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= FIFA World Cup qualification 1957 =

# Date Wed Jan 16 - Sun Dec 22 1957 (340d) # Teams 45 # Matches 82 Wed Jan 16 Portugal 1-1 Northern Ireland @ Lisbon, Portugal (Manuel Vasques 24'; Billy Bingham 6') Sun Feb 10 Guatemala 2-6 Costa Rica @ Guatemala City, Guatemala (Jorge Vickers 19' Augusto Espinoza 87'; Jorge Monge 11',28',38' Rubén Jiménez Rodríguez 17' Danilo Montero Campos 48' Álvaro Murillo 78') Sun Feb 17 Costa Rica 3-1 Guatemala @ San José, Costa Rica (Rubén Jiménez Rodríguez 12' Mario Cordero 28' Rodolfo Herrera González 65'; Francisco López Contreras 61') Sun Mar 3 Costa Rica 4-0 Netherlands Antilles @ San José, Costa Rica (Rodolfo Herrera González 16',63' Álvaro Murillo 35',67') Fri Mar 8 Sudan 1-0 Syria @ Khartoum, Sudan (Siddiq Manzul 78'(p)) Sun Mar 10 Spain 2-2 Switzerland @ Madrid, Spain (Luis Suárez Miramontes 30' Miguel González 48'; Josef Hügi 6',67') Thu Mar 14 Guatemala 1-3 Netherlands Antilles @ Guatemala City, Guatemala (Francisco López Contreras 51'; Wilfred de Lanoy 23',31' Edgard Meulens 65') Wed Mar 20 Netherlands 4-1 Luxembourg @ Rotterdam, Netherlands (Cor van der Gijp 27',30' Coen Dillen 72' Toon Brusselers 80'; Johnny Halsdorf 34') Sun Apr 7 Mexico 6-0 United States @ Mexico City, Mexico (Crescencio Gutiérrez 14',26' Salvador Reyes Monteón 33',69',76' Héctor Hernández 63') Sat Apr 13 Peru 1-1 Brazil @ Lima, Peru (Alberto Terry 38'; Aluísio Francisco da Luz 47') Sun Apr 21 Brazil 1-0 Peru @ Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Valdir Pereira 11') Thu Apr 25 Italy 1-0 Northern Ireland @ Rome, Italy (Sergio Cervato 3') Sun Apr 28 United States 2-7 Mexico @ Long Beach, United States (Ed Murphy 5',45'; Alfredo Hernández 22',36',82' Crescencio Gutiérrez 38' Héctor Hernández 65',87' Enrique Sesma 79') Wed May 1 Northern Ireland 3-0 Portugal @ Belfast, Northern Ireland (Tommy Casey 22' Billy Simpson 60' Jimmy McIlroy 70'(p)) Wales 1-0 Czechoslovakia @ Cardiff, Wales (Roy Vernon 75') Sun May 5 Greece 0-0 Yugoslavia @ Athens, Greece Wed May 8 England 5-1 Republic of Ireland @ London, England (Tommy Taylor 10',19',40' John Atyeo 38',90'; Dermot Curtis 56') Scotland 4-2 Spain @ Glasgow, Scotland (Jackie Mudie 22',70',79' John Hewie 41'(p); Luis Suárez Miramontes 19' Ladislao Kubala 28') Sun May 12 Indonesia 2-0 China PR @ Jakarta, Indonesia (Rusli Ramang 47',80') Wed May 15 Denmark 1-4 England @ Copenhagen, Denmark (John Jensen 27'; Johnny Haynes 28' Tommy Taylor 71',86' John Atyeo 75') Sun May 19 German DR 2-1 Wales @ Leipzig, German DR (Günther Wirth 21' Willy Tröger 61'; Mel Charles 6') Republic of Ireland 1-1 England @ Dublin, Republic of Ireland (Alf Ringstead 3'; John Atyeo 90') Switzerland 1-2 Scotland @ Basel, Switzerland (Roger Vonlanthen 13'; Jackie Mudie 33' Tommy Ring 71') Wed May 22 Norway 1-2 Bulgaria @ Oslo, Norway (Harald Hennum 47'; Georgi Dimitrov 38',75') Fri May 24 Syria 1-1 Sudan @ Damascus, Syria (Jabra Al-Zarqa 70'; Suleiman Faris 38') Sun May 26 Austria 3-2 Netherlands @ Vienna, Austria (Karl Koller 47' Hans Buzek 80' Karl Stotz 89'(p); Noud van Melis 30',32') Czechoslovakia 2-0 Wales @ Prague, Czechoslovakia (Ray Daniel 21'(og) Tadeusz Kraus 65') Portugal 3-0 Italy @ Oeiras, Portugal (Manuel Vasques 41' António Dias Teixeira 81' Matateu 87') Spain 4-1 Scotland @ Madrid, Spain (Enrique Mateos 11' Ladislao Kubala 33' Estanislau Basora 60',87'; Gordon Smith 79') Sun Jun 2 China PR 4-3 Indonesia @ Beijing, China PR (Zhang Honggen 1' Nian Weisi 9' Sun Fucheng 47' Wang Lu 75'; Rusli Ramang 25',55' Endang Witarsa 70') France 8-0 Iceland @ Nantes, France (Célestin Oliver 6',11' Jean Vincent 29',83' René Dereuddre 36' Roger Piantoni 45',81' Said Brahimi 49') Wed Jun 5 Belgium 8-3 Iceland @ Brussels, Belgium (Richard Orlans 4',57' André Piters 11' Paul Vandenberg 12' Victor Mees 22',26' Henri Coppens 42',44'(p); Þórður Þórðarson 33',77' Ríkharður Jónsson 81') Wed Jun 12 Norway 2-1 Hungary @ Oslo, Norway (Harald Hennum 10' Kjell Kristiansen 78'; Lajos Tichy 43') Sun Jun 16 Colombia 1-1 Uruguay @ Bogotá, Colombia (Carlos Arango 15'; Javier Ambrois 46') Czechoslovakia 3-1 German DR @ Brno, Czechoslovakia (Tadeusz Kraus 60' Vlastimil Bubník 81' Pavol Molnár 89'; Günther Wirth 18') Greece 1-2 Romania @ Athens, Greece (Vaggelis Panakis 29'; Alexandru Ene 15' Titus Ozon 78') Thu Jun 20 Colombia 2-3 Paraguay @ Bogotá, Colombia (Jaime Gutiérrez 10' Ricardo Díaz 89'; Ángel Jara Saguier 34' Juan Bautista Agüero 68' Óscar Aguilera 88') Sat Jun 22 Canada 5-1 United States @ Toronto, Canada (Norm McLeod 32' Brian Philley 35' Art Hughes 55',80' Gogie Stewart 57'; Harry Keough 35'(p)) Sun Jun 23 China PR 0-0 Indonesia @ Yangon, Burma Hungary 4-1 Bulgaria @ Budapest, Hungary (Ferenc Machos 5',14',30' József Bozsik 52'; Ivan Kolev 69') Soviet Union 3-0 Poland @ Moscow, Soviet Union (Boris Tatushin 9' Nikita Simonyan 55' Anatoli Ilyin 77') Sun Jun 30 Mexico 3-0 Canada @ Mexico City, Mexico (Carlos González 5',72' Crescencio Gutiérrez 46') Uruguay 1-0 Colombia @ Montevideo, Uruguay (Óscar Míguez 89'(p)) Wed Jul 3 Mexico 2-0 Canada @ Mexico City, Mexico (Crescencio Gutiérrez 8' Enrique Sesma 28') Fri Jul 5 Finland 1-3 Poland @ Helsinki, Finland (Mauri Vanhanen 72'; Edward Jankowski 19',56',65') Sat Jul 6 United States 2-3 Canada @ St. Louis, United States (Ruben Mendoza 42' James Murphy 80'; Brian Philley 9' Ostap Steckiw 14' Gogie Stewart 25') Sun Jul 7 Paraguay 3-0 Colombia @ Asunción, Paraguay (Enrique Jara Saguier 11',77' Juan Bautista Agüero 27') Sun Jul 14 Paraguay 5-0 Uruguay @ Asunción, Paraguay (Florencio Amarilla 5',48',57' Ángel Jara Saguier 88' Juan Bautista Agüero 90') Sat Jul 27 Soviet Union 2-1 Finland @ Moscow, Soviet Union (Yuriy Voynov 23' Igor Netto 62'; Olavi Lahtinen 42') Sun Jul 28 Uruguay 2-0 Paraguay @ Montevideo, Uruguay (Eladio Benítez 8' William Martínez 88') Sun Aug 4 Netherlands Antilles 1-2 Costa Rica @ Willemstad, Curaçao (Hubert Sambo 21'; Mario Cordero 53' Danilo Montero Campos 60') Thu Aug 15 Finland 0-10 Soviet Union @ Helsinki, Finland (Igor Netto 6' Nikita Simonyan 9',13',31' Anatoli Isayev 12',20' Eduard Streltsov 29',49' Anatoli Ilyin 60',87') Sun Sep 1 Iceland 1-5 France @ Reykjavík, Iceland (Þórður Jónsson 64'; Thadée Cisowski 29',32' Joseph Ujlaki 48',66' Maryan Wisniewski 53') Wed Sep 4 Iceland 2-5 Belgium @ Reykjavík, Iceland (Ríkharður Jónsson 1' Þórður Jónsson 65'; André van Herpe 9' Maurice Willems 40' Paul Vandenberg 64',81',89') Wed Sep 11 Netherlands 5-2 Luxembourg @ Rotterdam, Netherlands (Abe Lenstra 15',28' Servaas Wilkes 26' Noud van Melis 35' Kees Rijvers 54'; Jean-Pierre Fiedler 5' Léon Letsch 58') Sun Sep 15 Bulgaria 1-2 Hungary @ Sofia, Bulgaria (Todor Diev 43'; Nándor Hidegkuti 2',34') Sun Sep 22 Chile 2-1 Bolivia @ Santiago, Chile (Guillermo Díaz 62' Jaime Ramírez 68'; Ricardo Alcón 36') Wed Sep 25 Netherlands 1-1 Austria @ Amsterdam, Netherlands (Abe Lenstra 63'; Gerhard Hanappi 29') Wales 4-1 German DR @ Cardiff, Wales (Des Palmer 38',44',73' Cliff Jones 42'; Manfred Kaiser 57') Sun Sep 29 Bolivia 3-0 Chile @ La Paz, Bolivia (Ausberto García 30' Máximo Alcócer 70',86') Luxembourg 0-3 Austria @ Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Robert Dienst 19' Hans Buzek 47' Helmut Senekowitsch 66') Romania 1-1 Yugoslavia @ Bucharest, Romania (Alexandru Ene 78'; Muhamed Mujić 79') Wed Oct 2 Denmark 0-2 Republic of Ireland @ Copenhagen, Denmark (George Cummins 53' Dermot Curtis 61') Sun Oct 6 Bolivia 2-0 Argentina @ La Paz, Bolivia (Máximo Alcócer 13' Ausberto García 75') Sun Oct 13 Chile 0-2 Argentina @ Santiago, Chile (Norberto Menéndez 40' Norberto Conde 61') Sun Oct 20 Argentina 4-0 Chile @ Buenos Aires, Argentina (Oreste Corbatta 1',41' Norberto Menéndez 13' Roberto Zárate 45') Mexico 2-0 Costa Rica @ Mexico City, Mexico (Jaime Belmonte 77' Ligorio López 86') Poland 2-1 Soviet Union @ Chorzów, Poland (Gerard Cieślik 43',50'; Valentin Kozmich Ivanov 80') Sun Oct 27 Argentina 4-0 Bolivia @ Avellaneda, Argentina (Roberto Zárate 8' Oreste Corbatta 62' Eliseo Prado 63' Norberto Menéndez 64') Belgium 0-0 France @ Brussels, Belgium Costa Rica 1-1 Mexico @ San José, Costa Rica (Juan Soto Quiros 32'; Ligorio López 27') German DR 1-4 Czechoslovakia @ Leipzig, German DR (Helmut Müller 35'; Tadeusz Kraus 4',88' Anton Moravčík 23' Ladislav Novák 43') Sun Nov 3 Bulgaria 7-0 Norway @ Sofia, Bulgaria (Hristo Iliev 6',60',74' Panayot Panayotov 29',32' Krum Yanev 59' Spiro Debarski 77') Poland 4-0 Finland @ Warsaw, Poland (Ginter Gawlik 2' Lucjan Brychczy 4',48' Edward Jankowski 60') Romania 3-0 Greece @ Bucharest, Romania (Iosif Petschovsky 51'(p) Nicolae Tătaru 64' Cornel Cacoveanu 67') Wed Nov 6 Scotland 3-2 Switzerland @ Glasgow, Scotland (Archie Robertson 29' Jackie Mudie 52' Alex Scott 70'; Ferdinando Riva 35' Roger Vonlanthen 79') Sun Nov 10 Hungary 5-0 Norway @ Budapest, Hungary (Károly Sándor 12' Lajos Csordás 20',71' Ferenc Machos 69' Edgar Falch 74'(og)) Yugoslavia 4-1 Greece @ Belgrade, Yugoslavia (Muhamed Mujić 6',61' Dobrosav Krstić 9' Aleksandar Petaković 67'; Kostas Nestoridis 28') Sun Nov 17 Yugoslavia 2-0 Romania @ Belgrade, Yugoslavia (Miloš Milutinović 52',58') Sun Nov 24 Poland 0-2 Soviet Union @ Leipzig, German DR (Eduard Streltsov 31' Genrich Fedosov 75') Switzerland 1-4 Spain @ Lausanne, Switzerland (Robert Ballaman 61'; Ladislao Kubala 19',72' Alfredo Di Stéfano 24',55') Sun Dec 22 Italy 3-0 Portugal @ Milan, Italy (Guido Gratton 36',72' Gino Pivatelli 84')

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