1934 FIFA World Cup qualification

1934 FIFA World Cup qualification 11 June 1933 – 24 May 1934 29 27 141 ESP 1931 Isidro Lángara CUB Mario LópezMEX 1934 Dionisio Mejía (7 goals each) 1938 The 1934 FIFA World Cup was the first World Cup for which teams had to qualify, after the finalists in the inaugural 1930 World Cup had participated by invitation from FIFA. With 32 teams having entered the 1934 competition, FIFA organized qualification rounds to select 16 teams for the finals.July 2007 History of the FIFA World Cup Preliminary Competition (by year) https://www.fifa.com/mm/document/fifafacts/mcwc/fifaworldcuppreliminaryhistory_byyear__13876.pdf dead https://web.archive.org/web/20100615220946/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/fifafacts/mcwc/fifaworldcuppreliminaryhistory_byyear__13876.pdf 15 June 2010 18 June 2018 FIFA.com FIFA Even Italy, the host of the World Cup, had to earn its spot, the only time this has been the case.2010 host South Africa and 2022 host Qatar also participated in the respective World Cup qualification because those tournaments doubled as continental qualifiers, but those teams were guaranteed spots in the World Cups and were only vying for places in the continental finals. The previous champion Uruguay refused to defend its title because many European nations had declined to take part in the 1930 World Cup, held in Uruguay.https://thesefootballtimes.co/2016/07/27/when-the-world-cup-rolled-into-fascist-italy-in-1934/ When the World Cup rolled into fascist Italy in 1934 Hart Jim 27 July 2016 These Football Times en 14 June 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20171019111516/https://thesefootballtimes.co/2016/07/27/when-the-world-cup-rolled-into-fascist-italy-in-1934/ 19 October 2017 live Of the 32 teams which entered, Chile, Peru and Turkey all withdrew before qualifying began. Brazil and Argentina qualified without playing any matches owing to the withdrawal of their opponents. The other 27 teams played at least one qualifying match. Greece, Bulgaria and Poland withdrew partway through the planned schedule of qualifying matches. The first match, between Sweden and Estonia, took place in Stockholm on 11 June 1933, with Swedish player Knut Kroon scoring the first goal.Some sources report it as an own goal by Estonian goalkeeper Evald Tipner instead. The last match was played in Rome only three days before the start of the tournament, as late entrant United States beat Mexico to become the final team to qualify. Format The 32 teams were divided into 12 groups, based on geographical considerations, as follows: Groups 1 to 8 – Europe: 12 places, contested by 21 teams. Groups were organised regionally so as to minimise travel distance, with most groups consisting of neighbouring countries. Groups 9, 10 and 11 – Americas: 3 places, contested by 8 teams. Group 12 – Africa and Asia: 1 place, contested by 3 teams (including Turkey). The 12 groups had different rules, as follows: Group 1 had 3 teams. The teams played against each other once, with each team playing one home and one away game. The group winner would qualify. Groups 2, 3 and 5 had 2 teams each. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would qualify. Group 4 had 3 teams. The teams played against each other twice. The group winner and runner-up would qualify. Groups 6, 7 and 8 had 3 teams each. The teams played against each other once, with each team playing one home and one away game. The group winners and runners-up would qualify. Groups 9 and 10 had 2 teams each. The group winners would qualify. Group 11 had 4 teams. There would be three rounds of play: First Round: Haiti played against Cuba three times, all games taking place in Haiti. The winner would advance to the Second Round. Second Round: Mexico played against the winner of the First Round thrice at home. The winner would advance to the Final Round. Final Round: USA played against the winner of the Second Round in a single match on neutral ground. The winner would qualify. Group 12 had 3 teams. After Turkey withdrew before the matches began, the remaining 2 teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner would qualify. Key: Teams highlighted in green qualified for the finals. Teams highlighted in orange qualified for the next phase of their group. Groups Group 1 main WDL yes SWE EST LIT complete None 2 0 0 8 2 0 0 1 2 6 0 0 1 0 2 SWE EST LIT 1918 2 Q KO green1 Final tournament 11 June 1933 SWE Report 6–2 EST Kroon 7L. Bunke 10Ericsson 13 70T. Bunke 43Andersson 79 pen Kass 47Kuremaa 61 Stockholm, Sweden Stockholm Olympic Stadium 8,123 Reidar Randers-Johansen (Norway) 29 June 1933 LIT 1918 Report 0–2 SWE Hansson 55 65 Kaunas, Lithuania Kariuomenės Stadionas 6,000 August Silber (Estonia) Estonia v Lithuania was not played since neither team could qualify with a win.https://www.11v11.com/competitions/fifa-world-cup/1934/qualifying/ FIFA World Cup, 1934 - qualifying 11v11.com 16 June 2018 Sweden qualified. Group 2 main WDL yes ESP POR complete None 2 0 0 11 1 0 0 2 1 11 ESP 1931 POR 2 Q KO green1 Final tournament 11 March 1934 ESP 1931 Report 9–0 POR González 3Lángara 13 14 pen. 46 71 85Regueiro 65 70Ventolrà 68 Madrid, Spain Estadio Chamartín 50,000 Raphaël van Praag (Belgium) 18 March 1934 POR Report 1–2 ESP 1931 Silva 10 Lángara 12 25 Lisbon, Portugal Estádio do Lumiar 35,000 Raphaël van Praag (Belgium) Spain qualified. Group 3 RankTeamPld Matches playedW Matches wonD Matches drawnL Matches lostGF Goals forGA Goals againstGAv Goal averagePts PointsQualification1ITA 18611100404.002Final Tournament 2GRE old1001040.000 25 March 1934 ITA 1861 Report 4–0 GRE old Guarisi 40Meazza 44 71Ferrari 69 Milan, Italy San Siro 20,000 René Mercet (Switzerland) Italy qualified, as Greece declined to play the second match. Group 4 RankTeamPld Matches playedW Matches wonD Matches drawnL Matches lostGF Goals forGA Goals againstGAv Goal averagePts PointsQualification1HUN 19152200824.004Final Tournament2AUT1100616.002Final Tournament3BUL30033140.210 25 March 1934 BUL Report 1–4 HUN 1915 Baikushev 27 Sárosi 29Szabó 61 pen.Toldi 88Markos 89 Sofia, Bulgaria A.S. 23 Stadium 10,000 Denis Xifando (Romania) 25 April 1934 AUT Report 6–1 BUL Horvath 19 22 33Zischek 59Viertl 62Sindelar 67 Lozanov 66 Vienna, Austria Praterstadion 25,000 František Cejnar (Czechoslovakia) 29 April 1934 HUN 1915 Report 4–1 BUL Szabó 9 58Solti 60 73 Todorov 61 Budapest, Hungary Hungária-körút 10,000 Hans Frankenstein (Austria) Bulgaria withdrew, and the remaining matches were not played since Hungary and Austria were already assured of the top two spots. Hungary and Austria qualified. Group 5 RankTeamPld Matches playedW Matches wonD Matches drawnL Matches lostGF Goals forGA Goals againstGAv Goal averagePts PointsQualification1TCH2200414.004Final Tournament2POL 19282002140.250 15 October 1933 POL 1928 Report 1–2 TCH Martyna 52 pen Silný 33Pelcner 77 Warsaw, Poland Polish Army Stadium 16,000 Denis Xifando (Romania) 15 April 1934 TCH 2–0 awardedPoland were unable to travel to Prague for the second match as the Polish government denied the team visas for political reasons. The match was awarded as 2–0 to Czechoslovakia.http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/italy1934/matches/preliminaries/europe/index.html 1934 FIFA World Cup Italy - Qualifiers - Europe FIFA.com https://web.archive.org/web/20180308172900/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/italy1934/matches/preliminaries/europe/index.html 8 March 2018 dead 19 January 2021 POL 1928 Prague, Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia qualified.https://www.rsssf.org/tables/34qual.html World Cup 1934 - Qualifying RSSSF.com Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation 16 January 2021 Group 6 RankTeamPld Matches playedW Matches wonD Matches drawnL Matches lostGF Goals forGA Goals againstGAv Goal averagePts PointsQualification1SUI2110422.003Final Tournament2ROU2101230.672Final Tournament3Kingdom of Yugoslavia2011340.751 24 September 1933 Kingdom of Yugoslavia Report 2–2 SUI Kragić 50Marjanović 61 Frigerio 76Jäggi 80 Belgrade, Yugoslavia Stadion BSK 17,000 Alois Beranek (Austria) 29 October 1933 SUI Report 2–0awardedThe match ended in a 2–2 draw. FIFA later awarded the match as 2–0 to Switzerland as a result of Romania having fielded ineligible player Iuliu Baratky.https://www.fifa.com/en/match-centre/match/520/2/203/1140 Switzerland v Romania: Line-ups, Score & Live Updates 1st Stage FIFA WC 1934 Prel. Comp. fifa.com FIFA 5 October 2026https://www.rsssf.org/tables/34q.html World Cup 1934 Qualifying RSSSF.com Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation 17 June 2018http://tdifh.blogspot.com/2015/10/29-october-1933-when-crossing-border.html 29 October 1933 – When Crossing The Border Crosses The Line Seal Brian 29 May 2015 This Day In Football History https://web.archive.org/web/20180617133332/http://tdifh.blogspot.com/2015/10/29-october-1933-when-crossing-border.html 17 June 2018 live 17 June 2018 ROU Bern, Switzerland Wankdorf Stadion 15,000 Hans Boekmann (Netherlands) 29 April 1934 ROU Report 2–1 Kingdom of Yugoslavia Schwartz 38Dobay 74 Kragić 71 Bucharest, Romania Stadionul ONEF 20,000 John Langenus (Belgium) Switzerland and Romania qualified. Group 7 main WDL y complete None NED BEL IRL 2 0 0 9 4 0 1 1 6 8 0 1 1 6 9 NED BEL IRL Irish Free State 2 Q WC WC green1 Final tournament 25 February 1934 Irish Free State Report 4–4 BEL Moore 27 48 56 75 Capelle 15S. Vanden Eynde 30F. Vanden Eynde 47 60 Dublin, Irish Free State Dalymount Park 28,000 Thomas Crewe (England) 8 April 1934 NED Report 5–2 Irish Free State Smit 41 85Bakhuys 67 78Vente 83 Squires 44Moore 57 Amsterdam, Netherlands Olympisch Stadion 38,000 Otto Ohlsson (Sweden) 29 April 1934 BEL Report 2–4 NED Grimmonprez 51Voorhoof 71 Smit 60Bakhuys 62 84Vente 64 Antwerp, Belgium Bosuil Stadion 33,000 Stanley Rous (England) Netherlands and Belgium qualified (Belgium finished above the Irish Free State on goal average). Group 8 RankTeamPld Matches playedW Matches wonD Matches drawnL Matches lostGF Goals forGA Goals againstGAv Goal averagePts PointsQualification1GER empire1100919.002Final Tournament2FRA1100616.002Final Tournament3LUX20022150.130 11 March 1934 LUX ReportReport 1–9 GER empire Mengel 27 Rasselnberg 2 35 57 89Wigold 12Albrecht 24Hohmann 30 52 53 Luxembourg, Luxembourg Stade Municipal 16,000 Jan de Wolf (Netherlands) 15 April 1934 LUX https://www.fifa.com/en/match-centre/match/520/2/203/1127?date=1934-04-15 1–6 FRA Speicher 47 Aston 3Nicolas 26 67 85 89 pen.Liberati 80 Luxembourg, Luxembourg Stade Municipal 18,000 Marc Turfkruyer (Belgium) Germany v France was not played since both teams were already assured of the top two spots. Germany and France qualified. Group 9 RankTeamPld Matches playedW Matches wonD Matches drawnL Matches lostGF Goals forGA Goals againstGAv Goal averagePts PointsQualification1BRA 1889Final Tournament2 PER 1825Withdrew Peru withdrew, so Brazil qualified automatically. Group 10 RankTeamPld Matches playedW Matches wonD Matches drawnL Matches lostGF Goals forGA Goals againstGAv Goal averagePts PointsQualification1ARGFinal Tournament2CHIWithdrew Chile withdrew, so Argentina qualified automatically. Group 11 First round main WDL yes CUB HAI complete RSSSF 2 1 0 10 2 0 1 2 2 10 CUB HAI 1859 2 Q KO yellow1 Advance to second round 28 January 1934 18:00 EST (UTC−05:00) HAI 1859 1–3 CUB Report St. Fort 85 pen. López 20 pen.H. Socorro 61Martínez 64 Port-au-Prince, Haiti Parc Leconte 6,000 John Williams (United States) 1 February 1934 18:00 EST (UTC−05:00) HAI 1859 1–1 CUB Report St. Fort 25 pen. López 85 Port-au-Prince, Haiti Parc Leconte 6,000 John Williams (United States) 4 February 1934 18:00 EST (UTC−05:00) HAI 1859 0–6 CUB Report H. Socorro 5López 18 86F. Socorro 37Ferrer 62Soto 78 Port-au-Prince, Haiti Parc Leconte 5,000 John Williams (United States) Cuba advanced to the Second Round. Second round main WDL yes MEX CUB complete None 3 0 0 12 3 0 0 3 3 12 MEX 1934 CUB 2 Q A yellow1 Advance to final round 4 March 1934 MEX 1934 3–2 CUB Report Mejía 12 14 16 López 40 63 Mexico City, Mexico Parque Necaxa 20,000 Edward Donaghy (United States) 11 March 1934 Report MEX 1934 5–0 CUB Sota 24Mejía 31 40 79Rosas 72 Mexico City, Mexico Parque Necaxa 22,000 Edward Donaghy (United States) 18 March 1934 Report MEX 1934 4–1 CUB Alonso 32 75Ruvalcaba 41Marcos 55 López 15 Mexico City, Mexico Parque Necaxa 10,000 Edward Donaghy (United States) Mexico advanced to the Final Round. Final round The match to decide whether the United States or Mexico would qualify was played only three days before the start of the final tournament, as the United States submitted their entry too late. Thus, the match was played in Italy, so that the winner would effectively stay in the country for the tournament. main WDL yes USA MEX complete None 1 0 0 4 2 0 0 1 2 4 USA 1912 MEX 1934 2 Q KO green1 Final tournament 24 May 1934 Report USA 1912 4–2 MEX 1934 Donelli 28 32 74 87 Alonso 25Mejía 75 Rome, Italy Stadio Nazionale 12,000 Yossouf Mohammed (Egypt) United States qualified. Group 12 The Palestine football team consisted exclusively of Jewish and British players.http://blogs.reuters.com/soccer/2008/10/24/a-long-wait-for-a-home-game/ https://web.archive.org/web/20081025194921/http://blogs.reuters.com/soccer/2008/10/24/a-long-wait-for-a-home-game/ dead 25 October 2008 A long wait for a home game Rake Julian 24 October 2008 Reuters 19 June 2018 FIFA states, in reference to the 1930s Palestine Mandate team, that the 'Palestine team' that participated in previous competitions in the 1930s was actually the forerunner of today's Israel team, and as such bears no relation to the modern-day Palestine national team.https://www.fifa.com/mm/document/fifafacts/mencompwc/51/97/75/fs-201_19a_fwc-prel-history.pdf FIFA Fact Sheet: History of the FIFA World Cup (TM) Preliminary Competition (see page 43) 2010 FIFA.com FIFA The modern Palestine, an Arab State, has no connection with the Jewish delegation from Palestine (at the time a British Mandate) who were the first Jewish national team, and as such the forerunner of Israel. https://web.archive.org/web/20100614212731/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/fifafacts/mencompwc/51/97/75/fs-201_19a_fwc-prel-history.pdf 14 June 2010 dead 9 June 2010 However, the region currently known as Palestine is considered one of the first Asian teams to compete in the FIFA World Cup qualifiers.http://m.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/teams/team=43989/index.html Palestine (PLE) FIFA.com FIFA https://web.archive.org/web/20071110210117/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/teams/team=43989/index.html 10 November 2007 dead 23 September 2011 main WDL yes EGY PAL TUR complete None 2 0 0 11 2 0 0 2 2 11 0 0 0 0 0 EGY 1922 PAL TUR 2 Q KO WD green1 Final tournament black1 Withdrew 16 March 1934 EGY 1922 7–1 ReportReport PAL El-Tetsh 11 35 51Taha 21 79Latif 43 87 Nudelman Cairo, Egypt British Army Ground Stanley Wells (England) 13,000 6 April 1934 PAL 1–4 ReportReport EGY 1922 Sukenik 54 Latif 2El-Tetsh 7 22 Fawzi 35 Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine Palms Ground 5,000 / 8,000 Frederick Goodsby (England) 11–2 on aggregate; Egypt qualified. Qualified teams Only six of the teams qualifying for the final competition – Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, France, Romania, and the USA – had already attended the World Cup in 1930. thumb|500px|1934 FIFA World Cup qualification participants thumb|500px|Qualifying countries TeamFinals AppearanceStreakLast AppearanceARG2nd21930AUT1st1—BEL2nd21930BRA 18892nd21930TCH1st1—EGY 19221st1—FRA2nd21930GER empire1st1—HUN 19151st1—ITA 18611st1—NED1st1—ROU2nd21930ESP 19311st1—SWE1st1—SUI1st1—USA 19122nd21930 Goalscorers 7 goals CUB Mario López MEX 1934 Dionisio Mejía SPA 1931 Isidro Lángara 5 goals 20em yes EGY 1922 Mahmoud Mokhtar El Tetsh Irish Free State Paddy Moore 4 goals FRA Jean Nicolas GER empire Josef Rasselnberg NED Beb Bakhuys USA 1912 Aldo Donelli 3 goals 20em yes AUT Johann Horvath EGY 1922 Mohamed Latif GER empire Karl Hohmann HUN 1915 Gábor P. Szabó MEX 1934 Manuel Alonso NED Kick Smit 2 goals 20em yes BEL François Vanden Eynde CUB Héctor Socorro EGY 1922 Mostafa Taha HAI 1859 Robert St. Fort HUN 1915 József Solti ITA 1861 Giuseppe Meazza NED Leen Vente ROU Ștefan Dobay SPA 1931 Luis Regueiro SWE Bertil Ericsson SWE Knut Hansson Kingdom of Yugoslavia Vladimir Kragić 1 goal 20em yes AUT Matthias Sindelar AUT Rudolf Viertl AUT Karl Zischek BEL Jean Capelle BEL Stan Vanden Eynde BEL Laurent Grimmonprez BEL Bernard Voorhoof BUL Dimitar Baikushev BUL Mihail Lozanov BUL Vladimir Todorov CUB Enrique Ferrer CUB Ángel Martínez CUB Francisco Socorro CUB Salvador Soto TCH František Pelcner TCH Josef Silný EGY 1922 Abdulrahman Fawzi EST Leonhard Kass EST Richard Kuremaa FRA Alfred Aston FRA Ernest Libérati GER empire Ernst Albrecht GER empire Willi Wigold HUN 1915 Imre Markos HUN 1915 György Sárosi HUN 1915 Géza Toldi Irish Free State Johnny Squires ITA 1861 Giovanni Ferrari ITA 1861 Anfilogino Guarisi LUX Ernest Mengel LUX Théophile Speicher PAL football Avraham Nudelmann PAL football Yohanan Sukenik MEX 1934 Fernando Marcos MEX 1934 Felipe Rosas MEX 1934 José Ruvalcaba MEX 1934 Jorge Sota POL 1928 Henryk Martyna POR Vítor Silva ROU Sándor Schwartz ROU Grațian Sepi SPA 1931 Eduardo González SPA 1931 Martí Ventolrà SWE Sven Andersson SWE Lennart Bunke SWE Torsten Bunke SWE Knut Kroon SUI Alessandro Frigerio SUI Erwin Hochsträsser SUI Ernst Hufschmid SUI Willy Jäggi Kingdom of Yugoslavia Blagoje Marjanović Footnotes 30em References 30em External links 1934 FIFA World Cup qualification at FIFA.com 1934 FIFA World Cup qualification at RSSSF.com Qualification Category:FIFA World Cup qualification