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1934 FIFA World Cup qualification
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| tourney_name | 1934 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| dates | 11 June 1933 – 24 May 1934 |
| num_teams | 29 |
| matches | 26 |
| goals | 141 |
| top_scorer | ESP Isidro Lángara |
| CUB Mario López | |
| MEX Dionisio Mejía | |
| (7 goals each) | |
| nextseason | [1938](1938-fifa-world-cup-qualification) |
CUB Mario López MEX Dionisio Mejía (7 goals each)
The 1934 FIFA World Cup was the first World Cup for which teams had to qualify, after the finalists in the inaugural 1930 World Cup had participated by invitation from FIFA. With 32 teams having entered the 1934 competition, FIFA organized qualification rounds to select 16 teams for the finals. Even Italy, the host of the World Cup, had to earn its spot, the only time this has been the case. The previous champion Uruguay refused to defend its title because many European nations had declined to take part in the 1930 World Cup, held in Uruguay.
Of the 32 teams which entered,
- Chile, Peru and Turkey all withdrew before qualifying began.
- Brazil and Argentina qualified without playing any matches owing to the withdrawal of their opponents.
- The other 27 teams played at least one qualifying match.
- Greece, Bulgaria and Poland withdrew partway through the planned schedule of qualifying matches.
The first match, between Sweden and Estonia, took place in Stockholm on 11 June 1933, with Swedish player Knut Kroon scoring the first goal. The last match was played in Rome only three days before the start of the tournament, as late entrant United States beat Mexico to become the final team to qualify.
Format
The 32 teams were divided into 12 groups, based on geographical considerations, as follows:
- Groups 1 to 8 – Europe: 12 places, contested by 21 teams.
- Groups 9, 10 and 11 – Americas: 3 places, contested by 8 teams.
- Group 12 – Africa and Asia: 1 place, contested by 3 teams (including Turkey).
The 12 groups had different rules, as follows:
- Group 1 had 3 teams. The teams played against each other once. The group winner would qualify.
- Groups 2, 3 and 5 had 2 teams each. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would qualify.
- Group 4 had 3 teams. The teams played against each other twice. The group winner and runner-up would qualify.
- Groups 6, 7 and 8 had 3 teams each. The teams played against each other once. The group winners and runners-up would qualify.
- Groups 9 and 10 had 2 teams each. The group winners would qualify.
- Group 11 had 4 teams. There would be three rounds of play:
- First Round: Haiti played against Cuba thrice. The winner would advance to the Second Round.
- Second Round: Mexico played against the winner of the First Round thrice at home. The winner would advance to the Final Round.
- Final Round: USA played against the winner of the Second Round in a single match on neutral ground. The winner would qualify.
- Group 12 had 3 teams. After Turkey withdrew before the matches began, the remaining 2 teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner would qualify.
Key:
- Teams highlighted in green qualified for the finals.
- Teams highlighted in orange qualified for the next phase of their group.
Groups
Group 1
L. Bunke Ericsson T. Bunke Andersson Kuremaa
Estonia v Lithuania was not played since neither team could qualify with a win.
Sweden qualified.
Group 2
Lángara Regueiro Ventolrà
Spain qualified.
Group 3
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GAv | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| **1** | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4.00 | **2** | |
| **2** | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0.00 | **0** |
Meazza Ferrari
Italy qualified, as Greece declined to play the second match.
Group 4
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GAv | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| **1** | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 4.00 | **4** | |
| **2** | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 6.00 | **2** | |
| **3** | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 0.21 | **0** |
Szabó Toldi Markos
Zischek Viertl Sindelar
Solti
Bulgaria withdrew, and the remaining matches were not played since Hungary and Austria were already assured of the top two spots.
Hungary and Austria qualified.
Group 5
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GAv | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| **1** | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4.00 | **4** | |
| **2** | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0.25 | **0** |
Pelcner
awarded
Czechoslovakia qualified.
Group 6
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GAv | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| **1** | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1.33 | **3** | |
| **2** | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1.00 | **2** | |
| **3** | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0.75 | **1** |
Marjanović Jäggi
Hochstrasser Dobay
Dobay
Romania and Switzerland qualified.
Group 7
S. Vanden Eynde F. Vanden Eynde
Bakhuys Vente Moore
Voorhoof Bakhuys Vente
Netherlands and Belgium qualified (Belgium finished above the Irish Free State on goal average).
Group 8
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GAv | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| **1** | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 9.00 | **2** | |
| **2** | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 6.00 | **2** | |
| **3** | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 0.13 | **0** |
Report Wigold Albrecht Hohmann
Nicolas Liberati
Germany v France was not played since both teams were already assured of the top two spots.
Germany and France qualified.
Group 9
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GAv | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| **1** | |||||||||
| **2** | *Withdrew* |
Peru withdrew, so Brazil qualified automatically.
Group 10
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GAv | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| **1** | |||||||||
| **2** | *Withdrew* |
Chile withdrew, so Argentina qualified automatically.
Group 11
First round
H. Socorro Martínez
López F. Socorro Ferrer Soto
Cuba advanced to the Second Round.
Second round
Mejía Rosas
Ruvalcaba Marcos
Mexico advanced to the Final Round.
Final round
The match to decide whether the United States or Mexico would qualify was played only three days before the start of the final tournament, as the United States submitted their entry too late. Thus, the match was played in Italy, so that the winner would effectively stay in the country for the tournament.
Mejía
United States qualified.
Group 12
The Palestine football team consisted exclusively of Jewish and British players.
FIFA states, in reference to the 1930s Palestine Mandate team, that the 'Palestine team' that participated in previous competitions in the 1930s was actually the forerunner of today's Israel team, and as such bears no relation to the modern-day Palestine national team. However, the region currently known as Palestine is considered one of the first Asian teams to compete in the FIFA World Cup qualifiers.
Report Taha Latif
Report
El-Tetsh
Fawzi
11–2 on aggregate; Egypt qualified.
Qualified teams
Only six of the teams qualifying for the final competition – Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, France, Romania, and the USA – had already attended the World Cup in 1930.
| Team | Finals Appearance | Streak | Last Appearance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd | 2 | [1930](1930-fifa-world-cup) | |
| 1st | 1 | — | |
| 2nd | 2 | [1930](1930-fifa-world-cup) | |
| 2nd | 2 | [1930](1930-fifa-world-cup) | |
| 1st | 1 | — | |
| 1st | 1 | — | |
| 2nd | 2 | [1930](1930-fifa-world-cup) | |
| 1st | 1 | — | |
| 1st | 1 | — | |
| 1st | 1 | — | |
| 1st | 1 | — | |
| 2nd | 2 | [1930](1930-fifa-world-cup) | |
| 1st | 1 | — | |
| 1st | 1 | — | |
| 1st | 1 | — | |
| 2nd | 2 | [1930](1930-fifa-world-cup) |
Goalscorers
;7 goals
- CUB Mario López
- MEX Dionisio Mejía
- SPA Isidro Lángara
;5 goals
- EGY Mahmoud Mokhtar El Tetsh
- Irish Free State Paddy Moore
;4 goals
- FRA Jean Nicolas
- GER Josef Rasselnberg
- NED Beb Bakhuys
- USA Aldo Donelli
;3 goals
- AUT Johann Horvath
- EGY Mohamed Latif
- GER Karl Hohmann
- HUN Gábor P. Szabó
- MEX Manuel Alonso
- NED Kick Smit
;2 goals
- BEL François Vanden Eynde
- CUB Héctor Socorro
- EGY Mostafa Taha
- HAI Robert St. Fort
- HUN József Solti
- ITA Giuseppe Meazza
- NED Leen Vente
- ROU Ștefan Dobay
- SPA Luis Regueiro
- SWE Bertil Ericsson
- SWE Knut Hansson
- Kingdom of Yugoslavia Vladimir Kragić
;1 goal
- AUT Matthias Sindelar
- AUT Rudolf Viertl
- AUT Karl Zischek
- BEL Jean Capelle
- BEL Stan Vanden Eynde
- BEL Laurent Grimmonprez
- BEL Bernard Voorhoof
- BUL Dimitar Baikushev
- BUL Mihail Lozanov
- BUL Vladimir Todorov
- CUB Enrique Ferrer
- CUB Ángel Martínez
- CUB Francisco Socorro
- CUB Salvador Soto
- TCH František Pelcner
- TCH Josef Silný
- EGY Abdulrahman Fawzi
- EST Leonhard Kass
- EST Richard Kuremaa
- FRA Alfred Aston
- FRA Ernest Libérati
- GER Ernst Albrecht
- GER Willi Wigold
- HUN Imre Markos
- HUN György Sárosi
- HUN Géza Toldi
- Irish Free State Johnny Squires
- ITA Giovanni Ferrari
- ITA Anfilogino Guarisi
- LUX Ernest Mengel
- LUX Théophile Speicher
- PAL Avraham Nudelmann
- PAL Yohanan Sukenik
- MEX Fernando Marcos
- MEX Felipe Rosas
- MEX José Ruvalcaba
- MEX Jorge Sota
- POL Henryk Martyna
- POR Vítor Silva
- ROU Sándor Schwartz
- ROU Grațian Sepi
- SPA Eduardo González
- SPA Martí Ventolrà
- SWE Sven Andersson
- SWE Lennart Bunke
- SWE Torsten Bunke
- SWE Knut Kroon
- SUI Alessandro Frigerio
- SUI Erwin Hochsträsser
- SUI Ernst Hufschmid
- SUI Willy Jäggi
- Kingdom of Yugoslavia Blagoje Marjanović
Footnotes
References
References
- (July 2007). "History of the FIFA World Cup Preliminary Competition (by year)". [[FIFA]].
- Hart, Jim. (27 July 2016). "When the World Cup rolled into fascist Italy in 1934".
- "FIFA World Cup, 1934 - qualifying".
- "1934 FIFA World Cup Italy - Qualifiers - Europe". FIFA.com.
- "World Cup 1934 - Qualifying". [[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]].
- "World Cup 1934 Qualifying". [[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]].
- Seal, Brian. (29 May 2015). "29 October 1933 – When Crossing The Border Crosses The Line".
- Rake, Julian. (24 October 2008). "A long wait for a home game". Reuters.
- (2010). "FIFA Fact Sheet: History of the FIFA World Cup (TM) Preliminary Competition (see page 43)". FIFA.
- "Palestine (PLE)". FIFA.
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