1974 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 3

Group 3 consisted of four of the 32 teams entered into the European zone:^[1] Belgium, Iceland, Netherlands, and Norway. These four teams competed on a home-and-away basis for one of the 9.5 spots in the final tournament allocated to the European zone, with the group's winner claiming the place in the finals.

Standings

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Netherlands	6	4	2	0	24	2	+22	10
2	Belgium	6	4	2	0	12	0	+12	10
3	Norway	6	2	0	4	9	16	−7	4
4	Iceland	6	0	0	6	2	29	−27	0

Matches

Belgium	4–0	Iceland
Van Himst 12' Polleunis 34', 57' Gunnarsson 89' (o.g.)	Report

18 May 1972

Referee: Rasmussen (Denmark)

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Iceland	0–4	Belgium
	Report	Janssens 28' Lambert 30' (pen.), 49' (pen.) Dockx 60'

22 May 1972

Referee: Byrne (Republic of Ireland)

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Norway	4–1	Iceland
Fuglset 55' (pen.) Lund 57' Hestad 83' Johansen 87'	Report	Óskarsson 90'

3 August 1972

Referee: Riedel (East Germany)

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Norway	0–2	Belgium
	Report	Dolmans 58' (pen.) Lambert 60'

4 October 1972

Referee: Mullan (Scotland)

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Netherlands	9–0	Norway
Neeskens 31', 51', 63' Cruyff 55', 82' De Jong 70' Brokamp 76', 87' Keizer 80' (pen.)	Report

1 November 1972

Referee: Eksztajn (Poland)

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Belgium	0–0	Netherlands
	Report

19 November 1972

Referee: Walker (England)

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Iceland	0–4	Norway
	Report	Sunde 40' Johansen 55', 87' Pettersen 80'

2 August 1973

Referee: Dahlberg (Sweden)

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Netherlands	5–0	Iceland
Van Hanegem 6' Cruyff 8', 57' Haan 17' Brokamp 29'	Report

22 August 1973

Referee: Coiling (Luxembourg)

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Iceland	1–8	Netherlands
E. Geirsson 44'	Report	Brokamp 15', 75' Cruyff 21', 28' Neeskens 24' Van der Kerkhof 46' Schneider 48' (pen.) Van Hanegem 71'

29 August 1973

Referee: Hirviniemi (Finland)

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Norway	1–2	Netherlands
Hestad 77'	Report	Cruyff 7' Hullshoff 87'

12 September 1973

Referee: Wright (Northern Ireland)

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Belgium	2–0	Norway
Dolmans 32' (pen.) Lambert 85' (pen.)	Report

31 October 1973

Referee: Jursa (Czechoslovakia)

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Netherlands	0–0	Belgium
	Report

18 November 1973

Referee: Kazakov (Soviet Union)

Notes

1. Only 31 of the entered teams actually competed in the qualification tournament: West Germany qualified for the World Cup automatically as host.

External links

• Group 3 Detailed Results at RSSSF