1966 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)

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.

Goalscorers
7 goals
 * Eusébio

6 goals
 * Mimis Papaioannou

5 goals
 * 🇧🇪 Paul Van Himst
 * 🇧🇬 Georgi Asparuhov
 * 🇮🇹 Sandro Mazzola
 * Johnny Crossan
 * 🇵🇱 Włodzimierz Lubański
 * Anatoliy Banishevskiy

4 goals
 * 🇧🇬 Nikola Kotkov
 * František Knebort
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Roy Vernon
 * Milan Galić

3 goals


 * 🇧🇪 Johnny Thio
 * 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 Brunnenmeier

2 goals


 * Ivan Mráz
 * 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 Džajić

1 goal


 * 🇦🇱 Mexhit Haxhiu
 * 🇦🇱 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 Vasović

1 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)

Qualified teams
The following 9 countries qualified for the 1966 FIFA World Cup
 * 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
 * 2Competed as Germany