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1970 FIFA World Cup qualification

Field	Value
tourney_name	1970 FIFA World Cup Qualification
num_teams	75
confederations	6
matches	172
goals	542
top_scorer	BRA Tostão (10 goals)
prevseason	[1966](1966-fifa-world-cup-qualification)
nextseason	[1974](1974-fifa-world-cup-qualification)

A total of 75 teams entered the 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds, competing for a total of 16 spots in the final tournament. Hosts Mexico and defending champions England qualified automatically, leaving 14 spots open for competition.

For the first time, the winners of both the African zone and the Asian and Oceanian zone were guaranteed a direct place in the final tournament. The 16 spots available in the 1970 World Cup would be distributed among the continental zones as follows:

Europe (UEFA): 9 places, 1 of them went to automatic qualifier England, while the other 8 places were contested by 29 teams.
South America (CONMEBOL): 3 places, contested by 10 teams.
North, Central America and Caribbean (CONCACAF): 2 places, 1 of them went to automatic qualifier Mexico, while the other 1 place was contested by 13 teams.
Africa (CAF): 1 place, contested by 13 teams. (13 teams applied, but FIFA rejected the entries of Guinea and Zaire, leaving 11 teams. A 14th team from Africa, Rhodesia, entered through a non-CAF qualifying system.)
Asia and Oceania (AFC/OFC): 1 place, contested by 7 teams (including Rhodesia).

A total of 68 teams played in at least one qualifying match. A total of 172 qualifying matches were played, and 542 goals were scored (an average of 3.15 per match).

Listed below are the dates and results of the qualification rounds.

Key:

Teams highlighted in green qualified for the finals.
Teams highlighted in red in the same table finished level on points and advanced to a play-off on neutral ground.

Qualified teams

Method of	Date of	Streak	Previous best performance
s	008 October 1964
Defending Champions	0130 July 1966
	0230 April 1969	(Last: [1954](1954-fifa-world-cup))
	0310 August 1969
	0424 August 1969
	0531 August 1969	(Last: [1930](1930-fifa-world-cup))
	068 October 1969		—
	0715 October 1969	(Last: [1958](1958-fifa-world-cup))
	0822 October 1969
	0926 October 1969		—
	104 November 1969
	1116 November 1969	(Last: [1938](1938-fifa-world-cup))
	1222 November 1969
	133 December 1969	(Last: [1962](1962-fifa-world-cup))
	147 December 1969
	1514 December 1969		—

Confederation qualification

AFC and OFC

Main article: 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC and OFC)

First Round: Australia, Japan, South Korea and Rhodesia were included in group A, but the other three countries involved refused to play against Rhodesia due to political concerns regarding apartheid. Australia, Japan and South Korea played against each other twice in South Korea and after the matches in Seoul were completed, FIFA determined that the winner would still have to meet Rhodesia in what resulted to be the second round of Group A. North Korea was included in Group B but withdrew for political reasons and the group was contested by only two teams. The group winners would advance to the Final Round.
Final Round: The 2 teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The winner would qualify.

Group 1

First round

Rank	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	6	4	2	2	0	7	4	3
2	4	4	1	2	1	6	5	1
3	2	4	0	2	2	4	8	−4

Second round

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1=		2	2	0	2	0	1	1	0
1=		2	2	0	2	0	1	1	0

Play-off

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1		2	1	1	0	0	3	1	+2
2		0	1	0	0	1	1	3	−2

Group 2

Rank	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	4	2	2	0	0	6	0	+6
2	0	2	0	0	2	0	6	−6
—	withdrew

Final round

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1		3	2	1	1	0	2	1	+1
2		1	2	0	1	1	1	2	−1

CAF

Main article: 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)

FIFA rejected the entries of Guinea and Zaire. There would be three rounds of play:

First Round: Ghana received a bye and advanced to the Second Round directly. The remaining 10 teams were paired up to play knockout matches on a home-and-away basis. The winners (determined by aggregate score) would advance to the Second Round.
Second Round: The 6 teams were paired up to play knockout matches on a home-and-away basis. The winners would advance to the Final Round.
Final Round: The 3 teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner would qualify.

First round

Second round

Final round

Rank	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	5	4	2	1	1	5	3	+2
2	4	4	1	2	1	8	7	+1
3	3	4	0	3	1	5	8	−3

CONCACAF

Main article: 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)

FIFA rejected the entry of Cuba. There would be three rounds of play:

First Round: The remaining 12 teams were divided into 4 groups of 3 teams each. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would advance to the Semifinal Round.
Semifinal Round: The 4 teams were paired up to play knockout matches on a home-and-away basis. The winners would advance to the Final Round.
Final Round: The 2 teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The winner would qualify.

First round

Group 1

Rank	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	6	4	3	0	1	11	6	+5
2	5	4	2	1	1	8	3	+5
3	1	4	0	1	3	2	12	−10

Group 2

Rank	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	5	4	2	1	1	9	5	+4
2	4	4	1	2	1	5	3	+2
3	3	4	1	1	2	4	10	−6

Group 3

Rank	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	7	4	3	1	0	7	2	+5
2	5	4	2	1	1	7	3	+4
3	0	4	0	0	4	2	11	−9

Group 4

Rank	Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD
1	6	4	3	1	10	5	+5
2	4	4	2	2	10	9	+1
3	2	4	1	3	3	9	−6

Second round

Group 1

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1		4	2	2	0	0	3	0	+3
2		0	2	0	0	2	0	3	−3

Group 2

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1=		2	2	1	0	1	3	1	+2
1=		2	2	1	0	1	1	3	−2

Play-off

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1		2	1	1	0	0	3	2	+1
2		0	1	0	0	1	2	3	–1

Third round

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1=		2	2	1	0	1	4	2	+2
1=		2	2	1	0	1	2	4	−2

Play-off

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1		2	1	1	0	0	1	0	+1
2		0	1	0	0	1	0	1	–1

CONMEBOL

Main article: 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)

The 10 teams were divided into 3 groups; two groups with 3 teams and one group with 4 teams. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would qualify.

Group 1

Rank	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	5	4	2	1	1	7	4	+3
2	4	4	2	0	2	5	6	−1
3	3	4	1	1	2	4	6	−2

Group 2

Rank	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	12	6	6	0	0	23	2	+21
2	8	6	4	0	2	6	5	+1
3	3	6	1	1	4	7	12	−5
4	1	6	0	1	5	1	18	−17

Group 3

Rank	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	7	4	3	1	0	5	0	+5
2	4	4	1	2	1	5	4	+1
3	1	4	0	1	3	2	8	−6

UEFA

Main article: 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)

(30 teams competing for 8 berths)

FIFA rejected the entry of Albania. The remaining 29 teams were divided into 8 groups, 3 groups with 3 teams and 5 groups with 4 teams. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would qualify.

Team	Pld	Pts
	6	8
	6	7
	6	5
	6	4

|Group 2

Team	Pld	Pts
	6	9
	6	9
	6	5
	6	1

|Group 3

Team	Pld	Pts
	4	7
	4	5
	4	0

|-valign=top |Group 4

Team	Pld	Pts
	4	7
	4	5
	4	0

|Group 5

Team	Pld	Pts
	4	6
	4	4
	4	2

|Group 6

Team	Pld	Pts
	6	9
	6	7
	6	6
	6	2

|-valign=top |Group 7

Team	Pld	Pts
	6	11
	6	7
	6	6
	6	0

|Group 8

Team	Pld	Pts
	6	9
	6	8
	6	7
	6	0

Goalscorers

;10 goals

BRA Tostão

;9 goals

FRG Gerd Müller

;7 goals

SLV Juan Ramón Martínez
ITA Gigi Riva
POL Włodzimierz Lubański

;6 goals

BEL Johan Devrindt
BRA Pelé
HUN Ferenc Bene
POL Kazimierz Deyna
SCO Colin Stein
SWE Ove Kindvall

;5 goals

AUT Erich Hof
BEL Odilon Polleunis
TCH Jozef Adamec

;4 goals

AUS Tom McColl
AUT Helmut Redl
BUL Georgi Asparuhov
BUL Hristo Bonev
HAI Guy Saint-Vil
NGA Garba Okoye
POL Andrzej Jarosik
TRI Warren Archibald
YUG Dragan Džajić

;3 goals

BRA Jairzinho
TCH Karol Jokl
DEN Ole Sørensen
FIN Arto Tolsa
FRA Hervé Revelli
GRE Vasilis Botinos
GRE Giorgos Sideris
HAI Guy François
HAI Joseph Obas
HUN Antal Dunai
ISR Mordechai Spiegler
MAR Houmane Jarir
NOR Ola Dybwad-Olsen
POR Eusébio
ROU Florea Dumitrache
SCO Alan Gilzean
ESP José Eulogio Gárate
USA Peter Millar
USA Willy Roy
FRG Wolfgang Overath
YUG Vahidin Musemić
YUG Slaven Zambata
ZAM Emment Kapengwe

;2 goals

ARG Rafael Albrecht
AUS Ray Baartz
AUS Johnny Watkiss
BEL Wilfried Puis
BOL Raúl Alvarez
BRA Eduardo Antunes Coimbra
BUL Dinko Dermendzhiev
CAN Ralph McPate
CAN Nick Papadakis
CAN Tibor Vigh
CHI Adolfo Olivares
CHI Francisco Valdéz
COL Jaime González
COL Hermenegildo Segrera
CRC Eduardo Chavarria
TCH Vladimír Hagara
TCH Ladislav Kuna
TCH Andrej Kvašňák
GDR Wolfram Löwe
GDR Eberhard Vogel
SLV Elmer Acevedo
SLV Víctor Azúcar
SLV Juan Francisco Barraza
SLV Joel Estrada
SLV José Quintanilla
ETH Zerga Geremew
ETH Asmeron Germa
FIN Tommy Lindholm
FRA Jean-Claude Bras
GRE Giorgos Dedes
HAI Hugues Guillaume
HON Rigoberto Gómez
HON Donaldo Rosales
HUN Lajos Kocsis
IRL Don Givens
ISR Yehoshua Feigenbaum
ISR Giora Spiegel
ITA Sandro Mazzola
JPN Teruki Miyamoto
LUX Johny Léonard
MAR Mohammed El Filali
NED Theo Pahlplatz
NGA Mohammed Lawal
NGA Olumuyiwa Oshode
NIR Terry Harkin
PAR Saturnino Arrúa
PER Oswaldo Ramírez
POR Jacinto Santos
RHO Bobby Chalmers
SCO Bobby Murdoch
KOR Jeong Kang-ji
KOR Park Soo-il
URS Kakhi Asatiani
URS Volodymyr Muntyan
URS Givi Nodia
ESP Amancio Amaro
SUD Nasr El-Din Abbas
SUD Aboubakar Bakheit
SUD Ali Gagarin
SUD Abubakr Osman
NGY Paul Ruben Corte
NGY Jules Lagadeau
NGY Ruud Schoonhoven
NGY Roy Vanenburg
SWE Bo Larsson
SUI Fritz Künzli
SUI Georges Vuilleumier
TUN Ezzedine Chakroun
USA Gerry Baker
FRG Helmut Haller
YUG Josip Bukal
YUG Metodije Spasovski

;1 goal

ALG Boualem Amirouche
ARG Alberto Rendo
ARG Aníbal Tarabini
AUS Willie Rutherford
AUS Johnny Warren
AUT Wilhelm Kreuz
AUT Helmut Siber
AUT August Starek
BEL Léon Semmeling
BER Clyde Best
BER Winston Trott
BOL Ramiro Blacut
BOL Juan Américo Díaz
BRA Rivellino
BUL Dimitar Penev
BUL Dimitar Yakimov
CMR David Ayo
CMR Dieudonné Bassanguen
CMR Norbert Owona
CAN Norman Patterson
CAN Sergio Zanatta
COL Jorge Ramírez Gallego
COL Orlando Mesa
COL Javier Tamayo
CRC Leonel Hernández
CRC Edgar Núñez
CRC Roy Sáenz
CRC Walford Vaughns
CRC Mario Vega
CYP Panicos Efthimiadis
CYP Nicos Kantzilieris
TCH Dušan Kabát
TCH František Veselý
DEN Bent Jensen
DEN Ulrik Le Fevre
DEN Ole Madsen
GDR Henning Frenzel
GDR Hans-Jürgen Kreische
GDR Peter Rock
ECU Félix Lasso
ECU Tom Rodríguez
SLV Mauricio Ernesto González
SLV Mauricio Alonso Rodríguez
ETH Kebede Asfaw
ETH Emmanuel Feseha
ETH Mengistu Worku
FIN Turo Flink
FRA Jean Djorkaeff
GHA Abeka Ankrah
GHA Emmanuel Ola
GRE Mimis Domazos
GRE Kostas Elefterakis
GRE Giorgos Koudas
GRE Mimis Papaioannou
GUA Édgar González
GUA Nelson Melgar
GUA David Stokes
HAI Claude Barthélemy
HAI Jean-Claude Désir
HAI Reynold Saint Surin
HAI Philippe Vorbe
HON José Cardona
HON Rafael Dick
HON Reynaldo Mejia
HON Marco Antonio Mendoza
HON José Urquia
HON Leonard Wells
HUN Flórián Albert
HUN János Farkas
HUN László Fazekas
HUN Zoltán Halmosi
HUN Lajos Puskás
HUN Lajos Szűcs
IRL Eamonn Rogers
ITA Angelo Domenghini
JAM Lascelles Dunkley
JAM Evan Welsh
JPN Yasuyuki Kuwahara
JPN Masashi Watanabe
LBY Mahmoud Al-Jahani
LBY Ahmed Ben Soed
LBY Mohamed Koussa
LUX Josy Kirchens
LUX Paul Philipp
MAR Hassan Akesbi
MAR Driss Bamous
MAR Boujemaa Benkhrif
MAR Ahmed Faras
MAR Cherkaoui Hafnaoui
MAR Moulay Khanousi
NED Johan Cruyff
NED Dick van Dijk
NED Willem van Hanegem
NED Wim Jansen
NED Sjaak Roggeveen
NED Wietse Veenstra
NED Henk Wery
ANT Wouter Brokke
ANT Antonio Martina
ANT Elcio Martina
NGA Joseph Aghoghovbia
NGA Peter Anieke
NGA Sam Garba
NGA Sebastian Broderick Imasuen
NGA Sunday Ineh
NGA Augustine Ofuokwu
NGA Samuel Opone
NIR George Best
NIR William Campbell
NIR Derek Dougan
NIR Eric McMordie
NIR Jimmy Nicholson
NOR Odd Iversen
PAR Lorenzo Gimenez
PAR Aurelio Martínez
PAR Pablo Rojas
PAR Alcides Sosa
PER Roberto Chale
PER Luis Cruzado
PER Teófilo Cubillas
PER Alberto Gallardo
PER Pedro Pablo León
POL Bronisław Bula
POL Jerzy Wilim
POR José Augusto de Almeida
POR Jacinto João
POR Fernando Peres
ROU Emerich Dembrovschi
ROU Nicolae Dobrin
ROU Flavius Domide
SCO Billy Bremner
SCO Tommy Gemmell
SCO Eddie Gray
SCO Willie Henderson
SCO Jimmy Johnstone
SCO Denis Law
SCO Billy McNeill
SEN Emile Pierre Diéme
SEN Abdoulaye Makhtar Diop
KOR Kim Ki-bok
KOR Lee Yi-woo
URS Anatoliy Byshovets
URS Vitaliy Khmelnytskyi
ESP Juan Manuel Asensi
ESP Miguel Ángel Bustillo
ESP Pirri
ESP Joaquín Sierra
ESP Manuel Velázquez
SUD Gadalla Kheir El-Sayed Ali
SUD Osman El-Fadil
SUD Omar Ali Hasab El-Rasoul
SUD Abdel Kafi El-Sheikh
SUD Abdel-Wahab Abdel-Fadil Jadallah
SUD Awad Nasr Musa
SUD Ahmed Bushara Wahba
NGY Stuart Oosthuizen
NGY Edwin Schal
SWE Leif Eriksson
SWE Ove Grahn
SWE Roland Grip
SWE Örjan Persson
SUI René-Pierre Quentin
TUN Tahar Chaïbi
TUN Abdesselem Cheman
TUR Ender Konca
TUR Ogün Altıparmak
USA Dietrich Albrecht
USA Siegfried Stritzl
URU Atilio Ancheta
URU Rúben Bareño
URU Julio César Cortés
URU Pedro Rocha
URU Oscar Zubía
VEN Luis Mendoza Benedetto
WAL Mike England
WAL David Powell
WAL John Toshack
FRG Klaus Fichtel
FRG Sigfried Held
FRG Horst-Dieter Höttges
FRG Reinhard Libuda
FRG Max Lorenz
YUG Rudolf Belin
YUG Ivica Osim
YUG Miroslav Pavlović
YUG Denijal Pirić
YUG Edin Sprečo
ZAM Godfrey Chitalu
ZAM Sandy Kaposa
ZAM Dickson Makwaza

;1 own goal

AUS David Zeman (playing against Israel)
AUT Johann Eigenstiller (playing against West Germany)
BER Rudolph Smith (playing against the United States)
ECU Ramiro Tobar (playing against Chile)
JPN Aritatsu Ogi (playing against Australia)
PAR Valentín Mendoza (playing against Brazil)
PER Héctor Chumpitaz (playing against Bolivia)
POR José Torres (playing against Greece)
RHO Phillemon Tegire (playing against Australia)
SUI Bruno Michaud (playing against Romania)
TRI Tyrone de la Bastide (playing against Guatemala)
TRI Selwyn Murren (playing against Guatemala)

Notes

In the African zone, aggregate score was used to determine the winners of two-legged ties. However, different tie-breakers were used in the matches when the aggregate score was tied.
Morocco was the first African team to qualify since Egypt in the 1934 World Cup.
As a result of the hostile relationship between El Salvador and Honduras, and rioting during the qualification matches between them, the short-lived Football War broke out between the two countries.
Israel qualified for their only World Cup to date as an Asian team. However, soon after this, they were expelled from the Asian Football Confederation, and now compete in the European zone as they are now a member of UEFA.

References

[https://austsoccer.blogspot.com/2018/09/1969-st-george-world-cup-drama.html Australian Soccer 1965 to 1977 and beyond - World Cup drama]

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Team	Pld	Pts
	6	8
	6	7
	6	5
	6	4

Team	Pld	Pts
	6	9
	6	9
	6	5
	6	1

Team	Pld	Pts
	6	9
	6	7
	6	6
	6	2

Team	Pld	Pts
	6	11
	6	7
	6	6
	6	0

Team	Pld	Pts
	6	9
	6	8
	6	7
	6	0