Liedjes Voetbal Steekspel Qualifiers 1964

It was decided that due to the huge influx of football leagues wanting to play, that a qualifiers match would be created for the 1965 tournament. Each continent out of 5 would be allocated an amount of seats out of 32 spots. The qualifiers in each continent would be played to fill these spots, and also act as matches in their own right.

In the 1963 Qualification Index, it was agreed that Europe would get 20 countries; North America would get 2 countries; South America would get 5 countries; Asia would get 2 countries; Africa would get 2 countries. The remaining spot would be taken up by the host country. The 1965 host country was, meaning that South America would get 5 countries on top of Brazil.

=Europe= The Euros 1964 was established. It would begin in February and continue until September. Due to the high amount of countries allowed in the tournament for Europe, the contest would consist of 4 round robins of 10 countries each. The top 5 from each group would qualify from the world cup, allowing 40 countries to complete. Due to a low amount of participating countries though, smaller regions such as Greenland, and the Faroe Islands took part (part of Denmark) and the constituent nations of the and  took part seperately as, , , (Northern Ireland competing alongside ), and , ,  and Herzegovina,  and. The most notable non-inclusion was. West Germany therefore competed under the name Germany throughout the whole contest, and many East Germans played on the West German national football team.

Group A
The new debuting nations in this group all didn't qualify, the closest being Romania. Luxembourg, Albania, Bulgaria and Malta also debuted.

Group B
Poland was the only new country to qualify for the tournament. Previously competing Belgium, Soviet Union and Wales all non-qualified. Many bookmakers - and for the first few games - predicted a Belgian qualification, for their first entry in the tournament since the first one in 1957. This didn't happen.

Group C
CZechoslovakia and Hungary, both new countries, managed to beat Spain, one of the best teams. Scotland and Norway also qualified. Finland looked like it would qualify and was predicted to but ultimately lost.

Group D
Serbia and Montenegro; and Croatia, two constituent countries of Yugoslavia both qualified for the first time. France, Denmark and Turkey rounded out the qualifiers.

=North America= North America was allocated 2 countries to qualify into the tournament. Eight countries applied to join the North American qualifiers, a small amount and so two round robins of four countries would be held, with the top country of each group qualifying.

Group X
Mexico will continue to the World Cup. They also qualify for to an international friendly meant to pit the winners of the two groups to find the ultimate victor of North America.

Group Y
Guatemala will continue to the World Cup. They also qualify for to an international friendly meant to pit the winners of the two groups to find the ultimate victor of North America.

Final
Mexico was crowned the best team in North America. Both teams in the final would still qualify to the World Cup in 1965.

=South America= South America was allocated 5 countries - 6 including Brazil. 9 countries would take part, meaning that a single round robin of all 9 nations would occur, with the top 5 qualifying to the World Cup.

=Asia= Asia was allocated 2 spots for the World Cup. They held a private vote of who should or should not take part. They split the considered countries into Northern and Southern Asia. Australia and New Zealand were placed into Northern Asia to balance out the amount of countries in each to 8, and because they were in Oceania.

Northern Asia

 * North Vietnam
 * North Vietnam
 * North Vietnam
 * North Vietnam
 * North Vietnam
 * North Vietnam

Southern Asia
Immediately, South and North Vietnam were ruled out for being too political. Macau and Hong Kong were also ruled out due to being territories. The Asian team ruled out Australia and New Zealand as well due to them not being in Asia proper. This left just 3 countries in the North: Japan, South Korea and China. Due to Japan already having played in the tournament before, the pick was between China and South Korea were won due to having more representatives who supported them. Due to supporting Taiwan, India withdrew from the pick leaving just 6 countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Pakistan, Iran and Saudi-Arabia. Again, many voters were from East Asia meaning that the Middle Eastern countries and Pakistan barely got any support. Thailand withdrew due to wanting neutrality in the Vietnam War. ultimately won due to a large amount of Chinese immigrants there.

China were condemned by Lied van Liedjes for technically manipulating the vote but no punishment was ever given. Malaysia and China would play in the tournament in 1965.

=Africa=