Group 1 consisted of four of the 32 teams entered into the European zone:[1] Austria, Hungary, Malta, and Sweden. 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 this spot.
| width=30 | Rank | width=165 style="text-align:left;" | Team | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | ||||||||
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| 1= | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 7 | +7 | 8 | |||||||||||
| 1= | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 8 | +7 | 8 | |||||||||||
| 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 7 | +5 | 8 | |||||||||||
| 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 20 | -19 | 0 |
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Austria and Sweden finished level on points and goal difference, and a play-off on neutral ground was played to decide who would qualify.