1958 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)

Listed below are the dates and results for the 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the European zone (UEFA). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification.

1958 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)

Tournament details
Dates	3 October 1956 - 5 February 1958
Teams	27 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	54
Goals scored	228 (4.22 per match)
Attendance	2,784,921 (51,573 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Tommy Taylor [8 goals]
← 1954 1962 →

Format

Sweden, the hosts of the World Cup, and West Germany, the defending champions, qualified automatically for the final tournament. The 27 teams were divided into 9 groups, each featuring 3 teams. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis with the group winners qualified. One runner-up was randomly drawn for the CAR/AFC-UEFA play-off. East Germany, Iceland and the Soviet Union and took part for the first time. Albania were the only UEFA member not to enter.

Summary

  Winner of each group qualified directly for the 1958 FIFA World Cup

  Team was drawn randomly to play in the AFC/CAF–UEFA play-off

  Other teams were eliminated

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5	Group 6	Group 7	Group 8	Group 9
England	France	Hungary	Czechoslovakia	Austria	Soviet Union	Yugoslavia	Northern Ireland	Scotland
Republic of Ireland	Belgium	Bulgaria	Wales	Netherlands	Poland	Romania	Italy	Spain
Denmark	Iceland	Norway	East Germany	Luxembourg	Finland	Greece	Portugal	Switzerland

Groups

Group 1

Main article: 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 1

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification
1	England	4	3	1	0	15	5	3.000	7	Qualification to 1958 FIFA World Cup		—	5–1	5–2
2	Republic of Ireland	4	2	1	1	6	7	0.857	5			1–1	—	2–1
3	Denmark	4	0	0	4	4	13	0.308	0			1–4	0–2	—

Source: FIFA^[1]

Group 2

Main article: 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 2

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification
1	France	4	3	1	0	19	4	4.750	7	Qualification to 1958 FIFA World Cup		—	6–3	8–0
2	Belgium	4	2	1	1	16	11	1.455	5			0–0	—	8–3
3	Iceland	4	0	0	4	6	26	0.231	0			1–5	2–5	—

Source: FIFA^[2]

Group 3

Main article: 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 3

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification
1	Hungary	4	3	0	1	12	4	3.000	6	Qualification to 1958 FIFA World Cup		—	4–1	5–0
2	Bulgaria	4	2	0	2	11	7	1.571	4			1–2	—	7–0
3	Norway	4	1	0	3	3	15	0.200	2			2–1	1–2	—

Source: FIFA^[3]

Group 4

Main article: 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 4

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification
1	Czechoslovakia	4	3	0	1	9	3	3.000	6	Qualification to 1958 FIFA World Cup		—	2–0	3–1
2	Wales	4	2	0	2	6	5	1.200	4	Drawn for CAF/AFC–UEFA play-off		1–0	—	4–1
3	East Germany	4	1	0	3	5	12	0.417	2			1–4	2–1	—

Source: FIFA^[4]

Group 5

Main article: 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 5

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification
1	Austria	4	3	1	0	14	3	4.667	7	Qualification to 1958 FIFA World Cup		—	3–2	7–0
2	Netherlands	4	2	1	1	12	7	1.714	5			1–1	—	4–1
3	Luxembourg	4	0	0	4	3	19	0.158	0			0–3	2–5	—

Source: FIFA^[5]

Group 6

Main article: 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 6

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification
1	Soviet Union	4	3	0	1	16	3	5.333	6[a]	Qualification to 1958 FIFA World Cup		—	3–0	2–1
2	Poland	4	3	0	1	9	5	1.800	6[a]			2–1	—	4–0
3	Finland	4	0	0	4	2	19	0.105	0			0–10	1–3	—

Source: FIFA^[6]
Notes:

1. As the Soviet Union and Poland finished level on points, a play-off on neutral ground was played to determine the group winner. The Soviet Union won the play-off 2–0 to win the group.

Group 7

Main article: 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 7

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification
1	Yugoslavia	4	2	2	0	7	2	3.500	6	Qualification to 1958 FIFA World Cup		—	2–0	4–1
2	Romania	4	2	1	1	6	4	1.500	5			1–1	—	3–0
3	Greece	4	0	1	3	2	9	0.222	1			0–0	1–2	—

Source: FIFA^[7]

Group 8

Main article: 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 8

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification
1	Northern Ireland	4	2	1	1	6	3	2.000	5	Qualification to 1958 FIFA World Cup		—	2–1	3–0
2	Italy	4	2	0	2	5	5	1.000	4			1–0	—	3–0
3	Portugal	4	1	1	2	4	7	0.571	3			1–1	3–0	—

Source: FIFA^[8]

Group 9

Main article: 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 9

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification
1	Scotland	4	3	0	1	10	9	1.111	6	Qualification to 1958 FIFA World Cup		—	4–2	3–2
2	Spain	4	2	1	1	12	8	1.500	5			4–1	—	2–2
3	Switzerland	4	0	1	3	6	11	0.545	1			1–2	1–4	—

Source: FIFA^[9]

Inter-confederation play-off

Main article: 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC/CAF–UEFA play-off)

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Wales	2	2	0	0	4	0	+4	4	1958 FIFA World Cup		—	2–0
2	Israel	2	0	0	2	0	4	−4	0			0–2	—

Source: FIFA

Qualified Teams

The following 12 countries qualified for the 1958 FIFA World Cup

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in FIFA World Cup1
Sweden	Hosts	23 June 1950	3 (1934, 1938, 1950)
West Germany	Defending champions	4 July 1954	3 (19342, 19382, 1954)
England	Group 1 winners	19 May 1957	2 (1950, 1954)
France	Group 2 winners	27 October 1957	4 (1930, 1934, 1938, 1954)
Hungary	Group 3 winners	10 November 1957	3 (1934, 1938, 1954)
Czechoslovakia	Group 4 winners	27 October 1957	3 (1934, 1938, 1954)
Austria	Group 5 winners	29 September 1957	2 (1934, 1954)
Soviet Union	Group 6 winners	24 November 1957	0 (debut)
Yugoslavia	Group 7 winners	17 November 1957	3 (1930, 1950, 1954)
Northern Ireland	Group 8 winners	15 January 1958	0 (debut)
Scotland	Group 9 winners	24 November 1957	1 (1954)
Wales	AFC/CAF-UEFA play-off winners	5 February 1958	0 (debut)

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

²Competed as Germany

Goalscorers

8 goals

• Tommy Taylor

7 goals

• Thadée Cisowski

5 goals

• Jackie Mudie

4 goals

• Paul Vandenberg
• Tadeusz Kraus
• John Atyeo
• Ferenc Machos
• Edward Jankowski
• Nikita Simonyan
• Ladislao Kubala

3 goals

• Gerhard Hanappi
• Maurice Willems
• Hristo Iliev
• Jean Vincent
• Dermot Curtis
• Abe Lenstra
• Noud van Melis
• Jimmy McIlroy
• Anatoli Ilyin
• Eduard Streltsov
• Des Palmer
• Muhamed Mujić

2 goals

• Hans Buzek
• Theodor Wagner
• Henri Coppens
• Victor Mees
• Richard Orlans
• Georgi Dimitrov
• Panayot Panayotov
• Ove Bech Nielsen
• Günther Wirth
• Duncan Edwards
• Célestin Oliver
• Roger Piantoni
• Joseph Ujlaki
• Lajos Csordás
• Nándor Hidegkuti
• Ríkharður Jónsson
• Þórður Jónsson
• Þórður Þórðarson
• Guido Gratton
• Cor van der Gijp
• Harald Hennum
• Lucjan Brychczy
• Gerard Cieślik
• Manuel Vasques
• Alexandru Ene
• Anatoli Isayev
• Igor Netto
• Estanislao Basora
• Alfredo di Stéfano
• Luis Suárez Miramontes
• Josef Hügi
• Roger Vonlanthen
• Ivor Allchurch
• Cliff Jones
• Miloš Milutinović

1 goal

• Robert Dienst
• Walter Haummer
• Karl Koller
• Ernst Kozlicek
• Helmut Senekowitsch
• Karl Stotz
• Otto Walzhofer
• André van Herpe
• Denis Houf
• André Piters
• Spiro Debarski
• Todor Diev
• Ivan Petkov Kolev
• Krum Yanev
• Vlastimil Bubník
• Pavol Molnár
• Anton Moravčík
• Ladislav Novák
• Aage Rou Jensen
• John Jensen
• Manfred Kaiser
• Helmut Müller
• Willy Tröger
• Johnny Haynes
• Olavi Lahtinen
• Mauri Vanhanen
• Said Brahimi
• René Dereuddre
• Maryan Wisnieski
• Kostas Nestoridis
• Vaggelis Panakis
• József Bozsik
• Károly Sándor
• Lajos Tichy
• George Cummins
• Johnny Gavin
• Alf Ringstead
• Sergio Cervato
• Dino da Costa
• Gino Pivatelli
• Jean-Pierre Fiedler
• Johnny Halsdorf
• Léon Letsch
• Toon Brusselers
• Coen Dillen
• Kees Rijvers
• Servaas Wilkes
• Billy Bingham
• Tommy Casey
• Wilbur Cush
• Billy Simpson
• Kjell Kristiansen
• Ginter Gawlik
• Matateu
• António Dias Teixeira
• Cornel Cacoveanu
• Titus Ozon
• Iosif Petschovsky
• Nicolae Tătaru
• John Hewie
• Tommy Ring
• Archie Robertson
• Alex Scott
• Gordon Smith
• Genrich Fedosov
• Valentin Kozmich Ivanov
• Boris Tatushin
• Yuri Voinov
• Miguel González
• Enrique Mateos
• Robert Ballaman
• Ferdinando Riva
• Dave Bowen
• Mel Charles
• Roy Vernon
• Dobrosav Krstić
• Aleksandar Petaković

1 own goal

• Edgar Falch (playing against Hungary)
• Ray Daniel (playing against Czechoslovakia)

See also

• 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification