Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's European Qualifiers – Group 5

The 1964 Summer Olympics football qualification – Europe Group 5 was one of the five European groups in the Summer Olympics football qualification tournament to decide which teams would qualify for the 1964 Summer Olympics football finals tournament in Japan.^[1] Group 5 consisted of five teams: Czechoslovakia, France, Great Britain, Greece, Iceland. The teams played home-and-away knockout matches. Czechoslovakia qualified for the Summer Olympics football finals after a walkover against Greece in the second round.

Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Preliminary round
Iceland	0–10	Great Britain	0–6	0–4
First round
Czechoslovakia	8–2	France	4–0	4–2
Great Britain	3–5	Greece	2–1	1–4
Second round
Czechoslovakia	w/o	Greece	—	—

Preliminary round

7 September 1963

16:00 UTC+0

Iceland	0–6	Great Britain
	Report

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 7,755^[2]

Referee: Erling Rolf Olsen (Norway)

14 September 1963

15:00 UTC+1

Great Britain	4–0	Iceland
	Report

Plough Lane, London

Attendance: 3,500^[3]

Referee: Frede Hansen (Denmark)

First round

Czechoslovakia	4–0	France
	Report

France	2–4	Czechoslovakia
	Report

Czechoslovakia won 8–2 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

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12 February 1964

19:15 UTC+0

Great Britain	2–1	Greece
Lawrence 31' Buchanan 37'	Report	Papaioannou 49'

Stamford Bridge, London

Attendance: 5,589^[4]

Referee: Joseph Hannet (Belgium)

8 April 1964

16:30 UTC+2

Greece	4–1	Great Britain
Mavridis 3' Papaioannou 75', 84' Papazoglou 82'	Report	Buchanan 72'

Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, Neo Faliro

Attendance: 28,000^[5]

Referee: Menahem Ashkenazi (Israel)

Greece won 5–3 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

Second round

Czechoslovakia	w/o	Greece
	Report

Greece	w/o	Czechoslovakia
	Report

Czechoslovakia won on walkover and qualified for the Summer Olympics.

References

1. "Games of the XVII. Olympiad – Football Qualifying Tournament – (Tokyo, Japan, 1964): EUROPE". RSSSF. 27 July 2021.
2. "Iceland vs Great Britain* international football match report". eu-football.info. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
3. "Great Britain* vs Iceland international football match report". eu-football.info. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
4. "Great Britain* vs Greece international football match report". eu-football.info. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
5. "Greece vs Great Britain* international football match report". eu-football.info. Retrieved 2 September 2024.