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1954 FIFA World Cup qualification Group 10

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The three teams in this group played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner Yugoslavia qualified for the 1954 FIFA World Cup held in Switzerland.

1954 FIFA World Cup qualification Group 10 Intro articles: 2
1954 FIFA World Cup
The 1954 FIFA World Cup was the fifth edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football tournament for senior men's national teams of the nations affiliated to FIFA. It was held in Switzerland from 16 June to 4 July. Switzerland was selected as the host country in July 1946. At the tournament several all-time records for goal-scoring were set, including the highest average number of goals scored per game. The tournament was won by West Germany, who defeated Hungary 3–2 in the final, their first World Cup title.More
Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a country situated at the confluence of Western, Central, and Southern Europe. It is a federal republic composed of 26 cantons, with federal authorities based in Bern. Switzerland is a landlocked country bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. It is geographically divided among the Swiss Plateau, the Alps, and the Jura, spanning a total area of 41,285 km2 (15,940 sq mi), and land area of 39,997 km2 (15,443 sq mi). While the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, the Swiss population of approximately 8.5 million is concentrated mostly on the plateau, where the largest cities and economic centres are located, among them Zürich, Geneva and Basel. These cities are home to several offices of international organisations such as the headquarters of FIFA, the UN's second-largest Office, and the main building of the Bank for International Settlements. The main international airports of Switzerland are also located in these cities.More

Group 10

Pos Team Pld HW HD HL HGF HGA AW AD AL AGF AGA GD Pts
1  Yugoslavia 4 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 +4 8 — 1–0 1–0
2  Greece 4 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 2 1 +1 4 0–1 — 1–0
3  Israel 4 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 2 0 2 −5 0 0–1 0–2 —
Source:

Results

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 Report Referee: Massai (Italy)
8 November 1953 Yugoslavia  1 – 0  Israel Skopje, Yugoslavia
Milutinović Report Referee: Alsteen (Belgium)
8 March 1954 Israel  0 – 2  Greece Tel Aviv, Israel
Report Kokkinakis
Kamaras 		Referee: Buchmüller (Switzerland)
21 March 1954 Israel  0 – 1  Yugoslavia Tel Aviv, Israel
Report Zebec Referee: Leafe (England)
28 March 1954 Greece  0 – 1  Yugoslavia Athens, Greece
Report Veselinović Referee: Rufli (Switzerland)

Team stats

 Yugoslavia

Head coach: Milorad Arsenijević, Aleksandar Tirnanić, Leo Lemešić (together)

Pos. Player DoB Games
played 		Goals Minutes
played 		Sub off Sub on Club
GK Vladimir Beara November 2, 1928 2 0 180 0 0 90 90 - - Hajduk Split
DF Bruno Belin January 16, 1929 1 0 90 0 0 - 90 - - Partizan Belgrade
FW Stjepan Bobek December 3, 1923 2 0 180 0 0 - 90 90 - Partizan Belgrade
MF Vujadin Boškov May 16, 1931 4 0 360 0 0 90 90 90 90 Vojvodina Novi Sad
MF Zlatko Čajkovski November 24, 1923 4 0 360 0 0 90 90 90 90 Partizan Belgrade
DF Tomislav Crnković June 17, 1929 2 0 180 0 0 90 - 90 - Dinamo Zagreb
DF Ivan Horvat July 16, 1926 3 0 270 0 0 90 - 90 90 Dinamo Zagreb
FW Frane Matošić November 25, 1918 1 1 90 0 0 90 - - - Hajduk Split
MF Sima Milovanov April 10, 1923 1 0 90 0 0 - 90 - - Vojvodina Novi Sad
FW Miloš Milutinović February 5, 1933 3 1 218 1 0 - 90 38 90 Partizan Belgrade
MF Rajko Mitić November 6, 1922 3 0 270 0 0 90 - 90 90 Red Star Belgrade
DF Tihomir Ognjanov March 2, 1927 1 0 52 0 1 - - 52 - Red Star Belgrade
MF Zdravko Rajkov December 5, 1927 4 0 360 0 0 90 90 90 90 Vojvodina Novi Sad
DF Branko Stanković October 31, 1921 3 0 270 0 0 90 - 90 90 Red Star Belgrade
GK Slavko Stojanović June 1, 1930 2 0 180 0 0 - - 90 90 Partizan Belgrade
FW Todor Veselinović October 22, 1930 1 1 90 0 0 - - - 90 Vojvodina Novi Sad
FW Bernard Vukas May 1, 1927 2 0 180 0 0 90 90 - - Hajduk Split
MF Branko Zebec May 17, 1929 4 1 360 0 0 90 90 90 90 Partizan Belgrade
DF Milan Zeković November 15, 1925 2 0 180 0 0 - 90 - 90 Red Star Belgrade

 Greece

Head coach: Kostas Negrepontis (first and second match), Ioannis Chelmis (third and fourth match)

Pos. Player DoB Games
played 		Goals Minutes
played 		Sub off Sub on Club
DF Theodoros Aloupis December 14, 1929 1 0 90 0 0 90 - - - Panathinaikos FC
MF Thanasis Bebis June 26, 1928 2 1 180 0 0 90 90 - - Olympiacos F.C.
FW Georgios Darivas March 12, 1926 1 0 41 1 0 - 41 - - Olympiacos F.C.
MF Babis Drosos 1928 2 0 180 0 0 90 90 - - Olympiacos F.C.
MF Pavlos Emmanouilidis 1929 2 0 180 0 0 90 90 - - AEK Athens F.C.
MF Ioannis Ioannou 1931 1 0 90 0 0 90 - - - Olympiacos F.C.
FW Georgios Kamaras 1931 2 1 180 0 0 - - 90 90 Apollon Smyrnis F.C.
MF Dimitris Kokkinakis 1930 2 1 180 0 0 - - 90 90 Olympiacos F.C.
MF Bambis Kotridis 1928 2 0 180 0 0 - - 90 90 Olympiacos F.C.
DF Georgios Kourtzidis 1931 2 0 180 0 0 - - 90 90 Panathinaikos FC
DF Kostas Linoxilakis March 5, 1933 2 0 180 0 0 - - 90 90 Panathinaikos FC
GK Stathis Mantazolis 2 0 180 0 0 90 90 - - Ethnikos
DF Georgios Mouratidis 1927 1 0 50 0 1 - - - 50 AEK Athens F.C.
DF Andreas Mouratis November 29, 1926 1 0 90 0 0 - 90 - - Olympiacos F.C.
FW Ioannis Nembidis March 10, 1928 2 0 180 0 0 90 90 - - Panathinaikos FC
FW Vaggelis Panakis June 8, 1933 2 0 180 0 0 - - 90 90 Panathinaikos FC
FW Giannis Papantoniou 2 0 180 0 0 - - 90 90 Panathinaikos FC
MF Ilias Papageorgiou 1925 1 0 90 0 0 90 - - - AEK Athens F.C.
MF Lakis Petropoulos August 29, 1932 1 0 90 0 0 - 90 - - Panathinaikos FC
DF Kostas Poulis 1928 1 0 90 0 0 - 90 - - AEK Athens F.C.
DF Ilias Rosidis February 3, 1927 4 0 360 0 0 90 90 90 90 Olympiacos F.C.
MF Lambis Serafidis 2 0 139 0 1 90 49 - - Apollon Smyrnis F.C.
DF Thanasis Soulis-Kingley 2 0 180 0 0 90 90 - - Olympiacos F.C.
MF Andreas Stamatiadis August 16, 1935 2 0 180 0 0 - - 90 90 AEK Athens F.C.
GK Charalambos Taouxis 1930 2 0 180 0 0 - - 90 90 Apollon Smyrnis F.C.
DF Vasilis Xanthopoulos 1929 2 0 130 1 0 - - 90 40 Olympiacos F.C.

1954 FIFA World Cup qualification Group 10 Group 10 articles: 52
1 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as SFR Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from its foundation in the aftermath of World War II until its dissolution in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars. Covering an area of 255,804 km2, the SFRY was bordered by the Adriatic Sea and Italy to the west, Austria and Hungary to the north, Bulgaria and Romania to the east, and Albania and Greece to the south. The nation was a socialist state and a federation governed by the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and made up of six socialist republics – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia – with Belgrade as its capital. In addition, it included two autonomous provinces within Serbia: Kosovo and Vojvodina. The SFRY's origin is traced to 26 November 1942, when the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia was formed during World War II.More
2 Milorad Arsenijević
Milorad Arsenijević was a Serbian football player and manager.More
3 Aleksandar Tirnanić
Aleksandar "Tirke" Tirnanić was a Yugoslav football player and manager.More
4 Leo Lemešić
Leo Lemešić was a Croatian football striker and later a football manager.More
5 Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic and also known as Hellas, is a country located in Southeast Europe. Its population is approximately 10.7 million as of 2018; Athens is its largest and capital city, followed by Thessaloniki. Situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, Greece is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. It shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the northeast. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, the Cretan Sea and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin and the 11th longest coastline in the world at 13,676 km (8,498 mi) in length, featuring many islands, of which 227 are inhabited. Eighty percent of Greece is mountainous, with Mount Olympus being the highest peak at 2,918 metres (9,573 ft). The country consists of nine traditional geographic regions: Macedonia, Central Greece, the Peloponnese, Thessaly, Epirus, the Aegean Islands, Thrace, Crete, and the Ionian Islands.More
6 Israel
Israel, officially known as the State of Israel, is a country in Western Asia, located on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea. It has land borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan on the east, the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the east and west, respectively, and Egypt to the southwest. Israel's economic and technological center is Tel Aviv, while its seat of government and proclaimed capital is Jerusalem, although international recognition of the state's sovereignty over Jerusalem is limited.More
7 Goalkeeper (association football)
The goalkeeper, often shortened to keeper or goalie, is one of the major positions of association football. It is the most specialised position in the sport. The goalkeeper's primary role is to prevent the opposing team from scoring. This is accomplished by the goalkeeper moving into the path of the ball and either catching it or directing it away from the vicinity of the goal line. Within the penalty area goalkeepers are able to use their hands, making them the only players on the field permitted to handle the ball. The special status of goalkeepers is indicated by them wearing different coloured kits from their teammates.More
8 Vladimir Beara
Vladimir Beara was a Yugoslav football goalkeeper and manager. He is considered to have been one of the best goalkeepers of his era.More
9 HNK Hajduk Split
Hrvatski nogometni klub Hajduk Split, commonly referred to as Hajduk Split or simply Hajduk, is a Croatian professional football club based in Split. Since 1979, the club's home ground has been the 34,198-seat Stadion Poljud. The team's traditional home colours are white shirts with blue shorts and blue socks.More
10 Defender (association football)
In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary roles are to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposing team from scoring goals.More
11 Bruno Belin
Bruno Belin was a Croatian footballer who was part of Yugoslav national team at the 1954 FIFA World Cup.More
12 FK Partizan
Fudbalski klub Partizan is a Serbian professional football club based in Belgrade. It forms a major part of the Partizan multi-sport club. The club plays in the Serbian SuperLiga and has spent its entire history in the top tier of Yugoslav and Serbian football having won a total of 45 official trophies. finishing in the Yugoslav league all-time table as second.More
13 Forward (association football)
Forwards are the players on an association football team who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore most responsible for scoring goals.More
14 Stjepan Bobek
Stjepan Bobek was a Croatian and Yugoslav professional football striker and later football manager.More
15 Midfielder
A midfielder is an association football position. Midfielders are generally positioned on the field between their team's defenders and forwards. Some midfielders play a disciplined defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are otherwise known as defensive midfielders. Others blur the boundaries, being more mobile and efficient in passing: they are commonly referred to as deep-lying midfielders, play-makers, box-to-box, or holding midfielders. The number of midfielders on a team and their assigned roles depends on the team's formation; the collective group of these players on the field is sometimes referred to as the midfield.More
16 Vujadin Boškov
Vujadin Boškov was a Serbian footballer and manager.More
17 FK Vojvodina
Fudbalski klub Vojvodina, commonly known as Vojvodina Novi Sad or simply Vojvodina and familiarly as Voša, is a Serbian professional football club based in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, the second largest city in Serbia, and one of the most popular clubs in the country. The club is the major part of the Vojvodina multi-sport club and currently the third oldest football club in the Serbian SuperLiga and the most successful football club in Serbia next to the rivals Red Star Belgrade and Partizan Belgrade.More
18 Zlatko Čajkovski
Zlatko "Čik" Čajkovski was a Croatian and Yugoslavian football player and coach. His brother, Željko Čajkovski, was a football player as well. Normally a defensive midfielder, Čajkovski was renowned for his tremendous physical condition and marking ability and is considered to be one of the finest Yugoslav footballers. Despite his normally defensive role he was also a fine passer and possessed top-class technical ability.More
19 Tomislav Crnković
Tomislav Crnković was a Croatian footballer.More
20 GNK Dinamo Zagreb
Građanski nogometni klub Dinamo Zagreb, commonly referred to as GNK Dinamo Zagreb or simply Dinamo Zagreb, is a Croatian professional football club based in Zagreb. The club is the successor of 1. HŠK Građanski or fully Prvi hrvatski građanski športski klub, club founded in 1911, banned in 1945 and replaced by newly made Dinamo Zagreb. They play their home matches at Stadion Maksimir. They are the most successful club in Croatian football, having won twenty-one Croatian Football League titles, fifteen Croatian Football Cups and six Croatian Football Super Cups. The club has spent its entire existence in top flight, having been members of the Yugoslav First League from 1946 to 1991, and then the Croatian First League since its foundation in 1993.More
21 Ivica Horvat
Ivan "Ivica" Horvat was a Croatian professional football player and manager who capped for Yugoslavia. In 2004 he received the Croatian Olympic Committee's Matija Ljubek Award.More
22 Frane Matošić
Frane Matošić was a Croatian football player and coach. Born in Split, he played at the position of striker. He is regarded as one of Hajduk Split's greatest players ever where he is the all-time leading goalscorer.More
23 Sima Milovanov
Sima Milovanov was a Serbian footballer who was part of Yugoslavia national football team at the 1954 FIFA World Cup. He later became a manager with Cyprus.More
24 Miloš Milutinović
Miloš Milutinović was a Serbian professional footballer and manager from Yugoslavia.More
25 Rajko Mitić
Rajko Mitić was a Serbian footballer, coach, executive and journalist.More
26 Red Star Belgrade
Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda, which translates to English as simply Red Star, is a Serbian professional football club based in Belgrade commonly known elsewhere as Red Star Belgrade, the major part of the Red Star multi-sport club.More
27 Tihomir Ognjanov
Tihomir "Bata" Ognjanov was a Serbian footballer who was part of Yugoslavia national football team at the 1950 and 1954 FIFA World Cup. He later became a manager. He played for Spartak Subotica, Partizan and Red Star. With Red Star he won 2 national championships and 2 Yugoslav cups.More
28 Zdravko Rajkov
Zdravko Rajkov was a Serbian association football striker and manager.More
29 Branko Stanković
Branislav "Branko" Stanković was a Bosnian Serb footballer and manager, from Sarajevo.More
30 Slavko Stojanović
Slavko "Vavo" Stojanović was a Croatian football goalkeeper.More
31 Todor Veselinović
Todor "Toza" Veselinović was a Serbian footballer and coach. He was one of the most renowned goalscorers in Yugoslavian national team history.More
32 Bernard Vukas
Bernard "Bajdo" Vukas was a Croatian football player during Yugoslavia.More
33 Branko Zebec
Branislav "Branko" Zebec was a Croatian footballer and manager who played for Yugoslavia.More
34 Greece national football team
The Greece national football team represents Greece in men's international football and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation, the governing body for football in Greece. Greece play most of their home matches in or near Athens, either in Athens at the Olympic Stadium in the Maroussi section of the city or in the port city of Piraeus at the Karaiskakis Stadium just outside Athens. Greece is one of only ten national teams to have been crowned UEFA European Champions.More
35 Kostas Negrepontis
Kostas Negrepontis was a Greek international footballer who played as a center forward in the 1920s and 1930s and was later a coach. He was considered a great virtuoso of the ball, football intelligence and a great shooter. He was a figure and was so dear to his fellows that never leaves their memory. Those who lived near him, those who worked with him, spoke with admiration about "Negro", as the fans called him. Calm, likeable and always optimistic, Negrepontis was the idol of fans and opponents. Negrepontis was one of the pillars of Greek football in his first steps and contributed to it both as a footballer and as a coach as well as a football teacher for prospective coaches. He was distinguished for his passion, selflessness in terms of the progress of the Greek football, but especially for his beloved AEK which he watched even when he got sick. Negrepontis was awarded for his great athletic activity in Greece by King Paul and by the Association of Sports Editors.More
36 Panathinaikos F.C.
Panathinaikos Football Club, known as Panathinaikos, or by its full name, and the name of its parent sports club, Panathinaikos A.O. or PAO, is a Greek professional football club based in the capital-city of Athens, Greece.More
37 Thanasis Bebis
Thanasis Bebis was a former international Greek footballer who played as a midfielder. He is deeply connected to Olympiacos, where he spent most of his career and won 24 titles. He was given the nickname "Pinocchio" as he deceived the opposite defences with his dribbling skills and moves with the ball.More
38 Olympiacos F.C.
Olympiacos Football Club, also known simply as Olympiacos, Olympiacos Piraeus or with its full name as Olympiacos C.F.P., is a Greek professional football club based in Piraeus, Attica. Part of the major multi-sport club Olympiacos CFP, their name was inspired from the ancient Olympic Games and along with the club's emblem, the laurel-crowned Olympic athlete, symbolize the Olympic ideals of ancient Greece. Their home ground is the Karaiskakis Stadium, a 32,115-capacity stadium in Piraeus.More
39 Georgios Darivas
Georgios Darivas was a Greek footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics.More
40 Babis Drosos
Charalampos "Babis" Drosos was a Greek footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics.More
41 Pavlos Emmanouilidis
Pavlos "Lakis" Emmanouilidis is a Greek former footballer who played as forward, mostly for AEK Athens. A very fast right midfielder who wrote his own story in AEK and in Greek stadiums.More
42 AEK Athens F.C.
AEK Athens Football Club is a Greek professional football club based in Nea Filadelfeia, a suburb of Athens, Greece.More
43 Giannis Ioannou (footballer, born 1931)
Giannis Ioannou is a Greek footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics.More
44 Giorgos Kamaras
Giorgos Kamaras born Georgios Katrodavlis was a Greek footballer. His name has been joined with the history of Apollon Athens. The stadium of Apollon Athens, in the Athenian district of Rizoupoli, is named Giorgos Kamaras Stadium after him.More
45 Apollon Smyrnis F.C.
Apollon Smyrnis Football Club, or in its full name Gymnasticos Syllogos Apollon Smyrnis is a professional football club based in Rizoupoli in the city of Athens, Greece. It participates in the Greek Super League, highest professional league. It was founded in Smyrna | Ottoman Empire, by Anatolian Greeks in 1891 and is one of the oldest Hellenic sports clubs. Following the Greek genocide in Asia Minor and the complulsory population exchange between Greece and Turkey the club was re-established in Athens Greece in 1923 and is also known as Apollon Athens.More
46 Kostas Linoxilakis
Kostas Linoxilakis was a Greek former international and Olympic footballer.More
47 Andreas Mouratis
Andreas Mouratis, nicknamed Missouri, was a Greek footballer, who played for Olympiacos.More
48 Ilias Papageorgiou
Ilias Papageorgiou was a Greek footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics.More
49 Lakis Petropoulos
Lakis Petropoulos was a Greek football player and manager. He played for Panathinaikos and capped 3 times for Greece. He was member of the national side for the 1952 Olympic Games.More
50 Kostas Poulis
Kostas Poulis was a Greek footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics.More
51 Ilias Rosidis
Ilias Rosidis was a Greek footballer who played for both Olympiacos FC and the Greek national team throughout his career.More
52 Andreas Stamatiadis
Andreas Stamatiadis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a right winger for AEK Athens from 1950 until 1969, captain of the team in the latter years. During his career, he made 267 league appearances and scored 60 goals for AEK Athens. He was also capped 8 times by the Greece national football team and was a regular of the All-Athens selections during the 1950s.More

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