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              Participating countries   109    Total matches             306
              Total goals               797    Goals per game average   2.60
    
    
    
    

    Europe

    (UEFA Group 1)
    04.Jun 80 Helsinki Finland 0-2 Bulgaria 03.Sep 80 Tiranë Albania 2-0 Finland 24.Sep 80 Helsinki Finland 0-2 Austria 19.Oct 80 Sofia Bulgaria 2-1 Albania 15.Nov 80 Vienna Austria 5-0 Albania 03.Dec 80 Sofia Bulgaria 1-3 West Germany 06.Dec 80 Tiranë Albania 0-1 Austria 01.Apr 81 Tiranë Albania 0-2 West Germany 29.Apr 81 Hamburg West Germany 2-0 Austria 13.May 81 Sofia Bulgaria 4-0 Finland 24.May 81 Lahti Finland 0-4 West Germany 28.May 81 Vienna Austria 2-0 Bulgaria 17.Jun 81 Linz Austria 5-1 Finland 02.Sep 81 Kotka Finland 2-1 Albania 23.Sep 81 Bochum West Germany 7-1 Finland 14.Oct 81 Vienna Austria 1-3 West Germany 14.Oct 81 Tiranë Albania 0-2 Bulgaria 11.Nov 81 Sofia Bulgaria 0-0 Austria 18.Nov 81 Dortmund West Germany 8-0 Albania 22.Nov 81 Düsseldorf West Germany 4-0 Bulgaria
    P W D L Gls Pts 1.West Germany 8 8 0 0 33- 3 16 2.Austria 8 5 1 2 16- 6 11 3.Bulgaria 8 4 1 3 11-10 9 4.Albania 8 1 0 7 4-22 2 5.Finland 8 1 0 7 4-27 2
    (UEFA Group 2)
    26.Mar 80 Nicosia Cyprus 2-3 Rep. of Ireland 10.Sep 80 Dublin Rep. of Ireland 2-1 Netherlands 11.Oct 80 Limassol Cyprus 0-7 France 15.Oct 80 Dublin Rep. of Ireland 1-1 Belgium 28.Oct 80 Paris France 2-0 Rep. of Ireland 19.Nov 80 Brussels Belgium 1-0 Netherlands 19.Nov 80 Dublin Rep. of Ireland 6-0 Cyprus 21.Dec 80 Nicosia Cyprus 0-2 Belgium 18.Feb 81 Brussels Belgium 3-2 Cyprus 22.Feb 81 Groningen Netherlands 3-0 Cyprus 25.Mar 81 Rotterdam Netherlands 1-0 France 25.Mar 81 Brussels Belgium 1-0 Rep. of Ireland 29.Apr 81 Paris France 3-2 Belgium 29.Apr 81 Nicosia Cyprus 0-1 Netherlands 09.Sep 81 Rotterdam Netherlands 2-2 Rep. of Ireland 09.Sep 81 Brussels Belgium 2-0 France 14.Oct 81 Rotterdam Netherlands 3-0 Belgium 14.Oct 81 Dublin Rep. of Ireland 3-2 France 18.Nov 81 Paris France 2-0 Netherlands 05.Dec 81 Paris France 4-0 Cyprus
    P W D L Gls Pts 1.Belgium 8 5 1 2 12- 9 11 2.France 8 5 0 3 20- 8 10 3.Rep. of Ireland 8 4 2 2 17-11 10 4.Netherlands 8 4 1 3 11- 7 9 5.Cyprus 8 0 0 8 4-29 0
    (UEFA Group 3)
    02.Jun 80 Reykjavik Iceland 0-4 Wales 03.Sep 80 Reykjavik Iceland 1-2 Soviet Union 24.Sep 80 Izmir Turkey 1-3 Iceland 15.Oct 80 Cardiff Wales 4-0 Turkey 15.Oct 80 Moscow Soviet Union 5-0 Iceland 19.Nov 80 Cardiff Wales 1-0 Czechoslovakia 03.Dec 80 Prague Czechoslovakia 2-0 Turkey 25.Mar 81 Ankara Turkey 0-1 Wales 15.Apr 81 Istanbul Turkey 0-3 Czechoslovakia 27.May 81 Bratislava Czechoslovakia 6-1 Iceland 30.May 81 Wrexham Wales 0-0 Soviet Union 09.Sep 81 Reykjavik Iceland 2-0 Turkey 09.Sep 81 Prague Czechoslovakia 2-0 Wales 23.Sep 81 Reykjavik Iceland 1-1 Czechoslovakia 23.Sep 81 Moscow Soviet Union 4-0 Turkey 07.Oct 81 Izmir Turkey 0-3 Soviet Union 14.Oct 81 Swansea Wales 2-2 Iceland 28.Oct 81 Tbilisi Soviet Union 2-0 Czechoslovakia 18.Nov 81 Tbilisi Soviet Union 3-0 Wales 29.Nov 81 Bratislava Czechoslovakia 1-1 Soviet Union
    P W D L Gls Pts 1.Soviet Union 8 6 2 0 20- 2 14 2.Czechoslovakia 8 4 2 2 15- 6 10 3.Wales 8 4 2 2 12- 7 10 4.Iceland 8 2 2 4 10-21 6 5.Turkey 8 0 0 8 1-22 0
    (UEFA Group 4)
    10.Sep 80 London England 4-0 Norway 24.Sep 80 Oslo Norway 1-1 Romania 15.Oct 80 Bucharest Romania 2-1 England 29.Oct 80 Bern Switzerland 1-2 Norway 19.Nov 80 London England 2-1 Switzerland 28.Apr 81 Luzern Switzerland 2-2 Hungary 29.Apr 81 London England 0-0 Romania 13.May 81 Budapest Hungary 1-0 Romania 20.May 81 Oslo Norway 1-2 Hungary 30.May 81 Basel Switzerland 2-1 England 03.Jun 81 Bucharest Romania 1-0 Norway 06.Jun 81 Budapest Hungary 1-3 England 17.Jun 81 Oslo Norway 1-1 Switzerland 09.Sep 81 Oslo Norway 2-1 England 23.Sep 81 Bucharest Romania 0-0 Hungary 10.Oct 81 Bucharest Romania 1-2 Switzerland 14.Oct 81 Budapest Hungary 3-0 Switzerland 31.Oct 81 Budapest Hungary 4-1 Norway 11.Nov 81 Bern Switzerland 0-0 Romania 18.Nov 81 London England 1-0 Hungary
    P W D L Gls Pts 1.Hungary 8 4 2 2 13- 8 10 2.England 8 4 1 3 13- 8 9 3.Romania 8 2 4 2 5- 5 8 4.Switzerland 8 2 3 3 9-12 7 5.Norway 8 2 2 4 8-15 6
    (UEFA Group 5)
    10.Sep 80 Luxembourg Luxembourg 0-5 Yugoslavia 27.Sep 80 Ljubljana Yugoslavia 2-1 Denmark 11.Oct 80 Luxembourg Luxembourg 0-2 Italy 15.Oct 80 Copenhagen Denmark 0-1 Greece 01.Nov 80 Rome Italy 2-0 Denmark 15.Nov 80 Turin Italy 2-0 Yugoslavia 19.Nov 80 Copenhagen Denmark 4-0 Luxembourg 06.Dec 80 Athens Greece 0-2 Italy 28.Jan 81 Thessaloniki Greece 2-0 Luxembourg 11.Mar 81 Luxembourg Luxembourg 0-2 Greece 29.Apr 81 Split Yugoslavia 5-1 Greece 01.May 81 Luxembourg Luxembourg 1-2 Denmark 03.Jun 81 Copenhagen Denmark 3-1 Italy 09.Sep 81 Copenhagen Denmark 1-2 Yugoslavia 14.Oct 81 Thessaloniki Greece 2-3 Denmark 17.Oct 81 Belgrade Yugoslavia 1-1 Italy 14.Nov 81 Turin Italy 1-1 Greece 21.Nov 81 Novi Sad Yugoslavia 5-0 Luxembourg 29.Nov 81 Athens Greece 1-2 Yugoslavia 05.Dec 81 Naples Italy 1-0 Luxembourg
    P W D L Gls Pts 1.Yugoslavia 8 6 1 1 22- 7 13 2.Italy 8 5 2 1 12- 5 12 3.Denmark 8 4 0 4 14-11 8 4.Greece 8 3 1 4 10-13 7 5.Luxembourg 8 0 0 8 1-23 0
    (UEFA Group 6)
    26.Mar 80 Ramat Gan Israel 0-0 Northern Ireland 18.Jun 80 Stockholm Sweden 1-1 Israel 10.Sep 80 Stockholm Sweden 0-1 Scotland 15.Oct 80 Belfast Northern Ireland 3-0 Sweden 15.Oct 80 Glasgow Scotland 0-0 Portugal 12.Nov 80 Ramat Gan Israel 0-0 Sweden 19.Nov 80 Lisbon Portugal 1-0 Northern Ireland 17.Dec 80 Lisbon Portugal 3-0 Israel 25.Feb 81 Ramat Gan Israel 0-1 Scotland 25.Mar 81 Glasgow Scotland 1-1 Northern Ireland 28.Apr 81 Glasgow Scotland 3-1 Israel 29.Apr 81 Belfast Northern Ireland 1-0 Portugal 03.Jun 81 Stockholm Sweden 1-0 Northern Ireland 24.Jun 81 Stockholm Sweden 3-0 Portugal 09.Sep 81 Glasgow Scotland 2-0 Sweden 14.Oct 81 Lisbon Portugal 1-2 Sweden 14.Oct 81 Belfast Northern Ireland 0-0 Scotland 28.Oct 81 Ramat Gan Israel 4-1 Portugal 18.Nov 81 Belfast Northern Ireland 1-0 Israel 18.Nov 81 Lisbon Portugal 2-1 Scotland
    P W D L Gls Pts 1.Scotland 8 4 3 1 9- 4 11 2.Northern Ireland 8 3 3 2 6- 3 9 3.Sweden 8 3 2 3 7- 8 8 4.Portugal 8 3 1 4 8-11 7 5.Israel 8 1 3 4 6-10 5
    (UEFA Group 7)
    07.Dec 80 La Valletta Malta 0-2 Poland 04.Apr 81 La Valletta Malta 1-2 East Germany 02.May 81 Chorzów Poland 1-0 East Germany 10.Oct 81 Leipzig East Germany 2-3 Poland 11.Nov 81 Jena East Germany 5-1 Malta 15.Nov 81 Wroclaw Poland 6-0 Malta
    P W D L Gls Pts 1.Poland 4 4 0 0 12- 2 8 2.East Germany 4 2 0 2 9- 6 4 3.Malta 4 0 0 4 2-15 0
    QUALIFIED FROM EUROPE: West Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, England, Yugoslavia, Italy, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Poland + Spain as host nation.

    South America

    (CONMEBOL Group 1)
    08.Feb 81 Caracas Venezuela 0-1 Brazil 15.Feb 81 La Paz Bolivia 3-0 Venezuela 22.Feb 81 La Paz Bolivia 1-2 Brazil 15.Mar 81 Caracas Venezuela 1-0 Bolivia 22.Mar 81 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 3-1 Bolivia 29.Mar 81 Goiânia Brazil 5-0 Venezuela
    P W D L Gls Pts 1.Brazil 4 4 0 0 11- 2 8 2.Bolivia 4 1 0 3 5- 6 2 3.Venezuela 4 1 0 3 1- 9 2
    (CONMEBOL Group 2)
    26.Jul 81 Bogotá Colombia 1-1 Peru 09.Aug 81 Montevideo Uruguay 3-2 Colombia 16.Aug 81 Lima Peru 2-0 Colombia 23.Aug 81 Montevideo Uruguay 1-2 Peru 06.Sep 81 Lima Peru 0-0 Uruguay 13.Sep 81 Bogotá Colombia 1-1 Uruguay
    P W D L Gls Pts 1.Peru 4 2 2 0 5- 2 6 2.Uruguay 4 1 2 1 5- 5 4 3.Colombia 4 0 2 2 4- 7 2
    (CONMEBOL Group 3)
    17.May 81 Guayaquil Ecuador 1-0 Paraguay 24.May 81 Guayaquil Ecuador 0-0 Chile 31.May 81 Asunción Paraguay 3-1 Ecuador 07.Jun 81 Asunción Paraguay 0-1 Chile 14.Jun 81 Santiago Chile 2-0 Ecuador 21.Jun 81 Santiago Chile 3-0 Paraguay
    P W D L Gls Pts 1.Chile 4 3 1 0 6- 0 7 2.Ecuador 4 1 1 2 2- 5 3 3.Paraguay 4 1 0 3 3- 6 2
    QUALIFIED FROM SOUTH AMERICA: Brazil, Peru and Chile + Argentina as defending champions.

    North/Central America

    (CONCACAF - First round)
    North American Zone 18.Oct 80 Toronto Canada 1-1 Mexico 25.Oct 80 Ft Lauderdale USA 0-0 Canada 01.Nov 80 Vancouver Canada 2-1 USA 09.Nov 80 Mexico City Mexico 5-1 USA 16.Nov 80 Mexico City Mexico 1-1 Canada 23.Nov 80 Ft Lauderdale USA 2-1 Mexico
    P W D L Gls Pts 1.Canada 4 1 3 0 4- 3 5 2.Mexico 4 1 2 1 8- 5 4 3.USA 4 1 1 2 4- 8 3
    Central American Zone 02.Jul 80 Panama Panama 0-2 Guatemala 30.Jul 80 Panama Panama 0-2 Honduras 10.Aug 80 Panama Panama 1-1 Costa Rica 24.Aug 80 Panama Panama 1-3 El Salvador 01.Oct 80 San José Costa Rica 2-3 Honduras 05.Oct 80 San Salvador El Salvador 4-1 Panama 12.Oct 80 Cd. Guatemala Guatemala 0-0 Costa Rica 26.Oct 80 Tegucigalpa Honduras 0-0 Guatemala 26.Oct 80 San Salvador El Salvador 2-0 Costa Rica (Costa Rica did not show up - given 2-0 by FIFA.) 05.Nov 80 San José Costa Rica 2-0 Panama 09.Nov 80 Cd. Guatemala Guatemala 0-0 El Salvador 16.Nov 80 Cd. Guatemala Guatemala 5-0 Panama 16.Nov 80 Tegucigalpa Honduras 1-1 Costa Rica 23.Nov 80 San Salvador El Salvador 2-1 Honduras 26.Nov 80 San José Costa Rica 0-3 Guatemala 30.Nov 80 Tegucigalpa Honduras 2-0 El Salvador 07.Dec 80 Cd. Guatemala Guatemala 0-1 Honduras 10.Dec 80 San José Costa Rica 0-0 El Salvador 14.Dec 80 Tegucigalpa Honduras 5-0 Panama 21.Dec 80 San Salvador El Salvador 1-0 Guatemala
    P W D L Gls Pts 1.Honduras 8 5 2 1 15- 5 12 2.El Salvador 8 5 2 1 12- 5 12 3.Guatemala 8 3 3 2 10- 2 9 4.Costa Rica 8 1 4 3 6-10 6 5.Panama 8 0 1 7 3-24 1
    Caribbean Zone Preliminary round 30.Mar 80 Georgetown Guyana 5-2 Grenada 13.Apr 80 St George's Grenada 2-3 Guyana Sub-group A 17.Aug 80 Havana Cuba 3-0 Surinam 07.Sep 80 Paramaribo Surinam 0-0 Cuba 28.Sep 80 Georgetown Guyana 0-1 Surinam 12.Oct 80 Paramaribo Surinam 4-0 Guyana 09.Nov 80 Havana Cuba 1-0 Guyana 30.Nov 80 Lynden Guyana 0-3 Cuba
    P W D L Gls Pts 1.Cuba 4 3 1 0 7- 0 7 2.Surinam 4 2 1 1 5- 3 5 3.Guyana 4 0 0 4 0- 9 0
    Sub-group B 01.Aug 80 Port-au-Prince Haiti 2-0 Trinidad/Tobago 17.Aug 80 San Fernando Trinidad/Tobago 1-0 Haiti 12.Sep 80 Port-au-Prince Haiti 1-0 Dutch Antilles 09.Nov 80 Port of Spain Trinidad/Tobago 0-0 Dutch Antilles 29.Nov 80 Willemstad Dutch Antilles 0-0 Trinidad/Tobago 12.Dec 80 Willemstad Dutch Antilles 1-1 Haiti
    P W D L Gls Pts 1.Haiti 4 2 1 1 4- 2 5 2.Trinidad/Tobago 4 1 2 1 1- 2 4 3.Dutch Antilles 4 0 3 1 1- 2 3
    (CONCACAF Final round)
    01.Nov 81 Tegucigalpa Mexico 4-0 Cuba 02.Nov 81 Tegucigalpa Canada 1-0 El Salvador 03.Nov 81 Tegucigalpa Honduras 4-0 Haiti 06.Nov 81 Tegucigalpa Haiti 1-1 Canada 06.Nov 81 Tegucigalpa Mexico 0-1 El Salvador 08.Nov 81 Tegucigalpa Honduras 2-0 Cuba 11.Nov 81 Tegucigalpa El Salvador 0-0 Cuba 11.Nov 81 Tegucigalpa Mexico 1-1 Haiti 12.Nov 81 Tegucigalpa Honduras 2-1 Canada 15.Nov 81 Tegucigalpa Haiti 0-2 Cuba 15.Nov 81 Tegucigalpa Mexico 1-1 Canada 16.Nov 81 Tegucigalpa Honduras 0-0 El Salvador 19.Nov 81 Tegucigalpa Haiti 0-1 El Salvador 21.Nov 81 Tegucigalpa Cuba 2-2 Canada 22.Nov 81 Tegucigalpa Honduras 0-0 Mexico
    P W D L Gls Pts 1.Honduras 5 3 2 0 8- 1 8 2.El Salvador 5 2 2 1 2- 1 6 3.Mexico 5 1 3 1 6- 3 5 4.Canada 5 1 3 1 6- 6 5 5.Cuba 5 1 2 2 4- 8 4 6.Haiti 5 0 2 3 2- 9 2
    QUALIFIED FROM NORTH/CENTRAL AMERICA: Honduras and El Salvador.

    Africa

    (CAF First round)
    08.May 80 Tripoli Libya 2-1 Gambia 06.Jul 80 Banjul Gambia 0-0 Libya 18.May 80 Addis Abeba Ethiopia 0-0 Zambia 01.Jun 80 Ndola Zambia 4-0 Ethiopia 31.May 80 Freetown Sierra Leone 2-2 Algeria 13.Jun 80 Oran Algeria 3-1 Sierra Leone 22.Jun 80 Dakar Senegal 0-1 Morocco 06.Jul 80 Casablanca Morocco 0-0 Senegal 22.Jun 80 Conakry Guinea 3-1 Lesotho 06.Jul 80 Maseru Lesotho 1-1 Guinea 29.Jun 80 Yaoundé Cameroon 3-0 Malawi 20.Jul 80 Kamusu Malawi 1-1 Cameroon 29.Jun 80 Tunis Tunisia 2-0 Nigeria 12.Jul 80 Lagos Nigeria 2-0 Tunisia (Nigeria won 4-3 on penalties.) 05.Jul 80 Nairobi Kenya 3-1 Tanzania 19.Jul 80 Dar Es Salaam Tanzania 5-0 Kenya 13.Jul 80 Kinshasa Zaire 5-2 Mozambique 27.Jul 80 Maputo Mozambique 1-2 Zaire 16.Jul 80 Niamey Niger 0-0 Somalia 27.Jul 80 Mogadisho Somalia 1-1 Niger (Niger won on away goals rule.) Ghana and Uganda withdrew. Madagascar and Egypt had walkovers. Sudan, Liberia, Togo and Zimbabwe all had byes into the second round.
    (CAF Second round)
    12.Oct 80 Douala Cameroon 2-0 Zimbabwe 16.Nov 80 Harare Zimbabwe 1-0 Cameroon 16.Nov 80 Fes Morocco 2-0 Zambia 30.Nov 80 Lusaka Zambia 2-0 Morocco (Morocco won 5-4 on penalties.) 16.Nov 80 Tananarive Madagascar 1-1 Zaire 21.Dec 80 Kinshasa Zaire 3-2 Madagascar 06.Dec 80 Lagos Nigeria 1-1 Tanzania 20.Dec 80 Dar Es Salaam Tanzania 0-2 Nigeria 07.Dec 80 Monrovia Liberia 0-0 Guinea 21.Dec 80 Conakry Guinea 1-0 Liberia 12.Dec 80 Constantine Algeria 2-0 Sudan 28.Dec 80 Khartoum Sudan 1-1 Algeria 14.Dec 80 Niamey Niger 0-1 Togo 28.Dec 80 Lomé Togo 1-2 Niger (Niger won on away goals rule.) Libya withdrew and Egypt had a walkover.
    (CAF Third round)
    01.May 81 Constantine Algeria 4-0 Niger 31.May 81 Niamey Niger 1-0 Algeria 12.Apr 81 Conakry Guinea 1-1 Nigeria 25.Apr 81 Lagos Nigeria 1-0 Guinea 26.Apr 81 Casablanca Morocco 1-0 Egypt 08.May 81 Cairo Egypt 0-0 Morocco 12.Apr 81 Kinshasa Zaire 1-0 Cameroon 26.Apr 81 Yaoundé Cameroon 6-1 Zaire
    (CAF Final round)
    10.Oct 81 Lagos Nigeria 0-2 Algeria 30.Oct 81 Constantine Algeria 2-1 Nigeria 15.Nov 81 Kenitra Morocco 0-2 Cameroon 29.Nov 81 Yaoundé Cameroon 2-1 Morocco QUALIFIED FROM AFRICA: Algeria and Cameroon.

    Asia/Oceania

    (AFC/OFC First round)
    Sub-group A 25.Apr 81 Auckland New Zealand 3-3 Australia 03.May 81 Suva Fiji 0-4 New Zealand 07.May 81 Taipei Taiwan 0-0 New Zealand 11.May 81 Jakarta Indonesia 0-2 New Zealand 16.May 81 Sydney Australia 0-2 New Zealand 20.May 81 Melbourne Australia 2-0 Indonesia 23.May 81 Auckland New Zealand 5-0 Indonesia 30.May 81 Auckland New Zealand 2-0 Taiwan 31.May 81 Suva Fiji 0-0 Indonesia 06.Jun 81 Suva Fiji 2-1 Taiwan 10.Jun 81 Adelaide Australia 3-2 Taiwan 15.Jun 81 Jakarta Indonesia 1-0 Taiwan 28.Jun 81 Taipei Taiwan 2-0 Indonesia 26.Jul 81 Suva Fiji 1-4 Australia 04.Aug 81 Taipei Taiwan 0-0 Fiji 10.Aug 81 Jakarta Indonesia 3-3 Fiji 14.Aug 81 Melbourne Australia 10-0 Fiji 16.Aug 81 Auckland New Zealand 13-0 Fiji 30.Aug 81 Jakarta Indonesia 1-0 Australia 06.Sep 81 Taipei Taiwan 0-0 Australia
    P W D L Gls Pts 1.New Zealand 8 6 2 0 31- 3 14 2.Australia 8 4 2 2 22- 9 10 3.Indonesia 8 2 2 4 5-14 6 4.Taiwan 8 1 3 4 5- 8 5 5.Fiji 8 1 3 4 6-35 5
    Sub-group B 18.Mar 81 Riyadh Qatar 0-1 Iraq 19.Mar 81 Riyadh Syria 0-1 Bahrain 21.Mar 81 Riyadh Iraq 0-1 Saudi Arabia 22.Mar 81 Riyadh Qatar 3-0 Bahrain 24.Mar 81 Riyadh Syria 0-2 Saudi Arabia 25.Mar 81 Riyadh Iraq 2-0 Bahrain 27.Mar 81 Riyadh Qatar 2-1 Syria 28.Mar 81 Riyadh Bahrain 0-1 Saudi Arabia 30.Mar 81 Riyadh Iraq 2-1 Syria 31.Mar 81 Riyadh Qatar 0-1 Saudi Arabia
    P W D L Gls Pts 1.Saudi Arabia 4 4 0 0 5- 0 8 2.Iraq 4 3 0 1 5- 2 6 3.Qatar 4 2 0 2 5- 3 4 4.Bahrain 4 1 0 3 1- 6 2 5.Syria 4 0 0 4 2- 7 0
    Sub-group C 21.Apr 81 Kuwait Malaysia 1-2 South Korea 22.Apr 81 Kuwait Kuwait 6-0 Thailand 24.Apr 81 Kuwait South Korea 5-1 Thailand 25.Apr 81 Kuwait Kuwait 4-0 Malaysia 27.Apr 81 Kuwait Malaysia 2-2 Thailand 29.Apr 81 Kuwait Kuwait 2-0 South Korea
    P W D L Gls Pts 1.Kuwait 3 3 0 0 12- 0 6 2.South Korea 3 2 0 1 7- 4 4 3.Malaysia 3 0 1 2 3- 8 1 4.Thailand 3 0 1 2 3-13 1
    Sub-group D Group allocation matches 21.Dec 80 Hongkong Hongkong 0-1 China 22.Dec 80 Hongkong North Korea 3-0 Macao 22.Dec 80 Hongkong Singapore 0-1 Japan Group 1 24.Dec 80 Hongkong China 3-0 Macao 26.Dec 80 Hongkong China 1-0 Japan 28.Dec 80 Hongkong Japan 3-0 Macao
    P W D L Gls Pts 1.China 2 2 0 0 4- 0 4 2.Japan 2 1 0 1 3- 1 2 3.Macao 2 0 0 2 0- 6 0
    Group 2 24.Dec 80 Hongkong Hongkong 1-1 Singapore 26.Dec 80 Hongkong North Korea 1-0 Singapore 28.Dec 80 Hongkong Hongkong 2-2 North Korea
    P W D L Gls Pts 1.North Korea 2 1 1 0 3- 2 3 2.Hongkong 2 0 2 0 3- 3 2 3.Singapore 2 0 1 1 1- 2 1
    Semifinals 31.Dec 80 Hongkong China 0-0 Hongkong (China won 5-4 on penalties.) 30.Dec 80 Hongkong North Korea 1-0 Japan [aet] Final 04.Jan 81 Hongkong China 4-2 North Korea [aet]
    (AFC/OFC Final round)
    24.Sep 81 Beijing China 0-0 New Zealand 03.Oct 81 Auckland New Zealand 1-0 China 10.Oct 81 Auckland New Zealand 1-2 Kuwait 18.Oct 81 Beijing China 3-0 Kuwait 04.Nov 81 Riyadh Saudi Arabia 0-1 Kuwait 12.Nov 81 Kuala Lumpur Saudi Arabia 2-4 China 19.Nov 81 Kuala Lumpur China 2-0 Saudi Arabia 28.Nov 81 Auckland New Zealand 2-2 Saudi Arabia 30.Nov 81 Kuwait Kuwait 1-0 China 07.Dec 81 Kuwait Kuwait 2-0 Saudi Arabia 14.Dec 81 Kuwait Kuwait 2-2 New Zealand 19.Dec 81 Riyadh Saudi Arabia 0-5 New Zealand
    P W D L Gls Pts 1.Kuwait 6 4 1 1 8- 6 9 2.New Zealand 6 2 3 1 11- 6 7 China 6 3 1 2 9- 4 7 4.Saudi Arabia 6 0 1 5 4-16 1
    Play-off for second place: 10.Jan 82 Singapore New Zealand 2-1 China QUALIFIED FROM ASIA/OCEANIA: Kuwait and New Zealand.
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