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1974 FIFA World Cup qualification

1974 FIFA World Cup qualification
FieldValue
tourney_name1974 FIFA World Cup Qualification
dates14 November 1971 – 13 February 1974
num_teams99
confederations6
matches226
goals620
top_scorerSteve David (12 goals)
prevseason[1970](1970-fifa-world-cup-qualification)
nextseason[1978](1978-fifa-world-cup-qualification)

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

AFC and OFC

Main article: 1974 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC and OFC)

:Australia qualified.

CAF

Main article: 1974 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)

:Zaire qualified.

CONCACAF

Main article: 1973 CONCACAF Championship qualification, 1973 CONCACAF Championship

:Haiti qualified.

CONMEBOL

Main article: 1974 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)

:Group 1 – Uruguay qualified. :Group 2 – Argentina qualified. :Group 3 – Chile advanced to the UEFA / CONMEBOL Intercontinental Play-off.

UEFA

Main article: 1974 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)

: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

Main article: 1974 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA–CONMEBOL play-off)

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, 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.

Qualified teams

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The following 16 teams qualified for the 1974 FIFA World Cup:

TeamDate of qualificationFinals appearanceStreakLast appearance
7 October 19736th1[1966](1966-fifa-world-cup)
13 November 19731st1—
(defending champions)21 June 197010th10[1970](1970-fifa-world-cup)
14 November 19734th4[1970](1970-fifa-world-cup)
21 November 19735th1[1966](1966-fifa-world-cup)
13 November 19731st1—
14 December 19731st1—
20 October 19738th4[1970](1970-fifa-world-cup)
18 November 19733rd1[1938](1938-fifa-world-cup)
17 October 19732nd1[1938](1938-fifa-world-cup)
26 September 19733rd1[1958](1958-fifa-world-cup)
27 November 19736th2[1970](1970-fifa-world-cup)
8 July 19737th4[1970](1970-fifa-world-cup)
(hosts)6 July 19668th6[1970](1970-fifa-world-cup)
13 February 19746th1[1962](1962-fifa-world-cup)
9 December 19731st1—

Goalscorers

;12 goals

  • TRI Steve David

;11 goals

  • HAI Emmanuel Sanon

;7 goals

  • BUL Hristo Bonev
  • East Germany Joachim Streich
  • ITA Luigi Riva
  • NED Johan Cruyff

;6 goals

  • KEN William Ouma
  • ZAI Kembo Uba Kembo

;5 goals

  • ARG Rubén Ayala
  • GHA Kwasi Owusu
  • HAI Emmanuel Sanon
  • IRQ Sabah Hatim
  • ISR Moshe Onana
  • MAR Ahmed Faras
  • NED Willy Brokamp
  • ROU Florea Dumitrache
  • SWE Roland Sandberg

;4 goals

  • AUS Adrian Alston
  • BEL Raoul Lambert
  • GDR Jürgen Sparwasser
  • MEX Octavio Muciño
  • NED Johan Neeskens
  • NGY Arnold Robert Zebeda
  • SWE Ralf Edström
  • SWE Bo Larsson
  • TRI Sammy Llewellyn
  • ZAI Kakoko Etepé
  • ZAI Jean-Kalala N'Tumba

;3 goals

  • AUT Josef Hickersberger
  • AUT Kurt Jara
  • AUS Attila Abonyi
  • AUS Ray Baartz
  • AUS Jimmy Mackay
  • BUL Georgi Denev
  • COL Willington Ortiz
  • TCH Zdeněk Nehoda
  • TCH Bohumil Veselý
  • ETH Tariku Ingdawerk
  • HAI Jean-Claude Désir
  • HON Rigoberto Gómez
  • HON Rubén Guifarro
  • HUN Ferenc Bene
  • IRN Parviz Ghelichkhani
  • MEX Horacio López Salgado
  • MAR Moustapha Choukri
  • NOR Tor Egil Johansen
  • KOR Chung Kyu-poong
  • KOR Kim Jae-han
  • SYR Joseph Chahrestan
  • TRI Raymond Roberts
  • URU Fernando Morena
  • USA Willy Roy
  • YUG Dušan Bajević
  • ZAM Freddie Mwila
  • ZAM Moses Simwala
  • ZAM Brighton Sinyangwe

;2 goals

  • ARG Miguel Ángel Brindisi
  • ATG Patrick Morris
  • AUT August Starek
  • AUS Branko Buljevic
  • AUS Ernie Campbell
  • AUS Ray Richards
  • BEL Léon Dolmans
  • BEL Odilon Polleunis
  • BUL Bozhil Kolev
  • CIV Noël Kouamé
  • CIV Bernard N'Guessan
  • CIV Mama Ouattara
  • GDR Bernd Bransch
  • GDR Hans-Jürgen Kreische
  • GDR Wolfram Löwe
  • ECU Washington Muñoz
  • GHA Abwcari Gariba
  • GHA Osei Kofi
  • GHA Ibrahim Sunday
  • GUA Nelson Melgar
  • GUI Chérif Souleymane
  • HKG Yuen Kuen-Chu
  • HON Jorge Bran
  • HUN Lajos Kocsis
  • HUN Sándor Zámbó
  • IDN Iswadi Idris
  • IDN Sarman Panggabean
  • IRL Terry Conroy
  • IRQ Ali Kadhim
  • ISR Zvi Rozen
  • ISR Itzhak Shum
  • ISR Mordechai Spiegler
  • ITA Gianni Rivera
  • JPN Kunishige Kamamoto
  • KUW Hamad Bo Hamad
  • MRI Daniel Imbert
  • MEX Juan Manuel Borbolla
  • MEX Enrique Borja
  • MEX Fernando Bustos
  • MEX Cesário Victorino
  • NED Wim van Hanegem
  • NGA Yakubu Mambo
  • NGA Kenneth Olayombo
  • NZL Alan Vest
  • PRK Ma Jung-U
  • NIR Trevor Anderson
  • NOR Harry Hestad
  • PAR Adalberto Escobar
  • PAR Saturnino Arrúa
  • PAR Jorge Insfran
  • PER Hugo Sotil
  • POL Jan Domarski
  • POL Robert Gadocha
  • POR Rui Jordão
  • POR Nené
  • ROU Ion Dumitru
  • ROU Dumitru Marcu
  • ROU Mircea Sandu
  • KOR Cha Bum-kun
  • URS Volodymyr Onyshchenko
  • ESP José Claramunt
  • ESP Rubén Óscar Valdez
  • NGY Armand Doesburg
  • NGY Arnold Miller
  • NGY Edwin Schalf
  • SWE Ove Kindvall
  • TRI Leopold Brewster
  • TRI Everald Cummings
  • TRI Leroy Spann
  • TUN Ezzedine Chakroun
  • TUN Mohieddine Habita
  • TUR Osman Arpacıoğlu
  • URU Luis Cubilla
  • USA Gene Geimer
  • YUG Stanislav Karasi
  • ZAM Bernard Chanda
  • ZAM Godfrey Chitalu
  • ZAM Joseph Mapulanga

;1 goal

  • ALB Sabah Bizi
  • ALB Mihal Gjika
  • ALB Ramazan Rragami
  • ALG Rabah Gamouh
  • ALG Mokhtar Kalem
  • ATG Vernon Edwards
  • ARG Oscar Fornari
  • ARG Carlos Guerini
  • AUS Doug Utjesenovic
  • AUS Peter Wilson
  • AUT Franz Hasil
  • AUT Roland Hattenberger
  • AUT Norbert Hof
  • AUT Helmut Köglberger
  • AUT Thomas Parits
  • AUT Peter Pumm
  • BEL Jean Dockx
  • BEL Paul van Himst
  • BEL Frans Janssens
  • BOL Raúl Morales
  • BUL Atanas Mihaylov
  • CAN Jimmy Douglas
  • CAN Glen Johnson
  • CAN Ike MacKay
  • CAN Buzz Parsons
  • CAN Brian Robinson
  • CAN Bruce Twamley
  • CMR Paul-Gaston Ndongo
  • CHI Sergio Ahumada
  • CHI Julio Crisosto
  • CHI Rogelio Farias
  • CHI Francisco Valdés
  • People's Republic of the Congo Jean-Michel M'Bono
  • People's Republic of the Congo Noël Minga
  • CRC Nemesia Cárcamo
  • CRC Wálter Elizondo
  • CRC Asdrúbal Paniagua
  • CRC Roy Sáenz
  • CIV Kouman Kobinam
  • CIV Laurent Pokou
  • CYP Kokos Antoniou
  • TCH Přemysl Bičovský
  • TCH Vladimír Hagara
  • TCH Ladislav Petráš
  • Dahomey Damien Kamilou
  • DEN Ole Bjørnmose
  • DEN Finn Laudrup
  • GDR Peter Ducke
  • ECU Ítalo Estupiñán
  • ENG Colin Bell
  • ENG Allan Clarke
  • ENG Norman Hunter
  • EGY Sayed Abdelrazak
  • EGY Ali Khalil
  • ETH Tekeste Gebremedhin
  • ETH Kassahun Teka
  • ETH Seyoum Tesfaye
  • FIN Jarmo Manninen
  • FIN Olavi Rissanen
  • FIN Miikka Toivola
  • FRA Georges Bereta
  • FRA Serge Chiesa
  • FRA Jean-Michel Larqué
  • GHA Akuetteh Armah
  • GHA Joseph Ghartey
  • GHA Clifford Odame
  • GHA Joseph Sam
  • GRE Antonis Antoniadis
  • GRE Mimis Domazos
  • GRE Kostas Eleftherakis
  • GRE Giorgos Koudas
  • GUI Maxime Camara
  • GUI Smith Samuel
  • GUI Petit Sory
  • GUI Soriba Soumah
  • GUA Juan Banegas
  • GUA Benjamín Monterroso
  • GUA René Morales
  • GUA Jorge Roldán
  • HAI Claude Barthélemy
  • HAI Pierre Bayonne
  • HAI Guy François
  • HAI Guy Saint-Vil
  • HAI Roger Saint-Vil
  • HAI Philippe Vorbe
  • HON Óscar Rolando Hernández
  • HON Roberto Soza
  • HON Jorge Urquía
  • HKG Kwok Ka-Ming
  • HKG Lo Hung-Hoi
  • HUN László Bálint
  • HUN Antal Dunai
  • HUN István Juhász
  • HUN Mihály Kozma
  • HUN Csaba Vidáts
  • ISL Elmar Geirsson
  • ISL Örn Óskarsson
  • IDN Andjas Asmara
  • IRN Ali Jabbari
  • IRN Akbar Kargarjam
  • IRN Mehdi Monajati
  • IRN Ali Parvin
  • IRN Mohammad Sadeghi
  • IRN Gholam Vafakhah
  • IRQ Douglas Aziz
  • IRQ Riyadh Nouri
  • IRQ Bashar Rashid
  • IRQ Salah Obeid
  • IRL Mick Martin
  • IRL Ray Treacy
  • ISR George Borba
  • ISR Zvi Farkash
  • ITA Pietro Anastasi
  • ITA Fabio Capello
  • ITA Giorgio Chinaglia
  • JPN Shusaku Hirasawa
  • JPN Koji Mori
  • KEN Daniel Anyanzwa
  • KEN Peter Ouma
  • KEN John Shore
  • KUW Ibrahim Al Duraihem
  • KUW Fathi Kameel
  • LUX Nico Braun
  • LUX Gilbert Dussier
  • MAS Shaharuddin Abdullah
  • MAS Harun Jusoh
  • MLT Anton Camilleri
  • MRI Anwar Jackaria
  • MEX Manuel Lapuente
  • MEX Héctor Pulido
  • MEX Sergio Ceballos Aldape
  • MAR Hassan Amcharrat
  • MAR Chérif Fetoui
  • MAR Maouhoub Ghazouani
  • MAR Mohamed Maghfour
  • NED Arie Haan
  • NED Barry Hullshoff
  • NED Theo de Jong
  • NED Piet Keizer
  • NED René van der Kerkhof
  • NED Dick Schneider
  • ANT Rignald Alfonso Clemencia
  • ANT Adelbert Toppenberg
  • ANT Siegfried Schoop
  • ANT Erroll Maximino St. Jago
  • NZL Dennis Tindall
  • NZL Brian Turner
  • NGA Sunday Oyarekhua
  • PRK An Se-Uk
  • PRK Kim Jong-Min
  • PRK Pak Sung-Jin
  • NIR Sammy Morgan
  • NIR Liam O'Kane
  • NIR Martin O'Neill
  • NOR Jan Fuglset
  • NOR Tom Lund
  • NOR Per Pettersen
  • NOR Harald Sunde
  • PAR Pedro Alcides Bareiro
  • PAR Juvencio Osorio
  • PER Héctor Bailetti
  • POL Grzegorz Lato
  • POL Włodzimierz Lubański
  • POR Humberto Coelho
  • POR Eusébio
  • POR Chico Faria
  • POR Artur Jorge
  • POR Alfredo Quaresma
  • POR António Simões
  • ROU Emerich Dembrovschi
  • ROU Nicolae Dobrin
  • ROU Dudu Georgescu
  • ROU Radu Nunweiller
  • ROU Nicolae Pantea
  • ROU Teodor Tarălungă
  • SCO Jimmy Bone
  • SCO Kenny Dalglish
  • SCO Joe Harper
  • SCO Jim Holton
  • SCO Joe Jordan
  • SCO Peter Lorimer
  • SCO Lou Macari
  • SCO Willie Morgan
  • SEN Louis Gomis Diop
  • KOR Ko Jae-wook
  • KOR Park Lee-chun
  • URS Oleh Blokhin
  • URS Vladimir Fedotov
  • URS Viktor Kolotov
  • ESP Amancio Amaro
  • ESP Juan Manuel Asensi
  • ESP Roberto Juan Martínez
  • ESP Juan Cruz Sol
  • SUD Izzeldin Osman
  • NGY Eugene Sordam
  • SWE Ove Grahn
  • SWE Dag Szepanski
  • SUI Rolf Blättler
  • SUI Karl Odermatt
  • SYR Nabil Nano
  • SYR Samir Said
  • SYR Abdulghani Tatiche
  • TAN Nassoro Mashoto
  • TRI Warren Archibald
  • TUN Abdesselam Adhouma
  • TUR Köksal Mesçi
  • TUR Mehmet Türkkan
  • TUR Melih Atacan
  • URU Denís Milar
  • USA Rudy Getzinger
  • WAL Trevor Hockey
  • WAL Leighton James
  • WAL John Toshack
  • YUG Jovan Aćimović
  • YUG Josip Katalinski
  • YUG Ivica Šurjak
  • ZAI Mbungu Ekofa
  • ZAI Mavuba Mafuila
  • ZAI Mayanga Maku
  • ZAI Kamunda Tshinabu
  • ZAM Obby Kapita
  • ZAM Simon Kaushi
  • ZAM Burton Mugala
  • ZAM Boniface Simutowe

;1 own goal

  • AUS Bobby Hogg (playing against New Zealand)
  • ANT Siegfried Brunken (playing against Trinidad and Tobago)
  • ISL Einar Gunnarsson (playing against Belgium)
  • MLT Charles Spiteri (playing against Austria)
  • NZL Maurice Tillotson (playing against Indonesia)
  • VSO Nguyễn Vinh Quang (playing against Japan)
  • THA Supakit Meelarpkit (playing against South Vietnam)
  • YUG Josip Katalinski (playing against Greece)

Notes

  • 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.

References

References

  1. "Planet World Cup - Peter Goldstein (Columnist) Jan 03 2002".
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