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| Tournament details | |
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| Dates | 9 May - 29 December 1965 |
| Teams | 31[1] (from 1 confederation) |
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| Matches played | 82 |
| Goals scored | 250 (3.05 per match) |
| Attendance | 2,982,508 (36,372 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |  Eusébio (7 goals) |
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The 32 teams were drawn into nine groups of three or four teams each; however, after the withdrawal of Syria, one group had just two teams. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would qualify.
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 1= |  Belgium
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4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 3 | +8 | 6 |
| 1= |  Bulgaria
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4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 6 |
| 3 |  Israel
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4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 12 | −11 | 0 |
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 1 |  West Germany
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4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 2 | +12 | 7 |
| 2 |  Sweden
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4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 3 | +7 | 5 |
| 3 |  Cyprus
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4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 19 | −19 | 0 |
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 1 |  France
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6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 2 | +7 | 10 |
| 2 |  Norway
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6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 5 | +5 | 7 |
| 3 |  Yugoslavia
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6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | +2 | 7 |
| 4 |  Luxembourg
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6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 20 | −14 | 0 |
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 1 | Portugal
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6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 9 |
| 2 |  Czechoslovakia
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6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 4 | +8 | 7 |
| 3 |  Romania
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6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 6 |
| 4 |  Turkey
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6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 19 | −15 | 2 |
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 1 |  Switzerland
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6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 9 |
| 2 |  Northern Ireland
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6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 8 |
| 3 |  Netherlands
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6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 6 |
| 4 |  Albania
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6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 12 | −10 | 1 |
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 1 |  Hungary
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4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 7 |
| 2 |  East Germany
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4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 |  Austria
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4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 1 |
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 1 |  Soviet Union
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6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 6 | +13 | 10 |
| 2 |  Wales
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6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 9 | +2 | 6 |
| 3 |  Greece
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6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 14 | −4 | 5 |
| 4 |  Denmark
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6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 18 | −11 | 3 |
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 1 |  Italy
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6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 3 | +14 | 9 |
| 2 |  Scotland
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6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 7 |
| 3 |  Poland
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6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 10 | +1 | 6 |
| 4 |  Finland
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6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 20 | −15 | 2 |
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 1= |  Spain
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2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 2 |
| 1= |  Republic of Ireland
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2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 2 |
| — |  Syria
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7 goals
6 goals
5 goals
Paul Van Himst Georgi Asparuhov Sandro Mazzola Johnny Crossan
Włodzimierz Lubański Anatoliy Banishevskiy4 goals
3 goals
Karol Jokl Juhani Peltonen Nestor Combin Philippe Gondet Giorgos Sideris Paolo Barison Louis Pilot Jerzy Sadek Valentin Kozmich Ivanov Slava Metreveli Chus Pereda Köbi Kuhn Ivor Allchurch Rudolf Brunnenmeier2 goals
Ole Fritsen Ole Madsen Peter Ducke Jürgen Nöldner János Farkas Máté Fenyvesi Giacinto Facchetti Bruno Mora Gianni Rivera Hennie van Nee George Best Harald Berg Erik Johansen Ernest Pol
Nicolae Georgescu Viorel Mateianu John Greig Denis Law Vladimir Barkaya Lars Granström Bo Larsson Agne Simonsson Torbjörn Jonsson René-Pierre Quentin Fevzi Zemzem Werner Krämer Wolfgang Overath Klaus-Dieter Sieloff Dragan Džajić1 goal
Robert Jashari Erich Hof Armand Jurion Wilfried Puis Jacques Stockman Stoyan Kitov Ivan Petkov Kolev Alexander Horváth Dušan Kabát Andrej Kvašňák Mogens Berg Kaj Poulsen Tommy Troelsen Eberhard Vogel Martti Hyvärinen Semi Nuoranen Marcel Artelesa André Guy Angel Rambert Andreas Papaemmanouil Ferenc Bene Kálmán Mészöly Dezső Novák Gyula Rákosi Andy McEvoy Rahamim Talbi Giacomo Bulgarelli Ezio Pascutti Ernest Brenner Edy Dublin Ady Schmit Frans Geurtsen Theo Laseroms Bennie Muller Daan Schrijvers Willie Irvine Terry Neill Per Kristoffersen Olav Nilsen Arne Pedersen Finn Seemann Kai Sjøberg Ole Stavrum Roman Lentner Mário Coluna Jaime Graça Sorin Avram Alexandru Badea Dan Coe Carol Creiniceanu Ion Pârcălab Stevie Chalmers Dave Gibson Billy McNeill Davie Wilson Boris Kazakov Galimzyan Khusainov Mikheil Meskhi Yozhef Sabo Valery Voronin Carlos Lapetra José Ufarte Kurt Hamrin Ove Kindvall Anton Allemann Robert Hosp Ayhan Elmastaşoğlu Nedim Doğan Ron Davies Wyn Davies Mike England Ronnie Rees Alfred Heiß Uwe Seeler Heinz Strehl Horst Szymaniak Dražan Jerković Vladica Kovačević Džemaludin Mušović Velibor Vasović1 own goal
Ivan Vutsov (playing against Belgium)
Kostas Panayiotou (playing against West Germany) Stig Holmqvist (playing against Italy) José Ángel Iribar (playing against Ireland) Graham Williams (playing against the Soviet Union)The following 9 countries qualified for the 1966 FIFA World Cup
| Team | Qualified as | Qualified on | Previous appearancesinFIFA World Cup1 |
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| Bulgaria |
Group 1 winners | 29 December 1965 | 1 (1962) |
| West Germany |
Group 2 winners | 14 November 1965 | 4 (19342, 19382, 1954, 1958) |
| France |
Group 3 winners | 6 November 1965 | 5 (1934, 1938, 1950, 1954, 1958) |
| Portugal |
Group 4 winners | 21 November 1965 | 0 (debut) |
| Switzerland |
Group 5 winners | 14 November 1965 | 5 (1934, 1938, 1950, 1954, 1962) |
| Hungary |
Group 6 winners | 9 October 1965 | 5 (1934, 1938, 1954, 1958, 1962) |
| Soviet Union |
Group 7 winners | 27 October 1965 | 3 (1958, 1962, 1966) |
| Italy |
Group 8 winners | 5 December 1965 | 4 (1934, 1938, 1950, 1954, 1962) |
| Spain |
Group 9 winners | 10 November 1965 | 3 (1934, 1950, 1962) |
