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The three teams in this group played against each other on a home-and-away basis. Poland and the Soviet Union finished level on points, a play-off on neutral ground was played to decide who would qualify. The winner Soviet Union qualified for the sixth FIFA World Cup held in Sweden.

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification
1	Soviet Union	4	3	0	1	16	3	5.333	6	Qualification to 1958 FIFA World Cup		—	3–0	2–1
2	Poland	4	3	0	1	9	5	1.800	6			2–1	—	4–0
3	Finland	4	0	0	4	2	19	0.105	0			0–10	1–3	—

1. ^ As the Soviet Union and Poland finished level on points, a play-off on neutral ground was played to determine the group winner. The Soviet Union won the play-off 2–0 to win the group.

Matches

Soviet Union	3 – 0	Poland
Tatushin 9' Simonyan 55' Ilyin 77'	Report

Finland	1 – 3	Poland
Vanhanen 72'	Report	Jankowski 19', 56', 65'

Soviet Union	2 – 1	Finland
Voinov 23' Netto 62'	Report	Lahtinen 42'

Finland	0 – 10	Soviet Union
	Report	Netto 6' Simonyan 9', 13', 31' Isayev 12', 20' Streltsov 29', 49' Ilyin 60', 87'

Poland	2 – 1	Soviet Union
Cieślik 43', 50'	Report	Ivanov 80'

Poland	4 – 0	Finland
Gawlik 2' Brychczy 4', 48' Jankowski 60'	Report

Play-off

Poland and USSR finished level on points, a play-off on neutral ground was played to decide who would qualify.

Soviet Union	2 – 0	Poland
Streltsov 31' Fedosov 75'	Report

References

1. "1958 FIFA World Cup Chile Preliminaries". FIFA. 28 March 2013. Archived from the original on 28 March 2013. Retrieved 12 June 2022.

External links

• FIFA official page
• RSSSF - 1958 World Cup Qualification
• Allworldcup

• 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)
• 1957 in Soviet football
• 1957 in Polish football
• 1957 in Finnish football