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European National Team Performances 1948-60
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1948 1950 1952 1954 1956 1958 1960
Austria 1st rnd wdn QF 3rd - 1st rnd QF DNQ
Belgium - - - 1st rnd - DNQ - -
Bulgaria - - Prelim rnd DNQ 3rd DNQ 1st rnd 1st rnd
Cyprus - - - - - wdn - -
Czechoslovakia - - - 1st rnd - 1st rnd 3rd DNQ
Denmark 3rd - QF - - DNQ 1st rnd RU
East Germany
(GDR)
- - - - - DNQ 1st rnd -
England - 1st rnd - QF - 1st rnd - -
Finland - DNQ 1st rnd DNQ - DNQ - DNQ
France QF wdn Prelim rnd 1st rnd - 3rd 4th 1st rnd
Germany - - 4th - 1st rnd - - DNQ
Great Britain 4th - Prelim rnd - QF - - 1st rnd
Greece - - Prelim rnd DNQ - DNQ 1st rnd DNQ
Hungary - - WINNERS RU wdn 1st rnd 1st rnd 3rd
Iceland - - - rej - DNQ - DNQ
Israel - DNQ - DNQ DNQ DNQ - DNQ
Italy QF 1st rnd 1st rnd 1st rnd - DNQ - 4th
Team Olympics World Cup Olympics World Cup Olympics World Cup Euro Olympics
1948 1950 1952 1954 1956 1958 1960
Luxembourg 1st rnd DNQ - DNQ - DNQ - DNQ
Netherlands 1st rnd - Prelim rnd - - DNQ - DNQ
Northern Ireland
(Ireland until 1954)
- DNQ - DNQ - QF - -
Norway - - 1st rnd DNQ - DNQ 1st rnd DNQ
Poland - - 1st rnd wdn - DNQ 1st rnd 1st rnd
Portugal - DNQ - DNQ - DNQ QF -
Republic of Ireland
(Ireland until 1954)
Prelim rnd DNQ - DNQ - DNQ Prelim rnd DNQ
Romania - - Prelim rnd DNQ - DNQ QF DNQ
Saar - - - DNQ - - - -
Scotland - wdn - 1st rnd - 1st rnd - -
Spain - 4th - DNQ - DNQ dsq -
Sweden WINNERS 3rd 3rd DNQ - RU - -
Switzerland - 1st rnd - QF - DNQ - DNQ
Turkey QF wdn QF 1st rnd wdn wdn 1st rnd 1st rnd
USSR - -- 1st rnd - WINNERS QF WINNERS DNQ
Wales - DNQ - DNQ - QF - -
West Germany - - - WINNERS - 4th - -
Yugoslavia RU 1st rnd RU QF RU QF RU WINNERS

Notes

There were two teams representing the whole of Ireland in the 1950 World Cup qualifying competition; one was the Belfast-based Irish Football Association, and the other was the Dublin-based Football Association of Ireland. For the 1954 World Cup qualifying competition, the former became Northern Ireland and the latter became the Republic of Ireland.

Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed as a combined team at the Olympic Games, whilst the four home nations of the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) competed as individual countries in the World Cup and European Nations Cup (Euro).

West Germany sent a team to represent the whole of Germany at the Olympic Games of 1952 and 1956. For the 1960 qualifying competition a play-off was held to decide which team would represent Germany. West Germany defeated the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), but ultimately did not qualify for the Games.

Key: DNQ = Did Not Qualify, dsq = Disqualified, Prelim = Preliminary, QF = Quarter-finals, rej = Application Rejected, rnd = Round, RU = Runners-up, wdn = Withdrawn.

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