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THE QUALIFICATION ROUNDS
Participating countries 99 Total matches 226
Total goals 620 Goals per game average 2.74
Europe
(UEFA Group 1)
14.Nov 71 La Valletta Malta 0-2 Hungary
30.Apr 72 Vienna Austria 4-0 Malta
06.May 72 Budapest Hungary 3-0 Malta
25.May 72 Stockholm Sweden 0-0 Hungary
10.Jun 72 Vienna Austria 2-0 Sweden
15.Oct 72 Vienna Austria 2-2 Hungary
15.Oct 72 Gothenburg Sweden 7-0 Malta
25.Nov 72 La Valletta Malta 0-2 Austria
29.Apr 73 Budapest Hungary 2-2 Austria
23.May 73 Gothenburg Sweden 3-2 Austria
13.Jun 73 Budapest Hungary 3-3 Sweden
11.Nov 73 La Valletta Malta 1-2 Sweden
P W D L Gls Pts
1.Sweden 6 3 2 1 15- 8 8
Austria 6 3 2 1 14- 7 8
3.Hungary 6 2 4 0 12- 7 8
4.Malta 6 0 0 6 1-20 0
Play-off
27.Nov 73 Gelsenkirchen Sweden 2-1 Austria
(UEFA Group 2)
07.Oct 72 Luxembourg Luxembourg 0-4 Italy
21.Oct 72 Bern Switzerland 0-0 Italy
22.Oct 72 Luxembourg Luxembourg 2-0 Turkey
10.Dec 72 Istanbul Turkey 3-0 Luxembourg
13.Jan 73 Naples Italy 0-0 Turkey
25.Feb 73 Istanbul Turkey 0-1 Italy
31.Mar 73 Genova Italy 5-0 Luxembourg
08.Apr 73 Luxembourg Luxembourg 0-1 Switzerland
09.May 73 Basel Switzerland 0-0 Turkey
26.Sep 73 Luzern Switzerland 1-0 Luxembourg
20.Oct 73 Rome Italy 2-0 Switzerland
18.Nov 73 Izmir Turkey 2-0 Switzerland
P W D L Gls Pts
1.Italy 6 4 2 0 12- 0 10
2.Turkey 6 2 2 2 5- 3 6
3.Switzerland 6 2 2 2 2- 4 6
4.Luxembourg 6 1 0 5 2-14 2
(UEFA Group 3)
18.May 72 Ličge Belgium 4-0 Iceland
22.May 72 Bruges Iceland 0-4 Belgium
03.Aug 72 Oslo Norway 4-1 Iceland
04.Oct 72 Oslo Norway 0-2 Belgium
01.Nov 72 Rotterdam Netherlands 9-0 Norway
19.Nov 72 Antwerpen Belgium 0-0 Netherlands
02.Aug 73 Reykjavik Iceland 0-4 Norway
22.Aug 73 Amsterdam Netherlands 5-0 Iceland
29.Aug 73 Deventer Iceland 1-8 Netherlands
12.Sep 73 Oslo Norway 1-2 Netherlands
31.Oct 73 Brussels Belgium 2-0 Norway
18.Nov 73 Amsterdam Netherlands 0-0 Belgium
P W D L Gls Pts
1.Netherlands 6 4 2 0 24- 2 10
2.Belgium 6 4 2 0 12- 0 10
3.Norway 6 2 0 4 9-16 4
4.Iceland 6 0 0 6 2-29 0
(UEFA Group 4)
21.Jun 72 Helsinki Finland 1-0 Albania
20.Sep 72 Helsinki Finland 1-1 Romania
07.Oct 72 Dresden East Germany 5-0 Finland
29.Oct 72 Bucharest Romania 2-0 Albania
08.Apr 73 Magdeburg East Germany 2-0 Albania
06.May 73 Tiranë Albania 1-4 Romania
27.May 73 Bucharest Romania 1-0 East Germany
06.Jun 73 Tampere Finland 1-5 East Germany
26.Sep 73 Leipzig East Germany 2-0 Romania
10.Oct 73 Tiranë Albania 1-0 Finland
14.Oct 73 Bucharest Romania 9-0 Finland
03.Nov 73 Tiranë Albania 1-4 East Germany
P W D L Gls Pts
1.East Germany 6 5 0 1 18- 3 10
2.Romania 6 4 1 1 17- 4 9
3.Finland 6 1 1 4 3-21 3
4.Albania 6 1 0 5 3-13 2
(UEFA Group 5)
15.Nov 72 Cardiff Wales 0-1 England
24.Jan 73 London England 1-1 Wales
28.Mar 73 Cardiff Wales 2-0 Poland
06.Jun 73 Chorzów Poland 2-0 England
26.Sep 73 Chorzów Poland 3-0 Wales
17.Oct 73 London England 1-1 Poland
P W D L Gls Pts
1.Poland 4 2 1 1 6- 3 5
2.England 4 1 2 1 3- 4 4
3.Wales 4 1 1 2 3- 5 3
(UEFA Group 6)
29.Mar 72 Lisbon Portugal 4-0 Cyprus
10.May 72 Nicosia Cyprus 0-1 Portugal
18.Oct 72 Sofia Bulgaria 3-0 Northern Ireland
19.Nov 72 Limassol Cyprus 0-4 Bulgaria
14.Feb 73 Nicosia Cyprus 1-0 Northern Ireland
28.Mar 73 Coventry Northern Ireland 1-1 Portugal
02.May 73 Sofia Bulgaria 2-1 Portugal
08.May 73 London Northern Ireland 3-0 Cyprus
26.Sep 73 Sheffield Northern Ireland 0-0 Bulgaria
13.Oct 73 Lisbon Portugal 2-2 Bulgaria
14.Nov 73 Lisbon Portugal 1-1 Northern Ireland
18.Nov 73 Sofia Bulgaria 2-0 Cyprus
P W D L Gls Pts
1.Bulgaria 6 4 2 0 13- 3 10
2.Portugal 6 2 3 1 10- 6 7
3.Northern Ireland 6 1 3 2 5- 6 5
4.Cyprus 6 1 0 5 1-14 2
(UEFA Group 7)
19.Oct 72 Las Palmas Spain 2-2 Yugoslavia
18.Nov 72 Belgrade Yugoslavia 1-0 Greece
17.Jan 73 Athens Greece 2-3 Spain
21.Feb 73 Málaga Spain 3-1 Greece
21.Oct 73 Zagreb Yugoslavia 0-0 Spain
19.Dec 73 Athens Greece 2-4 Yugoslavia
P W D L Gls Pts
1.Spain 4 2 2 0 8- 5 6
Yugoslavia 4 2 2 0 7- 4 6
3.Greece 4 0 0 4 5-11 0
Play-off
13.Feb 74 Frankfurt Yugoslavia 1-0 Spain
(UEFA Group 8)
18.Oct 72 Copenhagen Denmark 1-4 Scotland
15.Nov 72 Glasgow Scotland 2-0 Denmark
02.May 73 Copenhagen Denmark 1-1 Czechoslovakia
06.Jun 73 Prague Czechoslovakia 6-0 Denmark
26.Sep 73 Glasgow Scotland 2-1 Czechoslovakia
17.Oct 73 Bratislava Czechoslovakia 1-0 Scotland
P W D L Gls Pts
1.Scotland 4 3 0 1 8- 3 6
2.Czechoslovakia 4 2 1 1 9- 3 5
3.Denmark 4 0 1 3 2-13 1
(UEFA Group 9)
13.Oct 72 Paris France 1-0 Soviet Union
18.Oct 72 Dublin Rep. of Ireland 1-2 Soviet Union
15.Nov 72 Dublin Rep. of Ireland 2-1 France
13.May 73 Moscow Soviet Union 1-0 Rep. of Ireland
19.May 73 Paris France 1-1 Rep. of Ireland
26.May 73 Moscow Soviet Union 2-0 France
P W D L Gls Pts
1.Soviet Union 4 3 0 1 5- 2 6
2.Rep. of Ireland 4 1 1 2 4- 5 3
3.France 4 1 1 2 3- 5 3
Soviet Union required to play off with the winner of
South American Group 3 for one spot in the World Cup.
26.Sep 73 Moscow Soviet Union 0-0 Chile
21.Nov 73 Santiago Chile x-x Soviet Union
(Soviet Union refused to play in Chile, Chile qualified.)
QUALIFIED FROM EUROPE:
Sweden, Italy, Netherlands, East Germany, Poland, Bulgaria,
Yugoslavia and Scotland + West Germany as host nation.
South America
(CONMEBOL Group 1)
21.Jun 73 Bogotá Colombia 1-1 Ecuador
24.Jun 73 Bogotá Colombia 0-0 Uruguay
28.Jun 73 Guayaquil Ecuador 1-1 Colombia
01.Jul 73 Quito Ecuador 1-2 Uruguay
05.Jul 73 Montevideo Uruguay 0-1 Colombia
08.Jul 73 Montevideo Uruguay 4-0 Ecuador
P W D L Gls Pts
1.Uruguay 4 2 1 1 6- 2 5
2.Colombia 4 1 3 0 3- 2 5
3.Ecuador 4 0 2 2 3- 8 2
(CONMEBOL Group 2)
02.Sep 73 La Paz Bolivia 1-2 Paraguay
09.Sep 73 Buenos Aires Argentina 4-0 Bolivia
16.Sep 73 Asunción Paraguay 1-1 Argentina
23.Sep 73 La Paz Bolivia 0-1 Argentina
30.Sep 73 Asunción Paraguay 4-0 Bolivia
07.Oct 73 Buenos Aires Argentina 3-1 Paraguay
P W D L Gls Pts
1.Argentina 4 3 1 0 9- 2 7
2.Paraguay 4 2 1 1 8- 5 5
3.Bolivia 4 0 0 4 1-11 0
(CONMEBOL Group 3)
Venezuela withdrew.
29.Apr 73 Lima Peru 2-0 Chile
13.May 73 Santiago Chile 2-0 Peru
Playoff
05.Aug 73 Montevideo Chile 2-1 Peru
Chile required to play off with winner of European
Group 9 for one spot in the World Cup.
26.Sep 73 Moscow Soviet Union 0-0 Chile
21.Nov 73 Santiago Chile x-x Soviet Union
(Soviet Union refused to play in Chile, Chile qualified.)
QUALIFIED FROM SOUTH AMERICA:
Uruguay, Argentina and Chile + Brazil as defending
champions.
North/Central America
(CONCACAF First round)
Sub-group A
20.Aug 72 St. John's Canada 3-2 USA
24.Aug 72 Toronto Canada 0-1 Mexico
29.Aug 72 Baltimore USA 2-2 Canada
03.Sep 72 Mexico City Mexico 3-1 USA
06.Sep 72 Mexico City Mexico 2-1 Canada
10.Sep 72 Los Angeles USA 1-2 Mexico
P W D L Gls Pts
1.Mexico 4 4 0 0 8- 3 8
2.Canada 4 1 1 2 6- 7 3
3.USA 4 0 1 3 6-10 1
Sub-group B
03.Dec 72 Guatemala Guatemala 1-0 El Salvador
10.Dec 72 San Salvador El Salvador 0-1 Guatemala
Sub-group C
03.Dec 72 Tegucigalpa Honduras 2-1 Costa Rica
10.Dec 72 San José Costa Rica 3-3 Honduras
Sub-group D
Jamaica withdrew so Dutch Antilles had a walkover.
Sub-group E
15.Apr 72 Port-au-Prince Haiti 7-0 Puerto Rico
23.Apr 72 San Juan Puerto Rico 0-5 Haiti
Sub-group F
10.Nov 72 Port of Spain Trinidad/Tobago 11-1 Antigua
19.Nov 72 St. John's Antigua 1-2 Trinidad/Tobago
28.Nov 72 Port of Spain Trinidad/Tobago 2-1 Surinam
30.Nov 72 San Fernando Surinam 1-1 Trinidad/Tobago
03.Dec 72 Saint John's Antigua 0-6 Surinam
05.Dec 72 Saint John's Surinam 3-1 Antigua
P W D L Gls Pts
1.Trinidad/Tobago 4 3 1 0 16- 4 7
2.Surinam 4 2 1 1 11- 4 5
3.Antigua 4 0 0 4 3-22 0
(CONCACAF Final round)
29.Nov 73 Port-au-Prince Honduras 2-1 Trinidad/Tobago
30.Nov 73 Port-au-Prince Mexico 0-0 Guatemala
01.Dec 73 Port-au-Prince Haiti 3-0 Dutch Antilles
03.Dec 73 Port-au-Prince Honduras 1-1 Mexico
04.Dec 73 Port-au-Prince Haiti 2-1 Trinidad/Tobago
05.Dec 73 Port-au-Prince Dutch Antilles 2-2 Guatemala
07.Dec 73 Port-au-Prince Haiti 1-0 Honduras
08.Dec 73 Port-au-Prince Mexico 8-0 Dutch Antilles
10.Dec 73 Port-au-Prince Trinidad/Tobago 1-0 Guatemala
12.Dec 73 Port-au-Prince Honduras 2-2 Dutch Antilles
13.Dec 73 Port-au-Prince Haiti 2-1 Guatemala
14.Dec 73 Port-au-Prince Trinidad/Tobago 4-0 Mexico
15.Dec 73 Port-au-Prince Honduras 1-1 Guatemala
17.Dec 73 Port-au-Prince Trinidad/Tobago 4-0 Dutch Antilles
18.Dec 73 Port-au-Prince Haiti 0-1 Mexico
P W D L Gls Pts
1.Haiti 5 4 0 1 8- 3 8
2.Trinidad/Tobago 5 3 0 2 11- 4 6
3.Mexico 5 2 2 1 10- 5 6
4.Honduras 5 1 3 1 6- 6 5
5.Guatemala 5 0 3 2 4- 6 3
6.Dutch Antilles 5 0 2 3 4-19 2
QUALIFIED FROM NORTH/CENTRAL AMERICA:
Haiti
Africa
(CAF First round)
19.Nov 72 Agadir Morocco 0-0 Senegal
03.Dec 72 Dakar Senegal 1-2 Morocco
02.Mar 72 Alger Algeria 1-0 Guinea
12.Mar 72 Conakry Guinea 5-1 Algeria
08.Dec 72 Cairo Egypt 2-1 Tunisia
17.Dec 72 Tunis Tunisia 2-0 Egypt
15.Oct 72 Freetown Sierra Leone 0-1 Ivory Coast
29.Oct 72 Abidjan Ivory Coast 2-0 Sierra Leone
16.Jul 72 Nairobi Kenya 2-0 Sudan
23.Jul 72 Khartoum Sudan 1-0 Kenya
Madagascar withdrew so Mauritius had a walkover.
25.Nov 72 Dar Es Salaam Tanzania 1-1 Ethiopia
03.Dec 72 Addis Abeba Ethiopia 0-0 Tanzania
Play-off
10.Dec 72 Addis Abeba Ethiopia 3-0 Tanzania
30.Apr 72 Maseru Lesotho 0-0 Zambia
04.Jun 72 Ndola Zambia 6-1 Lesotho
05.Aug 72 Ibadan Nigeria 2-1 Congo
15.Aug 72 Brazzaville Congo 1-1 Nigeria
18.Jun 72 Cotonou Dahomey 0-5 Ghana
02.Jul 72 Kumasi Ghana 5-1 Dahomey
06.Jun 72 Lomé Togo 0-0 Zaire
20.Jun 72 Kinshasa Zaire 4-0 Togo
Gabon withdrew so Cameroon had a walkover.
(CAF Second round)
11.Feb 73 Conakry Guinea 1-1 Morocco
25.Feb 73 Tetouan Morocco 2-0 Guinea
11.Feb 73 Tunis Tunisia 1-1 Ivory Coast
25.Feb 73 Abidjan Ivory Coast 2-1 Tunisia
10.Dec 72 Port Louis Mauritius 1-3 Kenya
17.Dec 72 Nairobi Kenya 2-2 Mauritius
01.Apr 73 Addis Abeba Ethiopia 0-0 Zambia
15.Apr 73 Lusaka Zambia 4-2 Ethiopia
10.Feb 73 Lagos Nigeria 0-2 Ghana
(abandoned at 2-3, awarded 0-2 by FIFA.)
25.Feb 73 Accra Ghana 0-0 Nigeria
04.Feb 73 Douala Cameroon 0-1 Zaire
25.Feb 73 Kinshasa Zaire 0-1 Cameroon
Play-off
27.Feb 73 Kinshasa Zaire 2-0 Cameroon
(CAF Third round)
20.May 73 Abidjan Ivory Coast 1-1 Morocco
03.Jun 73 Tetouan Morocco 4-1 Ivory Coast
12.Aug 73 Ndola Zambia 2-0 Kenya
19.Aug 73 Nairobi Kenya 2-2 Zambia
05.Aug 73 Accra Ghana 1-0 Zaire
19.Aug 73 Kinshasa Zaire 4-1 Ghana
(CAF Final round)
21.Oct 73 Lusaka Zambia 4-0 Morocco
04.Nov 73 Lusaka Zambia 0-2 Zaire
18.Nov 73 Kinshasa Zaire 2-1 Zambia
25.Nov 73 Tetouan Morocco 2-0 Zambia
09.Dec 73 Kinshasa Zaire 3-0 Morocco
23.Dec 73 Morocco 0-2 Zaire
(Morocco withdrew, awarded 0-2 by FIFA.)
P W D L Gls Pts
1.Zaire 4 4 0 0 9- 1 8
2.Zambia 4 1 0 3 5- 6 2
3.Morocco 4 1 0 3 2- 9 2
QUALIFIED FROM AFRICA:
Zaire
Asia/Oceania
Group allocation matches
16.May 73 Seoul South Vietnam 1-0 Thailand
16.May 73 Seoul Israel 2-1 Japan
17.May 73 Seoul Hongkong 1-0 Malaysia
Sub-group A
20.May 73 Seoul Japan 4-0 South Vietnam
22.May 73 Seoul Hongkong 1-0 Japan
24.May 73 Seoul Hongkong 1-0 South Vietnam
P W D L Gls Pts
1.Hongkong 2 2 0 0 2- 0 4
2.Japan 2 1 0 1 4- 1 2
3.South Vietnam 2 0 0 2 0- 5 0
Sub-group B
19.May 73 Seoul South Korea 4-0 Thailand
19.May 73 Seoul Israel 3-0 Malaysia
21.May 73 Seoul South Korea 0-0 Malaysia
21.May 73 Seoul Israel 6-0 Thailand
23.May 73 Seoul South Korea 0-0 Israel
23.May 73 Seoul Malaysia 2-0 Thailand
P W D L Gls Pts
1.Israel 3 2 1 0 9- 0 5
2.South Korea 3 1 2 0 4- 0 4
3.Malaysia 3 1 1 1 2- 3 3
4.Thailand 3 0 0 3 0-12 0
Semifinals sub-groups A/B
26.May 73 Seoul South Korea 3-1 Hongkong
26.May 73 Seoul Israel 1-0 Japan
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Final sub-groups A/B
28.May 73 Seoul South Korea 1-0 Israel
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Sub-group C
04.May 73 Tehran Iran 0-0 North Korea
04.May 73 Tehran Syria 2-1 Kuwait
06.May 73 Tehran Iran 2-1 Kuwait
06.May 73 Tehran North Korea 1-1 Syria
08.May 73 Tehran North Korea 0-0 Kuwait
08.May 73 Tehran Iran 1-0 Syria
11.May 73 Tehran Iran 2-1 North Korea
11.May 73 Tehran Syria 2-0 Kuwait
13.May 73 Tehran Iran 2-0 Kuwait
13.May 73 Tehran North Korea 3-0 Syria
15.May 73 Tehran Syria 1-0 Iran
15.May 73 Tehran Kuwait 2-0 North Korea
P W D L Gls Pts
1.Iran 6 4 1 1 7- 3 9
2.Syria 6 3 1 2 6- 6 7
3.North Korea 6 1 3 2 5- 5 5
4.Kuwait 6 1 1 4 4- 8 3
Sub-group D
04.Mar 73 Auckland Australia 1-1 New Zealand
11.Mar 73 Sydney Australia 3-1 Iraq
11.Mar 73 Sydney New Zealand 1-1 Indonesia
13.Mar 73 Sydney Australia 2-1 Indonesia
13.Mar 73 Sydney Iraq 2-0 New Zealand
16.Mar 73 Sydney Iraq 1-1 Indonesia
16.Mar 73 Sydney Australia 3-3 New Zealand
18.Mar 73 Melbourne Australia 0-0 Iraq
18.Mar 73 Melbourne Indonesia 1-0 New Zealand
21.Mar 73 Sydney Iraq 3-2 Indonesia
24.Mar 73 Sydney Australia 6-0 Indonesia
24.Mar 73 Sydney Iraq 4-0 New Zealand
P W D L Gls Pts
1.Australia 6 3 3 0 15- 6 9
2.Iraq 6 3 2 1 11- 6 8
3.Indonesia 6 1 2 3 6-13 4
4.New Zealand 6 0 3 3 5-12 3
Final sub-groups C/D
18.Aug 73 Sydney Australia 3-0 Iran
24.Aug 73 Tehran Iran 2-0 Australia
Final - winner sub-groups A/B and C/D
28.Oct 73 Sydney Australia 0-0 South Korea
10.Nov 73 Seoul South Korea 2-2 Australia
Play-off
13.Nov 73 Hong Kong Australia 1-0 South Korea
QUALIFIED FROM ASIA/OCEANIA:
Australia
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