1958 FIFA World Cup qualification

1958 FIFA World Cup qualification was the qualifiying rounds of the 1958 FIFA World Cup. 55 countries entered qualifying, and competed for 14 spots at the tournament (Sweden automatically qualified as the hosts, while West Germany automatically qualified as the defending champions).

AFC and CAF
First round
Group 1





Group 2

Group 3

Group 4



Second round

Third round

CCCF and NAFC
First round
Group 1











Group 2











Final Round



CONMEBOL
Group 1



Group 2











Group 3











UEFA
Group 1











Group 2











Group 3











Group 4











Group 5











Group 6











Play-off

Group 7











Group 8











Group 9











Inter-confederation play-off
Because Israel did not play a match, a special play-off was created to decide the final spot at the 1958 FIFA World Cup. After Belgium refused to play, Wales, the runner-up of UEFA Group 4, was the team chosen.



Qualified countries

TeamDate of qualificationFinals appearanceLast appearance27 October 19573rd193429 September 19573rd195421 April 19576th195427 October 19574th195419 May 19573rd195427 October 19575th195410 November 19574th195427 October 19574th195415 January 19581st—14 July 19573rd19506 November 19572nd1954 (hosts)23 June 19504th195024 November 19571st—5 February 19581st— (defending champions)4 July 19544th195417 November 19574th1954

Goalscorers
8 goals

 Tommy Taylor

7 goals

 Thadée Cisowski

5 goals

 Crescencio Gutiérrez
 Jackie Mudie

4 goals

 Paul Vandenberg
 Tadeusz Kraus
 John Atyeo
 Ferenc Machos
 Rusli Ramang
 Edward Jankowski
 Nikita Simonyan
 Ladislao Kubala

3 goals

 Omar Oreste Corbatta
 Norberto Menéndez
 Gerhard Hanappi
 Maurice Willems
 Máximo Alcócer
 Hristo Iliev
 Jorge Hernán Monge
 Rodolfo Herrera González
 Álvaro Murillo
 Jean Vincent
 Dermot Curtis
 Alfredo Hernández
 Héctor Hernández
 Salvador Reyes Monteón
 Abe Lenstra
 Noud van Melis
 Jimmy McIlroy
 Juan Bautista Agüero
 Florencio Amarilla
 Anatoli Ilyin
 Eduard Streltsov
 Des Palmer
 Muhamed Mujić

2 goals

 Roberto Zárate
 Hans Buzek
 Theodor Wagner
 Henri Coppens
 Victor Mees
 Richard Orlans
 Georgi Dimitrov
 Panayot Panayotov
 Art Hughes
 Brian Philley
 Gogie Stewart
 Jaime Ramírez
 Mario Cordero
 Rubén Jiménez Rodríguez
 Danilo Montero Campos
 Wilfred de Lanoy
 Ove Bech Nielsen
 Günther Wirth
 Duncan Edwards
 Célestin Oliver
 Roger Piantoni
 Joseph Ujlaki
 Francisco López Contreras
 Lajos Csordás
 Nándor Hidegkuti
 Ríkharður Jónsson
 Þórður Jónsson
 Þórður Þórðarson
 Guido Gratton
 Carlos González
 Héctor Hernández
 Ligorio López
 Enrique Sesma
 Cor van der Gijp
 Harald Hennum
 Ángel Jara Saguier
 Enrique Jara Saguier
 Lucjan Brychczy
 Gerard Cieślik
 Manuel Vasques
 Alexandru Ene
 Anatoli Isayev
 Igor Netto
 Estanislao Basora
 Alfredo di Stéfano
 Luis Suárez Miramontes
 Josef Hügi
 Roger Vonlanthen
 Ed Murphy
 Ivor Allchurch
 Cliff Jones
 Miloš Milutinović

1 goal

 Norberto Conde
 Eliseo Prado
 Robert Dienst
 Walter Haummer
 Karl Koller
 Ernst Kozlicek
 Helmut Senekowitsch
 Karl Stotz
 Otto Walzhofer
 André Van Herpe
 Denis Houf
 André Piters
 Ricardo Alcón
 Ausberto García
 Didi
 Índio
 Spiro Debarski
 Todor Diev
 Ivan Petkov Kolev
 Krum Yanev
 Norm McLeod
 Ostap Steckiw
 Guillermo Díaz
 Nian Weisi
 Sun Fucheng
 Wang Lu
 Zhang Honggen
 Carlos Arango
 Ricardo Díaz
 Jaime Gutiérrez
 Juan Soto Quiros
 Edgard Meulens
 Hubert Sambo
 Vlastimil Bubník
 Pavol Molnár
 Anton Moravčík
 Ladislav Novák
 Aage Rou Jensen
 John Jensen
 Manfred Kaiser
 Helmut Müller
 Willy Tröger
 Johnny Haynes
 Olavi Lahtinen
 Mauri Vanhanen
 Said Brahimi
 René Dereuddre
 Maryan Wisnieski
 Kostas Nestoridis
 Vaggelis Panakis
 Augusto Espinoza
 Jorge Vickers
 József Bozsik
 Károly Sándor
 Lajos Tichy
 Eddang Witarsa
 George Cummins
 Johnny Gavin
 Alf Ringstead
 Sergio Cervato
 Dino da Costa
 Gino Pivatelli
 Jean-Pierre Fiedler
 Johnny Halsdorf
 Léon Letsch
 Jaime Belmonte
 Toon Brusselers
 Coen Dillen
 Kees Rijvers
 Servaas Wilkes
 Billy Bingham
 Tommy Casey
 Wilbur Cush
 Billy Simpson
 Kjell Kristiansen
 Óscar Aguilera
 Alberto Terry
 Ginter Gawlik
 Matateu
 António Dias Teixeira
 Cornel Cacoveanu
 Titus Ozon
 Iosif Petschovsky
 Nicolae Tătaru
 John Hewie
 Tommy Ring
 Archie Robertson
 Alex Scott
 Gordon Smith
 Genrich Fedosov
 Valentin Kozmich Ivanov
 Boris Tatushin
 Yuri Voinov
 Miguel González
 Enrique Mateos
 Suleiman Faris
 Siddiq Manzul
 Robert Ballaman
 Ferdinando Riva
 Jabra Al-Zarqa
 Harry Keough
 Ruben Mendoza
 James Murphy
 Javier Ambrois
 Eladio Benítez
 William Martínez
 Óscar Míguez
 Dave Bowen
 Mel Charles
 Roy Vernon
 Dobrosav Krstić
 Aleksandar Petaković

1 own goal

 Edgar Falch (playing against Hungary)
 Ray Daniel (playing against Czechoslovakia)

References

Other websites
FIFA World Cup Official Site - 1958 World Cup Qualification
RSSSF - 1958 World Cup Qualification

Category:1958 FIFA World Cup