Talk:1966 FIFA World Cup qualification

Moved per consensus. --Pkchan 13:30, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

AFC First Round
Why did the move from Japan to Cambodia make South Korea withdraw? What was the reasoning for their protest? Article doesn't say why. Transaction Go (talk) 15:56, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Count of CAF/AFC countries
I wasn't sure if the 18 was correct, so I checked it against the FIFA document FIFA Fact Sheet: History of the FIFA World Cup (TM) Preliminary Competition (by year)

Entries were received from 21 teams: 1 from Oceania (Australia), 3 from Asia (Korea, Korea DPR, Philippines), and 17 from Africa (Algeria, Cameroon, French Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia, UAR/Egypt). The applications from Philippines, French Congo, and (due to apartheid) South Africa were rejected, leaving 1 from Oceania, 2 from Asia, 15 from Africa - so the 18 is correct if rejections are accounted for. (There's sometimes inconsistency in the way they are counted on these pages.) Later Korea and all 15 African countries would withdraw, leaving Australia and Korea DPR to battle it out. --Crabbylucy (talk) 08:09, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Clickable format
I'm not sure this is appropriate, but all other qualification main pages list all games played and all the tables. Shouldn't this also be the case here? Zokniaw (talk) 11:26, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Of course it should. I had the same reaction. Fomalhaut76 (talk) 22:04, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

The map
The map shows three African countries as qualified, among them Mozambique. I don't understand how that happened, but it should be changed (by somenone who, unlike me, knows how to do it...). Fomalhaut76 (talk) 22:04, 20 July 2011 (UTC)


 * All of a sudden I understood now, that Mozambique and Angola are marked as taking part of the 1966 World Cup, because they were then colonies to Portugal. But should colonies really be seen as part of their "mother countries" on a map like this?  Fomalhaut76 (talk) 15:49, 5 July 2012 (UTC)


 * By this time Portugal did not have colonies but rather "overseas provinces" so technically they were the same as the rest of Portugal except detached from the rest of the nation. I won't pretend to know if it would be appropriate if they were in fact colonies. --RevTenderBranson (talk) 08:36, 29 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Several of the players were in fact from Angola and Mozambique, so Portuguese participation in 1966 was not exclusive of mainland Portugal — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.28.190.206 (talk) 15:02, 24 October 2013 (UTC)