1958 FIFA World Cup qualification

1958 FIFA World Cup Qualification
Tournament details
Teams	55 (from 6 confederations)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	89
Goals scored	341 (3.83 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Tommy Taylor (8 goals)
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A total of 55 teams entered the 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds, competing for a total of 16 spots in the final tournament. Sweden as the hosts and West Germany, as the defending champions, qualified automatically, leaving 14 spots open for competition.

The qualification rounds for the four previous World Cups were very confusing, with controversial rules and many withdrawals. From this tournament onwards, FIFA decided to divide the teams into several continental zones, assign a pre-determined number of places in the final tournament to each zone, and delegate the organization of the qualifying tournaments to its confederations: UEFA of Europe, CONMEBOL of South America, NAFC of North America, CCCF of Central America and Caribbean, CAF of Africa and AFC of Asia (and OFC of Oceania after it was formed later). This led to a more organized qualification process with clearer rules, but not yet withdrawal-proof.

The 16 spots available in the 1958 World Cup would be distributed among the continental zones as follows:

Europe (UEFA): 11 places, 2 of them went to automatic qualifiers Sweden and West Germany, while the other 9 places were contested by 27 teams.
South America (CONMEBOL): 3 places, contested by 9 teams.
North, Central America and Caribbean (NAFC/CCCF): 1 place, contested by 6 teams.
Africa (CAF) and Asia (AFC): 1 place, contested by 11 teams (including Israel, Cyprus and Turkey).

However, FIFA also imposed a rule that no team would qualify without playing at least one match because many teams qualified for previous World Cups without playing due to withdrawals of their opponents. Because Israel won the African and Asian zone under this circumstance, FIFA required them to enter a play-off against a team from Europe who initially did not qualify, with the winner of this play-off qualifying. Therefore, effectively in the end, a total of 11.5 places were granted to Europe while only 0.5 places were granted to Africa and Asia.

A total of 46 teams played at least one qualifying match. A total of 89 qualifying matches were played, and 341 goals were scored (an average of 3.83 per match).

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

1958 FIFA World Cup qualification Intro articles: 5

1 Asian Football Confederation

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is one of the six confederations within FIFA and is the governing body of association football in Asia and Australia. It has 47 member countries, mostly located on the Asian continent, but excludes the transcontinental countries with territory in both Europe and Asia – Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkey – which are instead members of UEFA. Three other states located geographically along the western fringe of Asia – Cyprus, Armenia and Israel – are also UEFA members. On the other hand, Australia, formerly in the OFC, joined the Asian Football Confederation in 2006. Guam, a territory of the United States, and the Northern Mariana Islands, one of the two Commonwealths of the United States are also AFC members that are geographically in Oceania. Hong Kong and Macau, although not independent countries, are also members of the AFC.More

2 Oceania Football Confederation

The Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) is one of the six continental confederations of international association football. The OFC's members consist of New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and several Pacific Island countries; it promotes the game in Oceania and allows the member nations to qualify for the FIFA World Cup.More

3 Israel national football team

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

4 Cyprus national football team

The Cyprus national football team represents Cyprus in international football and is controlled by the Cyprus Football Association, the governing body for football in Cyprus. Cyprus' home ground is the GSP Stadium in Nicosia and the current coach is Johan Walem.More

5 Turkey national football team

The Turkey national football team represents Turkey in men's international football matches. The team is controlled by the Turkish Football Federation, the governing body for football in Turkey, which was founded in 1923 and member of FIFA since 1923 and, UEFA since 1962.More

Europe

The 27 teams were divided into 9 groups, each featuring 3 teams. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners qualified. The Soviet Union and Iceland took part for the first time.

UEFA Group 1

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv
1	England	7	4	3	1	0	15	5	3.00
2	Republic of Ireland	5	4	2	1	1	6	7	0.86
3	Denmark	0	4	0	0	4	4	13	0.31

3 October 1956	Republic of Ireland	2 – 1	Denmark	Dublin, Republic of Ireland
	Curtis 27' Gavin 45' (pen.)	Report	Aa. Jensen 85'	Stadium: Dalymount Park Attendance: 32,600 Referee: Bond (England)

5 December 1956	England	5 – 2	Denmark	Wolverhampton, England
	Taylor 2', 22', 53' Edwards 66', 77'	Report	O. Nielsen 27', 32'	Attendance: 54,083 Referee: Guigue (France)

8 May 1957	England	5 – 1	Republic of Ireland	London, England
	Taylor 10', 19', 40' Atyeo 38', 90'	Report	Curtis 56'	Attendance: 52,000 Referee: Phillips (Scotland)

15 May 1957	Denmark	1 – 4	England	Copenhagen, Denmark
	J. Jensen 27'	Report	Haynes 28' Taylor 71', 86' Atyeo 75'	Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Dusch (West Germany)

19 May 1957	Republic of Ireland	1 – 1	England	Dublin, Republic of Ireland
	Ringstead 3'	Report	Atyeo 90'	Attendance: 36,000 Referee: Philips (Scotland)

2 October 1957	Denmark	0 – 2	Republic of Ireland	Copenhagen, Denmark
		Report	Cummins 53' Curtis 61'	Attendance: 28,000 Referee: Schulz (East Germany)

England qualified.

UEFA Group 2

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv
1	France	7	4	3	1	0	19	4	4.75
2	Belgium	5	4	2	1	1	16	11	1.45
3	Iceland	0	4	0	0	4	6	26	0.23

11 November 1956	France	6 – 3	Belgium	Paris, France
	Cisowski 13', 15', 44', 72', 88' Vincent 18'	Report	Houf 16' Willems 61', 67'	Attendance: 46,049 Referee: Clough (England)

2 June 1957	France	8 – 0	Iceland	Nantes, France
	C. Oliver 6', 11' Vincent 29', 83' Dereuddre 36' Piantoni 45', 81' Brahimi 49'	Report		Attendance: 15,080 Referee: Ellis (England)

5 June 1957	Belgium	8 – 3	Iceland	Brussels, Belgium
	Orlans 4', 57' Piters 11' Vandenberg 12' Mees 22', 26' Coppens 42', 44' (pen.)	Report	Þórðarson 33', 77' R. Jónsson 81'	Attendance: 6,792 Referee: Blitgen (Luxembourg)

1 September 1957	Iceland	1 – 5	France	Reykjavík, Iceland
	Þ. Jónsson 64'	Report	Cisowski 29', 32' Ujlaki 48', 66' Wisnieski 53'	Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Davidson (Scotland)

4 September 1957	Iceland	2 – 5	Belgium	Reykjavík, Iceland
	R. Jónsson 1' Þ. Jónsson 65'	Report	Van Herpe 9' Willems 40' Vandenberg 64', 81', 89'	Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Davidson (Scotland)

27 October 1957	Belgium	0 – 0	France	Brussels, Belgium
		Report		Attendance: 56,497 Referee: Helge (Denmark)

France qualified.

UEFA Group 3

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GAv
1	Hungary	6	4	3	1	12	4	3.00
2	Bulgaria	4	4	2	2	11	7	1.57
3	Norway	2	4	1	3	3	15	0.20

22 May 1957	Norway	1 – 2	Bulgaria	Oslo, Norway
	Hennum 47'	Report	G. Dimitrov 38', 75'	Stadium: Ullevaal Attendance: 27,542 Referee: Lindberg (Sweden)

12 June 1957	Norway	2 – 1	Hungary	Oslo, Norway
	Hennum 10' K. Kristiansen 78'	Report	Tichy 43'	Attendance: 25,724 Referee: Helge (Denmark)

23 June 1957	Hungary	4 – 1	Bulgaria	Budapest, Hungary
	Machos 5', 14', 30' Bozsik 52'	Report	Kolev 69'	Stadium: Nepstadion Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Guigue (France)

15 September 1957	Bulgaria	1 – 2	Hungary	Sofia, Bulgaria
	Diev 43'	Report	Hidegkuti 2', 34'	Stadium: Vasil Levski Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Bernardi (Italy)

3 November 1957	Bulgaria	7 – 0	Norway	Sofia, Bulgaria
	Iliev 6', 60', 74' Panayotov 29', 32' Yanev 59' Debarski 77'	Report		Stadium: Vasil Levski Attendance: 22,120 Referee: Macko (Czechoslovakia)

10 November 1957	Hungary	5 – 0	Norway	Budapest, Hungary
	Sándor 12' Csordás 20', 71' Machos 69' Falch 74' (o.g.)	Report		Attendance: 91,000 Referee: Dusch (West Germany)

Hungary qualified.

UEFA Group 4

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GAv
1	Czechoslovakia	6	4	3	1	9	3	3.00
2	Wales	4	4	2	2	6	5	1.20
3	East Germany	2	4	1	3	5	12	0.42

1 May 1957	Wales	1 – 0	Czechoslovakia	Cardiff, Wales
	Vernon 75'	Report		Referee: Bronkhorst (Netherlands)

19 May 1957	East Germany	2 – 1	Wales	Leipzig, East Germany
	Wirth 21' Tröger 61'	Report	M. Charles 6'	Referee: Latyshev (Soviet Union)

26 May 1957	Czechoslovakia	2 – 0	Wales	Prague, Czechoslovakia
	Daniel 21' (o.g.) Kraus 65'	Report		Referee: Wyssling ()

16 June 1957	Czechoslovakia	3 – 1	East Germany	Brno, Czechoslovakia
	Kraus 60' Bubník 81' Molnár 89'	Report	Wirth 18'	Referee: Jörgensen (Denmark)

25 September 1957	Wales	4 – 1	East Germany	Cardiff, Wales
	Palmer 38', 44', 73' Jones 42'	Report	Kaiser 57'	Referee: Leafe (England)

27 October 1957	East Germany	1 – 4	Czechoslovakia	Leipzig, East Germany
	H. Müller 35'	Report	Kraus 4', 88' Moravčík 23' Novák 43'	Referee: Schwinte (France)

Czechoslovakia qualified. Wales received another chance to qualify after being drawn to play against Israel in a special play-off; see CAF / AFC Final Round and Play-off.

UEFA Group 5

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv
1	Austria	7	4	3	1	0	14	3	4.67
2	Netherlands	5	4	2	1	1	12	7	1.71
3	Luxembourg	0	4	0	0	4	3	19	0.16

30 September 1956	Austria	7 – 0	Luxembourg	Vienna, Austria
	Hanappi 18', 25' Walzhofer 51' Wagner 62', 77' Kozlicek 71' Haummer 79'	Report		Referee: Liverani (Italy)

20 March 1957	Netherlands	4 – 1	Luxembourg	Rotterdam, Netherlands
	Van der Gijp 27', 30' Dillen 72' Brusselers 80'	Report	Halsdorf 34'	Referee: Treichel (West Germany)

26 May 1957	Austria	3 – 2	Netherlands	Vienna, Austria
	Koller 47' Buzek 80' Stotz 89' (pen.)	Report	Van Melis 30', 32'	Referee: Schmetzer (West Germany)

11 September 1957	Netherlands	5 – 2	Luxembourg	Rotterdam, Netherlands
	Lenstra 15', 28' Wilkes 26' Van Melis 35' Rijvers 54'	Report	Fiedler 5' Letsch 58'	Referee: Murdoch (England)

25 September 1957	Netherlands	1 – 1	Austria	Amsterdam, Netherlands
	Lenstra 63'	Report	Hanappi 29'	Referee: Ellis (England)

29 September 1957	Luxembourg	0 – 3	Austria	Luxembourg, Luxembourg
		Report	Dienst 19' Buzek 47' Senekowitsch 66'	Referee: Versyp (Belgium)

Austria qualified.

UEFA Group 6

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GAv
1=	Soviet Union	6	4	3	1	16	3	5.33
1=	Poland	6	4	3	1	9	5	1.80
3	Finland	0	4	0	4	2	19	0.11

23 June 1957	Soviet Union	3 – 0	Poland	Moscow, Soviet Union
	Tatushin 9' Simonyan 55' Ilyin 77'	Report		Stadium: Lenin Central Stadium Attendance: 102,000 Referee: Clough (England)

5 July 1957	Finland	1 – 3	Poland	Helsinki, Finland
	Vanhanen 72'	Report	Jankowski 19', 56', 65'	Referee: Nilsen (Norway)

27 July 1957	Soviet Union	2 – 1	Finland	Moscow, Soviet Union
	Voinov 23' Netto 62'	Report	Lahtinen 42'	Stadium: Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Mayer (Austria)

15 August 1957	Finland	0 – 10	Soviet Union	Helsinki, Finland
		Report	Netto 6' Simonyan 9', 13', 31' Isayev 12', 20' Streltsov 29', 49' Ilyin 60', 87'	Referee: A. Asmussen (Denmark)

20 October 1957	Poland	2 – 1	Soviet Union	Chorzów, Poland
	Cieślik 43', 50'	Report	Ivanov 80'	Referee: Clough (England)

3 November 1957	Poland	4 – 0	Finland	Warsaw, Poland
	Gawlik 2' Brychczy 4', 48' Jankowski 60'	Report		Referee: Dusch (West Germany)

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

24 November 1957	Soviet Union	2 – 0	Poland	Leipzig, East Germany
	Streltsov 31' Fedosov 75'	Report		Referee: Clough (England)

USSR qualified.

UEFA Group 7

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv
1	Yugoslavia	6	4	2	2	0	7	2	3.50
2	Romania	5	4	2	1	1	6	4	1.50
3	Greece	1	4	0	1	3	2	9	0.22

5 May 1957	Greece	0 – 0	Yugoslavia	Athens, Greece
		Report		Referee: Devillers (France)

16 June 1957	Greece	1 – 2	Romania	Athens, Greece
	Panakis 29'	Report	A. Ene 15' Ozon 78'	Referee: Harzic (France)

29 September 1957	Romania	1 – 1	Yugoslavia	Bucharest, Romania
	A. Ene 78'	Report	Mujić 79'	Referee: Grill (Austria)

3 November 1957	Romania	3 – 0	Greece	Bucharest, Romania
	Petschovsky 51' (pen.) Tătaru 64' Cacoveanu 67'	Report		Referee: Schwinte (France)

10 November 1957	Yugoslavia	4 – 1	Greece	Belgrade, Yugoslavia
	Mujić 6', 61' Krstić 9' Petaković 67'	Report	Nestoridis 28'	Referee: Jonni (Italy)

17 November 1957	Yugoslavia	2 – 0	Romania	Belgrade, Yugoslavia
	Milutinović 52', 58'	Report		Referee: Seipelt (Austria)

Yugoslavia qualified.

UEFA Group 8

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv
1	Northern Ireland	5	4	2	1	1	6	3	2.00
2	Italy	4	4	2	0	2	5	5	1.00
3	Portugal	3	4	1	1	2	4	7	0.57

16 January 1957	Portugal	1 – 1	Northern Ireland	Lisbon, Portugal
	Vasques 24'	Report	Bingham 6'	Referee: Lequesne (France)

25 April 1957	Italy	1 – 0	Northern Ireland	Rome, Italy
	Cervato 3'	Report		Referee: Guigue (France)

1 May 1957	Northern Ireland	3 – 0	Portugal	Belfast, Northern Ireland
	Casey 22' Simpson 60' McIlroy 70' (pen.)	Report		Referee: Phillips (Scotland)

26 May 1957	Portugal	3 – 0	Italy	Lisbon, Portugal
	Vasques 41' Teixeira 81' Matateu 87'	Report		Referee: Treichel (West Germany)

22 December 1957	Italy	3 – 0	Portugal	Milan, Italy
	Gratton 36', 72' Pivatelli 84'	Report		Referee: Damiani (Yugoslavia)

15 January 1958	Northern Ireland	2 – 1	Italy	Belfast, Northern Ireland
	McIlroy 13' Cush 28'	Report	Da Costa 56'	Referee: Zsolt (Hungary)

The 15 January 1958 fixture of Italy at Northern Ireland was originally scheduled for 4 December 1957, but heavy fog in London prevented the referee (István Zsolt, manager of the Budapest Opera House) from arriving for the match in time. The fixture was postponed, but the match continued as a friendly, and ended in a 2–2 draw and a riot as the crowd (infuriated by the postponement and quite rough play from some Italian players) invaded the pitch. The 'friendly' match was dubbed the 'Battle of Belfast'.^[1] Danny Blanchflower, Northern Ireland captain at the time, helped save the situation by ordering his players to escort their Italian counterparts off the field while the police dealt with the crowd.^[2]

Northern Ireland qualified.

This was the only time that Italy failed to qualify for the World Cup until their failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

UEFA Group 9

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv
1	Scotland	6	4	3	0	1	10	9	1.11
2	Spain	5	4	2	1	1	12	8	1.50
3	Switzerland	1	4	0	1	3	6	11	0.55

10 March 1957	Spain	2 – 2	Switzerland	Madrid, Spain
	Suárez 30' González 48'	Report	Hügi 6', 67'	Referee: Erich (West Germany)

8 May 1957	Scotland	4 – 2	Spain	Glasgow, Scotland
	Mudie 22', 70', 79' Hewie 41' (pen.)	Report	Suárez 19' Kubala 28'	Referee: Dusch (West Germany)

19 May 1957	Switzerland	1 – 2	Scotland	Basel, Switzerland
	R. Vonlanthen 13'	Report	Mudie 33' Ring 71'	Referee: Seipelt (Austria)

26 May 1957	Spain	4 – 1	Scotland	Madrid, Spain
	Mateos 11' Kubala 33' Basora 60', 87'	Report	Smith 79'	Referee: Leafe (England)

6 November 1957	Scotland	3 – 2	Switzerland	Glasgow, Scotland
	Robertson 29' Mudie 52' Scott 70'	Report	Riva 35' R. Vonlanthen 79'	Referee: Leafe (England)

24 November 1957	Switzerland	1 – 4	Spain	Lausanne, Switzerland
	Ballaman 61'	Report	Kubala 19', 72' Di Stéfano 24', 55'	Referee: Alsteen (Belgium)

Scotland qualified.

1958 FIFA World Cup qualification Europe articles: 254

1 Soviet Union national football team

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2 Iceland national football team

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3 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 1

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4 England national football team

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5 Republic of Ireland national football team

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6 Denmark national football team

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7 Dublin

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8 Republic of Ireland

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9 Dermot Curtis

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10 Johnny Gavin (footballer)

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11 Penalty kick (association football)

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12 Aage Rou Jensen

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14 Alf Bond

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15 The Football Association

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16 Wolverhampton

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17 England

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18 Tommy Taylor

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19 Duncan Edwards

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20 Maurice Guigue

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21 French Football Federation

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22 London

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23 John Atyeo

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24 Scottish Football Association

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John Norman Haynes was an English association football player. He made 56 appearances for his country including 22 as captain. He was selected for 3 World Cup finals squads playing in the latter two of those. Nicknamed "the Maestro", his attacking play was noted for two footed passing ability, vision and deftness of touch. Haynes is widely regarded as Fulham's greatest ever player remaining loyal there for 20 years despite coming no nearer to a major trophy win than two FA Cup semi-final appearances. Immediately following the abolition of the £20 maximum wage in 1961 he became the first player to be paid £100 a week. He also had a spell on loan with Toronto City in 1961 and ended his playing days at Durban City, winning there the only trophy he won in his football career.More

28 German Football Association

The German Football Association is the successful governing body of football in Germany. A founding member of both FIFA and UEFA, the DFB has jurisdiction for the German football league system and is in charge of the men's and women's national teams. The DFB headquarters are in Frankfurt am Main. Sole members of the DFB are the German Football League, organising the professional Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga, along with five regional and 21 state associations, organising the semi-professional and amateur levels. The 21 state associations of the DFB have a combined number of more than 25,000 clubs with more than 6.8 million members, making the DFB the single largest sports federation in the world.More

29 Alf Ringstead

Alfred Ringstead was a professional footballer who played in the position of outside right for Sheffield United between 1950 and 1959.More

30 George Cummins (footballer)

George Cummins was an Irish professional footballer.More

31 Deutscher Fußball-Verband der DDR

The Deutscher Fußball-Verband der DDR (DFV) was from 1958 the football association of the (East) German Democratic Republic, fielding the East Germany national football team until 1990 before rejoining its counterpart, the German Football Association (DFB), which had been founded in 1900. The DFV was dissolved on 20 November 1990 in Leipzig and in its place the North East German Football Association was formed and joined the German Football Association on the same day and at the same location, a few weeks after East Germany itself had ceased to exist with the German reunification on 3 October 1990.More

32 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 2

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

33 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

34 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

35 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

36 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 67.15 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

37 Thadée Cisowski

Thadée Cisowski, originally Tadeusz Cisowski, is a former French footballer who played as a striker. A son of Polish immigrants, he is one of the best goalscorers in Championnat de France.More

38 Jean Vincent

Jean Vincent was a French international footballer and manager.More

39 Denis Houf

Denis Houf was a Belgian international footballer who played as a midfielder.More

40 Maurice Willems

Maurice Willems is a retired Belgian football player who finished top scorer of the Belgian First Division with 35 goals in 1957 while playing for Gent. He played 3 times with the Belgian national team between 1956 and 1957. Willems made his international debut on 14 October 1956 in a 2–3 friendly defeat to the Netherlands and he scored.More

41 Jack Clough

John Holden "Jack" Clough was an international football referee who officiated the 1957 Coupe de France Final and the 1959 FA Cup Final.More

42 Nantes

Nantes is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, 50 km (31 mi) from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth-largest in France, with a population of 309,346 in Nantes and a metropolitan area of nearly 973,000 inhabitants (2017). With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes forms one of the main north-western French metropolitan agglomerations.More

43 Célestin Oliver

Célestin Oliver was a French football (soccer) striker. He was part of the French national team during the 1958 FIFA World Cup tournament.More

44 René Dereuddre

René Dereuddre was a French footballer who played midfielder.More

45 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

46 Said Brahimi

Said Brahimi was an Algerian-born French international football and Algerian international football player.More

47 Arthur Edward Ellis

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

48 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

49 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

50 Richard Orlans

Richard Jérome Orlans is a former Belgian footballer who played as a midfielder. He played in the Belgian First Division for the teams of K.A.A. Gent, Cercle Brugge and R.S.C. Anderlecht and played 21 games for the national team of Belgium. After his playing career, he was also a coach.More

51 André Piters

André Piters was a Belgian footballer who played as a striker.More

52 Paul van den Berg

Paul van den Berg is a former international Belgian footballer.More

53 Victor Mees

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

54 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

55 Þórður Þórðarson (footballer, born 1930)

Þórður Þórðarson was an Icelandic footballer who played as a forward. He made his debut for the Iceland national football team on 29 June 1951 in the 4–3 win against Sweden and went on to earn 18 caps over a period of seven years, during which time he scored 11 goals for his country. Þórður spent his entire playing career with ÍA, spending nine seasons with the club from 1951 to 1960.More

56 Ríkharður Jónsson

Ríkharður Jónsson was an Icelandic football player and manager.More

57 Luxembourg Football Federation

The Luxembourg Football Federation is the governing body of football in Luxembourg. It organises the Luxembourg Football League and the Luxembourg national football team. It is based in Mondercange, to the south of Luxembourg City.More

58 Reykjavík

Reykjavík is the capital and largest city of Iceland. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflói bay. Its latitude is 64°08' N, making it the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. With a population of around 131,136, it is the center of Iceland's cultural, economic, and governmental activity, and is a popular tourist destination.More

59 Iceland

Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, with a population of 356,991 and an area of 103,000 km² (40,000 sq mi), making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Reykjavík. Reykjavík and the surrounding areas in the southwest of the country are home to over two-thirds of the population. Iceland is volcanically and geologically active. The interior consists of a plateau characterised by sand and lava fields, mountains, and glaciers, and many glacial rivers flow to the sea through the lowlands. Iceland is warmed by the Gulf Stream and has a temperate climate, despite a high latitude just outside the Arctic Circle. Its high latitude and marine influence keep summers chilly, with most of the archipelago having a polar climate.More

60 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

61 Maryan Wisniewski

Maryan Wisniewski is a former French international footballer of Polish origin who played as a forward.More

62 Bobby Davidson

Robert Holley "Bobby" Davidson was a Scottish football referee who also operated for FIFA.More

63 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

64 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 3

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

65 Hungary national football team

The Hungary national football team represents Hungary in men's international football and it is controlled by the Hungarian Football Federation. The team has made nine appearances in the FIFA World Cup finals and four appearances in the European Championship, and plays its home matches at the Puskás Aréna, which opened in November 2019.More

66 Bulgaria national football team

The Bulgaria national football team represents Bulgaria in men's international football and is administered by the Bulgarian Football Union, a member association of UEFA. The team's home venue is the Vasil Levski Stadium in Sofia, and is currently managed by Georgi Dermendzhiev.More

67 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

68 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

69 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 as well as 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

70 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

71 Georgi Dimitrov (footballer, born 1931)

Georgi Dimitrov was a Bulgarian footballer who played as a forward. Between 1953 and 1958, Dimitrov gained 30 caps for the Bulgaria national team and scored seven goals. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics.More

72 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

73 Swedish Football Association

The Swedish Football Association also known as SvFF is the governing and body of football in Sweden. It organises the football leagues – Allsvenskan for men and Damallsvenskan for women – and the men's and women's national teams. It is based in Solna and is a founding member of both FIFA and UEFA. SvFF is supported by 24 district organisations.More

74 Lajos Tichy

Lajos Tichy was a Hungarian footballer. He played for the club Budapest Honvéd FC, scoring 247 goals in 320 league games. He also scored 51 goals in 72 internationals for the Hungary national football team, including four in the 1958 FIFA World Cup and three in the 1962 FIFA World Cup. He later became coach of the Honved youth team and from 1976 to 1982 he coached the first team, helping them win their first Hungarian championship in 25 years in 1980. The "Nation's Bomber" died in 1999 aged 63.More

75 Budapest

Budapest is the capital and the most populous city of Hungary, and the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits. The city has an estimated population of 1,752,286 over a land area of about 525 square kilometres. Budapest is both a city and county, and forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of 7,626 square kilometres and a population of 3,303,786, comprising 33% of the population of Hungary.More

76 Hungary

Hungary is a country in Central Europe. Spanning 93,030 square kilometres (35,920 sq mi) in the Carpathian Basin, it borders Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west. With about 10 million inhabitants, Hungary is a medium-sized member state of the European Union. The official language is Hungarian, which is the most widely spoken Uralic language in the world, and among the few non-Indo-European languages to be widely spoken in Europe. Hungary's capital and largest city is Budapest; other major urban areas include Debrecen, Szeged, Miskolc, Pécs, and Győr.More

77 Ferenc Machos

Ferenc Machos was a Hungarian football forward who played for Hungary in the 1954 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Budapest Honvéd FC.More

78 József Bozsik

József Bozsik was a Hungarian footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent his entire club career at his hometown club, Budapest Honvéd. Bozsik was a key member of the legendary Mighty Magyars as he represented Hungary in various international tournaments. Honvéd named their stadium, Bozsik József Stadion, after him.More

79 Ivan Kolev (footballer, born 1930)

Ivan Petkov Kolev was a Bulgarian football player and coach.More

80 Ferenc Puskás Stadium

The Ferenc Puskás Stadium, or formerly People's Stadium (Népstadion) was a multi-purpose stadium in the 14th district (Zugló) of Budapest, Hungary. It was situated between the Puskás Ferenc Stadion and the Keleti pályaudvar metro stations. It was used mainly for football matches. The stadium, which was an all-seater, had a capacity of 38,652, though its original capacity exceeded 100,000. The stadium was closed in 2016 and demolished in 2017 to give place to the Puskás Aréna.More

81 Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the eponymous valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and has many mineral springs, such as the Sofia Central Mineral Baths. It has a humid continental climate. Being in the centre of the Balkans, it is midway between the Black Sea and the Adriatic Sea, and closest to the Aegean Sea.More

82 Bulgaria

Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east. The capital and largest city is Sofia; other major cities are Plovdiv, Varna and Burgas. With a territory of 110,994 square kilometres (42,855 sq mi), Bulgaria is Europe's sixteenth-largest country.More

83 Todor Diev

Todor Nedyalkov Diev was a Bulgarian footballer, part of the Bulgarian squad that won the bronze medals in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.More

84 Nándor Hidegkuti

Nándor Hidegkuti was a Hungarian football player and manager. He played as a forward or attacking midfielder and spent the majority of his playing career at MTK Hungária FC. During the 1950s he was also a key member of the Hungarian National Team team known as the Golden Team. Other members of the team included Ferenc Puskás, Zoltán Czibor, Sándor Kocsis and József Bozsik. In 1953, playing as a deep lying centre-forward, he scored a hat-trick for Hungary when they beat England 6–3 at Wembley Stadium. Playing from deep, Hidegkuti was able to distribute the ball to the other attackers and cause considerable confusion to defences. This was an innovation at the time and revolutionised the way the game was played.More

85 Vasil Levski

Vasil Levski, born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and is a national hero of Bulgaria today. Dubbed the Apostle of Freedom, Levski ideologised and strategised a revolutionary movement to liberate Bulgaria from Ottoman rule. Levski founded the Internal Revolutionary Organisation, and sought to foment a nationwide uprising through a network of secret regional committees.More

86 Italian Football Federation

The Italian Football Federation, known colloquially as Federcalcio, is the governing body of football in Italy. It is based in Rome and the technical department is in Coverciano, Florence.More

87 Hristo Iliev (footballer)

Hristo Bristov Iliev was a Bulgarian footballer. He played as a forward and spent the majority of his career with Levski Sofia. Iliev also represented Bulgaria at international level in the 1962 World Cup and in the men's tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics.More

88 Panayot Panayotov (footballer)

Panayot Mitov Panayotov was a Bulgarian football forward who played for Bulgaria in the 1962 FIFA World Cup.More

89 Krum Yanev

Krum Ivanov Yanev was a Bulgarian footballer who played at both professional and international levels, as a forward.More

90 Spiro Debarski

Spiro Debarski is a former Bulgarian footballer who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics. Спиро Дебърски е известен Български футболист. Той е много известен около 60-те. Той е на 87 години (2020г.) и живее с жена си в апартамент в България. Той все още не е забравен, а на времето е бил в близки отношения с едни от най-прочутите футболисти.More

91 Football Association of the Czech Republic

The Football Association of the Czech Republic or colloquially the Czech Football Association is the governing body of football in the Czech Republic, based in Prague. It organizes the lower-level league competitions in the country, the Czech Cup, and the Czech Republic national football team.More

92 Károly Sándor

Károly Sándor was a Hungarian international footballer who earned 75 caps between 1949 and 1964, scoring 27 goals. Sándor also participated in the World Cups in 1958 and 1962. Sándor, who played as a right winger, played club football for MTK.More

93 Lajos Csordás

Lajos Csordás was a Hungarian footballer.More

94 Edgar Falch

Edgar Falch was a Norwegian international football defender. Falch played for Viking his entire career where he played 139 league games and scored nine goals. He won the league with Viking in 1957–58 and the Cup in 1953 and 1959. Falch was capped 28 times for Norway.More

95 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 4

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

96 Czechoslovakia national football team

The Czechoslovakia national football team was the national association football team of Czechoslovakia from 1920 to 1992. The team was controlled by the Czechoslovak Football Association, and the team qualified for eight World Cups and three European Championships. It had two runner-up finishes in World Cups, in 1934 and 1962, and won the European Championship in the 1976 tournament.More

97 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

98 East Germany national football team

The East Germany national football team, recognized as Germany DR by FIFA, was from 1952 to 1990 the football team of East Germany, playing as one of three post-war German teams, along with Saarland and West Germany.More

99 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

100 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

101 Roy Vernon

Thomas Royston "Roy" Vernon was a Welsh international footballer who played for Blackburn Rovers, Everton and Stoke City. Vernon won 32 caps for Wales, scoring eight goals in total, and representing his country in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden.More

102 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

103 Leipzig

Leipzig is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. With a population of nearly 600,000 inhabitants as of 2019, it is Germany's eighth most populous city as well as the second most populous city in the area of former East Germany after (East) Berlin. Together with Halle (Saale), the largest city of the neighbouring state of Saxony-Anhalt, the city forms the polycentric conurbation of Leipzig-Halle. Between the two cities lies Leipzig/Halle Airport.More

104 East Germany

East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic, is a former country that existed from 1949 to 1990, the period when the eastern portion of Germany was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. Commonly described as a communist state in English usage, it described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state". It consisted of territory that was administered and occupied by Soviet forces following the end of World War II—the Soviet occupation zone of the Potsdam Agreement, bounded on the east by the Oder–Neisse line. The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it and West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the GDR.More

105 Günther Wirth

Günther Wirth was a German footballer who made 254 East German top-flight appearances, and played 28 matches with 11 goals for the East German national team. He died on 13 November 2020 after a long illness.More

106 Willy Tröger

Willy Tröger was a German footballer who played as a striker, spending his entire career with Wismut Aue, and making 15 appearances for the East Germany national team.More

107 Mel Charles

Melvyn Charles was a Welsh international footballer. Charles played as both a centre-half and centre-forward, with his preferred position being at right-half.More

108 Nikolay Latyshev

Nikolay Gavrilovich Latyshev was the referee in the 1962 FIFA World Cup Final staged in Santiago between Brazil and Czechoslovakia.More

109 Football Federation of the Soviet Union

The Football Federation of the USSR was a governing body of football in the Soviet Union and since 1972 the main governing body of football in the country. The Federation was created late in 1934 by the decision of the Supreme Council of Physical Culture of the USSR as its sports section governing specifically football. It was the only organization that obtained recognition of FIFA in 1946.More

110 Prague

Prague is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 13th largest city in the European Union and the historical capital of Bohemia. Situated on the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of 2.7 million. The city has a temperate oceanic climate, with relatively warm summers and chilly winters.More

111 Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia, or Czecho-Slovakia, was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until its peaceful dissolution into the Czech Republic and Slovakia on 1 January 1993.More

112 Ray Daniel (Welsh footballer)

William Raymond "Ray" Daniel was a Welsh football player and manager.More

113 Tadeusz Kraus

Tadeusz Kraus was a Czechoslovak international footballer of Polish ethnicity who represented Czechoslovakia.More

114 Brno

Brno is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic after the main capital, Prague, and one of the 100 largest cities of the EU. The Brno metropolitan area has more than 600,000 inhabitants.More

115 Vlastimil Bubník

Vlastimil Bubník was a Czech ice hockey player and footballer.More

116 Pavol Molnár

Pavol Molnár is a former Slovak football player. He played for Czechoslovakia national team in 20 matches and scored three goals.More

117 Des Palmer

Desmond "Des" Frederick Palmer is a retired Welsh male international footballer forward. He was part of the Wales national football team, playing 3 matches and scoring 3 goals. He played his first match on 26 May 1957 against Czechoslovakia and his last match on 19 October 1957 against England. He scored a hat-track during the 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification of the match against East Germany on 25 September 1957. On club level he played for Swansea City A.F.C. between 1952 and 1959. He then moved to Liverpool, but didn't play a match for their senior team. He had a successful stint with Johannesburg Ramblers before playing a final season (1961–62) in England with Derby County F.C. during which he made 18 appearances and scored 6 goals.More

118 Cliff Jones (Welsh footballer)

Clifford William Jones is a Welsh former footballer. During his career, he played as a winger and was capped 59 times for Wales national team. He was also a crucial member of Tottenham Hotspur's 1960–61 double-winning side.More

119 Manfred Kaiser

Manfred Kaiser was a German footballer.More

120 Reg Leafe

Reginald James Leafe was a FIFA referee in the 1950s and early 1960s.More

121 Helmut Müller

Helmut Müller is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He has been the mayor of Wiesbaden from 2007 to 2013.More

122 Anton Moravčík

Anton Moravčík was a Slovak football player.More

123 Ladislav Novák

Ladislav Novák was a Czech football defender and later a football manager. He played 75 matches for Czechoslovakia, 71 of them as a team captain.More

124 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 5

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

125 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

126 Netherlands national football team

The Netherlands national football team has represented the Netherlands in international men's football matches since 1905. The national team is controlled by the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB), which is a part of UEFA, and under the jurisdiction of FIFA the governing body for football in the Netherlands. They are widely considered one of the best teams in world football. Most of the Netherlands' home matches are played at the Johan Cruyff Arena and the Stadion Feijenoord.More

127 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

128 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

129 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

130 Gerhard Hanappi

Gerhard Hanappi was an Austrian football midfielder who is often regarded as one of the greatest Austrian footballers. He is also the father of Hardy Hanappi.More

131 Otto Walzhofer

Otto Walzhofer was an Austrian retired footballer and coach.More

132 Theodor Wagner

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

133 Ernst Kozlicek

Ernst Kozlicek is an Austrian football Midfielder who played for Austria in the 1958 FIFA World Cup. He also played for FC Admira Wacker Mödling, LASK Linz, SV Schwechat, and SK Sturm Graz.More

134 Walter Haummer

Walter Haummer was an Austrian football forward who played for Austria in the 1954 FIFA World Cup. He also played for FC Admira Wacker Mödling.More

135 Rotterdam

Rotterdam is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, at the mouth of the Nieuwe Maas channel leading into the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta at the North Sea. Its history goes back to 1270, when a dam was constructed in the Rotte. In 1340, Rotterdam was granted city rights by the Count of Holland. The Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area, with a population of approximately 2.7 million, is the 10th-largest in the European Union and the most populous in the country.More

136 Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country primarily located in Western Europe and partly in the Caribbean, forming the largest constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. In Europe, it consists of 12 provinces that border Germany to the east, Belgium to the south, and the North Sea to the northwest, with maritime borders in the North Sea with those countries and the United Kingdom. In the Caribbean, it consists of three special municipalities: the islands of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba. The country's official language is Dutch, with West Frisian as a secondary official language in the province of Friesland, and English and Papiamentu as secondary official languages in the Caribbean Netherlands. Dutch Low Saxon and Limburgish are recognised regional languages, while Sinte Romani and Yiddish are recognised non-territorial languages.More

137 Cor van der Gijp

Cornelis "Cor" van der Gijp, also known as Ome Cor, is a retired Dutch footballer who was active as a striker. Van der Gijp made his professional debut at SC Emma and also played for Feijenoord and Blauw Wit.More

138 Coen Dillen

Coenraad Henrik Dillen was a Dutch footballer who primarily played for PSV as well as the Dutch national side. He holds the record of most goals scored in an Eredivisie season.More

139 Karl Koller (footballer)

Karl Koller was an Austrian football player.More

140 Hans Buzek

Johann "Hans" Buzek is a former Austrian football forward.More

141 Karl Stotz

Karl Stotz was an Austrian football player from Vienna.More

142 Noud van Melis

Noud van Melis was a Dutch footballer, who played as a centre forward.More

143 Abe Lenstra

Abe Minderts Lenstra was a Dutch football player and national football icon in the 1950s who played as a forward. He is regarded as one of the greatest players ever to hail from the Netherlands. He was also a Frisian legend, most notably with the club where he made his name as a football player, Heerenveen.More

144 Faas Wilkes

Servaas "Faas" Wilkes was a Dutch football forward, who earned a total of 38 caps for the Dutch national team, in which he scored 35 goals. However, for a prolonged period of his career, June 1949 through till March 1955, he was banned from the national team since the KNVB did not allow professional players to participate.More

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