Group 6 consisted of four of the 32 teams entered into the European zone:[1] Bulgaria, Cyprus, Northern Ireland, and Portugal. These four teams competed on a home-and-away basis for one of the 9 spots in the final tournament allocated to the European zone, with the group's winner claiming the place in the finals.
| 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 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 3 | +10 | 10 | |||||||||||
| 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 7 | |||||||||||
| 3 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 5 | |||||||||||
| 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 14 | -13 | 2 |
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