Qualified as hosts: ArgentinaQualified as holders: West GermanyEurope Group 1 [Poland]23.05.76 Limassol Cyprus 1-5 Denmark 1.POLAND 6 5 1 0 17- 4 1116.10.76 Porto Portugal 0-2 Poland 2.Portugal 6 4 1 1 12- 6 927.10.76 København Denmark 5-0 Cyprus 3.Denmark 6 2 0 4 14-12 431.10.76 Warszawa Poland 5-0 Cyprus 4.Cyprus 6 0 0 6 3-24 017.11.76 Lisboa Portugal 1-0 Denmark05.12.76 Limassol Cyprus 1-2 Portugal01.05.77 København Denmark 1-2 Poland15.05.77 Limassol Cyprus 1-3 Poland21.09.77 Chorzów Poland 4-1 Denmark09.10.77 København Denmark 2-4 Portugal29.10.77 Chorzów Poland 1-1 Portugal16.11.77 Faro Portugal 4-0 CyprusEurope Group 2 [Italy]13.06.76 Helsinki Finland 1-4 England 1.ITALY 6 5 0 1 18- 4 1022.09.76 Helsinki Finland 7-1 Luxembourg 2.England 6 5 0 1 15- 4 1013.10.76 London England 2-1 Finland 3.Finland 6 2 0 4 11-16 416.10.76 Luxembourg Luxembourg 1-4 Italy 4.Luxembourg 6 0 0 6 2-22 017.11.76 Roma Italy 2-0 England30.03.77 London England 5-0 Luxembourg26.05.77 Luxembourg Luxembourg 0-1 Finland08.06.77 Helsinki Finland 0-3 Italy12.10.77 Luxembourg Luxembourg 0-2 England15.10.77 Torino Italy 6-1 Finland16.11.77 London England 2-0 Italy03.12.77 Roma Italy 3-0 LuxembourgEurope Group 3 [Austria]31.10.76 Izmir Turkey 4-0 Malta 1.AUSTRIA 6 4 2 0 14- 2 1017.11.76 Dresden East Germany 1-1 Turkey 2.East Germany 6 3 3 0 15- 4 905.12.76 La Valletta Malta 0-1 Austria 3.Turkey 6 2 1 3 9- 5 502.04.77 La Valletta Malta 0-1 East Germany 4.Malta 6 0 0 6 0-27 017.04.77 Wien Austria 1-0 Turkey30.04.77 Salzburg Austria 9-0 Malta24.09.77 Wien Austria 1-1 East Germany12.10.77 Leipzig East Germany 1-1 Austria29.10.77 Potsdam East Germany 9-0 Malta30.10.77 Izmir Turkey 0-1 Austria16.11.77 Izmir Turkey 1-2 East Germany27.11.77 La Valletta Malta 0-3 TurkeyEurope Group 4 [Netherlands]05.09.76 Reykjavik Iceland 0-1 Belgium 1.NETHERLANDS 6 5 1 0 11- 3 1108.09.76 Reykjavik Iceland 0-1 Netherlands 2.Belgium 6 3 0 3 7- 6 613.10.76 Rotterdam Netherlands 2-2 Northern Ireland 3.Northern Ireland 6 2 1 3 7- 6 510.11.76 Liège Belgium 2-0 Northern Ireland 4.Iceland 6 1 0 5 2-12 226.03.77 Antwerpen Belgium 0-2 Netherlands11.06.77 Reykjavik Iceland 1-0 Northern Ireland31.08.77 Nijmegen Netherlands 4-1 Iceland03.09.77 Brussel Belgium 4-0 Iceland21.09.77 Belfast Northern Ireland 2-0 Iceland12.10.77 Belfast Northern Ireland 0-1 Netherlands26.10.77 Amsterdam Netherlands 1-0 Belgium16.11.77 Belfast Northern Ireland 3-0 BelgiumEurope Group 5 [France]09.10.76 Sofia Bulgaria 2-2 France 1.FRANCE 4 2 1 1 7- 4 517.11.76 Paris France 2-0 Ireland 2.Bulgaria 4 1 2 1 5- 6 430.03.77 Dublin Ireland 1-0 France 3.Ireland 4 1 1 2 2- 4 301.06.77 Sofia Bulgaria 2-1 Ireland12.10.77 Dublin Ireland 0-0 Bulgaria16.11.77 Paris France 3-1 BulgariaEurope Group 6 [Sweden]16.06.76 Stockholm Sweden 2-0 Norway 1.SWEDEN 4 3 0 1 7- 4 608.09.76 Oslo Norway 1-0 Switzerland 2.Norway 4 2 0 2 3- 4 409.10.76 Basel Switzerland 1-2 Sweden 3.Switzerland 4 1 0 3 3- 5 208.06.77 Stockholm Sweden 2-1 Switzerland07.09.77 Oslo Norway 2-1 Sweden30.10.77 Bern Switzerland 1-0 NorwayEurope Group 7 [Scotland]13.10.76 Praha Czechoslovakia 2-0 Scotland 1.SCOTLAND 4 3 0 1 6- 3 617.11.76 Glasgow Scotland 1-0 Wales 2.Czechoslovakia 4 2 0 2 4- 6 430.03.77 Wrexham Wales 3-0 Czechoslovakia 3.Wales 4 1 0 3 3- 4 221.09.77 Glasgow Scotland 3-1 Czechoslovakia12.10.77 Liverpool Wales 0-2 Scotland16.11.77 Praha Czechoslovakia 1-0 WalesEurope Group 8 [Spain]10.10.76 Sevilla Spain 1-0 Yugoslavia 1.SPAIN 4 3 0 1 4- 1 616.04.77 Bucuresti Romania 1-0 Spain 2.Romania 4 2 0 2 7- 8 408.05.77 Zagreb Yugoslavia 0-2 Romania 3.Yugoslavia 4 1 0 3 6- 8 226.10.77 Madrid Spain 2-0 Romania13.11.77 Bucuresti Romania 4-6 Yugoslavia30.11.77 Beograd Yugoslavia 0-1 SpainEurope Group 9 [Hungary]09.10.76 Athinai Greece 1-1 Hungary 1.Hungary 4 2 1 1 6- 4 524.04.77 Moskva Soviet Union 2-0 Greece 2.Soviet Union 4 2 0 2 5- 3 430.04.77 Budapest Hungary 2-1 Soviet Union 3.Greece 4 1 1 2 2- 6 310.05.77 Thessaloniki Greece 1-0 Soviet Union18.05.77 Tbilisi Soviet Union 2-0 Hungary28.05.77 Budapest Hungary 3-0 GreeceHungary required to play off with the last of South America's final group.29.10.77 Budapest Hungary 6-0 Bolivia30.11.77 La Paz Bolivia 2-3 HungarySouth America Group 10 [Brazil, Peru]1st roundSubgroup A20.02.77 Bogotá Colombia 0-0 Brazil 1.Brazil 4 2 2 0 8- 1 624.02.77 Bogotá Colombia 0-1 Paraguay 2.Paraguay 4 1 2 1 3- 3 406.03.77 Asunción Paraguay 1-1 Colombia 3.Colombia 4 0 2 2 1- 8 209.03.77 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 6-0 Colombia13.03.77 Asunción Paraguay 0-1 Brazil20.03.77 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 1-1 ParaguaySubgroup B09.02.77 Caracas Venezuela 1-1 Uruguay 1.Bolivia 4 3 1 0 8- 3 727.02.77 La Paz Bolivia 1-0 Uruguay 2.Uruguay 4 1 2 1 5- 4 406.03.77 Caracas Venezuela 1-3 Bolivia 3.Venezuela 4 0 1 3 2- 8 113.03.77 La Paz Bolivia 2-0 Venezuela17.03.77 Montevideo Uruguay 2-0 Venezuela27.03.77 Montevideo Uruguay 2-2 BoliviaSubgroup C20.02.77 Quito Ecuador 1-1 Peru 1.Peru 4 2 2 0 8- 2 627.02.77 Guayaquil Ecuador 0-1 Chile 2.Chile 4 2 1 1 5- 3 506.03.77 Santiago Chile 1-1 Peru 3.Ecuador 4 0 1 3 1- 9 112.03.77 Lima Peru 4-0 Ecuador20.03.77 Santiago Chile 3-0 Ecuador26.03.77 Lima Peru 2-0 Chile2nd round10.07.77 Cali Brazil 1-0 Peru 1.BRAZIL 2 2 0 0 9- 0 414.07.77 Cali Brazil 8-0 Bolivia 2.PERU 2 1 0 1 5- 1 217.07.77 Cali Peru 5-0 Bolivia 3.Bolivia 2 0 0 2 0-13 0Bolivia required to play off with winner of Europe Group 9 (see above).North and Central America Group 11 [Mexico]1st roundNorth American Zone24.09.76 Vancouver Canada 1-1 USA 1.Mexico 4 1 2 1 3- 1 403.10.76 Los Angeles USA 0-0 Mexico 2.Canada 4 1 2 1 2- 3 410.10.76 Vancouver Canada 1-0 Mexico USA 4 1 2 1 3- 4 415.10.76 Puebla Mexico 3-0 USA20.10.76 Seattle USA 2-0 Canada27.10.76 Toluca Mexico 0-0 CanadaPlayoff:22.12.76 Port-au-Prince Canada 3-0 USA Central American Zone04.04.76 Panama Panama 3-2 Costa Rica 1.Guatemala 6 3 2 1 15- 6 802.05.76 Panama Panama 1-1 El Salvador 2.El Salvador 6 2 3 1 10- 7 711.07.76 San José Costa Rica 3-0 Panama 3.Costa Rica 6 1 4 1 8- 6 601.08.76 San Salvador El Salvador 4-1 Panama 4.Panama 6 1 1 4 7-21 317.09.76 Panama Panama 2-4 Guatemala26.09.76 Cd. Guatemala Guatemala 7-0 Panama01.12.76 San Salvador El Salvador 1-1 Costa Rica05.12.76 San José Costa Rica 0-0 Guatemala08.12.76 Cd. Guatemala Guatemala 3-1 El Salvador12.12.76 Cd. Guatemala Guatemala 1-1 Costa Rica15.12.76 San José Costa Rica 1-1 El Salvador19.12.76 San Salvador El Salvador 2-0 GuatemalaCaribbean ZoneSubgroup A1st round04.07.76 Georgetown Guyana 2-0 Surinam29.08.76 Paramaribo Surinam 3-0 Guyana15.08.76 Bridgetown Barbados 2-1 Trinidad/Tobago31.08.76 Port of Spain Trinidad/Tobago 1-0 BarbadosPlayoff:14.09.76 Bridgetown Barbados 1-3 Trinidad/Tobago2nd round14.11.76 Paramaribo Surinam 1-1 Trinidad/Tobago28.11.76 Port of Spain Trinidad/Tobago 2-2 SurinamPlayoff:18.12.76 Cayenne Surinam 3-2 Trinidad/Tobago [aet]Subgroup BPreliminary round02.04.76 Santo Domingo Dominican Rep. 0-3 Haiti17.04.76 Port-au-Prince Haiti 3-0 Dominican Rep.1st round31.07.76 Oranjestad Dutch Antilles 1-2 Haiti14.08.76 Port-au-Prince Haiti 7-0 Dutch Antilles15.08.76 Kingston Jamaica 1-3 Cuba29.08.76 Havana Cuba 2-0 Jamaica2nd round28.11.76 Havana Cuba 1-1 Haiti11.12.76 Port-au-Prince Haiti 1-1 CubaPlayoff:29.12.76 Panama Haiti 2-0 Cuba2nd round08.10.77 Monterrey Guatemala 3-2 Surinam 1.MEXICO 5 5 0 0 20- 5 1008.10.77 Monterrey El Salvador 2-1 Canada 2.Haiti 5 3 1 1 6- 6 709.10.77 Cd. de Mexico Mexico 4-1 Haiti 3.El Salvador 5 2 1 2 8- 9 512.10.77 Cd. de Mexico Mexico 3-1 El Salvador 4.Canada 5 2 1 2 7- 8 512.10.77 Cd. de Mexico Canada 2-1 Surinam 5.Guatemala 5 1 1 3 8-10 312.10.77 Monterrey Haiti 2-1 Guatemala 6.Surinam 5 0 0 5 6-17 015.10.77 Monterrey Mexico 8-1 Surinam16.10.77 Cd. de Mexico Haiti 1-0 El Salvador16.10.77 Cd. de Mexico Canada 2-1 Guatemala19.10.77 Cd. de Mexico Mexico 2-1 Guatemala20.10.77 Monterrey El Salvador 3-2 Surinam20.10.77 Monterrey Canada 1-1 Haiti22.10.77 Monterrey Mexico 3-1 Canada23.10.77 Cd. de Mexico Haiti 1-0 Surinam23.10.77 Cd. de Mexico Guatemala 2-2 El SalvadorAfrica Group 12 [Tunisia]Preliminary round07.03.76 Freetown Sierra Leone 5-1 Niger21.03.76 Niamey Niger 2-1 Sierra Leone13.03.76 Ouagadougou Upper Volta 1-1 Mauretania28.03.76 Nouakchott Mauretania 0-2 Upper Volta1st round01.04.76 Alger Algeria 1-0 Libya16.04.76 Tripoli Libya 0-0 Algeria12.12.76 Casablanca Morocco 1-1 Tunisia09.01.77 Tunis Tunisia 1-1 Morocco [aet]Tunisia 4-2 on penalties.17.10.76 Lomé Togo 1-0 Senegal31.10.76 Dakar Senegal 1-1 Togo10.10.76 Accra Ghana 2-1 Guinea31.10.76 Conakry Guinea 2-1 Ghana16.01.77 Lomé Guinea 2-0 GhanaCentral Africa withdrew.Zaire had a walkover.16.10.76 Freetown Sierra Leone 0-0 Nigeria30.10.76 Lagos Nigeria 6-2 Sierra Leone17.10.76 Brazzaville Congo 2-2 Cameroon31.10.76 Yaoundé Cameroon 1-2 Congo (abandoned at 1-2; Congo proclaimed winner)04.09.76 Ouagadougou Upper Volta 1-1 Ivory Coast26.09.76 Abidjan Ivory Coast 2-0 Upper Volta29.10.76 Cairo Egypt 3-0 Ethiopia14.11.76 Addis Abeba Ethiopia 1-2 EgyptSudan withdrew.Kenya had a walkover.Tanzania withdrew.Uganda had a walkover.09.05.76 Lusaka Zambia 4-0 Malawi30.05.76 Blantyre Malawi 0-1 Zambia2nd round06.02.77 Tunis Tunisia 2-0 Algeria28.02.77 Alger Algeria 1-1 Tunisia13.02.77 Lomé Togo 0-2 Guinea27.02.77 Conakry Guinea 2-1 TogoZaire withdrew.Nigeria had a walkover.13.02.77 Bouaké Ivory Coast 3-2 Congo27.02.77 Brazzaville Congo 1-3 Ivory Coast06.02.77 Nairobi Kenya 0-0 Egypt27.02.77 Cairo Egypt 1-0 Kenya13.02.77 Kampala Uganda 1-0 Zambia27.02.77 Ndola Zambia 4-2 Uganda [aet]3rd round05.06.77 Conakry Guinea 1-0 Tunisia19.06.77 Tunis Tunisia 3-1 Guinea10.07.77 Lagos Nigeria 4-0 Ivory Coast25.07.77 Bouaké Ivory Coast 2-2 Nigeria15.07.77 Cairo Egypt 2-0 Zambia31.07.77 Lusaka Zambia 0-0 Egypt4th round25.09.77 Tunis Tunisia 0-0 Nigeria 1.TUNISIA 4 2 1 1 7- 4 508.10.77 Lagos Nigeria 4-0 Egypt 2.Egypt 4 2 0 2 7-11 421.10.77 Cairo Egypt 3-1 Nigeria 3.Nigeria 4 1 1 2 5- 4 312.11.77 Lagos Nigeria 0-1 Tunisia25.11.77 Cairo Egypt 3-2 Tunisia11.12.77 Tunis Tunisia 4-1 EgyptAsia and Oceania Group 13 [Iran]1st roundSubgroup 1Sri Lanka withdrew27.02.77 Singapore Singapore 2-0 Thailand 1.Hongkong 4 2 2 0 9- 5 628.02.77 Singapore Hongkong 4-1 Indonesia 2.Singapore 4 2 1 1 5- 6 501.03.77 Singapore Malaysia 6-4 Thailand 3.Malaysia 4 1 2 1 7- 6 402.03.77 Singapore Singapore 2-2 Hongkong 4.Indonesia 4 1 1 2 7- 7 303.03.77 Singapore Indonesia 0-0 Malaysia 5.Thailand 4 1 0 3 8-12 205.03.77 Singapore Hongkong 2-1 Thailand06.03.77 Singapore Singapore 1-0 Malaysia07.03.77 Singapore Thailand 3-2 Indonesia08.03.77 Singapore Hongkong 1-1 Malaysia09.03.77 Singapore Singapore 0-4 IndonesiaPlayoff first and second:12.03.77 Singapore Hongkong 1-0 SingaporeSubgroup 2North Korea withdrew.27.02.77 Ramat Gan Israel 0-0 South Korea 1.South Korea 4 2 2 0 4- 1 606.03.77 Ramat Gan Israel 2-0 Japan 2.Israel 4 2 1 1 5- 3 510.03.77 Ramat Gan Japan 0-2 Israel 3.Japan 4 0 1 3 0- 5 120.03.77 Seoul South Korea 3-1 Israel26.03.77 Tokyo Japan 0-0 South Korea03.04.77 Seoul South Korea 1-0 JapanSubgroup 3Iraq withdrew12.11.76 Jeddah Saudi Arabia 2-0 Syria 1.Iran 4 4 0 0 8- 0 826.11.76 Damascus Syria 2-1 Saudi Arabia 2.Saudi Arabia 4 1 0 3 3- 7 207.01.77 Riyadh Saudi Arabia 0-3 Iran 3.Syria 4 1 0 3 2- 6 228.01.77 Damascus Syria 0-1 Iran06.04.77 Iran - Syria (Syria withdrew; awarded 2-0)22.04.77 Shiraz Iran 2-0 Saudi ArabiaSubgroup 4United Arab Emirates withdrew.11.03.77 Doha Kuwait 2-0 Bahrain 1.Kuwait 4 4 0 0 10- 2 813.03.77 Doha Qatar 2-0 Bahrain 2.Bahrain 4 1 0 3 4- 6 215.03.77 Doha Qatar 0-2 Kuwait 3.Qatar 4 1 0 3 3- 9 217.03.77 Doha Kuwait 2-1 Bahrain19.03.77 Doha Qatar 0-3 Bahrain21.03.77 Doha Qatar 1-4 KuwaitSubgroup 513.03.77 Suva Australia 3-0 Taiwan 1.Australia 4 3 1 0 9- 3 716.03.77 Suva Taiwan 1-2 Australia 2.New Zealand 4 2 1 1 14- 4 520.03.77 Auckland New Zealand 6-0 Taiwan 3.Taiwan 4 0 0 4 1-17 023.03.77 Auckland Taiwan 0-6 New Zealand27.03.77 Sydney Australia 3-1 New Zealand30.03.77 Auckland New Zealand 1-1 Australia2nd round19.06.77 Hongkong Hongkong 0-2 Iran 1.IRAN 8 6 2 0 12- 3 1426.06.77 Hongkong Hongkong 0-1 South Korea 2.South Korea 8 3 4 1 12- 8 1003.07.77 Pusan South Korea 0-0 Iran 3.Kuwait 8 4 1 3 13- 8 910.07.77 Adelaide Australia 3-0 Hongkong 4.Australia 8 3 1 4 11- 8 714.08.77 Melbourne Australia 0-1 Iran 5.Hongkong 8 0 0 8 5-26 027.08.77 Sydney Australia 2-1 South Korea02.10.77 Hongkong Hongkong 1-3 Kuwait09.10.77 Seoul South Korea 1-0 Kuwait16.10.77 Sydney Australia 1-2 Kuwait23.10.77 Seoul South Korea 0-0 Australia28.10.77 Tehran Iran 1-0 Kuwait30.10.77 Hongkong Hongkong 2-5 Australia05.11.77 Kuwait Kuwait 2-2 South Korea11.11.77 Tehran Iran 2-2 South Korea12.11.77 Kuwait Kuwait 4-0 Hongkong18.11.77 Tehran Iran 3-0 Hongkong19.11.77 Kuwait Kuwait 1-0 Australia25.11.77 Tehran Iran 1-0 Australia03.12.77 Kuwait Kuwait 1-2 Iran04.12.77 Seoul South Korea 5-2 Hongkong
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