Group 1 consisted of five of the 34 teams entered into the European zone:[1] Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, and West Germany. These five teams competed on a home-and-away basis for two of the 14 spots in the final tournament allocated to the European zone, with the group's winner and runner-up claiming those spots.
| 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 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 3 | +30 | |||||||||||
| 2 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 6 | +10 | |||||||||||
| 3 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 10 | +1 | |||||||||||
| 4 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 22 | -18 | |||||||||||
| 5 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 27 | -23 |
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