Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

The qualification for football tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Qualifications[]

The final tournament had 16 spots.

Automatic qualification was granted to  Japan as hosts, and  Yugoslavia as title holder. The others were allocated as follows:

• Europe: 5 places, contested by 21 teams.
• South America: 2 places, contested by 7 teams.
• North and Central America: 1 places, contested by 5 teams.
• Africa: 3 places, contested by 11 teams.
• Asia: 3 places, contested by 13 teams.

Europe[]

Group 1[]

Preliminary round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Albania	0–2	Bulgaria	0–1	0–1

First round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bulgaria	walkover	Luxembourg	–	–
Denmark	5–5	Romania	2–3	3–2

First round (tiebreaker)[]

in Turin, Italy

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Romania	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Denmark

Second round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bulgaria	1–3	Romania	0–1	1–2

Romania qualified for the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Group 2[]

First round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Hungary	6–2	Sweden	4–0	2–2
Switzerland	0–7	Spain	0–1	0–6

Second round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Spain	1–5	Hungary	1–2	0–3

Hungary qualified for the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Group 3[]

Preliminary round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
East Germany	4–2	West Germany	3–0	1–2

First round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Soviet Union	11–0	Finland	7–0	4–0
Netherlands	1–4	East Germany	0–1	1–3

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Second round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
East Germany	2–2	Soviet Union	1–1	1–1

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Second round (tiebreaker)[]

in Warsaw, Poland

Team 1	Score	Team 2
East Germany	4–1	Soviet Union

East Germany qualified for the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Group 4[]

First round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Turkey	3–9	Italy	2–2	1–7
Poland	bye		–	–

Second round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Italy	4–0	Poland	3–0	1–0

Italy qualified for the 1964 Summer Olympics. Later it was disqualified for using professional players. Poland were offered to take Italy's place but declined the offer.

Group 5[]

Preliminary round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Iceland	0–10	Great Britain	0–6	0–4

First round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Czechoslovakia	8–2	France	4–0	4–2
Great Britain	3–5	Greece	2–1	1–4

Second round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Czechoslovakia	walkover	Greece	–	–

Czechoslovakia qualified for the 1964 Summer Olympics. Greece disqualified by their own federation for using professional players.

South America[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Argentina (Q)	5	5	0	0	11	1	+10	10
2	Brazil	3	2	1	0	6	2	+4	5
3	Peru	4	2	1	1	6	2	+4	5
4	Colombia	6	1	2	3	6	10	−4	4
5	Uruguay	5	0	3	2	3	7	−4	3
6	Chile	4	1	1	2	2	6	−4	3
7	Ecuador	5	0	2	3	4	10	−6	2

North and Central America[]

Preliminary round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Curaçao	2–4	Dutch Guiana	2–1	0–3

Final round[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Mexico	3	3	0	0	13	2	+11	6
2	Dutch Guiana	3	2	0	1	5	5	0	4
3	United States	3	1	0	2	7	7	0	2
4	Panama	3	0	0	3	4	15	−11	0

Africa[]

Group 1[]

First round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Uganda	2–7	United Arab Republic	1–4	1–3
Sudan	w/o	Rhodesia	–	–

Second round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
United Arab Republic	7–4	Sudan	4–1	3–3

United Arab Republic qualified for the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Group 2[]

First round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
Liberia	4–6	Ghana	4–5	0–1
Dahomey	4–4 (t)	Tunisia	2–2	1–1	1–1

Second round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ghana	3–2	Tunisia	2–0	1–2

Ghana qualified for the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Group 3[]

First round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
Kenya	5–10	Ethiopia	4–3	1–7
Nigeria	4–4	Morocco	3–0	1–4	1–2

Second round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ethiopia	0–2	Morocco	0–1	0–1

Morocco qualified for the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Asia[]

Preliminary Round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
South Korea  (w/o)1	2–2	Republic of China	2–1	0–1
Malaysia	3–4	Thailand	1–1	2–3
Iran	4–2	Pakistan	4–1	0–1
Ceylon	3–12	India	3–5	0–7

¹Republic of China were disqualified after they objected to playing at a neutral venue for the play-off and refused to travel.

2–2 on aggregate.

As  Republic of China objected to playing at a neutral venue for the play-off and refused to travel, they were disqualified;  South Korea advanced to Round One

Thailand won 4–3 on aggregate

Iran won 4–2 on aggregate

India won 12–3 on aggregate

Round One[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
South Korea	w/o 1	Philippines	–	–
South Vietnam	2–1	Israel	0–1	2–0
Thailand	w/o 1	Indonesia	–	–
Myanmar	0–1	North Korea	0–0	0–1
Iraq	0–4	Iran	0–0	0–4
India	w/o 1	Lebanon	–	–

¹Philippines, Indonesia and Lebanon withdrew.

South Vietnam won 2–1 on aggregate

North Korea won 1–0 on aggregate

Iran won 4–0 on aggregate

Round Two[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
South Korea	5–2	South Vietnam	3–0	2–2
North Korea	7–0	Thailand	2–0	5–0
Iran	6–1	India	3–0	3–1

South Korea won 5–2 on aggregate, so South Korea qualified.

All games played in Burma, North Korea won 7–0 on aggregate, so North Korea qualified.

Iran won 6–1 on aggregate, so Iran qualified.

References[]

External links[]

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