Group 1 consisted of four of the 32 teams entered into the European zone:[1]Cyprus, Denmark, Poland, and Portugal. These four teams competed on a home-and-away basis for one of the 8.5 spots in the final tournament allocated to the European zone. The spot would be assigned to the group's winner.
^Only 31 of the entered teams actually competed in the qualification tournament: West Germany qualified for the World Cup automatically as defending champions.
The Goals given to Henning Munk Jensen in the 5-0 defeat of Cyprus were in fact scored my Henning Jensen a different player.