1954 FIFA World Cup qualification

1954 FIFA World Cup Qualification
Tournament details
Teams	37 (from 3 confederations)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	57
Goals scored	208 (3.65 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Max Morlock (6 goals)
	← 1950 1958 →

A total of 37 teams entered the 1954 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds, competing for a total of 16 spots in the final tournament. Switzerland, as the hosts, and Uruguay, as the defending champions, qualified automatically, leaving 14 spots open for competition.

37 teams were divided into 13 groups, based on geographical considerations, as follows:

Groups 1 to 10 – Europe: 11 places, contested by 27 teams (including Egypt and Israel).
Group 11 and 12 – The Americas: 2 places, contested by 7 teams.
Group 13 – Asia: 1 place, contested by 3 teams.

A total of 33 teams played at least one qualifying match. A total of 57 qualifying matches were played, and 208 goals were scored (an average of 3.65 per match).

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

1954 FIFA World Cup qualification Intro articles: 6

1 Uruguay national football team

The Uruguay national football team represents Uruguay in international football, and is controlled by the Uruguayan Football Association, the governing body for football in Uruguay. The current head coach is Óscar Tabárez. The Uruguayan team is commonly referred to as La Celeste.More

2 Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia and is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east. Europe is commonly considered to be separated from Asia by the watershed of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea, and the waterways of the Turkish Straits. Although much of this border is over land, Europe is generally accorded the status of a full continent because of its great physical size and the weight of history and tradition.More

3 Egypt national football team

The Egypt national football team, known colloquially as The Pharaohs, represents Egypt in men's international football, and is governed by the Egyptian Football Association (EFA), the governing body of football in Egypt. The team's historical stadium is Cairo International Stadium, although they have played at Borg El Arab Stadium in Alexandria in recent years. In 2019, and during the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, the Pharaohs returned to their historical stadium once again after renovations.More

4 Israel national football team

The Israel national football team represents Israel in international football, and is governed by the Israel Football Association (IFA).More

5 Americas

The Americas is a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. The Americas make up most of the land in Earth's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World.More

6 Asia

Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres. It shares the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe and the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with both Europe and Africa. Asia covers an area of 44,579,000 square kilometres (17,212,000 sq mi), about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area. The continent, which has long been home to the majority of the human population, was the site of many of the first civilizations. Asia is notable for not only its overall large size and population, but also dense and large settlements, as well as vast barely populated regions. Its 4.5 billion people constitute roughly 60% of the world's population.More

Groups

The 13 groups had different rules, as follows:

Groups 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 10 had 3 teams each. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would qualify.
Groups 7 and 9 had 2 teams each. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would qualify.
Group 3 had 4 teams. The teams played against each other once. The group winner and runner-up would qualify.
Group 11 had 4 teams. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner would qualify.
Group 12 had 3 teams. The teams played against each other twice. The group winner would qualify.
Group 13 had 3 teams. After Republic of China withdrew before the matches began, the remaining 2 teams played against each other twice. The group winner would qualify.

Group 1

Pos.	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	West Germany	4	3	1	0	12	3	+9	7
2	Saar	4	1	1	2	4	8	−4	3
3	Norway	4	0	2	2	4	9	−5	2

24 June 1953	Norway	2–3	Saar	Oslo, Norway
	Thoresen 3' Dahlen 15'	Report	Binkert 16' Otto 30' Siedl 55'	Stadium: Bislett Stadion Referee: J. Bronkhorst (Netherlands)

19 August 1953	Norway	1–1	West Germany	Oslo, Norway
	Hennum 41'	Report	F. Walter 44'	Stadium: Ullevaal Stadion Referee: W. B. Aussum (Netherlands)

11 October 1953	West Germany	3–0	Saar	Stuttgart, West Germany
	Morlock 13', 50' Schade 70'	Report		Stadium: Neckarstadion Referee: Karel van der Meer (Netherlands)

8 November 1953	Saar	0–0	Norway	Saarbrücken, Saarland
		Report		Stadium: Ludwigsparkstadion Referee: Leo Horn (Netherlands)

22 November 1953	West Germany	5–1	Norway	Hamburg, West Germany
	Morlock 27', 63' O. Walter 69' F. Walter 80' Rahn 88'	Report	Nordahl 26'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Referee: Arthur Luty (England)

28 March 1954	Saar	1–3	West Germany	Saarbrücken, Saarland
	Martin 68' (pen.)	Report	Morlock 36', 48' Schäfer 84'	Stadium: Ludwigsparkstadion Referee: J. Bronkhorst (Netherlands)

Group 2

Pos.	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Belgium	4	3	1	0	11	6	+5	7
2	Sweden	4	1	1	2	9	8	+1	3
3	Finland	4	0	2	2	7	13	−6	2

25 May 1953	Finland	2–4	Belgium	Helsinki, Finland
	Lehtovirta 49', 75'	Report	Coppens 4', 26', 83' Anoul 9'	Stadium: Olympic Stadion Referee: Helge (Denmark)

28 May 1953	Sweden	2–3	Belgium	Stockholm, Sweden
	Berndtsson 20' Selmosson 26'	Report	Anoul 28' Straetmans 37' Lemberechts 40'	Stadium: Råsunda Stadion Referee: Mowat (Scotland)

5 August 1953	Finland	3–3	Sweden	Helsinki, Finland
	Lehtovirta 63' Lahtinen 67' Rikberg 70'	Report	Sandell 9', 71' Persson 23'	Stadium: Olympic Stadion Referee: Baalstad (Norway)

16 August 1953	Sweden	4–0	Finland	Stockholm, Sweden
	Sandberg 22' Sandell 24', 61' Sandin 56'	Report		Stadium: Råsunda Stadion Referee: Asmussen (Denmark)

23 September 1953	Belgium	2–2	Finland	Brussels, Belgium
	Bollen 25', 75'	Report	Lahtinen 83' Vaihela 90'	Stadium: Heysel Stadion Referee: Baumberger (Switzerland)

8 October 1953	Belgium	2–0	Sweden	Brussels, Belgium
	Coppens 23' Mees 49'	Report		Stadium: Heysel Stadion Referee: Schipper (Netherlands)

This is the first time Sweden failed to qualify.

Group 3

This group was also the 1953–54 British Home Championship.

Pos.	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	England	3	3	0	0	11	4	+7	6
2	Scotland	3	1	1	1	8	8	0	3
3	Northern Ireland	3	1	0	2	4	7	−3	2
4	Wales	3	0	1	2	5	9	−4	1

3 October 1953	Northern Ireland	1–3	Scotland	Belfast, Northern Ireland
	Lockhart 72' (pen.)	Report	Fleming 47', 69' Henderson 89'	Stadium: Windsor Park Referee: Arthur Edward Ellis (England)

10 October 1953	Wales	1–4	England	Cardiff, Wales
	Allchurch 22'	Report	Wilshaw 45', 49' Lofthouse 52', 53'	Stadium: Ninian Park Referee: Charles Faultless (Scotland)

4 November 1953	Scotland	3–3	Wales	Glasgow, Scotland
	Brown 19' Johnstone 42' Reilly 58'	Report	Charles 49', 88' Allchurch 73'	Stadium: Hampden Park Referee: Thomas Mitchell (Northern Ireland)

11 November 1953	England	3–1	Northern Ireland	Liverpool, England
	Hassall 10', 60' Lofthouse 75'	Report	McMorran 54'	Stadium: Goodison Park Referee: Robert Smith (Wales)

31 March 1954	Wales	1–2	Northern Ireland	Wrexham, Wales
	Charles 80'	Report	McParland 1', 52'	Stadium: Racecourse Ground Referee: Charles Faultless (Scotland)

3 April 1954	Scotland	2–4	England	Glasgow, Scotland
	Brown 7' Ormond 89'	Report	Broadis 13' Nicholls 50' Allen 68' Mullen 83'	Stadium: Hampden Park Referee: Thomas Mitchell (Northern Ireland)

Group 4

Pos.	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	France	4	4	0	20	4	+16	8
2	Republic of Ireland	4	2	2	8	6	+2	4
3	Luxembourg	4	0	4	1	19	−18	0

20 September 1953	Luxembourg	1–6	France	Luxembourg, Luxembourg
	Kohn 6'	Report	Piantoni 5' Kopa 10' Cicci 41' Glovacki 44' Kargu 73' Flamion 88'	Stadium: Stade Municipal Referee: Dörflinger (Switzerland)

4 October 1953	Republic of Ireland	3–5	France	Dublin, Republic of Ireland
	Ryan 58' (pen.) Walsh 83' O'Farrell 88'	Report	Glovacki 23' Penverne 40' Ujlaki 50', 69' Flamion 72'	Stadium: Dalymount Park Referee: Franken (Belgium)

28 October 1953	Republic of Ireland	4–0	Luxembourg	Dublin, Republic of Ireland
	Fitzsimons 14', 83' Ryan 48' (pen.) Eglington 59'	Report		Stadium: Dalymount Park Referee: Bond (England)

25 November 1953	France	1–0	Republic of Ireland	Paris, France
	Piantoni 73'	Report		Stadium: Parc des Princes Referee: Van Nuffel (Belgium)

17 December 1953	France	8–0	Luxembourg	Paris, France
	Desgranges 2', 88' Vincent 6', 10' Fontaine 21', 75', 80' Foix 57'	Report		Stadium: Parc des Princes Referee: Roeykens (Belgium)

7 March 1954	Luxembourg	0–1	Republic of Ireland	Luxembourg, Luxembourg
		Report	Cummins 67'	Stadium: Stade Municipal Referee: Ausum (Netherlands)

Group 5

Pos.	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Austria	2	1	1	0	9	1	+8	3
2	Portugal	2	0	1	1	1	9	−8	1

27 September 1953	Austria	9–1	Portugal	Vienna, Austria
	Ocwirk 13' Probst 14', 19', 31', 59', 70' Happel 68' (pen.) Wagner 83' Dienst 87'	Report	Águas 60'	Stadium: Praterstadion Referee: Bauwens (Belgium)

29 November 1953	Portugal	0–0	Austria	Lisbon, Portugal
		Report		Stadium: Estádio Nacional Referee: Harzic (France)

Group 6

Pos.	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Spain	2	1	0	1	4	2	+2	2
1	Turkey	2	1	0	1	2	4	−2	2

6 January 1954	Spain	4–1	Turkey	Madrid, Spain
	Venancio 13' Gaínza 48' González 49' Alsua 65'	Report	Recep 31'	Stadium: Estadio Nuevo Chamartín Referee: Vincentini (France)

14 March 1954	Turkey	1–0	Spain	Istanbul, Turkey
	Burhan 16'	Report		Stadium: Mithat Paşa Stadium Referee: Schmetzer (Germany)

Spain and Turkey finished level on points, and a play-off on neutral ground was played to decide who would qualify.

17 March 1954	Turkey	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Spain	Rome, Italy
	Burhan 25' Suat 64'	Report	Artetxe 11' Escudero 78'	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Referee: Bernardi (Italy)

Luigi Franco Gemma, a 14-year-old Italian boy whose father worked at the stadium, picked Turkey's name from the lots with his eyes blindfolded.^[1]^[2] Since the 1970 FIFA World Cup finals, goal difference has been used as a tiebreaker for future qualifying rounds. Had those rules been in place, Spain would have qualified, and Turkey would have been eliminated. This is the first time Spain failed to qualify.

Group 7

Pos.	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Hungary	Qualified
—	Poland	Withdrew

Group 8

Pos.	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Czechoslovakia	4	3	1	0	5	1	+4	7
2	Romania	4	2	0	2	5	5	0	4
3	Bulgaria	4	0	1	3	3	7	−4	1

14 June 1953	Czechoslovakia	2–0	Romania	Prague, Czechoslovakia
	Pažický 54' Vlk 63'	Report		Referee: Pósa (Hungary)

28 June 1953	Romania	3–1	Bulgaria	Bucharest, Romania
	Pecsovszky 20', 30' Ene 82'	Report	Tashkov 53'	Stadium: 23 August Stadium Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Schulz (East Germany)

6 September 1953	Bulgaria	1–2	Czechoslovakia	Sofia, Bulgaria
	Bozhkov 55' (pen.)	Report	Vlk 5', 40'	Stadium: Vasil Levski Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Aleksandrowicz (Poland)

11 October 1953	Bulgaria	1–2	Romania	Sofia, Bulgaria
	Kolev 28'	Report	Serfözö 27' Călinoiu 52'	Stadium: Vasil Levski Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Dorogi (Hungary)

25 October 1953	Romania	0–1	Czechoslovakia	Bucharest, Romania
		Report	Šafránek 38' (pen.)	Referee: Schulz (East Germany)

8 November 1953	Czechoslovakia	0–0	Bulgaria	Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
		Report		Stadium: Tehelne Pole Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Chkhatarashvili (Soviet Union)

Group 9

Pos.	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Italy	2	2	0	0	7	2	+5	4
2	Egypt	2	0	0	2	2	7	−5	0

13 November 1953	Egypt	1–2	Italy	Cairo, Egypt
	Ad-Diba 33'		Frignani 62' Muccinelli 79'	Stadium: Al Ahly Stadium Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Steiner (Austria)

24 January 1954	Italy	5–1	Egypt	Milan, Italy
	Pandolfini 1' Frignani 62' Boniperti 65', 86' Ricagni 84'		El-Hamouly 32'	Stadium: Milan Municipality Stadium Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Horn (Netherlands)

Group 10

Pos.	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Yugoslavia	4	4	0	4	0	+4	8
2	Greece	4	2	2	3	2	+1	4
3	Israel	4	0	4	0	5	−5	0

9 May 1953	Yugoslavia	1–0	Greece	Belgrade, Yugoslavia
	Matošić 71'	Report		Referee: Steiner (Austria)

1 November 1953	Greece	1–0	Israel	Athens, Greece
	Bembis 52'	Report		Referee: Massai (Italy)

8 November 1953	Yugoslavia	1–0	Israel	Skopje, Yugoslavia
	Milutinović 3'	Report		Referee: Alsteen (Belgium)

8 March 1954	Israel	0–2	Greece	Tel-Aviv, Israel
		Report	Kokkinakis 61' Kamaras 83'	Referee: Buchmüller (Switzerland)

21 March 1954	Israel	0–1	Yugoslavia	Tel-Aviv, Israel
		Report	Zebec 80'	Referee: Leafe (England)

28 March 1954	Greece	0–1	Yugoslavia	Athens, Greece
		Report	Veselinović 50'	Referee: Rufli (Switzerland)

Group 11

Pos.	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Brazil	4	4	0	0	8	1	+7	8
2	Paraguay	4	2	0	2	8	6	+2	4
3	Chile	4	0	0	4	1	10	−9	0
—	Peru	Withdrew

14 February 1954	Paraguay	4–0	Chile	Asunción, Paraguay
	Lugo 30' J. Parodi 52' Hermosilla 70' S. Parodi 79'			Referee: Steiner (Austria)

21 February 1954	Chile	1–3	Paraguay	Santiago, Chile
	Robledo 16'		Lugo 17', 63' J. Parodi 84'	Referee: Vincentini (France)

28 February 1954	Chile	0–2	Brazil	Santiago, Chile
			Baltazar 38', 63'	Referee: Vincentini (France)

7 March 1954	Paraguay	0–1	Brazil	Asunción, Paraguay
			Baltazar 52'	Referee: Steiner (Austria)

14 March 1954	Brazil	1–0	Chile	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	Baltazar 35'			Referee: Steiner (Austria)

21 March 1954	Brazil	4–1	Paraguay	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	Botelho 60', 85' Baltazar 62' Maurinho 90'		Martínez 75'	Referee: Vincentini (France)

Group 12

Pos.	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Mexico	4	4	0	19	1	+18	8
2	United States	4	2	2	7	9	−2	4
3	Haiti	4	0	4	2	18	−16	0

19 July 1953	Mexico	8–0	Haiti	Mexico City, Mexico
	Balcázar 23', 26', 76' Gómez 27' Tellez 34' Arnauda 38', 69', 85'			Referee: Crawford (England)

27 December 1953	Haiti	0–4	Mexico	Port-au-Prince, Haiti
			Ávalos 6' Lamadrid 15', 59' Balcázar 65'	Referee: Van Rosberg (Netherlands Antilles)

10 January 1954	Mexico	4–0	United States	Mexico City, Mexico
	Balcázar 5' Scheppel 16' (o.g.) Lamadrid 47' Naranjo 63'			Referee: Sunderland (England)

14 January 1954	Mexico	3–1	United States	Mexico City, Mexico
	A. Torres 60', 89' Lamadrid 82'		Looby 6'	Referee: Best (United States)

3 March 1954	Haiti	2–3	United States	Port-au-Prince, Haiti
	Ellie 60' (pen.), 89'		Casey 20' Chacurian 42' Looby 83'	Referee: Van Rosberg (Netherlands Antilles)

4 March 1954	Haiti	0–3	United States	Port-au-Prince, Haiti
			Looby 22', 65' Mendoza 31'	Referee: Van Rosberg (Netherlands Antilles)

Group 13

Pos.	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	South Korea	2	1	1	0	7	3	+4	3
2	Japan	2	0	1	1	3	7	−4	1
—	Republic of China	Withdrew

7 March 1954	Japan	1–5	South Korea	Tokyo, Japan
	Naganuma 16'		Chung Nam-sik 22' Choi Kwang-suk 34' Sung Nak-woon 65' Choi Chung-min 82' 85'	Stadium: Meiji Jingu Gaien Stadium Referee: Haran (Hong Kong)

14 March 1954	South Korea	2–2	Japan	Tokyo, Japan
	Chung Nam-sik 20' Choi Kwang-suk 43'		Iwatani 17', 61'	Stadium: Meiji Jingu Gaien Stadium Referee: Haran (Hong Kong)

1954 FIFA World Cup qualification Groups articles: 282

1 1954 FIFA World Cup qualification Group 1

The three teams in this group played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner West Germany qualified for the fifth FIFA World Cup held in Switzerland.More

2 Germany national football team

The Germany national football team represents Germany in men's international football and played its first match in 1908. The team is governed by the German Football Association, founded in 1900. Between 1949 and 1990, separate German national teams were recognised by FIFA due to Allied occupation and division: the DFB's team representing the Federal Republic of Germany, the Saarland team representing the Saar Protectorate (1950–1956) and the East German team representing the German Democratic Republic (1952–1990). The latter two were absorbed along with their records; the present team represents the reunified Federal Republic. The official name and code "Germany FR (FRG)" was shortened to "Germany (GER)" following reunification in 1990.More

3 Saarland national football team

The Saarland national football team was the association football team representing the Saar Protectorate in international football from 1950 to 1956 during the French occupation following World War II. As France opposed the inclusion of the Saarland in the Federal Republic of Germany until 1956, they administered it separately from Germany as the Saar Protectorate.More

4 Norway national football team

The Norway national football team represents Norway in men's international football and is controlled by the Norwegian Football Federation, the governing body for football in Norway. Norway's home ground is Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo and their head coach is Ståle Solbakken. In February 2019, they were ranked by FIFA at No. 48., Norway has participated three times in the FIFA World Cup, and once in the UEFA European Championship (2000).More

5 Oslo

Oslo is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. As of 23 November 2020, the municipality of Oslo had a population of 697,549, while the population of the city's urban area was 1,019,513, as of 4 November 2019. The metropolitan area had an estimated population of 1.71 million.More

6 Norway

Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe whose mainland territory comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land.More

7 Gunnar Thoresen

Gunnar Nils Thoresen was one of the greatest Norwegian footballers in the 1940s and 1950s. He played 64 matches and scored 22 goals for the Norway national football team and took part in the 1952 Summer Olympics. His last appearance for Norway came on 28 June 1959, less than a month before his 39th birthday, making him the oldest-ever Norwegian player to play for his national team.More

8 Herbert Binkert

Herbert Binkert was a German footballer who played internationally for Saarland.More

9 Werner Otto (footballer)

Werner Otto is a German former footballer who played internationally for Saarland.More

10 Gerhard Siedl

Gerhard Leopold Karl Siedl was a German footballer who played international football for both the Saar and West German national teams. During his club career he played for FC Bayern Munich, Borussia Neunkirchen (1948–1949), 1. FC Saarbrücken, Karlsruher SC, FC Basel, AZ, SV Austria Salzburg, and FC Dornbirn 1913. With Bayern he won the 1957 DFB-Pokal.More

11 Bislett Stadium

Bislett Stadium is a sports stadium in Oslo, Norway. Bislett is Norway's most well known sports arena internationally, with 15 speed skating world records and more than 50 track and field world records having been set here. The original stadium was demolished in 2004 and construction of a new stadium was completed by the summer of 2005. The New Bislett Stadium was designed by C.F. Møller Architects.More

12 Royal Dutch Football Association

The Royal Dutch Football Association is the governing body of football in Netherlands. It organises the main Dutch football leagues, the amateur leagues, the KNVB Cup, and the Dutch men's's and women's's national teams.More

13 Harald Hennum

Harald Ove Hennum was a Norwegian footballer. Playing for Frigg and Skeid, he was one of Norway's greatest football profiles in the 1950s.More

14 Fritz Walter

Friedrich "Fritz" Walter was a German footballer who spent his entire senior career at 1. FC Kaiserslautern. He usually played as an attacking midfielder or inside forward. In his time with the German national team, he appeared in 61 games and scored 33 goals, and was captain of the team that won the 1954 FIFA World Cup.More

15 Ullevaal Stadion

Ullevaal Stadion is an all-seater football stadium located in Oslo, Norway. It is the home ground of the Norway national football team, and the site of the Norwegian Cup Final. From its opening in 1926 to 2009 it was the home ground of FK Lyn and from 1999 to 2017 was a home ground of Vålerenga IF. With a capacity of approximately 28,000, it is the largest football stadium in Norway. The national stadium is fully owned by the Football Association of Norway (NFF).More

16 Stuttgart

Stuttgart is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known locally as the "Stuttgart Cauldron" and lies an hour from the Swabian Jura and the Black Forest. Its area has a population of 634,830, making it the sixth largest city in Germany. 2.8 million people live in the city's administrative region and 5.3 million people in its metropolitan area, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Germany. The city and metropolitan area are consistently ranked among the top 20 European metropolitan areas by GDP; Mercer listed Stuttgart as 21st on its 2015 list of cities by quality of living, innovation agency 2thinknow ranked the city 24th globally out of 442 cities and the Globalization and World Cities Research Network ranked the city as a Beta-status global city in their 2014 survey. Stuttgart was one of the host cities for the official tournaments of the 1974 and 2006 FIFA World Cups.More

17 West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany, retrospectively designated the Bonn Republic, in the period between its formation on 23 May 1949 and German reunification on 3 October 1990. During this Cold War period, the western portion of Germany was part of the Western Bloc. West Germany was formed as a political entity during the Allied occupation of Germany after World War II, established from eleven states formed in the three Allied zones of occupation held by the United States, the United Kingdom and France. Its provisional capital was the city of Bonn.More

18 Max Morlock

Maximilian Morlock was a German footballer active in the 1950s and early 1960s. In his time with the West German national team, he earned 26 caps and scored 21 goals. His position was that of an inside right forward.More

19 Horst Schade

Horst Schade was a German football player and manager.More

20 Mercedes-Benz Arena (Stuttgart)

Mercedes-Benz Arena is a stadium located in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany and home to German Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart.More

21 Saarbrücken

Saarbrücken is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is Saarland's administrative, commercial and cultural centre and is next to the French border.More

22 Saar Protectorate

The Saar Protectorate officially Saarland was a short-lived protectorate (1946–1957) partitioned from Germany after its defeat in World War II; it was administered by the French Fourth Republic. On rejoining West Germany in 1957, it became the smallest "federal state" (Bundesland), the Saarland, not counting the "city states" of West Berlin, Hamburg, and Bremen. It is named after the Saar River.More

23 Ludwigsparkstadion

Ludwigsparkstadion is a multi-purpose stadium in Saarbrücken, Germany. It was built in 1953 and holds 35,303 people. After renovation from 2016 to 2020 which costs about € 46,5 million, the capacity is reduced to around 16,000 seats.More

24 Leo Horn

Leopold "Leo" Sylvain Horn was an international football referee, newspaper columnist and textile manufacturer from the Netherlands.More

25 Hamburg

Hamburg, officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and 7th largest city in the European Union with a population of over 1.84 million. Hamburg's urban area has a population of around 2.5 million and its metropolitan area is home to more than five million people. The city lies on the River Elbe and two of its tributaries, the River Alster and the River Bille. One of Germany's 16 federated states, Hamburg is surrounded by Schleswig-Holstein to the north and Lower Saxony to the south.More

26 Ottmar Walter

Ottmar Kurt Herrmann Walter was a German footballer who played as a striker.More

27 Helmut Rahn

Helmut Rahn, known as Der Boss, was a German footballer who played as a forward. He became a legend for having scored the winning goal in the final game of the 1954 FIFA World Cup.More

28 Hans Nordahl

Hans Nordahl was a Norwegian footballer. He played as a forward for Skeid in the top Norwegian league, winning the Norwegian Football Cup title in 1947, 1954, 1955, 1956 and 1958. Nordahl was aso capped 19 times for the Norwegian national team, scoring eight goals.More

29 Volksparkstadion

Volksparkstadion football stadium in Hamburg, Germany, is the home of Hamburger SV.More

30 Arthur Luty

Arthur Walter Luty was an English international football referee.More

31 The Football Association

The Football Association (FA) is the governing body of association football in England and the Crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man. Formed in 1863, it is the oldest football association in the world and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the amateur and professional game in its territory.More

32 Herbert Martin

Herbert Martin was a Saarland and German footballer.More

33 Penalty kick (association football)

A penalty kick is a method of restarting play in association football, in which a player is allowed to take a single shot on the goal while it is defended only by the opposing team's goalkeeper. It is awarded when a foul punishable by a direct free kick is committed by a player in their own penalty area. The shot is taken from the penalty mark, which is 11 m from the goal line and centred between the touch lines.More

34 Hans Schäfer

Hans Schäfer was a German footballer who played as an outside left.More

35 1954 FIFA World Cup qualification Group 2

The three teams in this group played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner Belgium qualified for the fifth FIFA World Cup held in Switzerland.More

36 Belgium national football team

The Belgian national football team officially represents Belgium in men's international football since their maiden match in 1904. The squad is under the global jurisdiction of FIFA and is governed in Europe by UEFA—both of which were co-founded by the Belgian team's supervising body, the Royal Belgian Football Association. Periods of regular Belgian representation at the highest international level, from 1920 to 1938, from 1982 to 2002 and again from 2014 onwards, have alternated with mostly unsuccessful qualification rounds. Most of Belgium's home matches are played at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels.More

37 Sweden national football team

The Sweden national football team represents Sweden in men's international football and it is controlled by the Swedish Football Association, the governing body of football in Sweden. Sweden's home ground is Friends Arena in Solna and the team is coached by Janne Andersson. From 1945 to late 1950s, they were considered one of the greatest teams in Europe.More

38 Finland national football team

The Finland national football team represents Finland in men's international football competitions and is controlled by the Football Association of Finland. The team has been a member of FIFA since 1904 and a UEFA member since 1957.More

39 Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital, primate and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of 656,229. The city's urban area has a population of 1,268,296, making it by far the most populous urban area in Finland as well as the country's most important center for politics, education, finance, culture, and research; while Tampere in the Pirkanmaa region, located 179 kilometres (111 mi) to the north from Helsinki, is the second largest urban area in Finland. Helsinki is located 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of Tallinn, Estonia, 400 km (250 mi) east of Stockholm, Sweden, and 300 km (190 mi) west of Saint Petersburg, Russia. It has close historical ties with these three cities.More

40 Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country located in Northern Europe. Finland shares land borders with Sweden to the west, Russia to the east, and Norway to the north and is defined by the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south that are part of the Baltic Sea.More

41 Kalevi Lehtovirta

Kalevi Valdemar Lehtovirta was a Finnish football striker who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.More

42 Henri Coppens

Henri 'Rik' François Louis Coppens was a Belgian footballer who played as a striker. He played 389 games and scored 261 goals for Beerschot AC. Coppens won the first Belgian Golden Shoe in 1954. After his career as a player, he became a coach with Tubantia Borgerhout (1970–1971), Berchem, Beerschot and Club Brugge (1981).More

43 Léopold Anoul

Léopold "Pol" Anoul was a Belgian footballer.More

44 Helsinki Olympic Stadium

The Helsinki Olympic Stadium, located in the Töölö district about 2.3 kilometres (1.4 mi) from the centre of the Finnish capital Helsinki, is the largest stadium in the country, nowadays mainly used for hosting sports events and big concerts. The stadium is best known for being the centre of activities in the 1952 Summer Olympics. During those games, it hosted athletics, equestrian show jumping, and the football finals.More

45 Danish Football Association

The Danish Football Union is the governing body of football in Denmark. It is the organization of the Danish football clubs and runs the professional Danish football leagues and the men's and women's national teams. It is based in the city of Brøndby and is a founding member of both FIFA and UEFA. The DBU has also been the governing body of futsal in Denmark since 2008.More

46 Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and most populous urban area of Sweden as well as in Scandinavia. 1 million people live in the municipality, approximately 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.4 million in the metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. It is also the county seat of Stockholm County.More

47 Sweden

Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund Strait. At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the largest country in Northern Europe, the third-largest country in the European Union and the fifth largest country in Europe by area. The capital city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.4 million and a low population density of 25 inhabitants per square kilometre (65/sq mi). 87% of Swedes live in urban areas, which cover 1.5% of the entire land area. The highest concentration is in the central and southern half of the country.More

48 Bengt Berndtsson

Bengt Berndtsson was a Swedish football winger. Born in Gothenburg, he was nicknamed Fölet.More

49 Arne Selmosson

Arne Selmosson was a Swedish footballer who played as a striker.More

50 Victor Lemberechts

Victor "Torreke" Lemberechts was a Belgian international footballer who played as striker.More

51 Råsunda Stadium

Råsunda Stadium was the Swedish national football stadium. It was located in Solna Municipality in Stockholm and named after the district in Solna where it is located. In November 2012 it was closed down and replaced by the newly built Friends Arena about 1 km from Råsunda Stadium. Råsunda Stadium was completely demolished in 2013 and flats and offices was built on the old ground.More

52 Jack Mowat

John Alexander Mowat, was a Scottish football referee who also operated for FIFA.More

53 Scottish Football Association

The Scottish Football Association is the governing body of football in Scotland and has the ultimate responsibility for the control and development of football in Scotland. Members of the SFA include clubs in Scotland, affiliated national associations as well as local associations. It was formed in 1873, making it the second oldest national football association in the world. It is not to be confused with the Scottish Football Union, which is the name that the SRU was known by until the 1920s.More

54 Nils Rikberg

Nils Bertil Rikberg was a Finnish footballer who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.More

55 Nils-Åke Sandell

Nils-Åke Sandell was a Swedish football player and manager.More

56 Norwegian Football Federation

The Norwegian Football Federation is the governing body of football in Norway. It was formed in 1902 and organises the men's and women's national teams, as well as the league systems for men and women. The current president of NFF is Terje Svendsen. By 1 January 2004, there were 1,814 clubs organized in Norway and 373,532 registered players. It is the largest sports federation in Norway.More

57 Gösta Sandberg

Gösta "Knivsta" Sandberg,, was a Swedish footballer, ice hockey and bandy player in Djurgårdens IF. In 1956 he received Guldbollen and he was voted ”Djurgårdare of the century” in 1991. His nickname derives from the town he was born and grew up in, Knivsta. He was capped 52 times for the national team in football, 8 times in hockey and 3 times in bandy.More

58 Brussels

Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located in the central portion of the country and is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, but is separate from the Flemish Region and the Walloon Region. Brussels is the most densely populated and the richest region in Belgium in terms of GDP per capita. It covers 162 km² (63 sq mi), a relatively small area compared to the two other regions, and has a population of over 1.2 million. The five times larger metropolitan area of Brussels comprises over 2.5 million people, which makes it the largest in Belgium. It is also part of a large conurbation extending towards Ghent, Antwerp, Leuven and Walloon Brabant, home to over 5 million people.More

59 Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe. It is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the southwest, and the North Sea to the northwest. It covers an area of 30,689 km² (11,849 sq mi) and has a population of more than 11.5 million, making it the 22nd most densely populated country in the world and the 6th most densely populated country in Europe, with a density of 376 per square kilometre (970/sq mi). The capital and largest city is Brussels; other major cities are Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi, Liège, Bruges, Namur, and Leuven.More

60 Jorma Vaihela

Jorma Johan Sigurd Vaihela was a Finnish international footballer who played as an inside forward.More

61 King Baudouin Stadium

The King Baudouin Stadium is a sports ground in north-west Brussels, Belgium. Located in the Heysel section of the Brussels municipality, it was built to embellish the Heysel plateau in view of the 1935 Brussels International Exposition. It was inaugurated on 23 August 1930, with Crown Prince Leopold attending the opening ceremony. The stadium hosted 70,000 at the time. A wooden track for cycling races was later added around the pitch.More

62 Swiss Football Association

The Swiss Football Association is the governing body of football in Switzerland. It organizes the football league, the Swiss Football League and the Switzerland national football team. It is based in Bern.More

63 Victor Mees

Victor Mees, nicknamed Vic or Vicky, was a Belgian footballer who played all of his career at Royal Antwerp.More

64 1953–54 British Home Championship

The 1953–54 British Home Championship was an international football tournament played between the British Home Nations during the 1953–54 season. This season's tournament also doubled as UEFA – Group 3 for 1954 FIFA World Cup qualification. England dominated the Championship, winning all three games and taking first place. After defeating Ireland, Scotland struggled against Wales before losing to England. Meanwhile, Ireland defeated Wales in Wrexham to clinch third place. England, together with second-placed Scotland, subsequently qualified for the 1954 FIFA World Cup.More

65 England national football team

The England national football team represents England in men's international football since the first international match in 1872. It is controlled by The Football Association (FA), the governing body for football in England, which is affiliated with UEFA and comes under the global jurisdiction of world football's governing body FIFA. Also known as The Three Lions, England competes in the three major international tournaments contested by European nations; the FIFA World Cup, the UEFA European Championship and the UEFA Nations League. England is one of only eight nations to have been crowned world champions, having won the 1966 edition of the World Cup.More

66 Scotland national football team

The Scotland national football team represents Scotland in men's international football and is controlled by the Scottish Football Association. It competes in the three major professional tournaments, the FIFA World Cup, UEFA Nations League and the UEFA European Championship. Scotland, as a country of the United Kingdom, is not a member of the International Olympic Committee and therefore the national team does not compete in the Olympic Games. The majority of Scotland's home matches are played at the national stadium, Hampden Park.More

67 Northern Ireland national football team

The Northern Ireland national football team represents Northern Ireland in international association football. From 1882 to 1920, all of Ireland was represented by a single side, the Ireland national football team, organised by the Irish Football Association (IFA). In 1921, the jurisdiction of the IFA was reduced to Northern Ireland following the secession of clubs in the soon-to-be Irish Free State, although its team remained the national team for all of Ireland until 1950, and used the name Ireland until the 1970s. The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) organises the separate Republic of Ireland national football team.More

68 Wales national football team

The Wales national football team represents Wales in international football. It is controlled by the Football Association of Wales (FAW), the governing body for football in Wales and the third-oldest national football association in the world, founded in 1876.More

69 Belfast

Belfast is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdom and the second-largest on the island of Ireland. It had a population of 343,542 as of 2019. Belfast suffered greatly during the violence that accompanied the partition of Ireland, and especially during the more recent conflict known as the Troubles: in the 1970s and 1980s it was one of the world's most dangerous cities, with a homicide rate around 31 per 100,000.More

70 Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is variously described as a country, province, or region which is part of the United Kingdom. Located in the northeast of the island of Ireland, Northern Ireland shares a border to the south and west with the Republic of Ireland. In 2011, its population was 1,810,863, constituting about 30% of the island's population and about 3% of the UK's population. The Northern Ireland Assembly, established by the Northern Ireland Act 1998, holds responsibility for a range of devolved policy matters, while other areas are reserved for the British government. Northern Ireland co-operates with the Republic of Ireland in several areas.More

71 Norman Lockhart (footballer)

Norman H. Lockhart was a professional footballer from Northern Ireland. Lockhart played as an outside left for Linfield, Swansea Town, Coventry City, Aston Villa, Bury and Ards. He represented the Northern Ireland national football team eight times between 1946 and 1956.More

72 Charlie Fleming

Charles Fleming was a Scottish footballer who played for Blairhall Colliery, East Fife, Sunderland and the Scotland national team. Fleming was nicknamed 'Cannonball Charlie' for his shooting ability.More

73 Jackie Henderson

John Gillespie Henderson was a Scottish international footballer who played as a forward in the English Football League for Portsmouth, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Arsenal and Fulham.More

74 Windsor Park

Windsor Park, its official correct name or sometimes referred to as the National Football Stadium at Windsor Park, is a football stadium in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is the home ground of Linfield FC who own the ground and rented by the IFA on behalf of the Northern Ireland national football team, and is also where the Irish Cup final is played.More

75 Arthur Edward Ellis

Arthur Edward Ellis was an English football referee. He was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire.More

76 Cardiff

Cardiff is the capital city of Wales and a county. Officially known as the City and County of Cardiff, it is the United Kingdom's eleventh-largest city and the main commercial centre of Wales. Cardiff is the base for the Senedd, most national cultural institutions and the Welsh media. At the 2011 census, the unitary authority area population was estimated to be 346,090, and the wider urban area 479,000. In 2011, Cardiff was sixth in the world in the National Geographic magazine's list of alternative tourist destinations. Cardiff is the most popular visitor destination in Wales with 21.3 million visitors in 2017.More

77 Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in 2011 of 3,063,456 and has a total area of 20,779 km² (8,023 sq mi). Wales has over 1,680 miles (2,700 km) of coastline and is largely mountainous with its higher peaks in the north and central areas, including Snowdon, its highest summit. The country lies within the north temperate zone and has a changeable, maritime climate.More

78 Ivor Allchurch

Ivor John Allchurch MBE was a Welsh professional footballer who played for Swansea Town, Newcastle United and Cardiff City, as well as the Wales national football team.More

79 Dennis Wilshaw

Dennis James Wilshaw was an English international footballer. A forward, he scored 173 goals in 380 appearances in the Football League, and also scored ten goals in twelve appearances for the England national team. He spent 13 years with Wolverhampton Wanderers from 1944 to 1957, where he won the First Division title in 1953–54. He spent 1946 to 1948 on loan at Walsall, and ended his career after playing for Stoke City between 1957 and 1961.More

80 Nat Lofthouse

Nathaniel Lofthouse was an English professional footballer who played as a forward for Bolton Wanderers for his entire career. He won 33 caps for England between 1950 and 1958, scoring 30 goals, with one of the highest goals-per-game ratios of any England player.More

81 Ninian Park

Ninian Park was a football stadium in the Leckwith area of Cardiff, Wales, that was the home of Cardiff City F.C. for 99 years. Opened in 1910 with a single wooden stand, it underwent numerous renovations during its lifespan and hosted fixtures with over 60,000 spectators in attendance. At the time of its closure in 2009, it had a capacity of 21,508.More

82 Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland.More

83 Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a 96-mile (154 km) border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the northeast and the Irish Sea to the south. There are also more than 790 islands; principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles. Most of the population, including the capital Edinburgh, is concentrated in the Central Belt – the plain between the Scottish Highlands and the Southern Uplands – in the Scottish Lowlands.More

84 Allan Brown (footballer, born 1926)

Allan Duncan Brown was a Scottish football player and manager. Brown played as an inside forward for East Fife, Blackpool, Luton Town, Portsmouth and Wigan Athletic. He also represented Scotland, scoring six goals in 14 international appearances, and the Scottish League. Brown was player/manager of Wigan Athletic, and also managed Luton Town, Torquay United, Bury, Nottingham Forest, Southport and Blackpool.More

85 Bobby Johnstone

Robert Johnstone was a Scottish footballer, who played for Selkirk, Hibernian, Manchester City, Oldham Athletic and Witton Albion. Johnstone also represented Scotland and the Scottish League.More

86 Lawrie Reilly

Lawrance Reilly was a Scottish footballer. He was one of the "Famous Five", the Hibernian forward line during the late 1940s and early 1950s, along with Bobby Johnstone, Gordon Smith, Eddie Turnbull, and Willie Ormond. Reilly is rated amongst the top forwards in Scottish football history and was inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame in 2005.More

87 John Charles

William John Charles, CBE was a Welsh international footballer who played for Leeds United and Juventus during his 25-year playing career. Rated by many as the greatest all-round footballer ever to come from Britain, he was equally adept as a forward or defender due to his strength, pace, technique, vision, ability in the air and eye for goal. He has since been included in the Football League 100 Legends and was inducted into the Football Hall of Fame.More

88 Hampden Park

Hampden Park is a football stadium in the Mount Florida area of Glasgow, Scotland. The 51,866-capacity venue serves as the national stadium of football in Scotland. It is the normal home venue of the Scotland national football team and Scottish League Two club Queen's Park. Hampden regularly hosts the latter stages of the Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup competitions and has also been used for music concerts and other sporting events, such as when it was reconfigured as an athletics stadium for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.More

89 Irish Football Association

The Irish Football Association (IFA) is the governing body for association football in Northern Ireland. It organised the Ireland national football team from 1880 to 1950, which after 1954, became the Northern Ireland national football team.More

90 Liverpool

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. Its population in 2019 was approximately 498,042, making it the tenth-largest English district by population. Liverpool's metropolitan area is the fifth-largest in the UK with a population of 2.24 million.More

91 England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.More

92 Harold Hassall

Harold William Hassall was a professional footballer, who played as a forward for Huddersfield Town and Bolton Wanderers in the 1940s and 1950s.More

93 Eddie McMorran

Edward James "Eddie" McMorran was a footballer who played as a centre forward and inside forward in the Football League, for Ireland and Northern Ireland.More

94 Goodison Park

Goodison Park is a football stadium in the Walton area of Liverpool, England. It has been the home stadium of Premier League club Everton F.C. since its completion in 1892. Located in a residential area 2 miles (3 km) north of Liverpool city centre, it has an all-seated capacity of 39,414.More

95 Football Association of Wales

The Football Association of Wales is the governing body of association football and futsal in Wales, and controls the Welsh national football team, its corresponding women's team, as well as the Welsh national futsal team. It is a member of FIFA, UEFA and the IFAB.More

96 Wrexham

Wrexham is a large market town and the administrative centre of the Wrexham County Borough in Wales, United Kingdom. Wrexham is located between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley alongside the neighbouring county of Cheshire. Historically part of Denbighshire, the town became part of Clwyd in 1974 and since 1996 has been the principal centre of Wrexham County Borough.More

97 Peter McParland

Peter James McParland MBE is a former professional footballer.More

98 Racecourse Ground

The Racecourse Ground in Wrexham, north Wales, is the home of Wrexham A.F.C..More

99 Willie Ormond

William Esplin Ormond was a Scottish football player and manager. As a player, Ormond was well known as one of Hibernian's Famous Five forward line, winning three league championships in the late 1940s and early 1950s. After a successful spell managing St Johnstone he led Scotland to the 1974 World Cup finals. Scotland were unbeaten at that World Cup, but were eliminated on goal difference.More

100 Ivor Broadis

Ivan Arthur "Ivor" Broadis was an English professional footballer.More

101 Johnny Nicholls

John Nicholls, better known as Johnny Nicholls or sometimes Jack Nicholls, was an English footballer who played as a forward. During his professional career he represented West Bromwich Albion, Cardiff City and Exeter City.More

102 Ronnie Allen

Ronald Allen was an English international football player and manager. He was a professional footballer for nineteen years, between 1946 and 1964, making 638 appearances in the Football League, and scoring 276 goals. He also won five caps for England national team. He later became a manager at clubs in England, Spain, Portugal, and Greece. His son, Russell, also played professional football throughout the 1970s.More

103 Jimmy Mullen (footballer, born 1923)

James Mullen was an English international footballer who played as an outside left.More

104 1954 FIFA World Cup qualification Group 4

The three teams in this group played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner France qualified for the fifth FIFA World Cup held in Switzerland.More

105 France national football team

The France national football team represents France in men's international football and is controlled by the French Football Federation, also known as FFF, or in French: Fédération française de football. The team's colours are blue, white and red, and the coq gaulois its symbol. France are colloquially known as Les Bleus. They are the reigning world champions, having won the most recent World Cup final in 2018.More

106 Republic of Ireland national football team

The Republic of Ireland national football team represents Ireland in men's international football. It is governed by the Football Association of Ireland (FAI).More

107 Luxembourg national football team

The Luxembourg national football team is the national football team of Luxembourg, and is controlled by the Luxembourg Football Federation. The team plays most of its home matches at the Stade Josy Barthel in Luxembourg City.More

108 Luxembourg City

Luxembourg, also known as Luxembourg City, is the capital city of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the country's most populous commune. Standing at the confluence of the Alzette and Pétrusse rivers in southern Luxembourg, the city lies at the heart of Western Europe, situated 213 km (132 mi) by road from Brussels, 372 km (231 mi) from Paris, and 209 km (130 mi) from Cologne. The city contains Luxembourg Castle, established by the Franks in the Early Middle Ages, around which a settlement developed.More

109 Luxembourg

Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in Western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France to the south. Its capital, Luxembourg City, is one of the four official capitals of the European Union and the seat of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the highest judicial authority in the EU. Its culture, people, and languages are highly intertwined with its neighbours, making it a mixture of French and German cultures. It has three official languages: French, German, and the national language of Luxembourgish.More

110 Antoine Kohn

Antoine "Spitz" Kohn was a Luxembourg football player and football manager.More

111 Roger Piantoni

Roger Piantoni was a French international footballer. He was the star, inside-forward on the French team in the late 1950s. During the 1949–1950 season, he was the champion of Lorraine with his team, and was the top scorer in the league with 35 goals. At the 1958 World Cup, Piantoni was considered one of the best French players of his time. He was nicknamed Bout d'chou, meaning "Cabbage Tip", ranking as the sixth top scorer in the French Championship with a total of 203 goals in Division 1.More

112 Raymond Kopa

Raymond Kopa was a French footballer, integral to the French national team of the 1950s. At club level he was part of the legendary Real Madrid team of the 1950s, winning three European Cups.More

113 Léon Glovacki

Léon Glovacki was a French football striker.More

114 Édouard Kargu

Édouard Kargulewicz, known simply as Édouard Kargu, was a France international footballer who played as a striker. Born in Poland, Kargu played professionally for Bordeaux between 1947 and 1958, and was the Ligue 1 topscorer in the 1953–54 season scoring 27 goals.More

115 Pierre Flamion

Pierre Émile Flamion was a French football manager and former player who played striker.More

116 Stade Josy Barthel

Stade Josy Barthel is the national stadium of Luxembourg, home to the Luxembourg national football team and also used for rugby union and athletics. It is located on route d'Arlon, in the Luxembourg City quarter of Belair.More

117 Dublin

Dublin is the capital and largest city of Ireland. Situated on a bay on the east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey, it lies within the province of Leinster. It is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. It has an urban area population of 1,173,179, while the population of the Dublin Region as of 2016 was 1,347,359. The population of the Greater Dublin Area was 1,904,806 per the 2016 census.More

118 Republic of Ireland

Ireland, also known as the Republic of Ireland, is a country in north-western Europe occupying 26 of 32 counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, which is located on the eastern side of the island. Around 40% of the country's population of 4.9 million people resides in the Greater Dublin Area. The sovereign state shares its only land border with Northern Ireland which is part of the United Kingdom. It is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the Celtic Sea to the south, St George's Channel to the south-east, and the Irish Sea to the east. It is a unitary, parliamentary republic. The legislature, the Oireachtas, consists of a lower house, Dáil Éireann, an upper house, Seanad Éireann, and an elected President who serves as the largely ceremonial head of state, but with some important powers and duties. The head of government is the Taoiseach, who is elected by the Dáil and appointed by the President; the Taoiseach in turn appoints other government ministers.More

119 Reg Ryan

Reginald Alphonso Ryan, also referred to as Paddy Ryan, was an Irish footballer who played for West Bromwich Albion, Derby County and Coventry City. Ryan was also a dual international, playing for both Ireland teams – the FAI XI and the IFA XI. He was the last player to represent both teams. He was more of a goal creator then a goalscorer.More

120 Davy Walsh

David Joseph Walsh, commonly referred to as Davy Walsh or Dave Walsh, was an Irish footballer who played as a centre forward for, among others, Linfield, West Bromwich Albion and Aston Villa. Walsh was a dual international and played for both Ireland teams – the FAI XI and the IFA XI. In 1949, he was a member of the FAI XI that defeated England 2–0 at Goodison Park, becoming the first team to beat England at home.More

121 Frank O'Farrell

Francis O'Farrell is an Irish former football player and manager. O'Farrell played as a wing half for Cork United, West Ham United and Preston North End. He made over 300 appearances in the Football League before joining Weymouth as player-manager. He went on to manage Torquay United, Leicester City, Manchester United, Cardiff City, Iran and Al-Shaab. He played for the Republic of Ireland national team, making nine appearances between 1952 and 1959.More

122 Armand Penverne

Armand Penverne was a French football defender and coach. He played the majority of his professional career for Stade de Reims winning four French championships and appearing in one European Cup final. He made 39 appearances for the France national team scoring twice. After retiring as a player, Penverne severed as coach of Olympique de Marseille from July to December 1962 before becoming the technical director of the local club La Ciotat during the 1963–64 season. On 28 February 2012, he died at the age of 85.More

123 Joseph Ujlaki

Joseph Ujlaki was a French footballer of Hungarian descent, one of the best strikers in Division 1 in the 1950s and 1960s.More

124 Dalymount Park

Dalymount Park is a football stadium in Phibsborough on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland.More

125 Royal Belgian Football Association

The Royal Belgian Football Association is the governing body of football in Belgium. It was a founding member of FIFA in 1904 and UEFA in 1954 and is based in Brussels, not far from the King Baudouin Stadium. Its chairman is Mehdi Bayat.More

126 Arthur Fitzsimons

Arthur Fitzsimons was an Irish professional football player and manager.More

127 Tommy Eglington

Thomas Joseph Eglington was an Irish footballer who played as an outside-left for, among others, Shamrock Rovers, Everton and Tranmere Rovers. Eglington was also a dual internationalist and played for both Ireland teams – the FAI XI and the IFA XI.More

128 Alf Bond

Alfred "Alf" Bond was an English football referee who was the referee in the 1956 FA Cup Final.More

129 Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,148,271 residents as of 2020, in an area of more than 105 square kilometres. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, science and arts. The City of Paris is the centre and seat of government of the Île-de-France, or Paris Region, which has an estimated official 2020 population of 12,278,210, or about 18 percent of the population of France. The Paris Region had a GDP of €709 billion in 2017. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit Worldwide Cost of Living Survey in 2018, Paris was the second most expensive city in the world, after Singapore, and ahead of Zürich, Hong Kong, Oslo and Geneva. Another source ranked Paris as most expensive, on a par with Singapore and Hong Kong, in 2018.More

130 France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country primarily located in Western Europe, consisting of metropolitan France and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. The overseas territories include French Guiana in South America and several islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany to the northeast, Switzerland, Monaco and Italy to the east, Andorra and Spain to the south, as well as the Netherlands, Suriname and Brazil in the Americas. The country's eighteen integral regions span a combined area of 643,801 km² (248,573 sq mi) and a total population of 67.41 million. France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. Other major urban areas include Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille and Nice. France, including its overseas territories, has the most time zones of any country, with a total of twelve.More

131 Parc des Princes

The Parc des Princes is an all-seater football stadium in Paris, France, in the south-west of the French capital, inside the 16th arrondissement, near the Stade Jean-Bouin and Stade Roland Garros.More

132 Jean Vincent

Jean Vincent was a French international footballer and manager.More

133 Just Fontaine

Just Louis Fontaine is a French retired professional footballer. A prolific forward, he is best known for scoring the most goals in a single edition of the FIFA World Cup, with 13 in six matches in 1958. In 2004, Pelé named him one of the 125 Greatest Living Footballers at a FIFA Awards Ceremony.More

134 Jacques Foix

Jacques Foix was a French footballer who played striker. His playing career spanned from 1951 to 1964. Foix made seven appearances for the French national team between 1953 and 1956, scoring three goals and was a member of two French League championship squads in 1959 and 1964.More

135 George Cummins (footballer)

George Cummins was an Irish professional footballer.More

136 1954 FIFA World Cup qualification Group 5

The 1954 FIFA World Cup qualification Group 5 contained Austria and Portugal.More

137 Austria national football team

The Austria national football team represents Austria in men's international football competition and it is controlled by the Austrian Football Association . Austria has qualified for seven FIFA World Cups, most recently in 1998. The country played in the UEFA European Championship for the first time in 2008, when it co-hosted the event with Switzerland, and most recently qualified in 2016.More

138 Portugal national football team

The Portugal national football team has represented Portugal in international men's football competition since 1921. It is controlled by the Portuguese Football Federation, the governing body for football in Portugal.More

139 Vienna

Vienna is the national capital, largest city, and one of nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's most populous city, with about 1.9 million inhabitants, and its cultural, economic, and political center. It is the 6th-largest city by population within city limits in the European Union.More

140 Austria

Austria, officially the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked East Alpine country in the southern part of Central Europe. It is composed of nine federated states (Bundesländer), one of which is Vienna, Austria's capital and its largest city. It is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. Austria occupies an area of 83,879 km² (32,386 sq mi) and has a population of nearly 9 million people. While German is the country's official language, many Austrians communicate informally in a variety of Bavarian dialects.More

141 Ernst Ocwirk

Ernst Ocwirk was an Austrian football player and coach. He is regarded as one of the greatest Austrian footballers of all time.More

142 Erich Probst

Erich Probst was an Austrian footballer who played as a striker.More

143 Ernst Happel

Ernst Franz Hermann Happel was an Austrian football player and manager.More

144 Theodor Wagner

Theodor "Turl" Wagner was an Austrian footballer who played as a striker.More

145 Robert Dienst

Robert Dienst was an Austrian football forward. He died in 2000 after a long illness.More

146 José Águas

José Pinto de Carvalho Santos Águas was a Portuguese footballer who played as a striker.More

147 Ernst-Happel-Stadion

The Ernst-Happel-Stadion ( Ernst-Happel-Stadion ), known as Praterstadion until 1992, sometimes also called Wiener-Stadion, is a football stadium in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Austria's capital Vienna. With 50,865 seats, it is the largest stadium in Austria. It was built between 1929 and 1931 for the second Workers' Olympiad to the design of German architect Otto Ernst Schweizer. The stadium was renamed in honour of Austrian footballer Ernst Happel following his death in 1992. The stadium hosted seven games in UEFA Euro 2008, including the final which saw Spain triumph over Germany.More

148 Lisbon

Lisbon is the capital and the largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 505,526 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km². Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits with a population of around 2.8 million people, being the 10th-most populous urban area in the European Union. About 3 million people live in the Lisbon metropolitan area, which represents approximately 27% of the country's population. It is mainland Europe's westernmost capital city and the only one along the Atlantic coast. Lisbon lies in the western Iberian Peninsula on the Atlantic Ocean and the River Tagus. The westernmost portions of its metro area, the Portuguese Riviera, form the westernmost point of Continental Europe, culminating at Cabo da Roca.More

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