1966 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)

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The 32 teams were divided into 9 groups of 3 or 4 teams each (four groups with 3 teams and five groups with 4 teams). The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would qualify.

Group 1

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1=	Belgium	6	4	3	0	1	11	3	+8
1=	Bulgaria	6	4	3	0	1	9	6	+3
3	Israel	0	4	0	0	4	1	12	−11
—	Malta	Withdrew

9 May 1965	Belgium	1 – 0	Israel	Heysel Stadium, Brussels, Belgium
	Jurion  24' (pen.)	Report		Attendance: 21,699 Referee: Poulsen (Denmark)

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13 June 1965	Bulgaria	4 – 0	Israel	Slavia Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria
	Kotkov  16', 39' Asparuhov  67' Kitov  69'	Report		Attendance: 18,770 Referee: Talu (Turkey)

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26 September 1965	Bulgaria	3 – 0	Belgium	Slavia Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria
	Kotkov  30', 60' Asparuhov  34'	Report		Attendance: 25,380 Referee: Zečevič (Yugoslavia)

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27 October 1965	Belgium	5 – 0	Bulgaria	Parc Astrid, Brussels, Belgium
	Van Himst  18', 55' Thio  75', 80' Stockman  89'	Report		Attendance: 13,780 Referee: Bois (France)

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10 November 1965	Israel	0 – 5	Belgium	Ramat Gan, Tel-Aviv, Israel
		Report	Van Himst  24', 33', 69' Thio  31' Puis  48'	Attendance: 48,355 Referee: Sbardeua (Italy)

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21 November 1965	Israel	1 – 2	Bulgaria	Ramat Gan, Tel-Aviv, Israel
	Talbi  48'	Report	Kolev  31' Asparuhov  81'	Attendance: 28,213 Referee: Babauczek (Austria)

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

29 December 1965	Bulgaria	2 – 1	Belgium	Stadio Comunale, Florence, Italy
	Asparuhov  18', 19'	Report	Vutsov  75' (o.g.)	Attendance: 11,659 Referee: Sbardella (Italy)

Bulgaria qualified.

Group 2

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	West Germany	7	4	3	1	0	14	2	+12
2	Sweden	5	4	2	1	1	10	3	+7
3	Cyprus	0	4	0	0	4	0	19	−19
—	Iceland	Withdrew

4 November 1964	West Germany	1 – 1	Sweden	West Berlin
	Brunnenmeier  24'	Report	Hamrin  86'	Referee: Dienst (Switzerland)

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24 April 1965	West Germany	5 – 0	Cyprus	Karlsruhe, West Germany
	Overath  22', 85' Sieloff  16', 35' Strehl  69'	Report		Referee: Mootz (Luxembourg)

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5 May 1965	Sweden	3 – 0	Cyprus	Norrköping, Sweden
	Simonsson  25', 73' Jonsson  55'	Report		Referee: Petursson (Iceland)

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26 September 1965	Sweden	1 – 2	West Germany	Stockholm, Sweden
	Jónsson  44'	Report	Krämer  45' Seeler  54'	Referee: Dagnall (England)

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7 November 1965	Cyprus	0 – 5	Sweden	Famagusta, Cyprus
		Report	Granström  24', 25' Kindvall  37' B. Larsson  40', 87'	Referee: Zsengeller (Hungary)

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14 November 1965	Cyprus	0 – 6	West Germany	Nicosia, Cyprus
		Report	Heiß  30' Krämer  32' Szymaniak  57' Brunnenmeier  82', 88' Panayiotou  87' (o.g.)	Referee: Francescon (Italy)

West Germany qualified.

Group 3

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	France	10	6	5	0	1	9	2	+7
2	Norway	7	6	3	1	2	10	5	+5
3	Yugoslavia	7	6	3	1	2	10	8	+2
4	Luxembourg	0	6	0	0	6	6	20	−14

29 September 1964	Yugoslavia	3 – 1	Luxembourg	Belgrade, Yugoslavia
	Kovačević  15' Jerković  25' Galić  86'	Report	Schmit  71'	Referee: Tsouvaras (Greece)

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4 October 1964	Luxembourg	0 – 2	France	Luxembourg, Luxembourg
		Report	Guy  17' Artelesa  80'	Referee: Loraux (Belgium)

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8 November 1964	Luxembourg	0 – 2	Norway	Luxembourg, Luxembourg
		Report	E. Johansen  28' Berg  72'	Referee: Poweu (Wales)

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11 November 1964	France	1 – 0	Norway	Paris, France
	Rambert  17'	Report		Referee: Adair (Northern Ireland)

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18 April 1965	Yugoslavia	1 – 0	France	Belgrade, Yugoslavia
	Galić  59'	Report		Referee: Wlachojanis (Austria)

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27 May 1965	Norway	4 – 2	Luxembourg	Trondheim, Norway
	Pedersen  16' E. Johansen  61' Sjøberg  66' Kristoffersen  77'	Report	Brenner  10' (pen) Dublin  26'	Referee: Hirviniemi (Finland)

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16 June 1965	Norway	3 – 0	Yugoslavia	Oslo, Norway
	Seemann  9' Nilsen  60' Berg  87'	Report		Referee: Lowry (Wales)

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15 September 1965	Norway	0 – 1	France	Oslo, Norway
		Report	Combin  22'	Referee: Phillips (Scotland)

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19 September 1965	Luxembourg	2 – 5	Yugoslavia	Luxembourg, Luxembourg
	Pilot  39' 50'	Report	Galić  3', 11' Džajić  37', 58' Mušović  42'	Referee: Vales (Czechoslovakia)

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9 October 1965	France	1 – 0	Yugoslavia	Paris, France
	Gondet  77'	Report		Referee: Hansen (Denmark)

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6 November 1965	France	4 – 1	Luxembourg	Marseille, France
	Gondet  8', 27' Combin  11', 38'	Report	Pilot  53'	Referee: Zariquiegui Izco (Spain)

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7 November 1965	Yugoslavia	1 – 1	Norway	Belgrade, Yugoslavia
	Vasović  23'	Report	Stavrum  8'	Referee: Ashkenazi (Israel)

France qualified.

Group 4

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Portugal	9	6	4	1	1	9	4	+5
2	Czechoslovakia	7	6	3	1	2	12	4	+8
3	Romania	6	6	3	0	3	9	7	+2
4	Turkey	2	6	1	0	5	4	19	−15

24 January 1965	Portugal	5 – 1	Turkey	Estádio Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal
	Coluna  16' Eusébio  21', 63', 77' Graça  52'	Report	Fevzi  33'	Attendance: 33,237 Referee: Gardeazábal (Spain)

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19 April 1965	Turkey	0 – 1	Portugal	19 Mayıs Stadı, Ankara, Turkey
		Report	Eusébio  59'	Attendance: 27,625 Referee: Dachan (Syria)

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25 April 1965	Czechoslovakia	0 – 1	Portugal	Tehelné Pole (Slovan), Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
		Report	Eusébio  20'	Attendance: 56,975 Referee: Stavrev (Bulgaria)

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2 May 1965	Romania	3 – 0	Turkey	Stadionul 23. August, Bucharest, Romania
	Georgescu  1' Mateianu  72', pen' Creiniceanu  75'	Report		Attendance: 31,219 Referee: Schiller (Austria)

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30 May 1965	Romania	1 – 0	Czechoslovakia	Stadionul 23. August, Bucharest, Romania
	Mateianu  34'	Report		Attendance: 44,615 Referee: Köpcke (East Germany)

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14 June 1965	Portugal	2 – 1	Romania	Estádio Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal
	Eusébio  14', 39'	Report	Avram  71'	Attendance: 45,646 Referee: Kitabdjian (France)

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19 September 1965	Czechoslovakia	3 – 1	Romania	Stadión dr. Vacka "Eden" (Slavia), Prague, Czechoslovakia
	Knebort  3', 66' Jokl  90'	Report	Coe  23'	Attendance: 7,324 Referee: Storoniak (Poland)

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9 October 1965	Turkey	0 – 6	Czechoslovakia	Ali Sami Yen Stadı, Istanbul, Turkey
		Report	Jokl  22', 70' Knebort  41', 54' Kvašňák  45' Kabát  61'	Attendance: 12,757 Referee: Righi (Italy)

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23 October 1965	Turkey	2 – 1	Romania	19 Mayıs Stadı, Ankara, Turkey
	Fevzi  13' Nedim  48'	Report	Georgescu  55'	Attendance: 27,364 Referee: Pregja (Albania)

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31 October 1965	Portugal	0 – 0	Czechoslovakia	Estádio das Antas, Porto, Portugal
		Report		Attendance: 31,432 Referee: Horn (Netherlands)

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21 November 1965	Czechoslovakia	3 – 1	Turkey	Za Lužánkami, Brno, Czechoslovakia
	Mráz  3', 15' Horváth  69'	Report	Ayhan  8'	Attendance: 3,133 Referee: Aranyosi (Hungary)

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21 November 1965	Romania	2 – 0	Portugal	Stadionul 23. August, Bucharest, Romania
	Pârcălab  1' Badea  43'	Report		Attendance: 27,532 Referee: Dienst (Switzerland)

Portugal qualified.

Group 5

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Switzerland	9	6	4	1	1	7	3	+4
2	Northern Ireland	8	6	3	2	1	9	5	+4
3	Netherlands	6	6	2	2	2	6	4	+2
4	Albania	1	6	0	1	5	2	12	−10

24 May 1964	Netherlands	2 – 0	Albania	Rotterdam, Netherlands
	Muller Schrijvers	Report		Referee: Meighan (Republic of Ireland)

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14 October 1964	Northern Ireland	1 – 0	Switzerland	Belfast, Northern Ireland
	Crossan	Report		Referee: Burguet (Belgium)

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25 October 1964	Albania	0 – 2	Netherlands	Tirana, Albania
		Report	Geurtsen Van Nee	Referee: Dinow (Bulgaria)

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14 November 1964	Switzerland	2 – 1	Northern Ireland	Lausanne, Switzerland
	Quentin  29' Kuhn  34'	Report	Best  31'	Referee: Schiller (Austria)

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17 March 1965	Northern Ireland	2 – 1	Netherlands	Belfast, Northern Ireland
	T Neill Crossan	Report		Referee: Sörensen (Denmark)

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7 April 1965	Netherlands	0 – 0	Northern Ireland	Rotterdam, Netherlands
		Report		Referee: Clements (England)

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11 April 1965	Albania	0 – 2	Switzerland	Tirana, Albania
		Report	Quentin  21' Kuhn  88'	Referee: Sbardella (Italy)

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2 May 1965	Switzerland	1 – 0	Albania	Geneva, Switzerland
	Kuhn	Report		Referee: Bueno Perales (Spain)

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7 May 1965	Northern Ireland	4 – 1	Albania	Belfast, Northern Ireland
	Crossan Best	Report	Jashari	Referee: Mootz (Luxembourg)

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17 October 1965	Netherlands	0 – 0	Switzerland	Amsterdam, Netherlands
		Report		Referee: Boström (Sweden)

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14 November 1965	Switzerland	2 – 1	Netherlands	Bern, Switzerland
	Allemann Hosp	Report	Laseroms	Referee: Tschenscher (West Germany)

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24 November 1965	Albania	1 – 1	Northern Ireland	Tirana, Albania
	Haxhiu	Report	Irvine	Referee: Sotir (Romania)

Switzerland qualified.

Group 6

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Hungary	7	4	3	1	0	8	3	+5
2	East Germany	4	4	1	2	1	5	5	0
3	Austria	1	4	0	1	3	1	6	−5
—	Lebanon	Withdrew

25 April 1965	Austria	1 – 1	East Germany	Praterstadion, Vienna, Austria
	Hof  46'	Report	Nöldner  74'	Attendance: 57,312 Referee: Mihailescu (Romania)

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23 May 1965	East Germany	1 – 1	Hungary	Zentralstadion, Leipzig, East Germany
	Vogel  17'	Report	Bene  28'	Attendance: 98,765 Referee: Johansson (Sweden)

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13 June 1965	Austria	0 – 1	Hungary	Praterstadion, Vienna, Austria
		Report	Fenyvesi  44'	Attendance: 70,067 Referee: Schwinte (France)

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5 September 1965	Hungary	3 – 0	Austria	Népstadion, Budapest, Hungary
	Farkas  4' Fenyvesi  35' Mészöly  70', pen'	Report		Attendance: 71,950 Referee: Gorączniak (Poland)

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9 October 1965	Hungary	3 – 2	East Germany	Népstadion, Budapest, Hungary
	Rákosi  41' Novák  53' Farkas  80'	Report	P. Ducke  31', 71'	Attendance: 73,153 Referee: Andziulis (Soviet Union)

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31 October 1965	East Germany	1 – 0	Austria	Zentralstadion, Leipzig, East Germany
	Nöldner  1'	Report		Attendance: 86,584 Referee: Carswell (Republic of Ireland)

Hungary qualified. This is the first time Austria failed to qualify. The previous absences of the Austrian team at World Cup were all due to withdrawals (1938, 1950, and 1962).

Group 7

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Soviet Union	10	6	5	0	1	19	6	+13
2	Wales	6	6	3	0	3	11	9	+2
3	Greece	5	6	2	1	3	10	14	−4
4	Denmark	3	6	1	1	4	7	18	−11

21 October 1964	Denmark	1 – 0	Wales	Copenhagen, Denmark
	Madsen  47'	Report		Referee: Huber (Switzerland)

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29 November 1964	Greece	4 – 2	Denmark	Athens, Greece
	Sideris  30', 46' Papaioannou  71', 85'	Report	Berg  60' Madsen  70'	Referee: Zsolt (Hungary)

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9 December 1964	Greece	2 – 0	Wales	Athens, Greece
	Papaemmanouil Papaioannou	Report		Referee: Majdan (Poland)

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17 March 1965	Wales	4 – 1	Greece	Cardiff, Wales
	Allchurch England Vernon	Report	Papaioannou	Referee: Roomer (Netherlands)

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23 May 1965	Soviet Union	3 – 1	Greece	Moscow, Soviet Union
	Kazakov  14' Ivanov  71', 83'	Report	Papaioannou  60'	Referee: Beijar (Finland)

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30 May 1965	Soviet Union	2 – 1	Wales	Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow, Soviet Union
	Ivanov  39' Williams  48' (o.g.)	Report	R. Davies  69'	Referee: Fritz (West Germany)

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27 June 1965	Soviet Union	6 – 0	Denmark	Moscow, Soviet Union
	Khusainov  9' Metreveli  47' Voronin  64' Barkaya  69', 77' Meskhi  72'	Report		Referee: Zečević (Yugoslavia)

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3 October 1965	Greece	1 – 4	Soviet Union	Athens, Greece
	Papaioannou  27'	Report	Metreveli  14' Banişevski  25', 59', 82'	Referee: Shoshany (Israel)

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17 October 1965	Denmark	1 – 3	Soviet Union	Copenhagen, Denmark
	Troelsen  79'	Report	Metreveli  47' Banişevski  62' Sabo  68'	Referee: Webster (Scotland)

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27 October 1965	Denmark	1 – 1	Greece	Copenhagen, Denmark
	Fritsen  12'	Report	Sideris  45'	Referee: McCarthy (Republic of Ireland)

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27 October 1965	Wales	2 – 1	Soviet Union	Cardiff, Wales
	Vernon  20' Allchurch  77'	Report	Banişevski  17'	Referee: Nilsen (Norway)

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1 December 1965	Wales	4 – 2	Denmark	Wrexham, Wales
	W. Davies  2' Vernon  11', 79' Rees  18'	Report	Poulsen  4' Fritsen  48'	Referee: Kitabdjian (France)

Soviet Union qualified.

Group 8

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Italy	9	6	4	1	1	17	3	+14
2	Scotland	7	6	3	1	2	8	8	0
3	Poland	6	6	2	2	2	11	10	+1
4	Finland	2	6	1	0	5	5	20	−15

21 October 1964	Scotland	3 – 1	Finland	Glasgow, Scotland
	Chalmers Gibson Law	Report	Peltonen	Referee: Hannet (Belgium)

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4 November 1964	Italy	6 – 1	Finland	Genoa, Italy
	Facchetti  1' Holmqvist  8' (o.g.) Rivera  16' Bulgarelli  49' Mazzola  54', 83'	Report	Peltonen  88'	Referee: Rodrigues (Portugal)

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18 April 1965	Poland	0 – 0	Italy	Warsaw, Poland
		Report		Referee: Roomer (Netherlands)

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23 May 1965	Poland	1 – 1	Scotland	Warsaw, Poland
	Lentner  52'	Report	Law  76'	Referee: Alimov (Soviet Union)

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27 May 1965	Finland	1 – 2	Scotland	Helsinki, Finland
	Hyvärinen	Report	Greig Wilson	Referee: Vetter (East Germany)

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23 June 1965	Finland	0 – 2	Italy	Helsinki, Finland
		Report	Mazzola  33', 78'	Referee: Bachramov (Soviet Union)

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26 September 1965	Finland	2 – 0	Poland	Helsinki, Finland
	Nuoranen Peltonen	Report		Referee: Grandlund (Norway)

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13 October 1965	Scotland	1 – 2	Poland	Glasgow, Scotland
	McNeill  13'	Report	Pol  85' Sadek  86'	Referee: Carlsson (Sweden)

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24 October 1965	Poland	7 – 0	Finland	Szczecin, Poland
	Lubański  19', 21', 24', 41' Pol  29' Sadek  35', 79'	Report		Referee: Obtulović (Czechoslovakia)

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1 November 1965	Italy	6 – 1	Poland	Rome, Italy
	Mazzola  5' Barison  25', 65', 87' Rivera  71' Mora  79'	Report	Lubański  84'	Referee: Klein (Israel)

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9 November 1965	Scotland	1 – 0	Italy	Glasgow, Scotland
	Greig  88'	Report		Referee: Kreitlein (West Germany)

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7 December 1965	Italy	3 – 0	Scotland	Naples, Italy
	Pascutti  38' Facchetti  73' Mora  89'	Report		Referee: Zsolt (Hungary)

Italy qualified.

Group 9

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1=	Spain	2	2	1	0	1	4	2	+2
1=	Republic of Ireland	2	2	1	0	1	2	4	−2
—	Syria	withdrew

5 May 1965	Republic of Ireland	1 – 0	Spain	Dalymount Park, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
	Iribar  61', o.g.'	Report		Attendance: 40,772 Referee: Callaghan (Wales)

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27 October 1965	Spain	4 – 1	Republic of Ireland	Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, Seville, Spain
	Pereda  40', 43', 58' Lapetra  63'	Report	McEvoy  26'	Attendance: 29,452 Referee: Freitas (Portugal)

Syria withdrew to support the African teams who withdrew in protest at the of allocation of spots. Republic of Ireland and Spain finished level on points, and a play-off on neutral ground was played to decide who would qualify. This match was initially to be played in London, a city with a large Irish immigrant population, but the Spanish and Irish football associations later came to an agreement and moved the match to Paris.

10 November 1965	Spain	1 – 0	Republic of Ireland	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Paris, France
	Ufarte  80'	Report		Attendance: 35,731 Referee: Schwinte (France)

Spain qualified.