Group 3 consisted of five of the 34 teams entered into the European zone:[1] Czechoslovakia, Iceland, Soviet Union, Turkey, and Wales. 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 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 2 | +18 | |||||||||||
| 2 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 6 | +9 | |||||||||||
| 3 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 7 | +5 | |||||||||||
| 4 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 21 | -11 | |||||||||||
| 5 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 22 | -21 |
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