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1958 FIFA World Cup qualification#North, Central America and Caribbean

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| dates = 30 September 1956 – 5 February 1958

| num_teams = 55

| confederations = 6

| matches = 89

| goals = 341

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| top_scorer = {{flagicon|ENG}} 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.

Qualification Process

The qualification rounds for the four previous World Cups differed widely, with controversial rules and many withdrawals. From this tournament onwards, FIFA divided the teams into several continental zones, assigned a pre-determined number of places in the final tournament to each zone, and delegated the organisation 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).

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.

Confederation qualification

=AFC and CAF=

{{Main|1958 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC and CAF)}}

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!align="center"|Group 1

!align="center"|Group 2

!align="center"|Group 3

!align="center"|Group 4

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!align="center"|Second round

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!align="center"|Third round

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=CCCF and NAFC=

{{Main|1958 FIFA World Cup qualification (CCCF and NAFC)}}

The 6 teams were divided into 2 groups with 3 teams each (Group 1 with teams from North America and Group 2 with teams from Central America and Caribbean). The teams played each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners advanced to the Final Round. The two teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis with the winner qualifying for the final tournament.

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!align="center"|Group 1

!align="center"|Group 2

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|align="left"|{{:1958 FIFA World Cup qualification (CCCF and NAFC)|transcludesection=Group 2|only_pld_pts=y|show_matches=n}}

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!align="center"|Final Round

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=CONMEBOL=

{{main|1958 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)}}

The 9 teams were divided into 3 groups of 3 teams each. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would qualify.

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!align="center"|Group 1

!align="center"|Group 2

!align="center"|Group 3

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|align="left"|{{:1958 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL – Group 3)|only_pld_pts=y|show_matches=n}}

=UEFA=

{{Main|1958 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)}}

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 would qualify. Denmark, East Germany, Iceland and the Soviet Union made their debuts in World Cup qualification.

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!align="center"|Group 1

!align="center"|Group 2

!align="center"|Group 3

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!align="center"|Group 4

!align="center"|Group 5

!align="center"|Group 6

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!align="center"|Group 7

!align="center"|Group 8

!align="center"|Group 9

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Inter-confederation play-offs: AFC/CAF v UEFA

{{Main|1958 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC/CAF–UEFA play-off)}}

A special play-off was created between Israel and the runner-up of one of the UEFA/CONMEBOL/CCCF/NAFC Groups, where the teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis, with the winner qualifying. Two-time champions Uruguay withdrew, while Northern Ireland and Italy had one final match yet to play, so all three were left out. Belgium, Bulgaria, Wales, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Peru, Bolivia and Costa Rica were left to draw. After Belgium refused, Wales, the runner-up of UEFA Group 4, was the team drawn from the UEFA group runners-up.{{cite news|last1=Doyle|first1=Paul|title=The Joy of Six: international football play-offs|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/nov/13/the-joy-of-six-international-play-offs|access-date=13 November 2015|work=The Guardian}}

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Qualified teams

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|29 September 1957

3rd21954
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|21 April 1957

6th61954
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|27 October 1957

4th21954
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|19 May 1957

3rd31954
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|27 October 1957

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|10 November 1957

4th21954
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|27 October 1957

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|15 January 1958

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|14 July 1957

3rd11950
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|6 November 1957

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|23 June 1950

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|24 November 1957

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|5 February 1958

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|4 July 1954

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|17 November 1957

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Goalscorers

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;7 goals

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;5 goals

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;4 goals

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;3 goals

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;2 goals

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;1 goal

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;1 own goal

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Notes

  • Wales is the only team to ever qualify after having been eliminated and then reinstated. Their qualification meant that all four Home Nations qualified (the only time in history), and that no team from the separate African and Asian zone qualified. This remained Wales' only appearance in the finals until 2022, when they qualified through the European zone for the first time.
  • Two-time former champions Uruguay, who in their three previous appearances had always benefited from direct qualifications or withdrawals, now failed in what was the first time they actually had to play qualifying games.
  • Italy were eliminated in qualifying for the first time.

Footnotes

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External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20160409155257/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/sweden1958/groups/preliminaries/index.html FIFA World Cup Official Site - 1958 World Cup Qualification]
  • [https://www.rsssf.org/tables/58q.html RSSSF - 1958 World Cup Qualification]

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