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{{Infobox international football competition
| image =
| size =
| tourney_name = 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)
| year =
| alt =
| caption =Matchday programme cover for the Group 2 match [[England national team|England]] 5–0 [[Luxembourg national football team|Luxembourg]]
| host countries =
| dates =
| num_teams = 31
| confederations = 1
| matches =
| goals =
| attendance =
| top_scorer =
| prevseason = [[1974 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)|1974]]
| nextseason = [[1982 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)|1982]]
}}
{{Qualification for championships (UEFA)|expanded=FIFA}}
{{Qualification for championships (UEFA)|expanded=FIFA}}
Listed below are the dates and results for the '''[[1978 FIFA World Cup]] [[FIFA World Cup qualification|qualification]]''' rounds for the '''European zone ([[UEFA]])''' in [[association football]]. For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article ''[[1978 FIFA World Cup qualification]]''.
Listed below are the dates and results for the '''qualification to the [[1978 FIFA World Cup]]''' rounds for the '''European zone ([[UEFA]])''' in [[association football]]. For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article ''[[1978 FIFA World Cup qualification]]''.


A total of 32 UEFA teams entered the competition. The European zone was allocated 9.5 places (out of 16) in the final tournament. [[Germany national football team|West Germany]], the defending champions, qualified automatically, leaving 8.5 spots open for competition between 31 teams.
The European zone was allocated 9.5 places (out of 16) in the final tournament. [[Germany national football team|West Germany]], the defending champions, qualified automatically, leaving 8.5 spots open for competition between 31 teams. [[Albania national football team|Albania]] were the only UEFA team to not enter the competition.


The 31 teams were divided into 9 groups of 3 or 4 teams each (five groups with 3 teams and four groups with 4 teams). The teams would play against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would qualify, with the worst recorded group winner would advance to the UEFA / CONMEBOL Intercontinental Play-off.
The 31 teams were divided into 9 groups of 3 or 4 teams each (five groups with 3 teams and four groups with 4 teams). The teams would play against each other on a home-and-away basis. The winners of groups 1 to 8 would qualify, the winner of group 9 would advance to the UEFA / CONMEBOL Intercontinental Play-off.

==Draw==
The draw for the qualifying groups took place in [[Guatemala City]] on 20 November 1975. During the draw procedure, entrants were drawn into the 9 qualifying groups from the four pots of seeds.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!width=20%|Pot A
!width=20%|Pot B
!width=20%|Pot C
!width=20%|Pot D
|- valign="top"
|
{{fb|BUL|1971}}<br />
{{fb|GDR}}<br />
'''{{fb|ITA}}<br />'''
'''{{fb|NED}}<br />'''
'''{{fb|POL|1928}}<br />'''
'''{{fb|SCO}}<br />'''
'''{{fb|SWE}}<br />'''
{{fb|YUG}}<br />
{{fb|URS|1955}}<br />
|
'''{{fb|AUT}}<br />'''
{{fb|BEL}}<br />
{{fb|TCH}}<br />
{{fb|ENG}}<br />
'''{{fb|FRA|1974}}<br />'''
'''{{fb|HUN}}<br />'''
{{fb|POR}}<br />
'''{{fb|ESP|1977}}<br />'''
{{fb|SUI}}<br />
|
{{fb|DEN}}<br />
{{fb|FIN}}<br />
{{fb|GRE|old}}<br />
{{fb|IRL}}<br />
{{fb|NIR}}<br />
{{fb|NOR}}<br />
{{fb|ROU|1965}}<br />
{{fb|TUR}}<br />
{{fb|WAL}}<br />
|
{{fb|CYP|1960}}<br />
{{fb|ISL}}<br />
{{fb|LUX}}<br />
{{fb|MLT}}<br />
|}


==Summary==
==Summary==
Below is a table containing all nine qualifying groups. Teams that qualified and secured a place in the final tournament are highlighted in green, while teams who were eliminated are highlighted in red. The team that secured a place in the UEFA / CONMEBOL Intercontinental Play-off is highlighted in blue. Teams are ordered by final group position.
Below is a table containing all nine qualifying groups. Teams that qualified and secured a place in the final tournament are highlighted in green, while teams who were eliminated are highlighted in red. The team that secured a place in the UEFA / CONMEBOL Intercontinental Play-off is highlighted in blue. Teams are ordered by final group position.


{| class="wikitable" width="99.75%"
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" width="99.75%"
|- align="center"
|- align="center"
! width="11.11%" | [[#Group 1|Group 1]]
! width="11.11%" | [[#Group 1|Group 1]]
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! width="11.11%" | [[#Group 9|Group 9]]
! width="11.11%" | [[#Group 9|Group 9]]
|- style="background:#ccffcc; vertical-align:top; font-size:90%"
|- style="background:#ccffcc; vertical-align:top; font-size:90%"
| {{Fb|POL|1928}}
| style="vertical-align:top" |{{fb-big|POL|1928}}
| {{Fb|ITA}}
| style="vertical-align:top" |{{fb-big|ITA}}
| {{Fb|AUT}}
| style="vertical-align:top" |{{fb-big|AUT}}
| {{Fb|NED}}
| style="vertical-align:top" |{{fb-big|NED}}
| {{Fb|FRA}}
| style="vertical-align:top" |{{fb-big|FRA|1974}}
| {{Fb|SWE}}
| style="vertical-align:top" |{{fb-big|SWE}}
| {{Fb|SCO}}
| style="vertical-align:top" |{{fb-big|SCO}}
| {{Fb|ESP|1977}}
| style="vertical-align:top" |{{fb-big|ESP|1977}}
| bgcolor="#BBF3FF" | {{Fb|HUN}}
| bgcolor="#BBF3FF" style="vertical-align:top" | {{fb-big|HUN}}
|- style="background:#ffcccc; vertical-align:top; font-size:90%"
|- style="background:#ffcccc; vertical-align:top; font-size:90%"
| {{Fb|POR}}<br>{{Fb|DEN}}<br>{{Fb|CYP|1960}}
| style="vertical-align:top" | {{fb-big|POR}}<br>{{fb-big|DEN}}<br>{{fb-big|CYP|1960}}
| {{Fb|ENG}}<br>{{Fb|FIN}}<br>{{Fb|LUX}}
| style="vertical-align:top" | {{fb-big|ENG}}<br>{{fb-big|FIN}}<br>{{fb-big|LUX}}
| {{Fb|GDR}}<br>{{Fb|TUR}}<br>{{Fb|MLT}}
| style="vertical-align:top" | {{fb-big|GDR}}<br>{{fb-big|TUR}}<br>{{fb-big|MLT}}
| {{Fb|BEL}}<br>{{Fb|NIR}}<br>{{Fb|ISL}}
| style="vertical-align:top" | {{fb-big|BEL}}<br>{{fb-big|NIR}}<br>{{fb-big|ISL}}
| {{Fb|BUL|1971}}<br>{{Fb|IRL}}
| style="vertical-align:top" | {{fb-big|BUL|1971}}<br>{{fb-big|IRL}}
| {{Fb|NOR}}<br>{{Fb|SUI}}
| style="vertical-align:top" | {{fb-big|NOR}}<br>{{fb-big|SUI}}
| {{Fb|TCH}}<br>{{Fb|WAL}}
| style="vertical-align:top" | {{fb-big|TCH}}<br>{{fb-big|WAL}}
| {{Fb|ROU|1965}}<br>{{Fb|YUG}}
| style="vertical-align:top" | {{fb-big|ROU|1965}}<br>{{fb-big|YUG}}
| {{Fb|URS|1955}}<br>{{Fb|GRE|old}}
| style="vertical-align:top" | {{fb-big|URS|1955}}<br>{{fb-big|GRE|old}}
|}
|}


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*Teams highlighted in blue advanced to the [[1978 FIFA World Cup qualification#Intercontinental Play-Off|UEFA / CONMEBOL Intercontinental Play-off]].
*Teams highlighted in blue advanced to the [[1978 FIFA World Cup qualification#Intercontinental Play-Off|UEFA / CONMEBOL Intercontinental Play-off]].


==Group 1==
==Groups==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
! width="30" |Rank
! style="text-align:left;" width="165" |Team
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|Pts|Points}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|Pld|Matches played}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|W|Matches won}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|D|Matches drawn}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|L|Matches lost}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GF|Goals for}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GD|Goal difference}}
|- style="background:#ccffcc;"
|'''1'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|POL|1928}}
|'''11'''||6||5||1||0||17||4||+13
|-
|'''2'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|POR}}
|'''9'''||6||4||1||1||12||6||+6
|-
|'''3'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|DEN}}
|'''4'''||6||2||0||4||14||12||+2
|-
|'''4'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|CYP|1960}}
|'''0'''||6||0||0||6||3||24||&minus;21
|}


===Group 1===
{{Footballbox_collapsible
{{main|1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 1}}
|date = 23 May 1976
{{:1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 1}}
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|CYP|1960}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151224034928/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Cyprus/1978fwcCYP_v_DNK Report]
|score = 1 &ndash; 5
|team2 = {{Fb|DEN}}
|goals1 = [[Stefanis Michael|Michael]] {{Goal|10}}
|goals2 = [[Allan Simonsen|Simonsen]] {{Goal|14}}<br />[[Niels Tune-Hansen|Tune-Hansen]] {{Goal|19}}<br />[[Ole Rasmussen (footballer born 1952)|Rasmussen]] {{Goal|21}}<br />[[Lars Bastrup|Bastrup]] {{Goal|51||76}}
|location = [[Limassol]], [[Cyprus]]
|referee = Dudin ([[Bulgarian Football Union|Bulgaria]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 16 October 1976
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|POR}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20100716032739/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Portugal/1978fwcPOR_v_POL Report]
|score = 0 &ndash; 2
|team2 = {{Fb|POL|1928}}
|goals2 = [[Grzegorz Lato|Lato]] {{Goal|49||77}}
|location = [[Porto]], [[Portugal]]
|referee = [[Michel Kitabdjian|Kitabdjian]] ([[French Football Federation|France]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 27 October 1976
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|DEN}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20150927003614/http://www.scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Denmark/1978fwcDNK_v_CYP Report]
|score = 5 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|CYP|1960}}
|goals1 = [[Benny Nielsen (footballer)|B. Nielsen]] {{Goal|54}}<br />[[Henning Munk Jensen|H.M. Jensen]] {{Goal|60|pen.|64}}<br />[[Per Røntved|Røntved]] {{Goal|68|pen.}}<br />[[Jørgen Kristensen|Kristensen]] {{Goal|75}}
|location = [[Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]]
|referee = Coiling ([[Luxembourg Football Federation|Luxembourg]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 31 October 1976
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|POL|1928}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151215001930/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Poland/1978fwcPOL_v_CYP Report]
|score = 5 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|CYP|1960}}
|goals1 = [[Kazimierz Deyna|Deyna]] {{Goal|24|pen.|40}}<br />[[Andrzej Szarmach|Szarmach]] {{Goal|25}}<br />[[Zbigniew Boniek|Boniek]] {{Goal|58}}<br />[[Stanisław Terlecki|Terlecki]] {{Goal|76}}
|location = [[Warsaw]], [[Poland]]
|referee = Müncs ([[Hungarian Football Federation|Hungary]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 17 November 1976
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|POR}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20100716042752/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Portugal/1978fwcPOR_v_DNK Report]
|score = 1 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|DEN}}
|goals1 = [[Manuel Fernandes (footballer born 1951)|M. Fernandes]] {{Goal|69}}
|location = [[Lisbon]], [[Portugal]]
|referee = Aoussi ([[Algerian Football Federation|Algeria]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 5 December 1976
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|CYP|1960}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151001211114/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Cyprus/1978fwcCYP_v_POR Report]
|score = 1 &ndash; 2
|team2 = {{Fb|POR}}
|goals1 = [[Stavros Stylianou|Stylianou]] {{Goal|74|pen.}}
|goals2 = [[Fernando Chalana|Chalana]] {{Goal|36}}<br />[[Nené (footballer born 1949)|Nené]] {{Goal|76}}
|location = [[Limassol]], [[Cyprus]]
|referee = Ghita ([[Romanian Football Federation|Romania]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 1 May 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|DEN}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151002124806/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Denmark/1978fwcDNK_v_POL Report]
|score = 1 &ndash; 2
|team2 = {{Fb|POL|1928}}
|goals1 = [[Allan Simonsen|Simonsen]] {{Goal|50}}
|goals2 = [[Włodzimierz Lubański|Lubański]] {{Goal|7||55}}
|location = [[Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]]
|referee = Mattsson ([[Football Association of Finland|Finland]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 15 May 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|CYP|1960}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20150915092419/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Cyprus/1978fwcCYP_v_POL Report]
|score = 1 &ndash; 3
|team2 = {{Fb|POL|1928}}
|goals1 = [[Takis Antoniou|Antoniou]] {{Goal|13}}
|goals2 = [[Grzegorz Lato|Lato]] {{Goal|26}}<br />[[Stanisław Terlecki|Terlecki]] {{Goal|40}}<br />[[Włodzimierz Mazur|Mazur]] {{Goal|82}}
|location = [[Limassol]], [[Cyprus]]
|referee = [[Menachem Ashkenazi|Ashkenazi]] ([[Israel Football Association|Israel]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 21 September 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|POL|1928}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20150404123746/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Poland/1978fwcPOL_v_DNK Report]
|score = 4 &ndash; 1
|team2 = {{Fb|DEN}}
|goals1 = [[Bohdan Masztaler|Masztaler]] {{Goal|27}}<br />[[Grzegorz Lato|Lato]] {{Goal|38}}<br />[[Kazimierz Deyna|Deyna]] {{Goal|62}}<br />[[Andrzej Szarmach|Szarmach]] {{Goal|81}}
|goals2 = [[Kristen Nygaard (footballer)|Nygaard]] {{Goal|66|pen.}}
|location = [[Chorzów]], [[Poland]]
|referee = [[Nicolae Rainea|Rainea]] ([[Romanian Football Federation|Romania]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 9 October 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|DEN}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151214214547/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Denmark/1978fwcDNK_v_POR Report]
|score = 2 &ndash; 4
|team2 = {{Fb|POR}}
|goals1 = [[Per Røntved|Røntved]] {{Goal|45|pen.}}<br />[[Allan Hansen|A. Hansen]] {{Goal|88}}
|goals2 = [[Rui Jordão|Jordão]] {{Goal|15}}<br />[[Nené (footballer born 1949)|Nené]] {{Goal|35}}<br />[[Manuel Fernandes (footballer born 1951)|M. Fernandes]] {{Goal|61}}<br />[[Octávio Machado|Machado]] {{Goal|79}}
|location = [[Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]]
|referee = Azim Zade ([[Football Federation of the Soviet Union|Soviet Union]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 29 October 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|POL|1928}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151001190946/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Poland/1978fwcPOL_v_POR Report]
|score = 1 &ndash; 1
|team2 = {{Fb|POR}}
|goals1 = [[Kazimierz Deyna|Deyna]] {{Goal|36}}
|goals2 = [[Manuel Fernandes (footballer born 1951)|M. Fernandes]] {{Goal|61}}
|location = [[Chorzów]], [[Poland]]
|referee = [[Walter Eschweiler|Eschweiler]] ([[German Football Association|West Germany]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 16 November 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|POR}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20100716032734/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Portugal/1978fwcPOR_v_CYP Report]
|score = 4 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|CYP|1960}}
|goals1 = [[Seninho]] {{Goal|11}}<br />[[Fernando Chalana|Chalana]] {{Goal|35}}<br />[[Francisco Vital|Vital]] {{Goal|58}}<br />[[Manuel Fernandes (footballer born 1951)|M. Fernandes]] {{Goal|71}}
|location = [[Faro, Portugal|Faro]], [[Portugal]]
|referee = Jursa ([[Football Association of the Czech Republic|Czechoslovakia]])
|nobars = 1
}}


===Group 2===
'''Poland''' qualified.
{{main|1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 2}}
{{:1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 2}}


==Group 2==
===Group 3===
{{main|1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 3}}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
{{:1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 3}}
|-
! width="30" |Rank
! style="text-align:left;" width="165" |Team
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|Pts|Points}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|Pld|Matches played}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|W|Matches won}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|D|Matches drawn}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|L|Matches lost}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GF|Goals for}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GD|Goal difference}}
|- style="background:#ccffcc;"
|'''1'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{fb|ITA}}
|'''10'''||6||5||0||1||18||4||+14
|-
|'''2'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{fb|ENG}}
|'''10'''||6||5||0||1||15||4||+11
|-
|'''3'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{fb|FIN}}
|'''4'''||6||2||0||4||11||16||&minus;5
|-
|'''4'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{fb|LUX}}
|'''0'''||6||0||0||6||2||22||&minus;20
|}


===Group 4===
{{footballbox_collapsible
{{main|1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 4}}
|date = 13 June 1976
{{:1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 4}}
|team1 = {{fb-rt|FIN}}
|score = 1 &ndash; 4
|report = [http://www.englandstats.com/matchreport.php?mid=503 Report]
|team2 = {{fb|ENG}}
|goals1 = [[Matti Paatelainen|Paatelainen]] {{goal|27}}
|goals2 = [[Stuart Pearson|Pearson]] {{goal|14}}<br />[[Kevin Keegan|Keegan]] {{goal|30||60}}<br />[[Mick Channon|Channon]] {{goal|56}}
|location = [[Helsinki]], [[Finland]]
|stadium = [[Helsinki Olympic Stadium]]
|attendance = 24,000
|referee = [[Alfred Delcourt]] ([[Royal Belgian Football Association|Belgium]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 22 September 1976
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|FIN}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20150913001359/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Finland/1978fwcFIN_v_LUX Report]
|score = 7 &ndash; 1
|team2 = {{Fb|LUX}}
|goals1 = [[Aki Heiskanen|A. Heiskanen]] {{Goal|15}}<br />[[Esa Heiskanen|E. Heiskanen]] {{Goal|22||27}}<br />[[Olavi Rissanen|Rissanen]] {{Goal|51||61}}<br />[[Teppo Heikkinen|Heikkinen]] {{Goal|54}}<br />[[Ari Mäkynen|Mäkynen]] {{Goal|82|pen.}}
|goals2 = [[Gilbert Zender|G. Zender]] {{Goal|52}}
|location = [[Helsinki]], [[Finland]]
|referee = Thime ([[Football Association of Norway|Norway]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 13 October 1976
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|ENG}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20150406004157/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/England/1978fwcENG_v_FIN Report]
|score = 2 &ndash; 1
|team2 = {{Fb|FIN}}
|goals1 = [[Dennis Tueart|Tueart]] {{Goal|4}}<br />[[Joe Royle|Royle]] {{Goal|51}}
|goals2 = [[Jyrki Nieminen|Nieminen]] {{Goal|48}}
|location = [[London]], [[England]]
|referee = [[Ulf Eriksson (referee)|Eriksson]] ([[Swedish Football Association|Sweden]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 16 October 1976
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|LUX}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151001211213/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Luxembourg/1978fwcLUX_v_ITA Report]
|score = 1 &ndash; 4
|team2 = {{Fb|ITA}}
|goals1 = [[Nico Braun|Braun]] {{Goal|86}}
|goals2 = [[Francesco Graziani|Graziani]] {{Goal|24}}<br />[[Roberto Bettega|Bettega]] {{Goal|44||81}}<br />[[Giancarlo Antognoni|Antognoni]] {{Goal|50}}
|location = [[Luxembourg (city)|Luxembourg]], [[Luxembourg]]
|referee = Dörflinger ([[Swiss Football Association|Switzerland]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 17 November 1976
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|ITA}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20160126232417/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Italy/1978fwcITA_v_ENG Report]
|score = 2 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|ENG}}
|goals1 = [[Giancarlo Antognoni|Antognoni]] {{Goal|36}}<br />[[Roberto Bettega|Bettega]] {{Goal|77}}
|location = [[Rome]], [[Italy]]
|referee = [[Abraham Klein (referee)|Klein]] ([[Israel Football Association|Israel]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 30 March 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|ENG}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151002124707/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/England/1978fwcENG_v_LUX Report]
|score = 5 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|LUX}}
|goals1 = [[Kevin Keegan|Keegan]] {{Goal|9}}<br />[[Trevor Francis|T. Francis]] {{Goal|58}}<br />[[Ray Kennedy|Kennedy]] {{Goal|65}}<br />[[Mick Channon|Channon]] {{Goal|68||79}}
|location = [[London]], [[England]]
|referee = Bonett ([[Malta Football Association|Malta]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 26 May 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|LUX}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151001195454/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Luxembourg/1978fwcLUX_v_FIN Report]
|score = 0 &ndash; 1
|team2 = {{Fb|FIN}}
|goals2 = [[Aki Heiskanen|A. Heiskanen]] {{Goal|57}}
|location = [[Luxembourg (city)|Luxembourg]], [[Luxembourg]]
|referee = Amundsen ([[Danish Football Association|Denmark]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 8 June 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|FIN}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20150927003536/http://www.scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Finland/1978fwcFIN_v_ITA Report]
|score = 0 &ndash; 3
|team2 = {{Fb|ITA}}
|goals2 = [[Claudio Gentile|Gentile]] {{Goal|8}}<br />[[Roberto Bettega|Bettega]] {{Goal|56}}<br />[[Romeo Benetti|Benetti]] {{Goal|81}}
|location = [[Helsinki]], [[Finland]]
|referee = Helies ([[French Football Federation|France]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 12 October 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|LUX}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20150407141622/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Luxembourg/1978fwcLUX_v_ENG Report]
|score = 0 &ndash; 2
|team2 = {{Fb|ENG}}
|goals2 = [[Ray Kennedy|Kennedy]] {{Goal|31}}<br />[[Paul Mariner|Mariner]] {{Goal|90}}
|location = [[Luxembourg (city)|Luxembourg]], [[Luxembourg]]
|referee = Jarguz ([[Polish Football Association|Poland]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 15 October 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|ITA}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151002125826/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Italy/1978fwcITA_v_FIN Report]
|score = 6 &ndash; 1
|team2 = {{Fb|FIN}}
|goals1 = [[Roberto Bettega|Bettega]] {{Goal|29||38||59||62}}<br />[[Francesco Graziani|Graziani]] {{Goal|45}}<br />[[Renato Zaccarelli|Zaccarelli]] {{Goal|71}}
|goals2 = [[Kai Haaskivi|Haaskivi]] {{Goal|67}}
|location = [[Turin]], [[Italy]]
|referee = Dudin ([[Bulgarian Football Union|Bulgaria]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 16 November 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|ENG}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151001201629/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/England/1978fwcENG_v_ITA Report]
|score = 2 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|ITA}}
|goals1 = [[Kevin Keegan|Keegan]] {{Goal|11}}<br />[[Trevor Brooking|Brooking]] {{Goal|80}}
|location = [[London]], [[England]]
|referee = [[Károly Palotai|Palotai]] ([[Hungarian Football Federation|Hungary]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 3 December 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|ITA}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20150406011555/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Italy/1978fwcITA_v_LUX Report]
|score = 3 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|LUX}}
|goals1 = [[Roberto Bettega|Bettega]] {{Goal|4}}<br />[[Francesco Graziani|Graziani]] {{Goal|11}}<br />[[Franco Causio|Causio]] {{Goal|56}}
|location = [[Rome]], [[Italy]]
|referee = Maksimović ([[Football Association of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]])
|nobars = 1
}}


===Group 5===
'''Italy''' qualified.
{{main|1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 5}}
{{:1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 5}}


==Group 3==
===Group 6===
{{main|1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 6}}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
{{:1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 6}}
|-
! width="30" |Rank
! style="text-align:left;" width="165" |Team
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|Pts|Points}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|Pld|Matches played}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|W|Matches won}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|D|Matches drawn}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|L|Matches lost}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GF|Goals for}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GD|Goal difference}}
|- style="background:#ccffcc;"
|'''1'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|AUT}}
|'''10'''||6||4||2||0||14||2||+12
|-
|'''2'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|GDR}}
|'''9'''||6||3||3||0||15||4||+11
|-
|'''3'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|TUR}}
|'''5'''||6||2||1||3||9||5||+4
|-
|'''4'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|MLT}}
|'''0'''||6||0||0||6||0||27||&minus;27
|}


===Group 7===
{{Footballbox_collapsible
{{main|1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 7}}
|date = 31 October 1976
{{:1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 7}}
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|TUR}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20160126214242/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Turkey/1978fwcTUR_v_MLT Report]
|score = 4 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|MLT}}
|goals1 = [[Mehmet Özgül|Mehmet]] {{Goal|22}}<br />[[Cemil Turan|Cemil]] {{Goal|54||57||75}}
|location = [[Izmir]], [[Turkey]]
|referee = Jursa ([[Football Association of the Czech Republic|Czechoslovakia]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 17 November 1976
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|GDR}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151001195316/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/East_Germany/1978fwcDDR_v_TUR Report]
|score = 1 &ndash; 1
|team2 = {{Fb|TUR}}
|goals1 = [[Peter Kotte|Kotte]] {{Goal|3|pen.}}
|goals2 = [[Cemil Turan|Cemil]] {{Goal|31|pen.}}
|location = [[Dresden]], [[East Germany]]
|referee = [[Pat Partridge|Partridge]] ([[The Football Association|England]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 5 December 1976
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|MLT}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151002130353/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Malta/1978fwcMLT_v_AUT Report]
|score = 0 &ndash; 1
|team2 = {{Fb|AUT}}
|goals2 = [[Hans Krankl|Krankl]] {{Goal|57}}
|location = [[Valletta]], [[Malta]]
|referee = Seouidi ([[Tunisian Football Federation|Tunisia]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 2 April 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|MLT}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151224054213/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Malta/1978fwcMLT_v_DDR Report]
|score = 0 &ndash; 1
|team2 = {{Fb|GDR}}
|goals2 = [[Joachim Streich|Streich]] {{Goal|55}}
|location = [[Valletta]], [[Malta]]
|referee = Delia Bruna ([[Swiss Football Association|Switzerland]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 17 April 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|AUT}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151001192710/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Austria/1978fwcAUT_v_TUR Report]
|score = 1 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|TUR}}
|goals1 = [[Walter Schachner|Schachner]] {{Goal|43}}
|location = [[Vienna]], [[Austria]]
|referee = Yarkov ([[Football Federation of the Soviet Union|Soviet Union]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 30 April 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|AUT}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20150407134125/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Austria/1978fwcAUT_v_MLT Report]
|score = 9 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|MLT}}
|goals1 = [[Hans Krankl|Krankl]] {{Goal|9||12||18||20||53||66}}<br />[[Josef Stering|Stering]] {{Goal|30||69}}<br />[[Hans Pirkner|Pirkner]] {{Goal|65}}
|location = [[Salzburg]], [[Austria]]
|referee = Jarguz ([[Polish Football Association|Poland]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 24 September 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|AUT}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151002131203/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Austria/1978fwcAUT_v_DDR Report]
|score = 1 &ndash; 1
|team2 = {{Fb|GDR}}
|goals1 = [[Wilhelm Kreuz|Kreuz]] {{Goal|9}}
|goals2 = [[Martin Hoffmann (footballer)|Hoffmann]] {{Goal|40}}
|location = [[Vienna]], [[Austria]]
|referee = Reynolds ([[Football Association of Wales|Wales]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 12 October 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|GDR}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151224040811/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/East_Germany/1978fwcDDR_v_AUT Report]
|score = 1 &ndash; 1
|team2 = {{Fb|AUT}}
|goals1 = [[Wolfram Löwe|Löwe]] {{Goal|50}}
|goals2 = [[Roland Hattenberger|Hattenberger]] {{Goal|43}}
|location = [[Leipzig]], [[East Germany]]
|referee = Foote ([[Scottish Football Association|Scotland]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 29 October 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|GDR}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151224040826/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/East_Germany/1978fwcDDR_v_MLT Report]
|score = 9 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|MLT}}
|goals1 = [[Martin Hoffmann (footballer)|Hoffmann]] {{Goal|2||44||84}}<br />[[Hartmut Schade|Schade]] {{Goal|38}}<br />[[Jürgen Sparwasser|Sparwasser]] {{Goal|52}}<br />[[Gerd Weber|Weber]] {{Goal|56}}<br />[[Joachim Streich|Streich]] {{Goal|63|pen.|79||82}}
|location = [[Babelsberg]], [[East Germany]]
|referee = [[Jafar Namdar|Namdar]] ([[Islamic Republic of Iran Football Federation|Iran]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 30 October 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|TUR}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151001032749/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Turkey/1978fwcTUR_v_AUT Report]
|score = 0 &ndash; 1
|team2 = {{Fb|AUT}}
|goals2 = [[Herbert Prohaska|Prohaska]] {{Goal|72}}
|location = [[Izmir]], [[Turkey]]
|referee = [[John Gordon (referee)|Gordon]] ([[Scottish Football Association|Scotland]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 16 November 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|TUR}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151001032941/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Turkey/1978fwcTUR_v_DDR Report]
|score = 1 &ndash; 2
|team2 = {{Fb|GDR}}
|goals1 = [[Volkan Yayim|Volkan]] {{Goal|81}}
|goals2 = [[Hartmut Schade|Schade]] {{Goal|30}}<br />[[Martin Hoffmann (footballer)|Hoffmann]] {{Goal|62}}
|location = [[Izmir]], [[Turkey]]
|referee = Michelotti ([[Italian Football Federation|Italy]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 27 November 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|MLT}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151215000414/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Malta/1978fwcMLT_v_TUR Report]
|score = 0 &ndash; 3
|team2 = {{Fb|TUR}}
|goals2 = [[Sedat Özden|Sedat]] {{Goal|21||48}}<br />[[Cemil Turan|Cemil]] {{Goal|36}}
|location = [[Gżira]], [[Malta]]
|referee = Larache ([[Royal Moroccan Football Federation|Morocco]])
|nobars = 1
}}


===Group 8===
'''Austria''' qualified.
{{main|1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 8}}
{{:1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 8}}


==Group 4==
===Group 9===
{{main|1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 9}}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
{{:1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 9}}
|-
! width="30" |Rank
! style="text-align:left;" width="165" |Team
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|Pts|Points}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|Pld|Matches played}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|W|Matches won}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|D|Matches drawn}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|L|Matches lost}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GF|Goals for}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GD|Goal difference}}
|- style="background:#ccffcc;"
|'''1'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|NED}}
|'''11'''||6||5||1||0||11||3||+8
|-
|'''2'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|BEL}}
|'''6'''||6||3||0||3||7||6||+1
|-
|'''3'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|NIR}}
|'''5'''||6||2||1||3||7||6||+1
|-
|'''4'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|ISL}}
|'''2'''||6||1||0||5||2||12||&minus;10
|}

{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 5 September 1976
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|ISL}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151224051222/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Iceland/1978fwcISL_v_BEL Report]
|score = 0 &ndash; 1
|team2 = {{Fb|BEL}}
|goals2 = [[François Van Der Elst|Van Der Elst]] {{Goal|73}}
|location = [[Reykjavík]], [[Iceland]]
|referee = Carpenter ([[Football Association of Ireland|Republic&nbsp;of&nbsp;Ireland]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 8 September 1976
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|ISL}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151001210920/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Iceland/1978fwcISL_v_NED Report]
|score = 0 &ndash; 1
|team2 = {{Fb|NED}}
|goals2 = [[Ruud Geels|Geels]] {{Goal|42}}
|location = [[Reykjavík]], [[Iceland]]
|referee = Mulhall ([[Football Association of Ireland|Republic&nbsp;of&nbsp;Ireland]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 13 October 1976
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|NED}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20100717135020/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/The_Netherlands/1978fwcNED_v_NIR Report]
|score = 2 &ndash; 2
|team2 = {{Fb|NIR}}
|goals1 = [[Ruud Krol|Krol]] {{Goal|64}}<br />[[Johan Cruijff|Cruijff]] {{Goal|66}}
|goals2 = [[Chris McGrath (footballer)|McGrath]] {{Goal|4}}<br />[[Derek Spence|Spence]] {{Goal|88}}
|location = [[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
|referee = Martinez ([[Royal Spanish Football Federation|Spain]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 10 November 1976
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|BEL}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151001195637/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Belgium/1978fwcBEL_v_NIR Report]
|score = 2 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|NIR}}
|goals1 = [[Roger Van Gool|Van Gool]] {{Goal|29}}<br />[[Raoul Lambert|Lambert]] {{Goal|52}}
|location = [[Liège|Liege]], [[Belgium]]
|referee = [[Adolf Prokop|Prokop]] ([[German Football Association of the GDR|East Germany]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 26 March 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|BEL}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20160126232947/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Belgium/1978fwcBEL_v_NED Report]
|score = 0 &ndash; 2
|team2 = {{Fb|NED}}
|goals2 = [[Johnny Rep|Rep]] {{Goal|19}}<br />[[Johan Cruijff|Cruijff]] {{Goal|65}}
|location = [[Antwerp]], [[Belgium]]
|referee = [[Sergio Gonella|Gonella]] ([[Italian Football Federation|Italy]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 11 June 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|ISL}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151001033439/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Iceland/1978fwcISL_v_NIR Report]
|score = 1 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|NIR}}
|goals1 = [[Ingi Björn Albertsson|Albertsson]] {{Goal|33}}
|location = [[Reykjavík]], [[Iceland]]
|referee = [[Rudi Glöckner|Glöckner]] ([[German Football Association of the GDR|East Germany]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 31 August 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|NED}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20100716021400/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/The_Netherlands/1978fwcNED_v_ISL Report]
|score = 4 &ndash; 1
|team2 = {{Fb|ISL}}
|goals1 = [[Willem van Hanegem|Van Hanegem]] {{Goal|15}}<br />[[Ruud Geels|Geels]] {{Goal|18||89|pen.}}<br />[[Johnny Rep|Rep]] {{Goal|35}}
|goals2 = [[Ásgeir Sigurvinsson|Sigurvinsson]] {{Goal|68}}
|location = [[Nijmegen]], [[Netherlands]]
|referee = Hirviniemi ([[Football Association of Finland|Finland]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 3 September 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|BEL}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151001033107/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Belgium/1978fwcBEL_v_ISL Report]
|score = 4 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|ISL}}
|goals1 = [[Gilbert Van Binst|Van Binst]] {{Goal|15}}<br />[[Maurice Martens|Martens]] {{Goal|20}}<br />[[Paul Courant|Courant]] {{Goal|60}}<br />[[Raoul Lambert|Lambert]] {{Goal|65}}
|location = [[Brussels]], [[Belgium]]
|referee = Thime ([[Football Association of Norway|Norway]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 21 September 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|NIR}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20150915083718/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Northern_Ireland/1978fwcNIR_v_ISL Report]
|score = 2 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|ISL}}
|goals1 = [[Chris McGrath (footballer)|McGrath]] {{Goal|67}}<br />[[Sammy McIlroy|McIlroy]] {{Goal|76}}
|location = [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]]
|referee = [[Henning Lund-Sørensen|Lund-Sørensen]] ([[Danish Football Association|Denmark]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 12 October 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|NIR}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151001204857/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Northern_Ireland/1978fwcNIR_v_NED Report]
|score = 0 &ndash; 1
|team2 = {{Fb|NED}}
|goals2 = [[Willy van de Kerkhof|W. van de Kerkhof]] {{Goal|76}}
|location = [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]]
|referee = [[António Garrido (referee)|Garrido]] ([[Portuguese Football Federation|Portugal]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 26 October 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|NED}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20100716030528/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/The_Netherlands/1978fwcNED_v_BEL Report]
|score = 1 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|BEL}}
|goals1 = [[René van de Kerkhof|R. van de Kerkhof]] {{Goal|4}}
|location = [[Amsterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
|referee = [[Pat Partridge|Partridge]] ([[The Football Association|England]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 16 November 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|NIR}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151224055303/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Northern_Ireland/1978fwcNIR_v_BEL Report]
|score = 3 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|BEL}}
|goals1 = [[Gerry Armstrong (footballer)|Armstrong]] {{Goal|42||74}}<br />[[Chris McGrath (footballer)|McGrath]] {{Goal|58}}
|location = [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]]
|referee = Konrath ([[French Football Federation|France]])
|nobars = 1
}}

'''Netherlands''' qualified.

==Group 5==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
! width="30" |Rank
! style="text-align:left;" width="165" |Team
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|Pts|Points}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|Pld|Matches played}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|W|Matches won}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|D|Matches drawn}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|L|Matches lost}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GF|Goals for}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GD|Goal difference}}
|- style="background:#ccffcc;"
|'''1'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|FRA}}
|'''5'''||4||2||1||1||7||4||+3
|-
|'''2'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|BUL|1971}}
|'''4'''||4||1||2||1||5||6||&minus;1
|-
|'''3'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|IRL}}
|'''3'''||4||1||1||2||2||4||&minus;2
|-
|'''—'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|ALB|1946}}
| colspan=8 | ''Withdrew''
|}

{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 9 October 1976
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|BUL|1971}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20160126193045/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Bulgaria/1978fwcBGR_v_FRA Report]
|score = 2 &ndash; 2
|team2 = {{Fb|FRA}}
|goals1 = [[Hristo Bonev|Bonev]] {{Goal|45}}<br />[[Pavel Panov|Panov]] {{Goal|68}}
|goals2 = [[Michel Platini|Platini]] {{Goal|37}}<br />[[Bernard Lacombe|Lacombe]] {{Goal|40}}
|location = [[Sofia]], [[Bulgaria]]
|referee = Foote ([[Scottish Football Association|Scotland]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 17 November 1976
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|FRA}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20150406015520/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/France/1978fwcFRA_v_IRL Report]
|score = 2 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|IRL}}
|goals1 = [[Michel Platini|Platini]] {{Goal|47}}<br />[[Dominique Bathenay|Bathenay]] {{Goal|88}}
|location = [[Paris]], [[France]]
|referee = Maksimovic ([[Football Association of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 30 March 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|IRL}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20150915093050/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Republic_of_Ireland/1978fwcIRL_v_FRA Report]
|score = 1 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|FRA}}
|goals1 = [[Liam Brady|Brady]] {{Goal|11}}
|location = [[Dublin]], [[Republic of Ireland]]
|referee = [[Erich Linemayr|Linemayr]] ([[Austrian Football Association|Austria]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 1 June 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|BUL|1971}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20150912233156/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Bulgaria/1978fwcBGR_v_IRL Report]
|score = 2 &ndash; 1
|team2 = {{Fb|IRL}}
|goals1 = [[Pavel Panov|Panov]] {{Goal|14}}<br />[[Andrey Zhelyazkov|Zhelyazkov]] {{Goal|76}}
|goals2 = [[Don Givens|Givens]] {{Goal|47}}
|location = [[Sofia]], [[Bulgaria]]
|referee = Zlatanos ([[Hellenic Football Federation|Greece]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 12 October 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|IRL}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151001032913/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Republic_of_Ireland/1978fwcIRL_v_BGR Report]
|score = 0 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|BUL|1971}}
|location = [[Dublin]], [[Republic of Ireland]]
|referee = [[Sergio Gonella|Gonella]] ([[Italian Football Federation|Italy]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 16 November 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|FRA}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151224044508/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/France/1978fwcFRA_v_BGR Report]
|score = 3 &ndash; 1
|team2 = {{Fb|BUL|1971}}
|goals1 = [[Dominique Rocheteau|Rocheteau]] {{Goal|38}}<br />[[Michel Platini|Platini]] {{Goal|63}}<br />[[Christian Dalger|Dalger]] {{Goal|89}}
|goals2 = [[Chavdar Tsvetkov|Tsvetkov]] {{Goal|85}}
|location = [[Paris]], [[France]]
|referee = [[Charles Corver|Corver]] ([[Royal Dutch Football Association|Netherlands]])
|nobars = 1
}}

'''France''' qualified.

==Group 6==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
! width="30" |Rank
! style="text-align:left;" width="165" |Team
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|Pts|Points}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|Pld|Matches played}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|W|Matches won}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|D|Matches drawn}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|L|Matches lost}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GF|Goals for}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GD|Goal difference}}
|- style="background:#ccffcc;"
|'''1'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|SWE}}
|'''6'''||4||3||0||1||7||4||+3
|-
|'''2'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|NOR}}
|'''4'''||4||2||0||2||3||4||&minus;1
|-
|'''3'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|SUI}}
|'''2'''||4||1||0||3||3||5||&minus;2
|}

{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 16 June 1976
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|SWE}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20100516153107/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Sweden/1978fwcSWE_v_NOR Report]
|score = 2 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|NOR}}
|goals1 = [[Björn Andersson|B. Andersson]] {{Goal|27}}<br />[[Thomas Sjöberg|Sjöberg]] {{Goal|42}}
|location = [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]]
|referee = [[Charles Corver|Corver]] ([[Royal Dutch Football Association|Netherlands]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 8 September 1976
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|NOR}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20150924073620/http://www.scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Norway/1978fwcNOR_v_SUI Report]
|score = 1 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|SUI}}
|goals1 = [[Tom Lund|Lund]] {{Goal|75}}
|location = [[Oslo]], [[Norway]]
|referee = Rion ([[Royal Belgian Football Association|Belgium]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 9 October 1976
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|SUI}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20100611154021/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Switzerland/1978fwcSWE_v_SUI Report]
|score = 1 &ndash; 2
|team2 = {{Fb|SWE}}
|goals1 = [[Serge Trinchero|Trinchero]] {{Goal|40|pen.}}
|goals2 = [[Bo Börjesson|Börjesson]] {{Goal|29}}<br />[[Thomas Sjöberg|Sjöberg]] {{Goal|73}}
|location = [[Basel]], [[Switzerland]]
|referee = Ok ([[Turkish Football Federation|Turkey]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 8 June 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|SWE}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20100516153102/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Sweden/1978fwcSUI_v_SWE Report]
|score = 2 &ndash; 1
|team2 = {{Fb|SUI}}
|goals1 = [[Bo Börjesson|Börjesson]] {{Goal|69}}<br />[[Thomas Sjöberg|Sjöberg]] {{Goal|77}}
|goals2 = [[Peter Risi|Risi]] {{Goal|80}}
|location = [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]]
|referee = Wright ([[Football Association of Ireland|Republic&nbsp;of&nbsp;Ireland]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 7 September 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|NOR}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20150915092117/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Norway/1978fwcNOR_v_SWE Report]
|score = 2 &ndash; 1
|team2 = {{Fb|SWE}}
|goals1 = [[Rune Ottesen|Ottesen]] {{Goal|34}}<br />[[Odd Iversen|Iversen]] {{Goal|66}}
|goals2 = [[Thomas Sjöberg|Sjöberg]] {{Goal|53}}
|location = [[Oslo]], [[Norway]]
|referee = [[Adolf Prokop|Prokop]] ([[German Football Association of the GDR|East Germany]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 30 October 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|SUI}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20100611152700/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Switzerland/1978fwcSUI_v_NOR Report]
|score = 1 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|NOR}}
|goals1 = [[Claudio Sulser|Sulser]] {{Goal|29}}
|location = [[Bern]], [[Switzerland]]
|referee = Lipatov ([[Football Federation of the Soviet Union|Soviet Union]])
|nobars = 1
}}

'''Sweden''' qualified.

==Group 7==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
! width="30" |Rank
! style="text-align:left;" width="165" |Team
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|Pts|Points}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|Pld|Matches played}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|W|Matches won}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|D|Matches drawn}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|L|Matches lost}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GF|Goals for}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GD|Goal difference}}
|- style="background:#ccffcc;"
|'''1'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|SCO}}
|'''6'''||4||3||0||1||6||3||+3
|-
|'''2'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|TCH}}
|'''4'''||4||2||0||2||4||6||&minus;2
|-
|'''3'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|WAL}}
|'''2'''||4||1||0||3||3||4||&minus;1
|}

{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 13 October 1976
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|TCH}}
|report = [http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Czech_Republic/1978fwcCZE_v_SCO Report]
|score = 2 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|SCO}}
|goals1 = [[Antonín Panenka|Panenka]] {{Goal|48}}<br />[[Ladislav Petráš|Petráš]] {{Goal|50}}
|location = [[Prague]], [[Czechoslovakia]]
|stadium = [[Sparta Stadion]]
|referee = Michelotti ([[Italian Football Federation|Italy]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 17 November 1976
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|SCO}}
|report = [http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Scotland/1978fwcSCO_v_WAL Report]
|score = 1 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|WAL}}
|goals1 = [[Ian Evans (footballer)|Evans]] {{Goal|15|o.g.}}
|location = [[Glasgow]], [[Scotland]]
|stadium = [[Hampden Park]]
|referee = [[Ferdinand Biwersi|Biwersi]] ([[German Football Association|West Germany]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 30 March 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|WAL}}
|report = [http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Wales/1978fwcWAL_v_CZE Report]
|score = 3 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|TCH}}
|goals1 = [[Leighton James|L. James]] {{Goal|27||65}}<br />[[Nick Deacy|Deacy]] {{Goal|65}}
|location = [[Wrexham]], [[Wales]]
|referee = [[António Garrido (referee)|Garrido]] ([[Portuguese Football Federation|Portugal]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 21 September 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|SCO}}
|report = [http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Scotland/1978fwcSCO_v_CZE Report]
|score = 3 &ndash; 1
|team2 = {{Fb|TCH}}
|goals1 = [[Joe Jordan (footballer)|Jordan]] {{Goal|19}}<br />[[Asa Hartford|Hartford]] {{Goal|35}}<br />[[Kenny Dalglish|Dalglish]] {{Goal|54}}
|goals2 = [[Miroslav Gajdůšek|Gajdůšek]] {{Goal|82}}
|location = [[Glasgow]], [[Scotland]]
|stadium = [[Hampden Park]]
|referee = Rion ([[Royal Belgian Football Association|Belgium]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 12 October 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|WAL}}
|report = [http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Wales/1978fwcWAL_v_SCO Report]
|score = 0 &ndash; 2
|team2 = {{Fb|SCO}}
|goals2 = [[Don Masson|Masson]] {{Goal|78|pen.}}<br />[[Kenny Dalglish|Dalglish]] {{Goal|85}}
|location = [[Liverpool]], [[England]]<ref>This match was played on neutral ground (Anfield) instead of in Wales because of crowd trouble at a European Championship quarter final match at Ninian Park between Wales and Yugoslavia the previous year.</ref>
|stadium = [[Anfield]]
|referee = Wurtz ([[French Football Federation|France]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 16 November 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|TCH}}
|report = [http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Czech_Republic/1978fwcCZE_v_WAL Report]
|score = 1 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|WAL}}
|goals1 = [[Zdeněk Nehoda|Nehoda]] {{Goal|12}}
|location = [[Prague]], [[Czechoslovakia]]
|referee = [[Adolf Prokop|Prokop]] ([[German Football Association of the GDR|East Germany]])
|nobars = 1
}}

'''Scotland''' qualified.

==Group 8==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
! width="30" |Rank
! style="text-align:left;" width="165" |Team
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|Pts|Points}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|Pld|Matches played}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|W|Matches won}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|D|Matches drawn}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|L|Matches lost}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GF|Goals for}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GD|Goal difference}}
|- style="background:#ccffcc;"
|'''1'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|ESP|1977}}
|'''6'''||4||3||0||1||4||1||+3
|-
|'''2'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|ROU|1965}}
|'''4'''||4||2||0||2||7||8||&minus;1
|-
|'''3'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|YUG}}
|'''2'''||4||1||0||3||6||8||&minus;2
|}

{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 10 October 1976
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|ESP|1945}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20100611150221/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Spain/1978fwcESP_v_YUG Report]
|score = 1 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|YUG}}
|goals1 = [[Pirri]] {{Goal|86|pen.}}
|location = [[Seville]], [[Spain]]
|referee = [[Károly Palotai|Palotai]] ([[Hungarian Football Federation|Hungary]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 16 April 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|ROU|1965}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151224064556/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Romania/1978fwcROM_v_ESP Report]
|score = 1 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|ESP|1977}}
|goals1 = [[Gregorio Benito|Benito]] {{Goal|8|o.g.}}
|location = [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]]
|referee = [[John Gordon (referee)|Gordon]] ([[Scottish Football Association|Scotland]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 8 May 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|YUG}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20100716035206/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Yugoslavia/1978fwcYUG_v_ROM Report]
|score = 0 &ndash; 2
|team2 = {{Fb|ROU|1965}}
|goals2 = [[Dudu Georgescu|D. Georgescu]] {{Goal|37}}<br />[[Anghel Iordănescu|Iordănescu]] {{Goal|44}}
|location = [[Zagreb]], [[Yugoslavia]]
|referee = [[Menachem Ashkenazi|Ashkenazi]] ([[Israel Football Association|Israel]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 26 October 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|ESP|1977}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20100611152110/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Spain/1978fwcESP_v_ROM Report]
|score = 2 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|ROU|1965}}
|goals1 = [[Eugenio Leal|Leal]] {{Goal|75}}<br /> [[Rubén Cano|Cano]] {{Goal|83}}
|location = [[Madrid]], [[Spain]]
|referee = Wurtz ([[French Football Federation|France]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 13 November 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|ROU|1965}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20151001190913/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Romania/1978fwcROM_v_YUG Report]
|score = 4 &ndash; 6
|team2 = {{Fb|YUG}}
|goals1 = [[Iosif Vigu|Vigu]] {{Goal|2}}<br />[[Anghel Iordănescu|Iordănescu]] {{Goal|40}}<br />[[László Bölöni|Bölöni]] {{Goal|43}}<br />[[Dudu Georgescu|Georgescu]] {{Goal|67}}
|goals2 = [[Safet Sušić|Sušić]] {{Goal|14||51||62}}<br />[[Dražen Mužinić|Mužinić]] {{Goal|18}}<br />[[Aleksandar Trifunović (footballer)|Trifunović]] {{Goal|79}}<br />[[Zoran Filipović|Filipović]] {{Goal|84}}
|location = [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]]
|referee = Delcourt ([[Royal Belgian Football Association|Belgium]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 30 November 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|YUG}}
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20100716035201/http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Yugoslavia/1978fwcYUG_v_ESP Report]
|score = 0 &ndash; 1
|team2 = {{Fb|ESP|1977}}
|goals2 = [[Rubén Cano|Cano]] {{Goal|71}}
|location = [[Belgrade]], [[Yugoslavia]]
|referee = [[Ken Burns (referee)|Burns]] ([[The Football Association|England]])
|nobars = 1
}}

'''Spain''' qualified.

==Group 9==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
! width="30" |Rank
! style="text-align:left;" width="165" |Team
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|Pts|Points}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|Pld|Matches played}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|W|Matches won}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|D|Matches drawn}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|L|Matches lost}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GF|Goals for}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}
! width="20" |{{Tooltip|GD|Goal difference}}
|- style="background:#BBF3FF;"
|'''1'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|HUN}}
|'''5'''||4||2||1||1||6||4||+2
|-
|'''2'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|URS|1955}}
|'''4'''||4||2||0||2||5||3||+2
|-
|'''3'''
| style="text-align:left;" |{{Fb|GRE|old}}
|'''3'''||4||1||1||2||2||6||&minus;4
|}

{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 9 October 1976
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|GRE|old}}
|report = [http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Greece/1978fwcGRC_v_HUN Report]
|score = 1 &ndash; 1
|team2 = {{Fb|HUN}}
|goals1 = [[Mimis Papaioannou|Papaioannou]] {{Goal|68}}
|goals2 = [[Zoltán Kereki|Kereki]] {{Goal|84}}
|location = [[Athens]], [[Greece]]
|referee = [[Franz Wöhrer|Wöhrer]] ([[Austrian Football Association|Austria]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 24 April 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|URS|1955}}
|report = [http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Russia/1978fwcRUS_v_GRC Report]
|score = 2 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|GRE|old}}
|goals1 = [[Anatoliy Konkov|Konkov]] {{Goal|26}}<br />[[David Kipiani|Kipiani]] {{Goal|77}}
|location = [[Moscow]], [[Soviet Union]]
|referee = Dubach ([[Swiss Football Association|Switzerland]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 30 April 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|HUN}}
|report = [http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Hungary/1978fwcHUN_v_RUS Report]
|score = 2 &ndash; 1
|team2 = {{Fb|URS|1955}}
|goals1 = [[Tibor Nyilasi|Nyilasi]] {{Goal|44}}<br />[[Zoltán Kereki|Kereki]] {{Goal|67}}
|goals2 = [[David Kipiani|Kipiani]] {{Goal|88}}
|location = [[Budapest]], [[Hungary]]
|referee = [[Heinz Aldinger|Aldinger]] ([[German Football Association|West Germany]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 10 May 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|GRE|old}}
|report = [http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Greece/1978fwcGRC_v_RUS Report]
|score = 1 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|URS|1955}}
|goals1 = [[Mimis Papaioannou|Papaioannou]] {{Goal|58}}
|location = [[Thessaloniki]], [[Greece]]
|referee = Gussoni ([[Italian Football Federation|Italy]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 18 May 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|URS|1955}}
|report = [http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Russia/1978fwcRUS_v_HUN Report]
|score = 2 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|HUN}}
|goals1 = [[Leonid Buryak|Burjak]] {{Goal|3}}<br />[[László Bálint|Bálint]] {{Goal|14|o.g.}}
|location = [[Tbilisi]], [[Soviet Union]]
|referee = [[Jack Taylor (referee)|Taylor]] ([[The Football Association|England]])
|nobars = 1
}}
----
{{Footballbox_collapsible
|date = 28 May 1977
|team1 = {{Fb-rt|HUN}}
|report = [http://scoreshelf.com/gjbb/en/Hungary/1978fwcHUN_v_GRC Report]
|score = 3 &ndash; 0
|team2 = {{Fb|GRE|old}}
|goals1 = [[László Pusztai|Pusztai]] {{Goal|13}}<br />[[Tibor Nyilasi|Nyilasi]] {{Goal|15}}<br />[[László Fazekas|Fazekas]] {{Goal|88}}
|location = [[Budapest]], [[Hungary]]
|referee = Beck ([[Royal Dutch Football Association|Netherlands]])
|nobars = 1
}}


'''Hungary''' advanced to the [[#Inter-confederation play-offs|UEFA–CONMEBOL play-off]].
'''Hungary''' advanced to the [[1978 FIFA World Cup qualification#Intercontinental Play-Off|UEFA / CONMEBOL Intercontinental Play-off]]. This is the first time the USSR failed to qualify. The previous absences of the Soviet team at World Cup were all due to them not participating in the qualification.


==Inter-confederation play-offs==
==Inter-confederation play-offs==
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;9 goals
;9 goals
{{col-begin-small}}
{{colbegin|colwidth=18em|small=yes}}
{{col-3}}
*{{flag icon|ITA}} [[Roberto Bettega]]
*{{flag icon|ITA}} [[Roberto Bettega]]
{{col-end}}
{{colend}}


;7 goals
;7 goals
{{col-begin-small}}
{{colbegin|colwidth=18em|small=yes}}
{{col-3}}
*{{flag icon|AUT}} [[Hans Krankl]]
*{{flag icon|AUT}} [[Hans Krankl]]
{{col-end}}
{{colend}}


;5 goals
;5 goals
{{col-begin-small}}
{{colbegin|colwidth=18em|small=yes}}
{{col-3}}
*{{flag icon|GDR}} [[Martin Hoffmann (footballer)|Martin Hoffmann]]
*{{flag icon|GDR}} [[Martin Hoffmann (footballer)|Martin Hoffmann]]
*{{flag icon|TUR}} [[Cemil Turan]]
*{{flag icon|TUR}} [[Cemil Turan]]
{{col-end}}
{{colend}}


;4 goals
;4 goals
{{col-begin-small}}
{{colbegin|colwidth=18em|small=yes}}
{{col-3}}
*{{flag icon|GDR}} [[Joachim Streich]]
*{{flag icon|GDR}} [[Joachim Streich]]
*{{flag icon|ENG}} [[Kevin Keegan]]
*{{flag icon|ENG}} [[Kevin Keegan]]
{{col-3}}
*{{flag icon|POL}} [[Kazimierz Deyna]]
*{{flag icon|POL}} [[Kazimierz Deyna]]
*{{flag icon|POL}} [[Grzegorz Lato]]
*{{flag icon|POL}} [[Grzegorz Lato]]
{{col-3}}
*{{flag icon|POR}} [[Manuel Fernandes (footballer, born 1951)|Manuel Fernandes]]
*{{flag icon|POR}} [[Manuel Fernandes (footballer, born 1951)|Manuel Fernandes]]
*{{flag icon|SWE}} [[Thomas Sjöberg]]
*{{flag icon|SWE}} [[Thomas Sjöberg]]
{{col-end}}
{{colend}}


;3 goals
;3 goals
{{col-begin-small}}
{{colbegin|colwidth=18em|small=yes}}
{{col-3}}
*{{flag icon|ENG}} [[Mick Channon]]
*{{flag icon|ENG}} [[Mick Channon]]
*{{flag icon|FRA}} [[Michel Platini]]
*{{flag icon|FRA|1974}} [[Michel Platini]]
*{{flag icon|HUN}} [[Tibor Nyilasi]]
*{{flag icon|HUN}} [[Tibor Nyilasi]]
{{col-3}}
*{{flag icon|ITA}} [[Francesco Graziani]]
*{{flag icon|ITA}} [[Francesco Graziani]]
*{{flag icon|NED}} [[Ruud Geels]]
*{{flag icon|NED}} [[Ruud Geels]]
*{{flag icon|NIR}} [[Chris McGrath (footballer)|Chris McGrath]]
*{{flag icon|NIR}} [[Chris McGrath (footballer)|Chris McGrath]]
{{col-3}}
*{{flag icon|YUG}} [[Safet Sušić]]
*{{flag icon|YUG}} [[Safet Sušić]]
{{col-end}}
{{colend}}


;2 goals
;2 goals
{{col-begin-small}}
{{colbegin|colwidth=18em|small=yes}}
{{col-3}}
*{{flag icon|AUT}} [[Josef Stering]]
*{{flag icon|AUT}} [[Josef Stering]]
*{{flag icon|BEL}} [[Raoul Lambert]]
*{{flag icon|BEL}} [[Raoul Lambert]]
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*{{flag icon|FIN}} [[Aki Heiskanen]]
*{{flag icon|FIN}} [[Aki Heiskanen]]
*{{flag icon|FIN}} [[Esa Heiskanen]]
*{{flag icon|FIN}} [[Esa Heiskanen]]
{{col-3}}
*{{flag icon|FIN}} [[Olavi Rissanen]]
*{{flag icon|FIN}} [[Olavi Rissanen]]
*{{flag icon|GRE|1975}} [[Mimis Papaioannou]]
*{{flag icon|GRE|1975}} [[Mimis Papaioannou]]
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*{{flag icon|HUN}} [[András Törőcsik]]
*{{flag icon|HUN}} [[András Törőcsik]]
*{{flag icon|ITA}} [[Giancarlo Antognoni]]
*{{flag icon|ITA}} [[Giancarlo Antognoni]]
*{{flag icon|NED}} [[Johan Cruijff]]
*{{flag icon|NED}} [[Johan Cruyff]]
*{{flag icon|NED}} [[Johnny Rep]]
*{{flag icon|NED}} [[Johnny Rep]]
*{{flag icon|NIR}} [[Gerry Armstrong (footballer)|Gerry Armstrong]]
*{{flag icon|NIR}} [[Gerry Armstrong (footballer)|Gerry Armstrong]]
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*{{flag icon|POL}} [[Stanisław Terlecki]]
*{{flag icon|POL}} [[Stanisław Terlecki]]
*{{flag icon|POR}} [[Fernando Chalana]]
*{{flag icon|POR}} [[Fernando Chalana]]
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*{{flag icon|POR}} [[Nené (footballer, born 1949)|Nené]]
*{{flag icon|POR}} [[Nené (footballer, born 1949)|Nené]]
*{{flag icon|ROU|1965}} [[Dudu Georgescu]]
*{{flag icon|ROU|1965}} [[Dudu Georgescu]]
*{{flag icon|ROU|1965}} [[Anghel Iordǎnescu]]
*{{flag icon|ROU|1965}} [[Anghel Iordănescu]]
*{{flag icon|SCO}} [[Kenny Dalglish]]
*{{flag icon|SCO|1542}} [[Kenny Dalglish]]
*{{flag icon|URS}} [[David Kipiani]]
*{{flag icon|URS}} [[David Kipiani]]
*{{flag icon|ESP|1977}} [[Rubén Cano]]
*{{flag icon|ESP|1977}} [[Rubén Cano]]
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*{{flag icon|TUR}} [[Sedat Özden]]
*{{flag icon|TUR}} [[Sedat Özden]]
*{{flag icon|WAL}} [[Leighton James]]
*{{flag icon|WAL}} [[Leighton James]]
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{{colend}}


;1 goal
;1 goal
{{col-begin-small}}
{{colbegin|colwidth=18em|small=yes}}
{{col-3}}
*{{flag icon|AUT}} [[Roland Hattenberger]]
*{{flag icon|AUT}} [[Roland Hattenberger]]
*{{flag icon|AUT}} [[Wilhelm Kreuz]]
*{{flag icon|AUT}} [[Wilhelm Kreuz]]
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*{{flag icon|AUT}} [[Herbert Prohaska]]
*{{flag icon|AUT}} [[Herbert Prohaska]]
*{{flag icon|AUT}} [[Walter Schachner]]
*{{flag icon|AUT}} [[Walter Schachner]]
*{{flag icon|BEL}} [[Paul Courant]]
*{{flag icon|BEL}} [[Paul Courant (footballer)|Paul Courant]]
*{{flag icon|BEL}} [[Maurice Martens]]
*{{flag icon|BEL}} [[Maurice Martens]]
*{{flag icon|BEL}} [[Gilbert Van Binst]]
*{{flag icon|BEL}} [[Gilbert Van Binst]]
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*{{flag icon|DEN}} [[Allan Hansen]]
*{{flag icon|DEN}} [[Allan Hansen]]
*{{flag icon|DEN}} [[Jørgen Kristensen]]
*{{flag icon|DEN}} [[Jørgen Kristensen]]
*{{flag icon|DEN}} [[Benny Nielsen (footballer)|Benny Nielsen]]
*{{flag icon|DEN}} [[Benny Nielsen (footballer, born 17 March 1951)|Benny Nielsen]]
*{{flag icon|DEN}} [[Kristen Nygaard (footballer)|Kristen Nygaard]]
*{{flag icon|DEN}} [[Kristen Nygaard (footballer)|Kristen Nygaard]]
*{{flag icon|DEN}} [[Ole Rasmussen (footballer, born 1952)|Ole Rasmussen]]
*{{flag icon|DEN}} [[Ole Rasmussen (footballer, born 1952)|Ole Rasmussen]]
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*{{flag icon|ENG}} [[Trevor Francis]]
*{{flag icon|ENG}} [[Trevor Francis]]
*{{flag icon|ENG}} [[Paul Mariner]]
*{{flag icon|ENG}} [[Paul Mariner]]
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*{{flag icon|ENG}} [[Stuart Pearson]]
*{{flag icon|ENG}} [[Stuart Pearson]]
*{{flag icon|ENG}} [[Joe Royle]]
*{{flag icon|ENG}} [[Joe Royle]]
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*{{flag icon|FIN}} [[Jyrki Nieminen]]
*{{flag icon|FIN}} [[Jyrki Nieminen]]
*{{flag icon|FIN}} [[Matti Paatelainen]]
*{{flag icon|FIN}} [[Matti Paatelainen]]
*{{flag icon|FRA}} [[Dominique Bathenay]]
*{{flag icon|FRA|1974}} [[Dominique Bathenay]]
*{{flag icon|FRA}} [[Christian Dalger]]
*{{flag icon|FRA|1974}} [[Christian Dalger]]
*{{flag icon|FRA}} [[Bernard Lacombe]]
*{{flag icon|FRA|1974}} [[Bernard Lacombe]]
*{{flag icon|FRA}} [[Dominique Rocheteau]]
*{{flag icon|FRA|1974}} [[Dominique Rocheteau]]
*{{flag icon|HUN}} [[László Fazekas]]
*{{flag icon|HUN}} [[László Fazekas]]
*{{flag icon|HUN}} [[István Halász]]
*{{flag icon|HUN}} [[István Halász]]
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*{{flag icon|NED}} [[René Van de Kerkhof]]
*{{flag icon|NED}} [[René Van de Kerkhof]]
*{{flag icon|NED}} [[Willy Van de Kerkhof]]
*{{flag icon|NED}} [[Willy Van de Kerkhof]]
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*{{flag icon|NIR}} [[Sammy McIlroy]]
*{{flag icon|NIR}} [[Sammy McIlroy]]
*{{flag icon|NIR}} [[Derek Spence]]
*{{flag icon|NIR}} [[Derek Spence]]
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*{{flag icon|ROU|1965}} [[László Bölöni]]
*{{flag icon|ROU|1965}} [[László Bölöni]]
*{{flag icon|ROU|1965}} [[Iosif Vigu]]
*{{flag icon|ROU|1965}} [[Iosif Vigu]]
*{{flag icon|SCO}} [[Asa Hartford]]
*{{flag icon|SCO|1542}} [[Asa Hartford]]
*{{flag icon|SCO}} [[Joe Jordan (footballer)|Joe Jordan]]
*{{flag icon|SCO|1542}} [[Joe Jordan (footballer)|Joe Jordan]]
*{{flag icon|SCO}} [[Don Masson]]
*{{flag icon|SCO|1542}} [[Don Masson]]
*{{flag icon|URS}} [[Leonid Burjak]]
*{{flag icon|URS}} [[Leonid Burjak]]
*{{flag icon|URS}} [[Anatoliy Konkov]]
*{{flag icon|URS}} [[Anatoliy Konkov]]
*{{flag icon|ESP|1977}} [[Eugenio Leal]]
*{{flag icon|ESP|1977}} [[Eugenio Leal]]
*{{flag icon|ESP|1977}} [[Pirri]]
*{{flag icon|ESP|1977}} [[Pirri]]
*{{flag icon|SWE}} [[Björn Andersson]]
*{{flag icon|SWE}} [[Björn Andersson (footballer, born 1951)|Björn Andersson]]
*{{flag icon|SUI}} [[Peter Risi]]
*{{flag icon|SUI}} [[Peter Risi]]
*{{flag icon|SUI}} [[Claudio Sulser]]
*{{flag icon|SUI}} [[Claudio Sulser]]
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*{{flag icon|YUG}} [[Dražen Mužinić]]
*{{flag icon|YUG}} [[Dražen Mužinić]]
*{{flag icon|YUG}} [[Aleksandar Trifunović (footballer)|Aleksandar Trifunović]]
*{{flag icon|YUG}} [[Aleksandar Trifunović (footballer)|Aleksandar Trifunović]]
{{col-end}}
{{colend}}


;1 own goal
;1 own goal
{{col-begin-small}}
{{colbegin|colwidth=32em|small=yes}}
{{col-3}}
*{{flag icon|HUN}} [[László Bálint]] (playing against the [[Soviet Union national football team|Soviet Union]])
*{{flag icon|HUN}} [[László Bálint]] (playing against the [[Soviet Union national football team|Soviet Union]])
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*{{flag icon|ESP|1977}} [[Gregorio Benito]] (playing against [[Romania national football team|Romania]])
*{{flag icon|ESP|1977}} [[Gregorio Benito]] (playing against [[Romania national football team|Romania]])
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*{{flag icon|WAL}} [[Ian Evans (footballer)|Ian Evans]] (playing against [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]])
*{{flag icon|WAL}} [[Ian Evans (footballer)|Ian Evans]] (playing against [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]])
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{{colend}}


==See also==
==See also==
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{{Reflist}}
{{Reflist}}


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1978 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)
Tournament details
Teams31 (from 1 confederation)
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UEFA European Qualifiers
FIFA World Cup
UEFA European Championship

Listed below are the dates and results for the qualification to the 1978 FIFA World Cup rounds for the European zone (UEFA) in association football. For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification.

The European zone was allocated 9.5 places (out of 16) in the final tournament. West Germany, the defending champions, qualified automatically, leaving 8.5 spots open for competition between 31 teams. Albania were the only UEFA team to not enter the competition.

The 31 teams were divided into 9 groups of 3 or 4 teams each (five groups with 3 teams and four groups with 4 teams). The teams would play against each other on a home-and-away basis. The winners of groups 1 to 8 would qualify, the winner of group 9 would advance to the UEFA / CONMEBOL Intercontinental Play-off.

Draw

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The draw for the qualifying groups took place in Guatemala City on 20 November 1975. During the draw procedure, entrants were drawn into the 9 qualifying groups from the four pots of seeds.

Pot A Pot B Pot C Pot D

 Bulgaria
 East Germany
 Italy
  Netherlands
  Poland
  Scotland
  Sweden
  Yugoslavia
 Soviet Union

 Austria
  Belgium
 Czechoslovakia
 England
 France
  Hungary
  Portugal
 Spain
   Switzerland

 Denmark
 Finland
 Greece
 Republic of Ireland
 Northern Ireland
 Norway
 Romania
 Turkey
 Wales

 Cyprus
 Iceland
 Luxembourg
 Malta

Summary

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Below is a table containing all nine qualifying groups. Teams that qualified and secured a place in the final tournament are highlighted in green, while teams who were eliminated are highlighted in red. The team that secured a place in the UEFA / CONMEBOL Intercontinental Play-off is highlighted in blue. Teams are ordered by final group position.

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 Group 6 Group 7 Group 8 Group 9

Poland
Italy
Austria
Netherlands
France
Sweden
Scotland
Spain
Hungary

Portugal

Denmark

Cyprus
England

Finland

Luxembourg
East Germany

Turkey

Malta
Belgium

Northern Ireland

Iceland
Bulgaria

Republic of Ireland
Norway

Switzerland
Czechoslovakia

Wales
Romania

Yugoslavia
Soviet Union

Greece

Key:

Groups

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Group 1

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Main article: 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 1

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  Poland 6 5 1 0 17 4 +13 11
2  Portugal 6 4 1 1 12 6 +6 9
3  Denmark 6 2 0 4 14 12 +2 4
4  Cyprus 6 0 0 6 3 24 −21 0
Source: [citation needed]

Group 2

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Main article: 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 2

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  Italy 6 5 0 1 18 4 +14 10
2  England 6 5 0 1 15 4 +11 10
3  Finland 6 2 0 4 11 16 −5 4
4  Luxembourg 6 0 0 6 2 22 −20 0
Source: [citation needed]

Group 3

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Main article: 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 3

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  Austria 6 4 2 0 14 2 +12 10
2  East Germany 6 3 3 0 15 4 +11 9
3  Turkey 6 2 1 3 9 5 +4 5
4  Malta 6 0 0 6 0 27 −27 0
Source: [citation needed]

Group 4

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Main article: 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 4

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  Netherlands 6 5 1 0 11 3 +8 11
2  Belgium 6 3 0 3 7 6 +1 6
3  Northern Ireland 6 2 1 3 7 6 +1 5
4  Iceland 6 1 0 5 2 12 −10 2
Source: [citation needed]

Group 5

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Main article: 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 5

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  France 4 2 1 1 7 4 +3 5
2  Bulgaria 4 1 2 1 5 6 −1 4
3  Republic of Ireland 4 1 1 2 2 4 −2 3
Source: [citation needed]

Group 6

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Main article: 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 6

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  Sweden 4 3 0 1 7 4 +3 6
2  Norway 4 2 0 2 3 4 −1 4
3   Switzerland 4 1 0 3 3 5 −2 2
Source: [citation needed]

Group 7

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Main article: 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 7

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  Scotland 4 3 0 1 6 3 +3 6
2  Czechoslovakia 4 2 0 2 4 6 −2 4
3  Wales 4 1 0 3 3 4 −1 2
Source: [citation needed]

Group 8

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Main article: 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 8

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  Spain 4 3 0 1 4 1 +3 6
2  Romania 4 2 0 2 7 8 −1 4
3  Yugoslavia 4 1 0 3 6 8 −2 2
Source: [citation needed]

Group 9

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Main article: 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 9

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  Hungary 4 2 1 1 6 4 +2 5
2  Soviet Union 4 2 0 2 5 3 +2 4
3  Greece 4 1 1 2 2 6 −4 3
Source: [citation needed]

Hungary advanced to the UEFA–CONMEBOL play-off.

Inter-confederation play-offs

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Main article: 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA–CONMEBOL play-off)
Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Hungary  9–2  Bolivia 6–0 3–2

Goalscorers

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9 goals
7 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal

See also

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References

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