Group 3 consisted of five of the 34 teams entered into the European zone: [1] Czechoslovakia, Iceland, Soviet Union, Turkey, and Wales. These five teams competed on a home-and-away basis for two of the 14 spots in the final tournament allocated to the European zone, with the group's winner and runner-up claiming those spots.
Rank | Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
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1 | ![]() | 14 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 2 | +18 |
2 | ![]() | 10 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 6 | +9 |
3 | ![]() | 10 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 7 | +5 |
4 | ![]() | 6 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 21 | −11 |
5 | ![]() | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 22 | −21 |
Turkey ![]() | 1 – 3 | ![]() |
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Fatih ![]() | Report | Guðlaugsson ![]() A. Guðmundsson ![]() T. Þórðarson ![]() |
Wales ![]() | 1 – 0 | ![]() |
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Giles ![]() | Report |
Czechoslovakia ![]() | 2 – 0 | ![]() |
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Nehoda ![]() | Report |
Czechoslovakia ![]() | 6 – 1 | ![]() |
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Vízek ![]() Panenka ![]() Nehoda ![]() Bjarnason ![]() Kozák ![]() Janečka ![]() | Report | Bergs ![]() |
Wales ![]() | 0 – 0 | ![]() |
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Report |
Iceland ![]() | 2 – 0 | ![]() |
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L. Guðmundsson ![]() A. Eðvaldsson ![]() | Report |
Soviet Union ![]() | 4 – 0 | ![]() |
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Chivadze ![]() Demianenko ![]() Blokhin ![]() Shengelia ![]() | Report |
Iceland ![]() | 1 – 1 | ![]() |
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Ormslev ![]() | Report | Kozák ![]() |
Turkey ![]() | 0 – 3 | ![]() |
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Report | Shengelia ![]() Blokhin ![]() |
Soviet Union ![]() | 2 – 0 | ![]() |
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Shengelia ![]() | Report |
Czechoslovakia ![]() | 1 – 1 | ![]() |
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Vojaček ![]() | Report | Blokhin ![]() |