1966 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 2

Football tournament

See also: 1966 FIFA World Cup

Main article: 1966 FIFA World Cup qualification

The three teams in this group played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The winner West Germany qualified for the eighth FIFA World Cup held in England.

## Matches[edit]

4 November 1964

West Germany | 1–1|  Sweden

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Brunnenmeier 24' | Report | Hamrin 86'

West Berlin

Attendance: 74,000

Referee: Dienst (Switzerland)

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24 April 1965

West Germany | 5–0|  Cyprus

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Sieloff 16' (pen.), 35'
Overath 22', 85'
Strehl 69' | Report |

Karlsruhe, West Germany

Attendance: 39,675

Referee: Mootz (Luxembourg)

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5 May 1965

Sweden | 3–0|  Cyprus

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Simonsson 25', 73'
Jonsson 55' | Report |

Norrköping, Sweden

Attendance: 15,796

Referee: Petursson (Iceland)

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26 September 1965

Sweden | 1–2|  West Germany

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Jonsson 44' | Report | Krämer 45'
Seeler 54'

Stockholm, Sweden

Attendance: 52,943

Referee: Dagnall (England)

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7 November 1965

Cyprus | 0–5|  Sweden

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| Report | Granström 24', 25'
Kindvall 37'
B. Larsson 40', 87'

Famagusta, Cyprus

Attendance: 2,716

Referee: Zsengeller (Hungary)

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14 November 1965

Cyprus | 0–6|  West Germany

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| Report | Heiß 30'
Krämer 32'
Szymaniak 57'
Brunnenmeier 82', 88'
Panayiotou 87' (o.g.)

Nicosia, Cyprus

Attendance: 3,412

Referee: Francescon (Italy)

West Germany qualified.

## Final Table[edit]

Final table |  | Home | Away

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Rank  | Team  | Pld  | W  | D  | L  | GF  | GA  | GD  | Pts  |  |  |  |  |  | Pld  | W  | D  | L  | GF  | GA  | Pts  | Pld  | W  | D  | L  | GF  | GA  | Pts
1\.  |  West Germany | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 2 | +12 | 7 |  | X | 1:1 | 5:0 |  | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 4
2\.  |  Sweden | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 3 | +7 | 5 |  | 1:2 | X | 3:0 |  | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3
3\.  |  Cyprus | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 19 | -19 | 0 |  | 0:6 | 0:5 | X |  | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0

## Team stats[edit]

###  West Germany[edit]

Head coach:  Helmut Schön

Pos.  | Player  | DoB  | Games
played | Goals | Minutes
played | Sub off | Sub on |  |  |  |  | Club

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DF | Franz Beckenbauer | 11 September 1945 | 2 | 0 | 180 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 90 | 90 |  FC Bayern Munich
FW | Rudolf Brunnenmeier | 11 February 1941 | 3 | 3 | 270 | 0 | 0 | 90 | - | 90 | 90 |  TSV 1860 Munich
FW | Charly Dörfel | 18 September 1939 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 90 | - | - | - |  Hamburger SV
MF | Willi Giesemann | 2 September 1937 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 90 | - | - | - |  Hamburger SV
MF | Peter Grosser | 28 September 1938 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 90 | - |  TSV 1860 Munich
MF | Helmut Haller | 21 July 1939 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 90 | - | - | - |  Bologna F.C. 1909
FW | Alfred Heiß | 5 December 1940 | 1 | 1 | 90 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 90 |  TSV 1860 Munich
FW | Heinz Hornig | 28 September 1937 | 2 | 0 | 180 | 0 | 0 | - | 90 | - | 90 |  1\. FC Köln
DF | Horst-Dieter Höttges | 10 September 1943 | 3 | 0 | 270 | 0 | 0 | - | 90 | 90 | 90 |  SV Werder Bremen
FW | Timo Konietzka | 2 August 1938 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | - | 90 | - | - |  Borussia Dortmund
FW | Werner Krämer | 23 January 1940 | 2 | 2 | 180 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 90 | 90 |  Meidericher SV
MF | Max Lorenz | 19 August 1939 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | - | 90 | - | - |  SV Werder Bremen
GK | Manfred Manglitz | 8 March 1940 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | - | 90 | - | - |  Meidericher SV
MF | Günter Netzer | 14 September 1944 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 90 |  Borussia Mönchengladbach
DF | Hans Nowak | 9 August 1937 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 90 | - | - | - |  FC Schalke 04
MF | Wolfgang Overath | 29 September 1943 | 2 | 2 | 180 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 90 | - | - |  1\. FC Köln
DF | Bernd Patzke | 14 March 1943 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | - | 90 | - | - |  TSV 1860 Munich
DF | Sepp Piontek | 5 March 1940 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 90 |  SV Werder Bremen
DF | Karl-Heinz Schnellinger | 31 March 1939 | 2 | 0 | 180 | 0 | 0 | 90 | - |  |  |  A.S. Roma
|  | 90 | - |  A.C. Milan
DF | Willi Schulz | 4 October 1938 | 2 | 0 | 180 | 0 | 0 | - | 90 |  |  |  FC Schalke 04
|  | 90 | - |  Hamburger SV
FW | Uwe Seeler | 5 November 1936 | 2 | 1 | 180 | 0 | 0 | 90 | - | 90 | - |  Hamburger SV
DF | Klaus-Dieter Sieloff | 27 February 1942 | 2 | 2 | 180 | 0 | 0 | - | 90 | 90 | - |  VfB Stuttgart
FW | Heinz Strehl | 20 July 1938 | 1 | 1 | 90 | 0 | 0 | - | 90 | - | - |  1\. FC Nürnberg
MF | Horst Szymaniak | 29 August 1934 | 3 | 1 | 270 | 0 | 0 | 90 | - |  |  |  A.S. Varese 1910
|  | 90 | 90 |  Tasmania 1900 Berlin
GK | Hans Tilkowski | 12 July 1935 | 3 | 0 | 270 | 0 | 0 | 90 | - | 90 | 90 |  Borussia Dortmund
FW | Lothar Ulsaß | 9 September 1940 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | - | 90 | - | - |  Eintracht Braunschweig
DF | Wolfgang Weber | 26 June 1944 | 2 | 0 | 180 | 0 | 0 | 90 | - | - | 90 |  1\. FC Köln

###  Sweden[edit]

Head coach:  Lennart Nyman

Pos.  | Player  | DoB  | Games
played | Goals | Minutes
played | Sub off | Sub on |  |  |  |  | Club

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FW | Kurt Andersson | 24 April 1939 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 90 | - | - | - |  A.S. Varese 1910
GK | Arne Arvidsson | 19 January 1929 | 3 | 0 | 270 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 90 | 90 | - |  Djurgårdens IF
FW | Lennart Backman | 7 February 1934 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 90 |  AIK Fotboll
DF | Orvar Bergmark | 16 November 1930 | 4 | 0 | 360 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 90 | 90 | 90 |  Örebro SK
FW | Harry Bild | 18 December 1936 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 90 | - |  Feyenoord
FW | Ove Grahn | 9 May 1943 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 90 | - |  IF Elfsborg
FW | Lars Granström | 8 December 1942 | 1 | 2 | 90 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 90 |  Malmö FF
FW | Kurt Hamrin | 19 November 1934 | 2 | 1 | 180 | 0 | 0 | 90 | - | 90 | - |  AC Fiorentina
MF | Lennart Hemming | 13 May 1932 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | - | 90 | - | - |  AIK Fotboll
MF | Åke Johansson | 19 March 1928 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 90 | - |  IFK Norrköping
FW | Torbjörn Jonsson | 6 May 1936 | 3 | 2 | 270 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 90 | 90 | - | /1-[1] A.C. Mantova
DF | Jan Karlsson | 4 December 1940 | 2 | 0 | 180 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 90 | 90 | /2[2] Bromölla IF
MF | Ove Kindvall | 16 May 1943 | 1 | 1 | 90 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 90 |  IFK Norrköping
FW | Bo Larsson | 5 May 1944 | 2 | 2 | 180 | 0 | 0 | - | 90 | - | 90 |  Malmö FF
GK | Sven-Gunnar Larsson | 10 May 1940 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 90 |  Örebro SK
MF | Bengt Lindskog | 25 February 1933 | 3 | 0 | 270 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 90 | - | 90 | /2[2] IFK Malmö
FW | Roger Magnusson | 20 March 1945 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | - | 90 | - | - | /2[2] Åtvidabergs FF
FW | Örjan Martinsson | 1 November 1936 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 90 | - | - | - |  IFK Norrköping
DF | Hans Mild | 31 July 1934 | 3 | 0 | 270 | 0 | 0 | 90 | - | 90 | 90 |  Djurgårdens IF
MF | Örjan Persson | 27 August 1942 | 3 | 0 | 270 | 0 | 0 | - | 90 | 90 | 90 |  Dundee United F.C.
DF | Hans Rosander | 5 January 1937 | 2 | 0 | 180 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 90 | - | - |  IFK Norrköping
FW | Agne Simonsson | 19 October 1935 | 2 | 2 | 180 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 90 | - | - |  Örgryte IS
DF | Lennart Wing | 7 August 1935 | 4 | 0 | 360 | 0 | 0 | 90 |  |  |  |  Örgryte IS
| 90 | 90 | 90 |  Dundee United F.C.

1. ^ After two qualification matches A.C. Mantova was relegated to league two.
2. ^ a b c The number indicates the league the team played in that year.

###  Cyprus[edit]

Head coach:  Argyrios Gavalas

Pos.  | Player  | DoB  | Games
played | Goals | Minutes
played | Sub off | Sub on |  |  |  |  | Club

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DF | Andros Antoniadis |  | 4 | 0 | 360 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 90 | 90 | 90 |  APOEL F.C.
GK | Nicos Eleftheriadis | 31 August 1937  | 4 | 0 | 360 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 90 | 90 | 90 |  Omonia Nicosia
DF | Panikos Iakovou |  | 4 | 0 | 360 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 90 | 90 | 90 |  Anorthosis
MF | Drosos Kalotheou |  | 2 | 0 | 180 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 90 | 90 |  Omonia Nicosia
MF | Nikakis Kantzilieris | 1943 | 2 | 0 | 180 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 90 | - | - |  APOEL F.C.
DF | Costas Kattos |  | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 90 |  Omonia Nicosia
DF | Antonis Kkaras |  | 4 | 0 | 360 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 90 | 90 | 90 |  Anorthosis
MF | Panicos Krystallis | 1 July 1938 | 4 | 0 | 360 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 90 | 90 | 90 |  Apollon Limassol
MF | Marios Orfanidis | 16 March 1940 | 2 | 0 | 180 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 90 | 90 |  Nea Salamina
DF | Costas Panayiotou |  | 4 | 0 | 360 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 90 | 90 | 90 |  Omonia Nicosia
FW | Pamboulis Papadopoulos |  | 4 | 0 | 360 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 90 | 90 | 90 |  AEL Limassol
FW | Panicos Papadopoulos |  | 2 | 0 | 180 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 90 | - | - |  AEL Limassol
DF | Panayiotis Pieris |  | 3 | 0 | 270 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 90 | 90 | - |  Anorthosis
FW | Andreas Stylianou | 23 January 1942 | 4 | 0 | 360 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 90 | 90 | 90 |  APOEL F.C.

## External links[edit]

* FIFA official page
* RSSSF - 1966 World Cup Qualification
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