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.
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.
The 16 spots available in the 1962 World Cup would be distributed among the continental zones as follows:
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.
There 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.
There would be two rounds of play:
There would be two rounds of play:
Among 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.
The 30 teams were divided into 10 groups. The groups had different rules, as follows:
In each play-off, the teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The winners would qualify.
Rubén Jiménez Marvin Rodríguez
Tomáš Pospíchal
Francisco López Contreras
Nahum Stelmach
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Francisco Flores
Yaúca.svg/1280px-Flag_of_South_Korea_(1949%E2%80%931984).svg.png){kind=small}
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Milan Galić
Martín Pando José Francisco Sanfilippo Rubén Héctor Sosa.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Bulgaria_(1948%E2%80%931967).svg.png){kind=small}
Hristo Iliev Dimitar Yakimov Manrique Quesada Rigoberto Rojas.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Cyprus_(1960%E2%80%932006).svg.png){kind=small}
Michalis Shialis
Dieter Erler
Carlos Alberto Raffo
Ray Pointer Bobby Smith
Kai Pahlman.svg/1280px-Flag_of_France_(1794%E2%80%931815,_1830%E2%80%931974).svg.png){kind=small}
Jacques Faivre Augusto Espinoza.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Honduras_(1949%E2%80%932022).svg.png){kind=small}
Carlos Humberto Suazo
János Göröcs Károly Sándor Eduardo González Palmer
Mohamed Khalfi
Henk Groot Tonny van der Linden.svg/1280px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles_(1959%E2%80%931986).svg.png){kind=small}
Eduvigis Rudolfo Dirksz Edwin Miliano Loran
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Jimmy McIlroy Jim McLaughlin José Águas
David Herd Denis Law Alex Young Yoo Pan-Soon
Valentin Bubukin Mikheil Meskhi Slava Metreveli Viktor Ponedelnik.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Spain_(1945%E2%80%931977).svg.png){kind=small}
Alfredo Di Stéfano
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Robert Ballaman Heinz Schneiter Dragoslav Šekularac Ricardo José Maria Ramaciotti.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Belgium_(civil).svg.png){kind=small}
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.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Ethiopia_(1897%E2%80%931974).svg.png){kind=small}
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.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Japan_(1870%E2%80%931999).svg.png){kind=small}
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.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Suriname_(1959%E2%80%931975).svg.png){kind=small}
August Foe a Man Torbjörn Jonsson Norbert Eschmann Rolf Wüthrich.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Tunisia_(1959%E2%80%931999).svg.png){kind=small}
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.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Ecuador_(1900%E2%80%932009).svg.png){kind=small}
Romulo Gómez (playing against Argentina) Fernand Brosius (playing against Portugal)Sudan and Egypt tried to rearrange their qualifying games to avoid the monsoon season. FIFA did not permit this, however, and both teams withdrew.
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