Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's European Qualifiers – Group 5
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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. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| 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 |
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Preliminary round
First round
Czechoslovakia won 8–2 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.
| Great Britain | 2–1 | Greece |
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| Greece | 4–1 | Great Britain |
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Greece won 5–3 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.
Second round
Czechoslovakia won on walkover and qualified for the Summer Olympics.
Goalscorers
There were 28 goals scored in 6 matches, for an average of 4.67 goals per match.
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
Brian Martin- Hugh Lindsay
- Harvey
- Buchanan
Vojtech Masný
Jean-Jacques Planchat
1 goal
- Mike Candey
- Jan Brumovský
- Štefan Matlák
- Karel Nepomucký
- Josef Píša
- Vladimír Kos
- Ján Geleta
Stathis Mavridis- Aris Papazoglou