1974 FIFA World Cup qualification
Tournament details | |
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Dates | 14 November 1971 – 13 February 1974 |
Teams | 99 (from 6 confederations) |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 226 |
Goals scored | 620 (2.74 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | ![]() |
99 teams entered the 1974 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds, competing for 16 places in the final tournament. West Germany, as the hosts, and Brazil, as the defending champions, qualified automatically, leaving 14 spots open for competition.
The 16 spots available in the 1974 World Cup would be distributed among the continental zones as follows:
- Europe (UEFA): 9.5 places, 1 of them went to automatic qualifier West Germany, while the other 8.5 places were contested by 32 teams. The winner of the 0.5 place would advance to the Intercontinental Play-offs (against a team from CONMEBOL).
- South America (CONMEBOL): 3.5 places, 1 of them went to automatic qualifier Brazil, while the other 2.5 places were contested by 9 teams. The winner of the 0.5 place would advance to the Intercontinental Play-offs (against a team from UEFA).
- North, Central America and Caribbean (CONCACAF): 1 place, contested by 14 teams.
- Africa (CAF): 1 place, contested by 24 teams.
- Asia (AFC) and Oceania (OFC): 1 place, contested by 18 teams.
90 teams played at least one qualifying match. 226 qualifying matches were played, and 620 goals were scored (an average of 2.74 per match).
Confederation qualification
[edit]AFC and OFC
[edit]- Australia qualified.
CAF
[edit]- Zaire qualified.
CONCACAF
[edit]- Haiti qualified.
CONMEBOL
[edit]- Group 1 - Uruguay qualified.
- Group 2 - Argentina qualified.
- Group 3 - Chile advanced to the UEFA / CONMEBOL Intercontinental Play-off.
UEFA
[edit]- Group 1 - Sweden qualified.
- Group 2 - Italy qualified.
- Group 3 - Netherlands qualified.
- Group 4 - East Germany qualified.
- Group 5 - Poland qualified.
- Group 6 - Bulgaria qualified.
- Group 7 - Yugoslavia qualified.
- Group 8 - Scotland qualified.
- Group 9 - Soviet Union advanced to the UEFA / CONMEBOL Intercontinental Play-off.
Inter-confederation play-offs: UEFA v CONMEBOL
[edit]The teams would play against each other on a home-and-away basis, with the winner qualifying to the finals.
The second leg was scratched as the Soviet Union were disqualified after they refused to travel to Santiago for the return leg due to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and the executions of left-wing prisoners in the Santiago stadium. The match did "go ahead" with the eleven Chilean players facing zero Soviet players before thousands of bemused spectators,[1] and half a dozen Chilean players slowly passed the ball to each other in mock play until the captain walked the ball into the net.
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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0–0 | 0–2[note 1] |
Qualified teams
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The following 16 teams qualified for the 1974 FIFA World Cup:
Team | Date of qualification | Finals appearance | Streak | Last appearance |
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7 October 1973 | 6th | 1 | 1966 |
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13 November 1973 | 1st | 1 | – |
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21 June 1970 | 10th | 10 | 1970 |
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14 November 1973 | 4th | 4 | 1970 |
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21 November 1973 | 5th | 1 | 1966 |
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13 November 1973 | 1st | 1 | – |
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14 December 1973 | 1st | 1 | – |
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20 October 1973 | 8th | 4 | 1970 |
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18 November 1973 | 3rd | 1 | 1938 |
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17 October 1973 | 2nd | 1 | 1938 |
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26 September 1973 | 3rd | 1 | 1958 |
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27 November 1973 | 6th | 2 | 1970 |
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8 July 1973 | 7th | 4 | 1970 |
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6 July 1966 | 8th | 6 | 1970 |
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13 February 1974 | 6th | 1 | 1962 |
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9 December 1973 | 1st | 1 | – |
Goalscorers
[edit]- 12 goals
- 11 goals
- 7 goals
- 6 goals
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
Josef Hickersberger
Kurt Jara
Attila Abonyi
Ray Baartz
Jimmy Mackay
Georgi Denev
Willington Ortiz
Zdeněk Nehoda
Bohumil Veselý
Tariku Ingdawerk
Jean-Claude Désir
Rigoberto Gómez
Rubén Guifarro
Ferenc Bene
Parviz Ghelichkhani
Horacio López Salgado
Moustapha Choukri
Tor Egil Johansen
Chung Kyu-Poong
Kim Jae-Han
Joseph Chahrestan
Raymond Roberts
Fernando Morena
Willy Roy
Dušan Bajević
Freddie Mwila
Moses Simwala
Brighton Sinyangwe
- 2 goals
Miguel Ángel Brindisi
Patrick Morris
August Starek
Branko Buljevic
Ernie Campbell
Ray Richards
Léon Dolmans
Odilon Polleunis
Bozhil Kolev
Noël Kouamé
Bernard N'Guessan
Mama Ouattara
Bernd Bransch
Hans-Jürgen Kreische
Wolfram Löwe
Washington Muñoz
Abwcari Gariba
Osei Kofi
Ibrahim Sunday
Nelson Melgar
Chérif Souleymane
Yuen Kuen-Chu
Jorge Bran
Lajos Kocsis
Sándor Zámbó
Iswadi Idris
Sarman Panggabean
Terry Conroy
Ali Kadhim
Zvi Rozen
Itzhak Shum
Mordechai Spiegler
Gianni Rivera
Kunishige Kamamoto
Hamad Bo Hamad
Daniel Imbert
Juan Manuel Borbolla
Enrique Borja
Fernando Bustos
Cesário Victorino
Wim van Hanegem
Yakubu Mambo
Kenneth Olayombo
Alan Vest
Ma Jung-U
Trevor Anderson
Harry Hestad
Adalberto Escobar
Saturnino Arrúa
Jorge Insfran
Hugo Sotil
Jan Domarski
Robert Gadocha
Rui Jordão
Nené
Ion Dumitru
Dumitru Marcu
Mircea Sandu
Cha Bum-Kun
Volodymyr Onyshchenko
José Claramunt
Rubén Óscar Valdez
Armand Doesburg
Arnold Miller
Edwin Schalf
Ove Kindvall
Leopold Brewster
Everald Cummings
Leroy Spann
Ezzedine Chakroun
Mohieddine Habita
Osman Arpacıoğlu
Luis Cubilla
Gene Geimer
Stanislav Karasi
Bernard Chanda
Godfrey Chitalu
Joseph Mapulanga
- 1 goal
Sabah Bizi
Mihal Gjika
Ramazan Rragami
Rabah Gamouh
Mokhtar Kalem
Vernon Edwards
Oscar Fornari
Carlos Guerini
Doug Utjesenovic
Peter Wilson
Franz Hasil
Roland Hattenberger
Norbert Hof
Helmut Köglberger
Thomas Parits
Peter Pumm
Jean Dockx
Paul van Himst
Frans Janssens
Raúl Morales
Atanas Mihaylov
Jimmy Douglas
Glen Johnson
Ike MacKay
Buzz Parsons
Brian Robinson
Bruce Twamley
Paul-Gaston Ndongo
Sergio Ahumada
Julio Crisosto
Rogelio Farias
Francisco Valdés
Jean-Michel M'Bono
Noël Minga
Nemesia Cárcamo
Wálter Elizondo
Asdrúbal Paniagua
Roy Sáenz
Kouman Kobinam
Laurent Pokou
Kokos Antoniou
Přemysl Bičovský
Vladimír Hagara
Ladislav Petráš
Damien Kamilou
Ole Bjørnmose
Finn Laudrup
Peter Ducke
Ítalo Estupiñán
Colin Bell
Allan Clarke
Norman Hunter
Sayed Abdelrazak
Ali Khalil
Tekeste Gebremedhin
Kassahun Teka
Seyoum Tesfaye
Jarmo Manninen
Olavi Rissanen
Miikka Toivola
Georges Bereta
Serge Chiesa
Jean-Michel Larqué
Akuetteh Armah
Joseph Ghartey
Clifford Odame
Joseph Sam
Antonis Antoniadis
Mimis Domazos
Kostas Eleftherakis
Giorgos Koudas
Maxime Camara
Smith Samuel
Petit Sory
Soriba Soumah
Juan Banegas
Benjamín Monterroso
René Morales
Jorge Roldán
Claude Barthélemy
Pierre Bayonne
Guy François
Guy Saint-Vil
Roger Saint-Vil
Philippe Vorbe
Óscar Rolando Hernández
Roberto Soza
Jorge Urquía
Kwok Ka-Ming
Lo Hung-Hoi
László Bálint
Antal Dunai
István Juhász
Mihály Kozma
Csaba Vidáts
Elmar Geirsson
Örn Óskarsson
Andjas Asmara
Ali Jabbari
Akbar Kargarjam
Mehdi Monajati
Ali Parvin
Mohammad Sadeghi
Gholam Vafakhah
Douglas Aziz
Riyadh Nouri
Bashar Rashid
Salah Obeid
Mick Martin
Ray Treacy
George Borba
Zvi Farkash
Pietro Anastasi
Fabio Capello
Giorgio Chinaglia
Shusaku Hirasawa
Koji Mori
Daniel Anyanzwa
Peter Ouma
John Shore
Ibrahim Al Duraihem
Fathi Kameel
Nico Braun
Gilbert Dussier
Shaharuddin Abdullah
Harun Jusoh
Anton Camilleri
Anwar Jackaria
Manuel Lapuente
Héctor Pulido
Sergio Ceballos Aldape
Hassan Amcharrat
Chérif Fetoui
Maouhoub Ghazouani
Mohamed Maghfour
Arie Haan
Barry Hullshoff
Theo de Jong
Piet Keizer
René van der Kerkhof
Dick Schneider
Rignald Alfonso Clemencia
Adelbert Toppenberg
Siegfried Schoop
Erroll Maximino St. Jago
Dennis Tindall
Brian Turner
Sunday Oyarekhua
An Se-Uk
Kim Jong-Min
Pak Sung-Jin
Sammy Morgan
Liam O'Kane
Martin O'Neill
Jan Fuglset
Tom Lund
Per Pettersen
Harald Sunde
Pedro Alcides Bareiro
Juvencio Osorio
Héctor Bailetti
Grzegorz Lato
Włodzimierz Lubański
Humberto Coelho
Eusébio
Chico Faria
Artur Jorge
Alfredo Quaresma
António Simões
Emerich Dembrovschi
Nicolae Dobrin
Dudu Georgescu
Radu Nunweiller
Nicolae Pantea
Teodor Tarălungă
Jimmy Bone
Kenny Dalglish
Joe Harper
Jim Holton
Joe Jordan
Peter Lorimer
Lou Macari
Willie Morgan
Louis Gomis Diop
Ko Jae-Wook
Park Yi-Chun
Oleh Blokhin
Vladimir Fedotov
Viktor Kolotov
Amancio Amaro
Juan Manuel Asensi
Roberto Juan Martínez
Juan Cruz Sol
Izzeldin Osman
Eugene Sordam
Ove Grahn
Dag Szepanski
Rolf Blättler
Karl Odermatt
Nabil Nano
Samir Said
Abdulghani Tatiche
Nassoro Mashoto
Warren Archibald
Abdesselam Adhouma
Köksal Mesçi
Mehmet Türkkan
Melih Atacan
Denís Milar
Rudy Getzinger
Trevor Hockey
Leighton James
John Toshack
Jovan Aćimović
Josip Katalinski
Ivica Šurjak
Mbungu Ekofa
Mavuba Mafuila
Mayanga Maku
Kamunda Tshinabu
Obby Kapita
Simon Kaushi
Burton Mugala
Boniface Simutowe
- 1 own goal
Bobby Hogg (playing against New Zealand)
Siegfried Brunken (playing against Trinidad and Tobago)
Einar Gunnarsson (playing against Belgium)
Charles Spiteri (playing against Austria)
Maurice Tillotson (playing against Indonesia)
Nguyễn Vinh Quang (playing against Japan)
Supakit Meelarpkit (playing against South Vietnam)
Josip Katalinski (playing against Greece)
Notes
[edit]- For the first time in the qualifiers, goal difference was used as a tie-breaker for teams who finished level on points. Aggregate score was also used to determine the winners of two-legged ties.
- Australia was the first team from OFC to qualify for a World Cup.