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1962 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 2

football tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ1487431 ↗
Source-derived summary

The three teams in this group played against each other on a home-and-away basis. France and Bulgaria finished level on points and advanced to a play-off on neutral ground to decide who would qualify. The winner (Bulgaria) qualified for the 1962 FIFA World Cup held in Chile.

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Bulgaria and France finished level on points, and a play-off on neutral ground was played to decide who would qualify.

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The public source identifies “1962 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 2” as football tournament. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around FIFA, World and qualification.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1962—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with FIFA, World and qualification providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “1962 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 2” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.