A total of 56 teams entered the 1962 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds, competing for a total of 16 spots in the final tournament. Chile, as the hosts, and Brazil, as the defending champions, qualified automatically, leaving 14 spots open for competition.
| Tournament details | |
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| Dates | 21 August 1960 – 16 December 1961 |
| Teams | 56 (from 6 confederations) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 92 |
| Goals scored | 325 (3.53 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |  Andrej Kvašňák(7 goals) |
← 1958 1966 → | |
As with previous World Cups, the rules of the qualification rounds varied by confederation.[1] The winners of the four weakest continental zones: North America (NAFC), Central America and Caribbean (CCCF), Africa (CAF) and Asia (AFC), were not guaranteed direct spots in the final tournament. Instead, they entered a play-off against a team from either Europe (UEFA) or South America (CONMEBOL), with the winners of the three play-offs qualifying.
Format
editThe 16 spots available in the 1962 World Cup would be distributed among the continental zones as follows:
- Europe (UEFA): 8 direct places + 2 spots in the Intercontinental Play-offs (against teams from CAF and AFC), contested by 30 teams (including Israel and Ethiopia).
- South America (CONMEBOL): 5 direct places + 1 spot in the Intercontinental Play-offs (against a team from CCCF/NAFC); 2 direct places went to automatic qualifiers Chile and Brazil, while the other 3.5 places were contested by 7 teams.
- North, Central America and Caribbean (CCCF/NAFC): 1 spot in the Intercontinental Play-offs (against a team from CONMEBOL), contested by 8 teams.
- Africa (CAF): 1 spot in the Intercontinental Play-offs (against a team from UEFA), contested by 6 teams.
- Asia (AFC): 1 spot in the Intercontinental Play-offs (against a team from UEFA), contested by 3 teams.
A total of 49 teams played at least one qualifying match. A total of 92 qualifying matches were played, and 325 goals were scored (an average of 3.53 per match).
Listed below are the dates and results of the qualification rounds.
Confederation qualification
editAFC
editThere would be only one round of play. The 3 teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner would advance to the UEFA/AFC Intercontinental Play-off.
| Pos | Team | Pld | Pts |
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| 1 |  South Korea
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2 | 4 |
| 2 |  Japan
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2 | 0 |
| 3 |  Indonesia
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0 | 0 |
Source: RSSSF[2]
CAF
editThere would be two rounds of play:
- First round: The 6 teams were divided into 3 groups of 2 teams each. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would advance to the Final Round.
- Final round: The 3 teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner would advance to the UEFA/CAF Intercontinental Play-off.
First round
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| Sudan and the United Arab Republic both withdrew; the Group was scratched.[3] |
Source: RSSSF[2]
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Source: RSSSF[2]
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Second round
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Source: RSSSF[2]
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CCCF and NAFC
editThere would be two rounds of play:
- First Round: The remaining 7 teams (Canada withdrew before the matches began) were divided into 3 groups of 2 or 3 teams each (Group 1 with teams from Northern America and Mexico, Group 2 with teams from Central America and Group 3 with teams from Caribbean). The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would advance to the Final Round.
- Final Round: The 3 teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner would advance to the CONMEBOL/CCCF/NAFC Intercontinental Play-off.
First round
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Source: FIFA[4]
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Second round
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Source: FIFA[4]
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CONMEBOL
editAmong the 7 teams, Paraguay were drawn to play in the CONMEBOL / CCCF / NAFC Intercontinental Play-off. The remaining 6 teams were divided into 3 groups of 2 teams each. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would qualify.
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Source: FIFA[5]
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Source: FIFA[6]
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Source: FIFA[7]
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UEFA
editThe 30 teams were divided into 10 groups. The groups had different rules, as follows:
- Groups 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 had 3 teams each. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would qualify. If the top two teams finished on level points, then a play-off at a neutral ground determined the final qualifier.
- Group 7 had 5 teams. The teams played in a knockout tournament, with matches on a home-and-away basis. The group winner would qualify.
- Group 9 had 2 teams. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner would advance to the UEFA / CAF Intercontinental Play-off. If the top two teams finished on level points, then a play-off at a neutral ground determined the final qualifier.
- Group 10 had 2 teams. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner would advance to the UEFA / AFC Intercontinental Play-off. If the top two teams finished on level points, then a play-off at a neutral ground determined the final qualifier.
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Source: FIFA[8]
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| Group 4 | Group 5 | Group 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Group 8 | Group 9 | Group 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source: FIFA[14]
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Source: FIFA[16]
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Inter-confederation play-offs
editIn each play-off, the teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The winners would qualify.
CAF v UEFA
edit| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | 
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| 1 | Spain
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2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 4 | Qualification to 1962 FIFA World Cup | — | 3–2 | |
| 2 | Morocco
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2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 0 | 0–1 | — |
Source: RSSSF[2]
UEFA v AFC
edit| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | 
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| 1 | Yugoslavia
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2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 4 | Qualification to 1962 FIFA World Cup | — | 5–1 | |
| 2 | South Korea
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2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 0 | 1–3 | — |
Source: RSSSF[2]
CCCF/NAFC v CONMEBOL
edit| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | 
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| 1 | Mexico
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2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 3 | Qualification to 1962 FIFA World Cup | — | 1–0 | |
| 2 | Paraguay
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2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 0–0 | — |
Source: RSSSF[2]
Qualified teams
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| Team | Date of qualification | Finals appearance | Streak | Last appearance |
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 Argentina
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17 December 1960 | 4th | 2 | 1958 |
 Brazil (defending champions)
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29 June 1958 | 7th | 7 | 1958 |
 Bulgaria
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16 December 1961 | 1st | 1 | — |
 Chile (hosts)
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11 June 1956 | 3rd | 1 | 1950 |
 Colombia
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7 May 1961 | 1st | 1 | — |
| Czechoslovakia
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29 November 1961 | 5th | 3 | 1958 |
 England
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25 October 1961 | 4th | 4 | 1958 |
 Hungary
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10 September 1961 | 5th | 3 | 1958 |
 Italy
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4 November 1961 | 5th | 1 | 1954 |
| Mexico
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5 November 1961 | 5th | 4 | 1958 |
| Spain
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23 November 1961 | 3rd | 1 | 1950 |
 Switzerland
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12 November 1961 | 5th | 1 | 1954 |
 Uruguay
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30 July 1961 | 4th | 1 | 1954 |
 Soviet Union
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12 November 1961 | 2nd | 2 | 1958 |
 West Germany
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22 October 1961 | 5th | 3 | 1958 |
| Yugoslavia
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26 November 1961 | 5th | 4 | 1958 |
Goalscorers
edit- 7 goals
- 6 goals
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
Martín Pando- José Francisco Sanfilippo
- Rubén Héctor Sosa
Hristo Iliev- Dimitar Yakimov
Manrique Quesada- Rigoberto Rojas
Michalis Shialis
Dieter Erler
Carlos Alberto Raffo
Ray Pointer- Bobby Smith
Kai Pahlman
Jacques Faivre
Augusto Espinoza
Carlos Humberto Suazo
János Göröcs- Károly Sándor
Eduardo González Palmer
Mohamed Khalfi
Henk Groot- Tonny van der Linden
Eduvigis Rudolfo Dirksz- Edwin Miliano Loran
Dejo Fayemi
Jimmy McIlroy- Jim McLaughlin
José Águas
David Herd- Denis Law
- Alex Young
Yoo Pan-soon
Valentin Bubukin- Mikheil Meskhi
- Slava Metreveli
- Viktor Ponedelnik
Alfredo Di Stéfano
Agne Simonsson
Robert Ballaman- Heinz Schneiter
Dragoslav Šekularac
- 1 goal
- Ricardo José Maria Ramaciotti
Roger Claessen- Paul van Himst
- Marcel Paeschen
Máximo Alcócer- Wilfredo Camacho
- Todor Diev
- Ivan Petkov Kolev
- Petar Velichkov
Eusebio Escobar- Héctor Garzon González
- Carlos Vivo Goban
- Álvaro Grant MacDonald
- Jorge Hernán Monge
- Walter Pearson
Jiří Hledík- Josef Jelínek
- Josef Kadraba
- Josef Masopust
- Peter Ducke
- Alberto Pedro Spencer
- John Connelly
- Ron Flowers
- Johnny Haynes
- Dennis Viollet
Mohammed Awad- Luciano Vassalo
- Sauli Pietiläinen
- Lucien Cossou
- Jean-Jacques Marcel
- Roger Piantoni
- Ernest Schultz
- Joseph Ujlaki
Edward Boateng- Aggrey Fynn
- Mohamadu Salisu
- Fred Masella
- Ronald Leaky
- Flórián Albert
- Máté Fenyvesi
- Tivadar Monostori
- Ernő Solymosi
Amby Fogarty- Johnny Giles
- Joe Haverty
Boaz Kofman- Shlomo Nahari
- Reuven Young
José Altafini- Antonio Angelillo
- Francisco Lojacono
Koji Sasaki
Camille Dimmer- Nicolas Hoffmann
- Raúl Cárdenas
- Isidoro Díaz
- Crescencio Gutiérrez
- Lahcen Chicha
- Sellam Riahi
- Godwin Emenako
Bjørn Borgen- Eldar Hansen
- Roald Jensen
Faustino Delgado
Lucjan Brychczy- Jan Szmidt
- Mário Coluna
- Eusébio
- Gennadi Gusarov
- Aleksei Mamykin
- Valery Voronin
- Enrique Collar
- Marcelino
- Joaquín Peiró
- Alfonso Rodríguez Salas
- Luis del Sol
August Foe a Man- Torbjörn Jonsson
- Norbert Eschmann
- Rolf Wüthrich
Abdelmajid Chetali- Brahim Kerrit
- Rached Meddeb
- Abdelmajid Tlemçani
Aydın Yelken
Helmut Bicek- Carl Fister
- Al Zerhusen
Ángel Cabrera- Luis Alberto Cubilla
- Guillermo Escalada
Ivor Allchurch- Phil Woosnam
Helmut Haller- Richard Kreß
- Zvezdan Čebinac
- Dražan Jerković
- Tomislav Kaloperović
- Bora Kostić
- Petar Radaković
- 1 own goal
Romulo Gómez (playing against Argentina)- Fernand Brosius (playing against Portugal)
Notes
editReferences
edit- ^ "History of the FIFA World Cup Preliminary Competition (by year)" (PDF). FIFA. 2010-06-10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-02. Retrieved 2022-06-06.
- ^ a b c d e f g "World Cup 1962 Qualifying". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 10 June 2010. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
- ^ "History of the FIFA World Cup Preliminary Competition (by year)" (PDF). FIFA. 2010-06-10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-02. Retrieved 2022-06-04.
Sudan and Egypt tried to rearrange their qualifying games to avoid the monsoon season. FIFA did not permit this, however, and both teams withdrew.
- ^ a b c d "1962 FIFA World Cup Chile Preliminaries". FIFA. 27 November 2007. Archived from the original on 26 November 2007. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
- ^ "1962 FIFA World Cup Chile Preliminaries". FIFA. 2007-11-26. Archived from the original on 2007-11-26. Retrieved 2022-04-26.
- ^ "1962 FIFA World Cup Chile Preliminaries". FIFA. 2007-11-26. Archived from the original on 2007-11-26. Retrieved 2022-04-26.
- ^ "1962 FIFA World Cup Chile Preliminaries". FIFA. 2007-11-26. Archived from the original on 2007-11-26. Retrieved 2022-04-26.
- ^ "1962 FIFA World Cup Chile Preliminaries". FIFA. 2007-11-26. Archived from the original on 2007-11-26. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
- ^ "1962 FIFA World Cup Chile Preliminaries". FIFA. 2007-11-26. Archived from the original on 2007-11-26. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
- ^ "1962 FIFA World Cup Chile Preliminaries". FIFA. 2007-11-26. Archived from the original on 2007-11-26. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
- ^ "1962 FIFA World Cup Chile Preliminaries". FIFA. 2007-11-26. Archived from the original on 2007-11-26. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
- ^ "1962 FIFA World Cup Chile Preliminaries". FIFA. 2007-11-26. Archived from the original on 2007-11-26. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
- ^ "1962 FIFA World Cup Chile Preliminaries". FIFA. 2007-11-26. Archived from the original on 2007-11-26. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
- ^ "1962 FIFA World Cup Chile Preliminaries". FIFA. 2007-11-26. Archived from the original on 2007-11-26. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
- ^ "1962 FIFA World Cup Chile Preliminaries". FIFA. 2007-11-26. Archived from the original on 2007-11-26. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
- ^ "1962 FIFA World Cup Chile Preliminaries". FIFA. 2007-11-26. Archived from the original on 2007-11-26. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
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