Nov 60 Nicosia Cyprus 1-1 Israel
27.Nov 60 Ramat Gan Israel 6-1 Cyprus
2nd round
14.Mar 61 Ramat Gan Israel 1-0 Ethiopia
19.Mar 61 Ramat Gan Ethiopia 2-3 Israel
Play-off
15.Oct 61 Ramat Gan Israel 2-4 Italy
04.Nov 61 Turin Italy 6-0 Israel
(UEFA Group 8)
03.May 61 Glasgow Scotland 4-1 Rep. of Ireland
07.May 61 Dublin Rep. of Ireland 0-3 Scotland
14.May 61 Bratislava Czechoslovakia 4-0 Scotland
26.Sep 61 Glasgow Scotland 3-2 Czechoslovakia
08.Oct 61 Dublin Rep. of Ireland 1-3 Czechoslovakia
29.Oct 61 Prague Czechoslovakia 7-1 Rep. of Ireland
P W D L Gls Pts
1.Czechoslovakia 4 3 0 1 16- 5 6
Scotland 4 3 0 1 10- 7 6
3.Rep. of Ireland 4 0 0 4 3-17 0
Play-off
29.Nov 61 Brussels Czechoslovakia 4-2 Scotland
[aet]
(UEFA Group 9)
19.Apr 61 Cardiff Wales 1-2 Spain
18.May 61 Madrid Spain 1-1 Wales
Spain needed to playoff with the winner of Africa for
one spot in the World Cup.
12.Nov 61 Casablanca Morocco 0-1 Spain
23.Nov 61 Madrid Spain 3-2 Morocco
(UEFA Group 10)
04.Jun 61 Belgrade Yugoslavia 2-1 Poland
25.Jun 61 Chorzów Poland 1-1 Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia needed to playoff with the winner of Asia
for one spot in the World Cup.
08.Oct 61 Belgrade Yugoslavia 5-1 South Korea
26.Nov 61 Seoul South Korea 1-3 Yugoslavia
QUALIFIED FROM EUROPE:
Switzerland, Bulgaria, West Germany, Hungary, Soviet
Union, England, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Spain and
Yugoslavia.
South America
(CONMEBOL Group 1)
04.Dec 60 Guayaquil Ecuador 3-6 Argentina
18.Dec 60 Buenos Aires Argentina 5-0 Ecuador
(CONMEBOL Group 2)
16.Jul 60 La Paz Bolivia 1-1 Uruguay
30.Jul 60 Montevideo Uruguay 2-1 Bolivia
(CONMEBOL Group 3)
30.Apr 61 Bogotá Colombia 1-0 Peru
07.May 61 Lima Peru 1-1 Colombia
QUALIFIED FROM SOUTH AMERICA:
Argentina, Uruguay and Colombia + Chile as host nation
and Brazil as defending champions.
North/Central America & Paraguay
(CONCACAF First round)
Sub-group A
06.Nov 60 Los Angeles USA 3-3 Mexico
13.Nov 60 Mexico City Mexico 3-0 USA
Sub-group B
21.Aug 60 San José Costa Rica 3-2 Guatemala
28.Aug 60 Guatemala Guatemala 4-4 Costa Rica
04.Sep 60 Tegucigalpa Honduras 2-1 Costa Rica
11.Sep 60 San José Costa Rica 5-0 Honduras
25.Sep 60 Tegucigalpa Honduras 1-1 Guatemala
02.Oct 60 Guatemala Guatemala x-x Honduras
(Match abandoned at 0-2, no result given, but win
awarded to Honduras by FIFA.)
P W D L Gls Pts
1.Costa Rica 4 2 1 1 13- 8 5
Honduras 4 2 1 1 3- 7 5
3.Guatemala 4 0 2 2 7- 8 2
Play-off
14.Jan 61 Guatemala Costa Rica 1-0 Honduras
Sub-group C
02.Oct 60 Paramaribo Surinam 1-2 Dutch Antilles
27.Nov 60 Willemstad Dutch Antilles 0-0 Surinam
(CONCACAF Second round)
22.Mar 61 San José Costa Rica 1-0 Mexico
29.Mar 61 San José Costa Rica 6-0 Dutch Antilles
05.Apr 61 Mexico City Mexico 7-0 Dutch Antilles
12.Apr 61 Mexico City Mexico 4-1 Costa Rica
23.Apr 61 Willemstad Dutch Antilles 2-0 Costa Rica
21.May 61 Willemstad Dutch Antilles 0-0 Mexico
P W D L Gls Pts
1.Mexico 4 2 1 1 11- 2 5
2.Costa Rica 4 2 0 2 8- 6 4
3.Dutch Antilles 4 1 1 2 2-13 3
Mexico required to play off against Paraguay for
one spot in the World Cup.
29.Oct 61 Mexico City Mexico 1-0 Paraguay
05.Nov 61 Asunción Paraguay 0-0 Mexico
QUALIFIED FROM NORTH/CENTRAL AMERICA & PARAGUAY:
Mexico
Africa
(CAF First round)
Sub-group A
Sudan and Egypt both withdrew.
Sub-group B
30.Oct 60 Casablanca Morocco 2-1 Tunisia
13.Nov 60 Tunis Tunisia 2-1 Morocco
Play-off
22.Jan 61 Palermo Morocco 1-1 Tunisia
(Morocco advance by drawing of lots.) [aet]
Sub-group C
28.Aug 60 Accra Ghana 4-1 Nigeria
10.Sep 60 Lagos Nigeria 2-2 Ghana
(CAF Final round)
02.Apr 61 Accra Ghana 0-0 Morocco
28.May 61 Casablanca Morocco 1-0 Ghana
Morocco needed to playoff with the winner of European
Group 9 for one spot in the World Cup.
12.Nov 61 Casablanca Morocco 0-1 Spain
23.Nov 61 Madrid Spain 3-2 Morocco
QUALIFIED FROM AFRICA:
None
Asia
Indonesia withdrew.
06.Nov 60 Seoul South Korea 2-1 Japan
11.Jun 61 Tokyo Japan 0-2 South Korea
South Korea needed to playoff with the winner of
European Group 10 for one spot in the World Cup.
08.Oct 61 Belgrade Yugoslavia 5-1 South Korea
26.Nov 61 Seoul South Korea 1-3 Yugoslavia
QUALIFIED FROM ASIA:
None
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