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= FIFA World Cup qualification 1973 =
Sat Jan 13
Italy 0-0 Turkey @ Naples, Italy
Wed Jan 17
Greece 2-3 Spain @ Athens, Greece
(Mimis Domazos 41' Giorgos Koudas 56';
Rubén Óscar Valdez 40',86' José Claramunt 65')
Wed Jan 24
England 1-1 Wales @ London, England
(Norman Hunter 41';
John Toshack 23')
Sun Feb 4
Cameroon 0-1 Zaïre @ Douala, Cameroon
(Jean Kalala N'Tumba 2')
Sat Feb 10
Nigeria 2-3 Ghana @ Lagos, Nigeria
(Kenneth Olayombo 15' Yakubu Mambo 23';
Kwasi Owusu 18'(p),55',82')
Sun Feb 11
Guinea 1-1 Morocco @ Conakry, Guinea
(Chérif Souleymane 38';
Moustapha Choukri 22')
Tunisia 1-1 Ivory Coast @ Tunis, Tunisia
(Mohieddine Habita 48'(p);
Noël Kouamé 17')
Wed Feb 14
Cyprus 1-0 Northern Ireland @ Akdoğan, Cyprus
(Kokos Antoniou 88')
Wed Feb 21
Spain 3-1 Greece @ Málaga, Spain
(José Claramunt 29' Juan Cruz Sol 39' Roberto Juan Martínez 78';
Antonis Antoniadis 37')
Sun Feb 25
Zaïre 0-1 Cameroon @ Kinshasa, Zaïre
(Paul-Gaston N'Dongo 43')
Ghana 0-0 Nigeria @ Accra, Ghana
Ivory Coast 2-1 Tunisia @ Abidjan, Ivory Coast
(Bernard N'Guessan 44',85'(p);
Abdesselam Adhouma 15')
Morocco 2-0 Guinea @ Tétouan, Morocco
(Ahmed Faras 60',68')
Turkey 0-1 Italy @ Istanbul, Turkey
(Pietro Anastasi 35')
Tue Feb 27
Zaïre 2-0 Cameroon @ Kinshasa, Zaïre
(Kakoko Etepé 3' Kamunda Tshinabu 88'(p))
Sun Mar 4
New Zealand 1-1 Australia @ Auckland, New Zealand
(Brian Turner 57';
Ernie Campbell 85')
Sun Mar 11
Australia 3-1 Iraq @ Sydney, Australia
(Ray Richards 49' Adrian Alston 80',85';
Riyadh Nouri 89')
Indonesia 1-1 New Zealand @ Sydney, Australia
(Sarman Panggabean 13';
Alan Vest 74')
Tue Mar 13
Australia 2-1 Indonesia @ Sydney, Australia
(Ernie Campbell 23' Adrian Alston 42';
Iswadi Idris 36')
Iraq 2-0 New Zealand @ Sydney, Australia
(Bashar Rashid 10' Sabah Hatim 40')
Fri Mar 16
Australia 3-3 New Zealand @ Sydney, Australia
(Doug Utjesenovic 11' Ray Baartz 19' Branko Buljevic 26';
Alan Vest 10' Dennis Tindall 50' Bobby Hogg 86'(og))
Iraq 1-1 Indonesia @ Sydney, Australia
(Ali Kadhim 23';
Iswadi Idris 43')
Sun Mar 18
Australia 0-0 Iraq @ Melbourne, Australia
Indonesia 1-0 New Zealand @ Melbourne, Australia
(Maurice Tillotson 7'(og))
Wed Mar 21
Iraq 3-2 Indonesia @ Sydney, Australia
(Douglas Aziz 22'(p) Salah Obeid 33' Riyadh Nouri 72';
Sarman Panggabean 25' Anjas Asmara 58')
Sat Mar 24
Australia 6-0 Indonesia @ Sydney, Australia
(Jimmy Mackay 3',40' Attila Abonyi 23',54' Ray Richards 72' Ray Baartz 78')
Iraq 4-0 New Zealand @ Sydney, Australia
(Sabah Hatim 4',15',67' Ali Kadhim 23')
Wed Mar 28
Northern Ireland 1-1 Portugal @ Coventry, England
(Martin O'Neill 18';
Eusébio 84'(p))
Wales 2-0 Poland @ Cardiff, Wales
(Leighton James 46' Trevor Hockey 85')
Sat Mar 31
Italy 5-0 Luxembourg @ Genoa, Italy
(Gigi Riva 18',45',70',80' Gianni Rivera 63')
Sun Apr 1
Ethiopia 0-0 Zambia @ Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Sun Apr 8
German DR 2-0 Albania @ Magdeburg, German DR
(Joachim Streich 62' Jürgen Sparwasser 69')
Luxembourg 0-1 Switzerland @ Luxembourg, Luxembourg
(Karl Odermatt 20')
Sun Apr 15
Zambia 4-2 Ethiopia @ Lusaka, Zambia
(Burton Mugala 47' Boniface Simutowe 62'(p) Moses Simwala 71' Joseph Mapulanga 83';
Tariku Ingdawerk 43' Kassahun Teka 79'(p))
Sun Apr 29
Hungary 2-2 Austria @ Budapest, Hungary
(Sándor Zámbó 12' László Bálint 69';
August Starek 14' Kurt Jara 28')
Peru 2-0 Chile @ Lima, Peru
(Hugo Sotil 43',62')
Wed May 2
Bulgaria 2-1 Portugal @ Sofia, Bulgaria
(Georgi Denev 38' Hristo Bonev 60';
Nené 74')
Denmark 1-1 Czechoslovakia @ Copenhagen, Denmark
(Ole Bjørnmose 15';
Ladislav Petráš 32')
Fri May 4
Iran 0-0 North Korea @ Tehran, Iran
Syria 2-1 Kuwait @ Tehran, Iran
(Joseph Chahrestan 62' Nabil Nano 65';
Ibrahim Al Duraihem 57')
Sun May 6
Albania 1-4 Romania @ Tirana, Albania
(Sabah Bizi 87';
Ion Dumitru 12' Florea Dumitrache 25',57'(p) Teodor Țarălungă 72')
Iran 2-1 Kuwait @ Tehran, Iran
(Gholam Vafakhah 23' Ali Parvin 56';
Fathi Kameel 83')
North Korea 1-1 Syria @ Tehran, Iran
(Kim Jong-Min 53';
Joseph Chahrestan 71')
Tue May 8
Iran 1-0 Syria @ Tehran, Iran
(Akbar Kargarjam 85')
North Korea 0-0 Kuwait @ Tehran, Iran
Northern Ireland 3-0 Cyprus @ London, England
(Sammy Morgan 4' Trevor Anderson 32',44')
Wed May 9
Switzerland 0-0 Turkey @ Basel, Switzerland
Fri May 11
Iran 2-1 North Korea @ Tehran, Iran
(Mehdi Monajati 19' Mohammad Sadeghi 89';
Pak Sung-Jin 48')
Syria 2-0 Kuwait @ Tehran, Iran
(Samir Said 18' Joseph Chahrestan 90')
Sun May 13
Chile 2-0 Peru @ Santiago, Chile
(Julio Crisosto 68' Sergio Ahumada 71')
Iran 2-0 Kuwait @ Tehran, Iran
(Parviz Ghelichkhani 60'(p) Ali Djabari 74')
North Korea 3-0 Syria @ Tehran, Iran
(An Se-Uk 30' Ma Jung-U 39',77')
Soviet Union 1-0 Republic of Ireland @ Moscow, Soviet Union
(Volodymyr Onyshchenko 58')
Tue May 15
Iran 0-1 Syria @ Tehran, Iran
(Abdulghani Tatiche 12')
North Korea 0-2 Kuwait @ Tehran, Iran
(Hamad Khalid Bo Hamad 31',51')
Wed May 16
Israel 2-1 Japan @ Seoul, South Korea
(Moshe Onana 5',61';
Shusaku Hirasawa 28')
Thailand 0-1 Vietnam Republic @ Seoul, South Korea
(Supakit Meelarpkit 83'(og))
Thu May 17
Hong Kong 1-0 Malaysia @ Seoul, South Korea
(Lo Hung-Hoi 53')
Sat May 19
France 1-1 Republic of Ireland @ Paris, France
(Serge Chiesa 78';
Mick Martin 83')
Israel 3-0 Malaysia @ Seoul, South Korea
(Zvi Farkash 50' Itzhak Shum 62' Moshe Onana 82')
South Korea 4-0 Thailand @ Seoul, South Korea
(Kim Jae-han 52' Cha Bum-kun 60' Chung Kyu-Poong 79',84')
Sun May 20
Ivory Coast 1-1 Morocco @ Abidjan, Ivory Coast
(Kobenan Kouman 75';
Hassan Amcharrat 30')
Vietnam Republic 0-4 Japan @ Seoul, South Korea
(Kunishige Kamamoto 6',86' Koji Mori 19' Nguyễn Vinh Quang 54'(og))
Mon May 21
Israel 6-0 Thailand @ Seoul, South Korea
(George Borba 12' Mordechai Spiegler 62' Itzhak Shum 69' Zvi Rozen 73',84' Moshe Onana 78')
South Korea 0-0 Malaysia @ Seoul, South Korea
Tue May 22
Japan 0-1 Hong Kong @ Seoul, South Korea
(Kwok Ka-ming 83')
Wed May 23
South Korea 0-0 Israel @ Seoul, South Korea
Sweden 3-2 Austria @ Gothenburg, Sweden
(Roland Sandberg 24',78' Ove Grahn 52';
Kurt Jara 50' August Starek 89')
Thailand 0-2 Malaysia @ Seoul, South Korea
(Shaharuddin Abdullah 70' Harun Jusoh 89')
Thu May 24
Hong Kong 1-0 Vietnam Republic @ Seoul, South Korea
(Yuen Kuen-Chu 68')
Sat May 26
Israel 1-0 Japan @ Seoul, South Korea
(Moshe Onana 110')
South Korea 3-1 Hong Kong @ Seoul, South Korea
(Kim Jae-han 45' Park Yi-Chun 52' Chung Kyu-Poong 72';
Yuen Kuen-Chu 5')
Soviet Union 2-0 France @ Moscow, Soviet Union
(Oleg Blokhin 81' Volodymyr Onyshchenko 84')
Sun May 27
Romania 1-0 German DR @ Bucharest, Romania
(Florea Dumitrache 53')
Mon May 28
South Korea 1-0 Israel @ Seoul, South Korea
(Cha Bum-kun 109')
Sat Jun 2
Czechoslovakia 6-0 Denmark @ Prague, Czechoslovakia
(Zdeněk Nehoda 46' Bohumil Veselý 56',65',80' Přemysl Bičovský 57' Vladimír Hagara 60')
Sun Jun 3
Morocco 4-1 Ivory Coast @ Tétouan, Morocco
(Ahmed Faras 24',34' Chérif Fetoui 60' Moustapha Choukri 85';
Laurent Pokou 61')
Wed Jun 6
Finland 1-5 German DR @ Tampere, Finland
(Jarmo Manninen 88';
Joachim Streich 7',30' Wolfram Löwe 44' Peter Ducke 75' Hans-Jürgen Kreische 83')
Poland 2-0 England @ Chorzów, Poland
(Robert Gadocha 7' Włodzimierz Lubański 47')
Wed Jun 13
Hungary 3-3 Sweden @ Budapest, Hungary
(Mihály Kozma 9' Csaba Vidáts 59' Sándor Zámbó 71';
Ove Kindvall 38' Roland Sandberg 57' Ralf Edström 77')
Thu Jun 21
Colombia 1-1 Ecuador @ Bogotá, Colombia
(Willington Ortiz 44';
Washington Muñoz 72')
Sun Jun 24
Colombia 0-0 Uruguay @ Bogotá, Colombia
Thu Jun 28
Ecuador 1-1 Colombia @ Guayaquil, Ecuador
(Washington Muñoz 29';
Willington Ortiz 50')
Sun Jul 1
Ecuador 1-2 Uruguay @ Quito, Ecuador
(Ítalo Estupiñán 35';
Luis Cubilla 41' Fernando Morena 74')
Thu Jul 5
Uruguay 0-1 Colombia @ Montevideo, Uruguay
(Willington Ortiz 71')
Sun Jul 8
Uruguay 4-0 Ecuador @ Montevideo, Uruguay
(Fernando Morena 4',27' Luis Cubilla 30' Denís Milar 62')
Thu Aug 2
Iceland 0-4 Norway @ Reykjavík, Iceland
(Harald Sunde 40' Tor Egil Johansen 55',87' Per Pettersen 80')
Sun Aug 5
Chile 2-1 Peru @ Montevideo, Uruguay
(Francisco Valdés 45' Rogelio Farias 58';
Héctor Bailetti 40')
Ghana 1-0 Zaïre @ Accra, Ghana
(Akuetteh Armah 35'(p))
Sun Aug 12
Zambia 2-0 Kenya @ Ndola, Zambia
(Bernard Chanda 34' Brighton Sinyangwe 72')
Sat Aug 18
Australia 3-0 Iran @ Sydney, Australia
(Adrian Alston 43' Attila Abonyi 45' Peter Wilson 83')
Sun Aug 19
Zaïre 4-1 Ghana @ Kinshasa, Zaïre
(Kembo Uba Kembo 10',65' Mavuba Mafuila 89'(p) Jean Kalala N'Tumba 90';
Joseph Sam 51')
Kenya 2-2 Zambia @ Nairobi, Kenya
(William Ouma 65' Peter Ouma 70';
Simon Kaushi 56' Moses Simwala ??')
Wed Aug 22
Netherlands 5-0 Iceland @ Amsterdam, Netherlands
(Wim van Hanegem 6' Johan Cruyff 8',57' Arie Haan 17' Willy Brokamp 29')
Fri Aug 24
Iran 2-0 Australia @ Tehran, Iran
(Parviz Ghelichkhani 14',32')
Wed Aug 29
Netherlands 8-1 Iceland @ Deventer, Netherlands
(Willy Brokamp 15',75' Johan Cruyff 21',28' Johan Neeskens 24' René van de Kerkhof 46' Dick Schneider 48'(p) Wim van Hanegem 71';
Elmar Geirsson 44')
Sun Sep 2
Bolivia 1-2 Paraguay @ La Paz, Bolivia
(Raúl Morales 30';
Adalberto Escobar 41' Jorge Insfran 74')
Sun Sep 9
Argentina 4-0 Bolivia @ Buenos Aires, Argentina
(Miguel Ángel Brindisi 30',43' Rubén Ayala 66',75')
Wed Sep 12
Norway 1-2 Netherlands @ Oslo, Norway
(Harry Hestad 77';
Johan Cruyff 7' Barry Hulshoff 87')
Sun Sep 16
Paraguay 1-1 Argentina @ Asunción, Paraguay
(Saturnino Arrúa 41';
Rubén Ayala 33')
Sun Sep 23
Bolivia 0-1 Argentina @ La Paz, Bolivia
(Oscar Fornari 17')
Wed Sep 26
German DR 2-0 Romania @ Leipzig, German DR
(Bernd Bransch 42',64')
Northern Ireland 0-0 Bulgaria @ Sheffield, England
Poland 3-0 Wales @ Chorzów, Poland
(Robert Gadocha 29' Grzegorz Lato 34' Jan Domarski 53')
Soviet Union 0-0 Chile @ Moscow, Soviet Union
Scotland 2-1 Czechoslovakia @ Glasgow, Scotland
(Jim Holton 40' Joe Jordan 74';
Zdeněk Nehoda 32')
Switzerland 1-0 Luxembourg @ Lucerne, Switzerland
(Rolf Blättler 2')
Sun Sep 30
Paraguay 4-0 Bolivia @ Asunción, Paraguay
(Pedro Alcides Bareiro 10' Juvencio Osorio 13' Jorge Insfran 18' Saturnino Arrúa 89')
Sun Oct 7
Argentina 3-1 Paraguay @ Buenos Aires, Argentina
(Rubén Ayala 32'(p),57' Carlos Guerini 89';
Adalberto Escobar 22')
Wed Oct 10
Albania 1-0 Finland @ Tirana, Albania
(Ramazan Rragami 25'(p))
Sat Oct 13
Portugal 2-2 Bulgaria @ Lisbon, Portugal
(Alfredo Quaresma 48' António Simões 89';
Hristo Bonev 56',65')
Sun Oct 14
Romania 9-0 Finland @ Bucharest, Romania
(Ion Dumitru 6' Dumitru Marcu 8',42' Mircea Sandu 25',65' Florea Dumitrache 45',63' Nicolae Pantea 55' Dudu Georgescu 81')
Wed Oct 17
Czechoslovakia 1-0 Scotland @ Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
(Zdeněk Nehoda 15'(p))
England 1-1 Poland @ London, England
(Allan Clarke 63'(p);
Jan Domarski 57')
Sat Oct 20
Italy 2-0 Switzerland @ Rome, Italy
(Gianni Rivera 39'(p) Gigi Riva 79')
Sun Oct 21
Yugoslavia 0-0 Spain @ Zagreb, Yugoslavia
Zambia 4-0 Morocco @ Lusaka, Zambia
(Brighton Sinyangwe 17',90' Moses Simwala 43' Bernard Chanda 61')
Sun Oct 28
Australia 0-0 South Korea @ Sydney, Australia
Wed Oct 31
Belgium 2-0 Norway @ Brussels, Belgium
(Léon Dolmans 32'(p) Raoul Lambert 85'(p))
Sun Nov 4
Zambia 0-2 Zaïre @ Lusaka, Zambia
(Mayanga Maku 22' Kakoko Etepé 33')
Sat Nov 10
South Korea 2-2 Australia @ Seoul, South Korea
(Kim Jae-han 15' Ko Jae-wook 27';
Branko Buljevic 29' Ray Baartz 48')
Sun Nov 11
Malta 1-2 Sweden @ Gżira, Malta
(Anton Camilleri 20';
Ove Kindvall 21' Bo Larsson 35'(p))
Tue Nov 13
Albania 1-4 German DR @ Tirana, Albania
(Mihal Gjika 15';
Joachim Streich 5',35' Wolfram Löwe 62' Jürgen Sparwasser 77')
Australia 1-0 South Korea @ So Kon Po, Hong Kong
(Jimmy Mackay 70')
Wed Nov 14
Portugal 1-1 Northern Ireland @ Lisbon, Portugal
(Rui Jordão 34';
Liam O'Kane 68')
Sun Nov 18
Bulgaria 2-0 Cyprus @ Sofia, Bulgaria
(Bozhil Kolev 2' Georgi Denev 65')
Zaïre 2-1 Zambia @ Kinshasa, Zaïre
(Kembo Uba Kembo 32' Kakoko Etepé 82';
Obby Kapita 33')
Netherlands 0-0 Belgium @ Amsterdam, Netherlands
Turkey 2-0 Switzerland @ İzmir, Turkey
(Mehmet Türkkan 51' Melih Atacan 54')
Wed Nov 21
Chile 2-0 Soviet Union @ Santiago, Chile
Sun Nov 25
Morocco 2-0 Zambia @ Tétouan, Morocco
(Mohamed Maghfour 14' Ahmed Faras 70')
Tue Nov 27
Austria 1-2 Sweden @ Gelsenkirchen, Germany
(Roland Hattenberger 39';
Roland Sandberg 12' Bo Larsson 28'(p))
Sun Dec 9
Zaïre 3-0 Morocco @ Kinshasa, Zaïre
(Kembo Uba Kembo 58',61' Mbungu Ekofa 79')
Wed Dec 19
Greece 2-4 Yugoslavia @ Piraeus, Greece
(Kostas Eleftherakis 29' Josip Katalinski 44'(og);
Dušan Bajević 12' Stanislav Karasi 15',90' Ivica Šurjak 62')
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